retroactive continuity

revision of existing facts in fiction by succeeding work
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retroactive continuity

Summary

retroactive continuity is a literary technique[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of literary_technique entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,313 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • retroactive continuity's image is recorded as Sidney Paget - Original illustration of The Death of Sherlock Holmes, 1893.png[3].
  • retroactive continuity's instance of is recorded as literary technique[4].
  • retroactive continuity's instance of is recorded as Wikibase reason for deprecated rank[5].
  • retroactive continuity's subclass of is recorded as setting[6].
  • retroactive continuity's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/06kzv[7].
  • retroactive continuity's described by source is recorded as Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction[8].
  • retroactive continuity's Comic Vine ID is recorded as 4015-43566[9].
  • retroactive continuity's Fandom article ID is recorded as memory-alpha:Retroactive_continuity[10].
  • retroactive continuity's Fandom article ID is recorded as tropedia:Retcon[11].
  • retroactive continuity's Fandom article ID is recorded as fr.memory-alpha:Continuité_rétroactive[12].
  • retroactive continuity's TV Tropes ID is recorded as Main/Retcon[13].
  • retroactive continuity's IMDb keyword is recorded as retcon[14].
  • retroactive continuity's IMDb keyword is recorded as retroactive-continuity[15].
  • retroactive continuity's Fanlore article ID is recorded as Retcon[16].

Why It Matters

retroactive continuity ranks in the top 4% of literary_technique entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,313 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] It is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . sfdictionary.com. Retrieved . sfdictionary.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . memory-alpha.fandom.com. Retrieved . memory-alpha.fandom.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . tropedia.fandom.com. Retrieved . tropedia.fandom.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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