All The Tropes

Negative Continuity: Difference between revisions

Page Discussion

Negative Continuity (view source)

Revision as of 02:19, 11 April 2017

9 bytes removed ,  7 years ago
update links
VisualWikitext
(update links)
Line 112:
** This isn't entirely the case with the RPGs, however, where events in past games are occasionally referenced.
*** But this is because after ''[[Super Mario RPG]]'' and ''[[Paper Mario]]'', Miyamoto doesn't even touch the RPGs.
** While Princess Peach's castle looks more or less the same every time it appeared, its surrounding area or maybe even the interior changes with each appearance. In contrast, Bowser's own castle remains inconsistent in terms of design, though the ''[[Mario & Luigi]]'' and ''[[New Super Mario Bros.]].'' games have their own standardized designs for the outside view of the castle. The latter may be justified that his castle is shown getting destroyed in almost every game it appears in.
** So basically, story-wise, every Mario game reboots.
* In ''[[Drawn to Life]]: The Next Chapter'' for the DS, Galileo is nowhere to be found for some reason. It's not even said where he went to.
Line 156:
* [[The Spoony Experiment|"There is no continuity, there is only Insano"]]. Spoony is determined to introduce a [[Multiple Choice Past|new possible origin story for Dr. Insano]] in nearly every episode he appears in. [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Is he a version of Spoony from another universe?]] [[Final Fantasy I|Did Spoony get a doctorate and travel back in time to give his past self all the science he could ever need?]] [[Kickassia|Is he the Mr. Hyde to Spoony's Dr. Jekkyl?]] Or is he one of the Schlumper brothers? All we know for sure is that the guy loves him some '''[[For Science!|SCIENCE!]]'''
* [[Hardly Working]] (except Jake and Amir) with the worst example being ''Die Hardly Working'' - people die and come back to life in the episode
* The two ongoing series on [[Red Letter MediaRedLetterMedia]], the Plinkett Reviews and ''Half In The Bag'', both adhere to this. In the case of HITB, though, this is subverted by reality: the living room set is gradually destroyed by the ongoing antics of the characters, and the beer bottles consumed in previous episodes are left to accumulate, to the point where it's difficult to move around without running into them.
* ''[[RWBY Chibi]]'' operates on this in regards to the main ''[[RWBY]]'' continuity. Certain key events (like {{spoiler|Pyrrha's death}}) are acknowledged, but are simultaneously ignored.
 
Line 201:
* ''[[Count Duckula]]''. Nearly every episode ends like this, with the castle destroyed, or having train-tracks running through it, or having the characters stuck without the castle in another country and having to hitch-hike home. One episode had them complaining about this, and how it takes FOREVER to get back home.
* ''[[The Penguins of Madagascar]]'' does this quite a bit. On the other hand, it also often takes throwaway gags in previous episodes and turns them into running gags (or devotes whole episodes to them!).
* ''[[The Fairly Odd ParentsOddParents]]'': Particularly with the special "[[The Movie|Wishology]]." In this special, Timmy finally becomes [[Genre Savvy]] and makes responsible wishes and even solve some problems on his own without his fairies. However, the next season completely disregards all of this and appears to reset Timmy's character. He, once again, makes very irresponsible wishes.
** In fact, it's moderately common in the show. For example, in one episode, Mr. Crocker does not recognize Poof, who he had a bond with in "Bad Heir Day" (keep in mind, this happened after that episode).
 
Line 210:
[[Category:Consistency]]
[[Category:Rule of Funny]]
[[Category:Negative Continuity{{PAGENAME}}]]
Retrieved from "https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/1504342"