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{{quote|'''Black Mage:'''
'''Sarda:'''
|''[[8-Bit Theater]]'', [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/05/23/episode-1131-turnabout-isnt-fair-play/ "Episode 1131: Turnabout Isn't Fair Play"]}}
If a [[Retcon]] is changing the past, and a [[Cosmic Retcon]] is an in-universe changing of the past, then '''Retconjuration''' <s> never happened</s> is the ability to ''create'' a Cosmic Retcon. Possibly a subtrope of [[Reality Warper]], and <s> [[Noodle Incident|was once mayor of New York]]</s> may or may not involve [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall|leaning on]], [[Painting the Fourth Wall|painting]] or [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|breaking]] the Fourth Wall, or pressing a literal [[Reset Button]]. (Although, depending on the scale of the Retconjuration instance, it may categorically force other in-universe examples of [[Reality Warper]] into becoming an in-universe subtrope of Retconjuration itself.)
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Compare [[Peggy Sue]]. Contrast [[Ret-Gone]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* {{spoiler|Madoka using her wish to do this}} in the final episode of ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]''.
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** Also, there's a Ter'angreal that does it. ''Uncontrollably''. Only the most depraved villains are willing to even go near the thing.
* [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]'s ''[[The Lathe of Heaven]]'': George Orr's "effective dreams" change not only the present but the past as well: people don't realize that the world has changed (and was different in the past).
* ''[[Discworld]]'' [[Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti|yeti]] can leave a "[[Save Point|bookmark]]" at some moment in time and later snap back to it if they are killed or in other troubles -- [[Save Scumming|now]] ''[[Save Scumming|knowing]]'' [[Save Scumming|what's going to happen and able to avoid it]]. They died out. Several times.
** Or, for those who aren't aware of the entirety of time, they most definitely did not go extinct. Ever, and if you thought they did then you're remembering wrong. Again.
* In the Jonathan Lethem novel ''Amnesia Moon'' this power is possessed by a number of people, which to some extent includes main character Chaos/Everett Moon. The effect is that as you move across the country, you can be thrown from one reality into another that's completely different.
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