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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JEB" data-source="post: 8569679" data-attributes="member: 10148">Marvel Comics has never had a hard reboot, and it does just fine. (Closest they got was the 2010s Secret Wars storyline, and all that did was reset their alternate universes and bring Miles Morales into 616.) They manage it with a floating timeline and liberal use of retcons. (By contrast, DC keeps shaking up its canon every few years, and seems to have shakier support than Marvel as a result.)Doctor Who's 2005 relaunch carried on the old continuity, and it's still chugging along today - again, with the use of retcons, reinterpreting past events, rather than starting everything from scratch.And a more pertinent example: the Forgotten Realms has also avoided a hard reset, just some retcons over the years. They even consider the 4E era part of the 5E canon.Corporations certainly can and do choose the hard reset, but it's far from an obligation.</blockquote>