1 | '''Basic Trope''': The story is set back a few chapters and re-writes those chapters to fit a new story arc. |
2 | * '''Straight''': |
3 | ** In Universe - AllJustADream often portrayed here. |
4 | ** In RealLife - A writer or group of writers didn't like the last 4 issues of a 25 issue comic-book story arc, instead of a full ContinuityReboot they simply reset the story back to issue 21 and continue from there. |
5 | ** Alternatively - The fans didn't like so they ignore everything past issue 21 and write FanFiction of what they feel happened. |
6 | * '''Exaggerated''': The ''entire story'' suffers a major retcon and it's revealed that none of it ever happened. |
7 | * '''Downplayed''': [[{{Retcon}} Something that happened a minute ago is implied to not have actually happened]]. |
8 | * '''Justified''': The time-altering super hero Chronos needs to save his girlfriend from being slaughtered after she was already mutilated and dead, so he rewinds time to a significant point and changes history and thus the outcome of the story. |
9 | * '''Inverted''': |
10 | ** Everything DID happen but it just all looks like it is happening again. |
11 | ** TimeSkip. |
12 | ** Another work that was previously assumed to be unrelated or non-canon is [[CanonWelding retroactively inserted into the story's timeline.]] |
13 | * '''Subverted''': The story 'appears' to go back a few chapters but in reality we find out it hasn't reset, only the point of view has... |
14 | * '''Double Subverted''': ..But then you realize the point of view is that of the villain and it IS changing the story! |
15 | * '''Parodied''': ??? |
16 | * '''Zig Zagged''': ??? |
17 | * '''Averted''': The story is never reset. |
18 | * '''Enforced''': |
19 | ** Issues 22-25 received such a negative fan reception that the creators had to declare them [[CanonDiscontinuity non-canon]] to continue the story. |
20 | ** The fallout between the series publisher and the crossover characters' Copyright holder has left the Issue 22-25 crossover ScrewedByTheLawyers. |
21 | * '''Lampshaded''': "Didn't we do this before?" -- "No you must be imagining it." |
22 | * '''Invoked''': "[[ResetButton We wish we never found]] this [[BecarefulWhatYouWishFor wish granting amulet]]". |
23 | * '''Exploited''': ??? |
24 | * '''Defied''': ??? |
25 | * '''Discussed''': ??? |
26 | * '''Conversed''': ??? |
27 | * '''Deconstructed''': Multiversal variants from the AlternateUniverse in which the events of issues 22-25 happened appear and fight the characters of the canon timeline for their right to live. |
28 | * '''Reconstructed''': The universes are successfully merged together, saving both sets of characters. |
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30 | Back to StoryReset |
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32 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
33 | %% |
34 | %%* '''Implied''': ??? |
35 | %% |
36 | %% |
37 | %%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ??? |
38 | %%* '''Played For Laughs''': ??? |
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