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- verb Past participle of
retcon
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Examples
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Something similar seems to have happened to some of the JLAers who knew Batman's secrets in Pre-COIE and Post-COIE-but-Pre-Zero-Hour era, although some of those characters now seem to have had their knowledge of his real name retconned right back in again.
Lorendiac’s Lists: Who Knows Batman is Bruce Wayne? | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2007
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I could do without the retconned cliffhangers every few chapters though.
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As you may know, there was some pact with Mephisto that caused years of Spidey canon to be retconned to hell and back.
Monday sabrinageek 2009
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Obviously, they have since retconned that and he is now an alien from Namek and I acknowledge that it is possible that a Namek looks white.
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However, in the summer of 1989, writer Marv Wolfman led into "LPOD" with "Batman: Year Three" (drawn by Pat Broderick and John Beatty), a four-issue look at Dick Grayson and "Boss" Zucco which also retconned the Drake family into Robin I's origin.
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Amazing Spider-Man #200 and 400 were also major ones for me — though both have recently been retconned out.
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Those awful CGI movies retconned his personality to “obnoxious little boy” for that reason, but he was arguably worse.
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• The scene where Jack retconned Esther was a direct echo of the very first episode, when he did the same to Gwen.
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So why has she been retconned into a Shallow Love Interest?
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That was a terrible piece of crap that retconned everything in the original.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - The 10 Worst Movie Sequels 2009
RTaylor commented on the word retconned
From wikipedia: "Retroactive continuity is the deliberate changing of previously established facts in a work of serial fiction.1 The change is informally referred to as a "retcon", and producing a retcon is called "retconning". Retconning may be carried out for a variety of reasons, such as to accommodate sequels or further derivative works in the same series, to reintroduce popular characters, to make a reboot of an old series more relevant to modern audiences, or to simplify an excessively complex continuity structure."
October 2, 2009