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== Comic Books ==

* The comic maxi-series ''[[Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld]]'', although published by [[DC Comics]], was originally a self-contained fantasy series about a suburban teenage girl named Amy Winston, who lives a double life. On another world, the Gemworld, she is Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld. It was a wonderful twelve-issue maxi-series, with a well-thought out fantasy world filled with drama, rivalrous nobility, and fascinating characters. It was so successful it [[Post Script Season|spawned an ongoing series]]. Unfortunately, in order to attract more readers to the series, the writer Dan Mishkin had Amethyst team with Superman in the team-up title ''DC Comics Presents'', therefore establishing that Amethyst was part of the DC universe. This could have easily been ignored -- except that when Mishkin left the ongoing series and was replaced, the new creative team decided to further tie her world into the existing DC universe with a series of retcons tying Gemworld in to Dr. Fate's Lords of Order and the Sorcerer's World of the [[Legion of Super-Heroes (~~Comic Book~~)|Legion of Super-Heroes]]. In the process, the ''Amethyst'' series lost the epic fantasy feel, and became just another mystical superhero title. It was cancelled soon afterward. Some can easily imagine the series being rebooted with the story of the original twelve-issue maxiseries intact, but the Superman teamup (which occured outside the maxiseries) retconned out. That teamup was Amethyst's Franchise Original Sin.

* The comic maxi-series ''[[Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld]]'', although published by [[DC Comics]], was originally a self-contained fantasy series about a suburban teenage girl named Amy Winston, who lives a double life. On another world, the Gemworld, she is Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld. It was a wonderful twelve-issue maxi-series, with a well-thought out fantasy world filled with drama, rivalrous nobility, and fascinating characters. It was so successful it [[Post Script Season|spawned an ongoing series]]. Unfortunately, in order to attract more readers to the series, the writer Dan Mishkin had Amethyst team with Superman in the team-up title ''DC Comics Presents'', therefore establishing that Amethyst was part of the DC universe. This could have easily been ignored -- except that when Mishkin left the ongoing series and was replaced, the new creative team decided to further tie her world into the existing DC universe with a series of retcons tying Gemworld in to Dr. Fate's Lords of Order and the Sorcerer's World of the [[Legion of Super-Heroes (comics)|Legion of Super-Heroes]]. In the process, the ''Amethyst'' series lost the epic fantasy feel, and became just another mystical superhero title. It was cancelled soon afterward. Some can easily imagine the series being rebooted with the story of the original twelve-issue maxiseries intact, but the Superman teamup (which occured outside the maxiseries) retconned out. That teamup was Amethyst's Franchise Original Sin.

* ''[[Crisis on Infinite Earths]]''. While cleaning up the [[Continuity Snarl]] that was the multiverse was a good idea, bringing [[Retcon]] to whole new levels and unleashing the horror that was the [[Dark Age]] of comics did not help things.

** And you can't accuse Crisis on Infinite Earths without also pointing the finger at the fateful "Flash of Two Worlds" story from 1961, establishing the idea of Golden and Silver Age versions of the same heroes coexisting in separate universes and traveling between them. If the Crisis was Original Sin, "Flash of Two Worlds" was its corresponding Fall of Lucifer.