“Because the TV show, The Conners, retconned the past of the original show, Rosanne, so many times it would have been better if the showrunners had simply called it The RetConners.” 😂
Retcon noun
ret-kon
Definition: Revision of the back story of a previously established a work of fiction to recontextualize it.
verb
Forms: -cons, -conning, -conned
a sort of synonym: gaslight
Example sentence from an EpicentRx-authored manuscript: “In our revisionary interpretation or ‘retcon,’ the “world” is the tumor and “fire” is the T cell antitumor immune response that triggers its “destruction.”
Origin: Shortened from the term, ret(roactive) con(tinuity).