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* The ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' franchise timeline was already very complex, so much that even dedicated fans can get frustrated getting a grasp on the sequence of events, especially since some movies happen out of chronological order or even during another. Then along came the eighth film, ''Film/{{Jigsaw}}'', which dropped a bomb on everyone by revealing that [[spoiler: Logan was the first apprentice, not Amanda.]] Fans were baffled, since this new fact disrupted the carefully constructed timeline they had put together, and when the issue was brought up to the film's writers, they admitted knowing the revised timeline didn't make any sense, and they were hoping that nobody would notice.

** ''VideoGame/SonicTheFighters'' has eight Chaos Emeralds instead of the series standard of seven, to accommodate for the eight playable characters. This is likely because it was developed by Sega's arcade division, AM2, rather than Sonic Team.

** While ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'' makes it abundantly clear that the "Classic" incarnations of Sonic, Tails and Dr. Eggman are from the past, ''VideoGame/SonicForces'' suddenly puts forth that Classic Sonic (who is explicitly the same Sonic from ''VideoGame/SonicMania'') is from [[AlternateTimeline another dimension]]. Fan speculation is that the "classic" era split into two timelines because of the TimeTravel plot of ''Generations'' (as opposed to creating a StableTimeLoop), meaning that one timeline leads from ''VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles'' to the "modern" era, and the other leads into ''Sonic Mania'' instead.

** The WordOfGod confirmation that "[[WorldOfFunnyAnimals Sonic's World]]" and Earth are separate worlds leads to confusion with many of the 2000s ''Sonic'' games. The first two ''Adventure'' games heavily imply that Sonic has [[LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy always lived amongst humans and that there's nothing unusual about them]]. ''VideoGame/SonicBattle'' makes it more explicit as it's clearly shown that the characters live in Emerald Town and [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 Gerald Robotnik's]] journal entries from several decades ago reveal that the Chaos Emeralds and Echidna tribe have existed on Earth for centuries, even though by the logic of earlier games, they should be exclusive to "Sonic's World". The first [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmzc8L8zTBk TailsTube]] episode [[AllThereInTheManual addresses the "two worlds"]] by explaining that animals like Sonic and Tails live on islands, while humans live on larger countries and continents -- meaning that it's ''literally'' one planet, but ''figuratively'' two worlds.

** Despite the ''[[VideoGame/SonicRushSeries Sonic Rush]]'' games establishing them as being [[DimensionalTraveler from another dimension]], ''[[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 Sonic '06]]'' and the ''VideoGame/SonicRivals'' games went on to claim Blaze and Eggman Nega (respectively) came from the future of Sonic's world (Nega, in particular, being Dr. Eggman's descendant as opposed to Eggman's counterpart in the Sol Dimension). WordOfGod has since clarified that Blaze is from another dimension, while Nega is from the future.
** While ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'' makes it abundantly clear that the "Classic" incarnations of Sonic, Tails and Dr. Eggman are from the past, ''VideoGame/SonicForces'' suddenly puts forth that Classic Sonic (and by extension, everyone in ''VideoGame/SonicMania'') is from [[AlternateTimeline another dimension]]. The only real "out" here is to say that there are ''two'' Classic Sonics, one from the past and one from ''Sonic Mania'', which actually does make some sense considering ''Sonic Mania'' is mostly remakes of classic era Sonic zones. Fan speculation is that the split was due to the TimeTravel plot of ''Generations'' (as opposed to creating a StableTimeLoop) and only takes effect after ''VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles''.
** The confirmation that Sonic lives on "[[WorldOfFunnyAnimals Sonic's World]]" and dimension-hops to human planets leads to this with many 2000s titles. The first two ''Adventure'' games heavily imply that Sonic has [[LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy always lived amongst humans and that there's nothing unusual about them]]. ''VideoGame/SonicBattle'' makes it more explict as it's clearly shown that the characters live in Emerald Town and [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 Gerald Robotnik's]] journal entries from several decades ago reveal that the Chaos Emeralds and Echidna tribe have existed on Earth for centuries. ''VideoGame/SonicForces'' shows the echidnas as being from Sonic's WorldOfFunnyAnimals.
*** The first [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmzc8L8zTBk TailsTube]] episode [[AuthorsSavingThrow addresses the "two worlds"]] by explaining that animals like Sonic and Tails live on islands while humans live on larger countries and continents.

* All the episodes of ''[[Radio/SherlockHolmesBBCRadio The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes]]'' are based on {{Noodle Incident}}s from the Canon. "The Saviour of Cripplegate Square", however, doesn't quite fit. Supposedly, the incident Holmes referred to when he said, "the most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money" in ''Literature/TheSignOfFour'', the woman in question insists the money didn't interest her. Still, she thought her charges were TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth and was "saving" them. And Holmes seems to believe her since he uses the case as an example of how love is not a positive emotion.

* In WesternAnimation/TheMitchellsVsTheMachines, Linda adopts Eric and Deborah, which would make her a mother of 4. However, in the battle with the Prime bots, she states that she is a "mother of 2".

* Franchise/StreetFighter

*** The Tapestry is just the tip of the iceberg - people have written entire dissertations about all the continuity errors in ''IX''.

* One of the oddest cases of {{Canon}} is ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil''. In the game, you can either play as Jill or Chris: in Jill's story, Barry aids you, rescue Chris who spends the whole game captured, and there is no sign of Rebecca, while in Chris's story, Rebecca aids you, rescue Jill who spends the whole game captured, and there is no sign of Barry. However, later games firmly establish that all four of these characters simultaneously explored the mansion together and survived. It boils down to there being no way to play what canonically happened in Resident Evil, and the closest you can get to seeing these events unfold is by reading the S.D. Perry novelization, which, ironically, is ''not'' canon. [[MindScrew Deep breath]].
* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis'' states that Raccoon City was completely blocked off from the outside by the military to contain the viral outbreak and supposedly takes place before and after the events of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'' (apparently the entire second game took place while Jill was unconscious from the T-Virus infection). In the game, you can see most of the city is a burning wreck, and the entranceway for the RPD is littered with construction equipment while also having two of the main doors inside being barricaded. However, ''Resident Evil 2'' shows the front entrance of the RPD being rather clean as if nothing happened on the property. Not only that, but the opening cut scene shows Leon and Claire entering Raccoon City without any blockades barring their way and most of the city looks abandoned rather than an inferno.
* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog:''

** Despite the ''[[VideoGame/SonicRushSeries Sonic Rush]]'' games establishing them as being [[DimensionalTraveler from another dimension]], ''[[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 Sonic '06]]'' and the ''VideoGame/SonicRivals'' games went on to claim Blaze and Eggman Nega (respectively) came from the future of Sonic's world (Nega, in particular, being Dr. Eggman's descendant). WordOfGod has since clarified that Blaze is from another dimension, while Nega is from the future.
** While ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'' makes it abundantly clear that the "Classic" incarnations of Sonic, Tails and Dr. Eggman are from the past, ''VideoGame/SonicForces'' suddenly puts forth that Classic Sonic (and by extension, everyone in ''VideoGame/SonicMania'') is from another dimension. The only real "out" here is to say that there are ''two'' Classic Sonics, one from the past and one from ''Sonic Mania'', which actually does make some sense considering ''Sonic Mania'' is mostly remakes of classic era Sonic zones.
** The confirmation that Sonic lives on "[[WorldOfFunnyAnimals Sonic's World]]" and dimension-hops to human planets leads to this with many 2000s titles. The first two ''Adventure'' games heavily imply that Sonic has [[LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy always lived amongst humans and that there's nothing unusual about them]]. ''VideoGame/SonicBattle'' makes it more explict as it's clearly shown that the characters live in Emerald Town and Gerald's journal entries from several decades ago reveal that the Chaos Emeralds and echidna tribe have existed on Earth for centuries. ''VideoGame/SonicForces'' shows the echidnas as being from Sonic's WorldOfFunnyAnimals.

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* All the episodes of ''[[Radio/SherlockHolmesBBCRadio The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes]]'' are based on {{Noodle Incident}}s from the Canon. "The Saviour of Cripplegate Square", however, doesn't quite fit. Supposedly, the incident Holmes referred to when he said, "the most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money" in ''Literature/TheSignOfFour'', the woman in question insists the money didn't interest her. Still, she thought her charges were TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth and was "saving" them. And Holmes seems to believe her since he uses the case as an example of how love is not a positive emotion.
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** While ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'' makes it abundantly clear that the "Classic" incarnations of Sonic, Tails and Dr. Eggman are from the past, ''VideoGame/SonicForces'' suddenly puts forth that Classic Sonic (and by extension, everyone in ''VideoGame/SonicMania'') is from another dimension.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', the little girl who hugged Quasimodo at the end of the first movie is present at the start of the second movie and hasn't aged at all -- even though enough time has passed for Esmeralda and Phoebus to have a young son.

** When the Rahkshi attack Ta-Koro in the movie ''Mask of Light'', Tahu, the village's protector, boldly shouts "None have breached Ta-Koro's gates before! And none shall this day!" Except that the previous set of baddies, the Bohrok-Kal ''have'' broken into the village and defeated Tahu himself, ''right'' before the movie's story.
** Some scenes of the second movie, ''Legends of Metru Nui'', are at odds with the novels' and comics' stories. One of the more significant issues is Matau learning that his blades double as wings. In the movie, everyone is surprised when they activate and save him from plunging to his death; according to the comics, he has already used them to fly earlier.

** In [[Film/Halloween2018 the newest installment]], numerous characters refer to the five people Michael kills on that fateful night in 1978. Too bad the official death toll is four: the mechanic, whose jumpsuit Michael stole, along with Laurie's friends Annie and Lynda, and Lynda's boyfriend Bob. It is possible that this error comes from early drafts of the script, where Loomis was also killed by Michael that night, or from the writers looking up the first film's total body count, forgetting that the first of the film's five deaths, Michael's sister, was long before that night.

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* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}''

* The author's notes in ''FanFic/SpiritOfRedemption'' reveal several {{Retcon}}s made to previous chapters, usually regarding the characters' ages.

* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'': In episode 21, the [[RunningGag "Krillin Owned" meter]] hits 13 when Krillin is unable to look away in time from Burter and Jeice's "Seizure Procedure" technique. It hits 13 again two episodes later when Captain Ginyu-in-Goku slaps Krillin.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', the little girl who hugged Quasimodo at the end of the first movie is present at the start of the second movie and hasn't aged at all - even though enough time has passed for Esmeralda and Phoebus to have a young son.
* The Disney DirectToVideo film ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingOneAndAHalf'' (which is essentially a recap of the first film's events, but from Timon and Pumbaa's point of view) actively contradicts the events of ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' on many levels. On the other hand, given whose [[UnreliableNarrator points of view]] this is... Then again, some people have interpreted it as a parody because of how ''many'' events it contradicts.
* A throwaway line in ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' suggests that Mike and Sulley have known each other since elementary school. Yet, its prequel ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'' shows them meeting for the first time in college. There was also a promo (seen in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'') where Sulley complained that Mike was too interested in his elementary school crush to pay attention to geography, which is why they've chosen the wrong door. Plus, a guidebook said they met in kindergarten when Sulley mistook Mike for a chair and briefly sat on him.
** Interestingly, the 4th-Grade line was going to be canon in the prequel, but the directors had difficulty trying to find a way to make the story work that they decided not to make the line have any meaning.

* Siveth's mural in ''Film/DragonheartBattleForTheHeartfire'' depicts her as greenish with red eyes and a red mane, but in ''Film/DragonheartVengeance'', she is a recolored blue-eyed version of Drago from the previous film.

** At the end of [[{{Film/Halloween1978}} the first movie]], Michael is shot by Loomis six times, then falls off a covered balcony at the back of the house. This scene is shown again at the start of [[Film/HalloweenII1981 the sequel]] — and Loomis shoots Michael ''seven'' times (despite only having a six-chamber revolver), sending him flying off an ''uncovered'' balcony at the ''front'' of the house. It worsens when Loomis goes around shouting, "I shot him six times!" in the film's first few minutes.

* ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' has a glaring one right at the start, claiming the events in ''Film/TheAvengers2012'' happened eight years prior. For starters, both movies were made only five years apart. And in-universe, ''Homecoming'' is set months after ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', which explicitly says only four years have passed since ''The Avengers''.
* In ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'', Khan recognizes Chekov despite the latter being introduced in the second season of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E22SpaceSeed Space Seed]]", the episode with Khan, was part of the first season. One theory is that, since Chekov never got a formal introduction episode, he could've been in the lower decks since Day One and been promoted to bridge officer after Khan's banishment. It wouldn't even be the first time someone's shown up on screen out of nowhere [[RememberTheNewGuy and been treated like they were on the show the whole time.]] Walter Koenig likes to joke that, offscreen, they met when Chekov kept Khan waiting at a restroom, then left him with no toilet paper, hence Khan remembering him.
** This can be made more plausible if one opts to [[OutOfOrder sort the show's viewing order]] by the [[AlternativeCalendar stardates]], allowing two second-season episodes featuring Chekov, "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E7Catspaw Catspaw]]" and "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E21PatternsOfForce Patterns of Force]]", to be set ''before'' the episode with Khan. That way, clearly Chekov was part of the crew when Khan and his henchmen tried to take over the ship; his fight against them was just [[HeroOfAnotherStory not shown]].

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* ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'': The {{uncancelled}} seventh and final season of ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]'' contradicts the novel ''[[Literature/StarWarsAhsoka Ahsoka]]'' on one detail: in the book, when Ahsoka abandons her lightsabers on Mandalore as part of a FakingTheDead ploy, the blades are green and yellow like on the TV show. However, the season 7 trailer and footage shown at ''Star Wars'' Celebration Chicago in April 2019 shows the lightsabers with ''blue'' blades when Anakin returns them to her, and in all moments where she's shown using them. The footage indicates that the color change is due to Anakin tinkering with the weapons, but that doesn't change the fact that according to the novel, the sabers had their original blade colours when Ahsoka abandoned them at the end of the Siege.
* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'':
** ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' is supposed to be preceded by ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'' and ''Literature/LabyrinthOfEvil''. Both are supposed to take place simultaneously in some coherent order, yet both contain scenes mutually exclusive to each other, necessitating MergingTheBranches for both stories to work. Both works were then [[ContinuityReboot relegated to the Legends continuity]] and replaced with ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars''.
** ''Literature/LabyrinthOfEvil'' itself claims that before discovering an image of Darth Sidious within Nute Gunray's mechno-chair, the Jedi believed he was a lie Dooku invented to lead Obi-Wan astray on Geonosis in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', and not mentioned since. But in ''Yoda: Literature/DarkRendezvous'', Dooku openly names Sidious as his master to Yoda. {{Continuity Nod}}s to ''Dark Rendezvous'' appear elsewhere in ''Labyrinth of Evil'', yet this discrepancy is not explained.
** Dac or Mon Calamari? {{Retcon}}ned as Dac being the indigenous name for the planet.
** The ''ComicBook/StarWarsMarvel1977'' comics introduce us to "your father, Darth Vader, and Obi-Wan Kenobi." Also, Obi-Wan has black hair. The actual phrasing was "Obi-Wan, Darth Vader, and the man who carried Anakin Skywalker's lightsaber," certainly implying Anakin and Vader are two different people. In one of the deftest {{Retcon}}s in the Expanded Universe, an author was able to use a ''pre-existing'' [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Concordance_of_fealty Jedi ritual]] to justify the man carrying the saber as a third, distinct Jedi who had swapped sabers with Anakin at the time.
** Chewie only has one son when WordOfGod says Wookiees have multiple births and six breasts. Considering the nature of [[DeathWorld Kashyyyk]], however, infant mortality might explain this one.
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* All the episodes of ''[[Radio/SherlockHolmesBBCRadio The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes]]'' are based on {{Noodle Incident}}s from the Canon. "The Saviour of Cripplegate Square," however, doesn't quite fit. Supposedly, the incident Holmes referred to when he said, "the most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money" in ''Literature/TheSignOfFour'', the woman in question insists the money didn't interest her. Still, she thought her charges were TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth and was "saving" them. And Holmes seems to believe her since he uses the case as an example of how love is not a positive emotion.

** Even if you have been drinking throughout the game, if you have the Wasteland of Reality thought internalized during the ending, Kim will tell Jean that you have been dry all week. This is due to an OrphanedReference - in older versions of the game, Wasteland of Reality couldn't be acquired if you were drinking in the first two days of the game, so there wouldn't have been an inconsistency.

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'''Axon:''' What-- Oh! ''(laughs)'' Yeah, we don't work very hard with continuity here. Those scenes were filmed months ago.

* Occasionally, ''Animation/NoonboryAndTheSuper7'' forgets that Totobory's leaves only allow him to taste things, not eat them. This error has occurred in "Big, Bigger, Biggest" and "The Great Switcheroo."

A common feature of LongRunners. Compare BeyondTheImpossible, which is about characters breaking the story's internal logic by doing what is physically impossible.

* One of the Somersby apple cider commercials tells the story of how music was only listened to until lord Somersby accidentally invented dancing. Then in a later commercial featuring young lord Somersby, we can clearly see some people dancing in the background, even thought it is supposed to canonically take place earlier. Given the nature of these commercials, which run on deliberate AnachronismStew for the sake of RuleOfFunny, it can be justified though.

* Occasionally, ''Animation/NoonboryAndTheSuper7'' forgets that Totobory's leaves only allow him to taste things, not eat them. This error has occurred in "Big, Bigger, Biggest" and "The Great Switcheroo".

* ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'': In the ''Fourth Doctor Adventures'' story "Destination: Nerva", the Fourth Doctor rambles about a "Butler named Butler", a character from an audio drama recorded before "Destination: Nerva" but coming after it in the Doctor's timeline. The line was a Creator/TomBaker adlib, and he didn't really care about such things. FanWank [[WordOfGod of God]] is that the NegativeSpaceWedgie was allowing the Doctor to precognate future events.

** A [[http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1959/06/06 comic strip from 1959]] has Snoopy say that he doesn't have any siblings, yet they appear later in the strip's run (and were mentioned in [[http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1970/03/18 this 1970 strip]]). To make matters worse, when he does first meet his siblings in the strip he claims they all speak different languages, which is also later shown to be false. He also started calling Charlie Brown the "round-headed kid" around the late 1960's, even though he called him by his name earlier, although that could be more of CharacterizationMarchesOn.

** Even though Violet's birthday is apparently June 17th, according to [[http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1962/06/17 the June 17, 1962 strip]], a couple of the 1950's strips hinted her birthday is January 28th: In [[http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1951/02/22 the February 22, 1951 strip]], she said her birthday was last month, and in [[http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1955/01/29 the January 29, 1955 strip]], Charlie Brown said her birthday was yesterday.

* ''Fanfic/ThePalaververse'': The fics are supposed to be able to happen in canon, so "The White Horse" has this, because [[spoiler:Sombra]] should not be around after [[spoiler:Luna's banishment]].
* The author's notes in ''FanFic/SpiritOfRedemption'' reveal several {{Retcon}}s made to previous chapters, usually in regard to character's ages.
* ''Fanfic/AWandForSteven'': In the first chapter, it is stated that Steven and four gems (Pearl, Amethyst, Ruby and Sapphire) were found by the veil. Later on, [[spoiler:Peridot]] wakes up during the summer before Year 3, making it ''five'' gems instead.
* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'': In episode 21, the [[RunningGag "Krillin Owned" meter]] hits 13 when Krillin is unable to look away in time from Burter and Jeice's "Seizure Procedure" technique. It hits 13 again two episodes later, when Krillin is slapped by Captain Ginyu-in-Goku.

* At the end of Disney's ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', [[TheHighQueen Kida]] actually gains more tattoos on her face, which could be explained as a sign of her becoming queen; but in the sequel, all of her tattoos save her first one are inexplicably gone.
* In Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}'', Bambi's mother says not one deer has lived half as long as the Great Prince; but in ''WesternAnimation/BambiII'', when Bambi is still a fawn, the Great Prince says he was Bambi's age when he met Bambi's mother.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', the little girl who hugged Quasimodo at the end of the first movie is present at the start of the second movie, and hasn't aged at all - even though enough time has passed for Esmeralda and Phoebus to have a young son.

* A throwaway line in ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' suggests that Mike and Sulley have known each other since elementary school, yet its prequel ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'' shows them meeting for the first time in college. There was also a promo (seen in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'') where Sulley complains Mike was too interested in his elementary school crush to pay attention to geography, and this is why they've chosen the wrong door. Plus, a guide book said they met in kindergarten when Sulley mistook Mike for a chair and briefly sat on him.

** In the holiday-themed CompilationMovie ''Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving'', Rabbit and the other characters act as though [[WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh Kessie]] hasn't been seen in the Hundred Acre Wood since her debut episode in ''New Adventures'' "Find Her, Keep Her". However, there actually ''was'' another episode ("A Bird in the Hand") in which Kessie returned to the Hundred Acre Wood for a visit. Kessie is also still in her young form when she makes a cameo at the end of the movie despite having grown up by the time of "A Bird in the Hand" (a form she has also been in in all of her subsequent appearances, such as in ''Series/TheBookOfPooh''). Maybe ''Seasons of Giving'' takes place [[{{Interquel}} between]] "Find Her, Keep Her" and "A Bird in the Hand," but if not, then its an error.

* ''Film/DieHard'' shows John [=McClane=] reconcile with his estranged wife, ''Film/DieHard2'' shows that this stuck and John is now an LA Cop, having moved to Los Angeles to be with her and their relationship is healthy. Every sequel after that has John in New York and estranged (and later Divorced) from his wife.

** At the end of [[{{Film/Halloween1978}} the first movie]], Michael is shot by Loomis six times, then falls off a covered balcony at the back of the house; this scene is shown again at the start of [[Film/HalloweenII1981 the sequel]] — and Loomis shoots Michael ''seven'' times (despite only having a six-chamber revolver), sending him flying off an ''uncovered'' balcony at the ''front'' of the house. Made all the worse when Loomis goes around shouting "I shot him six times!" in the first few minutes of the film.
** In the original ''Halloween'', the Myers house is a modest two-story home. By the time we get to ''Film/Halloween5TheRevengeOfMichaelMyers'', it's a huge, Gothic-style mansion, and by the time we get to the sixth film, it's back to being a two-story family home that's still completely different from what we've seen in the first two films. At the time these films were made, they were in the same continuity as the first two, so there's no excuse for the discrepancy.
** In [[Film/Halloween2018 the newest installment]], numerous characters refer to the five people Michael kills on that fateful night in 1978. Too bad the official death toll is four: the mechanic, whose jumpsuit Michael stole, along with Laurie's friends Annie and Lynda, and Lynda's boyfriend Bob. It is possible that this error comes from early drafts of the script, where Loomis was also killed by Michael that night, or from the writers looking up the first film's total bodycount, forgetting that that the first of the film's five deaths, Michael's sister, was long before that night.

* The first film where Creator/SidneyPoitier played Detective Virgil Tibbs, Oscar-winner ''Film/InTheHeatOfTheNight'', has Virgil say that he's from Philadelphia and he's unmarried. Three years later, in sequel ''[[Film/TheyCallMeMisterTibbs1970 They Call Me Mister Tibbs!]]'', Virgil lives in San Francisco (and has for a while, dialogue indicates that he's been with the SFPD for 12 years), and he's married with two school-age children.

* ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' has a glaring one right at the start, claiming the events in ''Film/TheAvengers2012'' happened 8 years prior. For starters, both movies were made only 5 years apart. And in-universe, ''Homecoming'' is set months after ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', which explicitly says only 4 years have passed since ''The Avengers''.

** This can be made made more plausible if one opts to [[OutOfOrder sort the viewing order]] of the show by the [[AlternativeCalendar stardates]], allowing two second-season episodes featuring Chekov, "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E7Catspaw Catspaw]]" and "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E21PatternsOfForce Patterns of Force]]", to be set ''before'' the episode with Khan. That way, clearly Chekov was part of the crew when Khan and his henchmen tried to take over the ship; his fight against them was just [[HeroOfAnotherStory not shown]].
* The timeline of the ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' franchise was already very complex, so much so that even dedicated fans can have a hard time getting a grasp on the sequence of events, especially since some movies take place out of chronological order or even at the exact same time as another. Then along came the eighth film, ''Film/{{Jigsaw}}'', which dropped a bomb on everyone by revealing that [[spoiler: Logan was the first apprentice, not Amanda.]] Fans were baffled, since this new fact disrupted the carefully constructed timeline they had put together, and when the issue was brought up to the film's writers, they admitted that they knew the revised timeline didn't make any sense, and were just hoping that nobody would notice.

** First is the conflicting ages of the Republic given by Obi-Wan and Palpatine. In ''Film/ANewHope'', Obi-Wan establishes that the Jedi have been protecting the Republic for "a thousand generations" (which is anywhere from 15,000 to 30,000 years, depending on how you define a "generation"). In ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', Palpatine says that he will not let "this Republic which has stood for a thousand years" fall. Even factoring in the possibility that Obi-Wan may have been exaggerating (which, according to the ExpandedUniverse, he wasn't), that's a pretty big difference in ages. It's been {{hand wave}}d since that there was a major reformation and restructuring of the government a thousand years prior to which Palpatine is referring, hence the reference to "''this'' Republic" rather than "''the'' Republic".
** Another example is Leia remembering her mother as established in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', only for Padme to die within minutes of Luke and Leia's birth in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''. There ''have'' been attempts to explain this, such as the novelization implying Leia was "trying to take in every detail", or the fan speculation that Leia was mistakenly thinking of her foster mother — but even Leland Chee, the man responsible for sorting the massive and convoluted ''Star Wars'' continuity, says that he's stumped.
** The public perception of the Jedi undergoes a very radical change in between ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' and ''Film/ANewHope''. In the prequel trilogy, the Jedi are very active in galactic politics, including personally fighting in the Clone Wars. But 20 years later, the original films show that they're regarded as little more than a fairy tale. Luke has never heard of them before, and Han dismisses the Force as an "ancient religion", despite ''Revenge'' showing his companion Chewbacca fighting droids alongside Yoda. It's possible that a very thorough censorship campaign was conducted by the Empire, but considering that Order 66 (an executive order that suggests Palpatine regarded the Jedi as a serious threat to his power, followed by a speech to the Senate about how dangerous they are) happened within living memory, it's more likely that the writers didn't really consider their previous portrayal in the original trilogy when writing the prequels.

* ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': When Raven reminiscences about the original team from ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', she talks about how they were called the "X-Men". However, going by the events of that film, Moira only coined the term "X-Men" ''after'' the Cuban Missile Crisis, by which point the team had already broken up and Raven herself had left.

* ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'': The {{uncancelled}} seventh and final season of ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]'' contradicts the novel ''[[Literature/StarWarsAhsoka Ahsoka]]'' on one detail: in the novel, when Ahsoka abandons her lightsabers on Mandalore as part of a FakingTheDead ploy, the blades are the green and yellow that they were on the TV show. However, the season 7 trailer and footage shown at ''Star Wars'' Celebration Chicago in April 2019 shows the lightsabers with ''blue'' blades when Anakin returns them to her, and in all moments where she's shown using them. The footage indicates that the change in colour is due to Anakin tinkering with the weapons, but that doesn't change the fact that according to the novel, the sabers had their original blade colours when Ahsoka abandoned them at the end of the Siege.

** ''Literature/LabyrinthOfEvil'' itself claims that before discovering an image of Darth Sidious within Nute Gunray's mechno-chair, the Jedi believed he was a lie, invented by Dooku to lead Obi-Wan astray on Geonosis in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', and not mentioned since. But in ''Yoda: Literature/DarkRendezvous'', Dooku names Sidious as his master openly to Yoda. {{Continuity Nod}}s to ''Dark Rendezvous'' appear elsewhere in ''Labyrinth of Evil'', yet this discrepancy is not explained.

** The ''ComicBook/StarWarsMarvel1977'' comics introduce us to "your father, Darth Vader, and Obi-Wan Kenobi". Also, Obi-Wan has black hair. The actual phrasing was "Obi-Wan, Darth Vader, and the man who carried Anakin Skywalker's lightsaber", certainly implying Anakin and Vader are two different people. In one of the deftest {{Retcon}}s in the Expanded Universe, an author was able to use a ''pre-existing'' [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Concordance_of_fealty Jedi ritual]] to justify the man carrying the saber as a third, distinct Jedi who had swapped sabers with Anakin at the time.
** Chewie only having one son when WordOfGod says Wookiees have multiple births. And six breasts. Considering the nature of [[DeathWorld Kashyyyk]], however, this one might be explained by infant mortality.

* Myth/GreekMythology could have a page to itself, due to its numerous continuity errors and [[ContinuitySnarl snarls]]. See the origins of gods.

** Dionysus is both the son of Zeus, and the son of Persephone and Hades.
** After swallowing the pregnant Metis, Zeus developed an agonizing headache. When Hephaestus split his head open to relieve the pain, Athena sprang forth. She went on to become the most important goddess of her generation, and Zeus took great pride in the fact that he'd "fathered" her all by himself. Hera became jealous and gave birth to a child all by herself, to prove Zeus wasn't the only one who could do it. That child? Hephaestus. Some authors solved this one by having somebody else, like Prometheus or Hermes, split Zeus's head instead, or denied that version of Hephaestus's birth.

* Wrestling/ImpactWrestling gives the name of Dixe Carter's father as Bob (his real name), yet also implies that it is Ethan, as he's the [[{{Kayfabe}} grandfather]] of [[Wrestling/{{EC3}} Ethan Carter III]].
* On the August 1, 2002 episode of ''Wrestling/WWESmackDown'', Jamie Noble introduced Wrestling/{{Nidia}} to the announce team of Wrestling/MichaelCole and Wrestling/{{Tazz}}, saying that they don't mess with Tazz because he's "one of them street thug kind of fellers." The problem is that Tazz was one of Nidia's trainers on ''Wrestling/WWEToughEnough'', so she already knew what he was like.

** The Demon Queen of Spiders, goddess of the drow, is called Lolth. R.A. Salvatore accidentally spelled her name Lloth when she became a ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' character, and the error proliferated to the extent that a rationalization was needed.
** Juiblex had similar problems, being often misspelled as Ju'''bi'''lex. Since both are Demon Lords it is quite easy to invoke IHaveManyNames to justify the differences.

** Recent Portuguese cards and documentations are printed in Brazilian Portuguese instead of Portuguese Portuguese, resulting in many unforewarned changes in terminology.

** When "Elemental HERO Burstinatrix" first came out, her flavor text says she's the "only" female member of the "Elemental [=HEROes=]" which was true at the time. The English text was corrected later as "first", but the Japanese text hasn't been, even though more female "Elemental [=HEROes=]" have been released.
** Recent Portuguese cards and documentations are printed in Brazilian Portuguese instead of Portuguese Portuguese, resulting in many unexpected changes in names and terminology. Apart from spelling changes (Portuguese ''activar'' > Brazilian ''ativar''), there were also term changes (Portuguese ''Anjo'' "Angel" > Brazilian ''Fada'' "Fairy"; Portuguese ''jogador'' "player" > Brazilian ''duelista'' "duelist").

* All the episodes of ''[[Radio/SherlockHolmesBBCRadio The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes]]'' are based on {{Noodle Incident}}s from the Canon. "The Saviour of Cripplegate Square", however, doesn't quite fit. Supposedly the incident Holmes was referring to when he said "the most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money" in ''Literature/TheSignOfFour'', the woman in question insists she had no interest in the money, but thought her charges were TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth and was "saving" them. And Holmes seems to believe her, since he uses the case as an example of how love is not a positive emotion.

** Some scenes of the second movie, ''Legends of Metru Nui'', are at odds with the novels' and comics' stories. One of the more notable issues is Matau learning that his blades double as wings. In the movie, everyone is surprised when they activate and save him from plunging to his death, but according to the comics, he has already used them for flight earlier.
** The comics leading up to the third movie, ''Web of Shadows'', didn't want to spoil Vakama's betrayal, and so showed him leading his team into the Coliseum to clash with the villains. Yet in the movie, we learn that Vakama, having become evil due to the villains' influence, was in the Coliseum the whole time, waiting for his former comrades to try and take him back.

** The online animations and the book ''Makuta's Revenge'' offer differing accounts on which Bohrok-Kal stole which Toa Nuva symbol. Usually the former is seen as more canonical. The mini-comic in the toys' instruction manuals contradict both, making it an example of AdvertisingOnlyContinuity.
** Makuta's narration in one of the 2003 comics claims he's been hiding for years after his 2001 defeat. Later on, the writer established that the entirety of the 2001-2008 storyline (barring the 2004-2005 flashbacks) took place within the span of a single year. Of course, Makuta might just be BreakingTheFourthWall here and meant "years" in real-life terms.

* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'', developed by WB Games Montréal (not the original developers from Rocksteady Studios), portrays the first meeting between Joker and Harley Quinn dramatically differently from what's heard from video tapes in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum''. Instead of just another villainous rambling from Joker and slutty responses from Harley Quinn in ''Asylum'', the conversation is quite serious: Joker keeps pondering on his newfound nemesis, Batman, and talks about him as if they're destined for each other, while Harley Quinn, portrayed as being uncharacteristically timid and shy, only gives back minor responses and completely submits to the belief that he was talking about her.

** The SNES sequel to ''VideoGame/FinalFight'', ''Final Fight 2'', established that Guy became the Bushin-ryu successor after training under Genryusai. This would be contradicted in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha'' by having Zeku revealed to be Guy's precessor, even though Genryusai's daughter Maki would show up in later fighting games (specificially ''Capcom vs. SNK 2'' and the portable versions of ''Street Fighter Alpha 3''). Udon's ''World Warrior Encyclopedia'' attempts to reconcile this inconsistency by having Genryusai be Zeku's predecessor instead.

** The entire game of ''VideoGame/UltimaUnderworld'', which takes place in a dungeon that had been destroyed several games previously.
** In ''VideoGame/UltimaIX'', the Tapestry of Ages is supposed to depict the previous ''VideoGame/{{Ultima}}'' games. It is said to have magically painted itself throughout history as the events unfolded, yet no such tapestry can be found in earlier games. The visual depictions are not accurate to the details of each story. The tapestry is meant as a reminder that the Avatar visited Britannia on eight occasions, once for each main entry in the series, ignoring how the Avatar was not on Britannia in ''VideoGame/UltimaII'' and ''VideoGame/UltimaVIII'', and remained on Britannia in other games.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'', ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2 XIII-2]]'', and ''VideoGame/{{Lightning Returns|FinalFantasyXIII}}'' have terrible in-game continuity, and cross game (they are a successive series of events) continuity, to the point the final game in the trilogy that built off of everything the prior two had happen, has completely different reasons/motivations/developments/explanations/etcetera for events when reflected upon by the characters and the lore of the games themselves. But they still apparently happened the exact same way.
** Etro is stated to be the goddess of time in ''XIII-2'', but in ''Lightning Returns'' and the expanded universe material, her dominion is over the cycle of death, meaning time travel and visions of the future/alternate timelines she made possible in the second game could not have been done by her, and the rest of the series' god entities were either sleeping or dead.
* On the way to the TrueEnding of ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaMk2'', the CPU Candidates are promoted to full [=CPUs=]. Yet at the beginning of ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaVictory'', the direct sequel, Nepgear introduces herself, Uni, Rom and Ram as CPU Candidates. While there are a few ways to reconcile this (mk2's Good Ending is the canon one, or the immortal goddess [=CPUs=] being reinstated after the events of the game), the game doesn't explain it.
* At the end of the first episode of ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'', both Max and Chloe are surprised when it suddenly starts to snow.[[note]]The game is set in October 2013 in North America.[[/note]] The other citizens of Arcadia Bay are also confused about this and like Chloe they act like they've seen something for the first time- but the [[VideoGame/LifeIsStrangeBeforeTheStorm prequel]] revealed that the same thing already happended in the summer of 2010 [[spoiler: while a wildfire threatened to burn Arcadia Bay]]. While Max had some reasons to not know about this[[note]]she lived in Seattle during prequel and wasn't really interested in Arcadia Bay[[/note]] the other characters and especially Chloe should've remembered this.
* ''VideoGame/SpaceQuest'': The [=WD40=] terminoid in ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestVTheNextMutation'' is sent to collect on the payment Roger Wilco didn't make for the Gippazoid Novelty Company's Labion Terror Beast Mating Whistle after defeating the Arnoid sent to collect payment in ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestIIIThePiratesOfPestulon''. In that game, Roger defeated the Arnoid, who demanded payment for the whistle from ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestIIVohaulsRevenge''. And in that game, examining the order form shows the whistle is for free, which in later games is never brought up again in-story. The developers admitted it was an oversight, and the Space Quest [[http://spacequest.wikia.com/wiki/Gippazoid_Novelty_Company wiki]] runs with the idea it's the company's fault for charging for an allegedly free item.
* ''VideoGame/SpyroYearOfTheDragon'' clearly states dragon eggs only occur once every twelve years. In ''VideoGame/SpyroAHerosTail'' you must rescue different dragon eggs despite the fact no one seems to have aged much since the third game, and certainly not twelve years. However, ''Year Of The Dragon'' also flies contrary to ''VideoGame/SpyroTheDragon'', where one had to chase thieves with dragon eggs, and while time obviously passed between the games, twelve years seems unlikely.
* One of the oddest cases of {{Canon}} is ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil''. In the game you can either play as Jill or Chris: in Jill's story you are aided by Barry, rescue Chris who spends the whole game captured, and there is no sign of Rebecca, while in Chris's story you are aided by Rebecca, rescue Jill who spends the whole game captured, and there is no sign of Barry. However, later games firmly establish that all four of these characters simultaneously explored the mansion together and survived. What this boils down to is there is no way in Resident Evil to actually play what canonically happened in Resident Evil, and the closest you can get to seeing these events unfold is by reading the S.D. Perry novelization which, ironically, is ''not'' canon. [[MindScrew Deep breath]].
* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis'' states that Raccoon City was completely blocked off from the outside by the military in order to contain the viral outbreak and supposedly taking place before and after the events of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'' (apparently the entire second game took place while Jill was unconscious from the T-Virus infection). In the game, you can see most of the city is a burning wreck and the entranceway for the RPD is littered with construction equipment while also having two of the main doors inside being barricaded. However, ''Resident Evil 2'' shows the front entrance of the RPD being rather clean as if nothing happened on the property. Not only that, but the opening cut scene shows Leon and Claire entering Raccoon City without any blockades barring their way and most of the city looks abandoned rather than an inferno.

** Despite the ''[[VideoGame/SonicRushSeries Sonic Rush]]'' games establishing them as being [[DimensionalTraveler from another dimension]], ''[[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 Sonic '06]]'' and the ''VideoGame/SonicRivals'' games went on to claim Blaze and Eggman Nega (respectively) came from the future of Sonic's world (Nega in particular being Dr. Eggman's descendant). WordOfGod has since clarified that Blaze is from another dimension, while Nega is from the future.

** The confirmation that Sonic lives on "[[WorldOfFunnyAnimals Sonic's World]]" and dimension-hops to a human planets leads to this with many 2000s titles. The first two ''Adventure'' games heavily imply that Sonic has [[LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy always lived amongst humans and that there's nothing unusual about them]]. ''VideoGame/SonicBattle'' makes it more explict as it's clearly shown that the characters live in Emerald Town and Gerald's journal entries from several decades ago reveal that the Chaos Emeralds and echidna tribe have existed on Earth for centuries. ''VideoGame/SonicForces'' shows the echidnas as being from Sonic's WorldOfFunnyAnimals.
* ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' games since ''VideoGame/MetroidZeroMission'' have established Samus's [[PoweredArmor Power Suit]] as [[PsychoactivePowers something formed and maintained by her will]] (and being knocked unconsicous causes the suit to dematerialize), and not so much a physical set of armor. This causes problems with the chronologically later game, ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'' -- the plot of which hinges on the Power Suit being a physical object that remains around Samus whilst she is unconscious and can be infected by a parasite.
* Between the first and second ''Franchise/MassEffect'' games, "thermal clips" were invented to replace the original heat sink system used by all guns. During the same period, mechs became widespread compared to their original limited numbers. This is an issue when rescuing Jacob's father, who was marooned eight years prior to the first game. Despite having been cut off from the galaxy, the planet still has a plentiful supply of thermal clips and mechs.
* Discussed in ''VideoGame/DeusExMankindDivided'' in the "A Criminal Past" DLC when Jensen gets his augmentations back. The game notes that giving him access to the new experimental augs from the main game nine months before he canonically knew they existed constitutes a PlotHole, and gives you the option to either respect continuity at the cost of a weaker Jensen or accept the plot hole so you can have all of your shiny new toys. Can also be a case of UnreliableNarrator as Jensen survived a bombing that did some damage at the start of the game and the DLC is framed as Jensen giving a very overdue after action report following the events of the base game and the other DLC.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'', Myron proudly claims to have invented the addictive drug known as Jet, and if asked, will tell you the story of how it was created, partly by accident, as a result of the Mordinos' efforts to create a potent drug that they could produce in the wasteland. ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'' indicates that the drug had been created before the nuclear war. No canon source has addressed this yet, but FanWank notes that it would be perfectly in-character for Myron --a {{Jerkass}} and SmugSnake to the nth degree-- to reverse-engineer a pre-war drug out of available ingredients and then lie about inventing it to puff up his own reputation.

** Since ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade'' is a prequel, characters who appear in or have children who appear in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade'' are SavedByCanon and won't [[{{Permadeath}} die for real if they fall in battle]] (though they'll still become unplayable). Rebecca is an exception -- despite her son appearing in the previous/next game, if she falls in battle, she dies for real. No explanation is given for this, suggesting that it was simply an oversight.
** In ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemMysteryOfTheEmblem Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem]]'', it was established that Minerva initially rode a pegasus before she became a wyvern rider, tying into how the Dracoknight class that rode wyverns promoted from Pegasus Knights in that game. Later material reinforced this, with the trading card game ''TabletopGame/FireEmblemCipher'' releasing a card of Pegasus Knight Minerva that could be used to summon that version of the character in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates''. Later on, ''VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes'' released a younger version of Minerva, who rides a wyvern in spite of the events of the remake being previously established as canon. Her past as a Pegasus Knight is ignored.

** Players who explore long passages of the game without Kim will sometimes find him knowing about things he shouldn't, repeating injokes from conversations he wasn't there for and sometimes even being reacted to by other people as if he had been there on an earlier meeting. This is especially relevant to the way the game tracks your character's drug abuse. You will only lose RelationshipValues with Kim for taking up a new drug habit while Kim is there to watch you, making it clear he's not supposed to know about what you do when he's not there, but Kim will still mention it in the ending if you only took one drink, in your own room, after Kim had gone to bed.
** Even if you have been drinking throughout the game, if you have the Wasteland of Reality thought internalised during the ending, Kim will tell Jean that you have been dry all week. This is due to an OrphanedReference - in older versions of the game, Wasteland of Reality couldn't be acquired if you were drinking in the first two days of the game, so there wouldn't have been an inconsistency.
** The game is internally inconsistent about when Harry [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy wrecked his car]]. Kim and your character will deduce from the visual evidence that the crash happened on Sunday night, but Idiot Doom Spiral tells you it happened on Saturday night, and you partied with the Union of Moribund Alcoholics through Sunday morning before becoming suicidal around midday Sunday and vanishing.

* ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriorsAgeOfCalamity'' is a prequel to ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', and as such, the map of Hyrule is intact, with Castle Town in particular showing more streets than the earlier game. However, in the cutscene where Purah excitedly shows the completed map on the Sheikah Slate atop Akkala Tower, Castle Town is prominently visible as its destroyed version. Notably, the area directly in front of the Hyrule Castle drawbridge should look more like a U with a line connecting the top, but it looke like a J instead.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'' an update had a conversation play between two characters implying they had never met before that point, despite the characters having been established as close friends early in the series. This was quickly pointed out by fans and the conversation was edited and corrected.

** Claret's hair colour changes from [[http://images.teahousecomic.com/comic/img/comic/3.jpg light green]] to [[http://images.teahousecomic.com/comic/img/comic/105.jpg a much darker one]].
** Axis' hair colour changes, his tattoos vanish and his skin tone has become lighter. [[http://i.imgur.com/YOQRI.jpg Seen here]], which also notes the sudden change in maid outfits.

** During its first proper appearance in Episode 49, the hearts lining the bottom of [[spoiler:Distorted Catt's]] teacup body are drawn upside-down. However, the hearts get drawn right-side up in every appearance afterward.

* Discussed in ''VideoGame/DeusExMankindDivided'' in the "A Criminal Past" DLC when Jensen gets his augmentations back. The game notes that giving him access to the new experimental augs from the main game nine months before he canonically knew they existed constitutes a PlotHole, and gives you the option to either respect continuity at the cost of a weaker Jensen or accept the plot hole so you can have all of your shiny new toys.

->''"I rank the frequently blundering poet ith Choerilus: when he\\

->''"... and yet I also become annoyed whenever the great Creator/{{Homer}} nods off."''
-->-- '''Horace''', "Ars Poetica"

* All the episodes of ''[[Radio/SherlockHolmesBBCRadio The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes]]'' are based on {{Noodle Incident}}s from the Canon. "The Saviour of Cripplegate Square", however, doesn't quite fit. Supposedly the incident Holmes was referring to when he said "the most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money", the woman in question insists she had no interest in the money, but thought her charges were TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth and was "saving" them. And Holmes seems to believe her, since he uses the case as an example of how love is not a positive emotion.

** The confirmation that Sonic lives on "[[WorldOfFunnyAnimals Sonic's World]]" and dimension-hops to to a human planets leads to this with many 2000s titles. The first two ''Adventure'' games heavily imply that Sonic has [[LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy always lived amongst humans and that there's nothing unusual about them]]. ''VideoGame/SonicBattle'' makes it more explict as it's clearly shown that the characters live in Emerald Town and Gerald's journal entries from several decades ago reveal that the Chaos Emeralds and echidna tribe have existed on Earth for centuries. ''VideoGame/SonicForces'' shows the echidnas as being from Sonic's WorldOfFunnyAnimals.

* ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' games since ''VideoGame/MetroidZeroMission'' have established Samus's [[PoweredArmor Power Suit]] as [[PsychoactivePowers something formed and maintained by her will]] (and being knocked unconsicous causes the suit to dematerialize), and not so much a physical set of armor. This causes problems with the chronologically most recent game, ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'' -- the plot of which hinges on the Power Suit being a physical object that remains around Samus whilst she is unconscious and can be infected by a parasite.