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- verb Present participle of
retcon .
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Examples
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The whole thing feels like a too-soon exercise in retconning.
Three Battlestar Galactica spinoffs better than ‘Caprica’ 2009
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In the comic industry, this is known as "retconning".
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This has led to a lot of "retconning", as the kids say, and I'm usually glad to allow it to keep the flow flowin '.
EN World D&D / RPG News Chronosome 2010
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But my guess is the Beyonder, Bendis went through the process of horribly retconning him in the Illuminati mini, only to never use him again.
Who is Norman Osborn’s Secret Weapon? | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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Stan Lee doesn't write Spider-Man any more (hence the crap retconning -- I stopped reading it too, my friend), and has not for a long time.
A Few More Last Words grrm 2010
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It was called “Everything Old is New again” and was about retconning and rebooting stories.
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Which would be a sort of retconning, I know, which I just denounced.
A Few More Last Words grrm 2010
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Yet, our heroes are shady, secret government operatives doing mysterious things ... retconning people ... lying about their business.
TORCHWOOD: CoE Episode 1...Spoilers rabid1st 2009
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(As a note, she IS the last of her species; no retconning this).
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Fans of comic books will recognize this instantly: It's retconning, and sometimes it's the only way to make a new idea work under an old title.
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