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If the work in which the trope originally appeared is still available and still contains the trope, then it's still a listable example. Just, like, don't mix the continuities and say things like "X (which was after the retcon) is really confusing in light of Y (which was before the retcon)".
Suddenly I'm... still rotating Fallen London in my mind even though I've stopped actively playing it.

Question: how do we handle tropes that have different outcomes before and after a Cosmic Retcon?
I ask because of Mortal Kombat 11. Two games prior, the series Soft Rebooted itself via Time Travel. While ostensibly, it is the same universe it was before the point time was changed, the writers decided to take several liberties with the source material. Even prior to the point where time is changed, character personalities have changed, backstories have changed, rules about how the setting works have changed, etc, etc.
Of note, someone went around not long ago and started deleting tropes like Bathe Her and Bring Her to Me because while it was stated in the old continuity that the character Sindel was stolen by the local Evil Overlord and forcefully became his queen, in the new continuity, she describes this as a lie she told her followers so that they would remain loyal to her. In reality, she was happy to kill her "weak" husband and gain a stronger one. This is absolutely NOT how her original pre-Cosmic Retcon personality was, as in the old continuity, Sindel was absolutely a hero.
Edited by NubianSatyress