Cerebus Retcon: Difference between revisions

One tactic of [[Cerebus Syndrome]] is to [[Retcon|retroactively]] [[Deconstruction|deconstruct]] previous [[Rule of Funny|wackiness]] and then play it straight. As a result, a [[Comedy Tropes|comedy standard]] (such as [[Non-Fatal Explosions]]) passes over into drama as something serious, perhaps being reframed as a superpower of one of the characters. A character may make a heartfelt speech about how a previous wacky-seeming escapade was ''actually'' quite emotionally or physically scarring ("''I'' didn't just slip on that banana peel... that day, my ''heart'' slipped on that [[Banana Peel]]... and it never really got back up.")

 

 

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