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Main Alternate Continuity Discussion
What about when the author (or an author) writes a sequel where it turns out that everything before it was fiction in-universe, based on real events but inaccurate?
The main example I'm thinking of here is Dracula The Undead. It's a sequel to Dracula, written much later by Bram Stoker's great-grand-nephew. More than a few things are different, and it's explained by the fact that an in-universe version of Bram Stoker heard the story and wrote it as a novel, with many inaccuracies.
Possibly also applies to The Vampire Chronicles, where we get a somewhat different picture of events when told by Lestat in the second book to the one that Louis gives in the first.
Does anything think this is worthy of a mention or even a subtrope? Or is it Too Rare To Trope?
"The newspaper Peter Parker is also much more handsome than the comic book one, although why that should be so is a good question."
I think that's just Depending On The Artist. It looks to me like the newspaper artist is basing his Peter on how Todd Mc Farlane used to draw him, while the current comics are aiming more at an adult version of Steve Ditko's awkward teenager.
I'm not sure about the exact difference between this trope and Alternate Universe; and unfortunately, Trope Distinctions lacks an entry comparing them - though there is one comparing Alternate Continuity with a few other tropes. Can someone enlighten me where one stops and the other begins?
Regarding the Pokemon entry, here is a perfect puzzle for you: Are Kris
and Lyra the same person? Pokemon Special says yes. The Anime says no. And the Slapstick magna doesn't have to deal with this question since it never had a Kris analogue in the first place!
and Lyra the same person? Pokemon Special says yes. The Anime says no. And the Slapstick magna doesn't have to deal with this question since it never had a Kris analogue in the first place!
- And of course, the Queen of the Continuities - Sailor Moon! With a manga series (that isn't compatible with it's prequel Sailor V in some ways but the two are still considered to exist in the same canon) a 200-episode anime series (a five-season epic that isn't fully compatible with itself), a live-action series, three animated movies (which aren't fully compatible with either anime or manga), and twenty-five stage productions, all of which are different! That makes thirty-one separate continuities! And that's not counting the video-games! So if someone wants to debate Sailor Moon "canon" with you, laugh at them.
- Well 3 of the musical are in the same continuity. And a forth that's in continuity with one of those but not the other two....