Retconned in a sentence

DC history can be rather tangled, as years of events were retconned or rebooted, making consistency difficult to maintain.

Marvel recently retconned an interesting detail about 's hero origin story 15 years after his big screen debut.

Thankfully, Marvel since retconned the storyline.

Because McIntire had already appeared on the program as a preacher during the second season's "The Andrew Hale Story," Christopher Hale is retconned as that character's brother.

Hal would later return as the Spectre and try to make amends for his evil, and his responsibility for all of this would later be retconned entirely.

This origin has changed several times over the years, with Eobard eventually being retconned into an obsessed fan in the far future who accidentally learns he's destined to become Flash's nemesis, creating a twisted sense of duty to live up to his role.

Former Doctor Who showrunner Russell T. Davies has retconned the Doctor's regenerative powers - and explained a mystery from the 1996 movie.

Green's succeeded because it retconned the series and remedied plot holes and issues that its subsequent sequels and various timelines contained.

His sidekick was a dog named Thor, who was later retconned to be a robotic sentry operating under the auspices of the Manhunter cult.

Like most comic book characters, Billy's origins have been retconned several times, but the basic premise remains the same.

Many fans instantly disliked how Star Trek: Discovery changed the design of the Klingons, but this actually isn't the first time the warrior race was retconned.

The feeling was Johnson retconned much of to better fit his film, but according to Abrams that isn't the case at all.

However, in 1951 the character of Donna was retconned in a newspaper comic strip where she appeared as a separate character from Daisy and as an unwitting rival for Donald's affections.

Its lore retconned the ending of Ultima I, stating that when the Stranger shattered the Gem of Immortality, he discovered that it was tied to the world itself, therefore its shards each contained a miniature version of Britannia.

The event was placed by Carl Barks in 1879 during the story, but it would later be retconned by Don Rosa to 1909 to fit with Scrooge's later-established personal history.

The revival of the character in the mid-1950s was short-lived, and events during that time period are later retconned to show that multiple people operated using the code name to explain the changes in the character.

Toho has retconned TriStar's Godzillas as Zilla for future appearances.