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* For those who have only seen the special editions of ''[[Star Wars]]'', it's weird seeing English writing on things like the tractor beam instead of the Aurebesh that later replaced it. It's also a little weird hearing Han Solo say things like "I'll see you in hell" in ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]'' without the "nine Corellian hells" backstory. Of course, you can file such things under [[Translation Convention]]. Justified in [[Canon]] according to the Hyperspace Article "The Written Word" this is the High Galactic Alphabet. As for use of the Greek Alphabet that is also justified as the Tionese writing system.

** Even in the remastered versions, ''A New Hope'' still contains standard numerals on screen as the Death Star nears Yavin IV. Although they don't match up with the numbers the characters are saying.

** The original Marvel ''[[Star Wars]]'' tie-in comic run had many of these, with mentions of "Sunday school" by Han Solo, Jaxxon talking about "space carrots" (implying that there were places not considered to be from ~~space -- which~~ would be assumed to be Earth), and so on.

** The original Marvel ''[[Star Wars]]'' tie-in comic run had many of these, with mentions of "Sunday school" by Han Solo, Jaxxon talking about "space carrots" (implying that there were places not considered to be from space—which would be assumed to be Earth), and so on.

** The Ewok Adventure live-action TV movies had real-world horses and animals.

** ''The [[Star Wars Holiday Special]]'' (which, thankfully, didn't directly reference Christmas, unlike the [thankfully non-canon] album pictured) had many examples of [[Schizo-Tech|20th-century Earth technology]], ranging from eyeglasses, which are usually a rarity in the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]], to what appears to be a commercially available personal computer from the late 1970s.

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== Tabletop Games ==

* ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' currently has a defined multiverse setting, but it originally didn't. The first sets took place in Dominaria, but then there was an ''[[Arabian Nights]]''-themed set, which was later [[~~Retcon|retconned~~]] as taking place on the world of Rabiah. Also, older cards were more likely to have quotes from real-world sources such as [[William Shakespeare]] for their flavor text. This is still occasionaly done, but only in core sets, which don't have a storyline of their own.

* ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' currently has a defined multiverse setting, but it originally didn't. The first sets took place in Dominaria, but then there was an ''[[Arabian Nights]]''-themed set, which was later [[retcon]]ned as taking place on the world of Rabiah. Also, older cards were more likely to have quotes from real-world sources such as [[William Shakespeare]] for their flavor text. This is still occasionaly done, but only in core sets, which don't have a storyline of their own.

** Particularly, a rather confusing distinction had to be made due to an old card referencing "Dominia" instead of "Dominaria." The ultimate answer was that "Dominia" is essentially ''Magic's'' multiverse, though only this one, obscure card calls it such.

* [[Exalted]] was originally the prehistory of the Earth (actually the [[Old World of Darkness]]). That's now ignored.

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* In ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]'', Captain Qwark becomes [[The Artifact|a bizarre holdover,]] being the only human or human-like character in any of the games.

** He has two fingers and a thumb on each hand. Whatever he is, he is definitely not human.

* ''[[Super Mario Bros.]].'' ended up losing any connection to Earth or Earth-like locations as the series went on. Note the 'realistic in comparison' settings of the original arcade ''[[Donkey Kong]]'' and ''[[Mario Bros]].'', then those of the later platform game series; then note how, after ''[[Yoshi's Island]]'', the whole [[Fanon]]/manual-led Brooklyn thing got slowly [[~~Retcon|retconned~~]] out of existence.

* ''[[Super Mario Bros.]].'' ended up losing any connection to Earth or Earth-like locations as the series went on. Note the 'realistic in comparison' settings of the original arcade ''[[Donkey Kong]]'' and ''[[Mario Bros]].'', then those of the later platform game series; then note how, after ''[[Yoshi's Island]]'', the whole [[Fanon]]/manual-led Brooklyn thing got slowly [[retcon]]ned out of existence.

* ''[[Warcraft]] I'' had references to God, hell and churches with crosses. Now they have been retconned into "the Light" and "the Twisting Nether".

* In the original ''[[The Legend of Zelda (video game)|The Legend of Zelda]]'' and ''[[Zelda II: The Adventure of Link|Zelda II the Adventure of Link]]'', Link has a cross on his shield, which according to [[Word of God]] was added because the series was originally going to be based in the religion of Christianity rather than the three goddesses and the symbol of the Triforce in later games. A Christian-esque sanctuary appears in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past|The Legend of Zelda a Link To T He Past]]'', and both the NES original makes reference to a Bible ("Magic Book" in English translation) and a cross appears as a magical artifact in ''Zelda II''. And as late as ''A Link To The Past'', there is artwork of Link ''bowing down before a cross with Jesus clearly carved on it'' (especially weird because that was the game that introduced the Golden Goddesses).