Sentences with word «retcon»

It's in Real Truth host Brett O'Keefe (Jake Weber) manipulating the reality of Andrew's demise, running a sort of retcon game for his right - wing audience; in Majid Javadi (Shaun Toub) shamelessly turning on his country, Saul (Mandy Patinkin), and the truth for personal gain; and Peter Quinn (Rupert Friend) again suffering the consequences of taking stock of the wrong truth behind his paranoia.

The movie bends over backwards to connect itself to the unofficial trilogy it follows, teasing a sequel - uniting retcon in the passable opening credits sequence.

It also builds off the other installments, connecting all of Craig's Bond films together in an effective way (even if it does retcon certain elements from this new -LSB-...]

As with most retcons, the reality is that Hideo Kojima never planned on Solid Snake having any sort of blood relation to Big Boss until Metal Gear Solid.

I have never seen a sequel retcon so many details and bury itself in inconsistency just to make a movie where the alien is just a typical Hollywood Slasher.

If you go back to the original comics, the decision to freeze Steve in ice was a bit of a clumsy retcon, a way to make Cap a contemporary of the new 1960s superheroes without sacrificing his World War II origins.

Please make something that picks up the story after Fusion, or even a game that retcons fusion as a new «4th» in the series.

In their latest look at notable comic book retcons, CSBG examines how Doctor Doom's greatest revenge success might have been a load of hogwash.

After the timey - wimey complexities of that convoluted retcon, though, X-Men: Apocalypse marks a return to simpler ideas: a giant, blue guy trying to destroy the world and a school - load of good mutants trying to stop him.

In essence, Spectre is an elaborate retcon job, a bid to turn the Craig movies into a unified trilogy (yes, technically a tetralogy; bear with me).

We'll see if they have to retcon much to make it fit, but Gilroy is a talented writer so I'm sure he has it under control.

That said, we're willing to give retcons a chance.

Franchise retcon is all the rage at the moment; Shane Black is doing it with The Predator, and the next installment of the Terminator franchise will erase Rise of the Machine onwards.

Indeed, people have already started worrying about plot holes and retcons along the lines of Vamp's immortality and Big Boss's dead - alive - dead - alive status, and although Kojima didn't get into specifics during our conversation, he did tell us he has other priorities.

And as soon as you open that up, I continued, you can conceivably retcon the Fantastic Four into the X-Men Universe...

Let's imagine that we could magically retcon the ebook market so that it was now evenly split between all five major aspirants (Amazon, Kobo, B&N, Apple, Google).

Here's the thing though... comic readers are actually coming out ahead on this whole redemption code retcon because Marvel is also providing a free copy of a comic that serves as a jumping - on - point for another series.

Not the dumb retcon Venom whatever dude.

The exact time the game takes place is very confusing throughout the game, and a lot of the lore regarding the Genies and why they don't linger in the mortal realm actively retcons the original game, despite this not being a reboot of the series.

But at least there's no room for a «Falcon shot first» retcon here.

This doesn't retcon the first games, but it also gives the first game a much deserved re-boot, which I have been waiting for for a long time.

The plot is extremely contrived, beginning with a laughable retcon of the series that creates all kinds of continuity issues.

The over-starched dialogue falls flat, and the mythology it attempts to retcon into Destiny's already patchwork plot can't hide its last - minute invention in the wake of Destiny 2's delay into next year.

The creators apparently thought so too, considering that the game basically retcons itself in the end.

Thanos creator Jim Starlin would later retcon this loss, as well as the Ka - Zar incident, as being against mere clones.

So it is true that Metal Gear Solid retcons Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake by establishing the genetic link between Solid Snake and Big Boss.

Most of the time, these are not the types of retcons fans discuss as they do not harm the fictional continuity.

Seems like someone on the writing team had a bit of fun with the whole retcon thing!

As MKX is set some 20 years after the MK9 «trilogy retcon», many of the new characters are descendants, ancestors or relatives of the original cast.

With Halo: Reach, Bungie decided to show a different aspect of the battle of Reach and decided to retcon in the SPARTAN - IIIs and remove some of the elements described in the book.

In a nice bit of retcon, it is Joe Musashi's father who appears in the forthcoming 3DS title.

However, unlike most retcons, this is merely an addition to the established canon and not a contradiction.

Fans of Michael Myers generally balk at its retcons, its kung fu nonsense, and its

But it's also faithful in a way that Marvel Studios basically pioneered, drawing heavily from some retcon work by Frank Miller in the Daredevil: Man Without Fear mini-series, and sprinkling in a ton of nerdy references, characters and in - jokes along the way.

Deborah Anne Woll as Karen Page is better, but this take on Karen Page is way too informed by Frank Miller's retcon of her as a junkie and amatuer porn performer.

But even if the movie somehow manages to coherently explain all its retcons and continuity wrinkles, we'll still be left wondering why the T - 1000 looked cooler in 1991 than he does in 2015.

Two: That Jamie Lee Curtis would be returning in a film that would be a retcon of the sequels that came after.

Pac Rim: I don't get why they had to retcon a 2nd child for Idris Elba.

And before that, Captain Marvel will introduce younger versions of Ronan the Accuser and his ally Korath (Djimon Hounsou) in March 2019 which we expect could retcon their characters to add more personality and complexity to the villains.

The comic book - like opening recaps and retcons a bit, but all you need to know is that Blaze was swindled and is now resigned to do the Devil's bidding, passing judgment on people with his chain - slinging, fire - breathing, motorcycle - riding, flaming skull alter ego.

-- The relationship between Norman and his mother would be revisited in the retcon 2013 TV series, «Bates Motel», which completely ignores this version.

His Halloween is a direct sequel to John Carpenter's original, arranging a «final» confrontation between the masked Michael Myers and a now 40 - years - older Laurie Strode, played one more time by Jamie Lee Curtis — a reunion made possible by the fact that the script, by Green and Danny McBride, will retcon every other sequel.

No list of troubled threequels is complete without discussion of a movie so problematic, an entire other movie was made (Days of Future Past) to pay for and retcon its sins.

Resurrections and retcons: that's comics for you.

But with what we know of the universe, it would be difficult to retcon the existence of super-powered individuals all over the planet.

The continuity is a bit murky, as it does feature the same M (Dench, Pride & Prejudice), but it also «introduces» CIA Agent Felix Leiter (Wright, Lady in the Water), who has appeared on other Bond films, so perhaps it's best to think of this as a reboot (or perhaps more accurately, a retcon), rather than a prequel to the other entries.

«Transformers: The Last Knight,» like each film of this amnesiac franchise, continues to retcon the history of the arrival of the Transformers to the Earth.

Fans of continuity may be a trifle annoyed or confused, but the retcon is played for laughs within the film itself — at one point, Wilson holds a toy that resembles the bastardized version of Deadpool seen in X-Men Origins and chuckles something to the effect of «it could always be worse.»