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* The first ''[[Fafhrd and The Gray Mouser]]'' stories by [[Fritz Leiber]] took place on Earth, before the world of Lankhmar was written into the series, with the result that when collected, some lines had to be added explaining why they were on Earth.
* The first two books in the ''[[Kushiel's Legacy]]'' series are basically political thrillers with a bunch of [[Historical In-Joke|HistoricalInJokes]] and bondage sex. Gods are an acknowledged presence throughout, but until the third book, they aren't much more than flavor to the [[Backstory]]. This escalates, however, through the second trilogy, culminating with the heroes of that trilogy founding a university to study magic, and the heroine of the ''third'' trilogy being quite explicitly magical.
* The original version of ''[[The Dark Tower/The Gunslinger|The Gunslinger]]'' by [[Stephen King]] contains numerous hints that the book is set on Earth [[After the End]], but later books in ''[[The Dark Tower]]'' series established that Roland's world was distinct from ours, and most of these hints were removed in the revised edition.
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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]]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).
** Though such real world links were generally done away with by the time ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]'' came around, that game still features one notable example: the use of the star-and-crescent as the symbol of the desert-based Gerudo. Both newer versions of ''Ocarina Of Time'' and subsequent games replaced the star-and-crescent with a symbol that looks like the head of some insect.
* ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'', since the ''III'' era. ''Grand Theft Auto III'' even had a reference to the then-fresh elected president [[George W. Bush]]; later installments had almost no real life persons. Then ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV]]'' comes out, which does away with even more real-life stuff - FBI is replaced with FIB, SWAT is replaced with NOOSE, all guns are [[AKA-47]] now, and the president in 2008 was Joe Lawton, [[George W. Bush|who is stated to be a buffoon]] [[George H. W. Bush|whose father was also president]] [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|several decades prior]].
* ''[[Pokémon Red and Blue]]'' make a large number of references to real locations and events. For example, a model of Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' and an [[NPC]] who discusses travels to the moon are present. It becomes an unnamed spaceship in the ''FireRed/LeafGreen'' remakes (which managed to keep intact every other real-world reference that no longer makes sense).
* Inverted in [[Sonic the Hedgehog]]. It originally started in a very fantastic looking world, which later (coinciding with the 3D games) shifted to an alternate Earth.
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