Duplicate Trope: Oneshot Revisionism

Seems to overlap almost perfectly with Voodoo Shark. Basically the only advantage I can see to having it separate is that Voodoo Shark doesn't explicitly allow for derivative works or subsequent episodes to count (but the examples sure as hell do).

The page tries to differentiate itself from Voodoo Shark by saying "it does work"... and then immediately say that it actually doesn't.

As pointed out in ATT, it's five years old with 12 wicks. The examples are full of natter (which is to be expected, honestly, of a mostly-forgotten page of this nature). Additionally, it does seem the page was baaaaaaaaaasicially made to quiggle over Star Trek fridge logic.

But since the name does apparently come from something, I'd recommend turning it into a redirect for Voodoo Shark.

edited 1st Feb '16 1:31:52 PM by Larkmarn

As noted in ATT, it's not precisely Voodoo Shark, since that is an explanation for a Plot Hole that itself creates worse plot holes. Mainly, the issue is that the concept it describes is both too narrow and too vague to make an effective trope, as indicated by its severe failure to thrive.

I see nothing worth keeping, honestly. There is nothing in One-Shot Revisionism that couldn't be covered under Fridge Logic, or, indeed, merged into Voodoo Shark if it overlaps sufficiently.

edited 1st Feb '16 2:44:28 PM by Fighteer

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The only thing that relates this page to Voodoo Shark is that both produce an answer to a question that causes more questions to be asked.

The difference is pretty substantial. One Shot Revisionism addresses something that should frequently go wrong but in only doing so once makes one ask why it hasn't gone wrong multiple times. Voodoo Shark tries to fix something that doesn't work with something else that doesn't work.

In the first Kirbys Dreamland, the main character was described as being eight inches tall but in Kirbys Dreamland 3 and Videogame/Kirby64 he interacts with human characters, whose very existence shows that height figure can't be true. Those are plot holes. Now, if I tried to explain this height discrepancy by saying the humans who should have made Kirby look a lot smaller than he did only appeared around his size because they were in a dream world, that would be a voodoo shark because the second installment, Kirby's Adventure, showed that Dreamland gets its name from a fountain that is the cause of people dreaming, the characters don't live in a dream themselves.

The plot of Kirby's Adventure centers around no one being able to dream because King Dedede tampered with this fountain. He did this because a Nightmare tried to come out of the fountain to harm the residents. The problem here is that Kirby Super Star shows that there are multiple planets with similar fountains and yet this Nightmare situation has seemingly only happened once when it should be happening all the time. That's one shot revisionism...or it would be if the introduction of this plot element didn't introduce something that could go wrong with it right away. As it is, it's more an Inverted Trope. Rather than never going wrong up until one random moment and never going wrong again, it went wrong right from the get go and acted right forever afterwards.

The most glaring problem with One shot revisionism is that it was launched without enough examples. I certainly understand the concept, understand how it is distinct from Voodoo Shark but cannot actually think of any examples.

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