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Fighteer MOD (Time Abyss)
2016-03-23 11:15:05

I wouldn't say so. A Continuity Reboot has no obligation to use the same canon as the original; it supersedes all possible variants of Retcon and makes them redundant.

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wrm5 Since: Mar, 2014
2016-03-23 13:49:09

Well, and I think this is what Fighteer was saying to, I think the issue is one of scale. Revision and Rewrite are both about varieties of Retcon that change individual elements. If we're doing a full-blown Continuity Reboot, then that means we're throwing all existing canon out the window in favor of new canon.

Listing individual parts which were removed, altered, or left in is not significant, in the same way that it's not significant to list each individual tree that was destroyed in a state-wide forest fire.

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