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{{quote|''"All memory of your existence will be wiped from reality. You will die, and no one will mourn."''
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A character seems to vanish off the face of the earth. Sometimes people just disappear, but this is something more. People who should know about it aren't even sure who the person was. Photos look the same, but without them in. Their loved ones either don't exist at all, or are in love with someone else. They never existed. They're not just gone, they're '''Ret-Gone'''.
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* Linda Park, the wife of the third [[Flash]], was Ret-Goned by a supervillain at her ''wedding'', just before vows were exchanged. The groom found himself at home, confused and vaguely aware that something was missing, but unable to figure out what it was. Eventually (a year and a half later) she was restored to her proper place and the ceremony resumed.
** Although Bart Allen (Impulse) could still see and remember her. Of course, his grasp on reality is a [[Cloudcuckoolander|little]] [[Crazy Awesome|off]].
* In the ''[[She Hulk]]'' story "Time of Her Life", the [[Time Police| Time Variance Authority's]] method of execution is the Retroactive Cannon, AKA the RetCan, which does this to anyone shot with it. Including, in that very story, Knight Man and Dr. Rocket. [[Appeal to Obscurity|Who, you ask? Well, isn't that the point...]] Oddly, this method has a safety catch applied in order to prevent ''most'' [[Make Wrong What Once Went Right|temporal paradox scenario]]s, as it alters history to replace the victim with someone else -
* In a ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' storyline, the New Mutants (a group of teenage mutants being trained as the next generation of X-Men) were RetGoned by a [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]] called the Beyonder. The only one to remember their existence was Kitty Pryde, who had a magical connection to one of the New Mutants that [[God Mode Sue|even the Beyonder's godlike powers couldn't erase]].
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* [[Neil Gaiman]] seems to be a fan of this. In addition to ''[[Neverwhere]]'', he also used this in the ''[[The Sandman|Sandman]]'' arc "World's End".
* The situation with [[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]]'s children, if any, was always pretty vaguely defined and caught up in [[Continuity Snarl]]. All of them are eliminated wholesale as a result of the ''One More Day'' storyline; his now-impossible future daughter even (somehow) shows up to chew him out for being [[What an Idiot!|an idiot]] and taking a [[Deal with the Devil]] just before he goes through with it. Fortunately, she's still alive and starring in [[Spider-Girl|her own comic]] in an [[Alternate Continuity]].
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