Ret-Gone: Difference between revisions

1,179 bytes removed ,  5 years ago
(Rescuing 1 sources and tagging 0 as dead. #IABot (v2.0beta9))
Line 71:
* In [[Chrononauts]], this is done with the aptly-named card "Your Parents Never Met". The chosen player's [[Secret Identity]] is revealed, and they must trade it in for a new one.
* Pre-Crisis, ''[[Supergirl]]'' fought a villain named Black Flame whose plan to defeat her was to trick the heroine into ''attempting'' this. Claiming to be a descendant of Supergirl from the future, Black Flame committed a few random acts of vandalism, and then "generously" let her "ancestor" see archived recordings of the future, where she ruled as a cruel and murderous tyrant. In truth, the archives were fake, and Black Flame was a citizen of the shrunken city of Kandor; she had hoped that Supergirl would expose herself to gold kryptonite to erase her powers to prevent any descendants from having them - which, of course, would render her helpless while not getting rid of Black Flame at all. There was one flaw in the villain's plan - {{spoiler|a ''dental filling'' which Supergirl noticed, which she realized an actual descendant would not have.}}
* ''[[X-Men| X-Men: Legacy]]'' introduced a character named "Forget-Me-Not", a member of the X-Men whose mutant power made everyone forget he existed the second his existence drifted from their minds. (That's right, this guy is ''a member of the core team'' of mainstream Marvel, and has been so since M-Day at least; his heroic actions include fighting the Brood, acting as a soldier during the Age of X, and saving the other members from death, enslavement, and many other horrid fates.) He was used tongue-in-cheek to explain why certain bad guys tend to have something happen to their super awesome weapons at the last moment and things like that. (Why did the team luck out and escape that death trap that seemed flawless? Forget-Me-Not sabotaged it. How could they have survived those rigged explosions that were strong enough to vaporize the island? Forget-Me-Not disarmed it. He seems to be the catch-all way to describe any confusing [[Deus Ex Machina]] in the Mutant Books.) The only one who remembered him was Xavier, who put in an "alarm clock" telepathically to remind him of his existence and the guy took it hard when Xavier died during ''[[Avengers vs. X-Men]]''
 
== Comic Books ==