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Anonymous asked
Is it me, or when people talk about continuity errors do they often seem to be referring to things that aren't really continuity errors, like a) Failing to refer to an event when they think it should have been referred to, or b) Having a character behave differently from the way they think he should behave? I get annoyed by those things too, but I think a real continuity error is something like saying two characters never met before when they did.

brevoortformspring:

For sure. There are also the ones I love the most, where they complain about us not having picked a character up from a particular status quo when there had already been a later story that changed that status quo that they must have missed.

Your personal continuity isn’t necessarily “THE” continuity.

As weird as it sounds sometimes it helps if you look at fiction as if it were an adaptation. For example: Avengers exist somewhere out in the multiverse and Marvel comics are just telling fictionalized portrayals of their adventures. Avengers 200 was really ham-fisted the way it “showed” the reactions to Carol’s pregnancy, I’m sure the “true version” was much more nuanced. The drawings in comics are just the actors reading lines…

It’s how I can sometimes deal with bad actors with a good script or vice verse.

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  2. giraffepoliceforce said: Also when people describe something as a retcon when in actually it just establishes backstory without conflicting with canon in any way. Drives me crazy.
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