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-{{trope}}
-{{quote|"''I reckon there's been a lot of chaps in our position, down across the years. Makes you wonder, doesn't it? Makes you wonder how much of the world is true.''"|'''Fred Abberline''', ''[[From Hell]]''}}
-Writers never let the facts get in the way of a good story. If reality doesn't fit the plot, it can be [[Retcon|changed]]. History and myth are the most common targets of this - it's much easier to convince the viewers that a 9th century pope was actually a woman disguised as a man than that the current pope is female.
-When this [[Reality Retcon]] is a story premise [[Plausible Deniability]] is generally the aim, but the retcon remains a clear, deliberate, and direct contradiction of generally accepted facts.
-Common examples are:
-* [[Ancient Astronauts]]: Gods or legendary figures were really [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien|aliens]].
-* [[Ancient Conspiracy]]: All history is just a charade, staged by a secret society.
-* [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy]]: An historical character had a secret life.
-* [[The Gump]]: An original and/or unlikely character is [[The Man Behind the Man]] causing well-known historical events.
-** [[Julius Beethoven Da Vinci]]: Many historical characters were all the same long-lived person.
-* [[E.T. Gave Us Wi-Fi]]: The development of human technology got a boost somewhere from little green men.
-* [[Historical In-Joke]]: history is rewritten for the sake of a single joke.
-* [[Retroactive Legacy]]: Pretending that a given debut work is actually the latest in a longer series going back years.
-{{reflist}}
-[[Category:Continuity Tropes]]
-[[Category:The Shades of Fact]]
-[[Category:Reality Retcon]]