in a fictional work or series: a piece of new (and typically revelatory) information which imposes a different interpretation on previously described events, often employed to facilitate a dramatic plot shift or account for an inconsistency; (also) use of this as a narrative device
[< retroactive continuity]
Wow! Talk about a retcon by another name!β¦ Okay, so Superboy never existed; we'd already figured that.
Revealing that a whole season of βDallasβ was a dream was a retcon.
In terms of retcon, the most preposterous movie franchise is undoubtedly βHighlanderβ.
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