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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 8965792" data-attributes="member: 11760">Is it? Because this argues against what I think you and Micah are saying:The legend of the First World, Ted's ex-wife's theoretical other man, etc., are all things that simply weren't in the metaphorical first shot, because the first shot never looked in that direction. There is no "wide shot" in Planescape or other D&D texts that should have mentioned the First World before now.We also don't know, as I recall, what kind of car the former Ms. Lasso drives. Learning that it's a hybrid, while mildly shocking for the ex-wife of a former Midwestern college football coach, would simply be new information, because the show never talked about it before.I had forgotten about the whole World's Fair nonsense in All-Star Squadron. I was wrong about the trope originator. The article is pretty poorly written (it's a wiki, so yeah) about what the retcon is. The fact that there was a previously unseen team-up isn't a retcon. The fact that characters' histories had to be rewritten to make that possible is the retcon.Post-Crisis, them swapping in other characters to replace Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, who now (well, "then," since this was rewritten a bunch of times since then) were no longer part of the JSA, major retcons, because fans had the comics showing that they were. Similarly, the rewritten origin of the JLA to remove Wonder Woman as a founding member and replacing her with Black Canary, to match up with the new post-Crisis origin of Wonder Woman, also a retcon.</blockquote>

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