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DaibhidC Wizzard Since: Jan, 2001

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Sep 19th 2022 at 2:30:29 PM •••

Not sure about this:

In Dumbing of Age, a Continuity Reboot of the whole Walkyverse, it's generally assumed that characters have already had arcs similar to what they did through the Walkyverse — e.g. Ethan came out during Shortpacked!, Ethan of Dumbing of Age came out in high school. This is so readers who already know the characters don't have to go through the same story again.

Ethan's coming out is the only example of this I can think of. I'm sure there are others that I haven't thought of, but in general the exact opposite seems to be true; these are characters who had a ton of Character Development over the years largely being reset to the beginning (and then getting different character development). It wouldn't make sense to begin the strip with a Joyce who was just starting college, but had somehow been through a version of everything her Walkyverse counterpart had and ended up in roughly the same place, rather than being largely the same as she was at the start of Roomies!

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KJMackley Since: Jan, 2001

Jul 29th 2011 at 7:22:42 PM •••

The "Mistaken for Broad Strokes" category was something that I was thinking about regarding the trope, the idea that fans will link genuinely unrelated series together using Broad Strokes when they were not meant to be part of the same universe. Both examples are of fans using broad strokes when it was not meant to apply. This is different from a production using it intentionally to explain inconsistencies.

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metaphysician Since: Oct, 2010

Aug 6th 2011 at 12:49:43 PM •••

The Incredible Hulk belongs in that section as well.

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KJMackley Since: Jan, 2001

Aug 8th 2011 at 9:27:16 AM •••

You seem awfully hung up on that and I'm wondering if you are understanding the trope at all. Broad Strokes has nothing to do with canonocity, but is about accepting elements of prior stories. If The Incredible Hulk was a complete reboot they would have retold the origin. It says right in the description (and has from the beginning) that the trope can happen in a Continuity Reboot. Probably like a third of the examples are already about elements from a story declared Canon Discontinuity bleeding into the new canon. Judi Dench in the new James Bond movies are a far more extreme version of what TIH did and it still counts.

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