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* The DCU's [[Crisis Crossover]]s (and not just the ones actually bearing the Crisis name) [[Cosmic Retcon|altered reality]], changing the pasts and presents of a variety of characters. ''[[The Legion of Super Heroes]]'' has had ''three'' such reality reboots (counting the original Crisis.) Also, retellings of characters' origins will vastly alter them on occasion, with no Crisis-type justification. As such, most DC characters with a significant amount of history have multiple formerly-canonical histories, as well as ones that are ''equally'' canonical but completely incompatible.
** [[Superman]], for example, has a ''canonical'' multiple-choice past: he was given the choice between two of his innumerable origin stories, and he picked the one that he liked more (and, incidentally, made more sense).
* A Multiple Choice Past is almost canon for the [[Trope Namer|Joker]], as evidenced by his quote at the top of the page. A number of writers have given him a different origin in the past fifty or sixty years, and all of them are half-canon, because [[The Joker]] [http://dccomics.com/dcu/heroes_and_villains/?hv=origin_stories/joker&p=1 isn't sure himself.] {{broken link}}
{{quote|'''Joker:''' Sometimes I remember it one way, sometimes another. If I'm going to have a past, [[Trope Namer| I prefer it to be multiple-choice]].}}
** This is played with in ''[[The Dark Knight Saga]]'', as [[The Joker]] gives two wildly different tragic origins for his scars.
** Also played with in one issue of ''Robin'', which starts off with a flashback about a green-haired, white-skinned boy in a purple shirt with a pony. "Or was it a bike?" the narration muses. "No, a pony." The little boy did something bad, and then his daddy shot the pony in front of him. Cut to the Joker, narrating, and he's actually weeping real tears. He's in a cell at Arkham, and a speaker on the wall asks him if the story is true, because it's the ''seventh'' [[Freudian Excuse]] story he's told them.
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