Basic Trope: An adaptation set within its own universe that features changes that reconfigure or modernize the mythology.
- Straight: The Great Captain Rectitude is launched, being a separate work from The Adventures of Captain Rectitude. Most things are changed to fit with modern standards.
- Exaggerated: Captain Rectitude has been modified so much, that now it's Captain Rectitude In Name Only.
- Downplayed: The Great Captain Rectitude is a mostly streamlined version of the original story.
- Justified: It's a "Captain Rectitude of two worlds" setup: Captain Rectitude crossed the dimensional barrier and meets Ultimate Captain Rectitude.
- Inverted:
- Revisiting the Roots.
- The Great Captain Rectitude line is finally closed... But Great Responsibility Kid and Ultimate Loyalty Dog are so darn cool, that they move to the original universe as Canon Immigrants.
- Subverted: A new comic featuring Captain Rectitude is Darker and Edgier, with very heavy stuff going on, and the secondary characters are so different... But, after some introduction, we are told that it was the original universe all along.
- Double Subverted:
- The new Darker and Edgier comic is the original universe all along... or is it? The author left things vague, and the fandom is forced into Wild Mass Guessing.
- The new darker and edgier comic is the original universe after a Crisis Crossover put it through the blender and is now one of the 17 realities that Private Eye Comics employs.
- Parodied: Captain Rectitude visits an alternate universe and meets "Ultimate Captain Rectitude"; both the alternate universe and the new guy are filled of parodied modern tropes.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: The Captain Rectitude universe never gets a separate continuity.
- Enforced:
- The sales of the Captain Rectitude are decreasing, and the network attempts this.
- Great Captain Rectitude was designed specifically for people wanting to get into the original comics, but are too scared due to the excess continuity.
- Lampshaded: "It's Captain Rectitude like you've never seen him before!"
- Invoked: Captain Rectitude builds an Interdimensional Travel Device.
- Exploited: The last saga of Captain Rectitude was not meant to be set in an Ultimate Universe, but fans received it as an Audience-Alienating Era. So, it is Ret-Gone by saying that Never Was This Universe.
- Defied: Captain Rectitude refuses to move to Another Dimension.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Played For Laughs:
- Great Captain Rectitude makes a Mythology Gag to the original universe.
- Great Captain Rectitude suddenly recovers the memory of the "original" universe, and notices that, somehow, the whole universe has changed.
Back to Ultimate Universe.
