This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Working Title: Continuity Drift: From YKTTW
Umptyscope: Re: Star Wars... ahem... "Your father wanted you to have this, when you were old enough..."
"If, of course, he knew you had existed and I hadn't just chopped his legs off. But I swiped it from what I thought was his burned corpse, so um, here."
Maybe it should have been "Your father would have wanted you to have this..."
(Crossposting this to Just Bugs Me.)
Haven: Had to take out this OOTS example, because it might be an example, but not sure what (I guess the "your mother wanted you to be a wizard"? but it doesn't exactly sound like he didn't espouse the idea, or anything), and also because I was going to need to say 'Trevor? Oh no, somebody staked him!'...
Ununnilium: Pulling out all the "explanations". This is not the place for 'em; stick them in Wild Mass Guessing if you want. (Mind you, noting places where Continuity Drift is eventually addressed in-canon does fit here.)
- How about we apply Occam's Razor here: Hargrid lied to Harry. Simple.
- There were no witnesses, how would anyone know?
- Occam's Razor again: The "True Demons" are big into Putting on the Reich. Their "True Demon" is a lie like the Nazis' "Pure Aryan".
- It should be noted that the Fire Nation is not adverse to using propaganda. There might have been plenty of surviving deserters, but they survived by not advertising this, given the tendency for the Fire Nation to hunt these people down and kill them.
- Also: Jeong Jeong may well be the first firebender to desert/defect - Piandao is just a swordmaster, and thus wouldn't have been any use as a firebending teacher for Aang (which is the context in which Jeong Jeong was brought up).
- A little more thinking, though, leads one to believe someone must have been piloting the ship they actually escaped on, so he must have had some help. Just because he was the one inside doesn't mean he did it alone.
Also:
- Martian Manhunter, another alien from The DCU who's supposedly the last of his kind, had the same problem. A lot of his villains were also Martians of some sort.
He wasn't the Last of His Kind pre-Crisis.
- The Battlestar Galactica reference about the Cylon homeworld doesn't seem genuine to me: they introduced "the Colony" in the second half of season four. Ellen even described it as "home" for the Five and the Centurions after CW 1. If no one objects, I'm going to delete this example.
Haven: Took this out because it wasn't originally an element of the Batman mythos, and didn't become one until 1994. Moreover, during the ten year period it was pretty consistently kept in mind. The public at large don't really have front-row seats to Justice League events either; they tend to be evacuated. In any case, it's quite a stretch to say this is an example of Continuity Drift.
- So, Depending on the Writer, Batman is still kind of considered Shrouded in Myth and perhaps an urban legend to a lot of criminals in Gotham... but he still shows up whenever the Justice League are fighting Darkseid and such en masse... Do Gotham public schools just not teach critical thinking?
Vampire Buddha: Removed this:
- * Namor's current powers are Hulk-level super strength, flight, amphibious physiology, and a bad temper. When he was introduced, and well into the sixties, he could also talk to fish and mimic the abilities of any undersea creature, including electric eels and puffer fish. No one really talks about these powers, but it's possible he only doesn't use them because it would make him look stupid (like Aquaman, in fact).
If somebody wants to add that back in, go ahead, as long as you say who this Namor person is and where he comes from.
Jack-of-Some-Trades: ...Seriously? He's one of Marvel's first published heroes, one of the first, if not the first comic antiheroes, and he had most of Superman's powers before Superman did. It's going back on the list.
