Retcon

Retroactive continuity, or retcon for short, is a literary device in which established diegetic 'facts' in the plot of a fictional work are adjusted, ignored, or contradicted by a subsequently published work which breaks continuity with the former.
Summary:
Retcon is when an author or company completely erases or re-write a character(s), event(s), and or the entire series in a more logical manner to fix errors within the canon continuity.
Forced Retcon is different where the character is forced without any real reason to be re-written or erased from the continuity.
==Examples==
Back during the Famous/Infamous Secret Wars Era: 1980s where the Original Beyonder, by all means, a Basic Omnipotent being was purposely Retconned from his status due to Jim Shooter having a heavy and massive disagreement with the Marvel Company it was Tom DeFalco, who disliked Shooter and wanted his creation to be written out of the comics, had Demanded any writer to do it, but instead the writer Steve Englehart, had respect for his former boss instead made Beyonder (Earth-616) into "Half" a Cosmic Cube with Molecule Man being the other half and making Kosmos.
This is why:
*Pre-Retcon Beyonder equals Original Beyonder (Aka Omnipotent)
*Post-Retcon Beyonder equals Cosmic Cube Beyonder (aka Child of the Beyonders)
==Terms==
*Pre-Retcon Means before the retcon of the Character.
*Post-Retcon means the current version of the Character.
==See Also==
*Canon
*Non-Canon
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