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Cerebus Retcon

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Cerebus Retcon	comment	One of the side effects of Cerebus Syndrome is that some gags from the early part of the story may no longer seem to fit the more serious tone of later portions. There is however a way to make these early funny elements consistent with the rest of the story: giving them a Cerebus Retcon. The Cerebus Retcon gives a rational, often cynical, In-Universe explanation or interpretation of early gags, frequently by giving them a late Deconstruction, either for drama or Black Comedy. While this trope will frequently be the consequence of a retcon, without Word of God, it is sometimes difficult to distinguish actual instances of retcon from situations where the author had planned for the tonal shift, with early gags always being meant to serve as foreshadowing for all the later drama. As such, this trope is used to cover both cases, since the audience is now told to perceive a lighthearted moment in a more serious light either way. If the lighthearted moment is only referenced or alluded to in a serious scene without being outright retconned into something darker, it's a Cerebus Call-Back. Compare Reimagining the Artifact, Doing In the Wizard, Backstory Horror, and Crapsaccharine World. Often related to Harsher in Hindsight and Rewatch Bonus. Sometimes overlaps with Arc Welding. Unmarked plot spoilers are abundant in this page, as the mere title of this trope is already suggestive. Tread carefully.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_11859033	comment	In Narbonic, it initially appears (in the original timeline) that Dave hires on at the lab due to a help-wanted ad that mentioned smoking was permitted. Later it's retconned that Helen had already chosen him as the candidate because he was a latent mad genius and she wanted to study his case progression in order to find a cure for her own madness and that the ad was bait for him specifically. (In the second timeline, the ad must have mentioned something else besides "smoking permitted," since Dave has never smoked. Where did you get the idea that he smoked?) A lot of the comedic "experiments" Helen does on Dave take on a different light knowing that experimenting on his brain really is the entire focus of her work, and most of the projects he's assisting on are meant to provide him ample ground to break through into mad genius—so that she can cure herself of the undesirable condition of being a mad scientist, or at least take the edge off. And the events of the first arc, in which he repairs a doomsday machine for her are a total sham, as what he was told was a doomsday machine was a rusty mail-sorter, and he used his own mad genius unwittingly to build the weather control device from its parts. It was his first test.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_12998143	comment	Terrible Writing Advice: "Grimdark" suggests absurd ones like Contrivium being made of ground up widows and interstellar travel requiring travelling through Cthulhu's back lawn.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_13652756	comment	In Finding Nemo, Dory's amnesia initially comes off as more of a comedic quirk than a genuine handicap, and it seems like a natural part of her Cute Clumsy Girl persona. But as the film goes on, it gradually becomes clear that she's deeply bothered by her inability to hold onto memories, particularly since it means that she can't remember anything about her real family, and it makes it almost impossible for her to form lasting relationships. As much as she might annoy Marlin, she does deeply value him as a friend...since he's one of the few friends that she's ever had. It becomes even worse in Finding Dory, where it's revealed that her memory problems caused her to lose her family, that she outright catches anxiety when faced with the thought that she will be left all alone, with nobody to help her, that even her parents were worried about her future and so much more... The sequel also turns several of her personality quirks from the original film (such as the "just keep swimming" Running Gag) and has them Played for Drama as a result of Parental Abandonment. That moment where Dory not knowing where her family is when she says her memory loss runs in the family is retconed to something far less humorous.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_172a279f	comment	Life of Riley. What begins as a cheap throwaway joke about an artist who powers up a la DBZ when he works on computers, ends with same character resurrected as the second coming of the Messiah about to go toe-to-toe with arch-fiend Lillith over an artifact that can kill God.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_1beda93b	comment	Sluggy Freelance: Riff, an amateur Mad Scientist and "freelance bum", routinely invents pieces of advanced technology such as dimensional portals, giant robots, and ray guns. Originally there was little mention of where he got the materials to build these devices, even though he seemed to have no source of income. However, in a later story arc, Riff reveals that he was actually a freelance inventor for the villainous Hereti Corporation, who gave him a salary and a sizable expense account in exchange for the blueprints to all his inventions. After Riff rebelled against Hereti Corp, he lost access to their resources. While he still creates ridiculously powerful and dangerous devices, he hasn't been able to do so nearly as frequently after the Dangerous Days arc, and (much to his horror) has had to get a regular job in order to pay the bills. He still bemoans the fact that he can't afford as much cool stuff as he used to, wailing, "I used to have a budget!" Similarly, in the early "vampire" story arc, one of Valerie's vampire compatriots asks her why she has a crush on Torg, upon which she has a flashback to her pre-vampirism husband, a double of Torg, accidentally impaling himself on his own lance. Cue the Stormbreaker Saga, when Torg is stranded in the Dark Ages and his attempts to save Valerie from becoming a vampire are played for drama. In the end, after Torg goes back to the present, Valerie's husband dies in the accident, and it is revealed that this tragedy made her decide to join the vampire circle. Also retconned the accident from being the clumsy mistake expected of Torg to the result of recovery from a debilitating curse, in a character who was otherwise a competent warlord. Done intentionally — as in, planned from the start — in "bROKEN", a chapter summarised in the archives as "terrible things happen". Torg has a Prophetic Dream in which Oasis says she wants to show him some dead baby birds she... (significant pause) "found" and has put inside an open grave. This is the same Oasis who Torg is constantly afraid will kill his friends because of her paranoid delusions. Torg looks into the grave and says "These aren't baby birds. It's..." The answer turns out to be "fried chicken", and Torg awakens to ZoÃ« offering her some. He reflects that the dream turned out well after all, and it's Played for Laughs. In the climax of the chapter, Oasis burns someone alive.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_1d417633	comment	Monsters University: Monsters University touches on the backstory of Sully's scare assistant Mike. In Monsters Inc., Mike served mostly as a comedic Butt-Monkey and seemingly second-fiddle to Sully's accomplishment. But then the prequel reveals how much grief and failure Mike experienced to get the position he did today and come to terms with his shortcomings and ultimately be treated like an equal to the on-field Scarers despite only being a coach. The film also reveals that Randal Boggs' competitive nature and antagonism stemmed from fraternity hazing and bullying; leading to his Start of Darkness. It also reveals that his perpetual squint is due to him ditching his Nerd Glasses on Mike's advice. The film hilariously implies that the Adominable Snowman was banished in Monsters Inc. merely for mail tampering. In Monsters at Work, it's revealed Abominable was actually banished for discovering a letter implicating Waternoose in the scream extractor plot, and Waternoose didn't want him spilling the beans to anyone.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_2212773a	comment	Angel also applies a massive Cerebus Retcon in Season 4 in an attempt to inflate the season's Big Bad. The minor and previously played-for-laughs character Skip not only takes a hard turn in going from comedy to drama, but in one speech gives exposition about how the entire series up until that point has been orchestrated by the mystery newcomer: Though the speech does not factually contradict the storyline, it indicates a premeditated arc with every event previous to the speech for all main characters as well as the speaker itself which clearly had not existed in the story's mythos.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_22211d68	comment	Though not a comedy, Bones managed this. Booth's increasing tendency to receive advice from famous people during dreams turns out to be caused by a brain tumor that's slowly killing him. (The fact that one of those famous people was Stewie Griffin was the final straw.)
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Cerebus Retcon / int_2250e67e	comment	Star Trek: Enterprise: The episode "Judgment" does this to the entire Klingon Empire, who were flanderized into Proud Warrior Race Guys over the years, showing that the Klingons had a more intellectual ruling caste which was slowly being eroded by the warrior caste, and by the late 23rd century, the warrior caste had taken over.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_23553960	comment	The final line of Big Boss in the original Metal Gear, "I won't die for nothing!", sounds lke typical defiant villian talk, and Miller's description of Big Boss as "a monster" seems to be a description how strong he is. After Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, with the revelation that the commander of Outer Heaven was in fact Venom Snake, a brainwashed body double who lived the lie until his death, and Miller having been abandoned by Big Boss, both comments are far more revealing with this context.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_23963d11	comment	Disgaea plays Laharl's aversion to big breasts entirely for laughs, hinting at worst that it's tied to his (nonsexual) mommy issues. The light novels released later jarringly retcon this to be a result of abuse by his babysitting. Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness takes the middle ground — his complex is because his babysitter smothered him one too many times, but the benevolent airhead didn't realize she was traumatizing him — only that hugs made him stop crying.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_25f6f1a0	comment	Umineko: When They Cry: Jessica Megaton Punches one of her friends at school with a brass knuckle after being pissed off in Turn of the Golden Witch. This stance is seen as a joke. Later, in Alliance of the Golden Witch, she uses the brass knuckles again and they suddenly become conducts for Supernatural Martial Arts. Another example is in the same arc, when Shannon brings up how Battler once told her "See you again! I'll come back and take you away on a white horse!". When he's reminded of this corny line, Battler becomes embarrassed and doesn't want to remember it. We later find out that Shannon actually took this promise seriously, and the fact that Battler forgot about it so easily is a major factor in her issues.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_27c11cf7	comment	Scoob and Shag: Kerm's comedic introduction involves him asking if it's okay to smoke, taking out a blunt. A Whole Episode Flashback reveals that he was holding one when Velm wiped his memory, making it the sole thing he had on him at the time.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_29ce17ec	comment	Early parts of A Profile joke about Masayuki's unathletic physique and easily running out of breath while running to school. But then it turns out he's so weak because he collapsed due to a hole in his lung and was hospitalized for a long time, leading him to become completely out of shape and ruining his love of the track field. After this, the jokes largely vanish.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_2a139e05	comment	The Orville: "Old Wounds" (the pilot) starts off with a Plot-Inciting Infidelity that turns into a series of dodgy jokes about Ed's discomfort at getting his ex-wife as a first officer and how Ed only got a low-level exploration ship due to his career going into a tailspin due to distraction over the divorce. But come "Cupid's Dagger," we meet the guy who broke up the marriage. His species secrete pheromones that are as good as a date rape drug, their culture (supposedly) has such an open attitude toward sex that refusing an offer of it is considered rude, and the guy either has a very dim concept of sexual consent or is an outright predator, meaning the whole thing that kicked off the plot may have been a whopper of Double Standard: Rape, Sci-Fi.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	It isn't exactly comedy, but the subplot in the first episode of Heroes about Angela Petrelli getting arrested for shoplifting socks and her sons bailing her out is certainly pretty lighthearted. That is, until Volume 4 rolls around. In the episode 1961, we learn that Angela had a sister who she left when she was a child, regretting it ever since. We also learn that whenever she finds herself missing her sister particularly badly, she, you guessed it, steals socks. Suddenly, that lighthearted moment in the series premier seems a lot more disturbing.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_2efce5b0	comment	Deadly Premonition uses many of its odd gags and bizarre humor for foreshadowing — everything from the idiosyncratic behaviors of the main character to some of the throwaway joke lines end up hinting at the true nature of what's going on. But one of the biggest examples involves a certain tattoo — in an early comedic scene, it's revealed that Thomas has an Embarrassing Tattoo, which protagonist York chuckles about and shrugs off: "We all lived through the 80's." Except the tattoo is actually a symbol of his fanatical devotion to the sheriff, who has been drugging him with red seeds and trying to frame him for the murders he committed. A devotion that gets even worse due to the insanity-inducing purple fog, which poor Thomas is especially susceptible to.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_309df9ea	comment	Atop the Fourth Wall Linkara parodies this trope in his 15 Things That Are Wrong with Identity Crisis review, saying that he got his Miller Time watch by beating up a thug in a horrifying fashion, and then buried his corpse in Nevada... then reveals that he was just giving a bad example of a Cerebus Retcon, and that his watch was just a gift. The backstory for his Magic Gun could have been an example of the trope, if not for that fact that he had always planned on giving the gun a dark backstory. His bouts of amorality throughout the series received this treatment at the end of his "Catwoman: Guardian of Gotham" review when after a long journey to find a famous Wizard in order to discover why his Magic Gun no longer works, the Wizard proceeds to give him a "The Reason You Suck" Speech, outlining (with clips from the show, Kickassia, and the crossovers with other reviewers) how Linkara hasn't been acting like a hero at all. During the four year, a new segment was introduced, Longbox of the Damned, featuring Moarte, a ghoul that now inhabited Linkaraâ€™s home. For years, he only showed up here or for brief cameos but never in actual events. In the 2022 Ashock the Fourth Wall story, itâ€™s revealed that Linkara found the Longbox during the quest to find the Wizard and was nearly killed by Moarte, who spared him after learning his occupation. He put him in a Deal with the Devil - let him share the wonders of horror comics to the world and he wonâ€™t destroy his soul. As well, he is not to be involved in his â€œpetty squabblesâ€�, thus invoking Superman Stays Out of Gotham on previous storylines.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_33dd1d8f	comment	In Half-Life, there are only four scientist models and several of them die in ways which are intended to be comic. In Half-Life 2, three of those models have been given a specific name and arc. One has become The Quisling leader of humanity. One dies horribly at the end of Episode 2 in a very dramatic scene. Curiously the third remains the comic relief, however.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_397dade4	comment	To a lesser extent, Unfinished Tales of NÃºmenor and Middle-earth reinterpreted the Quest for Erebor when telling it from Gandalf's perspective. In the original story, Gandalf's reason for helping Thorin on his way and arranging aid for him seemed to be purely altruistic, but Unfinished Tales implies that while Gandalf did see this as a nice thing to do, he had a secondary motivation that he wasn't telling Thorin about. Gandalf knew a war with Sauron might be imminent, and he wanted to get Smaug, a dangerous Wild Card of potentially immense destructive power, off the table before Sauron could try recruiting him. To that end, he threw Thorin on a path that might well have been a suicide mission—though, admittedly, Thorin's initial plan was no less of one.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter: Hermione's attitude towards House Elves in the series is always treated as your average tree-hugging annoyance. This is especially true in regards to Kreacher, as Sirius would crack sarcastic jokes about Kreacher obsessing over the family members' old belongings and make smart remarks about his death, which Harry and Ron openly laughed about. Then in the final book, we find out exactly what Kreacher has been through... Sirius's jokes and attitude don't seem so funny anymore. Defence Against the Dark Arts teachers never stay on for more than a year, to the point where students often joke about the position being cursed. Turns out, it is: Voldemort himself wanted the position many years ago, but Dumbledore refused to give it to him. (Obviously, this was before he became known as wizard-Hitler.) Ever since, no one has been able to hold the job for more than a year without something happening to them. Neville Longbottom is bumbling and forgetful, and most of the other characters (especially Snape) tease him for his incompetence while his grandmother relentlessly pushes him. We later learn that Neville's parents were Aurors that were tortured into total insanity, a significant part of his bumbling lack of self-esteem is fear of not living up to their example, and his grandmother's nature was to toughen him up to protect him from the same fate. In Philosopher's Stone, Hagrid is presented as a goofy, over-sized character who is clumsy with his magic and hides his wand in an umbrella. This is presented as simple comic relief. It is later revealed that Hagrid is a half-giant and has been suffering from Fantastic Racism his whole life. He is clumsy with magic because he was framed for Tom Riddle murdering Moaning Myrtle, and was expelled from Hogwarts early in his education. Accordingly, he has to keep his wand in an umbrella not to maintain The Masquerade, but because he's not allowed to have a wand in the first place (and said wand was actually snapped into several pieces after his expulsion, which the umbrella somewhat rectifies). An early chapter in Philosopher's Stone also shows Harry conversing with a snake at the zoo, which gets Dudley into trouble with his bumbling. At the time, the comical incident just seems to be a sign of Harry's magical abilities manifesting. Chamber of Secrets later reveals that the ability to speak in Parseltongue (the language of snakes) is actually a very rare ability among Wizards, and that it's one marker of the bloodline of the Salazar Slytherin — from whom Lord Voldemort is descended. Harry's ability to speak to snakes later becomes a sinister mark of his connection to Voldemort, and it foreshadows the revelation that Harry carries part of Voldemort's soul inside him. Three about Dumbledore from Philosopher's Stone. One of the first things Harry notes about him is that his nose is crooked and has been broken before. He finds out in Deathly Hallows that his nose got broken at his sister's funeral by his own brother because he caused her death and never fixed it because he views it as a sort of embodiment of My Greatest Failure. When he catches Harry looking at the Mirror of Erised right after Christmas, he tells Harry to not look at it again because it's too intoxicating. Harry asks him what he sees in it and he tells him a pair of warm socks. Harry doesn't 100% buy it but lets it slide, he also finds out in the last book that he saw the same thing as Harry, the family he lost. The third is why he had James Potter's invisibility cloak when he died. Harry had just assumed it was to study it because it was so powerful. Turns out that it's tied to both of the aforementioned things, it's a Deathly Hallow and he couldn't helped but be drawn back to his youthful obsession with them, even though his search for them got his sister killed. A lot of characters seem to view love potions as a harmless joke. Then it's revealed that Merope Gaunt spent months using them to mind-rape (and then just straight-up rape) Tom Riddle, leading to the birth of Voldemort. And not just that... it's revealed that Voldemort is what he is (utterly incapable of love, friendship and all that) not because of his messed up upbringing or family, but because that's what being conceived under the effects of a love potion does to the future person. He was screwed in an unfixable way through no fault of his own. After her introduction in The Prisoner of Azkaban, resident Cloudcuckoolander Sybill Trelawney is treated almost entirely as comic relief, with the students and faculty of Hogwarts all dismissing her constant gloomy prophecies as nonsense. Not even Dumbledore seems to take her seriously, as he joins in on the snark-fest whenever she's not in earshot. But her prophecies seem a lot less funny after the end of The Order of the Phoenix reveals that Voldemort tried to kill Harry as an infant because Trelawney prophesied (rightly) that Harry was the only person in the world capable of defeating him, and that one of them was destined to kill the other. Dumbledore himself employs Trelawney at Howgwarts partially to protect her from Voldemort, as one of the few people who know about Trelawney's rare prophetic, trance-like episodes (that she herself is unaware of) inherited from her ancestor Cassandra. In early books, the taboo against speaking Voldemort's name aloud is played for (slightly dark) laughs, because of the inherent ridiculousness of fully-grown adults collapsing into shivering fits at the mere mention of a Wizard's name—while the young Harry, who wasn't raised to fear Voldemort, can't understand what the big deal is. But in the seventh volume, we find out that there's actually a very good reason to be afraid of saying Voldemort's name: Tom Riddle placed a curse on the name "Voldemort" to keep tabs on his enemies, ensuring that his Death Eaters would be sent to dispatch anyone brave enough to speak his chosen name aloud. After we learn that, the taboo is played for deadly serious Paranoia Fuel. Hogwarts resident ghosts are initially presented as whimsical comic relief side characters who help drive home the school's fantastical nature; generally speaking, they're all quite jolly and easygoing, and they don't seem to have any angst about being dead. But as the series goes on, and the Central Theme of Death becomes more prominent, it can seem rather odd that the ghosts are treated so light-heartedly. Well, in Order of the Phoenix, we learn that ghosts are actually regarded with great curiosity and scrutiny by Wizards, and that there's a secret department in the Ministry of Magic devoted to studying the mysteries of death and the afterlife. Nearly Headless Nick also outright states that becoming a ghost is a Fate Worse than Death chosen only by tormented wizards who are afraid — or unwilling — to face the afterlife. After Sirius' death, a devastated Harry even asks Nick if he might come back as a ghost, and becomes even more distraught when he learns that he won't. The idea grows another layer in The Deathly Hallows, when it's revealed that the Bloody Baron and the Grey Lady are a pair of tragic Star-Crossed Lovers who wound up Together in Death after the Bloody Baron killed her in a fit of rage, and later committed suicide.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_3c1f955d	comment	In Yandere Simulator the Placeholder Club Leaders were...well, placeholder club leaders only meant to be in the game until the real club leaders (or their number twos in some cases) could be programmed into the game. However, they still proved popular enough that YandereDev found a way to put them into the main game...as the demon legion of the Empty Demon, who come to replace the sacrificed club leaders and kill the students if Yandere-chan completes the Empty Demon ritual. (The Empty Demon herself also resembles the Placeholder Club Leaders, but with a spider-like face.)
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Cerebus Retcon / int_3e5f3f53	comment	As SMG4 went on, the Mario recolors that were a big part of the main cast in the early years, simply vanished from the series. The 10 Year Anniversary Special reveals they were hunted down by an Eldritch Abomination named Zero in his pursuit of Mario.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files: "Rudolph the Brown-nosed Reindeer," Murphy's Internal Affairs Sitcom Arch-Nemesis, is an incompetent coward whose dismal personality is mostly Played for Laughs. However, in Battle Ground, Rudolph's panicky nature and disregard for proper firearm discipline turns very dark, and ultimately causes Murphy's death. Battle Ground's Extra-Strength Masquerade has been previously played for Black Comedy before as just a result of both human stupidity and Selective Obliviousness. However, this book reveals another far more serious reason for the continued existence of The Masquerade: Namely, that the US government actually has a secret agency under the purview of the Library of Congress called the "Special Collections Division." Despite their innocent-sounding name, they're actually a ridiculously dangerous Creature-Hunter Organization tasked with both researching the supernatural and using The Conspiracy to silence any potential leaks to the public. To put it into perspective, the "Librarians" are so dangerously competent and viewed with such naked fear by the various signatories of the Unseelie Accords that even Lara Raith is visibly terrified of them. Suddenly, all of Dresden's previous snark about how people will just naturally delude themselves into thinking that shape-shifting Fallen Angels burning down buildings and the like were just terrorist attacks using chemical weapons that cause mass hallucinations seems laughably naÃ¯ve.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_41ed0df6	comment	The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard, Michael's obsession with seat belts from the first film take a serious toll here, as it's revealed to be because his mother got killed when an obese man fell off a ride at the amusement park and crushed her because he wasn't wearing seat belts.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_42ffb88e	comment	The SCP Foundation has done this to recontextualize the Early-Installment Weirdness known as "lolFoundation". Telekill alloy was changed from a "magic restraint" for psychic SCPs to an incredibly harmful substance that causes, among other things, mental retardation. This is because before the rewrite, it was starting to become a Boring, but Practical means of controlling a wide variety of SCPs with minimal risk; after the rewrite, a "no cross-testing SCPs" rule was established. Several more recent Tales have reframed the original Foundation staff and their antics as coming from much darker and more traumatized places. Portraits of Your Father recasts Dr. Kondraki as a bipolar man who did his more outrageous stunts due to untreated alcoholism and bipolar mania, Major Tom and Code Brown have Dr. Bright's parents being missing and his siblings being murdered one by one because they are reality benders, and SCP-4231 claims that Dr. Clef has severe PTSD due to being trapped in an abusive relationship with a reality bender who regularly assaulted and gaslighted him.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural: The Trickster, who first appears in Season 2, is a comic villain who torments jerks with reality-bending scenarios. This includes putting Sam, who is not a jerk but did try and kill him, into a time-loop in which he is forced to watch Dean die 100s of times. Season 5, it's revealed that The Trickster is really the Archangel Gabriel and had been hiding on Earth because he couldn't stand watching his brothers Michael and Lucifer kill each other. His interest in Sam and Dean is sparked by their destinies to be Michael and Lucifer's vessels.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_43a79959	comment	Majikoi! Love Me Seriously!: Most scenes involving Touma, Jun, and Koyuki after clearing the Ryuuzetsuran path. Most notably, the ending of Chris's route is the only one where Touma opts not to continue in their family's line of work and instead decides to "live for love", a choice that the Ryuuzetsuran route's reveals really puts into perspective.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_44127c7c	comment	Power Rangers did this a few times. Ninja Storm retconned silly villain Lothor and his standalone plots to have been a long-term plan to overload the Abyss of Evil with dead monsters. Power Rangers Jungle Fury did this with a character. Flit as presented in the first 17 episodes was just a fly stuck in Camille who occasionally went out to comment on battles. Then we get his backstory, and he becomes a much more tragic character, Trapped in Villainy, using his brief bouts of encouragement as one of the few things he can do with himself while being a prisoner. Power Rangers RPM got gags out of Doctor K not going outside and her mention of growing up in Alphabet Soup, only to then reveal the utter horror of what Alphabet Soup did to her.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_4500f5a	comment	Muppets from Space: After decades of Gonzo's species being Played for Laughs, this film has him undergo an identity crisis and go out to search for others like him.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_468bebb0	comment	In early Discworld books, there are repeated references to the Battle of Koom Valley, a battle between trolls and dwarfs in which both sides claimed the other ambushed them, used as an illustration of Fantastic Racism and humorously over-the-top grudge-holding. In Thud!, it's revealed the original Battle of Koom Valley was a tragic misunderstanding in which an attempted peace talk between dwarfs and trolls was interrupted by a flood, washing away the entire peace party. When the rest of the armies arrived late, because of the floods, they all assumed that the other side must have ambushed their leaders and murdered them, leading to centuries more war and hatred.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_49a87cb3	comment	Cait Sith's entry to the party in Final Fantasy VII is played as something of a video game visual shorthand joke, with neither Cloud nor the second party member actually wanting him to come along, but Cait walking into him forcibly anyway. Cait Sith's overall silly premise (a stuffed animal fortune teller) and forced mascot character appearance means one wouldn't expect him to have a big reason for joining the party. Later in the game it's revealed the reason he forcefully entered the party is because he's actually a Shinra spy.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_4b434423	comment	PokÃ©mon Sword and Shield has two characters with a Running Gag subject to this. The Galar Champion Leon is constantly joked about having No Sense of Direction until it's revealed that he's being deliberately misled by Chairman Rose so as not to interfere with his real plan. The rival Hop is portrayed as an energetic youngster who wants to follow in his brother Leon's footsteps until the game's main story reveals he's insecure about always being in the shadow of his brother and the player character, and his energetic personality is a way of displaying the self-confidence he wants to have like his brother .
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Cerebus Retcon / int_4d1ba412	comment	Magic and the supernatural have always proved a nuisance to the good doctor of The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, and one could see it as an amusing science-magic conflict. The First Generation Ninja American story shows a young Doctor enjoying fighting the undead as an alternative to killing people in his missions. That changed when he picked a fight with a powerful ghost wizard he couldn't hit, forcing his grandfather to sacrifice himself to protect him from the ghost's curse. The usual Spoof Aesop end of chapter is the grown Doctor reflecting on the incident and reaffirming his hatred for magic and ghosts.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_4e45b093	comment	The Big Bang Theory: Sheldon has a habit of knocking on a door three times before he enters a room. This stays funny until "The Hot Tub Contamination", where he tells Penny that he does this so that the people on the other side could get dressed in case they were doing amorous activities. This is due to a time when he came home early as a teen during Spring Break and walked in on his father having sex with someone else behind his mother's back. note An episode of Young Sheldon actually showed the event in question, and revealed it was actually Metaphorically True:Instead of it taking place during Spring Break, it is shown that Mary (Sheldon's mom) had just come back from Germany and was doing some role playing for her husband George. Sheldon walked in on them, but didn't recognize his mom (since she was wearing a wig and speaking in a German accent) and was so traumatized he never talked to his dad about it, so that's what he thought actually happened. It is also played more comically in the episode. Raj's inability to speak to women was originally attributed to Raj just being shy around pretty girls and there were a couple of occasions where he spoke to the guys while Penny was in the room. Later on, Leonard's mother diagnosed Raj with selective mutism and he not only couldn't speak to any woman who wasn't his mother or sister, he couldn't speak if a woman was present in the room at all (the sole exception being if he's speaking to a large audience that includes women). Raj's method of getting around this was by drinking alcohol or taking medication, neither being suitable long-term solutions and often bringing out his less-than-pleasant traits. If he wanted to speak when sober and a woman was present, he'd have to whisper what he wanted to say to one of the guys (usually Howard) and hope they'd repeat it. It also stopped being played as a joke after a while and was portrayed as a serious issue (among many) he had to overcome which he did in the Season 6 finale.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_4f316544	comment	Then Disgaea 5 reveals that neither of the Asagi's mentioned is even real, actually being clones of the true Asagi. The only encounters that are "real" Asagi are Makai Kingdom, Disgaea 5, and possibly Disgaea 2.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_4f9064f5	comment	In the original Kung Fu Panda, Po having a goose for a dad was repeatedly Played for Laughs, with the issue not being touched upon at all aside from a slight tease during their last scene together. In Kung Fu Panda 2, the issue is touched upon, and it turns out that Po not only has a Dark and Troubled Past, but that the reason Mr. Ping never brought it up before is that he was afraid his son would leave him to find his real family.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Homestuck has several. Jade is a carefree Sleepyhead whose bouts of narcolepsy interrupt the plot in silly ways. These fits are caused by Vriska testing her psychic powers. Karkat argues with his past and future selves in laughably-hostile Caps Lock. In an introspective moment, he reveals these arguments are an outpouring of genuine self-loathing and self-blame. Gamzee is an easy-going doofus Joke Character, since Stoners Are Funny. He dresses like a clown and occasionally emits honks. He becomes a Lethal Joke Character Monster Clown whose honks are terrifying. When Dave shows him Insane Clown Posse's "Miracles", Gamzee's Comical Overreaction is declaring it blasphemy. This is what pushed him over the edge and started his Ax-Crazy rampage. The "Mirthful Messiahs" of Gamzee's Fantasy Counterpart Culture Juggalo religion are assumed to be Insane Clown Posse. Instead, they are Doc Scratch and Lord English. Squiddles are kid-friendly representations of the Horrorterrors. Tavros's severed legs are found in a chest in Alterniabound, which prompts the narration box to ask what the hell they were doing there. Vriska waves them in his face to goad him into attacking her before she murders him. Betty Crocker is a Running Gag... and Her Imperious Condescension, the troll Empress, who has taken over the Alpha universe's session. This could go on all day. Homestuck is like that. The Guardians are all initially presented as amusing weirdos whose kids regard them with varying levels of fondness and exasperation, and Bro Strider is not singled out in this context. It's not until much later in the story that Dave's able to admit to himself that Bro alone crossed the line into child abuse. Dave's got the PTSD triggers to show for it, too, such as a severe reaction to the sight of blood.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_5487886e	comment	In the third season of U Realms Live, in the Azveltara Z campaign, the players and characters continuously make jokes about the number 77 throughout the duration of the campaign. Two campaigns later, in the prequel campaign titled Lyn Azveltara Gaiden, it is revealed that 77 is the number of miscarriages Lyn Azveltara had prior to both campaigns.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick is chock full of throwaway jokes whose darker implications are fully explored later on. Some examples: Done when Haley's greed for treasure is revealed to be so that she can pay her father's ransom money. Later subverted when it turns out she was always pretty greedy in the prequel book. Word of God is that the subversion was deliberately intended to avoid it being Harsher in Hindsight. A straighter example was done with the mother of the Black Dragon from the Starmetal cave, who was mentioned lightheartedly several times during the encounter in which Vaarsuvius disintegrated her son in a scene that was still more or less played for laughs. About three hundred strips later, she appears out of the blue seeking vengeance on Vaarsuvius. This leads to one of the darkest arcs the strip has done thus far and the start of a horrific Cycle of Revenge. Blackwing's appearance and disappearance, Played for Laughs at first in parody of D&D players' tendency to ignore the existence of familiars except for when they are needed, later becomes a serious commentary on how Vaarsuvius treats other beings, and becomes a method by which to demonstrate Character Development. Most of the first arc was written without an overarching plot in mind, with the Excuse Plot of a party of adventurers clearing a dungeon to defeat an evil sorcerer lich. Notably, the dungeon is full of goblin mooks, who are treated as disposable by everyone, including the protagonists. Needless to say, later plot developments, especially the prequel book Start of Darkness, put a much darker spin on this. The creator of the goblins got bored with them almost immediately, and other gods didn't care much, to the extent that goblins now believe they were deliberately created by the gods for the sole purpose of giving XP to adventurers, more specifically their own clerics. Their leader Redcloak — supposedly The Dragon of the story — is in fact horrified by everyone, including his master Xykon, needlessly throwing away goblin lives, and his secret plan is to blackmail the gods into giving his race fairer living conditions. Durkon's exile was played for laughs during On The Origin of PCs, but the flashback during Utterfly Dwarfed shows a more somber look at it. Likewise, the same arc reveals Odin's Cloudcuckoolander attitude to be the result of divine brain damage. In the strip "That's His Bad", Elan reminisces about their early adventures, and is genuinely hurt when he remembers how mean everyone was to him, while also acknowledging that his own Cloud Cuckoolander tendencies probably made things harder for the rest of the party.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_59151283	comment	Metal Gear: In Metal Gear, Snake looked to be in his twenties — but he looked to be late-middle-aged in Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. For the sequel Metal Gear Solid, the character designer decided to go with a Solid Snake who appeared to be in his early-thirties, younger-looking than his previous incarnation. As a joke referencing this, the characters who knew Snake in Metal Gear 2 joke about his "age"; the sign that Gray Fox is back to normal is when he teases Snake with the throwaway line "You haven't aged well". However, in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, which started the Patriots plot arc, Snake is explicitly mentioned in the script as looking almost unrecognisably older than his self in Metal Gear Solid, even though MGS2 starts only two years later. Liquid spells it out: And it continues in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. The reason for the Plot-Relevant Age-Up was changed to fit in with Retcons introduced in the third game, but becomes entirely horrible. Snake now appears to be in his mid-to-late seventies and his health is suffering as a result. His own parents look about the same age as him. It's very alarming to remember that the whole plot element started as a Continuity Nod joke. Applying Broad Strokes to Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake allowed their eight-bit wackiness to be taken fairly seriously in the Solid series. Snake didn't seem that affected by the events of Outer Heaven at the time (he also had to do things like avoid giant constantly moving rolling pins and use a bomb blast suit to make himself immune to a strong wind), however Metal Gear 2 reveals that Snake was left with nightmares after his expieriences in Outer Heaven, and returned to duty so he could put an end to them. Metal Gear Solid, and its Alternate Universe counterpart, Metal Gear: Ghost Babel, solidify this by confirming that Snake suffered immense guilt over his actions in Outer Heaven, got diagnosed with PTSD, and was forced to retire and go into hiding because he was unable to cope with the demands of everyday life. One scene in Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake involved Snake knowing a woman for all of five minutes. She tells him about her family's history, asks him about his (he says "I have no family"), and then she dies. Snake's over-the-top grief at her death was, at the time, a major Narm. In Metal Gear Solid, which established that Snake had been essentially growing up in near-total isolation and had never had anyone tell him about their life or ask him about his own, his instant attachment to her seems very justifiable and deeply tragic. The reason why The Patriot in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, a copy of The Boss's weapon of choice, has infinite ammo, is that it has an infinity-symbol shaped drum magazine, giving infinite ammo. However, in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, it's explained that the Patriot has infinite ammo because "they say The Boss left a part of her soul behind inside it", making it more into a blessed memento of a supernaturally-gifted soldier rather than a cheap joke. It winds up a Voodoo Shark though, as the infinite ammo is explicitly noted about it before this could have happened. You only get the Patriot after you have killed The Boss, but when talking about it Snake had not yet killed his mentor, and the method that Snake gets it is lampshaded for being dubious. He isn't even supposed to have it until after he kills The Boss. The final line of Big Boss in the original Metal Gear, "I won't die for nothing!", sounds lke typical defiant villian talk, and Miller's description of Big Boss as "a monster" seems to be a description how strong he is. After Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, with the revelation that the commander of Outer Heaven was in fact Venom Snake, a brainwashed body double who lived the lie until his death, and Miller having been abandoned by Big Boss, both comments are far more revealing with this context.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_5921531b	comment	Intentionally invoked in Persona 4. Try looking at Adachi as the Bumbling Sidekick after finding out who the killer is. His odd moments of talking out loud about the murders when the gang is around suddenly makes more logical and darker sense... Along with this, all of the party member's attitudes are revealed to be the cause of their major issues, like Kanji's homosexuality complex and Naoto's gender complex. Kanji's earlier comedic outbursts come off as tragic by that point.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_596cfce7	comment	Men in Black: In the first two films, K was The Stoic, though this was mostly played for laughs. When Boris the Animal goes back in time in the third film to kill K, J goes back to save him, and finds that K is a likable person with emotion. The reason K has always been such a curmudgeonly old guy is because he witnessed J's father sacrificing himself to save K from Boris back in 1969, which ended up with K somewhat becoming a surrogate father to J. The Worm Guys are always seen drinking coffee in MIB's kitchen. In the animated series, it's explained that coffee is a sacred beverage on their homeworld which only royalty can drink. Kind of a downplayed example, in that it's still funny in a Worthless Yellow Rocks kind of way; now if the Worm Guys noted on their planet that any non-royalty caught with coffee was subject to execution...!
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Cerebus Retcon / int_59a835fb	comment	Sonic Adventure 2 gives Eggman a motive for his villainous behavior, besides just wanting to rule the world for kicks. His grandfather, Dr. Gerald Robotnik, was executed fifty years ago. Eggman has a high level of respect for Gerald and his desire to take over the world is, in part, retribution for his grandfather's arrest and death. Not only that, but the government also gunned down Gerald's other grandchild Maria when she was only a tween. Suddenly his idea of taking over the world is less "comically evil" and more Well-Intentioned Extremist, as he saw that the government Would Hurt a Child for absolutely no reason other than being ordered to purge all people on the Ark, making his family victims of a government-sponsored mass murder and cover-up.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_5a0d652b	comment	When Dartz and his men first appeared in the Marik's Evil Council spin-off, Rafael was portrayed as unable to say anything but "Zog-Zog", until later episodes had him inexplicably drop this to become a Deadpan Snarker. Similarly, Alister was given a ridiculously high-speech voice, which also was treated for comedy. When the Abridged Series reached Season 4 (where they were the main antagonists), it was revealed Rafael's earlier inability to speak properly was due to him being trapped on a deserted island for years to the point he had forgotten how to speak English, and it took him a long while to recover. And Alister's voice was the result of him having his testicles damaged in an explosion that also killed his brother.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_5a1e517c	comment	Nodwick: The role of henchmen in the series started as a joke on the shabby treatment of hired NPCs in most tabletop RPGs. Though their inability to permanently die is still played for laughs in the later books, there's a good deal more attention paid to why things are that way. Duct tape used for healing started as an anachronistic joke about the shoestring budget of Nodwick's party. It got used more and more consistently to amazing effect, and other people were shown using it as an equivalent to healing potions. Eventually it's revealed that it was actually a powerful, but easily reproduced, magical invention by a great wizard. Specifically, Countess Repugsive from before she became the Antipalidan Death Knight Lich Lord she is now.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_5ada53ed	comment	An early arc titled "Secret Agent Geek" set the lovable slob Fooker as a James Bond knockoff secret agent, playing off as many spy-movie tropes as it could get its hands on, and finishing with a classic "It was all a dream — Or Was It a Dream?" closing. Then, years later, as the story takes a turn for the dramatic, it turns out that Fooker IS, indeed, a secret agent, possessing advanced combat skills, and access to high-tech gadgets and paramilitary troops.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_5b094e27	comment	A Redtail's Dream: Protagonist Hannu is a notoriously lazy Spoiled Brat, so at first it's just funny that in every stage of the dream journey he somehow manages to get whacked in the head, and even his village getting wiped off the map isn't enough to keep him from just wanting to take a nap. As the story progresses, however, Hannu starts to suffer incapacitating headaches and fatigue. Once the final stage has been completed, Puppy Fox reveals that these symptoms are an echo from the physical world. Hannu's fall just before entering the Spirit World inflicted a fatal skull fracture, and only Puppy Fox's spell has kept his body alive long enough to finish the quest.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_5b8abe25	comment	Rusty and Co.: The Princess first appears as a Damsel out of Distress, explaining that she trained in a very powerful Prestige Class ("DM's Girlfriend") during her captivity, and is a deadly Action Girl from then on. Twelve real-life years later, she admits that she genuinely was a powerless figurehead before then, that she's no better a ruler now, and that she's afraid she's become a Doom Magnet for her subjects.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_5c897f4a	comment	Schlock Mercenary: The protagonists discover at one point that before dying their old company doctor created a modified cryogenic kit capable of providing illegal and extreme modifications and performing far more powerful reconstructive surgery than a normal kit should. Initially this is just an excuse to solve the fact that almost the entire main cast were reduced to heads in jars at that moment, but later they run into a bounty hunter hunting down said doctor and we discover that a massive government conspiracy is built around "Project Laz-R-Us" and the attempt to make humans effectively immortal, and certain government agents who discover that the protagonists know about it want them dead. Petey is initially a high-level warship A.I. with issues about ghosts. Eventually, he becomes a nigh-omnipotent nascent A.I. god by fusing with virtually every other A.I. in the galaxy in a bid to prevent the galaxy's annihilation, and then sets out to subvert and dominate every other galactic power to build a power base big enough to fund and supply a genocidal assault on the Andromeda galaxy and its Paan'uri inhabitants. Inhabitants who are intangible, interact with normal matter solely through gravity, and tend to torment other species. Y'know... kinda ghostlike. Schlock starts as a huge pile of shit with two mismatched eyes. Then he loses his eyes to diamond beetles and hires Tagon to find his home planet to get a new pair. And we find the amorph with mismatched eyes is quite famous there. He got his eyes from his "parents" who Fusion Danced each other to death. Schlock is just the residue, with much of their knowledge and skills, but little to no morals, feared and hated by his fellow tribesmen. To further complicate things, normally Fusion Dance merges enemies' personalities and such "wars" end up uniting tribes, but his "father" used a modified technique, which absorbed just the enemies' bodies and expunged personalities, and "mother" tried to stop the murderous psycho, even with her life; yet the former was a lonely hero fighting the slavers selling amorph slaves off-world and the latter was the slavers' Unwitting Pawn. Still, this being an early storyline, everything is Played for Laughs. Another point about Schlock came around 2014. He spent a decade and half being beaten, frozen, exploded, sliced and partially burned, and didn't seem any worse for wear. Then a newcomer mentioned that since amorphs are effectively nothing but the carbosilicate equivalent of nerve tissue, all the damage to Schlock is like brain damage. Which would explain his sociopatic quirks.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_5d2848bb	comment	Fuzzy from Sam & Fuzzy is a mysterious bear-sized humanoid that nobody seemed to find mysterious at all, and his past was a complete unknown full of contradictions. Then, in book four, we learn that it's a literal unknown since his mind was erased and he's been making it all up to cover up for insecurities about who he really was. We also learn there's a world-wide conspiracy enforcing The Masquerade by confining the full level of Planet Eris to underground habitats and Fuzzy was one of the lucky few who slipped the net. Fridge is very funny when he's a loud-mouthed possessed fridge who claims he won't escape by possessing Sam or Fuzzy because he's got standards. He gets less funny when he finally manages to escape, and sets in motion events that the main characters are still feeling the effects of over ten years later.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_605a32c2	comment	Yosh!: It started out as a manga-style comedy, and the protagonist was frequently subjected to the Megaton Punch, thrown out of windows, things like that. Then, once the comic went dramatic, it was revealed that he's a "Resistant" — a kind of rare, magical entity who has Nigh-Invulnerability — thus making him central to the plot of an Ancient Conspiracy of mages. Upon learning that, the character comments that it's not really a major surprise, considering what he's survived in the past. Also, his Cat Girl roommate was a normal girl that got mutated during The Weirding, turning her into a chimera and making her life a living hell.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_60878253	comment	The Last Days of FOXHOUND: Multiple early gags depend on Ocelot being vulnerable to Mantis's mind control and being relieved to have anti-telepathy nanites to protect him from it. Subsequent retcons to bring the comic in line with Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, which was released during its run, would establish that Ocelot, whose over-the-top espionage abilities had rendered him immune to mind control from the word go, had in fact been running an incredibly elaborate con at the behest of the Patriots, the Government Conspiracy that he would continue working for even as his teammates tried to rebel against them.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_6250d2c3	comment	College Roomies from Hell!!!: For most of the main characters, what started out as "wacky quirks" seem darker and darker over time, turning into personality disorders, tragic pasts, or demonic influence, until it becomes clear that everyone is playing a part in the coming apocalypse. By the end of 2004, the strip is a Dysfunction Junction to rival Neon Genesis Evangelion. Dave isn't exempt either. Early on, it's mentioned in a throwaway gag that he's deathly allergic to bee stings. Years later, in the Adversary storyline (responsible for tossing the comic into Darker and Edgier territory), as he and Margaret are running away from the Devil, they find that their path leads through a field of sunflowers... and bees.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_6276800c	comment	Not quite so harsh, but The Nostalgia Critic used to be proud of how he and his generation got raised by television. But as his Dark and Troubled Past became more and more clear, the pride turned bitter and "raising your kids on TV" is now one of the many things movie parents do wrong in his eyes.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_631805af	comment	And it continues in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. The reason for the Plot-Relevant Age-Up was changed to fit in with Retcons introduced in the third game, but becomes entirely horrible. Snake now appears to be in his mid-to-late seventies and his health is suffering as a result. His own parents look about the same age as him. It's very alarming to remember that the whole plot element started as a Continuity Nod joke.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_683c3c76	comment	Billy vs. SNAKEMAN has a New Game Plus method called "looping". Originally it's just treated as your character being signed on for a new season of a TV show. Then it's revealed that this is the result of a series of time-manipulating experiments, dating back to a massive war against Kaiju that caused horrible damage to the world. And it's just the first of several revelations. Another aspect of the looping is that it allows you to shrug off failures during missions and quests as a general "oops, that didn't happen". During the War, the Kaiju were terrified of the ninja's ability to unmake their own missteps so they could achieve perfect victories against all but completely impossible odds. And then there are the MikuMikus. Originally benevolent beings of pure music who existed to aid and inspire the ninja. Somehow, the process of looping wholly unintentionally separated them from their wards and turned them progressively more deranged, until they were little more than roving, cannibalistic abominations. Neither side had any plans for this to happen at all.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_6920713d	comment	In Shortpacked!, Robin was the wacky comic-relief character, and her "hijinks" generally played out that way. Even her treatment of Leslie was Played for Laughs, and since Leslie was (if you'll excuse the term) the Straight Woman, her annoyance was part of the joke. (Exception: the Jake Manley event, but they even managed to bounce back from that.) In Dumbing of Age, Robin has much the same character beats as before, including the whole "My Lesbian" business, and because DoA is a less wacky setting, she's clearly a self-deluded and potentially dangerous narcissist and her attachment to Leslie is deeply toxic. It's hard to see the Shortpacked! Robin (who ends up getting a Babies Ever After ending with Leslie) in the same light after this.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_69a00c38	comment	Funky Winkerbean did this as part of its descent into Cerebus Syndrome. For starters, the once humorous bullying of Bull Bushka against hapless nerd Les Moore was revealed to be the result of an abusive parent after the first time skip.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_6c1d09b4	comment	Fallout 4: When the Sole Survivor escapes from Vault 111 and meets back up with their robotic butler Codsworth after 210 years, the reunion comes across as darkly hilarious and a relative Breather Episode after the darkness of the intro sequence. This reunion has Codsworth complaining about the futility of dusting a collapsed house and how he can't wax radioactive fallout out of vinyl wood floors instead of going insane/psychotic like most other Pre-War robots in the series. However, if the Survivor has Codsworth join them as a companion throughout their journeys in the Commonwealth and sufficiently raises their affinity level, Codsworth will reflect far more seriously on the intervening decades. He admits that he nearly gave up on the hope that anyone would've come out of Vault 111 while he waited patiently for his master/master's family to return. He also claims to have seen countless innocent people either get torn to shreds by the Wasteland or resort to truly horrific means to survive... and all of that only makes Codsworth more and more impressed with the Sole Survivor for staying a good person.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_6e1d5f36	comment	In Farscape, originally Crichton was merely hallucinating Scorpius in the episode "Crackers Don't Matter", being driven mad like everyone else. The writers liked the idea of an invisible Scorpius acting as the devil on Crichton's shoulder so much, they retconned things so that the hallucination was actually due to a neural-chip implanted by Scorpius in a previous episode, eventually dubbed "Harvey".
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Cerebus Retcon / int_708ae58b	comment	A mild example in Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures: a fairly early filler strip joked about various ways the comic could get more hits, including having a character coming out of the closet and introducing a Boys' Love story. Much later, it's revealed that Jyrras is not only bi, but also has a hidden crush on his best friend Dan, which he fears will ruin their friendship if ever revealed. The comic constantly parodies the hero-vs-overlord formula with goofy heroes and Surrounded by Idiots villains. Then we see how much collateral damage can be taken when various 'demon overlords' try to acquire as much power as possible while ignorant or apathetic of the consequences. Dark Pegasus accidentally made a race of funny family-friendly undead, and then tried to make up for the humiliation by magically draining the life from H'Ann farm by farm, and he partially succeeded. Dan's grandmother accidentally devoured the souls of her own family and started a genocidal war... and she's the sympathetic one, because the dragon she usurped devoured the souls of his entire city for centuries.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_727bb60d	comment	Also, his Cat Girl roommate was a normal girl that got mutated during The Weirding, turning her into a chimera and making her life a living hell.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: When we're first introduced to Dr. Bashir, it's played for laughs that he's incredibly young and arrogant about what a great doctor he is. But it gets distinctly weird to look back on this after the fifth season episode "Doctor Bashir, I Presume" reveals Bashir's intelligence is the result of illegal genetic enhancements that were performed on him as a child to correct severe mental retardation. In a more minor example, in an early episode, Bashir mentions that he confused a pre-ganglionic fiber with a post-ganglionic nerve during his medical finals. When fans pointed out that this is a mistake that no competent medical student would make, the explanation was retconned that he got the question wrong on purpose to avoid being valedictorian... to cover up his genetic enhancements. In one example going back to the Original Series and played for humor; In "Trials and Tribble-ations", when Sisko, Dax, O'Brien, Worf, and Odo find themselves on the original Enterprise during the events of episode "The Trouble with Tribbles", Worf is visibly distressed at the sight of a tribble, explaining to Odo that they were an ecological menace on the Klingon homeworld before they were hunted to extinction. Puts the "Everybody Laughs" Ending from the original episode where Scotty jokes about beaming the tribbles onto a Klingon ship in a darker light.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_75fcf08a	comment	One of the many quotable lines in Llamas with Hats comes from Episode 2, where Carl claims that he can hear "the sound of forgiveness"; when Paul points out that all he can hear is people drowning, Carl responds, "That is what forgiveness sounds like: screaming and then silence." Definitely pretty dark, but still very much Played for Laughs. Then comes the final episode, coming at the climax of an arc where Carl has gone on a worldwide rampage, wiping out all life on Earth aside from himself. Upon discovering Paul's corpse, he seems to have a Heel Realization and throws himself off a bridge; he screams all the way down as he falls, only for the scream — and the background music — to abruptly cut off as he hits the water. "The sound of forgiveness" indeed...
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Cerebus Retcon / int_789a0271	comment	When the Spinosaurus first appeared in Jurassic Park III, it was thought of as just another one of InGen's cloned dinosaurs that went loose after the island's breeding facilities were abandoned, deadlier yes, but still a normal dinosaur (relatively speaking). However, the Masrani Global website of Jurassic World implies it to be one of the hybrid projects that Dr. Wu created in cooperation with Hoskins. Specifically, hybrids that are designed to be much more powerful and intelligent than normal dinosaurs. This was done to explain the discrepancies between the Spinosaurus in the movie compared to real-life spinosaurs, which have been found to be considerably different from the animal in the movie since its release, and probably why it goes through so much trouble in hunting the humans and why that poor Tyrannosaurus rex gets killed so easily.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_78fc0025	comment	Twin Peaks: Commissioner Gordon Cole's hearing impairment in Season 3. While his 1990s hearing aid was much more obvious and thus a dead giveaway to his condition (especially when coupled with his loud speech), one would think he could just turn it louder. Well, he can. And it hurts.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_7c884aca	comment	On page 6 of Ennui GO!, Izzy dumps a bucket of whale cum off the top of her appartment building onto passerbys below because she's bored. At first, this just seems like a case of Vulgar Humor, but then it's revealed 590 pages later that the woman who was hit by it suffered an allergic reaction that horribly scarred her face, resulting in her trying to kill Izzy out of revenge.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_7d1c83da	comment	Better Call Saul does this to several moments in its parent show Breaking Bad, where Saul Goodman (a.k.a. Jimmy McGill) had largely been a comic relief character: In Breaking Bad, Skyler skeptically looking over Saul's degree from the University of American Samoa is Played for Laughs. Not so much here, where Chuck looks down on Jimmy because of his shady diploma mill degree and so takes every opportunity to tear down Jimmy's chances of going legit. Similarly, we have Saul's freak-out during Jesse and Walt's plan to scare him in Saul's introductory episode, "Better Call Saul"; he screams in fear of someone named "Don Lalo" and tries to blame "Ignacio," which will stay as a hilarious Noodle Incident until the episode "Point and Shoot," where the circumstances will be revealed and Saul's fear of Lalo becomes very understandable. It also makes the persona of "Saul Goodman" much darker than originally (as he was just meant to be Plucky Comic Relief), as the creators have discussed that they really needed to answer the question "what problem does becoming Saul Goodman solve?" and the only valid response was "...because Jimmy McGill hates himself."
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Cerebus Retcon / int_7df9324b	comment	Zebra Girl: Jack. Fire. Apparently he thinks he deserves it. More importantly, he feels it relieves Sandra of her stress and keeps her from falling over the edge. Turns out he was right: once Sandra really tortures someone for the first time, she snaps. The comic substituted the Hyperspace Mallet with spontaneous combustion. Later, when the title character attacks her True Companions and uses the same power, hilarity does not ensue. In that same vein, the spell originally used to banish Lord Incubus way back in the comic's wacky beginning (before the genesis of the title Zebra Girl, even) has a slightly less humorous feel now that it's been used on the former protagonist who is far more frightening than Lord Incubus ever was.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_7fc78282	comment	Bilbo recovers a magic ring from Gollum's cave after winning a riddle contest. While the original story did make it plain that Bilbo was riddling for his life, the ring he retrieves is later treated as a precious prize, saving his life several times and leading to his happy ending. Years later, when it was time to release The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien retconned the story (actually rewriting The Hobbit) to tie in with the nature of the Ring as a malicious artifact made of pure evil that was using Bilbo to escape Gollum's ownership. The existence of the first edition of The Hobbit was even deconstructed: it records Bilbo's lies about how he got the Ring and what it was like.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_8197ebd8	comment	General Protection Fault: An early arc titled "Secret Agent Geek" set the lovable slob Fooker as a James Bond knockoff secret agent, playing off as many spy-movie tropes as it could get its hands on, and finishing with a classic "It was all a dream — Or Was It a Dream?" closing. Then, years later, as the story takes a turn for the dramatic, it turns out that Fooker IS, indeed, a secret agent, possessing advanced combat skills, and access to high-tech gadgets and paramilitary troops. Nick's Inventors Gene also starts out being played for laughs, and then later turns into the catalyst for a grand plan involving seduction, time-traveling, world conquest, and The Terminator. Fred himself started out as a gag (Fooker's apartment is so filthy, the mold has achieved sentience), before becoming a major character and eventually revealed as not a slime mold at all.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_81f5d35d	comment	Kamen Rider Kamen Rider Decade's female lead, Natsumi, is mostly Tsundere Plucky Comic Relief owing to her the Laughing Pressure Point, used on Tsukasa when he gets a little too smug or rude. In the Big Damn Movie, she gains her own Rider powers and actually kills Tsukasa after he goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against the Kamen Riders. She even uses the Laughing Pressure Point as an actual fighting move in the final battle. Kamen Rider Gaim becomes this to the Kamen Rider franchise as a whole. As it turns out, almost all of the Monsters of the Week were humans that ate the fruits from Helheim Forest. Unlike the past human turned monsters from other Kamen Rider shows, save for Kamen Rider Wizard, they can't be saved (though it becomes all the more darker that it's revealed that they can be saved, just Transhuman). It becomes worse when the Beat Riders are eventually blamed by the public for all monster attacks occurring in the city.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_85fa1194	comment	In the Mexican web animation Negas, the Pinchimono seems to exist solely to be an Evil Counterpart to Negas. A later Origins Episode reveals that a psychologist advised Negas to bottle up his emotions instead of insulting people. Negas bottled up so much anger, that his blood intoxicated and mutated into the Pinchimono.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_86e51bb5	comment	The Adventure Zone: Balance: a lot of the Early-Installment Weirdness and goofy nature of the podcast was later retconned to be much more serious, especially anything related to the IPRE crew, the Starblaster, and the Hunger. Why was Klarg so inexplicably susceptible to Charm Person, to the point that his entire personality changed, in Here There Be Gerblins? Crystal Kingdom reveals that Lucas Miller had done neurological experimentation to his entire family, transforming them into docile, harmless slaves. Lucretia's assistant Davenport is a gnome only able to say his name — clearly not a trait of all gnomes, as Leon can speak in normal sentences. Davenport was the captain of a research mission, and when Lucretia erased the memories of the mission from the IPRE crew, his life was so entangled in it that all that was left over was his name. Related; an early scene has Davenport briefly appear to succumb to the thrall of a Grand Relic, but he quickly gets over it. Because he's one of the people who made them and is therefore immune to their thrall. It's the same reason that Taako, Merle, and Magnus are immune; not, as they would have you assume, their sheer stupidity. Magnus carries around a goldfish named Steven in a clear glass ball wherever he goes. It's a literal Replacement Goldfish for Fisher the Voidfish. Barry Bluejeans, the bodyguard that the Boys rescue in Here There Be Gerblins, is actually a powerful necromancer, a lich, and the Starblaster's chief scientific officer. Also the Red Robe that's been stalking the party for nearly the entire show. Similarly — the skeleton holding the Umbrastaff in Wave Echo Cave? Taako's twin sister Lup, also a lich, whose soul was stored in the Umbrastaff after her death. Garfield the Deals Warlock asking for samples of Magnus's blood is treated as creepy, but ultimately a harmless cost (simply a way to get around bartering without any in-game consequences). Until Reunion Tour, when Magnus needs a new body after losing his old one to a lich and wouldn't you know it, Garfield's been growing a Magnus clone for reasons we still don't know.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_87056d17	comment	Dr. Eggman was a typical evil cartoon villain who wanted to take over the world in the most indirect way, which was capturing animals and turning them into robots that would do his bidding. By the time Sonic Adventure came to be, Dr. Eggman took a darker approach to his evil schemes, such as trying to control a god with unlimited power and then deciding to fire a missile at a city when he fails in his original plan. Dr. Eggman even takes control of a weaponized space colony and fires a laser at the moon, blowing off a huge chunk! And that was only a warning shot! Dr. Eggman's darker persona stayed with him for a while, although Sega attempted to dial it back a bit by making Eggman a bit more cartoonish for the humor factor, which can be seen in Sonic Colors and Sonic Generations. Dr. Eggman does return to his roots with animal capturing in Sonic the Hedgehog 4 as a throwback to the classic games.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_89465e75	comment	In the second book of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Percy and Annabeth, while trying to evade Circe, release a bunch of pirates turned into guinea pigs (one of whom is Blackbeard) who proceed to ransack Circe's palace, which is played as the series' typical comedic Hoist by His Own Petard to villains. Then it is revealed in the sequel series, The Heroes of Olympus, that Blackbeard's release did have an impact, a decidedly non-comedic impact, namely enslaving Circe's two servants: Hylla and her younger sister Reyna, for several years. They had to climb their way to release, which brings about a nasty case of Fridge Horror by itself considering that Blackbeard's pirate crew are all adult males surrounding two females, one of whom is about 10 years old...you get the clue. No wonder Hylla hates Percy so much. Reyna has a curious Berserk Button of being called by her preppy-sounding full name, which Rachel exploits in The House of Hades. That's because she's trying to avoid her past, or rather, avoid the memory of her father, Major Julian RamÃrez-Arellano, who had a Fate Worse than Death due to a severe case of PTSD after participating in the Iraq War. She's even willing to serve Circe (though admittedly, the latter treated her decently). Poor Reyna gets this example a lot. There's the case in The Son of Neptune where she's really interested in Percy, even saying a sentence ("I can help you") that Percy comically mistakes as something else entirely. Once we learn about her, uh, poor relationship with every man she meets (particularly Jason), it becomes rather sad and tragic.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_8b7b9cd5	comment	In A New Hope, Luke Skywalker's Aunt Beru notes to his Uncle Owen "Luke's just not a farmer, Owen. He has too much of his father in him.", to which Owen says "That's what I'm afraid of." In The Empire Strikes Back, we learn that Luke's father is, in fact, Darth Vader, one of the most evil men in the galaxy. And it's even worse if you consider the Prequel Trilogy, as we see in Attack of the Clones, shortly after Anakin originally met Owen, he went on a rampage, slaughtering dozens of Sand People after his mother's death by their hands. It goes from mere apprehension that Luke might get himself killed to fears that Luke might turn genocidal.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_8c87469c	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword reveals that every appearance of Ganon/Ganondorf is the result of a curse laid on the bloodlines of the hero and the goddess Hylia (aka the first Zelda) by the ancient God of Evil Demise, who was destroyed by the first Link. The curse states that an incarnation of Demise's hatred will always return to torment the hero and the princess of Hyrule; no matter what, in every one of their lifetimes and reincarnations, Link and Zelda will never know true peace.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_8d7f29ec	comment	Glee: Tina Cohen-Chang's Butt-Monkey status in Season 2 was played for laughs when we were meant to laugh at her getting hysterical during a rare solo, and her getting booed off stage in another episode when she worked on the performance for a week and cried about it for a month. In Season 3, after the strong backlash fans had against her getting neglected, she got her own Cerebus Retcon episode ("Props") in which the Glee Club is made to feel guilty about her lack of solos, lines or appreciation.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_8d814070	comment	In Seasons 1-3 of MAS*H, Hawkeye was a bit crazy (especially when he's on no sleep) but mostly coping. But then Season 4 onwards (and Trapper leaving/Henry dying) started pushing that he had trauma beforehand too, with abandonment issues — like having Never Got to Say Goodbye with New Old Flame Carlye — plus bipolar tendencies and Trauma-Induced Amnesia twice. Alan Alda believes he didn't change from beginning to end of the series, he just had all his defences worn down.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_8d98042f	comment	Dan Avidan of Game Grumps has repeatedly told stories about being in France as an exchange student of sorts, but it wasn't revealed until episode 19 of their Wind Waker playthrough that he went to France as a part of coping with his depression/OCD.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_8dd0bbcc	comment	A Series of Unfortunate Events: As the series develops, it turns out that many of the characters' motivations and activities were tied up with the fraught history of a secret fire-fighting / peace-keeping organization.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_8e09ebf	comment	Ninja Storm retconned silly villain Lothor and his standalone plots to have been a long-term plan to overload the Abyss of Evil with dead monsters.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_90032631	comment	Orange Is the New Black: In the first season, Morello's obsession with her wedding to her fiancÃ© Christopher is a running gag, consistently played for laughs. In the second season, we find out that Christopher isn't really her fiancÃ©, and that Morello has deluded herself into believing that he loves her. She's in prison for violating the restraining order that he put on her after they had one date, and she proceeded to stalk him, threaten him, and try to hurt his actual girlfriend. In most of the early episodes, Suzanne "Crazy Eyes" Warren comes off as a rather generic take on the old "mentally unstable prison inmate" Stock Character, and her crazy antics are played for (very dark) laughs. Later in the season, as Piper gets to know her better, it gradually becomes clear that Suzanne actually struggles constantly to keep her mental illness in check in order to avoid being sent back to Litchfield's psychiatric ward, which she claims is even worse than solitary confinement. Even her nickname is deconstructed: Suzanne is genuinely hurt by the name "Crazy Eyes", as it serves as a constant reminder that she'll never be considered "one of the girls". In the pilot episode, Caputo is seen taking out a bottle of lotion and masturbating in his office right after his first meeting with Piper. At the time, it seems like an Establishing Character Moment for Caputo, establishing him as a slovenly idiot with no professional standards. But later on, as the character's Hidden Depths become clear, we gradually see that he's actually one of the most decent employees at the prison, and one of the few who's not afraid to clash with his superiors to fight for the inmates' rights. In the third season, after he becomes the new warden, the masturbation scene from the pilot actually gets a surprising Call-Back, when Caputo reveals that he has a very good reason for doing it: when chewing out Bennett for impregnating Daya and getting Mendez fired for sleeping with her, he tells him that he regularly masturbates on the job so that he won't be tempted to make sexual advances on the women under his charge.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_9068877a	comment	Red vs. Blue's intentionally and inherently farcical premise has been retconned in later seasons, turning the series from a comedy to a dramedy centering around the vaguely plausible science-fiction story of the "Freelancers", who were originally introduced as soldiers able to be hired by both Red and Blue Team as part of the video game-ish setting. The pointless fighting between the Reds and Blues for control of a box canyon? Just part of a live-fire simulation for the Freelancers to train in, and everyone else involved is a scrub soldier chosen for their expendability. An early Running Gag is Grif forgetting or losing track of Red Team's ammo. Reconstruction reveals that he's been selling it to the other team, and when some other Red soldiers find out they put him up in front of a firing squad. O'Malley and Gary were two evil AIs who by and large were ineffectual and comedic villains. The flashback episodes to their time in Project Freelancer, however, play Omega's violent and hateful threats, and Gamma's deceptiveness much more seriously. They even help torture a fellow AI (their father, no less) by forcing upon him countless scenarios where he makes choices that get those he cares for killed. The last chapters of Reconstruction loosed a whole barrage of these. Church getting killed, becoming a ghost, and possessing a robot body? There's no such thing as ghosts, he's an AI. Not feeling anything when Omega possessed him, always agreeing with Delta? Church is the Alpha AI all the others came from, because he was tortured to the point of amnesia. His girlfriend Tex, who always seems to fail just when she's about to succeed? She's an AI too, based on the memory of the original Dr. Leonard Church's loved one, and will always fail because that's what he remembered the most about her. And that original Dr. Church was the template of the Alpha-Church AI. The finale of Season 10 turns the last forty episodes on their head. Agent Carolina's bitter rivalry with Agent Texas for the esteem of the Director of Project Freelancer? She's the Director's daughter, meaning she's been unknowingly struggling against a copy of her mother the entire time. While the Director watched. A Running Gag in Season 11 was one of the Reds and Blues having a flashback to something they did that might have caused their ship to crash on Chorus. In Season 12, it's revealed that the Space Pirates caused the crash (and others) with a massive tractor beam so they could loot the wreckage. The Reds and Blues' shenanigans instead caused the ship to break in half. Episode 2-4 of Season 14 turned the entire first season on its head. Agent Florida himself picked out the Blood Gulch team, Sarge is so lost in his Patriotic Fervor that he murders his CO in cold blood thinking he was a Blue in disguise (while Florida simply watches) and we find out the identity of the Alpha AI host — Private Jimmy, the guy who was said to have been beaten to death with his own skull by Tex. Church's memory of that is a strange mix of Alpha's and Jimmy's memories. Even more, Caboose, Donut and Sister were never meant to go to Blood Gulch! Vic's eccentric personality is a computer glitch, caused by Flowers/Florida tripping on a power cable, as the AI was much more business-like before.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_90f1e8a2	comment	Exiern has been going through a series of these, converting it from the original author's lighthearted fan-servicey gender-bender to something a lot grimmer. The current continuity explains by retcon, among other things why ferocious-barbarian-warrior-turned-fanservice female warrior Typhan-Knee/Tiffany is able to ride a unicorn, the true reproductive cycle of dragons and why Typhan-Knee was driven out of his tribe in the first place: after killing two women who he was unable to rape on his first raids as a young man, he realised why he had failed and was caught by his father, the tribe chief, as he was about to rape a young man. Some readers suspect that the young man in question may have grown up to be nearly-invincible knight Neils, who is one of the party accompanying Tiffany currently.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_9284ad43	comment	In Dual Destinies, Apollo Justice's catchphrase of "I'm fine!" is given some clarification. In Apollo's game of origin, it initially seemed like a nervous habit of Apollo's, since he usually said it when he was... well, nervous. Then Dual Destinies reveals that it was a catchphrase shared with his late childhood friend, Clay Terran, which they both shouted to cheer themselves up when their spirits were low.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_935a39be	comment	In Super Smash Bros. Brawl's adventure mode, it is revealed that Mr. Game & Watch is actually made out of a special substance, that can be used to harvest shadow bugs, which are used to support the entire conflict of the story.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_994af351	comment	In Justice for All, when Pearl learns who Phoenix is, she becomes all Shipper on Deck of him and Maya. Then in the following game, Trials and Tribulations, Maya reveals to Phoenix why Pearl is obsessed with the two of being happy together: the culture in Kurain Village is centered around the women, due to only females being able to become spirit mediums. Men feel left out of the affairs of the village, resulting in marriages that tend to end badly, especially if the marriage led to a daughter being born. Pearl grew up with her father leaving her at an young age and seeing other marriages failing, so she is very invested in Maya having a happy relationship with someone.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_99beaff4	comment	Demo Reel did this fast, as the Troubled Production Lighter and Softer pilot had Rebecca making a fool out of herself with sexualized one-woman-shows, and Karl always saying "when ze wall fell" because he was a German stereotype. One episode later, and it was Rebecca's sexually abusive history that made her want to take control back, and Karl lost his wife and family when the wall fell.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_9a7088bc	comment	In one example going back to the Original Series and played for humor; In "Trials and Tribble-ations", when Sisko, Dax, O'Brien, Worf, and Odo find themselves on the original Enterprise during the events of episode "The Trouble with Tribbles", Worf is visibly distressed at the sight of a tribble, explaining to Odo that they were an ecological menace on the Klingon homeworld before they were hunted to extinction. Puts the "Everybody Laughs" Ending from the original episode where Scotty jokes about beaming the tribbles onto a Klingon ship in a darker light.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_9d7ec380	comment	In The Good Place, the Good Place committee are all shown as Extreme Doormats and Straw Optimists who seem almost incapable of being unhappy, and several members calmly resign on the spot at the slightest mistake. This stopped being funny in the penultimate episode, when they trick Michael into becoming the leader of the Good Place, before they all resign and run away. It turns out that the committee has spent several hundred years dealing with the issue of all humans in the good place becoming bored of immortality and pleasure, suggesting that everything they put up with in the other episodes is a welcome reprieve from the problem they can't solve.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_9dab421d	comment	In Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, it's something of a Running Gag that Jack Sparrow's compass doesn't point north—demonstrating that he's both too broke to buy a replacement and too nutty to realize that it's useless. But the compass becomes a major plot point in the sequel, which reveals why it doesn't point north: it's a powerful magical artifact that Jack bartered from a sea goddess, and it points toward whatever its bearer wants most.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_9e5f03e3	comment	Billy on Ally McBeal got a hugely out-of-character haircut, became comically misogynistic, and started seeing amazing, wacky things everywhere. He is revealed to have a brain tumor and is Killed Off for Real.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_9e7ed97a	comment	Bryan Fuller pulls off an inter-series Cerebus Retcon. Remember Georgia Lass of Dead Like Me, a grumpy dead girl who sends people off to the afterlife, and who is unrecognisable to anyone who knew her when she was alive? Well, Hannibal brings back Ellen Muth as another girl called Georgia. She's afflicted with many disorders: the delusion that she is dead (which is aggravated by a skin disease which makes her look corpselike), the inability to recognise human faces, and episodes of psychotic aggression. At the height of her delusion, she accidentally murders a friend from her former life.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_9f698158	comment	Eddie from Emergency Exit is a Cloudcuckoolander with a tendency to pull things out of nowhere. Why? Turns out it's because he FORCED A PORTAL THROUGH HIS SKULL in order to keep the villains from getting it. That's where he keeps all his random objects, and it apparently seriously messed with his mind.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon: PokÃ©mon Sun and Moon reveals that the Mega Evolution mechanic PokÃ©mon X and Y introduced isn't some benign power up: It turns some PokÃ©mon into mindless, heartless, fighting machines (for example, Mega Salamence may accidentally slice its trainer in half with its wings) and causes others injurious amounts of pain (Mega Scizor's body may melt if it stays Mega Evolved for too long). This may be the reason why Mega Evolved PokÃ©mon don't stay Mega Evolved indefinitely. Pokedex entries in the PokÃ©mon games often feature elements about the power of the PokÃ©mon in question, many of which have gross violations of physics, biology or gameplay (Magcargo's body is 18,000 degrees Fahrenheit or all the many tales of ghost type and psychic type PokÃ©mon having supernatural abilities). The Sun and Moon Pokedex entries are much darker and more realistic about the PokÃ©mon's strengths, abilities and appearances (such as Bewear being so strong that it has killed trainers or Glailie dislocating its jaw when it mega evolves). Some PokÃ©mon from previous generations are put in a new, and dark, light. The perpetually angry Mankey and Primeape from Gen 1, for example, were revealed to suffer constant loneliness both as a cause and result of their never ending uncontrollable anger, and they never get rest from it; they are woken up constantly because of it when sleeping. It only gets peace in death, which is often caused by getting so extremely angry its body shuts down. PokÃ©mon Sword and Shield has two characters with a Running Gag subject to this. The Galar Champion Leon is constantly joked about having No Sense of Direction until it's revealed that he's being deliberately misled by Chairman Rose so as not to interfere with his real plan. The rival Hop is portrayed as an energetic youngster who wants to follow in his brother Leon's footsteps until the game's main story reveals he's insecure about always being in the shadow of his brother and the player character, and his energetic personality is a way of displaying the self-confidence he wants to have like his brother .
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Cerebus Retcon / int_9feb7ff3	comment	Power Rangers Jungle Fury did this with a character. Flit as presented in the first 17 episodes was just a fly stuck in Camille who occasionally went out to comment on battles. Then we get his backstory, and he becomes a much more tragic character, Trapped in Villainy, using his brief bouts of encouragement as one of the few things he can do with himself while being a prisoner.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_a2add1d3	comment	Remember Splatoon 2's Salmon Run mode? The one where you splat numerous Salmonids for their Golden Eggs? Yeah, Splatoon 3 reveals that those eggs were being used to make a Mutagenic Goo to destroy all marine life. Uh...whoops?
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Cerebus Retcon / int_a4c8f35d	comment	Rei's entire character in Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth might as well be one of these. Her love of food, even things that don't seem edible and her ridiculously obvious crush on Zen are both played for comedy frequently throughout the game... until you find out the truth about her. Turns out Rei is the ghost of a girl who died of a terminal illness, and Zen is a Psychopomp who took pity on her and erased her memories. Her eating is a desperate, subconscious attempt to convince herself she's still alive, and her crushing on Zen and, implicitly, the entire Group Date Cafe dungeon (which is heavily Played for Laughs at the time) come from her regrets over never having had a chance to meet her own "destined partner".
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Cerebus Retcon / int_a5356ac1	comment	Two More Eggs: In "Hot Dip: End Game", Hot Dip reveals that when he said "Hot Dip is Not 4 Momz", it wasn't just a slogan: Hayden's mom getting her hands on some Hot Dip allowed her to conquer the world.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_a54e58d1	comment	In the original Ice Age, Sid being constantly abandoned by his family was a joke at his expense over how obnoxious the sloth is and was treated as an amusing case of Hilariously Abusive Childhood. Dawn of the Dinosaurs and Continental Drift make empashis on how much this has truly affected the Sloth, leaving him with major abandonment issues and the fear the Herd are gonna advance with their lives without him, which starts to shine when Diego decides to leave. Related to that, Ice Age: The Meltdown has Sid demanding to be recognized as an important part of the Herd by Manny and Diego, given he's the resident Butt-Monkey this is treated by the characters as him simply being melodramatic. Then, in Continental Drift, we discover that Sid's family has a tendency of dropping any member that they find useless. With that context, Sid's complains seem less like someone asking for respect and more like someone worried of being abandoned again.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_a5ea127d	comment	One of the earliest MegaTokyo strips has Largo being fluent in l33t as a one-off gag. Later on, l33t becomes the official third language of the series.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_a662a127	comment	The Adventure Zone has Davenport, the assistant to the head of the Bureau of Balance whose primary method of communication is PokÃ©mon Speak; while he can say other things, he eventually defaults to saying "Davenport!" a lot. It turns out that, after he and the others fled their own dead universe, everyone's memories were wiped so another member of the crew could try to locate the artifacts formed from the Light of Creation. Davenport, the captain of the group, had made their mission his entire life, so when that information was erased all he had left was his name.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_a895e9d3	comment	Portal 2 has Wheatley invoke this; at the beginning of the game, he falls off his rail comedically (it's impossible for the player to catch him). Post-Faceâ€“Heel Turn, he mentions his grief at you "purposefully" failing to catch him during his rant during the Final Boss fight.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_a90d239a	comment	Several comedic characters in Psychonauts are shown to have very depressing backstories: In the first game, Dr. Loboto was The Dragon to the actual antagonist, and was portrayed as a Laughably Evil Mad Scientist dentist who doesn't seem to be all there. Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin all but states outright that his insanity was the result of his psychic-hating parents forcing him to get a lobotomy that got rid of his budding psychic powers. Also in the first game, a Running Gag was Ford Cruller showing up around the summer camp in various different jobs and personalities, such as as janitor, park ranger, or boathouse keeper. He claims these are disguises and that he "pretends" not to recognize Raz outside of his main persona, but it's later revealed that Ford's mind was shattered in a battle with a powerful psychic years ago, and that unless he's close to large amounts of Psitanium, he reverts to a Scatterbrained Senior. While this is already somewhat depressing, Psychonauts 2 reveals the actual reason his mind was shattered. The psychic he fought was the love of his life having gone through a trauma-induced Faceâ€“Heel Turn, and rather than kill her, he resorted to brainwashing her and her nephew, Augustus, into forgetting what she had done and believing that she was Augustus' mother. After this, he shattered his own mind out of guilt for what he had done.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_ac129b14	comment	The Courtship of Princess Leia had a rather stock villain duo in Warlord Zsinj and General Melvar, dim-witted and eeeheeheeeeevil sadistic bad guys who had the resources — a Super Star Destroyer and a device that cut off the sunlight from a particular planet — to threaten our heroes. Their resources were more of a plot point than they were; the only role they played was to leer menacingly and set up those things, then be killed quickly. In the X-Wing Series, set earlier, Aaron Allston made it a point to expand on those two, making them Faux Affably Evil, very intelligent, and quite essential to the plot. Their two-dimensional idiocy became Obfuscating Stupidity, and they actually turned into legitimate (and very entertaining) threats.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_ac4b6a62	comment	Questionable Content Faye getting drunk starts out as just an excuse for her to talk with a Southern accent and engage in wacky hijinks, but it later becomes a plot point that she's an alcoholic due to trauma in her past. Also, Hannelore's rather unusual quirkiness and OCD in her early appearances are explained in much later comics as being an incredible improvement over her near paralytic insanity during her early childhood.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_ac4fcd09	comment	Whenever Red and Elh visits Vizula in Solatorobo: Red the Hunter, Red is usually quick to tease Elh about her bug phobia, seeing it as cute if nothing else. The short story "Ragdoll Elegy" reveals that the last memory Elh has of her parents was their charred remains being swarmed by an endless amount of bugs.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_ac7fd385	comment	A lot are done in Hatoful Boyfriend's BBL route. Highlights include — Oko San isn't just an idiot, he's an older breed of birds that is less Uplifted than the others; Anghel isn't actually a fallen angel but has the ability to induce hallucinations in others; Ryouta's weak stomach and Oko San's insane speed are due to Shuu testing drugs on them; Nageki didn't actually kill himself by jumping from the library window due to being bullied (as was implied) but burned himself to death in an underground laboratory beneath the library to prevent himself being used as a biological weapon; and Kazuaki isn't just obsessively mourning the loss of the bird in the blacked-out photo, but is pursuing a Machiavellian Revenge scheme in his name.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_ad841c09	comment	The film hilariously implies that the Adominable Snowman was banished in Monsters Inc. merely for mail tampering. In Monsters at Work, it's revealed Abominable was actually banished for discovering a letter implicating Waternoose in the scream extractor plot, and Waternoose didn't want him spilling the beans to anyone.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_af95b79	comment	In A New Hope, the gunner of the Death Star says "Stand by" twice when he can destroy Yavin IV, giving Luke enough time to destroy the station before it destroyed the Rebel base. Death Star shows that the gunner had a Heel Realization after Alderaan, and that was his way to put off firing long enough for the Death Star to be destroyed, knowing that he'd die in the process.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_b24f49ab	comment	Back to the Future Part II: In the last scene of the original Back to the Future, Doc, Marty, and Jennifer take off in the newly-modified DeLorean to travel to the future. In this movie, we see that Biff saw the time machine taking off and in the 2015, the elderly Biff sees it again and figures out its true nature, deciding to steal it for his own purposes.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: Hodor has consistently been portrayed as a hulking simpleton with childlike intelligence, and his Gentle Giant persona has always been used for comic relief — as has his inability to say anything but his own name. The books and the TV show had long cryptically hinted that there was something more to Hodor than the Starks suspected, with the eventual revelation that his birth name was actually "Walder" ("Wylis" in the show). Then come the events of the Wham Episode "The Door". It turns out that Hodor was once of perfectly normal intelligence, but suffered a massive seizure when Bran seized control of his younger self's mind, inadvertently splitting his mind between two time periods. He can only say the word "Hodor" because he heard Meera Reed shouting "Hold the door!" when he glimpsed into the future, and started to repeat that until it slurred into just being "Hodor" . Jaqen H'ghar isn't exactly a comic relief character, but his odd speaking style initially comes off as a simple Funny Foreigner schtick. In particular, he doesn't seem to know how to use pronouns, consistently referring to himself as "a man" (never "I" or "me") and addressing Arya as "a girl" (never "you"). But as we delve further into the philosophy and worldview of the Faceless Men, we learn that there's a genuinely chilling reason that Jaqen talks like that: the Faceless Men believe in rejecting their sense of self so that they can better serve the organization, and they're expected to shed their old identities so that they can adopt new ones. As a veteran Faceless Man, he's so detached from his own identity that he genuinely just sees himself as "a man". Plus, "Jaqen H'ghar" is apparently a shared persona used by other Faceless Men too, so he's really not "Jaqen H'ghar", but just "a man" or "no one". Season 3 has a few dry comedic moments where Tywin Lannister is only paying casual attention to people as he sits writing letters in his study. It only becomes apparent once you know what happens at the end of the season that these letters are orchestrating the Red Wedding — where Robb Stark, his wife, mother and bannermen are slaughtered.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_b31cce8b	comment	The titular character of Chikn Nuggit often does strange and unexplainable things. In earlier episodes, this was often Played for Laughs. After the introduction of Bezel, it's established that Chikn's strange abilities are godly abilities. It's also established that Chikn's abilities could potentially end the world as we know it.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_b3309b69	comment	Puyo Puyo: Amitie's ending in 15th Anniversary had her using the Golden Puyo Medal to wish she was as great magician. The medal denies, sensing that Amitie already is a great magician, which she considers a cop-out. Later supplementary materials reveal that, for all of her happy-go-lucky attitude, Amitie has a severe self-confidence problem, having moments where she doubts if she's able to achieve her dream given she berates herself for her inconsistent skill and poor academic performance. Puyo On Stage would revisit the "Amitie wishing her way to become a great magician" concept in a more dramatic light, having her do weirdly aggressive things she wouldn't be caught doing in the games if it means being able to find the Wishing Puyo and become a great magician by any means, including physically assaulting Klug for not listening to her. She was only snapped out of this when not only was it revealed the Wishing Puyo was fake (it was a practical joke by Rulue gone way off the rails), but Raffina coldly tells her that she would lose all respect for her if she did went through with wishing her way to achieving her dream.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_b3aba9af	comment	When Nate on Six Feet Under is suddenly stricken with an inability to speak clearly while placing an order at a fast food drive-thru, it's played for laughs (albeit dark ones). Later in the same season, it turns serious when we learn that the incident was the first appearance of symptoms of Nate's AVM, which is the condition that eventually takes his life.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_b4967d43	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog: Dr. Eggman was a typical evil cartoon villain who wanted to take over the world in the most indirect way, which was capturing animals and turning them into robots that would do his bidding. By the time Sonic Adventure came to be, Dr. Eggman took a darker approach to his evil schemes, such as trying to control a god with unlimited power and then deciding to fire a missile at a city when he fails in his original plan. Dr. Eggman even takes control of a weaponized space colony and fires a laser at the moon, blowing off a huge chunk! And that was only a warning shot! Dr. Eggman's darker persona stayed with him for a while, although Sega attempted to dial it back a bit by making Eggman a bit more cartoonish for the humor factor, which can be seen in Sonic Colors and Sonic Generations. Dr. Eggman does return to his roots with animal capturing in Sonic the Hedgehog 4 as a throwback to the classic games. Sonic Adventure 2 gives Eggman a motive for his villainous behavior, besides just wanting to rule the world for kicks. His grandfather, Dr. Gerald Robotnik, was executed fifty years ago. Eggman has a high level of respect for Gerald and his desire to take over the world is, in part, retribution for his grandfather's arrest and death. Not only that, but the government also gunned down Gerald's other grandchild Maria when she was only a tween. Suddenly his idea of taking over the world is less "comically evil" and more Well-Intentioned Extremist, as he saw that the government Would Hurt a Child for absolutely no reason other than being ordered to purge all people on the Ark, making his family victims of a government-sponsored mass murder and cover-up. Sonic Frontiers paints Eggman's extreme It's All About Me ego and Sigil Spam tendencies as him lashing out over Parental Neglect, as his family was too busy mourning Maria to pay him any attention.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_b80b5c0d	comment	Sonic Frontiers paints Eggman's extreme It's All About Me ego and Sigil Spam tendencies as him lashing out over Parental Neglect, as his family was too busy mourning Maria to pay him any attention.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_b944ef28	comment	In Rewrite Chihiya, Kotori, and Lucia's routes end fairly happily considering most of humanity is still alive. However the Terra route reveals that in the end the earth eventually dies taking humanity with it due to salvation taking place.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_ba18d690	comment	In the Mexican web animation Vete A La Versh, Darkar's reckless behavior and Never My Fault mentality is initially played for laughs. However, Season 5 later reveals that during his childhood, he absentmindedly walked into a poisonous flower, and his mother pushed him away at the last second, resulting in her death. It's quite likely that accepting responsibility for what he's done would break him.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_ba666650	comment	The reason why The Patriot in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, a copy of The Boss's weapon of choice, has infinite ammo, is that it has an infinity-symbol shaped drum magazine, giving infinite ammo. However, in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, it's explained that the Patriot has infinite ammo because "they say The Boss left a part of her soul behind inside it", making it more into a blessed memento of a supernaturally-gifted soldier rather than a cheap joke. It winds up a Voodoo Shark though, as the infinite ammo is explicitly noted about it before this could have happened. You only get the Patriot after you have killed The Boss, but when talking about it Snake had not yet killed his mentor, and the method that Snake gets it is lampshaded for being dubious. He isn't even supposed to have it until after he kills The Boss.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_bb8d2f1a	comment	At one point in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a Million to One Chance produced when Arthur Dent accidentally activates the Infinite Improbability Drive causes two missiles to be transformed into a sperm whale and a bowl of petunias, which fall onto the surface of an alien planet. While the whale contemplates its brief existence at some length before its demise, all that the bowl of petunias thinks is, "Oh no, not again." This thought is left unexplained, with the comment: "If we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now." The bowl of petunias, however, is dismayingly explained in Life, the Universe, and Everything as being one of many incarnations through time and space of a creature called Agrajag, whom Arthur Dent has accidentally killed in each form (also counts as a Brick Joke).
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Cerebus Retcon / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Plenty of things from Warhammer 40,000 when it became more serious after the silly first edition. Eldar lived on Craftworlds and had a boring life because they were retreating from Slaanesh, and if you aren't disciplined she would devour your soul. The Emperor, originally implied to have been confined to the Golden Throne because of old age, had to be put on life support after a duel with his most beloved son. The Tau, when first introduced in late 3rd Edition, were unequivocally the very closest thing the 40k verse had to a "good guy" race. They had a heroic goal of fighting for the greater good of their empire, were very honorable, and were completely willing to negotiate peacefully with other races (if occasionally done while the Imperial planetary governor was signing peaceful surrender due to staring down the wrong end of a railgun barrel), to the point that one fluff quote in their first Codex had an Eldar Farseer mention that the Tau were probably the Galaxy's biggest hope. This actually annoyed fans, as they felt they were too perfect for a setting that was supposed to be, well... grim and dark. Come later editions, and the Tau were retconned to possibly use brainwashing devices disguised as simple "communication helms", forced reeducation camps or worse, and that their Ethereals may not be as good and noble as they want others to believe. And despite all this, they're still one of the nicest factions in the setting.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_bd310eaa	comment	El Goonish Shive: The Goo started out as a Freak Lab Accident, but returned in the "Sister" arc, revealed to be driven by a device sent by Tedd's alternate-dimension counterpart to kill him. Furthermore, a gag character, the Demonic Duck, originally appeared as a one-shot gag when people would need a distraction and then point out his appearance, the joke being that the duck actually being there was far more ridiculous than someone using such a specific distraction. The duck turns out to be an actual character with dramatic effects on the plot later. The Hammerchlorians storyline took the pre-Cerebus Running Gag of women pulling out a Hyperspace Mallet whenever a man did something sexist and gave it an in-universe explanation as well as advanced the plot and did some heavy character building for Susan. All while poking fun at this exact type of retcon (Star Wars reference, anyone?). There are a lot of subtle examples of this in EGS as it moved from a wacky tone to a more serious one. A simple example is Sarah wearing a beret as part of a visual gag early on, and then a later strip showing a serious explanation on how she got that beret. When Tedd's fondness for transforming into a woman starts being used to explore his actual gender issues, we get a flashback to his dad's reaction... and in this context, Mr. Verres's grumpy attitude looks very different. It seems like his mother leaving isn't the only reason Tedd's got anxiety problems. Sister 3 has one for the PTTAOLUTASF in Sister 1. Originally the protagonists are able to infiltrate it with ease because it had a very, very low security budget. (An upper floor window not having a covering.) In Sister 3 it's revealed to be a mousetrap of sorts, meant to distract from a much more important secret facility. The poor security is a ruse used to fool thieves into thinking it's an easy job, with the real security system only activating if they do something to the guard or try to actively take something out of the building. Twenty years after it was established that the Uryuoms get by in society perfectly well by loudly announcing they're human and it works because Tedd's dad is just that good at hushing things up, it turns out they can actually project an illusion that makes people think they're human, but it doesn't work on some people (including Tedd, who never even realised it was there) which is why Gil and Will want human clone-forms.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_bdf16a3a	comment	In the first book of the Familias Regnant series, much of the light relief comes from an Upper-Class Twit character who is always Comically Missing the Point. The second book features the revelation that this character used to be much more intelligent and with-it before an assassination attempt left him with brain damage, which leaves those bits a lot less comic in retrospect.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_bed22881	comment	SolarBalls: In "Why does Saturn have rings?", Uranus jokingly theorizes that he can force his moons to crash into him to expand his rings, with all the moons immediately running away. Later in "The Moons of Uranus", it is revealed that they are still on the run and are very hurt by what he said.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_bee7440	comment	Drakengard has Ending E, a Gainax Ending that is outright stated by Word of God to be a joke ending, in which Caim and Angelus get sent through time and space to 2003 Tokyo and fight the Queen-beast in a rhythm game battle before being shot down by JSDF fighter jets. This ending ultimately sets up the premise for NieR, in which the death of the Queen-beast inadvertently spreads a magical disease called White Chlorination Syndrome that is fatal to humans and results in the events of NieR taking place due to attempts to combat it going awry.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_bfd7c6e0	comment	Kiel'ndia in Drowtales early on has a habit of addressing the reader as a sort of "imaginary friend" that the author initially put in because he thought it was interesting. Much much later, after a 15-year timeskip, it's revealed that the reason she can do this is that the "seed" she's merged her aura with is actually a human-like demon, and the voices she hears are fragments of the demon's personality.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_c0d295c4	comment	This trope becomes strangely meta when Team Fortress 2s Heavy Weapons Guy is a character in Poker Night at the Inventory. Apparently, the Heavy experiences Team Fortress 2s respawn system as a series of semi-recurring nightmares.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_c2d34f7f	comment	If one takes the game Sands of Destruction as the original, and the animenote (production of the game began first, but the anime was released first) and manga as Retcons instead of Alternate Continuity, this trope is firmly in place as regards Morte's motivation. In the game, she merely wants to destroy the world because it's already ending itself and she can't come up with a better use for a dying world than assuaging her own boredom. Naturally, the moment she realizes both that the world can be saved and falling in love is even more fun than blowing stuff up, she changes her mind. She's incredibly upbeat throughout the game, rushing into things without a thought. In the anime, her motivation changes to revenge for the deaths of her parents and brother: she doesn't know who is responsible, and feels that the world is worthless, so killing everyone is her solution; she only changes her mind at the last minute when she realizes that revenge isn't going to bring her family back and that the world actually does have its good points as well as its problems. She's also more serious, fitting her grimmer motives. In the manga, she's just as upbeat as she was in the game but her motivation is instead changed to the fact that she's now the one who wished for the state of the world a thousand years ago, but she was tired and forgot to wish that humans and beastmen would be friends, so everyone's racism is all her fault and the only way she knows to fix the world is to wipe it out and start again from scratch; she's killed before she fully changes her mind, but Kyrie manages to bring her back at the end of the story — which, being the end, doesn't allow us time to know what she's really thinking.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor's first story ("Robot") has him recently regenerated and acting clownish and crazy, and while there is a little bit of darker subtext (he tries to abandon Sarah Jane and the Brigadier because he wasn't really aware of what he was doing, although he later is sorry about it) it's almost entirely Played for Laughs. Come a turn for the Darker and Edgier and "The Face of Evil", and it's revealed that the Doctor's sneaking off around the universe in this state ended up creating a dystopian Cargo Cult that views him as a god of destruction that Eats Babies. Before "Remembrance of the Daleks" aired, fans constantly made jokes about how the Daleks' greatest weakness was stairs, as the way they were constructed prevented them from climbing up the stairs. The cliffhanger of "Remembrance of the Daleks" involves the Seventh Doctor being stuck in between a locked door at the top of a stairway, and a Dalek that is levitating upwards towards him. This was re-introduced in Series 1 when a Dalek was mocked for not being able to climb up the stairs... only to proceed to levitate up the stairs. In Series 6's "Closing Time", it's revealed the Doctor can 'speak baby', and characterizes the baby in question as a megalomaniac that addresses itself as "Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All," all of which is Played for Laughs. In Series 9's "The Girl Who Died", three series later, the Doctor translates a baby's speech in a much more haunting and poetic manner that is played as an otherworldly and beautiful moment. In Series 9' "Under the Lake", there is a gag where Clara keeps cue cards to help the Doctor out in difficult social situations. When the cards show up again in "Face The Raven" during the same season, it's played as a dramatic moment, with Clara and the Doctor picking through cards together while Rigsy looks on, anticipating hearing something terrible (which, of course, is exactly what happens). In 2016, Steven Moffat's Q&A column in Doctor Who Magazine retconned the humorous running business of the TARDIS not liking Clara Oswald in Series 7. Turns out it wasn't because of the seemingly impossible nature of her existence, but because the TARDIS knew Clara and the Doctor would have too close a relationship and become the Hybrid that almost destroyed the space-time continuum and was working its resentment out on her for events that not only wouldn't unfold until Series 9, but almost didn't happen at all because the original plan was for Clara to leave at the end of Series 8. All those moments where the grumpy Twelfth Doctor expresses his distaste for hugging is initially played for laughs. Then "The Doctor Falls" has his regeneration start when he is electrocuted by a Cyberman hugging him. Throughout the entire series, there's a Running Gag of the Doctor having a clear disdain-bordering-on-Absurd Phobia of hospitals, with it being meant to be an obvious joke concerning the Irony of someone who named themselves "the Doctor" being scared of a place where most real-world doctors work. However, Series 12 reveals that this silly-seeming fear is actually the result of repressed memories dating back to when the Doctor was "the Timeless Child" on primeval Gallifrey. Way back then, the Doctor was a child from both a physical and psychological viewpoint, and was repeatedly subjected to nightmarish torture past the brink of death in a hospital-like setting by their caretaker Tecteun as part of the latter's experiments into regeneration. Suddenly, all of the moments where the Doctor expresses a distaste for hospitals are now subtly horrifying.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_c4a22754	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series: Back in Season 1, there is a one-off flashback gag where Joey is trying to "teach" Serenity how to drive. In Episode 54, however, it turns out said incident was actually the cause of Noah's "untimely death". When Dartz and his men first appeared in the Marik's Evil Council spin-off, Rafael was portrayed as unable to say anything but "Zog-Zog", until later episodes had him inexplicably drop this to become a Deadpan Snarker. Similarly, Alister was given a ridiculously high-speech voice, which also was treated for comedy. When the Abridged Series reached Season 4 (where they were the main antagonists), it was revealed Rafael's earlier inability to speak properly was due to him being trapped on a deserted island for years to the point he had forgotten how to speak English, and it took him a long while to recover. And Alister's voice was the result of him having his testicles damaged in an explosion that also killed his brother. Yami Yugi's entire character can be considered to have gotten this treatment in Season 4. Since this is an Abridged Series parody, all of the characters are highly exaggerated versions of themselves from the original show for comedic effect, and Yami Yugi in particular is an arrogant, self-centered Jerkass who is perfectly willing to sacrifice his friends and Duel Monsters for his own personal gain (or to avoid loss). His Jerkassery is just Played for Laughs for most of the series, but he eventually has a Break the Haughty moment in Season 4 when Yugi's soul gets taken by the Seal of Orichalcos and he spends the rest of the season having to face the reality that he has been kind of a dick to everyone, which ultimately leads to Dartz, the Big Bad of the season, giving a "The Reason You Suck" Speech to him about how he chooses to spend his second life beating people in duels just to prove that he's better than everyone and how much of an asshole he is to his friends. To his credit, he actually gets better in the following season, as he begins to treat his friends and other people with a little bit more respect. A little bit.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_c5fdc15e	comment	Grandmother's Farm 2: In the first movie, while on their way to the farm, Yassir decides to drive their car through the sand and ends up running over some animal bones. We find out in this movie that those were the bones of the djinn's children, and his actions are revenge on Yassir.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_c6992a2	comment	In Bittersweet Candy Bowl, Lucy's violent behavior towards Mike is initially Played for Laughs as typical Tsundere antics. However, Mike later reveals just how much he resents Lucy for her treatment through an understandable but cruel "The Reason You Suck" Speech. There are also a couple flashbacks to Mike relaying stories of Lucy's abuse to Sandy, who is appropriately horrified.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_c879d790	comment	Another Rooster Teeth production, Camp Camp does this with the main character Max. Prior to the episode "Parents Day", Max would make sarcastic remarks about how his parents sent him to camp just to get him out of their hair. "Parents Day" reveals that his parents did just that — they didn't even sign him up for any activities like the other kids, they just signed the paperwork and let him loose. And it gradually becomes clear that this hurts Max more than he tries to let on. Early in the series, Harrison, a camper who is there for magic camp, makes a rabbit disappear and when he can't make it reappear, remarks that "that's why I'm here.". Flash forward to the episode "Parents' Day" where it's revealed that he apparently did the same thing to his brother due to massive Power Incontinence and that it caused his parents to be openly terrified of him, a fact that he is not blissfully unaware of.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_c98d3e0e	comment	In Metal Gear, Snake looked to be in his twenties — but he looked to be late-middle-aged in Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. For the sequel Metal Gear Solid, the character designer decided to go with a Solid Snake who appeared to be in his early-thirties, younger-looking than his previous incarnation. As a joke referencing this, the characters who knew Snake in Metal Gear 2 joke about his "age"; the sign that Gray Fox is back to normal is when he teases Snake with the throwaway line "You haven't aged well". However, in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, which started the Patriots plot arc, Snake is explicitly mentioned in the script as looking almost unrecognisably older than his self in Metal Gear Solid, even though MGS2 starts only two years later. Liquid spells it out:
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Cerebus Retcon / int_ccae327f	comment	On The Spoony Experiment, it's hinted that the real "experiment" at work is on Spoony himself... and he isn't even aware it's happening.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_d0000114	comment	Ask King Sombra at first seemed like a fairly wacky, comedy blog. Then it was revealed that it was all in King Sombra's imagination after he was blown to bits by the Crystal Heart, reducing him to a horn, and Coffee Talk (an innocent mare who'd only gone to the north to report on the Crystal Empire) is there because he absorbed her in his shadow form. And Coffee Talk may be trapped there forever.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_d11e211f	comment	Kamen Rider Gaim becomes this to the Kamen Rider franchise as a whole. As it turns out, almost all of the Monsters of the Week were humans that ate the fruits from Helheim Forest. Unlike the past human turned monsters from other Kamen Rider shows, save for Kamen Rider Wizard, they can't be saved (though it becomes all the more darker that it's revealed that they can be saved, just Transhuman). It becomes worse when the Beat Riders are eventually blamed by the public for all monster attacks occurring in the city.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_d1773aee	comment	The War to End All Wars â€“ The Movie: The "Christmas Truce" segment reuses the sight gag from Yarnhub's earlier music video for the song where Gefreiternote Lance Corporal Adolf Hitler tries to tattle on the truce to the German Army brass, gets hit in the head with a football, and then glumly refuses to participate. This time, though, his message actually does get through, and prompts the German general to command the artillery to resume firing, ending the truce.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_d1ad2f1d	comment	Doki Doki Literature Club! is a horror game that masquerades as a quirky romance novel in its first act. Many of the moments in that first act are twisted into very depressing revelations later on. It's implied that Monika is invoking this in-universe, giving the characters horrible backstories in order to alienate the protagonist. The first act has a lot of jokes about Sayori being a Cute Clumsy Girl who's always late to school, always disorganized, and always hungry, and how exhausted the protagonist gets about helping her. Near the end of Act 1, it's revealed that Sayori has very bad depression, which manifests as her not being able to get out of bed in the morning, keep herself tidy, or eat food because she doesn't see the point in anything. She also has a serious dependency on the protagonist. Sayori kills herself at the end of Act 1, completing the transformation of the game into horror. Natsuki's small stature and fiery attitude is played for laughs in Act 1, but Act 2 reveals that she's malnourished due to her neglectful household, at one point passing out from hunger. Her aggressive demeanor and protective nature of the club is due to her father abusing her at home, as she needs the club to be her safe space. Can't forget Yuri. In Act 1, references are made to Yuri's Serious Business attitude to the subject of literature, as well as the constantly dark subject matter that she prefers in her reading. As well, during a heated argument, Natsuki makes a reference to Yuri "cutting herself on that edge" before Sayori's upset causes the both of them to break off the argument. In Act 2, it's revealed that Yuri actually does cut herself, and several secret poems allude to this fact. And without Sayori around to stop the argument, both Yuri and Natsuki take meaner jabs at one another during the Act 2 version of the argument, including allusions to the abovementioned malnutrition and how that isn't an excuse for Natsuki's brattish behavior (likely caused by Monika in order to fully alienate the player.)
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Cerebus Retcon / int_d2d62c81	comment	Monster Hunter International has Earl's minotaur-skin coat. Originally, you would have assumed it was a trophy. In book 3, it turns out he wears it to remember his minotaur friend.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_d31cdea	comment	The Hunger Games: Finnick Odair's flirtatious personality and Really Gets Around reputation in Catching Fire come across very differently when you learn in Mockingjay how few of his supposed Capitol trysts were voluntary.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_d352a67f	comment	Linkara parodies this trope in his 15 Things That Are Wrong with Identity Crisis review, saying that he got his Miller Time watch by beating up a thug in a horrifying fashion, and then buried his corpse in Nevada... then reveals that he was just giving a bad example of a Cerebus Retcon, and that his watch was just a gift.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_d4efb984	comment	The Golden Girls: Rose is generally a happy-go-lucky Cloudcuckoolander who is unaware of how dumb she seems to others. The exception is the episode 'Dancing in the Dark', where she first falls in love with Miles, in which she is so self-conscious about their different intellects that it almost sabotages their budding relationship. Sophia's memory loss due to a stroke mostly appears in the early seasons as a joke and an excuse to make her a Deadpan Snarker. However a couple of episodes have confronted the fact that both Sophia and Dorothy fear she may be slipping into dementia and that she will one day no longer be able to take care of herself. Sophia is especially afraid of losing her memories of her dead husband Sal. Blanche has apparently always been fairly promiscuous, but it has been hinted once or twice that her fear of commitment is because she never really got over the fact that the only man she ever really loved, her husband George, was killed out of the blue in a car accident.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_d502170c	comment	PokÃ©mon Sun and Moon reveals that the Mega Evolution mechanic PokÃ©mon X and Y introduced isn't some benign power up: It turns some PokÃ©mon into mindless, heartless, fighting machines (for example, Mega Salamence may accidentally slice its trainer in half with its wings) and causes others injurious amounts of pain (Mega Scizor's body may melt if it stays Mega Evolved for too long). This may be the reason why Mega Evolved PokÃ©mon don't stay Mega Evolved indefinitely.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_d56cafaf	comment	Power Rangers RPM got gags out of Doctor K not going outside and her mention of growing up in Alphabet Soup, only to then reveal the utter horror of what Alphabet Soup did to her.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_d5fcae4e	comment	In Ted Lasso, Rebecca Welton's constant abuse of her timid Beleaguered Assistant Higgins is initially played humorously, fitting into her image as an intimidating and no-nonsense Iron Lady. But it's eventually revealed that her treatment of Higgins is due to genuine anger and resentment: he previously worked for Rebecca's ex-husband Rupert when he owned Richmond AFC, and he helped Rupert cover up his numerous extramarital affairs when he and Rebecca were still married. Rebecca has never been able to forgive Higgins for staying quiet about her husband's infidelity, and takes her anger out on him by treating him horribly.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_d77e9e33	comment	Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator implies that Michael Afton, son of William Afton was the true identity of many of the protagonists of all of the previous games, and that he was most likely a rotting corpse at the time, if Sister Location occurs before Five Nights at Freddy's 2. This casts the "Reason for Termination: Odor" of the pink slips from the first two games in a much darker light.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_db2eaaa1	comment	La Muerte's annoyance when Xibalba was enthralled by Maria in The Book of Life, is far less funny when Word of God revealed that part of the reason they're estranged is because Xibalba appeared to be cheating with other goddesses.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_dc25de3f	comment	Portal: The Ratman's Companion Cube-related scrawlings in the first game are amusing (if a bit unsettling) because it's hard to imagine what sort of person would be that attached to an inanimate box. The Lab Rat tie-in comic reveals that Doug Rattmann was a formerly medicated schizophrenic, that his Companion Cube really was his only friend, and that he ultimately sacrificed everything to save Chell's life. The Big Bad GLaDOS has a hysterical black comedy streak a mile wide. In the finale, you disassemble her cores (who are also individually hilarious) and destroy her. In the sequel, not only do you learn that GLaDOS has been reliving that "death" millions of times since you killed her (though you only have her word on this), but also that Aperture Science was killing people for decades before you came along, Chell has been trapped in the facility since she was a pre-teen, GLaDOS was made by uploading Cave Johnson's secretary (in the deleted content it's clear this was against her will), and that the facility has thousands of other test subjects to be tormented and murdered. Portal 2 has Wheatley invoke this; at the beginning of the game, he falls off his rail comedically (it's impossible for the player to catch him). Post-Faceâ€“Heel Turn, he mentions his grief at you "purposefully" failing to catch him during his rant during the Final Boss fight. During the game, GLaDOS repeatedly mocks Chell for being an orphan—though she also mocks Chell for a lot of things which aren't true, so it gets lost in the shuffle. In the sequel, it's revealed that Chell was the daughter of an Aperture Science researcher and that GLaDOS' massacre happened on "Bring Your Daughter to Work" day.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_dc4e4f67	comment	Most of the transformations in The Wotch are played for laughs, especially those of Ming-mei and the Jerk Jocks turned cheerleaders. In the "Consequences" arc, though, Anne is horrified that she screwed up so many lives. When Ming-mei remembers being transformed, she is clearly terrified and while the cheerleaders are more or less happy as girls, the webcomic Cheer shows that Jo still is driven to tears at one point when she realizes that no-one remembers anything good about their past selves. Cassie's love potions would also fit, starting as a running gag and ending with her realizing that she had selfishly been trying to Mind Rape someone into loving her. Same with Miranda West, who first appears to be an annoying mentor, but gradually shows signs of being more sinister.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_dd57149	comment	The whole concept of the characters going to a night school in Tsuki Desu feels like an Excuse Plot and it's used to emphasize Tsuki's supposed introversion. Later it's shown that she actually has a horrible phobia of the sunlight.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_de89c047	comment	Pointedly averted in Casey and Andy: despite the comic having several dramatic storylines, the strip never gives any sort of explanation, serious or otherwise, as to why the protagonists can keep coming back from the dead. Especially when other characters come right out and ask for one. (In fact, the title characters never even acknowledge any such thing has happened).
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Cerebus Retcon / int_e5d5d23c	comment	Doom had a rather corny comic book tie-in featuring Doomguy violently fighting demons while yelling "rip and tear" like a maniac, in prime 80s violent corniness. Come Doom Eternal, and the Doom Slayer is revealed to be Doomguy, having spent decades fighting a one-man war against the forces of hell... and the experience was so traumatic that when he got out, he could only mutter "rip and tear" as a Madness Mantra to himself.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_e5feb1e	comment	Ace Attorney: In Justice for All, when Pearl learns who Phoenix is, she becomes all Shipper on Deck of him and Maya. Then in the following game, Trials and Tribulations, Maya reveals to Phoenix why Pearl is obsessed with the two of being happy together: the culture in Kurain Village is centered around the women, due to only females being able to become spirit mediums. Men feel left out of the affairs of the village, resulting in marriages that tend to end badly, especially if the marriage led to a daughter being born. Pearl grew up with her father leaving her at an young age and seeing other marriages failing, so she is very invested in Maya having a happy relationship with someone. In Dual Destinies, Apollo Justice's catchphrase of "I'm fine!" is given some clarification. In Apollo's game of origin, it initially seemed like a nervous habit of Apollo's, since he usually said it when he was... well, nervous. Then Dual Destinies reveals that it was a catchphrase shared with his late childhood friend, Clay Terran, which they both shouted to cheer themselves up when their spirits were low.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_e6275a02	comment	Looking for Group started with the heroic Cale'anon meeting up with Richard, a lighthearted Omnicidal Maniac, who decides to travel with the empty-headed do-gooder because it'll be fun. Except now it turns out he's on a mission to protect Cale, under orders from Cale's former master — who, right after sending him into the world, killed his wife in cold blood so he'd have nothing to come home to.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_e75c6d45	comment	Goblins did this in a big way. Word of God suggests that the apparent Cerebus Syndrome was intentional almost from the word go — this is supported by some bonus material in the PDF release of book one — the early farcical jokey stuff was originally written much earlier (with Kobolds), and apparently rewritten as an introduction to the story as it is today. However, it is noticeable that the comic has gotten significantly less jokey since its inception... What was a farcical joke about how goblins inevitably receive appropriate names from the village seer became this huge plot point about the female goblin Saves-a-Fox who successfully struggled against the name given to her by killing said fox rather than saving it. It bears noting that she has saved the fox's pelt, even through being captured and held as a labor-slave by another tribe of goblins. Regarding Saves, it's revealed that the fox likely had a horrific disease and if so, she actually did "save" it by giving it a mercy killing. The joke about how Chief was only the chief because he was named "Chief" was retconned, with Complains explaining to Chief that he only said that as a cruel joke, while Chief becoming actual leader was to avert a nasty prophecy. Several of those early strips involved an outlandishly panicked coward very nearly dying horribly due to mishap caused by the carelessness of the other goblins, the joke being that the outlandishly panicked coward was, in fact, named "Dies Horribly". Dies went on to become a semi-regular character and was the one to reveal to Saves-a-Fox the truth about her name. When he does this, he is also stating and quite clearly that this joke was never a joke and that Dies Horribly is going to die. Horribly. He does, but he comes back. So, he both Died Horribly and is Horrible at Dying, since he keeps failing at it...
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Cerebus Retcon / int_ecd2d797	comment	Many characters of Baldur's Gate have comic banters and interjection, sometimes portraying them as silly. But in Baldur's Gate II those who return assume a new, darker characterization, that sometimes puts the comedic relief of the first game in a different perspective. Particularly relevant are Jaheira and Khalid, who in the first game are portrayed like a bossy Grand Dame and her bubbling Henpecked Husband. Comes the sequel and we know how mature and deep they were and how passionate and sincere their affection was, particularly after the tragedy of Khalid's death. Siege of Dragonspear then gives more backstory to them, and Khalid's funny characterization is treated as an innocent quirk that made the bossy Jaheira only care for him more. Skie in the first game is the caricature of the spoiled girl who complains for a broken nail and other facetious things. In Siege of Dragonspear, we learn that she is more of an inexperienced Action Girl (or better she's aiming to become one) who wants to grow up free from her noble heritage and her father's control (the latter grudgingly accepting that she needs to learn what real life is, to the point of letting her join the army). She is still used to the comfort of her previous life, but tries to adapt to the hardship of her choices. Then in the end she dies because of Irenicus' evil scheming, putting the blame on the protagonist.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_ef894e37	comment	Crazy Ex-Girlfriend changed their theme song in the second season to one called "I'm Just a Girl in Love." It has funny lyrics like "I'm just a girl in love/I can't be held responsible for my actions." And "I have no underlying issues to address./I'm certifiably cute and adorably obsessed." The lyrics become much, much less funny during the second season finale when there is a flashback showing Rebecca committed arson after being dumped by her ex-boyfriend and her mother was talking to the judge when she says, "She's just a girl in love, she can't be held responsible for her actions." After the judge recommends she go to a mental health facility, Rebecca then says, "But I have no underlying issues to address." Which is painfully and obviously untrue.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_ef9ba9b4	comment	Anakin's line in Revenge of the Sith about how Obi-Wan and the Jedi Council don't trust him seems like a a line that is slightly exaggerative at the time, even if they are somewhat wary of him. Then Star Wars: The Clone Wars shows how previously they had lied to and outright manipulated him. Suddenly, the lack of trust he displays towards the Jedi makes a lot more sense.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_efc9da0b	comment	Olaf's Frozen Adventure actually inverts this. In the original movie, the song 'Do you wanna build a snowman' serves to represent Elsa and Anna drifting apart, showing how Anna comes to Elsa's door each year asking to build a snowman with her like they did at the beginning of the movie, but Elsa always refuses. In Olaf's Frozen Adventure, this is shown in a different light — the plot of the movie is Elsa being depressed that she and Anna never had any family traditions (largely because their parents died and Elsa became a shut-in and all), but in the latter half of the movie, they discover a box with several fake snowmen, made of paper or string, that Anna would sneak below Elsa's door when she would come by to ask about making snowmen. We see images of Elsa standing behind the door, wanting to say yes, but too scared to say anything. So in truth, those moments didn't mean they were drifting apart, necessarily, but rather showed that even in spite of everything, they were still thinking of each other. They did indeed have a family tradition after all.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_f0a86c12	comment	In How I Met Your Mother's 100th episode "Girls vs Suits", many of the titular Mother's quirks were played for laughs, such as painting pictures of robots and singing with her food during breakfast. In the 200th episode "How Your Mother Met Me", it was revealed her First Love Max's last present for her was a ukelele "so your breakfast doesn't need to perform acapella" and her robot paintings were an activity she tried to do to get over his death. Louis's lack of appreciation of her singing muffin was a sign that they wouldn't work long-term.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_f0c816fb	comment	In Breaking Bad, Skyler skeptically looking over Saul's degree from the University of American Samoa is Played for Laughs. Not so much here, where Chuck looks down on Jimmy because of his shady diploma mill degree and so takes every opportunity to tear down Jimmy's chances of going legit.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_f10619d8	comment	In Tales of the Abyss, Guy's gynophobia is a side effect of his childhood trauma. Namely, being trapped under the corpses of his entire female household. When Guy finally remembers this and reveals it to the rest of the party, the female party members are all horrified by how they've treated the subject.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_f489fad2	comment	There's a whole category of Creepypasta regarding supposed dark secrets of light-hearted children's shows and games, e.g. that an actor was actually a Humanoid Abomination, that the show was being used to summon an Eldritch Abomination, or that the show itself was an Eldritch Abomination.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_f554e011	comment	Rin Tezuka from Katawa Shoujo appears for all intents and purposes to be your typical female Cloudcuckoolander, quirky, philosophical and inscrutable. Playing again through the beginning of her route feels very different indeed once you learn she actually has what is heavily implied to be an untreated case of schizophrenia.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_fb9c177d	comment	Transformers: Arcee was orignally pink because Pink Means Feminine. Now, she's pink because pink is the color of energon, that is, the color of Cybertronian blood. In Transformers: Prime, she's blue and the energon in that series just so happens to be blue as well.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_fc58aa8a	comment	The first episode of Mission to Zyxx sees Pleck shoot Dar during a hasty retreat, showcasing both Dar's unaffected tough-guy status and Pleck's general ineptitude. The fourth season episode "Daming of the Crew" reveals that Dar actually died then and was replaced by a time-travel duplicate.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_fc7d85d3	comment	Related to that, Ice Age: The Meltdown has Sid demanding to be recognized as an important part of the Herd by Manny and Diego, given he's the resident Butt-Monkey this is treated by the characters as him simply being melodramatic. Then, in Continental Drift, we discover that Sid's family has a tendency of dropping any member that they find useless. With that context, Sid's complains seem less like someone asking for respect and more like someone worried of being abandoned again.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_fd0b756	comment	The Hobbit: Bilbo recovers a magic ring from Gollum's cave after winning a riddle contest. While the original story did make it plain that Bilbo was riddling for his life, the ring he retrieves is later treated as a precious prize, saving his life several times and leading to his happy ending. Years later, when it was time to release The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien retconned the story (actually rewriting The Hobbit) to tie in with the nature of the Ring as a malicious artifact made of pure evil that was using Bilbo to escape Gollum's ownership. The existence of the first edition of The Hobbit was even deconstructed: it records Bilbo's lies about how he got the Ring and what it was like. To a lesser extent, Unfinished Tales of NÃºmenor and Middle-earth reinterpreted the Quest for Erebor when telling it from Gandalf's perspective. In the original story, Gandalf's reason for helping Thorin on his way and arranging aid for him seemed to be purely altruistic, but Unfinished Tales implies that while Gandalf did see this as a nice thing to do, he had a secondary motivation that he wasn't telling Thorin about. Gandalf knew a war with Sauron might be imminent, and he wanted to get Smaug, a dangerous Wild Card of potentially immense destructive power, off the table before Sauron could try recruiting him. To that end, he threw Thorin on a path that might well have been a suicide mission—though, admittedly, Thorin's initial plan was no less of one.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_fd314ec1	comment	Kamen Rider Decade's female lead, Natsumi, is mostly Tsundere Plucky Comic Relief owing to her the Laughing Pressure Point, used on Tsukasa when he gets a little too smug or rude. In the Big Damn Movie, she gains her own Rider powers and actually kills Tsukasa after he goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against the Kamen Riders. She even uses the Laughing Pressure Point as an actual fighting move in the final battle.
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Cerebus Retcon / int_ff9ab17f	comment	In Star Trek: The Next Generation, resident Proud Warrior Race Guy Worf makes an offhand comment about having a poor sex life due to most human women being physically fragile compared to him, lacking his Klingon physiology, meaning he has to restrain himself too much to enjoy sex. This same issue is later referred to in a much more dramatic fashion in the Deep Space Nine episode "Let He Who Is Without Sin...", when he explains that as a boy, he accidentally killed another boy during a football/soccer match when their heads collided, which led to his restrained and uptight demeanor as he feels he must always be careful to avoid harming other, more fragile beings. It also became relevant when he married Jadzia Dax, and she was constantly in Dr. Bashir's office for broken ribs. As was Worf. Not that they minded. In the pilot episode "Encounter at Farpoint", when the Enterprise crew is placed on trial, Picard suggests that Q judge them based on their performance on the "long mission" they have ahead of them. Q dismisses the idea but says he will judge them just based on how they perform on this specific visit to Farpoint Station. Seven years later, in the final episode "All Good Things", Q reveals that he took up Picard's suggestion after all, and "the trial never ended". Lwaxana Troi, Counselor Troi's mother, is very controlling, but it's clearly humorous. Then comes "Dark Page" (her last appearance on TNG) and we learn that Lwaxana had two daughters, and the older one, Kestra, drowned when Lwaxana wasn't paying attention. The later seasons established that during the first two seasons, while the Enterprise was wandering around doing random tasks and showcasing the most laid-back, blatantly Mildly Military traits in the entire franchise, the Federation was in the tail end of a long and bloody war with the Cardassians. O'Brien especially had just left a front-line posting where he fought in several battles.
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Superman: Red and Blue (Comic Book) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Avengers (Jason Aaron) (Comic Book) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Death of Captain Marvel (Comic Book) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Flintstones (Comic Book) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars (Comic Book) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Maxx (Comic Book) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Oz Effect (Comic Book) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Unstoppable Wasp (Comic Book) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Vision (2015) (Comic Book) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
War of the Realms (Comic Book) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Funky Winkerbean (Comic Strip) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Nodwick (Comic Strip) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Peanuts (Comic Strip) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Agent 47: Birth of the Hitman (Comic Book) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Convergence / Comicbook	seeAlso	Cerebus Retcon
Calvin and Hobbes: The Movie (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
CreativeActivitiesPrecure	seeAlso	Cerebus Retcon
Entities Of Emotion / Fan Fic / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Fall of Starfleet, Rebirth of Friendship / Fan Fic / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
HuntingTheUnicorn	seeAlso	Cerebus Retcon
NightOfTheShy	seeAlso	Cerebus Retcon
No Chance For Fate / Fan Fic / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Petriculture / Fan Fic / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Pretty Cure Bukatsudo Energetic / Fan Fic	seeAlso	Cerebus Retcon
RWBY Grimm Darkness / Fan Fic	seeAlso	Cerebus Retcon
Romance and the Fate of Equestria (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Thomas Abridged / Fan Fic / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Waking Nightmares / Fan Fic / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
A Red Rose in the Blue Wind (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
A Return to the Falls (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Ash's Coma (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Between My Brother and Me: Mors Omnibus (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Black or White (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Butterfly (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Cadance of Cloudsdale (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Chains of Reality (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Cold Reception (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Curse of the Demon Pony (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Dandelions in the Wind (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Danganronpa: The Immersive Learning Program (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Darkfire1220's Challenger (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: 25 Years Later (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Earth and Sky (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Everyday Life with Ultimate Girls (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
For His Own Sake (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Foxfire (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Foxfire (Rahar_Moonfire) (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Friendship Is Showtime (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Funkinverse (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Game Theory (Lyrical Nanoha) (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Ghost of You (MildCookie44) (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Group Chat (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Her Max (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
How I Lost My Mother (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
I Was Beautiful Once (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Infinity Train: Voyage of Wisteria (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
It Takes a Village (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Jaune Arc, Lord of Hunger (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Junior Officers (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Just another one of those daysâ€¦ (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Like Father, Like Son (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Lil Roomie (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Lost Tales of Fantasia (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Lulu's Bizarre Rebellion (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Marionettes (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Marooned in Madagascar (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Mischief (MHA) (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Muse Hysteria (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
My Deepest, Darkest Secret (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
No Such Luck, No Such Love (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Odaliaverse (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Outsiders (The Owl House) (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Owl's Hell That Ends Well (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Party of None (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Persona: The Sougawa Files (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Pokéumans (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Prerugrats (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Razs Regretful Realm (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Red Sadie (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Rediscovered Frontiers (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Rick and The Loud House (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Sailor Moon: Between the Lines (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Some Things Never Change (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Sonic Origins (Ri2) (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Stories and Tales from Dimension 63 (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
sunflower (Naruto) (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Tales from Hell: Hazbin Hotel (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Tales of the Dekuverse (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Darkness Between Stars (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Desert Storm (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Legion of Gloom Trilogy (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Life and Times of a Winning Pony (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Omniverse Event (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Petriculture Cycle (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Raven & the Owlet (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Rise of Darth Vulcan (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Road You Choose (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Simpsons: Team L.A.S.H. (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Trolley Problem (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Vinyl Scratch Tapes (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Total Loud Island (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Unbreakable Red Silken Thread (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Unity (Finmonster) (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Unprecedented Catastrophe (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Voltron: Duality (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
We're Not Friends Kacchan (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Alice Through the Looking Glass / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Back to the Future Part II / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Captain America: Civil War / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Captain America: The Winter Soldier / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Charlie's Angels (2000) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Fantastic Four (2015) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Gamera 3: Awakening of Irys / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Grandmothers Farm 2 / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Home Alone / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Iron Man 2 / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Iron Man 3 / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
It's Complicated / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Jurassic Park III / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Kamen Rider Gotchard Ã— Geats â€” The Strongest Chemy â˜† Gotcha Grand Operation / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider W & Decade: Movie War 2010 / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Last Action Hero / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Men in Black 3 / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Muppets from Space / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Romeo Must Die / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Craft / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Devil's Rejects / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Empire Strikes Back / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Hobbit / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Lone Ranger (2013) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Princess Diaries / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The World of Suzie Wong / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Thor: Ragnarok / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Wonder Woman (2017) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Zoolander / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Evillious Chronicles (Franchise) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Toy Story (Franchise) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Date A Live / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Devil Is a Part-Timer! / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
A Series of Unfortunate Events / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Alcatraz Series / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Battle Ground (2020) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Bloodlines / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Date A Live / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Death Star / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
How to Train Your Dragon / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
I've Somehow Gotten Stronger When I Improved My Farm-Related Skills / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Kamen Rider Ex-Aid: ~Mighty Novel X~ / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Life, the Universe and Everything / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Night Watch (Discworld) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Nuklear Age / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Oracle of Tao / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Pretty Little Liars / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
1632 / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Super Filete / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Ambition of Oda Nobuna / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Devil is a Part-Timer! / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Disaster Artist / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Fifth Elephant / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Hero is Overpowered but Overly Cautious / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Incredible Worlds of Wally McDoogle / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Kharkanas Trilogy / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Magician's Nephew / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Princess Diaries / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Railway Children / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Thud! / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Trapped in a Dating Sim: Otome Games Are Tough For Us, Too! / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of That Otome Game is Tough for Us / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Worm / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Youth in Sexual Ecstasy / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Red vs. Blue: The Shisno Trilogy (Machinima) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Supermarioglitchy4s Super Mario 64 Bloopers The Rapper Bob Arc (Machinima) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Doctor Who Magazine (Magazine) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
CerebusRetCon	sameAs	Cerebus Retcon
NuklearAge	seeAlso	Cerebus Retcon
RetCon	seeAlso	Cerebus Retcon
WarlockGames	seeAlso	Cerebus Retcon
Ah! My Goddess (Manga) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Assassination Classroom (Manga) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Boruto (Manga) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Boys over Flowers (Manga) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Dr. STONE (Manga) / int_8b673387	type	Cerebus Retcon
Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA (Manga) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Fire Punch (Manga) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Fruits Basket (Manga) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Golden Kamuy (Manga) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Great Teacher Onizuka (Manga) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Himenospia (Manga) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War (Manga) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Kotaro Makaritoru! (Manga) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Medaka Box (Manga) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Mitama Security: Spirit Busters (Manga) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Puella Magi Kazumi Magica (Manga) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Reborn! (2004) (Manga) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
SPYÃ—FAMILY (Manga) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Sankarea (Manga) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Soul Eater Not! (Manga) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Superwomen in Love! (Manga) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Demon Girl Next Door (Manga) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Tsurezure Children (Manga) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Yui Kamio Lets Loose (Manga) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Yuriota ni Yuri wa Gohatto Desu?! (Manga) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Evillious Chronicles (Music) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Mission to Zyxx (Podcast) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
One Shot Podcast (Podcast) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Airlocked Round Two (Roleplay) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Tropers: The Series (Roleplay) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Band of Brothers / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Boy Meets World / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Brooklyn Nine-Nine / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Derry Girls / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Enlisted / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Hudson and Rex / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Kaamelott / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Kamen Rider Build / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Kamen Rider Decade / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Kamen Rider Fourze / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Kamen Rider Gaim / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Kamen Rider OOO / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Luke Cage (2016) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Magnificent Century / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Malcolm in the Middle / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Peacemaker (2022) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Power Rangers Jungle Fury / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Power Rangers Samurai / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Secret Invasion (2023) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Star Trek: Picard / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Star Trek: The Original Series / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Survivor / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Brothers García / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Office (US) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Tucker / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Uchu Sentai Kyuranger / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Ultraseven / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Ultraman R/B / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Wings / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
You Are My Destiny / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Young Sheldon / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Younger / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Educating Rita (Theatre) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Twisted: The Untold Story of a Royal Vizier (Theatre) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Amateur Surgeon (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Bugsnax (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Call of Duty: Zombies (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Chrono Cross (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
CouncilRyS RPG (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Dame X Prince (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Destiny 2 (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Devotion (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Drawn to Life (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Dreamfall Chapters (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Eternal Champions (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Final Fantasy VII Remake (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
God of War RagnarÃ¶k (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Growing Up (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Jak and Daxter (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Jazztronauts (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Kings Quest (2015) (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
L.A. Noire (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
La Pucelle (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Life Is Strange: Before the Storm (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Mario & Luigi: Dream Team (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Mega Man Rock Force (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Monster Train (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Oracle of Tao (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
PokÃ©mon Sun and Moon (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
PokÃ©mon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero? (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Psychonauts 2 (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
R-Type (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Sam & Max: Freelance Police (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Terminal 7 (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Blueballs Incident (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Frontier (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Ugly (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Vs. Dave and Bambi (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Watch_Dogs 2 (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Watch Dogs: Legion (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Yo-kai Watch (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
A Profile (Visual Novel) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Being A DIK (Visual Novel) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
CROSSâ€ CHANNEL (Visual Novel) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Grisaia no Meikyuu (Visual Novel) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Higurashi: When They Cry (Visual Novel) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Little Busters! (Visual Novel) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Majikoi! Love Me Seriously! (Visual Novel) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Muv-Luv Alternative (Visual Novel) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
One: Kagayaku Kisetsu e (Visual Novel) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney â€“ Trials and Tribulations (Visual Novel) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Rewrite (Visual Novel) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Summer Pockets (Visual Novel) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Labyrinth of Grisaia (Visual Novel) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
They Are My Noble Masters (Visual Novel) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Bravest Warriors (Web Animation) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Camp Camp (Web Animation) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Diamond in the Rough (Touhou) (Web Animation) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Dr. Crafty (Web Animation) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Gravity Falls: Deep Woods (Web Animation) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Helluva Boss (Web Animation) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Klay World (Web Animation) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Multiverse Monarch (Web Animation) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Nomad of Nowhere (Web Animation) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
PokÃ©mon Generations (Web Animation) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Red vs. Blue (Web Animation) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Red vs. Blue: The Recollection (Web Animation) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Red vs. Blue: The Shisno Trilogy (Web Animation) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Retarded Animal Babies (Web Animation) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
SMG4 - The Rapper Bob Arc (Web Animation) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
SolarBalls (Web Animation) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Sonic for Hire (Web Animation) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
SPARKLE ON RAVEN (Web Animation) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Starbarians (Web Animation) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers: Genesis Arc (Web Animation) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers: The Rapper Bob Arc (Web Animation) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Frollo Show (Web Animation) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Most Popular Girls in School (Web Animation) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
There she is!! (Web Animation) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Tokyo Magic Star (Web Animation) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Two More Eggs (Web Animation) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Ultimate Heroes For Hire (Web Animation) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared (Web Video) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Dr. Crafty (Web Video) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
=3 (Web Video) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Hellsing Ultimate Abridged (Web Video) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Koishi Komeiji's Heart-Throbbing Adventure (Web Video) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Mega64 (Web Video) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Mr. Krabs' Unquenchable Blood Lust (Web Video) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Phelous (Web Video) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Quinton Reviews (Web Video) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
React (Web Video) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Scootertrix the Abridged (Web Video) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Scott The Woz (Web Video) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Sgt. Frog Abridged (Web Video) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Soul Eater Meisterhood (Web Video) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Stampy's Lovely World (Web Video) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Sword Art Online Abridged (Web Video) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Awkward Compilation (Web Video) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Presidential Adventures (Web Video) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Video Game High School (Web Video) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
WarlockGames	seeAlso	Cerebus Retcon
Xonic S (Web Video) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Terrible Writing Advice (Web Animation) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Bittersweet Candy Bowl (Webcomic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Collar 6 (Webcomic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures (Webcomic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
EQG Crossover (Webcomic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Funkinverse (Webcomic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Goblins (Webcomic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
MS Paint Masterpieces (Webcomic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Manly Guys Doing Manly Things (Webcomic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Powerup Comics (Webcomic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Roomies!, It's Walky!, Joyce and Walky! (Webcomic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Sam & Fuzzy (Webcomic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Scoob and Shag (Webcomic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Ship War AU (Webcomic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Tails Gets Trolled (Webcomic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Total Trauma (Webcomic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Yonkoma Nuzlocke (Webcomic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Zebra Girl (Webcomic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Ben 10 (2016) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Ben 10: Omniverse / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
BravestWarriors	seeAlso	Cerebus Retcon
Cars 3 / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Clone High / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Dead Space: Downfall / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Dragons: Riders of Berk / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Duck Pimples / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Ewoks / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Final Space / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Finding Dory / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
G.I. Joe: Resolute / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Green Eggs and Ham (2019) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Hercules: The Animated Series / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Hilda and the Mountain King / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Iron Man: The Animated Series / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Jetsons: The Movie / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Laura's Star / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Monsters University / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Moral Orel / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Ninjago / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Olaf's Frozen Adventure / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Pocahontas / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
ReBoot / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Sofia the First / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Solar Opposites / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Star Wars Rebels / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Surf's Up / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Jetsons & WWE: Robo-WrestleMania! / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Princess and the Frog / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Venture Bros. / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The War to End All Wars – The Movie / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Victor and Valentino / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Wander over Yonder / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
LayCool (Wrestling) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Michelle McCool (Wrestling) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Love and Rockets (Comic Book) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Facing the Future Series (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Hunting the Unicorn (Fanfic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Undocumented Features / Fan Fic / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
cerebusretcon	sameAs	Cerebus Retcon
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies (Visual Novel) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
College Roomies from Hell!!! (Webcomic) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon

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