Alternate Continuity: Difference between revisions

Oftentimes, an [[Alternate Continuity]] is unintentionally started when a show based on an unfinished series of a different medium runs out of material. See [[Overtook the Manga]] for this [[Trope]] in detail.

 

 

One of the meta-causes of [[Alternate Universe]].

*** Characters will randomly appear with no back story and either killed off or never explained.

*** Retcons will occur in every continuity creating even more continuity's. This can be anything from a love interest we've never seen or heard about before being shoved for a new love interest we've never seen or heard about, who's related, as well as many [[DV Ds]] deleting important scenes only seen in theaters, deleted scenes, or out right reediting the entire movie due to the immense hatred of that sequel.

* ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]'' had at least two continuities. The first movie ends with J neuralizing K and taking L as a new partner. At the beginning of the second, we find L quit between movies, and the first third of the movie follows J trying to restore K's memories. In [[The Animated Series]], however, J, K, and L are all agents at the same time. There were a series of tie-in novels with J and L, but these could be slotted into the timespan between movies.

* The most recent incarnation of [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] in ''[[Casino Royale]]'' portrays Bond as a new and inexperienced agent. However, it is set in modern times, and therefore after every previous Bond [[Film]], and includes several characters that were later additions to the series of [[Film|films]], such as the female M. This, however, ignores the theory that "James Bond" is a title that is passed down to the next 007. Perhaps there is one continuity.

* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' continues from ''[[Stargate (film)|Stargate]]'' the movie, disregarding Devlin and Emmerich's backstory and the five novels based on it. And if the two movie [[Sequel|sequels]] to ''[[Stargate (film)|Stargate]]'' had been made (not to be confused with the two movie [[Sequel|sequels]] to ''SG-1'', which actually ''were'' made), they would have disregarded both, resulting in yet a third continuity.

* The ''[[Red Dwarf (novel)|Red Dwarf]]'' novels take place in a different continuity to the TV series, in many cases incorporating concepts from the TV series with a different spin (and vice versa). The first two novels (''Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers'' (1989) and ''Better Than Life'' (1990)) were written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor under the collective pen name Grant Naylor -- after their writing partnership split, both wrote a ''Red Dwarf'' novel individually (''Last Human'' (1995) by Naylor, and ''Backwards'' (1996) by Grant) which each acted as third novels in the series, effectively splitting the novel series into two [[Alternate Continuity|Alternate Continuities]].

** The constant alteration of the timeline makes EVERYTHING work.

* ''[[Power Rangers RPM]]'' takes place in a separate universe from the previous fifteen seasons. Which is good, because if it didn't, then we'd have to admit that [[Everybody's Dead, Dave|all the past characters and/or their descendants are dead.]] That said, when this was up in the air, many fans speculated RPM ''could'' have fit very well between the years [[Power Rangers SPD|2025]] and [[Power Rangers Time Force|3000]], especially with what we see [[After the End|what the year 3000 is like]], and [[Epileptic Trees]] reckon that ''[[Power Rangers RPM|RPM]]''[[Power Rangers RPM|'s]] [[Big Bad]]'s existence (due to [[Name's the Same]] with a previous villain) is one neat [[Stable Time Loop]].