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{{quote|"Every time the TARDIS materializes in a new location, within the first nanosecond of landing it analyzes its surroundings, calculates a twelve-dimensional data map of everything within a thousand mile radius and determines which outer shell would blend in better with the environment... and then it disguises itself as a police telephone box from 1963."
|'''[[Doctor Who|The Doctor]]''' }}
Sometimes, a character or gimmick seems to no longer fit with the mood or design of a story according to a writer, but is kept because there seems to be no way for the writer to get rid of them without causing some serious disruption (unrelated to [[Retcon]]s).
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Sometimes it's due to being tied in closely to the mythos or that '''The Artifact''' has just been around so long that removing it seems like overstepping bounds. And if it's due to pure fan popularity, the producers probably aren't going to push it out in any case for no reason.
The general way to solve this problem is to avoid it, or rather, them. You can bet anyone considered
Very common in [[Web Comic
Occasionally this ''is'' caught early enough, though in [[Long Runners]] this results in a odd [[Bleached Underpants]] situation ''within'' a series, usually from [[Author Appeal]] tastes.
Compare [[Grandfather Clause]]. Contrast [[Canon Immigrant]], [[Pinball Protagonist]], [[Breakout Character]] and [[Creator's Pet]]. See also [[Artifact Title]]. See [[Network Decay]] when this happens to an entire channel. On occasion
This [[Trope]] has nothing to do with magical items or similar ancient objects of power; for that, see [[Ancient Artifact]] or [[Artifact of Doom]].
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** And in the Tim Drake era, Robin generally only occasionally appears as a regular in Batman's series, appearing more in his own book and in [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]].
* [[Spider-Man]]'s Aunt May. Her original purpose was to be an unwitting obstruction in Peter's life for drama's sake: She was very frail so illness could strike at any moment, she didn't have much money so Peter had to get a job to support the family and her constant worrying about Peter not meant sneaking out to be Spider-Man was tricky but kept Peter from telling her his secret (out of fear she'd die of shock). When Peter finally moved out of the house and was on his own he was free from her smothering while May herself was able to sell her house and move in with her friend, meaning she had a nest egg to live off of and had someone to take care of her. After that there wasn't really anything for her to do in the book except die. In-fact on her death bed, pre-retcon, she revealed ''she knew Peter was Spider-Man''.
** And as of the reintroduction of Spider-Man to the [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]], Aunt May is now a healthy, fit woman in late middle age, who as of the end of ''[[Spider-Man: Homecoming]]'' knows what her nephew does with his free time.
* This has increasingly applied to the [[Young Justice]] members. When they made their debut in the 90s, they were meant as a [[Lighter and Softer]] [[Reconstruction]] of the [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]], but away from all the angst and drama the Titans had, and they were widely praised for having all of the camaraderie and none of the drama that had affected the Titans. Unfortunately, the ''Graduation Day'' event saw both the Titans and Young Justice disband, and the team becoming part of the Titans proper, where they were given very different characterization. While criticized for the characterization, the run did start well, but [[Infinite Crisis]] saw the death of Superboy due to [[Screwed by the Lawyers]] and Impulse, who already had become Kid Flash during the Titans run, getting an [[Age Lift]] and becoming the Flash due to [[Executive Meddling]], while Robin and Wonder Girl got hit with severe [[Flanderization]], obsessing over Connor, having violent tempers and treating the other Titan members horribly, especially Rose Wilson. This, combined with the Titans introducing new members, then killing them off, caused the popularity of the Young Justice members to plummet. The New 52 reboot that followed was even worse, with their personalities becoming nothing like they were in their Young Justice days, and their popularity entered a brutal nadir. While the original team was revived and brought back in 2019, the reemergence of the core Teen Titans, and other characters taking the titles the Young Justice members originally held meant they lost the last remaining things that made them stand out, and unless it is a Young Justice event, they don't make appearances in other comic books.
== [[Film]] ==
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== Professional Wrestling ==
* [[The Undertaker]] was born during the tail end of the [[WWF]]'s Rock n Wrestling Era, when [[Made of Iron]] [[Invincible Hero]]es were at the peak of popularity, and the beginning of the New Generation, where cartoony gimmicks and [[Wrestling Doesn't Pay|second jobs]] were the order of the day. Accordingly, he was a wrestling grave digger-slash-zombie-slash-dark [[Superhero]]-slash-[[Anthropomorphic Personification]] [[Grim Reaper|of death]], and it worked pretty well, as Taker quickly became one of the most popular wrestlers on the card. With the coming of the Attitude Era, and the change in tone to a [[Darker and Edgier]], grittier and more realistic presentation, Taker no longer quite fit in. They tried numerous tweaks to make him fit better (giving him a family history, making him over into a cult leader, etc), but eventually, they just said, "Screw it," and completely scrapped the old gimmick, re-inventing him as a [[All Bikers Are Hells Angels|biker thug]]. After a few years, by popular demand, Taker returned to his old "Deadman" character; it seems that [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] has [[Grandfather Clause|simply accepted]] that Undertaker's portion of the show is just the little corner of their universe where reality no longer applies.
** One weird contradiction is the fact that [[The Undertaker]] has accepted the rise of MMA with more grace than almost any other wrestler and has incorporated a large number of the moves into his arsenal, and wears MMA-style gloves to the ring. So you have the most anachronistic character following up his "old-school" ropewalk with a very realistic looking triangle choke.
*** And the Hells Gate, as ludicrous as it looks is [[wikipedia:Gogoplata|an actual submission hold]]
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=== Other ===
* [[Adult Swim]] was so named because it referred to the period where kids are ordered out of public pools so that only seniors can swim in it, and when it first launched in 2001, it even featured bumpers of kids being told to get out of the pool along with seniors enjoying their time. Sometime around 2003, these were replaced with the "white text on black" style bumpers seen today, though the name hasn't lost all meaning — it still trades in child-unfriendly shows.
* Changes in analog to digital formats has left many artifacts in language. For example, with digital video modern flicks don't ''flick''er, the length of footage isn't measured in footage, and the film isn't on film.
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