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Synchronicity
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(4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
I think this is limited to video games. It's when there are multiple means to achieve a plotted end, but later installments will select just one of them as the canon event that got you there. Say, for example, in Sally Face. One character's tea gets drugged to incapacitate him so you can look around his apartment. However, you can do so either with sleeping pills, which knock him out, or laxatives, which send him to the bathroom. However, in the next chapter, the bathroom is cut off with the titular character refusing to enter due to the stench, making the laxatives route canon. Is this a trope?
Edited by 8BrickMario