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* BackToTheEarlyInstallment: Revisiting prior installments through time travel.
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** FlipFlopOfGod: The creator keeps changing their mind on what they have to say about the work that isn't actually shown in it.

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** FlipFlopOfGod: The creator keeps changing their mind on what they have to say about the work that isn't actually shown in it.it, or multiple creators have different opinions on what isn't explained within the work.
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* {{Prequel}}: An installment of the series that takes place before previously released installments.


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* {{Sequel}}: An installment of the series that takes place after previously released installments.
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* ClueFromEd: An event mentioned in dialog or captions has an asterisk next to it, and down near the panel border is a little message, saying something like, '''"See Volume 4, Issue 3 - Ed."'''
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* AdvertisingOnlyContinuity: What happens in tie-in commercials isn't consistent with the canon of the work the commercials tie into.
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** GodNeverSaidThat: The idias about canon falsely attributed to the creators.

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** GodNeverSaidThat: The idias People's ideas about canon are falsely attributed to the creators.
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** GodNeverSaidThat: The idias about canon falsely attributed to the creators.
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* ExpansionPackPast

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* ExpansionPackPastExpansionPackPast: A character's BackStory receives more and more inconsistent details.

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* DeusExMachina

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* DeusExMachinaDeusExMachina: Sudden events that solve an apparently unsolvable problem/conflict.



* DisplacedOrigin

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* DisplacedOriginDisplacedOrigin: The original premise of a character or story is forgotten or modified into something completely different.



* EarthDrift
* EveryScarHasAStory

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* EarthDrift
EarthDrift: Story employing real-life concepts starts diverging from those as it progresses.
* EveryScarHasAStoryEveryScarHasAStory: Scars are directly related to a character's BackStory.
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* CanonFodder

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* CanonFodderCanonFodder: Unexplored canon information that's ripe for exploring.



* CanonIllustrations

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* CanonIllustrationsCanonIllustrations: Illustrations from a release that's not the original one become canon.



* CanonInvasion

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* CanonInvasionCanonInvasion: When a company merges the canon of a work of their own to a work they acquired the rights to.



* CerebusCallBack

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* CerebusCallBackCerebusCallBack: A CallBack that paints a previously lighthearted moment in a darker tone.



* {{Consistency}}
* ContinuityCavalcade: Callbacks to many previous episodes or installments are made in one fell swoop.
* ContinuityCameo
* ContinuityCreep
* ContinuityDrift

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* {{Consistency}}
{{Consistency}}: What {{Canon}} should strive to have.
* ContinuityCavalcade: Callbacks {{CallBack}}s to many previous episodes or installments are made in one fell swoop.
* ContinuityCameo
ContinuityCameo: Character from a continuity makes a cameo in another.
* ContinuityCreep
ContinuityCreep: A work becomes far more continuity-driven as time goes.
* ContinuityDriftContinuityDrift: Basic canon information is elaborated upon, but in a way that doesn't mesh well with was originally established.



* ContinuityOverlap
* ContinuityPorn

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* ContinuityOverlap
ContinuityOverlap: Events within a specific continuity starts directly affecting other continuities.
* ContinuityPornContinuityPorn: Tons and tons of {{Continuity Nod}}s, which may be detrimental to a work.
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* UnexplainedRecovery: A character comes back alive and well with no explanation for their survival in spite of very clearly dying in their last appearance.
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* {{Retcanon}}: What was once non-canon now is treated as canon, thanks to a {{Retcon}}.

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* {{Retcanon}}: RetCanon: What was once non-canon now is treated as canon, thanks to a {{Retcon}}.
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* SchrodingersCanon: A spinoff meant to be canonical ends up conflicting with the actual canon, so it's treated as simultaneously canon and not canon until it gets (dis)proven.

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* SchrodingersCanon: A spinoff meant to be canonical ends up conflicting with the actual canon, so it's treated as simultaneously canon and not canon until it gets (dis)proven.
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* LooseCanon: An usually standalone spinoff that could very well be part of the main continuity, but is not (or, at least, only partially). In other words, optional canon.

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* LooseCanon: An usually standalone spinoff that could very well be part of the main continuity, but is not (or, at least, only partially).its canonicity remains uncertain. In other words, optional canon.
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* LooseCanon: An usually standalone spinoff that could very well be part of the main continuity. In other words, optional canon.

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* LooseCanon: An usually standalone spinoff that could very well be part of the main continuity.continuity, but is not (or, at least, only partially). In other words, optional canon.
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* LooseCanon: An usually standalone spinoff that could very well be part of the main continuity, but is not considered as such for unknown reasons. In other words, optional canon.

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* LooseCanon: An usually standalone spinoff that could very well be part of the main continuity, but is not considered as such for unknown reasons.continuity. In other words, optional canon.
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* LooseCanon: An usually standalone spinoff that could very well be part of the main continuity, but is not treated as such (partially, at best) for unknown reasons. In other words, optional canon.

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* LooseCanon: An usually standalone spinoff that could very well be part of the main continuity, but is not treated considered as such (partially, at best) for unknown reasons. In other words, optional canon.

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* LooseCanon: A spinoff usually meant to be standalone that does fit within the main continuity, but is not entirely treated as canonical for some reason. In other words, optional canon.

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* LooseCanon: A spinoff An usually meant to be standalone spinoff that does fit within could very well be part of the main continuity, but is not entirely treated as canonical such (partially, at best) for some reason.unknown reasons. In other words, optional canon.
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* LooseCanon: A spinoff that does fit within the main continuity, but is not entirely treated as canonical for some reason. In other words, optional canon.

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* LooseCanon: A spinoff usually meant to be standalone that does fit within the main continuity, but is not entirely treated as canonical for some reason. In other words, optional canon.
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* LooseCanon: A spinoff that does fit within the main continuity, but is not treated as canonical for some reason.

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* LooseCanon: A spinoff that does fit within the main continuity, but is not entirely treated as canonical for some reason.reason. In other words, optional canon.

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* LooseCanon: It's canon, it isn't....

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* LooseCanon: It's canon, it isn't....A spinoff that does fit within the main continuity, but is not treated as canonical for some reason.



* OutdatedByCanon

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* OutdatedByCanonOutdatedByCanon: {{Fanon}} becomes outdated due to Canon disproving it.



* {{Retcanon}}
* {{Retcon}}: Retroactive continuity

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* {{Retcanon}}
{{Retcanon}}: What was once non-canon now is treated as canon, thanks to a {{Retcon}}.
* {{Retcon}}: Retroactive continuitycontinuity.



* SchrodingersCanon

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* SchrodingersCanonSchrodingersCanon: A spinoff meant to be canonical ends up conflicting with the actual canon, so it's treated as simultaneously canon and not canon until it gets (dis)proven.
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Continuity Reboot entry could be explained better, as not all reboots are done because the original canon has declined in quality. Some happen because the original series has ended its course and newcomers to the franchise want to do their own interpretation.


* ContinuityReboot: Let's start over with a new clean slate, the previous work wasn't ''that'' good and things can be better.

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* ContinuityReboot: Let's start over with a new clean slate, An installment of the franchise that ignores the canon of the previous work wasn't ''that'' good and things can be better.installments in favor of establishing a new continuity.
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* BackstoryInvader: A new character changes the other characters' memories, or reality itself, to make themselves an accepted part of the continuity.
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* AlreadyMetEveryone

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* AlreadyMetEveryoneAlreadyMetEveryone: A prequel establishes that the characters already knew each other before the events of the original series.



* CliffhangerCopout

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* CliffhangerCopoutCliffhangerCopout: A series has one episode end on a clear cliffhanger and never explains the outcome of that cliffhanger.



* CosmeticallyAdvancedPrequel

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* CosmeticallyAdvancedPrequelCosmeticallyAdvancedPrequel: The prequel has a better and more advanced look to it than the work it takes place before due to the production team having access to better equipment and techniques.
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* CuttingOffTheBranches: One of the MultipleEndings of the story is declared canon.
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* TrappedByMountainLions

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* TrappedByMountainLionsTrappedByMountainLions: A subplot that occurs at the same time as the main plot but has nothing to do with it.
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** RememberTheNewGuy: A character abruptly appears without explaining why.

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** RememberTheNewGuy: A character abruptly appears starts making appearances without explaining why.
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** RememberTheNewGuy: A character abruptly appears without explaning why.

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** RememberTheNewGuy: A character abruptly appears without explaning explaining why.
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** RememberTheNewGuy: A character abruptly appears without explaning why.
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* UnInstallment: The first part never existed.

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* UnInstallment: The first part never existed.series has an installment or installments that don't exist in spite of being acknowledged, mentioned, or alluded to by the work's title or within the work.

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