Retcon, reboot and alternate universe: what each term changes in comics
A new origin can revise the past, establish another continuity or simply open a new issue-numbering cycle. Those consequences are not equivalent.
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Living Tribunal: The Entity Capable of Limiting the Infinity Stones
The Living Tribunal rules no planet or single universe: it judges multiversal balance and has prevented the Gems from working together.
Dark Matter Has Moved Beyond the Book: Season 2’s Real Risk
By continuing past the original novel, Dark Matter must preserve the human consequences that give its multiverse meaning.