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** The writer of ''[[Wicked (Literature)|Wicked]]'', Gregory Maguire, has made a cottage industry out of this practice, also creating revisionist versions of "[[Cinderella (Literature)|Cinderella]]" (''Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister''), "[[Snow White (Literature)|Snow White]]" (''Mirror Mirror'') and ''The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'' (''Lost'').
*** Mirror Mirror gets bonus points for being this ''and'' having [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy]] elements. The evil queen is Lucrezia Borgia.
** In the novel version of ''Wicked'', you don't have to have read [[Land of Oz (Literature)|the books]], but it ''really'' helps, especially in catching all of the [[Shout
** The television adaptation of ''Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister'' even lampshade the retelling, with the narrator saying that viewers who liked the magic explanations of the fairy tale aren't going to be happy with learning that the "true story" was more ordinary.
* ''Wide Sargasso Sea'' by Jean Rhys is the story of how Bertha {{spoiler|(Rochester's first wife)}} from ''[[Jane Eyre]]'' went crazy. Rochester is far less sympathetic than he is in ''[[Jane Eyre]]'', even though part of the book is narrated by him.
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* The fanfiction ''[[The Renegades (Fanfic)|The Renegades]]'' tries to show what really happened to the six Nobodies "killed" in Castle Oblivion during ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]''.
* ''Confessions of a Teen Sleuth'' is an external retcon of the ''[[Nancy Drew]]'' series, narrated by Nancy herself.
* In ''[[Dragon Ball Abridged]]'', the reason King Kai told Goku the planet Vegeta was [[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies|destroyed by a meteor]] instead of the real reason was because Frieza [[Wiki Vandal|vandalized the wiki page]] and [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny|Goku lost interest]] before King Kai could check the edit history.
* In L. Jagi Lamplighter's ''[[Prosperos Daughter|Prospero Lost]]'', Miranda explains where [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''[[The Tempest]]'' diverges from the facts. For one thing, she did not get married.
* In the ''[[Cops]]''-[[X Meets Y|in]]-''Star Wars'' parody ''Troops'', Luke's foster parents weren't killed by Imperials. Aunt Beru, during a domestic dispute that the Storm Troopers were checking in on (and were quite familiar with), grabs a thermal detonator from one of the Troops and blows up herself, Owen and the farm house.
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