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1%% Trope Repair Shop thread: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1520465604035007100
2The trope formerly known as '''Reality Retcon''' has been disambiguated due to its unclear definition. You may have been looking for one or more of the following tropes:
3* AlternateHistory: SpeculativeFiction genre where one or more historical events occurred differently, which explores the consequences of the alterations.
4* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Mistakes or deliberate changes in the portrayal of history.
5* CosmicRetcon: A {{retcon}} of earlier events in the continuity is explained as being due to the actions of an InUniverse actor.
6* HistoricalInJoke: A show references a historical event and provides fictional details to relate it to the show.
7* HollywoodHistory: Deeply embedded perceptions and misconceptions of certain events, time periods, and societies.
8* LikeRealityUnlessNoted: A work's chronology follows real life, except where the work shows that it doesn't.
9* RealEventFictionalCause: An event from RealLife history is said or shown in a work to have been caused differently.
10* RealityWarper: A superhuman character who can alter reality.
11* SecretHistory: A work claims to be set in RealLife, but the viewer never learned of its events because InUniverse actors kept them secret.

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