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* ComicBook/SpiderMan's deal with [[DealWithTheDevil Mephisto]] in ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'' does this, erasing his marrige to Mary Jane from existance and rewritting reality to reflect it.

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Supertrope to EndOfTheWorldSpecial (someone gains the power of Retconjuration near the end to change the world). May lead to TheStoryThatNeverWas. Compare PeggySue. Contrast RetGone.

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Supertrope SuperTrope to EndOfTheWorldSpecial (someone gains the power of Retconjuration near the end to change the world). May lead to TheStoryThatNeverWas. Compare PeggySue. Contrast RetGone.



* In ''Literature/{{Another}}'', a class is plagued by a curse kills members of the class and immediate family. This is caused by the presence of [[spoiler:an extra, DeadAllAlong, student]]. [=Retconjuration=] comes into play because it's impossible to identify [[spoiler:the "Extra"]] due to all the students having FalseMemories of that presence. On top of that, even official paperwork has incorrect information. Identifying [[spoiler:the "Extra"]] can only be done ''after'' the school year ends, because everything reverts back to normal at that point.



* ''[[Manga/{{Naruto}} Naruto Shippuden]]'' introduced yet another op jutsu for wielders of the Mangekyo Sharingan. Called Izanagi, it's a unique type of inverted [[MasterOfIllusion genjutsu]] that allows the user to designate an undesired event as an illusion, dispelling it to live a new reality where it never occurred. The main caveat is that, unlike other Mangekyo techniques, instead of gradual blindness it immediately blinds the eye that casts it. Danzo gets around this limitation by having an ''entire arm'' of implanted sharingan. He effectively uses it to give himself extra lives for PeggySue behavior in combat.

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* ''[[Manga/{{Naruto}} Naruto Shippuden]]'' introduced ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' introduces yet another op overpowered jutsu for wielders of the Mangekyo Sharingan. Called Izanagi, it's a unique type of inverted [[MasterOfIllusion genjutsu]] that allows the user to designate an undesired event as an illusion, dispelling it to live a new reality where it never occurred. The main caveat is that, unlike other Mangekyo techniques, instead of gradual blindness it immediately blinds the eye that casts it. Danzo gets around this limitation by having an ''entire arm'' of implanted sharingan. He effectively uses it to give himself extra lives for PeggySue behavior in combat.



* ComicBook/SpiderMan's deal with [[DealWithTheDevil Mephisto]] in ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'' does this, erasing his marrige to Mary Jane from existance and rewritting reality to reflect it.



* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Spider-Man's deal with [[DealWithTheDevil Mephisto]] in ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'' does this, erasing his marrige to Mary Jane from existance and rewritting reality to reflect it.



* ''Fanfic/ThereWasOnceAnAvengerFromKrypton'': This is used as part of a major reveal in ''The Girl Who Could Knock Out the Hulk''. As we learn in Chapter 34, [[spoiler: Doctor Doom and the version of Reed Richards [[EnemyMine allied with him]] are from the MCU, and turned it into the Kryptonverse by using captured gods as catalysts to have the Celestials [[MergedReality retroactively insert all the non-native elements into it]] [[CosmicRetcon as if they were always a part of it]], over many iterations, as part of a plan to defeat Thanos before he can get the Infinity Stones without risk to Earth.]]

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* ''Fanfic/ThereWasOnceAnAvengerFromKrypton'': This is used as part of a major reveal in ''The Girl Who Could Knock Out the Hulk''. As we learn in Chapter 34, [[spoiler: Doctor [[spoiler:Doctor Doom and the version of Reed Richards [[EnemyMine allied with him]] are from the MCU, and turned it into the Kryptonverse by using captured gods as catalysts to have the Celestials [[MergedReality retroactively insert all the non-native elements into it]] [[CosmicRetcon as if they were [[CosmicRetcon always a part of it]], over many iterations, as part of a plan to defeat Thanos before he can get the Infinity Stones without risk to Earth.]]Earth]].



* In ''Film/{{Next|2007}}'', the lead character is so in tune with his precognitive abilities that he was always doing things as if he was living two minutes ahead naturally. When he would run into something he didn't want to happen, he forces himself into viewing the world in normal time and acts to defy the original vision, making it appear as if he's doing this.
* Nero does this by accidentally creating an alternate timeline in ''Film/{{Star Trek|2009}}'', attacking the Kelvin and setting Starfleet down on a rather more militaristic bent. [[spoiler:Also Vulcan is gone.]]

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* In ''Film/{{Next|2007}}'', ''Film/Next2007'', the lead character is so in tune with his precognitive abilities that he was always doing things as if he was living two minutes ahead naturally. When he would run into something he didn't want to happen, he forces himself into viewing the world in normal time and acts to defy the original vision, making it appear as if he's doing this.
* Nero does this by accidentally creating an alternate timeline in ''Film/{{Star Trek|2009}}'', ''Film/StarTrek2009'', attacking the Kelvin ''Kelvin'' and setting Starfleet down on a rather more militaristic bent. [[spoiler:Also [[spoiler:Also, Vulcan is gone.]]



* In the Creator/JonathanLethem novel ''Amnesia Moon'' this power is possessed by a number of people, which to some extent includes main character Chaos/Everett Moon. The effect is that as you move across the country, you can be thrown from one reality into another that's completely different.
* Creator/SeanWilliams's ''The Books of the Cataclysm'', the Hero twins from the first book gained the power to change the time-line. They discovered that godly EldritchAbomination, Yod, would destroy reality in every time-line except one. So they forced that time-line onto our timeline of the early 21st century and this would lead into events that take place 4000 years in the future.
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti yeti]] can leave a "[[SavePoint bookmark]]" at some moment in time and later snap back to it if they are killed or in other troubles -- [[SaveScumming now]] ''[[SaveScumming knowing]]'' [[SaveScumming what's going to happen and able to avoid it]]. They died out. Several times.
** Or, for those who aren't aware of the entirety of time, they most definitely did not go extinct. Ever, and if you thought they did then you're remembering wrong. Again.
* In ''Literature/TheEmperorsSoul'', Forging allows a practitioner to change objects by crafting and placing a magical stamp that tells reality that something in the object's history went completely different - for example, a Forger can restore a ruined table by "telling" it that it was carefully maintained, instead. Forging a person's history is also possible, but it requires such intimate, thorough knowledge about that person that only the very best Forgers can even do it to themselves, much less anyone else, and it only lasts a little while.
* Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin's ''Literature/TheLatheOfHeaven'': George Orr's "effective dreams" change not only the present but the past as well: people don't realize that the world has changed (and was different in the past).
* ''Literature/TheMirage'' has this as a major driving force behind the plot. The novel takes place in a MirrorUniverse where the Middle East is a unified democratic entity and the west is a mess of backward christian kingdoms and theocracies. On November 9, 2001, Christian fundamentalists attack the Tigris and Euphrates world trade center towers in Baghdad, sparking a war on terror and the invasion of the Christian States of America. Many years later, when a failed suicide bomber is taken in for questioning, he states that the world is a mirage; that history was changed somehow. An investigation of his apartment turns up a newspaper from September 12, 2001. From ''our world.'' [[spoiler:It's later revealed this entire AlternateHistory was the product of a wish made by Saddam Hussein after he captured a Djinn.]]

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* In the Creator/JonathanLethem novel ''Amnesia Moon'' Moon'', this power is possessed by a number of people, which to some extent includes main character Chaos/Everett Moon. The effect is that as you move across the country, you can be thrown from one reality into another that's completely different.
* In ''Literature/{{Another}}'', a class is plagued by a curse that kills members of the class and immediate family. This is caused by the presence of [[spoiler:an extra, DeadAllAlong, student]]. Retconjuration comes into play because it's impossible to identify [[spoiler:the "Extra"]] due to all the students having FakeMemories of that presence. On top of that, even official paperwork has incorrect information. Identifying [[spoiler:the "Extra"]] can only be done ''after'' the school year ends, because everything reverts back to normal at that point.
* The Hero twins from
Creator/SeanWilliams's ''The Books of the Cataclysm'', the Hero twins from the first book gained Cataclysm'' gain the power to change the time-line. timeline. They discovered that the godly EldritchAbomination, Yod, would EldritchAbomination Yod will destroy reality in every time-line timeline except one. So one, so they forced that time-line timeline onto our their timeline of the early 21st century and this would lead century, leading into events that take place 4000 years in the future.
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti yeti]] can leave a "[[SavePoint bookmark]]" at some moment in time and later snap back to it if they are killed or in other troubles -- [[SaveScumming now]] ''[[SaveScumming knowing]]'' [[SaveScumming now knowing what's going to happen and able to avoid it]]. They died out. Several times.
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out several times... or, for those who aren't aware of the entirety of time, they most definitely did not go extinct. Ever, and if you thought they did then you're remembering wrong. Again.
* In ''Literature/TheEmperorsSoul'', Forging allows a practitioner to change objects by crafting and placing a magical stamp that tells reality that something in the object's history went completely different - -- for example, a Forger can restore a ruined table by "telling" it that it was carefully maintained, instead. Forging a person's history is also possible, but it requires such intimate, thorough knowledge about that person that only the very best Forgers can even do it to themselves, much less anyone else, and it only lasts a little while.
* Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin's ''Literature/TheLatheOfHeaven'': George Orr's "effective dreams" change not only the present but the past as well: people don't realize that the world has changed (and was different in the past).
* ''Literature/TheMirage'' has this as a major driving force behind the plot. The novel takes place in a MirrorUniverse where the Middle East is a unified democratic entity and the west West is a mess of backward christian Christian kingdoms and theocracies. On November 9, 2001, Christian fundamentalists attack the Tigris and Euphrates world trade center towers in Baghdad, sparking a war on terror and the invasion of the Christian States of America. Many years later, when a failed suicide bomber is taken in for questioning, he states that the world is a mirage; that history was changed somehow. An investigation of his apartment turns up a newspaper from September 12, 2001. From ''our world.'' [[spoiler:It's later revealed this entire AlternateHistory was the product of a wish made by Saddam Hussein after he captured a Djinn.]]



* In the ''Literature/YoungWizards'' series there's a spell which overwrites the past of a wizard's universe with a copy of the past from an AlternateUniverse. Combined with the portion of the spell which searches for just the right AlternateUniverse to copy from, it's a powerful tool for maintaining TheMasquerade.

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* In the ''Literature/YoungWizards'' series series, there's a spell which overwrites the past of a wizard's universe with a copy of the past from an AlternateUniverse. Combined with the portion of the spell which searches for just the right AlternateUniverse to copy from, it's a powerful tool for maintaining TheMasquerade.



* The "Year of Hell" two-parter in ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' has the Krenim timeship, with a RetGone cannon the ship itself is insulated from ([[spoiler:[[ResetButton unless the effect is triggered]] ''inside'' the ship due to damage sustained]]). The effects are limited to removing things from the timeline, but it can be modified to some things hit by while removing others (this is used for such things like removing a specific species while leaving their planet behind and inhabitable). The captain had spent 200 years desperately trying to undo the damage he inadvertently caused when he first used the ship... by doing pretty much the same thing, but with more careful calculations. [[spoiler: In the end it does indeed end up affecting itself, undoing all the damage it caused by the simple expedient of having the creator never finish the design.]]

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* The "Year of Hell" two-parter in ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' two-parter "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E8YearOfHell Year of Hell]]" has the Krenim timeship, with a RetGone cannon the ship itself is insulated from ([[spoiler:[[ResetButton unless the effect is triggered]] ''inside'' the ship due to damage sustained]]). The effects are limited to removing things from the timeline, but it can be modified to some things hit by while removing others (this is used for such things like removing a specific species while leaving their planet behind and inhabitable). The captain had spent 200 years desperately trying to undo the damage he inadvertently caused when he first used the ship... by doing pretty much the same thing, but with more careful calculations. [[spoiler: In [[spoiler:In the end end, it does indeed end up affecting itself, undoing all the damage it caused by the simple expedient of having the creator never finish the design.]]



* The ''Chronomancer'' 2E ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' supplement included three progressively stronger versions of this, in the Minor Paradox, Paradox, and Major Paradox chronomancy spells.
* ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' has a spell that is a very limited version of this -- Spellstrike. It completely negates all effects of one recent (in the same or previous round) casting of a spell or use of a spell-like ability, as if it just failed.

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* The ''Chronomancer'' 2E ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' supplement included includes three progressively stronger versions of this, in the Minor Paradox, Paradox, and Major Paradox chronomancy spells.
* ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' has The Sidereal ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' boast a technique called Avoidance Kata which, when used early in a battle that turns out to have been a bad idea, allows them to have never got involved. Wounds already inflicted stay, but get a new cause- if you used it after the First and Forgotten Lion [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble never has]] ripped off your arm, for example, you now will have got it caught in a grinding mill or something. They also have a martial arts style that essentially consists of punching your opponent's destiny. Fail to dodge, and you may suddenly be a married carpenter in Nexus.
* ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'':
** The Spellstrike
spell that is a very limited version of this -- Spellstrike.this. It completely negates all effects of one recent (in the same or previous round) casting of a spell or use of a spell-like ability, as if it just failed.



* The Sidereal ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' boast a technique called Avoidance Kata which, when used early in a battle that turns out to have been a bad idea, allows them to have never got involved. Wounds already inflicted stay, but get a new cause- if you used it after the First and Forgotten Lion [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble never has]] ripped off your arm, for example, you now will have got it caught in a grinding mill or something.
** They also have a martial arts style that essentially consists of punching your opponent's destiny. Fail to dodge, and you may suddenly be a married carpenter in Nexus.
* Similar to the above, ''[[TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening Mage the Awakening]]'' has a Time spell called Shifting Sands, which sends the caster back in time by three seconds, allowing them to essentially redo the previous turn. Injuries do carry over, though. There is also a higher-level spell that allows one to place a temporal marker and SnapBack to it that has ''no'' time limit, but [[FanonDiscontinuity people tend to ignore or houserule it away]].
** And that's not even the ''start'' of the time-related fuckery in the line. A Master-level Time spell allows you to temporarily rewrite your personal history so that, say, you studied martial arts instead of computer programming, allowing you to trade dots in Computer for dots in Brawl. The Cult of the Red Word, a CannibalCult that worships a demon made of living anti-history, has the ability to eat people out of existence if they're slaughtered in their sacred temple. And then there's the stuff Archmastery can do... ''by mistake''.

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* The Sidereal ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' boast a technique called Avoidance Kata which, when used early in a battle that turns out to have been a bad idea, allows them to have never got involved. Wounds already inflicted stay, but get a new cause- if you used it after the First and Forgotten Lion [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble never has]] ripped off your arm, for example, you now will have got it caught in a grinding mill or something.
** They also have a martial arts style that essentially consists of punching your opponent's destiny. Fail to dodge, and you may suddenly be a married carpenter in Nexus.
* Similar to the above, ''[[TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening Mage the Awakening]]''
''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'' has a Time spell called Shifting Sands, Sands which sends the caster back in time by three seconds, allowing them to essentially redo the previous turn. Injuries do carry over, though. There is also a higher-level spell that allows one to place a temporal marker and SnapBack to it that has ''no'' time limit, but [[FanonDiscontinuity people tend to ignore or houserule it away]].
** And that's
away]]. That's not even the ''start'' of the time-related fuckery in the line. A Master-level Time spell allows you to temporarily rewrite your personal history so that, say, you studied martial arts instead of computer programming, allowing you to trade dots in Computer for dots in Brawl. The Cult of the Red Word, a CannibalCult CannibalTribe that worships a demon made of living anti-history, has the ability to eat people out of existence if they're slaughtered in their sacred temple. And then there's the stuff Archmastery can do... ''by mistake''.



* In ''VideoGame/AdventureQuest'', The'Galin is a god that counterbalances creation--that is, uncreation. Uncreation induces a CosmicRetcon over The'Galin's domain and only preserves RippleEffectProofMemory to a few select individuals. One of the main plotlines of the game involves [=NPCs=] finding a way to persuade The'Galin to not uncreate the world of Lore, while his {{Starscream}} seeks to force it to happen.
* In ''Videogame/BlazBlue'', Phenomenon Intervention is an ability to [[RealityWarper replace an event with another possibility of the event]]. While some really powerful characters in the game have it, only 2 beings are capable of doing it to the whole world and retconning whole timelines: Takamagahara and Master Unit Amaterasu. [[spoiler:The fourth game also reveals that Nine, one of the villains, has built a massive device called Requiem which lets her do this, though it's still imperfect.]]
* In ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureACrackInTime Future: A Crack in Time]]'', Dr. Nefarious plans to use the Great Clock to create a universe where evil always wins.
* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'': a weaker version of this is the domain of Keine Kamishirasawa; she's able to "eat" the history of things, which changes the way people perceive the thing whose history was eaten. For instance, during the 8th game, she devoured the history of the human village so that they wouldn't be affected by the dangers of TheNightThatNeverEnds (she restored it later); this way, the village was invisible to practically everyone, because people would be seeing a reality where humans never settled there in the first place (particularly powerful beings don't seem to be affected by it, though; [[RealityWarper Yukari]], for instance, wasn't affected at all by Keine's ability and could see the village and its inhabitants with no problems).

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* In ''VideoGame/AdventureQuest'', The'Galin is a god that counterbalances creation--that creation -- that is, uncreation. Uncreation induces a CosmicRetcon over The'Galin's domain and only preserves RippleEffectProofMemory to a few select individuals. One of the main plotlines of the game involves [=NPCs=] finding a way to persuade The'Galin to not uncreate the world of Lore, while his {{Starscream}} seeks to force it to happen.
* In ''Videogame/BlazBlue'', ''Franchise/BlazBlue'', Phenomenon Intervention is an ability to [[RealityWarper replace an event with another possibility of the event]]. While some really powerful characters in the game have it, only 2 beings are capable of doing it to the whole world and retconning whole timelines: Takamagahara and Master Unit Amaterasu. [[spoiler:The fourth game also reveals that Nine, one of the villains, has built a massive device called Requiem which lets her do this, though it's still imperfect.]]
* In ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureACrackInTime Future: A Crack in Time]]'', ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureACrackInTime'', Dr. Nefarious plans to use the Great Clock to create a universe where evil always wins.
* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'': a ''Franchise/TouhouProject'': A weaker version of this is the domain of Keine Kamishirasawa; she's able to "eat" the history of things, which changes the way people perceive the thing whose history was eaten. For instance, during the 8th game, she devoured the history of the human village so that they wouldn't be affected by the dangers of TheNightThatNeverEnds (she restored it later); this way, the village was invisible to practically everyone, because people would be seeing a reality where humans never settled there in the first place (particularly powerful beings don't seem to be affected by it, though; [[RealityWarper Yukari]], for instance, wasn't affected at all by Keine's ability and could see the village and its inhabitants with no problems).



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** Sarda uses [=Retconjuration=] with abandon [[spoiler:and White Mage mucks up his attempt to retconjure the world to how he wants it]], but he's more of a straight RealityWarper. Black Mage tries the same spell and it backfires (Sarda wrote the spell to rewrite reality to ''Sarda's'' will, not the caster's).

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** Sarda uses [=Retconjuration=] Retconjuration with abandon abandon, [[spoiler:and White Mage mucks up his attempt to retconjure the world to how he wants it]], but he's more of a straight RealityWarper. Black Mage tries the same spell spell, and it backfires (Sarda wrote the spell to rewrite reality to ''Sarda's'' will, not the caster's).



* The {{Trope Namer|s}} is ''Webcomic/ErfWorld''. Erfworld is a wargame-inspired fantasy setting with many schools of magic. The school of [=Retconjuration=] was actually Retconjured into existence after the authors didn't like a special they had given a minor character. (This replaced the Naughtymancy school of Deletionism, which was ironically deleted.) Mortal mages can't wield Retconjuration, it is said that only the mythical Titans who created the world can actually use it.

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* The {{Trope Namer|s}} is ''Webcomic/ErfWorld''. ''Webcomic/{{Erfworld}}''. The titular Erfworld is a wargame-inspired fantasy setting with many schools of magic. The school of [=Retconjuration=] Retconjuration was actually Retconjured into existence after the authors didn't like a special they had given a minor character. (This replaced the Naughtymancy school of Deletionism, which was ironically deleted.) Mortal mages can't wield Retconjuration, it is said that only the mythical Titans who created the world can actually use it.



* Clockstopper in ''Webcomic/SuperStupor'' (a side-comic of ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive''); he calls it Nut-Punching Father Time. It's also his [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer favorite solution to everything]].

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* Clockstopper in from ''Webcomic/SuperStupor'' (a side-comic of ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive''); he calls it Nut-Punching Father Time. It's also his [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer favorite solution to everything]].



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* In ''WebAnimation/NeuroticallyYours'', Germaine uses a "reset button" invented by Foamy to initiate a series reboot.



* Ben Tennyson of the ''Franchise/Ben10'' franchise, at least in the original continuity, can gain this ability by transforming into [[RealityWarping Alien X]]. Due to the transformation being AwesomeButImpractical[[note]]the consciousness of the alien is split into three, including Ben, and ''all of them'' must agree on an action in order for them to do anything, including allowing Ben to become human again[[/note]], Ben adamantly refuses to use it at all. The only time he willingly uses it after the initial incident is when the universe was completely destroyed early on in ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'' and he had to use Alien X to rebuild it.
** It's also explained that Celestialsapiens (the species that Alien X is) CONSTANTLY retcon things in the universe, explaining things such as why the art style changes. In Alien X's case, he was unable to perfectly recreate Mr Smoothy's taste, in addition to a different mascot.

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* ''Franchise/Ben10'':
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Ben Tennyson of the ''Franchise/Ben10'' franchise, Tennyson, at least in the original continuity, can gain this ability by transforming into [[RealityWarping [[RealityWarper Alien X]]. Due to the transformation being AwesomeButImpractical[[note]]the consciousness of the alien is split into three, including Ben, and ''all of them'' must agree on an action in order for them to do anything, including allowing Ben to become human again[[/note]], Ben adamantly refuses to use it at all. The only time he willingly uses it after the initial incident is when the universe was completely destroyed early on in ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'' and he had to use Alien X to rebuild it.
** It's also explained that Celestialsapiens (the species that Alien X is) CONSTANTLY ''constantly'' retcon things in the universe, explaining things such as why the art style changes. In Alien X's case, he was unable to perfectly recreate Mr Mr. Smoothy's taste, in addition to a different mascot.
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* ''Fanfic/ISeeWhatYouDoBehindClosedDoorsMiraculousLadybug'': The akuma Retropedaler Rue has the ability to erase his victims' greatest regrets, along with their impact. For instance, the plaque on [[MisplacedKindergartenTeacher Ms. Bustier's]] desk changes to display a different name, implying that either her greatest regret is becoming a teacher or that somebody else regrets hiring her. This makes him an exceptionally dangerous foe, as Ladybug recognizes that ''she'' could easily be erased from reality [[spoiler:should she get hit]].
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* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/461053/resting-witch-face Resting Witch Face]]'' establishes this as the power of witches, who don't change things in the moment as much as retroactively make it so that things ''always were'' that way.
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* ''[[Manga/{{Naruto}} Naruto Shipluden]]'' introduced yet another op jutsu for wielders of the Mangekyo Sharingan. Called Izanagi, it's a unique type of inverted [[MasterOfIllusion genjutsu]] that allows the user to designate an undesired event as an illusion, dispelling it to live a new reality where it never occurred. The main caveat is that, unlike other Mangekyo techniques, instead of gradual blindness it immediately blinds the eye that casts it. Danzo gets around this limitation by having an ''entire arm'' of implanted sharingan. He effectively uses it to give himself extra lives for PeggySue behavior in combat.

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* ''[[Manga/{{Naruto}} Naruto Shipluden]]'' Shippuden]]'' introduced yet another op jutsu for wielders of the Mangekyo Sharingan. Called Izanagi, it's a unique type of inverted [[MasterOfIllusion genjutsu]] that allows the user to designate an undesired event as an illusion, dispelling it to live a new reality where it never occurred. The main caveat is that, unlike other Mangekyo techniques, instead of gradual blindness it immediately blinds the eye that casts it. Danzo gets around this limitation by having an ''entire arm'' of implanted sharingan. He effectively uses it to give himself extra lives for PeggySue behavior in combat.
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* This is a key character mechanic in Monte Cook's heist/fantasy game ''Stealing Stories For the Devil''. Each "class" can tell a lie about a specific category (people, objects, etc) that then turns out to be and always have been true. The lies themselves never fail to work, but they ''do'' put strain on the liars in proportion to their implausibility, so too big a whopper may knock you out of commission.
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* In the Nicholas Cage film ''Film/{{Next}}'', the lead character is so in tune with his precognitive abilities that he was always doing things as if he was living two minutes ahead naturally. When he would run into something he didn't want to happen, he forces himself into viewing the world in normal time and acts to defy the original vision, making it appear as if he's doing this.

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* [[spoiler:Madoka uses her wish to do this]] in the final episode of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', [[spoiler:completely rewriting the MagicalGirl system so that no magical girl will become a witch, on this or any world, in this or any time past, present or future -- which has the effect of completely destroying and remaking the universe anew]]. This doesn't come without a cost, however: [[spoiler:Madoka essentially erases herself from existence after annihilating Walpurgis Night, since the power she expended during the battle would have otherwise made her a witch]].
* Doing this is [[spoiler: Tsukishima]]'s entire schtick in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''. With each cut of his blade, he [[spoiler:[[BackstoryInvader inserts himself into the target's past]], up to the point where they think he's always been in their lives. Are you fighting him? Then he just has to cut you once and he instantly knows all your moves and how to counter them. After all, he taught them to you. Don't you remember? Oh, and if you think you'll be okay if you just avoid getting cut, that won't work either. He can just cut the ''ground'' and give himself infinite preptime to set up as many booby traps in the area as he wants, which somehow works even if it would've been physically impossible for him to set those traps (he uses exactly this tactic ''within a pocket dimension that had just been created the instant the fight began'')]]. ''[[NightmareFuel Creepy]].''
* ''Manga/BlackButler'': [[spoiler: [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Angels]]]] have a variant of this. While they can't change the past on a world-wide scale, they ''can'' alter a single person's timeline to erase negative emotions associated with certain events. Since this action is against nature, however, [[MindRape the results]] [[EmptyShell are]] [[StepfordSmiler NOT]] [[BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood pretty]].



* ''Anime/TransformersCybertron'': In Japan, it wasn't connected to ''Anime/TransformersArmada'' and ''Anime/TransformersEnergon.'' In America it was, and any inconsistencies were explained in a comic book as being the black hole that was the main problem in TFC spreading its effects across reality, causing events to not always match up. This makes it the possible reason for ''every'' plot hole in ''any Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' work.

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* ''Anime/TransformersCybertron'': In Japan, it wasn't connected to ''Anime/TransformersArmada'' and ''Anime/TransformersEnergon.'' In America it was, and any inconsistencies were explained in ''Manga/BlackButler'': [[spoiler:[[OurAngelsAreDifferent Angels]]]] have a comic book as being variant of this. While they can't change the black hole that was past on a world-wide scale, they ''can'' alter a single person's timeline to erase negative emotions associated with certain events. Since this action is against nature, however, [[MindRape the main problem results]] [[EmptyShell are]] [[StepfordSmiler NOT]] [[BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood pretty]].
* Doing this is [[spoiler:Tsukishima]]'s entire schtick
in TFC spreading its effects across reality, causing events ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''. With each cut of his blade, he [[spoiler:[[BackstoryInvader inserts himself into the target's past]], up to not the point where they think he's always match up. This makes it been in their lives. Are you fighting him? Then he just has to cut you once and he instantly knows all your moves and how to counter them. After all, he taught them to you. Don't you remember? Oh, and if you think you'll be okay if you just avoid getting cut, that won't work either. He can just cut the possible reason ''ground'' and give himself infinite preptime to set up as many booby traps in the area as he wants, which somehow works even if it would've been physically impossible for ''every'' plot hole in ''any Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' work.him to set those traps (he uses exactly this tactic ''within a pocket dimension that had just been created the instant the fight began'')]]. ''[[NightmareFuel Creepy]].''



* In ''Manga/YakitateJapan'', characters' "reactions" to [[ImpossiblyDeliciousFood impossibly delicious bread]] can actually rewrite history. The most explicit example is during the Monaco Cup finals, [[spoiler:Azuma's cannabis Ja-pan allows Pierrot to travel back in time to meet his parents and eventually undo their deaths.]]

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* [[spoiler:Madoka uses her wish to do this]] in the final episode of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', [[spoiler:completely rewriting the MagicalGirl system so that no magical girl will become a witch, on this or any world, in this or any time past, present or future -- which has the effect of completely destroying and remaking the universe anew]]. This doesn't come without a cost, however: [[spoiler:Madoka essentially erases herself from existence after annihilating Walpurgis Night, since the power she expended during the battle would have otherwise made her a witch]].
* ''Anime/TransformersCybertron'': In Japan, it wasn't connected to ''Anime/TransformersArmada'' and ''Anime/TransformersEnergon''. In America it was, and any inconsistencies were explained in a comic book as being the black hole that was the main problem in TFC spreading its effects across reality, causing events to not always match up. This makes it the possible reason for ''every'' plot hole in ''any Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' work.
* In ''Manga/YakitateJapan'', characters' "reactions" to [[ImpossiblyDeliciousFood impossibly delicious bread]] can actually rewrite history. The most explicit example is during the Monaco Cup finals, [[spoiler:Azuma's cannabis Ja-pan allows Pierrot to travel back in time to meet his parents and eventually undo their deaths.]]deaths]].



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%%* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'', [[DealWithTheDevil Mephisto]], ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay''.* In ''ComicBook/LokiAgentOfAsgard'', Loki has their magic defined as ''mucking with the narrative'' -- yes, this means exactly what it sounds like. They can theoretically do ''[[RealityWarper anything]]''; in practice, however, they're limited by the TheoryOfNarrativeCausality and various butterfly effects. For example, retconjuring a girl into his uncle's past to create a weakness and defeat him in the present (''ComicBook/FearItself'') creates a woman with very little choice or characterization who is rightfully pissed with him (''Everything Burns'').



* In ''ComicBook/SecretEmpire'', Kobik, the Cosmic Cube girl, does this to ComicBook/CaptainAmerica. His "new" past has him being a loyal DeepCoverAgent of Hydra, when he was originally nothing of the sort. Kobik does this on behalf of the Red Skull, whom she has latched on to as a friend and father figure.



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* In ''ComicBook/LokiAgentOfAsgard'', Loki has their magic defined as ''mucking with the narrative'' -- yes, this means exactly what it sounds like. They can theoretically do ''[[RealityWarper anything]]''; in practice, however, they're limited by the TheoryOfNarrativeCausality and various butterfly effects. For example, retconjuring a girl into his uncle's past to create a weakness and defeat him in the present (''ComicBook/FearItself'') creates a woman with very little choice or characterization who is rightfully pissed with him (''Everything Burns'').
* In ''ComicBook/SecretEmpire'', Kobik, the Cosmic Cube girl, does this to ComicBook/CaptainAmerica. His "new" past has him being a loyal DeepCoverAgent of Hydra, when he was originally nothing of the sort. Kobik does this on behalf of the Red Skull, whom she has latched on to as a friend and father figure.



* ''Fanfic/ISeeWhatYouDoBehindClosedDoorsMiraculousLadybug'': The akuma Retropedaler Rue has the ability to erase his victims' greatest regrets, along with their impact. For instance, the plaque on [[MisplacedKindergartenTeacher Ms. Bustier's]] desk changes to display a different name, implying that either her greatest regret is becoming a teacher or that somebody else regrets hiring her. This makes him an exceptionally dangerous foe, as Ladybug recognizes that ''she'' could easily be erased from reality [[spoiler:should she get hit]].



* In the Nicholas Cage film ''Film/{{Next}}'', the lead character is so in tune with his precognitive abilities that he was always doing things as if he was living two minutes ahead naturally. When he would run into something he didn't want to happen, he forces himself into viewing the world in normal time and acts to defy the original vision, making it appear as if he's doing this.



* In the Nicholas Cage film ''Film/{{Next}}'', the lead character is so in tune with his precognitive abilities that he was always doing things as if he was living two minutes ahead naturally. When he would run into something he didn't want to happen, he forces himself into viewing the world in normal time and acts to defy the original vision, making it appear as if he's doing this.



* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'':
** Balefire is a handy, portable way to do this, essentially burning the affected individual's "thread" out of existence. [[TimePolice Not everybody's happy about this happening.]]
** Also, there's a Ter'angreal that does it. ''Uncontrollably''. Only the most depraved villains are willing to even go near the thing.
* Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin's ''Literature/TheLatheOfHeaven'': George Orr's "effective dreams" change not only the present but the past as well: people don't realize that the world has changed (and was different in the past).
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti yeti]] can leave a "[[SavePoint bookmark]]" at some moment in time and later snap back to it if they are killed or in other troubles -- [[SaveScumming now]] ''[[SaveScumming knowing]]'' [[SaveScumming what's going to happen and able to avoid it]]. They died out. Several times.
** Or, for those who aren't aware of the entirety of time, they most definitely did not go extinct. Ever, and if you thought they did then you're remembering wrong. Again.



* In the ''Literature/YoungWizards'' series there's a spell which overwrites the past of a wizard's universe with a copy of the past from an AlternateUniverse. Combined with the portion of the spell which searches for just the right AlternateUniverse to copy from, it's a powerful tool for maintaining TheMasquerade.
* In ''Literature/TheEmperorsSoul'', Forging allows a practitioner to change objects by crafting and placing a magical stamp that tells reality that something in the object's history went completely different - for example, a Forger can restore a ruined table by "telling" it that it was carefully maintained, instead. Forging a person's history is also possible, but it requires such intimate, thorough knowledge about that person that only the very best Forgers can even do it to themselves, much less anyone else, and it only lasts a little while.
* ''Literature/TheMirage'' has this as a major driving force behind the plot. The novel takes place in a MirrorUniverse where the Middle East is a unified democratic entity and the west is a mess of backward christian kingdoms and theocracies. On November 9, 2001, Christian fundamentalists attack the Tigris and Euphrates world trade center towers in Baghdad, sparking a war on terror and the invasion of the Christian States of America. Many years later, when a failed suicide bomber is taken in for questioning, he states that the world is a mirage; that history was changed somehow. An investigation of his apartment turns up a newspaper from September 12, 2001. From ''our world.'' [[spoiler: It's later revealed this entire AlternateHistory was the product of a wish made by Saddam Hussein after he captured a Djinn.]]



* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti yeti]] can leave a "[[SavePoint bookmark]]" at some moment in time and later snap back to it if they are killed or in other troubles -- [[SaveScumming now]] ''[[SaveScumming knowing]]'' [[SaveScumming what's going to happen and able to avoid it]]. They died out. Several times.
** Or, for those who aren't aware of the entirety of time, they most definitely did not go extinct. Ever, and if you thought they did then you're remembering wrong. Again.
* In ''Literature/TheEmperorsSoul'', Forging allows a practitioner to change objects by crafting and placing a magical stamp that tells reality that something in the object's history went completely different - for example, a Forger can restore a ruined table by "telling" it that it was carefully maintained, instead. Forging a person's history is also possible, but it requires such intimate, thorough knowledge about that person that only the very best Forgers can even do it to themselves, much less anyone else, and it only lasts a little while.
* Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin's ''Literature/TheLatheOfHeaven'': George Orr's "effective dreams" change not only the present but the past as well: people don't realize that the world has changed (and was different in the past).
* ''Literature/TheMirage'' has this as a major driving force behind the plot. The novel takes place in a MirrorUniverse where the Middle East is a unified democratic entity and the west is a mess of backward christian kingdoms and theocracies. On November 9, 2001, Christian fundamentalists attack the Tigris and Euphrates world trade center towers in Baghdad, sparking a war on terror and the invasion of the Christian States of America. Many years later, when a failed suicide bomber is taken in for questioning, he states that the world is a mirage; that history was changed somehow. An investigation of his apartment turns up a newspaper from September 12, 2001. From ''our world.'' [[spoiler:It's later revealed this entire AlternateHistory was the product of a wish made by Saddam Hussein after he captured a Djinn.]]



* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'':
** Balefire is a handy, portable way to do this, essentially burning the affected individual's "thread" out of existence. [[TimePolice Not everybody's happy about this happening.]]
** Also, there's a Ter'angreal that does it. ''Uncontrollably''. Only the most depraved villains are willing to even go near the thing.
* In the ''Literature/YoungWizards'' series there's a spell which overwrites the past of a wizard's universe with a copy of the past from an AlternateUniverse. Combined with the portion of the spell which searches for just the right AlternateUniverse to copy from, it's a powerful tool for maintaining TheMasquerade.



* Istus of ''Podcast/TheAdventureZoneBalance'' has this power; when she [[spoiler: realizes the gifts she gave to Tres Horny Boys in ''The Eleventh Hour'' would disappear after [[GroundhogDayLoop the hour resets]], she rewrites history to make it so they had them before they entered Refuge.]]

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* The ''Chronomancer'' 2E TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons supplement included three progressively stronger versions of this, in the Minor Paradox, Paradox, and Major Paradox chronomancy spells.

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* The Sidereal TabletopGame/{{Exalted}} boast a technique called Avoidance Kata which, when used early in a battle that turns out to have been a bad idea, allows them to have never got involved. Wounds already inflicted stay, but get a new cause- if you used it after the First and Forgotten Lion [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble never has]] ripped off your arm, for example, you now will have got it caught in a grinding mill or something.

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* The Sidereal TabletopGame/{{Exalted}} ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' boast a technique called Avoidance Kata which, when used early in a battle that turns out to have been a bad idea, allows them to have never got involved. Wounds already inflicted stay, but get a new cause- if you used it after the First and Forgotten Lion [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble never has]] ripped off your arm, for example, you now will have got it caught in a grinding mill or something.



* In ''VideoGame/AdventureQuest'', The'Galin is a god that counterbalances creation--that is, uncreation. Uncreation induces a CosmicRetcon over The'Galin's domain and only preserves RippleEffectProofMemory to a few select individuals. One of the main plotlines of the game involves [=NPCs=] finding a way to persuade The'Galin to not uncreate the world of Lore, while his {{Starscream}} seeks to force it to happen.
* In ''Videogame/BlazBlue'', Phenomenon Intervention is an ability to [[RealityWarper replace an event with another possibility of the event]]. While some really powerful characters in the game have it, only 2 beings are capable of doing it to the whole world and retconning whole timelines: Takamagahara and Master Unit Amaterasu. [[spoiler:The fourth game also reveals that Nine, one of the villains, has built a massive device called Requiem which lets her do this, though it's still imperfect.]]



* In ''VideoGame/AdventureQuest'', The'Galin is a god that counterbalances creation--that is, uncreation. Uncreation induces a CosmicRetcon over The'Galin's domain and only preserves RippleEffectProofMemory to a few select individuals. One of the main plotlines of the game involves [=NPCs=] finding a way to persuade The'Galin to not uncreate the world of Lore, while his {{Starscream}} seeks to force it to happen.
* In ''Videogame/BlazBlue'', Phenomenon Intervention is an ability to [[RealityWarper replace an event with another possibility of the event]]. While some really powerful characters in the game have it, only 2 beings are capable of doing it to the whole world and retconning whole timelines: Takamagahara and Master Unit Amaterasu. [[spoiler:The fourth game also reveals that Nine, one of the villains, has built a massive device called Requiem which lets her do this, though it's still imperfect.]]



* The {{Trope Namer|s}} is ''Webcomic/ErfWorld''. Erfworld is a wargame-inspired fantasy setting with many schools of magic. The school of [=Retconjuration=] was actually Retconjured into existence after the authors didn't like a special they had given a minor character. (This replaced the Naughtymancy school of Deletionism, which was ironically deleted.) Mortal mages can't wield Retconjuration, it is said that only the mythical Titans who created the world can actually use it.



* The {{Trope Namer|s}} is ''Webcomic/ErfWorld''. Erfworld is a wargame-inspired fantasy setting with many schools of magic. The school of [=Retconjuration=] was actually Retconjured into existence after the authors didn't like a special they had given a minor character. (This replaced the Naughtymancy school of Deletionism, which was ironically deleted.) Mortal mages can't wield Retconjuration, it is said that only the mythical Titans who created the world can actually use it.
* In the sixth act of ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', a house-shaped treasure is introduced that gives the power to move through and alter canon. The power is explicitly different from time travel, which happens a ''lot'', in that it is not bound by the requirement to create {{Stable Time Loop}}s and can move through other universes and even into fictional contexts like ''Film/ConAir'', so long as they appear at some point in the ''Homestuck'' canon. Hell, even imagine spots can be retconjured by this power, as evidenced by the oil on Howie Mandel's sleeve [[http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003341 on this page]] that only appeared after the house treasure was used.



* In the sixth act of ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', a house-shaped treasure is introduced that gives the power to move through and alter canon. The power is explicitly different from time travel, which happens a ''lot'', in that it is not bound by the requirement to create {{Stable Time Loop}}s and can move through other universes and even into fictional contexts like ''Film/ConAir'', so long as they appear at some point in the ''Homestuck'' canon. Hell, even imagine spots can be retconjured by this power, as evidenced by the oil on Howie Mandel's sleeve [[http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003341 on this page]] that only appeared after the house treasure was used.
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* In ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'', dreamers have the power to do this [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve if enough dream the same thing at once]]; in the short story ''A Dream of a Thousand Cats'', Morpheus reveals that at one point the world was [[HumansAreNotTheDominantSpecies ruled by cats with humans as their servants and prey]], but then a thousand-or-so humans simultaneously dreamed of a world of human dominance, and changed the world so that humans had always been dominant, and the world of cats never existed. A cat prophet is attempting to spread the word of this so that cats can dream the world back into its original state, but is implied to be doomed to fail, since even the cats themselves think it would be impossible to get a thousand cats to agree to do ''anything'' at the same time.
** Towards the end of the series, Delirium threatens Mazikeem to try to get in to see Lucifer. Specifically, to make her ''always have been'' a half-faced demon waitress with a crush on her boss, leaving no-one but her the wiser, [[DrivenToMadness "and no one else will ever know, and it will itch inside your head worse than little buggies."]] As far as the readers know, she ''has'' always been a half faced demon with a crush on her boss. Whether Delirium actually did it is deliberately unclear. But, for what it's worth, Mazikeem didn't let her in.

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have the power to do this reshape reality [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve if enough dream the same thing at once]]; in the short story ''A Dream of a Thousand Cats'', Morpheus reveals that at one point the world was [[HumansAreNotTheDominantSpecies ruled by cats with humans as their servants and prey]], but then a thousand-or-so humans simultaneously dreamed of a world of human dominance, and changed the world so that humans had always been dominant, and the world of cats never existed. A cat prophet is attempting attempts to spread the word of this so that cats can dream the world back into its original state, but is implied to be doomed to fail, since even the cats themselves think it would be impossible to get a thousand cats to agree to do ''anything'' at the same time.
** Towards the end of the series, Delirium threatens Mazikeem Mazikeen to try to get in to see Lucifer. Specifically, to make her ''always have been'' a half-faced demon waitress with a crush on her boss, leaving no-one but her the wiser, [[DrivenToMadness "and no one else will ever know, and it will itch inside your head worse than little buggies."]] As far as the readers know, she ''has'' always been a half faced demon with a crush on her boss. Whether Delirium actually did it is deliberately unclear. But, for what it's worth, Mazikeem Mazikeen didn't let her in.
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* In the Nicholas Cage film ''Film/{{Next}}'', the lead character has a limited version of this ability, which he uses to stop terrorists and score dates with younger women.

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* Doing this is [[spoiler: Tsukishima]]'s entire schtick in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''. With each cut of his blade, he [[spoiler:inserts himself into the target's past, up to the point where they think he's always been in their lives. Are you fighting him? Then he just has to cut you once and he instantly knows all your moves and how to counter them. After all, he taught them to you. Don't you remember? Oh, and if you think you'll be okay if you just avoid getting cut, that won't work either. He can just cut the ''ground'' and give himself infinite preptime to set up as many booby traps in the area as he wants, which somehow works even if it would've been physically impossible for him to set those traps (he uses exactly this tactic ''within a pocket dimension that had just been created the instant the fight began'')]]. ''[[NightmareFuel Creepy]].''

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* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' at one point features Rhett Caan, a villain who is an AnthropomorphicPersonification of retcons. He can make anything he says retroactively always have been true. His name was originally Brett Caan, but then Morty points out that Rhett is also a name, so he makes that always have been his name.

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