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:* ''[[Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?]]'' uses this Trope to prove a point: {{spoiler|there must always be a Batman, regardless of retcons and alternate realities.}}
:* The early 2020s revelation that there are actually ''three'' Jokers either simplifies or complicates matters, depending on your point of view. At least until they get [[Retcon]]ned back into a single individual.
::* Of course, in the end, it really doesn't matter - most will attest that whoever the Joker used to be perished when he fell into that vat of chemicals, spawning an evil that would plague the Dark Knight his entire career.
* In the 80s, an issue of ''[[The Question]]'' reinvented [[the Riddler]]; his real name was Edward Nashton, and he changed it to Edward Nygma when he became the Riddler. His obsession with riddles wasn't born from cheating in a school competition and wanting to prove how clever he was; it was a compulsion to tell the truth due to a violent father. It also claimed that he was never a major Batman villain. Later, [[Neil Gaiman]] wrote a ''Secret Origins'' story in which Riddler retells his classic origin, before adding "Or maybe I'm a frustrated second-rater called Nashton with a meaningless schtick!"
::* The Riddler's latest origin, post-''[[Infinite Crisis]]'', is ''largely'' his classic origin... but his real name is Edward Nashton.
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