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* Doing this is [[spoiler: Tsukishima's]] entire schtick in ''{{Bleach}}''. Notably, he doesn't actually warp reality - he just [[spoiler: inserts himself into the target's memories up to the point where they think he's always been in their lives.]] [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel ''Creepy.'']]

* [[{{Troperrific}} Obligatory]] ''{{Touhou}}'' example: this is largely the domain of Keine Kamishirasawa. In ''8'', she devoured the history of a human village so that they can't be affected by the dangers of TheNightThatNeverEnds (obviously, she restored the village later). Theoretically, this allow her to make all of [[WhoWantsToLiveForever Mokou's suffering]] never happen, but in that way, she would never have met Mokou...
* [[spoiler:Madoka using her wish to do this]] in the final episode of ''PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''.

* Madoka using her wish to do this in the final episode of ''PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''.

* [[{{Troperrific}} Obligatory]] ''{{Touhou}}'' example: this is largely the domain of Keine Kamishirasawa. In ''8'', she devoured the history of a human village so that they can't be affected by the dangers of TheNightThatNeverEnds (obviously, she restored the village later). Theoretically, this allow her to make all of [[WhoWantsToLiveForever Mokou's suffering]] never happen, but in that way, she would never have met Mokou...

* The TropeNamer is ''ErfWorld'' [[strike: and the Titans' fixing of Twolls' ability]].
** [[strike: They actually Retconjured Retconjuration into existence.]] ''[[MindScrew Good luck working out how that works.]]''
*** Simple: they used deletionism to delete deletionism, thus creating a void that they filled with retconjuration.

*** In fact the quote above isn't quite true. It's more accurately "Re-Write Reality According to ''Sarda's'' Whim", as Black Mage learned when he tried to copy the spell.

**** That's part of a [[RunningJoke]] on [[ButtMonkey Black Mage]]: Sarda once cast a spell that caused Black Mage to vomit out his innards; Black Mage used his mimic skill to cast a spell that... caused Black Mage to vomit out his innards.

** Simple they used deletionism to delete deletionism. Thus creating a void that they filled with retconjuration.

* [[SpiderMan Mephisto]], "[[OneMoreDay One]] [[DealWithTheDevil More]] [[SoBadItsHorrible Day]]"

** 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.

* In ''[[RatchetAndClank Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time]]'', Dr. Nefarious plans to use the Great Clock to creature a universe where evil always wins.

* The Sidereal {{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.

** Also, there's a Ter'angreal that does it.

* The Sidereal {{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.
* Any VideoGame that lets you [[strike:abuuse]] abuse save-states or SaveScumming [[strike: [[HarryPotter quaffles]]]] qualifies as a meta-example.

There are two flavors of this trope, items that allow individuals to change the past (a TimeMachine being the TropeCodifier) and individuals who can change the past under their own power. Said individuals may [[AGodAmI believe themselves to be]] deities, and depending on the scope of the power, they [[PhysicalGod might]] [[EldritchAbomination not]] [[PowersThatBe be]] [[CrystalDragonJesus wrong]].

* ''{{Discworld}}'' [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti yeti]] can leave "[[SavePoint bookmark]]" at some moment in time and later snap back to it if they are killed or in other troubles -- now ''knowing'' what's going to happen and able to avoid it. They died out. Several times.

* Any VideoGame that lets you [[strike:abuuse]] abuse save-states or SaveScumming [[strike: quafflies]] qualifies as a meta-example.

If a RetCon is changing the past, and a CosmicRetcon is an in-universe changing of the past, then {{Retconjuration}} [[strike: never happened]] is the ability to ''create'' a Cosmic Retcon. Possibly a subtrope of RealityWarper, and may or may not involve [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall leaning on]], [[PaintingTheFourthWall painting]] or [[BreakingTheFourthWall breaking]] the Fourth Wall, or pressing a literal ResetButton.

* Any VideoGame that lets you abuse save-states or SaveScumming qualifies as a meta-example.

* The Sidereal {{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.

** He created an alternate reality, not a retcon... well, not entirely. It was used to restart the entire Star Trek line of movies over from scratch without actually tampering with established lore from the previous movies or series.