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{{quote|'''Wolverine:''' What about Onslaught?

'''Beast:''' We [[Canon Discontinuity|just pretend that never happened]]... for the Professor's sake.~~|''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]: [http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/257930 Revisiting Profit]''}}~~

'''Beast:''' We [[Canon Discontinuity|just pretend that never happened]]... for the Professor's sake.

|''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]: [http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/257930 Revisiting Profit]''}}

There's a very strange relationship between character/plot development and maintaining the status quo. Changing said status, if done poorly, may result in a Dork Age. A Dork Age is a period in a franchise, especially [[Long Runner]]s, where there was a dramatic change of concept or execution, usually [[We're Still Relevant, Dammit!|to stay current]], and it simply did ''not'' work.

There's a very strange relationship between character/plot development and maintaining the status quo. Changing said status, if done poorly, may result in a '''Dork Age'''. A Dork Age is a period in a franchise, especially [[Long Runner]]s, where there was a dramatic change of concept or execution, usually [[We're Still Relevant, Dammit!|to stay current]], and it simply did ''not'' work.

It could be an ill-advised "new direction". Or a costume change that was dated the instant it premiered. Maybe it's [[Fad Super|a timely gimmick that was dated five months before it premiered]]. Perhaps the character lost their trademark powers and went through a run of very different ones. Or there was a [[Retcon]] that revealed something that didn't quite gel, or attached a completely new mythos that came off as completely at odds with a character's history and overall mood. Sudden [[Genre Shift]]s. [[Cloning Blues|Clones]]. [[The Scrappy|Scrappies]]. Many and unsubtle are the forms of the '''Dork Age'''.