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May 31, 2022 10:25 AM
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Whatever series you want. (A retcon is when a later episodes changes something from previous episodes with no explanation. IE: A character having a job in the first episode and in a later episode, it being mentioned that they've never had a job their whole life.)
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May 31, 2022 10:34 AM
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Yeah so that's not what a ret con is, a ret con would be going back qnd changing things in season 1 to make them fit season 3
May 31, 2022 10:40 AM
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billybub said:
Yeah so that's not what a ret con is, a ret con would be going back qnd changing things in season 1 to make them fit season 3

Well, that is a thing too, Highschool dxd pulled a pretty big one between season 3 and 4
May 31, 2022 7:50 PM
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Yeah pretty much every battle shounen runs into this. An author will have to release chapters as quickly as possible and have to break their own rules in order to keep dragging out the continuity, or just forget that they even made those rules
May 31, 2022 7:59 PM
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Aot ending come first in the mind.
Uhm I'm not trying to be pedantic but where's the retcon in the ending?
May 31, 2022 10:09 PM
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Dragon Ball has tons of retcons.

The potara earrings being a perma fusion in the Majin Buu arc then in the Goku Black arc its only a limited fusion if you're not a god.

Goku's origins keeps getting retconned like he is a good person because he inherited it from his parents rather than hitting his head, losing all his memory, and being raised by Grandpa Gohan.

Recently in the manga Bardock made a wish that basically gave Goku and Radditz plot armor until Z.

Scouters being made by the Tuffles being changed to Frieza making them.
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Jun 1, 2022 12:51 AM
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I can remember "Shield Hero" the protagonist saying he'll do one thing and the next episode he's doing the opposite. Or at the middle of the series he says he'll do this, only to do the opposite at the end of the anime.
Jun 1, 2022 12:59 AM
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Recently in the manga Bardock made a wish that basically gave Goku and Radditz plot armor until Z.

This makes sense because it would actually explain how Goku's heart started beating again after King Piccolo "killed" him.
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SofiaBulga said:
I can remember "Shield Hero" the protagonist saying he'll do one thing and the next episode he's doing the opposite. Or at the middle of the series he says he'll do this, only to do the opposite at the end of the anime.


It would help if you weren't so vague and gave an actual example.
Jun 1, 2022 6:11 AM

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It would help if you weren't so vague and gave an actual example.


In x episode Naofumi says "to her majesty the Queen "I got my reward, so I'm leaving. Don't feel like holding a discussion with the other three summoned heroes". The queen puts on a troubled but understanding smile and end. In the next episode, we see him in the room with the other heroes trying to hold a discussion.

At some point in s1 Naofumi mocks another hero, about him being given land and subjects to govern. And at the end of s1 we see him getting land, a small community being built and him in a position where he'll be governing over that community.
Jun 1, 2022 6:21 AM

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I don't know if it counts as retcon, but the colossal Titan became a nuclear weapon in the third season.
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SofiaBulga said:
Oongbuh said:


It would help if you weren't so vague and gave an actual example.


In x episode Naofumi says "to her majesty the Queen "I got my reward, so I'm leaving. Don't feel like holding a discussion with the other three summoned heroes". The queen puts on a troubled but understanding smile and end. In the next episode, we see him in the room with the other heroes trying to hold a discussion.

At some point in s1 Naofumi mocks another hero, about him being given land and subjects to govern. And at the end of s1 we see him getting land, a small community being built and him in a position where he'll be governing over that community.

None of that is true.
1) Your episode X are 21 and then 22.
What he said at the start of episode 21 is that he will leave the country and simply go to wherever the waves pop up. At the end of the episode he then changed his mind and says he will stay in the country and work with them (both the queen and the other heroes) but also go to other countries to fight waves there.
Which then leads to them all sitting at one table talking to each other in episode 22.

2) Naofumi does not mock Motoyasu about being given land to govern over.
All Naofumi does is scold Motoyasu because he wants to impose a ridiculously high toll for entering and leaving the village. Such a toll would ruin the village and leave the people with no money to buy food and other essentials.

As for Naofumi being given land to govern over: he is not given land, he asked for it.
For multiple reasons even.

Nothing there is a retcon. If you want a recton, look at this comment:
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I don't know if it counts as retcon, but the colossal Titan became a nuclear weapon in the third season.

That is a retcon, since the colossal titan in Season 1 (and S2 to an extend) transformed without even creating a light breeze, yet in S3 and 4 the colossal titan destroys everything around him
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Naruto, about Shukaku which is actually a tailed beast

Dragon Ball, about Vegetto's supposedly permanent fusion duration



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Selector Infected Wixoss and Selector Spread Wixoss (spoiler warning!)
In the 1st season they said if you lose three battles your wish will be reversed and there's no method to overcome it. Hitoe lost three battles so her wish to have friends was reversed, she was going to never have friends anymore. Her life was ruined.
In the second season she's doing just fine and she's Yuzuki's and Ruuko's friend
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Selector Infected Wixoss and Selector Spread Wixoss (spoiler warning!)
In the 1st season they said if you lose three battles your wish will be reversed and there's no method to overcome it. Hitoe lost three battles so her wish to have friends was reversed, she was going to never have friends anymore. Her life was ruined.
In the second season she's doing just fine and she's Yuzuki's and Ruuko's friend


I'll come back to this when I finish Selector Spread Wixoss.




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