RetCon

* See also Canon
* See also Bioshock_Illogic
* See also Burial_at_Sea_Turned_Fontaine_into_a_Moron
* See also BioShock_SOLO_Game_Redos to fix things 
* See also MMORPG_Lore and Expanded_Lore_Canon
== "Retroactive Continuity, or 'RetCon' for short, is the alteration of previously established facts in the continuity of a fictional work." ==
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( SEE http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RetCon )
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Definition : Where a subsequent story or sequel ( or even interviews from authors ) reveals additional information about characters or story events which supposedly took place in the earlier work, which changes the Understanding or Facts about what happened. This can include complete contradictions which are not compatible with the previous writing.
"Retroactive Continuity", or RetCon for short, is a literary device in where established facts in a fictional work are ignored, adjusted, or contradicted by a subsequently published work which breaks continuity with the former (Canon).
RetCon'ing frequently happens because the writers are too lazy/sloppy/lacking-in-imagination to be able to make/adjust their newer work to be compatible with the previous storylines and details.
* BS2 Retcon'd BS1 (like : Big Daddy development time, date of Suchong's death)
* The Infinite BS DLC Included that Rapture part to somehow justify the use of the name 'BioShock' for the Main Game in Columbia. Then you had that rather illogical "Its Prime" declaration of Levine's ( long after the game was completed ). It UNFORTUNATELY involved the previous Rapture Story with that absurd Quantum Fantasy.
* Burial AT Sea DLC (Infinite BS contamination) Retcon'd BS1 and BS2. Quite absurdly. Lots of Atlas/Fontaine changes, interiors Bigification, shoving of the Quantum Bullshit Fantasy into the previously written Sci-Fi Rapture, including that declaration (by Levine) that there is NOW only one BS1 endingA Change which totally went against the whole frickem M-World/Multiple Dimension THEME that he had put in Infinite BS - This Declaration is One of the shoddyest/stupidest things in the BioShock branding -- added to the game mismanagement which subtracted so much from what these last BioShock games COULD HAVE BEEN. ).
* BaS showed having Gatherers and Protectors being active LONG before events even allowed/justified it ( forced to before being logical/plausible ).
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So this proposed "Rapture Reborn" MMORPG ( whenever it is made ) will be able itself to legitimately 'RetCon' all those abused storylines -- In this case to correct those illogical/lazy conflicts, and enhance and move forward the Rapture Story ).
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 EXAMPLE : A "RetCon " (A Sequel Issue) Retroactive Continuity :
"Cannon O'Rourke Who is a literature Plagiarist, who then destroys the Canon of countless authors works with his new books added onto their storylines. Particularly good at employing faulty historical/cultural/societal understanding simply to sell his books."
Sounds alot like the Infinite BS/Burial At Sea gamewriters, No ? 
I suppose that sloppy/slipshod/lazy work on the Infinite BS BaSx DLC is hardly something for a proper comparison. "Milking The Brand" of the work done by the original Rapture creators is a whole different type of disgusting action ( as was also done within Infinite BS ) - Degenerating the original Concepts - AND this even being done by some of the original developers ( who SHOULD have known better ).
Interpolation ( refitting within previously defined story ) vs Extrapolation ( extending details beyond the previous ) is what is usually done for sequels. But it can be very badly done, when it all heads out into Lala-land ( because of 'artistic license ??? ), and when there is (mis)use of elements of the original game(s), poor mimicking of others, and the substitutes with some terrible 'trendy' game garbage.
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In Infinite BS, badly fitted concepts simply got mutated from ideas in the original Rapture game, and made absurd when 1940s concepts/elements were placed/recycled into Infinite BS's 1893-1912 era game setting. You see many copied merely for the Player to see as 'familiar' props, BUT were barely touched-by/involved-with the game's inhabitants/storyline. There was a Sparsity of normal detail when the story setting was supposed to be an active 'normal' society ( unlike Rapture's half-ruined spaces where 'the emptiness has a reason' - a proper situation for having mutant crazies run about obliterating things ).
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The BAD ENDING DEBACLE :
WE (the Players) don't really know what happens after the brief scene at the end of the BS1 'Bad Ending' :
Nothing says much happened beyond alot of Splicers were probably shot by US Marines from the sub, or they just shut the Submarine's hatches and submerged, and now the US Government knows where Rapture is. And/or Jack dies of a Childhood Disease that he never had any immunity to ( and those diseases DO usually hit adults much harder than children ).
OR Opening the Bathysphere doors on the Ocean surface also ( according to Basic Physics ) would instantly flood and sink like rocks to the bottom of the ocean - Drowning most/all those Splicers and Jack too. Icy waters would do the rest.
OR, because of insanity -- with all that awful amount of ADAM Jack ingested in such a short time, he went blitheringly insane and tried to eat the Lighthouse.
Whatever ... Now the in the BaS 'RetCon BS', the BS1 'Good Ending' is supposed to now be the only one ? :
Sally was supposed to be seen saved by Elizabeth in a 'dream'/'vision' -- (??) 
Is that the same Elizabeth who just had been in a coma, or had half a Lobotomy ?? 
And she has someone talking to her 'in her head' ??? 
Who says BaS Elizabeth hasn't been snorting something from "Le Marquis D'Epoque" while we weren't looking ?? 
 SORRY Kenny, The "Bad Ending" IS Canon TOO ( one of the two possibilities ) for BIOSHOCK. ( Nothing Kenny Levine or others subsequently say can change that. ) 
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MMORPG Sticking to the Rapture Canon ( BaS Columbia Contamination *IGNORED* ) : 
The MMORPG will pick and carefully choose what is consistently Canon ( and what might be mere rumor, or the fever dreams of hopped-up Splicers and Ditzy Femme Fatales ).
Don't want people saying "Where the F^&* did THAT come from ???", and "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooo!!"
Guidelines controlling Player Asset Creations (and the Vetting Process adhering to those guidelines).
Plenty of 1940s/1950s era details to add (and reference) without every fanboi adding yet another repetitive weapon/Plasmid/Splicer variant ( same things, just more powerful/recombined and usually anachronistic ).
Plenty of vague storylines to flesh out ( many maybe frequently keeping to the 'short and vague' style, as most Players probably don't want to be subjected to complete life stories ).
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BS2 Contradicted BS1 :
Killing Dr Suchong early allegedly before a successful Protector system worked - Gil there mourns Suchong's being dead when bonding is finally achieved and BaS contradicts both ( now killing Suchong explicitly BEFORE there even is a reason/need for Protectors to exist ).
The truth is : You sometimes have to be more careful when claiming something is 'Canon'. More than a few 'later' declarations in sequels out there are simply inconsistent with what previously WAS SHOWN ( which IS THE REAL "Canon" - which you would think would take precedence ).
The Suchong's Death Conundrum will take ALOT of untangling and revisions ( and recreating of proper circumstancings ) to clean up. ( BaS can be written off as transdimensional BS - as Elizabeth's fever dream Like Booker's was the whole of Infinite BS... ). The BS1 and BS2 conflict is more Canon-centric. BS1 has him (Suchong) obviously working with operational post-Alpha Big Daddies, and doing alot of development with upgrades and new production. BS1 also hints Suchong was killed while testing LS-BD Protector Bonding - but THAT could be repaired with some further story improvement ( and nothing says the body in Suchong's Free Clinic cannot be some assistant who got killed, while Suchong made his escape ). Gil's comments can be mutated, or a number of the 'Removed' ones (if they fit) could be restored.
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No Seriously ?? STUPIDEST SCENE EVAH!!!! :
BaS2 has one of the dimmest RetCon scenes ( Yes, its hard to outdo Infinite BS for dimwitted things ... )  - Daisy Fitzroy and Luteces discussing how Daisy should let Elizabeth kill Fitzroy ( while pretending to kill Fink's kid/child, no less ) just so she (Elizabeth) can become the good goddess of the inter-dimensions.   Seriously, That Daisy that very second on hearing that BS from these pair of tricksters, did not simply try to 'Bust a Cap' into them both ... ( and make some comment about 'Damn Fool Crazy Crackers' ... )
Contrivances ontop of Contrivances ontop of BS ... ( being DLC and the Game Studio 'winding down' was NO EXCUSE for crap like this ).
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-OR- The Raptureverse ....
RetCon Rapture (BaSx)  is simplest to explain : NOT 'Prime'. THAT'S Some online uttering Levine did (years later) when someone asked him if the BaSx Rapture was the same Rapture, OR was it some parallel universe ?? ( 'Prime' implies it to be 'the same one' as in BS1 - we assume ??? ) Of course, it completely flies in the face of his whole fantasy 'Multiverse' idea Infinite BS was based on - just some alternate universe where things were stupider.
"Retroactive Continuity, or 'RetCon' for short, is the alteration of previously established facts in the continuity of a fictional work."
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"RetCon" is a Four Letter Word :
"I am not A Liberator" - Atlas Propaganda in BS1 
Atlas the Terrorist ... Too bad you never were shown THIS in the first game - It WOULD have spoiled their ( "I'm Your Father, Luke" ) plot ... Now ( in the Infinite BS derived/beshatted BaSx ) they Show So Much. It IS 'hard to credit' how it all could be 'Unknown' to the writers for them to shit so much on the earlier games.
 
Remember, We were IN the Kashmir Restaurant (in BS1) - That Place is now there in Burial At Sea shown being destroyed by this huge explosion - Now done by the built-up/embellished 'Atlas' Terrorist character. Peculiar also are : The Burial_at_Sea_Turned_Fontaine_into_a_Moron RetCon changes being further degenerations.
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DLC - Dumb Lazy Crap ( Minervas Den shits bigger than 'Burial At Sea' )
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The Term "CONTARDICTION" - Invented via a Spelling Mistake ( Serendipity is wonderful, No ? ) :
"Con-Tard-iction" : This word so much represents the true essence of "BioShock: Burial At Sea".
And Infinite BS deserves its own word for its demented bad fantasy pseudo-science, pseudo-history, psuedo-religion, Faux-Economy, Faux-Technology ... 
"Scatolicous" ? ... The refining of shit (Infinite) into even more smelly shit (BaSx)"Scatolicous" - Perhaps next we will get "I AM YOUR FATHER, LUTECE !!!!" ... 
" Puts the 'B' in 'Bad'."
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