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6->''"I rank the frequently blundering poet with Choerilus: when he\
7Does produce two or three excellent lines I am startled to laughter,\
8As I am taken aback by good Creator/{{Homer}}'s occasional drowsing.\
9True, with a long piece of writing a drowsiness does steal upon you."''
10-->-- '''Creator/{{Horace}}''', ''Ars Poetica'' (Charles E. Passage translation)
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12Certain facts or events are presented in a series that contradict earlier episodes. May be done [[{{retcon}} intentionally]], or [[NegativeContinuity incidentally]], possibly because WritersCannotDoMath. Can lead to a ContinuitySnarl or ContinuityDrift.
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14A common feature of LongRunners, as it's difficult to keep track of continuity after multiple years or decades, especially as new writers are brought on board. Compare BeyondTheImpossible is about characters breaking the story's internal logic by doing what is physically impossible.
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19[[index]]
20* ''SeriesContinuityError/StarTrek''
21* SeriesContinuityError/AnimeAndManga
22** ''SeriesContinuityError/DragonBall''
23* SeriesContinuityError/ComicBooks
24** ''SeriesContinuityError/TheDCU''
25** ''SeriesContinuityError/MarvelUniverse''
26* SeriesContinuityError/{{Literature}}
27* SeriesContinuityError/LiveActionTV
28* SeriesContinuityError/WesternAnimation
29** ''SeriesContinuityError/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball''
30** ''SeriesContinuityError/AmericanDad''
31** ''SeriesContinuityError/TotalDrama''
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39* One of the Somersby apple cider commercials tells the story of how music was only listened to until lord Somersby accidentally invented dancing. Then in a later commercial featuring young lord Somersby, we can see some people dancing in the background, even though it is supposed to take place earlier canonically. Given the nature of these commercials, which run on deliberate AnachronismStew for the RuleOfFunny's sake, people can justify it.
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43* In the third episode of ''Animation/BoBoiBoy'''s first season, Adu Du comments on [=BoBoiBoy=] while the latter is playing football[[note]]the sport Americans would know better as "soccer"[[/note]]. In the second season's third episode, Adu Du has no recollection of what football is.
44* Occasionally, ''Animation/NoonboryAndTheSuper7'' forgets that Totobory's leaves only allow him to taste things, not eat them. This error has occurred in "[[Recap/NoonboryAndTheSuper7S1E10BigBiggerBiggest Big, Bigger, Biggest]]" and "[[Recap/NoonboryAndTheSuper7S1E31TheGreatSwitcheroo The Great Switcheroo]]".
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48* ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'': In the ''Fourth Doctor Adventures'' story "Destination: Nerva," the Fourth Doctor rambles about a "Butler named Butler," a character from an audio drama recorded before "Destination: Nerva" but coming after it in the Doctor's timeline. The line was a Creator/TomBaker adlib, and he didn't care about such things. FanWank [[WordOfGod of God]] is that the NegativeSpaceWedgie allowed the Doctor to foresee future events.
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52* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'':
53** A few early strips allude to the family having two cars, and the very first strip shows Calvin's dad washing a car resembling a Ford LTD. However, in all subsequent appearances, we've only seen one car, an econobox hatchback, and even then the car's taillight design changes between appearances.
54** Does Calvin's dad take the bus to work or does he drive? Depending on [[RuleOfFunny the needs of the joke at hand]], it changes (such as when Calvin rolls the car into the ditch while his dad is at work, or when Calvin builds a snow mound over his driveway, preventing the car from getting out and making his dad late for work).
55** The position of the window next to Calvin's bed changes between strips; it's changed from the side of the house, the front of the dormer, and the side of the dormer, and also alternates between the left and right dormer.
56** This occurs between strips [[https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1989/05/09 when Calvin's parents are in bed]]. The first two strips show Calvin's dad on the left, but the third one has him on the right, and the fourth one has him on the left again.
57** The first strip shows Calvin capturing Hobbes in the wilderness in the present, but subsequent strips allude to Hobbes having known Calvin since he was a waddling infant. WordOfGod noted in commentary that he came to regret showing how Calvin met Hobbes and would've preferred it to be a mystery.
58** Calvin is shown writing with both his left and right hands. While he could be ambidextrous, the more likely explanation is that Watterson just didn't keep track of which hand Calvin uses to write.
59* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'':
60** A [[http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1959/06/06 comic strip from 1959]] has Snoopy say that he doesn't have any siblings, yet they appear later in the strip's run (and were mentioned in [[http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1970/03/18 this 1970 strip]]). To make matters worse, when he first meets his siblings in the strip, he claims they all speak different languages, which is also later proven false. He also started calling Charlie Brown the "round-headed kid" around the late 1960's, even though he called him by his name earlier, although that could be more of CharacterizationMarchesOn.
61** Even stranger, the December 5, 1960 comic has Snoopy denying being a beagle.
62** Even though Violet's birthday is seemingly June 17th, according to [[http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1962/06/17 the June 17, 1962 strip]], a couple of the 1950's strips hinted her birthday is January 28th: In [[http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1951/02/22 the February 22, 1951 strip]], she said her birthday was last month, and in [[http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1955/01/29 the January 29, 1955 strip]], Charlie Brown said her birthday was yesterday.
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66* One of Creator/CoeurAlAran[='s=] most prominent weaknesses as a writer is that many of his ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' fics tend to suffer in-story continuity errors, wherein he forgets previously-established fic lore and timeline details if too many months pass inbetween chapter updates, and then he ends up contradicting it in later chapters.
67** This usually happens prominently when Coeur tries to incorporate an update to ''RWBY'' canon's lore into the already-established setting of a fic that began writing before said canon update occurred -- i.e., incorporating Salem's canon origins and backstory that were established by Volume 6 into ''Fanfic/{{White Sheep|RWBY}}'', after early chapters outright stated that she'd never had children before and that the Grimm would cease to exist if she died (both of which are stated and implied respectively to be untrue in canon as of Volume 6); and zig-zagging a ''lot'' in ''Fanfic/{{Relic of the Future}}'' on the lead-up to Salem's death and the fates of Jacques Schnee and Atlas in the first timeline before and after the release of Volume 8, as well as making an early mention of his pre-Saphron OCStandIn for Jaune's eldest sister Sapphire Arc in ''Relic'' before later chapters of the same fic posted after Volume 6 replaced Sapphire with the canon sister Saphron Arc.
68** However, there was also a prominent instance in the aforementioned ''Relic'' where Coeur forgot over the course of about 40 chapter updates about Velvet and Coco in that fic being established members of the ASH Gym, and he failed to rectify all the continuity contradictions in their later appearance once he caught on to the error. Likewise, ''Fanfic/NotThisTimeFate'' and ''Fanfic/ArcRoyale'' heavily go back-and-forth on without much consistency on what the Jaune of that fic's universe has and hasn't done during his millennia-long GroundhogPeggySue situation -- although some of the inconsistencies that Fate!Jaune's ''Arc Royale'' appearance has relative to his original appearance can be hand-waved in ''Royale'' by the fact that he's lying to and deceiving his peers.
69* Calvin's phone number in ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'' is [[Recap/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeriesS1E1BirthOfAFriendship first]] shown to be [[FiveFiveFive 555]]-7186. [[Recap/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeriesS1E6HelpWanted Five episodes later]], it's 555-6846.
70* ''Fanfic/TheEndOfTheWorldFernwithy'': The series is a {{Doorstopper}} written in AnachronicOrder, so there is the occasional discrepancy even after the author went back to revise the earlier-written stories. Most are fairly small and easy to disregard, but three stories give contradictory information about District 9's victors. ''The Hanging Tree'' claims there are only two during Haymitch's Victory Tour, a man and a woman (although a second District 9 female Victor, Etta Bossard, is also mentioned in passing in a later chapter), and implies that Darla the woman is the older one. ''The Golden Mean'' and a complete list of Victors in the author's universe temporarily made available on [=LiveJournal=] say there are five Victors from 9, all older than Haymitch, with Darla being much younger than both of the men. ''The Narrow Path'' claims that there were only four: Darla, a woman who won a year after her, and two older men.
71* ''Fanfic/ThePalaververse'': The fics are supposed to be able to happen in canon, so "The White Horse" has this because [[spoiler:Sombra]] should not be around after [[spoiler:Luna's banishment]].
72* ''Fanfic/AWandForSteven'': The first chapter states that Steven and four gems (Pearl, Amethyst, Ruby, and Sapphire) were found by the veil. Later on, [[spoiler:Peridot]] wakes up during the summer before Year 3, making it ''five'' gems instead.
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76* At the end of Disney's ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', [[TheHighQueen Kida]] gains more tattoos on her face, which could be a sign of her becoming queen; but in the sequel, all of her tattoos save her first one are inexplicably gone. This is justified, as the sequel was originally intended to be an animated TV series that was scrapped due to the movie flopping at the box office, and thus had poorer animation, making it impossible for Kida to still be animated with the new tattoos on her face.
77* In Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}'', Bambi's mother says not one deer has lived half as long as the Great Prince. However, in ''WesternAnimation/BambiII'', when Bambi is still a fawn, the Great Prince says he was Bambi's age when he met Bambi's mother.
78* The ''{{Franchise/Cars}}'' franchise takes place in a world populated entirely by [[SentientVehicle anthropomorphic vehicles]], and as such, most world landmarks are given a vehicle motif. However, some landmarks have contradicting designs: At the end of ''WesternAnimation/Cars2'', the Taj Mahai and the Great Wall of China both appear in the credits and have a car motif, while the Statue of Luberty, as seen in one tie-in storybook, resembles a Ford Model T. However, when all of these landmarks appear again in ''{{WesternAnimation/Planes}}'', the Taj Mahal and the Great Wall are instead both given a plane motif, and the Statue of Luberty now resembles a forklift.
79* At the very beginning of ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory'', upon close inspection, the scene where Dory first meets Marlin and helps him try to find Nemo noticeably cuts out some of Dory's introductory lines from ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'', such as "Hi, I'm Dory", and the background fish in those scenes are completely different.
80** Another example can be seen with [[spoiler: the Tank Gang]] at the end of both films. In the first film's credits, [[spoiler: the Tank Gang]] has presumably all escaped from their bags from the dentist's office and are now swimming around in the ocean, but at the end of the sequel, [[spoiler: they're still stuck in their bags for some reason, and end up being taken into the Marine Life Institute after being washed ashore there.]]
81* In ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'', the little girl who hugged Quasimodo at the end of the first movie is present at the start of the second movie and hasn't aged at all -- even though enough time has passed for Esmeralda and Phoebus to have a young son.
82* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIceAgeAdventuresOfBuckWild'', Crash and Eddie point out that dinosaurs don't talk, despite having met Gavin and his kids who are talking dinosaurs in [[WesternAnimation/IceAgeCollisionCourse the previous film]].
83* The Disney DirectToVideo film ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingOneAndAHalf'' (which is essentially a recap of the first film's events, but from Timon and Pumbaa's point of view) actively contradicts the events of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'' on many levels. On the other hand, given whose [[UnreliableNarrator points of view]] this is... Then again, some people have interpreted it as a parody because of how ''many'' events it contradicts.
84* A throwaway line in ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' suggests that Mike and Sulley have known each other since elementary school. Yet, its prequel ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'' shows them meeting for the first time in college. There was also a promo (seen in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'') where Sulley complained that Mike was too interested in his elementary school crush to pay attention to geography, which is why they've chosen the wrong door. Plus, a guidebook said they met in kindergarten when Sulley mistook Mike for a chair and briefly sat on him. Interestingly, the 4th-Grade line was going to be canon in the prequel, but the directors had difficulty trying to find a way to make the story work that they decided not to make the line have any meaning.
85* ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh'':
86** ''Piglet's Big Movie'' recounts how Kanga and Roo first came to the Hundred Acre Woods. Tigger takes part in the event, even though Pooh and the others first met Tigger in ''Winnie the Pooh & the Blustery Day'', in which they already know Kanga and Roo.
87** In the holiday-themed CompilationMovie ''Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving'', Rabbit and the other characters act as though [[WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh Kessie]] hasn't been seen in the Hundred Acre Wood since her debut episode in ''New Adventures'' "Find Her, Keep Her." However, there ''was'' another episode ("A Bird in the Hand") where Kessie returned to visit the Hundred Acre Wood. Kessie is also still in her young form when she cameos at the movie's end despite having grown up by the time of "A Bird in the Hand" (a form she has been in all of her subsequent appearances, like in ''Series/TheBookOfPooh''). Maybe ''Seasons of Giving'' takes place [[{{Interquel}} between]] "Find Her, Keep Her" and "A Bird in the Hand," but if not, then it's an error.
88* In ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'', ''Sugar Rush'' is depicted as a side-by-side multiplayer arcade cabinet similar to the ''Mario Kart Arcade GP'' series. In ''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet'', it's suddenly a traditional single-player arcade cabinet, because the plot requires a mechanical malfunction to shut down the entire game.
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92* In ''[[Film/TheAddamsFamily Addams Family Values]]'', Debbie makes Fester get hair plugs because she doesn't like his baldness. This is despite the previous film showing an amnesiac Fester with a full head of brown hair, meaning that he shaves his head by choice and could have simply grown his own hair back.
93* In ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', the ''USS Sulaco'' sports a dark blue hue, its name written in black on its right side, and cryogenic stasis pods that look quite different from the ones aboard the ''USCSS Nostromo'', but in ''Film/{{Alien 3}}'', the ''USS Sulaco'' sports a bright brown hue, its name written in white on its left side, and cryogenic stasis pods that look ''identical'' to the ones aboard the ''USCSS Nostromo''.
94* At the end of ''Film/AVPAlienVsPredator'', the [[HybridMonster Predalien]] {{chestburster}} sports a [[NestedMouths jawed tongue]], but at the beginning of ''Film/AliensVsPredatorRequiem'', it doesn't.
95* ''Film/DirtyHarry'' ends with [[CowboyCop the title character]] bringing down [[BigBad the Scorpio Killer]] once and for all... and then, after some quiet reflection, [[spoiler:throwing away his badge]], a significant event that is naturally not addressed in the sequel ''Film/MagnumForce''. Or, for that matter, the ''[[Film/TheEnforcer other]]'' [[Film/SuddenImpact three]] [[Film/TheDeadPool sequels]].
96* ''Film/DoctorInDistress1963'': Despite retiring at the start of ''Film/DoctorInLove'', Sir Lancelot is now working at Hampden Cross Hospital with no mention of why he gave up his retirement.
97* ''Film/{{Dragonheart}}'':
98** Siveth's mural in ''Film/DragonheartBattleForTheHeartfire'' depicts her as greenish with red eyes and a red mane, but in ''Film/DragonheartVengeance'', she is a recolored blue-eyed version of Drago from the previous film.
99** Also, Draco's mural in ''Battle for the Heartfire'' shows him with five claws on both hands though he had four on his hands in ''Film/{{Dragonheart}}''.
100** There is no Mural for Griffin from ''Film/DragonheartANewBeginning'' even though he is should be one of Draco and Siveth’s contemporaries. There is also no mention of the existence of another population of dragons in the east despite the fact that ''Film/DragonheartANewBeginning'' mentions the eastern dragon council who were the ones responsible for cursing Griffin to be human sometime after he fled east to escape Bowen during his twelve year dragon-slaying career before they were later all killed by Emperor Kuo-Fan.
101* The ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' series has a huge one in part V (which takes place after Jason Voorhees gets killed but before he becomes undead). Some murders are happening and Tommy Jarvis (who killed Jason as a kid in the previous movie) is afraid Jason has come back from the dead. At one point the Mayor tells him Jason was cremated and he's "nothing but a handful of ash". This would be contradicted in the ''very next film'' where Tommy goes to Jason's grave, digs him up, and rams a metal rod through his heart in order to destroy him forever, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero only for lightning to strike that exact spot and reanimate Jason as an undead.]] This can perhaps be HandWaved by saying the Mayor was lying to make Tommy feel better, but that doesn't answer how he found out Jason was really buried and where his grave was.
102* ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch'': In the first movie we see Mrs Deagle's body and a number of humans seem to die offscreen. But early in the second movie Kate mentions that fortunately nobody got killed. One wonders how the science teacher survived, plus the news report at the film's end ''explicitly'' confirms that Mrs. Deagle had indeed died and hadn't just been knocked out.
103* The ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' films:
104** At the end of [[Film/Halloween1978 the first movie]], Michael is shot by Loomis six times, then falls off a covered balcony at the back of the house. This scene is shown again at the start of [[Film/HalloweenII1981 the sequel]] — and Loomis shoots Michael ''seven'' times (despite only having a six-chamber revolver), sending him flying off an ''uncovered'' balcony at the ''front'' of the house. It worsens when Loomis goes around shouting, "I shot him six times!" in the film's first few minutes.
105** In the original ''Halloween'', the Myers house is a modest two-story home. By the time we get to ''Film/Halloween5TheRevengeOfMichaelMyers'', it's a huge, Gothic-style mansion, and by the time we get to the sixth film, it's back to being a two-story family home that's still completely different from what we've seen in the first two films. When these films were made, they were in the same continuity as the first two, so there's no excuse for the discrepancy.
106* Smaug is quite clearly a quadruped in ''Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney'', and then transforms into a wyvern in ''Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug''. The Extended Editions of the films replace the original Smaug in ''An Unexpected Journey'' with the new one to correct this.
107* A line in ''Film/HolidayOnTheBuses'' claims that Blakey has worked with Stan and Jack since 1959, despite the fact that Stan mentioned he'd been on the buses since 1962 in ''Film/MutinyOnTheBuses''.
108* The first film where Creator/SidneyPoitier played Detective Virgil Tibbs, Oscar-winner ''Film/InTheHeatOfTheNight'', has Virgil say that he's from Philadelphia, unmarried. Three years later, in the sequel ''[[Film/TheyCallMeMisterTibbs1970 They Call Me Mister Tibbs!]]'', Virgil lives in San Francisco (and has for a while, dialogue indicates that he's been with the SFPD for 12 years), and he's married with two school-age children
109* In both the novel and film versions of ''Literature/NationalVelvet'', The Pie is specifically portrayed as a gelding, meaning he's castrated and thus incapable of reproducing. The film sequel ''International Velvet'' ignores this point so that he can sire a successor, Arizona Pie.
110* ''Franchise/JurassicPark'':
111** WordOfGod was that ''VideoGame/JurassicParkTheGame'' is [[BroadStrokes soft canon]] to the films, meaning a version of it happened along with the first movie. It has the island bombing as a plot point though and more damage to the visitor’s center, which the later film ''Film/JurassicWorld'' ignored, although the name of the island's volcano, Mount Sibo, is kept. ''WesternAnimation/JurassicWorldCampCretaceous'' would further de-canonize the game by showing that [[GreaterScopeVillain Lewis Dogdson]] recovered the embryos Nedry stole (or at least the can they were in) can decades after the first Jurassic Park incident, not days as depicted in the game.
112** Different filming locations in ''The Lost World'' And ''Film/JurassicParkIII'' led to two different environments, a coniferous forest (actually Sequoia National Park in California) and a jungle (Hawaii). The island could be large enough to support both though.
113** The ending of ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' shows numerous ''Pteranodon'' flying free over Isla Sorna, but ''Film/JurassicParkIII'' depicts them being trapped inside a giant metal aviary and only breaking free at the end. The [[ArtEvolution design also changes radically]] between films, although why this is so is never specified.
114** ''Film/JurassicWorld'' has the mosasaur lagoon in the middle of the island with no apparent ocean access but this was blatantly [[{{Retcon}} retconned]] in ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'' to facilitate the mosasaur escaping.
115** ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'' establishes that Hammond broke his partnership with Lockwood in the past because he used their dinosaur cloning technology to [[spoiler:clone his dead daughter Charlotte, who died in a car crash]]. ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion'' retcons this so that [[spoiler:it was Charlotte who cloned ''herself'' long after Hammond had died, and she passed away of a genetic disease rather than a car crash.]] Although this does fix some timeline issues, it calls into question why Hammond became estranged from Lockwood if [[spoiler:he ''didn't'' clone his daughter.]]
116* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
117** ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' has a glaring one right at the start, claiming the events in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' happened eight years prior. For starters, both movies were made only five years apart. And in-universe, ''Homecoming'' is set months after ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', which explicitly says only four years have passed since ''The Avengers''.
118** In ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings'', Trevor Slattery mentions that watching ''Film/{{Planet of the Apes|1968}}'' in 1968 was what inspired his actor vocation. However, in ''Film/AllHailTheKing'' he stated instead that he got his first role in 1964.
119* In ''Film/MenInBlack'', keen-eyed viewers can notice that Agent J's year of birth on his recently deleted birth certificate shows he was born in 1969. But that is later contradicted in ''Film/MenInBlack3'' which reveals Agent J was already a child around that year, given Apollo 11's launch provides a major setting and plotpoint for that film. And that was in 1969, supposedly when he was born.
120* Franchise/MonsterVerse:
121** In ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'', [[YouAreNumberSix Number 10]] (which has a notably different coloration from the Skullcrawlers previously seen on Skull Island) bleeds [[AlienBlood bright-green blood and viscera]], whereas in ''Film/KongSkullIsland'', the Skullcrawler in the boneyard scene bled ''pink'' blood. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C8zJjOoouQ B-Roll footage]] shows that Number 10's remains originally would have been a lifelike crimson, more or less preserving series continuity, but this was apparently changed at some point before the movie was released.
122** It's hinted in ''Godzilla vs. Kong'', and confirmed in the novelization, that the public are still treating the HollowEarth as if its existence wasn't confirmed during the events of ''[[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 Godzilla: King of the Monsters]]'', with the novel hinting that Monarch kept silent about their discovery in the previous film -- this directly contradicts an InUniverse publicized article in the CreativeClosingCredits of ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'', which addresses the topic of the Hollow Earth and its connection to the Titans as if its existence was verified to the public.
123** In ''Film/{{Godzilla|2014}}'', it was stated that Godzilla was awakened in 1954 as the result of a nuclear submarine reaching the lower depths for the first time ever, and it was implied that there were ''multiple'' attempts to kill Godzilla with atomic detonations that were covered up as tests during this decade. In the [[Recap/MonarchLegacyOfMonstersS1E3SecretsAndLies third episode]] of ''Series/MonarchLegacyOfMonsters'', Godzilla was discovered via a gigantic footprint he'd left on land with no mention of a submarine; and the Castle Bravo detonation (which was depicted in the 2014 film's opening) is portrayed as the ''sole'' detonation aimed at killing Godzilla, with Godzilla being [[DramaticIrony presumed]] [[ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated dead]] after he vanished in the nuclear fireball.
124* The third film in ''Film/TheOmen'' series, ''Film/OmenIIITheFinalConflict'', ends with [[spoiler:the second coming of a fully-empowered Jesus Christ on Earth]], a seemingly important event which is naturally not mentioned once in ''Film/OmenIVTheAwakening''.
125* In ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries'', Mia's birthday is stated to be after Genovian Independence Day. In the sequel, her birthday is ''before'' Genovian Independence Day.
126* The ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' franchise's timeline was already very complex, so much that even dedicated fans can get frustrated getting a grasp on the sequence of events, especially since some movies happen out of chronological order or even during another; however, the timeline was still carefully constructed, and could be understood clearly when put in order. Then along came the eighth film, ''Film/{{Jigsaw}}'', which dropped a bomb on everyone by revealing that Logan, a new character who debuted in the film, was the first Jigsaw apprentice, not the previously-introduced Hoffman. Fans were baffled at this reveal, since it disrupted the timeline the previous films had, and when the issue was brought up to the film's writers, they admitted that they did such a reveal because knowing the complete timeline didn't make any sense for it (since the film was released and is set years after the previous ones), and they were hoping that nobody would notice the error.
127* In ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'', Khan recognizes Chekov despite the latter being introduced in the second season of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E22SpaceSeed Space Seed]]", the episode with Khan, was part of the first season. One theory is that, since Chekov never got a formal introduction episode, he could've been in the lower decks since Day One and been promoted to bridge officer after Khan's banishment. It wouldn't even be the first time someone's shown up on screen out of nowhere [[RememberTheNewGuy and been treated like they were on the show the whole time.]] Walter Koenig likes to joke that, offscreen, they met when Chekov kept Khan waiting at a restroom, then left him with no toilet paper, hence Khan remembering him. This can be made more plausible if one opts to [[OutOfOrder sort the show's viewing order]] by the [[AlternativeCalendar stardates]], allowing two second-season episodes featuring Chekov, "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E7Catspaw Catspaw]]" and "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E21PatternsOfForce Patterns of Force]]", to be set ''before'' the episode with Khan. That way, clearly Chekov was part of the crew when Khan and his henchmen tried to take over the ship; his fight against them was just [[HeroOfAnotherStory not shown]].
128* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
129** First is the conflicting ages of the Republic given by Obi-Wan and Palpatine. In ''Film/ANewHope'', Obi-Wan establishes the Jedi have been protecting the Republic for "1000 generations" (roughly 15,000-30,000 years, depending on one's definition of a "generation"). In ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', Palpatine says that he will not let "this Republic which has stood for a thousand years" fall. Even factoring in the possibility that Obi-Wan may have been exaggerating (which, according to the ExpandedUniverse, he wasn't), that's a pretty big difference in ages. It's been {{hand wave}}d since the government had a major reformation and restructuring 1000 years before what Palpatine refers to, hence the reference to "''this'' Republic" rather than "''the'' Republic."
130** Another example is Leia remembering her mother as established in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', only for Padmé to die within minutes of Luke and Leia's birth in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''. There ''have'' been attempts to explain this, like the novelization implying Leia was "trying to take in every detail," or fan speculation that Leia was mistakenly thinking of her foster mother. Even Leland Chee, the man responsible for sorting the massive and convoluted ''Star Wars'' continuity, says that he's stumped.
131** The public perception of the Jedi undergoes a very radical change in-between ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' and ''Film/ANewHope''. In the prequel trilogy, the Jedi are very active in galactic politics, including personally fighting in the Clone Wars. But 20 years later, the original films show that they're regarded as little more than a fairy tale. Luke has never heard of them before, and Han dismisses the Force as an "ancient religion", despite ''Revenge'' showing his companion Chewbacca fighting droids alongside Yoda. The Empire possibly conducted an extensive censorship campaign considering that Order 66 (an executive order that suggests Palpatine regarded the Jedi as a serious threat to his power, followed by a speech to the Senate about how dangerous they are) happened within living memory. It's more likely that the writers didn't consider their previous portrayal in the original trilogy when writing the prequels.
132** In ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', Obi-Wan's spirit informs Luke that he cannot intervene if Luke chooses to face Vader, and Vader says the same thing to the Emperor, implying that Force Ghosts cannot interact with the physical world. This would be proven false in subsequent installments. ''Return of the Jedi'' shows branches moving as Obi-Wan walks past them and he's able to sit down on a rock. In ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' episode "Voices", Qui-Gon Jinn's spirit is able to levitate Yoda and other objects in the room in order to prove he's really there. In ''The Last Jedi'' Yoda's spirit uses the Force to summon lightning to strike the tree containing the ancient Jedi texts and he later whacks Luke with his cane. And in ''The Rise of Skywalker'', Luke's spirit catches Anakin's lightsaber when Rey discards it and uses the Force to lift his submerged X-wing out of the water.
133** ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'' ignores Poe having encountered jumptroopers earlier in ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsPoeDameron Poe Dameron]]'', the destruction of the Lars moisture farm in ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsDarthVader Darth Vader]]'', and Luke's X-Wing being non-operational in ''Film/TheLastJedi'' Visual Dictionary.
134** ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'': The {{uncancelled}} seventh and final season of ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]'' contradicts the novel ''[[Literature/StarWarsAhsoka Ahsoka]]'' on one detail: in the book, when Ahsoka abandons her lightsabers on Mandalore as part of a FakingTheDead ploy, the blades are green and yellow like on the TV show. However, the season 7 trailer and footage shown at ''Star Wars'' Celebration Chicago in April 2019 shows the lightsabers with ''blue'' blades when Anakin returns them to her, and in all moments where she's shown using them. The footage indicates that the color change is due to Anakin tinkering with the weapons, but that doesn't change the fact that according to the novel, the sabers had their original blade colours when Ahsoka abandoned them at the end of the Siege.
135** ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'':
136*** ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' is supposed to be preceded by ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'' and ''Literature/LabyrinthOfEvil''. Both are supposed to take place simultaneously in some coherent order, yet both contain scenes mutually exclusive to each other, necessitating MergingTheBranches for both stories to work. Both works were then [[ContinuityReboot relegated to the Legends continuity]] and replaced with ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars''.
137*** ''Literature/LabyrinthOfEvil'' itself claims that before discovering an image of Darth Sidious within Nute Gunray's mechno-chair, the Jedi believed he was a lie Dooku invented to lead Obi-Wan astray on Geonosis in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', and not mentioned since. But in ''Yoda: Literature/DarkRendezvous'', Dooku openly names Sidious as his master to Yoda. {{Continuity Nod}}s to ''Dark Rendezvous'' appear elsewhere in ''Labyrinth of Evil'', yet this discrepancy is not explained.
138*** Dac or Mon Calamari? {{Retcon}}ned as Dac being the indigenous name for the planet.
139*** The ''ComicBook/StarWarsMarvel1977'' comics introduce us to "your father, Darth Vader, and Obi-Wan Kenobi." Also, Obi-Wan has black hair. The actual phrasing was "Obi-Wan, Darth Vader, and the man who carried Anakin Skywalker's lightsaber," certainly implying Anakin and Vader are two different people. In one of the deftest {{Retcon}}s in the Expanded Universe, an author was able to use a ''pre-existing'' [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Concordance_of_fealty Jedi ritual]] to justify the man carrying the saber as a third, distinct Jedi who had swapped sabers with Anakin at the time.
140*** Chewie only has one son when WordOfGod says Wookiees have multiple births and six breasts. Considering the nature of [[DeathWorld Kashyyyk]], however, infant mortality might explain this one.
141* ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': When Raven reminiscences about the original team from ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', she talks about how they were called the "X-Men." However, going by the events of that film, Moira only coined the term "X-Men" ''after'' the Cuban Missile Crisis, by which point the team had already broken up and Raven herself had left.
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145* [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek Mythology]] could have a page to itself due to its numerous continuity errors and [[ContinuitySnarl snarls]]. See the origins of gods.
146** Aphrodite both rose from foam created by Uranus' severed testicles and was born to a mistress of Zeus.
147** Dionysus is both the son of Zeus and the son of Persephone and Hades.
148** After swallowing the pregnant Metis, Zeus developed a severe headache. When Hephaestus split his head open to relieve the pain, Athena sprang forth. She became the most important goddess of her generation, and Zeus took great pride in knowing that he'd "fathered" her all by himself. Hera became jealous and gave birth to a child all by herself, to prove Zeus wasn't the only one who could do it. That child? Hephaestus. Some authors solved this by having somebody else, like Prometheus or Hermes, split Zeus's head instead or deny that version of Hephaestus's birth.
149* The {{Canon}} of Myth/NorseMythology consists of numerous sources which contradict each other on many points. In particular, the important story of Balder's death exists in two very different versions.
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153* Wrestling/ImpactWrestling gives the name of Dixie Carter's father as Bob (his real name), yet also implies that it is Ethan, as he's the [[{{Kayfabe}} grandfather]] of [[Wrestling/{{EC3}} Ethan Carter III]].
154* On the August 1, 2002, episode of ''Wrestling/WWESmackDown'', Jamie Noble introduced Wrestling/{{Nidia}} to the announce team of Wrestling/MichaelCole and Wrestling/{{Tazz}}, saying that they don't mess with Tazz because he's "one of them street thug kind of fellers." The problem is that Tazz was one of Nidia's trainers on ''Wrestling/WWEToughEnough'', so she already knew what he was like.
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158* All the episodes of ''[[Radio/SherlockHolmesBBCRadio The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes]]'' are based on {{Noodle Incident}}s from the Canon. A couple, however, don't quite fit:
159** "The Saviour of Cripplegate Square": Supposedly, the incident Holmes referred to when he said, "the most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money" in ''Literature/TheSignOfTheFour'', but in this story the woman in question insists the money didn't interest her. Still, she thought her charges were TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth and was "saving" them. And Holmes seems to believe her since he uses the case as an example of how love is not a positive emotion.
160** "The Shameful Betrayal of Miss Emily Smith": Based on Holmes's reference in "The Adventure of the Priory School" "to that terrible murderer, Bert Stevens, who wanted us to get him off in '87". The murder Stevens wants them to get him off for is one he's actually innocent of. He commits the terrible murder afterwards, and is entirely unconcerned with getting away with it.
161** "The Determined Client": From Watson's reference to "an account of the Addleton tragedy and the singular contents of the ancient British barrow" in "The Golden Pince-Nez", but there is no ancient barrow in the story at all.
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165* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' gods:
166** The Demon Queen of Spiders, goddess of the drow, is called Lolth. R.A. Salvatore accidentally spelled her name Lloth when she became a ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' character, and the error increased to the extent it needed a rationalization.
167** Juiblex had similar problems by often being misspelled as Ju'''bi'''lex. Since both are Demon Lords, it is quite easy to invoke IHaveManyNames to justify the differences.
168** In the ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'' article series "The Wizards Three", Ed Greenwood occasionally forgot that, in ''TabletopGame/{{Dragonlance}}'', "dark elf" isn't a race, but means any elf who has turned to evil. On one occasion he outright referred to Dalamar as a drow, and on another he had him refer to "his people" raiding the surface world.
169* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'':
170** In the novel ''Literature/RathAndStorm'', it's briefly mentioned that Hanna's mother Rayne is dead. However, we later find out in ''[[Literature/MasqueradeCycle Prophecy]]'' that she's quite alive. [[spoiler: And then she dies in ''that'' book.]]
171** Recent Portuguese cards and documentation are printed in Brazilian Portuguese instead of Portuguese Portuguese, resulting in many unwarranted changes in terminology.
172* ''TabletopGame/StarTrekAdventures'': Page 42 of the core rulebook repeats the misconception that different ships had their own unit patches in ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', originally caused by a [[http://www.startrek.com/article/starfleet-insignia-explained costuming error]] in "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E23TheOmegaGlory The Omega Glory]]".
173* ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'':
174** When "Elemental HERO Burstinatrix" first came out, her flavor text says she's the "only" female member of the "Elemental [=HEROes=]" which was true at the time. It corrected the English text later as "first," but the Japanese text hasn't been, even though more female "Elemental [=HEROes=]" have been released.
175** Recent Portuguese cards and documentation are printed in Brazilian Portuguese instead of Portuguese Portuguese, resulting in many unexpected changes in names and terminology. Apart from spelling changes (Portuguese ''activar'' > Brazilian ''ativar''), there were also term changes (Portuguese ''Anjo'' "Angel" > Brazilian ''Fada'' "Fairy"; Portuguese ''jogador'' "player" > Brazilian ''duelista'' "duelist").
176** The Chinese rule book has never been updated to be consistent with printed cards for all their pathetically short run.
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180* ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}''
181** The original intro of the story involves Takua summoning the Toa in their canisters to the island. He got blasted into the sky to witness six metal capsules descending form the "heavens" and landing in the sea, then drifting to the island shores. Later material explained that these canisters had been floating in the ocean for a thousand years before Takua attempted to do this.
182** Another example is what the Order of Mata Nui reported about Karzahni. In their book, they write about how he is amassing an army in his own realm to lead them into battle. When Karzahni reappears in the story, he reveals he's been following the Matoran who later became the Toa Inika ever since they had gotten away from him, so he would've had no time to train any army.
183** When the Rahkshi attack Ta-Koro in the movie ''Mask of Light'', Tahu, the village's protector, boldly shouts "None have breached Ta-Koro's gates before! And none shall this day!" Except that the previous set of baddies, the Bohrok-Kal ''have'' broken into the village and defeated Tahu himself, ''right'' before the movie's story. The reason for this oversight is that the movie and preceding FillerArc were handled by different writers, and in all likelyhood the movie was written first but released later.
184** Probably due to the same reason, some scenes of the second movie, ''Legends of Metru Nui'', are at odds with the novels' and comics' stories. One of the more significant issues is Matau learning that his blades double as wings. In the movie, everyone is surprised when they activate and save him from plunging to his death; according to the comics, he has already used them to fly earlier.
185** The comics leading up to the third movie, ''Web of Shadows'', didn't want to spoil Vakama's betrayal, and so showed him leading his team into the Coliseum to clash with the villains. Yet, in the movie, we learn that Vakama, having become evil due to the villains' influence, was in the Coliseum the whole time, waiting for his former comrades to try and take him back.
186** The book ''Tale of the Toa'' was written without the ''Mata Nui Online Game'' in mind (which at the time had been considered non-canonical), but it had some issues of its own. In the comics, the fact that the Rahi beasts have to be defeated by taking off their infected masks is common knowledge from the get-go, but in the book, which was written in accordance with the comics, this is only discovered halfway through. Other parts of the book were later also {{Retcon}}ned to better fit in with the timeline and accommodate the events of the ''Online Game''.
187** The online animations and the book ''Makuta's Revenge'' offer differing accounts on which Bohrok-Kal stole which Toa Nuva symbol. Usually, the former is considered more canonical. The mini-comic in the toys' instruction manuals contradict both, making it an example of AdvertisingOnlyContinuity.
188** Makuta's narration in one of the 2003 comics claims he's been hiding for years after his 2001 defeat. Later on, the writer established that the entirety of the 2001-2008 storyline (barring the 2004-2005 flashbacks) took place within a single year. Of course, Makuta might just be BreakingTheFourthWall here and meant "years" in real-life terms.
189** A lot of continuity gaffes stem from different writers having more influence on certain media, retelling events their own way. The ''Bionicle'' movies in specific are basically their own canon, often based on undeveloped concepts, referencing ideas contradicted by other media, and aiming for wider viewer appeal with simplified stories and explanations. At times the creators were aware of continuity errors but chose to ignore them for the sake of the films' themes or presentations, like the island of Mata Nui in the 4th film being lush with jungles despite earlier story explaining that all life had been extinguished on it.
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193* ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'': When a Bhaalspawn dies, the body dissolves and the divine essence goes to fuel Bhaal's resurrection. This is showed by the cutscene when the protagonist dies, and the epilogue in bg1 after [[spoiler:Sarevok's death]], with both turning to dust. Comes ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII'' and we discover that [[spoiler:Imoen is a Bhaalspawn too]], despite she chould have died and been resurrected many times in the first game as any other normal character. Even more egregious is that the regular mechianics continues in bg2 anyway, even after [[spoiler:her soul was stolen]]. While you must reload if you die, because you can't be resurrected, she can undergo the process whenever you want.
194** This is even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in a banter in the expansion ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIIThroneOfBhaal'', where it is established that the soul of a former Bhaalspawn can be resurrected through special means but would not carry anymore divine essence and be a normal mortal. [[spoiler:Imoen]] asks to [[spoiler:Sarevok]] how it feels to die, and he sarcastically answers that she should already know considering how weak he sees her, after which she acknowledges that her experience is a different thing as it is like simply seeing black and then suddenly awakening somewhere else (even if during your playthrough she never died at all!). She is still a Bhaalspawn that can die and be resurrected infinite times, anyway, until the epilogue when [[spoiler:she chooses to relinquish her divine essence]].
195* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'':
196** ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'' caused one within ''itself'' when they [[NamedByTheAdaptation decided to give]] ''ComicBook/BatmanYearOne'''s corrupt S.W.A.T. officer Branden a first name: his bio in the game proper is listed as "Howard", but according to a radio transmission the player can listen to on the Cryptographic Sequencer in the "Cold, Cold Heart" DLC, his first name is "Scott."
197** ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamUnderworld'' sees Harley Quinn in her ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' costume -- which she stated in that exact game was new and a tag at the start of ''Underworld'' says the game takes place "9 years ago", which given ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'' states the events of ''Origins'' takes place ten years before it, means part of ''Underworld'' takes place not long after ''Origins''.
198** ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'', developed by WB Games Montréal (not the original developers from Rocksteady Studios), portrays the first meeting between Joker and Harley Quinn dramatically different from what's heard from videotapes in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum''. Instead of just another villainous rambling from Joker and slutty responses from Harley Quinn in ''Asylum'', the conversation is quite solemn: Joker keeps pondering on his newfound nemesis, Batman, and talks about him as if they're destined for each other, while Harley Quinn, portrayed as being uncharacteristically timid and shy, only gives back minor responses and ultimately submits to the belief that he was talking about her.
199* ''VideoGame/BoomBots'': If you unlock [[VideoGame/TheNeverhood Klaymen]] as a playable character and decide to play through the game as him, the first message you recieve tells you that Dr. Pick created Klaymen. [[spoiler:Anyone who has played ''The Neverhood'' knows that it was Hoborg who created Klaymen.]]
200* Discussed in ''VideoGame/DeusExMankindDivided'' in the "A Criminal Past" DLC when Jensen gets his augmentations back. The game notes that giving him access to the new experimental augs from the main game nine months before he canonically knew they existed constitutes a PlotHole and gives you the option to either respect continuity at the cost of a weaker Jensen or accept the plot hole so you can have all of your shiny new toys. Can also be a case of UnreliableNarrator as Jensen survived a bombing that did some damage at the start of the game and the DLC is framed as Jensen giving a very overdue after-action report following the events of the base game and the other DLC.
201* ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'' is normally incredibly good at keeping track of what you did, which makes it weird in the few cases when later scenes do contradict previous ones:
202** Players who explore long passages of the game without Kim will sometimes find him knowing about things he shouldn't, repeating in-jokes from conversations he wasn't there for, and sometimes even being reacted to by other people as if he had been there on an earlier meeting. This is especially relevant to the way the game tracks your character's drug abuse. You will only lose RelationshipValues with Kim for taking up a new drug habit while Kim is there to watch you, making it clear he's not supposed to know about what you do when he's not there, but Kim will still mention it in the ending if you only took one drink, in your room, after Kim had gone to bed.
203** Even if you have been drinking throughout the game, if you have the Wasteland of Reality thought internalized during the ending, Kim will tell Jean that you have been dry all week. This is due to an OrphanedReference -- in older versions of the game, Wasteland of Reality couldn't be acquired if you were drinking in the first two days of the game, so there wouldn't have been an inconsistency.
204** The game is internally inconsistent about when Harry [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy wrecked his car]]. Kim and your character will deduce from the visual evidence that the crash happened on Sunday night, but Idiot Doom Spiral tells you it happened on Saturday night. You partied with the Union of Moribund Alcoholics through Sunday morning before becoming suicidal around midday Sunday and vanishing.
205** In the first scene when Kim uses his Trigat Mini camera, it's described as a digital camera, but in the second, it uses film.
206* During Chapter 6 of ''VideoGame/FZeroGX''[='s=] Story Mode, Black Shadow attempts to murder Captain Falcon by strapping a speed-senstive bomb to the Blue Falcon. However, Captain Falcon manages to knock the bomb off and survive. During the next chapter, Black Shadow is suprised to see that Captain Falcon is still alive and well. But it shouldn't be very suprising, [[FailedASpotCheck considering that the Blue Falcon is parked right in front of him]].
207* ''Franchise/FabulaNovaCrystallisFinalFantasy'':
208** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'', ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2 XIII-2]]'', and ''VideoGame/{{Lightning Returns|FinalFantasyXIII}}'' have terrible continuity, both in-game ''and'' cross-game[[labelnote:*]]"cross-game" as in they are a successive series of events[[/labelnote]]. It's absurd to the point where ''Lightning Returns'' has completely different reasons/motivations/developments/explanations, etc., for events the characters reflect upon and the lore of the games themselves after the prior two built everything up. Yet they still apparently happen the same way.
209** Etro is stated to be the goddess of time in ''XIII-2'', but in ''Lightning Returns'' and the expanded universe material, her dominion is over the life and death cycle, meaning time travel and visions of the future/alternate timelines she made possible in ''XIII-2'' couldn't have been done by her, and the rest of the series' god entities were either sleeping or dead.
210* In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'', Myron proudly claims to have invented the addictive drug known as Jet, and if asked, will tell you the story of how it was created, partly by accident, as a result of the Mordinos' efforts to create a potent drug that they could produce in the wasteland. ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'' indicates that the drug was made before the nuclear war due to being on a list of drugs hidden in a vault before the bombs fell. No canon source has addressed this yet.
211* ''VideoGame/{{Feral}}'': It's established in several quests that airships cannot visit the Blood Tundra's harbor without crashing. When the Fera Air Mail airship rotates into the Blood Tundra, it docks in the harbor without experiencing any problems.
212* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'':
213** Since ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade'' is a prequel, characters who appear in or have children who appear in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade'' are SavedByCanon and won't [[{{Permadeath}} die for real if they fall in battle]] (though they'll still become unplayable). Rebecca is an exception -- despite her son appearing in the previous/next game, she dies for real if she falls in battle. No explanation is given for this, suggesting that it was simply an oversight.
214** In ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemMysteryOfTheEmblem Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem]]'', it was established that Minerva initially rode a pegasus before she became a wyvern rider, tying into how the Dracoknight class that rode wyverns promoted from Pegasus Knights in that game. Later material reinforced this, with the trading card game ''TabletopGame/FireEmblemCipher'' releasing a card of Pegasus Knight Minerva that could be used to summon that version of the character in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates''. Later on, ''VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes'' released a younger version of Minerva, who rides a wyvern despite the events of the remake being previously established as canon. Her past as a Pegasus Knight is ignored.
215** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', undead monsters known as "The Risen" terrorize the land of Ylisse. However, they don't appear until a few chapters into the story. Depending on how you play, Robin and Lissa's first support converstation will be unlocked, which mentions the Risen before they show up. The European version of the game corrects this by changing the Risen into bandits.
216* On the way to the TrueEnding of ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaMk2'', the CPU Candidates are promoted to full [=CPUs=]. Yet at the beginning of ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaVictory'', the direct sequel, Nepgear introduces herself, Uni, Rom and Ram as CPU Candidates. Despite a few ways to reconcile this (''[=mk2=]'''s Good Ending is the canon one, or the immortal goddess [=CPUs=] being reinstated after the events of the game), the game doesn't explain it.
217* ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriorsAgeOfCalamity'' is a prequel to ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', and the map of Hyrule is intact as such, with Castle Town in particular showing more streets than the earlier game. However, in the cutscene where Purah excitedly shows the completed map on the Sheikah Slate atop Akkala Tower, Castle Town is prominently visible as its destroyed version. Notably, the area directly in front of the Hyrule Castle drawbridge should look more like a U with a line connecting the top, but it looks like a J instead.
218* At the end of the first episode of ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'', both Max and Chloe are surprised when it suddenly starts to snow.[[note]]The game is set in October 2013 in North America.[[/note]] The other citizens of Arcadia Bay are also confused about this and like Chloe they act like they've seen something for the first time- but the [[VideoGame/LifeIsStrangeBeforeTheStorm prequel]] revealed that the same thing already happended in the summer of 2010 [[spoiler: while a wildfire threatened to burn Arcadia Bay]]. While Max had some reasons to not know about this[[note]], she lived in Seattle during the prequel and wasn't really interested in Arcadia Bay[[/note]] The other characters and primarily Chloe should've remembered this.
219* Between the [[VideoGame/MassEffect1 first]] and [[VideoGame/MassEffect2 second]] ''Franchise/MassEffect'' games, "thermal clips" were invented to replace all guns' original heat sink system. During the same period, mechs became widespread compared to their initial limited numbers. This is an issue when rescuing Jacob's father, who was marooned eight years prior to the first game. Despite being cut off from the galaxy, the planet still has a plentiful supply of thermal clips and mechs.
220* ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' games since ''VideoGame/MetroidZeroMission'' have established Samus's [[PoweredArmor Power Suit]] as [[PsychoactivePowers something formed and maintained by her will]] (and being knocked unconscious causes the suit to dematerialize), and not so much a physical set of armor. This causes problems with the chronologically later game, ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'' -- where the plot hinges on the Power Suit being a physical object that remains around Samus whilst she is unconscious, and a parasite can infect her.
221* ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureToolsOfDestruction Future: Tools of Destruction]]'' reveals Ratchet to be [[spoiler:the last of the Lombaxes]]... but in ''[[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankGoingCommando Going Commando]]'', [[spoiler:Angela Cross is one too]]. Whoops. Apparently, WordOfGod has said [[spoiler:she's a separate but similar species]]. Regardless, in the prison in ''Tools of Destruction'', they mention [[spoiler:"prisoner's of Lombax descent", so Angela could also be half-Lombax.]] [[spoiler:Then it became a FlipFlopOfGod: as of ''[[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureACrackInTime A Crack in Time]]'', Angela has been confirmed as a Lombax (apparently females don't have tails).]]
222* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'':
223** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis'' states that Raccoon City was completely blocked off from the outside by the military to contain the viral outbreak and supposedly takes place before and after the events of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'' (apparently the entire second game took place while Jill was unconscious from the T-Virus infection). In the game, you can see most of the city is a burning wreck, and the entranceway for the RPD is littered with construction equipment while also having two of the main doors inside being barricaded. However, ''Resident Evil 2'' shows the front entrance of the RPD being rather clean as if nothing happened on the property. Not only that, but the opening cut scene shows Leon and Claire entering Raccoon City without any blockades barring their way and most of the city looks abandoned rather than an inferno.
224* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog:''
225** ''VideoGame/SonicTheFighters'' has eight Chaos Emeralds instead of the series standard of seven, to accommodate for the eight playable characters. This is likely because it was developed by Creator/{{Sega}}'s arcade division, [=AM2=], rather than Creator/SonicTeam.
226** Although the moon was half-obliterated in ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'', it has since been shown intact in subsequent games, as early as ''VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog'' in fact, only two games later. WordOfGod is that the moon ''is'' still damaged, but all subsequent appearances have been of [[ArtisticLicenseSpace the opposite, intact side]].
227** Despite the ''VideoGame/SonicRush'' [[VideoGame/SonicRushAdventure games]] establishing them as being [[DimensionalTraveler from another dimension]], ''[[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 Sonic '06]]'' and the ''VideoGame/SonicRivals'' games went on to claim Blaze and Eggman Nega (respectively) came from the future of Sonic's world (Nega, in particular, being Dr. Eggman's descendant as opposed to Eggman's counterpart in the Sol Dimension). Since ''[='06=]'' is subject to a CosmicRetcon, later games revert to Blaze being from another dimension, while Nega is still from the future.
228** While ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'' makes it abundantly clear that the "classic" incarnations of Sonic, Tails and Dr. Eggman are from the past, ''VideoGame/SonicForces'' suddenly puts forth that Classic Sonic (who is explicitly the same Sonic from ''VideoGame/SonicMania'') is from [[AlternateTimeline another dimension]]. Fan speculation is that the "classic" era split into two timelines because of the TimeTravel plot of ''Generations'' (as opposed to creating a StableTimeLoop), meaning that one timeline leads from ''VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles'' to the "modern" era, and the other leads into ''Sonic Mania'' instead.
229** The WordOfGod confirmation that "[[WorldOfFunnyAnimals Sonic's World]]" and Earth are separate worlds leads to confusion with many of the 2000s ''Sonic'' games. The first two ''Adventure'' games heavily imply that Sonic has [[LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy always lived amongst humans and that there's nothing unusual about them]]. ''VideoGame/SonicBattle'' makes it more explicit, as it's clearly shown that the characters live in the human-populated Emerald Town. [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 Gerald Robotnik's]] journal entries from several decades ago reveal that the Chaos Emeralds and Echidna tribe have existed on Earth for centuries, even though by the logic of earlier games, they should be exclusive to "Sonic's World". The first [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmzc8L8zTBk TailsTube]] episode [[AllThereInTheManual addresses the "two worlds"]] by explaining that animals like Sonic and Tails live on islands, while humans live on larger countries and continents -- meaning that it's ''literally'' one planet, but ''figuratively'' two worlds.
230* ''VideoGame/SpaceQuest'': The [=WD40=] terminoid in ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestVTheNextMutation'' is sent to collect on the payment Roger Wilco didn't make for the Gippazoid Novelty Company's Labion Terror Beast Mating Whistle after defeating the Arnoid sent to collect payment in ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestIIIThePiratesOfPestulon''. In that game, Roger defeated the Arnoid, who demanded payment for the whistle from ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestIIVohaulsRevenge''. And in that game, examining the order form shows the whistle is for free, which later games never brought up again in-story. The developers admitted it was an oversight, and the Space Quest [[http://spacequest.wikia.com/wiki/Gippazoid_Novelty_Company wiki]] runs with the idea it's the company's fault for charging for an allegedly free item.
231* ''VideoGame/SpyroYearOfTheDragon'' clearly states dragon eggs only occur once every twelve years. In ''VideoGame/SpyroAHerosTail'' you must rescue different dragon eggs despite the fact no one seems to have aged much since the third game, and certainly not twelve years. However, ''Year of the Dragon'' also flies contrary to ''VideoGame/SpyroTheDragon1998'', where one had to chase thieves with dragon eggs. While time passed between the games, twelve years seems unlikely.
232* ''Franchise/StreetFighter'':
233** In ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'', Guile's motive for entering the World Warrior tournament was to get revenge on M. Bison for killing his friend Charlie. In ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'', he's insistent that Charlie is still alive because (as established in the ''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha'' prequel series) they NeverFoundTheBody.
234** The SNES sequel to ''VideoGame/FinalFight'', ''Final Fight 2'', established that Guy became the Bushin-ryu successor after training under Genryusai. It would be contradicted in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha'' by having Zeku revealed to be Guy's predecessor, even though Genryusai's daughter Maki would show up in later fighting games (specifically ''Capcom vs. SNK 2'' and the portable versions of ''Street Fighter Alpha 3''). Udon's ''World Warrior Encyclopedia'' attempts to reconcile this inconsistency by having Genryusai be Zeku's predecessor.
235* ''VideoGame/{{Ultima}}'' has a considerable number.
236** The entire game of ''VideoGame/UltimaUnderworld'' takes place in a dungeon destroyed several games ago.
237** In ''VideoGame/UltimaIX'', the Tapestry of Ages is supposed to depict the previous ''VideoGame/{{Ultima}}'' games. It supposedly magically painted itself throughout history as the events unfolded, yet the earlier games have no such tapestry. The visual depictions are not accurate to the details of each story. The tapestry is meant as a reminder that the Avatar visited Britannia on eight occasions, once for each main entry in the series, ignoring how the Avatar was not on Britannia in ''VideoGame/UltimaII'' and ''VideoGame/UltimaVIII'', and remained on Britannia in other games.
238*** The Tapestry is just the tip of the iceberg -- people have written entire dissertations about all the continuity errors in ''IX''.
239* ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'': ''Nobody'' in or out of the game can decide what counts as a higher vampire, with the situation made even worse with the ''Blood and Wine'' expansion. Geralt's dialogue outright contradicts itself on separate occasions, the target of a contract ''identifies'' themselves as a higher vampire but is permanently killed and drops the essence of katakan (which is a lower vampire according to one of Geralt's lines), the image used in the codex entry of a higher vampire is of a lower vampire, and so forth.
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243* ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'': WordOfGod says Grif was the Army's sole draftee, and his resentment of it drives him to be the world's biggest slacker. However, in the first episode, he says he "signed on to fight some aliens." It's eventually revealed in Season 17 that despite claiming he was drafted, he ensured he'd be picked.
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247* In ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'' an update had a conversation play between two characters implying they had never met before that point, despite the characters having been established as close friends early in the series. Fans quickly pointed this out, and the conversation was edited and corrected.
248* ''Webcomic/{{Teahouse}}'' has a few inconsistencies over the comic:
249** Claret's hair color changes from [[http://images.teahousecomic.com/comic/img/comic/3.jpg light green]] to [[http://images.teahousecomic.com/comic/img/comic/105.jpg a much darker one]].
250** Axis' hair color changes, his tattoos vanish and his skin tone has become lighter. [[http://i.imgur.com/YOQRI.jpg Seen here]], which also notes the sudden change in maid outfits.
251* ''Webcomic/{{Wonderlab}}'':
252** In Episode 35, My Sweet Home was said to have been shipped off to a different facility, being replaced with the Drowned Sisters. Despite this, it returns in the "A Party Everlasting" arc [[spoiler:alongside the other Abnormalities introduced in the series.]]
253** During its first proper appearance in Episode 49, the hearts lining the bottom of [[spoiler:Distorted Catt's]] teacup body are drawn upside-down. However, the hearts get drawn right-side-up in every appearance afterward.
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257* ''WebVideo/TheChroniclesOfJaller'': {{Invoked|Trope}}, {{lampshade|Hanging}}d, and PlayedForLaughs in "Black Piraka Gets Noticed Part 2."
258-->'''[[spoiler:Penguin the Penguin]]:''' Wait, vasn't there a table zere? And what's zat doing zere?\
259'''Axon:''' What-- Oh! ''[laughs]'' Yeah, we don't work very hard with continuity here. Those scenes were filmed months ago.
260* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'': In Episode 21, the [[RunningGag "Krillin Owned" meter]] hits 13 when Krillin is unable to look away in time from Burter and Jeice's "Seizure Procedure" technique. It hits 13 again two episodes later when Captain Ginyu-in-Goku slaps Krillin.
261* ''Series/FlandersCompany'': In the Season 4 finale, there's view of the energy blast that destroyed Damien rising above the atmosphere. Cool shot, except the stream is clearly coming from France, while the last battle is supposed to happen in Pennsylvania, at Reed Richards' manor, as with the beginning of season 4.
262* ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'': In the anniversary special, ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'', one of the main villains, Turrell, blames the Critic for destroying his home planet in his review of ''Film/BattlefieldEarth''. Except in that review, a random person offscreen lit a cigarette, which ignited the atmosphere on Turrell's planet, something Turrell himself points out.
263* ''WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan'' gives a rather glaring one revolving around Bowser and his mother, specifically their ages. His mother is 200 years old as of "Chef Poo Poo's Kitchen Disaster!", but Bowser himself is confirmed to be 312 as of "Bowser Loses a Tooth!".
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