History Main / Retcon

* ContinuitySnarl: In shared universes that undergo changes in management (new generations of creative teams), contemporary writers are less inclined to slavishly adhere to internal consistency with plots, events, or visual style that were written twenty, thirty, forty or more years ago, especially when those older stories are [[Sandbox/FloatingTimeline now outdated as they were originally presented.]]

* In season 1 episode 5 of ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'', Moxie originally says that he grew up in the Wrath ring, but in season 2 episode 3 we find out that Moxie was born in the Wrath ring and raised in the Greed ring.

* At the end of ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', during the final scene which was originally just meant to be a humorous AndTheAdventureContinues, Marty asks Doc if he and Jennifer become assholes in the future. Doc immediately and earnestly responds, "No no no no no, Marty, both you and Jennifer turn out fine. It's your kids, Marty, something has got to be done about your kids." At the time, there was no indication that he wasn't telling the truth. However, when ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'' came around and they had to follow up on the ending of the first film l, this time during the opening scene (which was the ending scene from the previous film that had to be reshot to accommodate [[FlashbackWithTheOtherDarrin Jennifer's actor change]]) when Marty asks the question, Doc [[HesitationEqualsDishonesty hesitates for a moment]], before hurriedly saying the same line from the original scene. This serves as {{Foreshadowing}} as the film reveals that Marty would end up in a car accident that forced him to give up his music career, and he ended up a FutureLoser who got fired from his job after being goaded into participating in illegal activity, never got over his FatalFlaw of overreacting to being called a chicken, and whom Jennifer only married out of pity and is otherwise unhappy in marriage. Thus the context of Doc's line is changed to him contemplating telling Marty the AwfulTruth, before deciding against it.

* At the end of ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', during the final scene which was originally just meant to be a humorous AndTheAdventureContinues, Marty asks Doc if he and Jennifer become assholes in the future. Doc immediately and earnestly responds, "No no no no no, Marty, both you and Jennifer turn out fine. It's your kids, Marty, something has got to be done about your kids." At the time, there was no indication that he wasn't telling the truth. However, when ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'' came around, this time during the opening scene (which was the ending scene from the previous film that had to be reshot to accommodate [[FlashbackWithTheOtherDarrin Jennifer's actor change]]) when Marty asks the question, Doc [[HesitationEqualsDishonesty hesitates for a moment]], before hurriedly saying the same line from the original scene. This serves as {{Foreshadowing}} as the film reveals that Marty would end up in a car accident that forced him to give up his music career, and he ended up a FutureLoser who got fired from his job after being goaded into participating in illegal activity, never got over his FatalFlaw of overreacting to being called a chicken, and whom Jennifer only married out of pity and is otherwise unhappy in marriage. Thus the context of Doc's line is changed to him contemplating telling Marty the AwfulTruth, before deciding against it.

* At the end of ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', during the final scene which was originally meant to be a humorous AndTheAdventureContinues, Marty asks Doc if he and Jennifer become assholes in the future. Doc immediately and earnestly responds, "No no no no no, Marty, both you and Jennifer turn out fine. It's your kids, Marty, something has got to be done about your kids." At the time, there was no indication that he wasn't telling the truth. However, when ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'' came around, this time during the opening scene (which was the ending scene from the previous film that had to be reshot to accommodate [[FlashbackWithTheOtherDarrin Jennifer's actor change]]) when Marty asks the question, Doc [[HesitationEqualsDishonesty hesitates for a moment]], before hurriedly saying the same line from the original scene. This serves as {{Foreshadowing}} as the film reveals that Marty would end up in a car accident that forced him to give up his music career, and he ended up a FutureLoser who got fired from his job after being goaded into participating in illegal activity, never got over his FatalFlaw of overreacting to being called a chicken, and whom Jennifer only married out of pity and is otherwise unhappy in marriage. Thus the context of Doc's line is changed to him contemplating telling Marty the AwfulTruth, before deciding against it.

* At the end of ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', during the final scene which was originally meant to be a humorous AndTheAdventureContinues, Marty asks Doc if he and Jennifer become assholes in the future. Doc immediately and earnestly responds, "No no no no no, Marty, both you and Jennifer turn out fine. It's your kids, Marty, something has got to be done about your kids." At the time, there was no indication that he wasn't telling the truth. However, when ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'' came around, this time during the opening scene (which was the ending scene from the previous film that had to be reshot to accommodate [[FlashbackWithTheOtherDarrin Jennifer's actor change]]) when Marty asks the question, Doc [[HesitationEqualsDishonesty hesitates for a moment]], before hurriedly saying the same line from the original scene. This serves as {{Foreshadowing}} as the film reveals that Marty would end up in a car accident that forced him to give up his music career, and he ended up a FutureLoser who got fired from his job after being goaded into participating in illegal activity, never got over his FatalFlaw of overreacting to being called a chicken, and whom Jennifer only married out of pity and is otherwise unhappy in marriage. Thus the context of Doc's line is changed to him contemplating telling him the AwfulTruth, before deciding against it.

* The Franchise/MonsterVerse film ''[[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 Godzilla: King of the Monsters]]'' places considerable emphasis – the novelization even more so – on the awakening Titans reclaiming the Earth, and the ending makes it clear that {{nothing is the same anymore}} and [[DawnOfAnEra a whole new world has begun]] with humans and Titans now forced to cohabit the planet; plus the HollowEarth is discovered by Monarch and the public to be real. ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' ignores or rewrites all of this, making the events of ''King of the Monsters'' out to be little more than a dramatic global hiccup instead of a bittersweet permanent turning point in history: the Titans have gone back into hibernation, things in the world have gone back to the way they were before, and the Hollow Earth for some reason is once more treated by the public as an unproven quack theory. It's almost as if ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' takes place in an {{alternate continuity}} from its predecessor entirely.

* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
** Early installments in the series went the ClarkesThirdLaw route with any magic encountered. This was especially noticeable in the early ''Film/{{Thor}}'' installments that firmly established the Asgardians as {{Sufficiently Advanced Alien}}s. However, ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014'' indulged in much softer sci-fi and some magic with the Infinity Stones. ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' flirts with a little bit ClarkesThirdLaw again, but ''Film/{{Doctor Strange|2016}}'' firmly and explicitly establishes magic to the setting (and outright refutes ClarksThirdLaw). ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' retconned previous elements from the franchise to be explicitly magical and started calling the Asgardians gods.
** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' contradicts some of what we knew before about ComicBook/{{Thanos}} and his forces. For example, the ''Sanctuary II'' (Thanos's ship) was only introduced during TheStinger of ''Thor: Ragnarok''. It is presented as if it was always Thanos's home base with his throne in a room aboard it decorated with slabs of rock, ignoring [[https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Sanctuary Sanctuary]] where his throne was just floating out in the middle of space on some asteroids. Additionally, there are new members of the Black Order not seen or mentioned before but treated as integral to Thanos's forces. This becomes even more evident in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' when [[spoiler:both of these show up in 2014, prior to ''Guardians of the Galaxy'']].
** Originally, Wanda and Pietro Maximoff got their powers from Baron Strucker experimenting on them with the Mind Stone, since [[WritingAroundTrademarks Disney didn't have the rights to the X-Men at the time]]. ''Series/WandaVision'' instead establishes that Wanda has always had powers, and the Mind Stone merely unlocked her full potential. [[spoiler:Her powers are also changed from being psychic to being ''magic''.]] Where Pietro got his powers from in the new explanation is a bit iffy. The details of their backstory are also shuffled around a lot, changed from the Stark missile landing while they were having dinner and pinning them under debris to it landing while they were watching TV and them hiding under the bed.
* In the ''Film/{{Critters}}'' franchise the Crites were a species of genderless aliens who reproduced asexually. ''Critters Attack!'' however, introduces female Crites known as queens; they are white with black stripes and have visible eyelashes.
* In the Franchise/JamesBond movies, the female [[BigGood M]] played by Creator/JudiDench was introduced in ''Film/{{GoldenEye}}'' as being new to the job, replacing the male M from the previous films. Dench proved so popular with viewers that she was brought back for ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'' despite being a reboot taking place in Bond's early days, suddenly making her his ''first'' boss. [[spoiler: When she dies at the end of ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'', her replacement is implied to be the same M from the old films, making ''him'' the new boss]].

Compare FlipFlopOfGod. Tends to come in TheReveal format. May involve OpeningACanOfClones. Can at times also qualify as a ThrowItIn.

This happens very easily with prequels when the writers aren't being very careful. On the other hand, Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad. It's entirely possible that an author will retcon their ''own'' work to fix a ContinuitySnarl or even apply an AuthorsSavingThrow if things get really hairy. Sometimes, if the pre-retconned works are no longer considered canon by the author, those works are [[CanonDiscontinuity discontinued]] in canon. In LongRunners, retcons are often used to fix ValuesDissonance, to address problems stemming from the various manifestations of TimeMarchesOn, or to bring previous parts of the story in line with shifts resulting from things like DoingInTheWizard.

* In a rare in-universe example, the LemonyNarrator of the essay-fic, ''FanFic/EquestriaAHistoryRevealed'', crosses out sentences from sources she cites as soon as they disagree with something else she's been saying. It only points out her alterations of history even more.
* ''FanFic/FantasyOfUtterRidiculousness'': The Alternate Ending was initially supposed to be a non-canon "What If?" scenario, as the author had intended for the previous chapter to be the story's true conclusion and had no intention of writing more. Eventually it was incorporated into the story's timeline via the Extra Stage, if only as one of a series of bad dreams Patchouli was having.
* In ''FanFic/MegaManDefenderOfTheHumanRace'':

* In Chapter 32 of VideoGame/BloodBorne fanfic ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'', [[spoiler:the Good Hunter is seen missing an eye after being shot in the side of the head by an assassin, experiencing his first death while [[TakingTheBullet protecting Celestine]]]]. This is despite that in the [[VideoGame/BloodBorne game]], whenever a hunter connected to the Hunter's Dream dies, they simply [[ResurrectiveImmortality respawn with no further impediment]]. This is never explained, due to the original version of the story being discontinued.

* The rewrite of ''FanFic/SonicXDarkChaos'' not only retconned huge parts of the original, but it also retconned nearly all of the author's prequel story ''Fall of the Seedrians'' as well - to the point where the author discontinued the prequel entirely.

* ''Film/TheConjuringUniverse'' ''Film/{{Annabelle}}'' heavily implies that [[spoiler:the Higgins' daughter is their biological child, or that they adopted her when she was a baby, due to Mr. Higgins agreeing that children are a blessing before adding "And then they learn to talk." In the final scene of ''Film/AnnabelleCreation'', the Higgins' adopt Janice when she's an adolescent. However, it's possible that Mr. Higgins is only joking, or that the Higgins' have an older biological or adopted child]].

** Early installments in the series went the ClarkesThirdLaw route with any magic encountered. This was especially noticeable in the early ''Film/{{Thor}}'' installments that firmly established the Asgardians as {{Sufficiently Advanced Alien}}s. However, ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' indulged in much softer sci-fi and some magic with the Infinity Stones. ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' flirts with a little bit ClarkesThirdLaw again, but ''Film/{{Doctor Strange|2016}}'' firmly and explicitly establishes magic to the setting (and outright refutes ClarksThirdLaw). ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' retconned previous elements from the franchise to be explicitly magical and started calling the Asgardians gods.

* In ''WebComic/YokokasQuest'', the prologue and chapters 1-3 were retouched prior to being printed in book form, with some of the changes essentially being retcons. These are mostly inconsequential, such as Yokoka and Yfa's home going from an empty room to being furnished with a rug, pillows, and a pile of feathers that Yfa sleeps on.

* ''Fanfic/FamilyGuyFanon'': While Meg was always a Griffin in the original, here she's an adoptive Griffin, with her real father being Stan Thompson, who was originally an unseen character mentioned in an off-hand comment "Screwed the Pooch". And the fanfic makes it very clear Stan exists, with the family constantly mentioning him and even wiping Meg's memory of it, ''Men in Black'' style when Peter finds out he accidentally said it in front of Meg.
[[spoiler:This becomes more than a new way to bash on Meg in Season 21, with the season having a story arc where Meg finally finds out the truth and finds her real father, who becomes a recurring character after the arc]].

* ''Fanfic/FamilyGuyFanon'': While Meg was always a Griffin in the original, here she's an adoptive Griffin, with her real father being Stan Thompson, who was originally an unseen character mentioned in an off-hand comment "Screwed the Pooch". And the fanfic makes it very clear Stan exists, with the family constantly mentioning him and even wiping Meg's memory of it, ''Men in Black'' style when Peter finds out he accidentally said it in front of Meg.[[spoiler:This becomes more than a new way to bash on Meg in Season 21, with the season having a story arc where Meg finally finds out the truth and finds her real father, who becomes a recurring character after the arc]].

*** The removal of the so-called Unseen mechs from the original Technical Readout 3025 led to another retcon: in order to fill out the page count, the developers added downgraded versions of the Star League battlemechs that had debuted in Technical Readout 2750. The issue was that the original Technical Readout 2750 had established that all of those mechs had been completely lost with the fall of the Star League and it had been a huge shock to the Inner Sphere when it was revealed that Comstar still had a massive army of the supposedly-extinct mechs that they used to fight the Clans.

** The Toa defeated their evil Shadow Toa counterparts via OpponentSwitch, each using their advantage over someone else's clone to reduce them to particles. Since this wasn't the original plan for the scene, it was later rewritten in accordance to said plans, with the Toa accepting that darkness was a part of them and absorbing the Shadow Toa into their own bodies.

* ''Webcomic/{{BACK}}'': The Society of Clocks tell Abigail and Daniel that their informant is a man named Nook. When the audience finally meets said informant, she's a woman named Knook.

* ''Film/Predator2'' had in its ending the Predators giving Harrigan an 18th century flintlock pistol. In a 1996 Creator/DarkHorseComics story, said gun was the property of a pirate who fought alongside a Predator as his crew started a mutiny. And then ''Film/Prey2022'' has that pistol instead wielded by a French voyageur who gives it to protagonist Naru to fight the Predator.

* At the end of ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', during the final scene which was originally meant to be a humorous AndTheAdventureContinues, Marty asks Doc if he and Jennifer become assholes in the future. Doc immediately and earnestly responds, "No no no no no, Marty, both you and Jennifer turn out fine. It's your kids, Marty, something has got to be done about your kids." At the time, there was no indication that he wasn't telling the truth. However, when ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'' came around, this time during the opening scene (which was the ending scene from the previous film that had to be reshot to accommodate [[FlashbackWithTheOtherDarrin Jennifer's actor change]]) when Marty asks the question, Doc [[HesitationEqualsDishonesty hesitates for a moment]], before hurriedly saying the same line from the original scene. This serves as {{Foreshadowing}} as the film reveals that Marty would end up in a car accident that forced him to give up his music career, and he ended up a FutureLoser who got fired from his job, never got over his FatalFlaw of overreacting to being called a chicken, and whom Jennifer only married out of pity. Thus the context of Doc's line is changed to him contemplating telling him the truth, before deciding against it.

* At the end of ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', during the final scene which was originally meant to be a humorous AndTheAdventureContinues, Marty asks Doc if he and Jennifer become assholes in the future. Doc immediately and earnestly responds, "No no no no no, Marty, both you and Jennifer turn out fine. It's your kids, Marty, something has got to be done about your kids." At the time, there was no indication that he wasn't telling the truth. However, when ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'' came around, this time during the opening scene (which was the ending scene from the previous film that had to be reshot to accommodate [[FlashbackWithTheOtherDarrin Jennifer's actor change]]) when Marty asks the question, Doc [[HesitationEqualsDishonesty hesitates for a moment]], before hurriedly saying the same line from the original scene. This serves as {{Foreshadowing}} as the film reveals that Marty would end up in a car accident that forced him to give up his music career, and he ended up a FutureLoser who got fired from his job, never got over his FatalFlaw of overreacting to being called a chicken, and whom Jennifer only married out of pity. Thus the context of Doc's line is changed to him pondering telling him the truth, before deciding against it.

Reframing or adding to past events to serve a current plot need. Take the page image: a pre-existing space elevator is in the city, but one did not appear to exist earlier in the work despite a building reaching up into space would be plain to see in any wide shot. However the current story requires a space elevator, so it's been added and treated as if it's always been there.

Reframing past events to serve a current plot need. The ideal retcon clarifies a question alluded to without adding excessive new questions. In its most basic form, this is any plot point that was not intended from the beginning. The most preferred use is where it contradicts nothing, even though it was changed later on.

While the term comes from [[ComicBookTropes comic books]], dating to ''ComicBook/AllStarSquadron'' #18 in 1983 and shortened to "retcon" by the end of the decade, the technique is much older. Often, it's used to serve a new plot by changing its context; however, it's also done when the creators are caught writing a story that violates continuity and isn't very plausible.

* Nikki in ''Webcomic/TheKAMics'' was [[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/The_KAMics/4771284/ told by the author that she was a fictional character without a name]], was [[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/The_KAMics/4771292/ later named by a reader]], then it was retconned that she was [[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/The_KAMics/4811123/ a sister to the ex-Valkyries Gertrude & Brunhilda & her name had always been Nikki & she didn't realize this because of amnesia]].

* Before 1985, there was no such thing as a set Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon. There were Disney classics of course, but the list of what constituted an "official" entry was constantly changing; they'd add and remove films depending on whether or not they wanted to bill their latest film as "our 15th feature" or "our 20th feature". That changed with the release of ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron'', which they billed officially as their 25th film by only including films that had at least 75% animation. However, two fully animated films that the list did ''not'' include (that had been included in the list's previous incarnations) were ''The Academy Award Review of Walt Disney Cartoons'' (1937), which was a compilation of various ''WesternAnimation/SillySymphonies'' shorts in order to get audiences excited for ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'' (1937), and ''Music Land'' (1953, and no relation to [[WesternAnimation/MusicLand the 1935 animated short]]), another compilation film that featured shorts from ''WesternAnimation/MakeMineMusic'' and ''WesternAnimation/MelodyTime'' stitched into one film, complete with a new opening and transitions between the shorts. ''Academy Award Review'' was re-released into theaters in 1966 and released on Laserdisc in Japan in 1985, but ''Music Land'' has been [[MissingEpisode lost to history]].

** Early in ''Raiders'' while talking to Marcus, Indy pooh-poohs belief in the supernatural. At the end of the film, of course, Indy sees directly the power of the ark. If ''Raiders'' were merely a standalone film we'd have every reason to believe Indy began the story as a skeptic and became a believer by the end. But in ''Temple of Doom'' he had another encounter with the supernatural and clearly accepted it, suggesting Indy was lying in his conversation with Marcus from ''Raiders''. One possible explanation is that he thought no one would believe him and didn't want to be viewed as a flake, but that probably wasn't the point of the scene when ''Raiders'' was originally written.
* ''Film/JurassicPark'': The earlier films present the dinosaurs as simply being one-to-one with real animals or otherwise don't imply any intentional physical modifications, because (with a few exceptions) the depictions were reasonably accurate [[ScienceMarchesOn for their time]]. Starting with the third movie, the rapid pace of palaeontology made the franchise's depictions of many dinosaur species outdated, but rather than heavily modify the designs, the dinosaurs in the films were instead said to be genetic engineered "theme park monsters" intentionally made to be cool rather than realistic, a HandWave that allowed the franchise to keep using outdated depictions or even totally made-up traits.

** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' set in 1962 shows a brief clip of ComicBook/{{Storm}} as a little girl with her hair already white. ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' is set twenty-one years later and shows her with black hair that only [[DiseaseBleach turns white]] when Apocalypse empowers her. Unless of course she had been dyeing it black and Apocalypse just made her natural hair come through.

** Early installments in the series went the ClarkesThirdLaw route with any magic encountered. This was especially noticeable in the early ''Film/{{Thor}}'' installments that firmly established the Asgardians as {{Sufficiently Advanced Alien}}s. However, ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' indulged in much softer sci-fi and even some magic with the Infinity Stones. ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' flirts with a little bit ClarkesThirdLaw again, but ''Film/{{Doctor Strange|2016}}'' firmly and explicitly establishes magic to the setting (and outright refutes ClarksThirdLaw). ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' retconned previous elements from the franchise to be explicitly magical and started calling the Asgardians gods.

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'', the Sidereal Exalted (who are basically Fate Ninjas) have a panic button called Avoidance Kata. Its effect? Retcon the whole world so that they made a different choice several minutes ago and are anywhere but here.

* ''TabletopGame/UnknownArmies'' gives us Entropomancers (chaos mages who get power from taking risks), who are based around re-writing history. Cliomancers, despite being history buffs, can only affect people's PERCEPTION of history, as well as their memories. Of course, this still counts as retcon.

** 5th Edition acknowledges that most of the changes in 4th edition ''happened'', but [[ResetButton reset]] most of them so that the 5th Edition Realms are pretty much the same as they've always been.

** Wizards also confirmed that the Guilds of Ravnica had pretty much dissolved, shortly before ''Return to Ravnica'' was announced and it turned out that they were still going strong.

* WebAnimation/{{Benthelooney}} is a prominent abuser of this since his rants were UnCanceled. From the original dubs to the first half of the "Revival Era", he was fairly consistent for the most part with his opinions and stuck with them. But in the middle of 2012 to this day, he started retconning his original opinions on subjects that were mostly well-established later on (Pixar, and even Adventure Time and Regular Show).

* ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'' went through this once. Now the first episode has been redone the second time. While the new pages are [[ArtEvolution much better quality-wise]], and some of the plot make a lot more sense, many elements were removed, characters have been changed, and episodes were cut down to mere sketches of their former selves. Not to mention the mysteries the reader was left in the dark about for most of the original stories were also revealed retroactively. The series also became LighterAndSofter in some ways while amplifying some of the darker themes at the same time.

* ''Webcomic/{{Girly}}'' does this rather [[CerebusSyndrome jarringly]] during the final arc. Turns out that [[spoiler: Otra]] [[TomatoInTheMirror is actually]] the [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abomination-y]] [[HiveQueen Sidekick Queen]], and that her entire life was just a lie fabricated to awaken her latent power. Entire strips were replaced to support this. [[spoiler: Winter]] [[PlayerPunch and the readers]] were ''devastated''. [[spoiler: [[AvertedTrope PSYCH!]] Turns out that the [[ManipulativeBastard Business Sidekick]] was lying and Otra was simply [[DemonicPossession possessed]]! And the changed strips? [[FridgeBrilliance They just made it impossible to disprove the Business Sidekick]]. [[LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt Like Josh would actually do THAT to his characters...]] ]]

** In two instances, he takes action that results in minor details changing, specifically, [[spoiler: he stuck his arm through a portal that ended up causing his arm to appear in dozens of other panels of the comic. Likewise, he later disposed of a large amount of oil by dumping it elsewhere in the narrative]]. Creator/AndrewHussie literally went through and edited the existing panels (and in some cases, flash animations) to include these changes.

* Early in the production of ''Webcomic/SailorMoonCosmosArc'', Servant Chaos was basically Mistress 9 with a different forehead symbol. She was later retconned to keep Mistress 9's hair, but now wore Princess Saturn's dress. Dialogue was also later changed to make more clear what happened to [[spoiler: the time-traveling incarnation of Chibiusa]].

* ''Webcomic/SuperEffective'' has done it a few times quietly--literally editing the comic and uploading a newer version. Changes include renaming Gary to Blue, for example.

* ''WebVideo/{{Broceliande}}'' is a fan web-series of ''Series/{{Kaamelott}}'', which explores some aspects of its season 1, re-framing a few events. Notably, ''Brocéliande'' episode "Le sort d'oubli" ("The Forgetfulness Spell") not only explains why Arthur found a dead raven at his door in ''Kaamelott'' episode "Le Signe", but also why the Knights of the Round Table have so much trouble remembering their fallen comrades in the ''Kaamelott'' episode "Spangelhelm".

* Bob and Otto from the ''WesternAnimation/Minions'' franchise are nowhere to be seen in the ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'' franchise. They're not even spoken of! Whatever happened to 'em? Find theories [[Headscratchers/MinionsTheRiseOfGru here]].

* Wrestling/{{Edge}} and Wrestling/{{Christian}} were initially portrayed as brothers but were later referred to as childhood friends (which they were in RealLife—they were born within a few months of one another, and raised in the same Ontario town).

** Kristoff is Sami according to WordOfGod. Come ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'' and the FantasyCounterpartCulture Northuldra are introduced. Kristoff is never implied to be Northuldra, he dresses differently from the Northuldra, and he was born a decade after the Northuldra became trapped in the mist.

* Remember when ''Magazine/RollingStone'' declared [[Music/PinkFloyd Pink Floyd's]] album ''Music/WishYouWereHere'' to be "''actually nothing more than the skillful manipulation of elements so simple -- the [[ThreeChordsAndTheTruth basic three chords]] everyone else uses -- that any collection of bar hacks could grind out a note-for-note reproduction without difficulty''"? Well, neither do they, considering they now declare it one of the greatest albums of all time.