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You have complete control over your franchise of choice, what are you retconning? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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The boss walks in, there's someone on the phone for you:

  • Phone: "Hi, I'm the leader person behind that book/television/film franchise you complain about online and gee-whiz, you're right! We want you to run things from here on out."
  • You: "Do I get supreme retcon powers?"
  • Phone: "Of course! We'll even retroactively edit in your changes!"

Huh, that was easy. What are you changing?

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[โ€“] 8 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

Warhammer 40k, dumping at least half of pyrrhic shit and needless grimdark but also bringing back the old lore that humans caused chaos.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    Isn't Chaos a part of the universe just like space and time? Those Eldars, Necrons and old ones are basically the one that leave it chaotic and volatile way before human even comes into existence. True human is the dominant life form that's feeding it, I don't know when have it ever been human who created Chaos.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 11 months ago

    Old lore was that humans are responsible for the creation and empowerement of the chaos gods except slaanesh. And while it was never mentioned for ages in franchise at least the empowerment is certainly true since pre Horus Heresy the presence of chaos in the materium was so pitiful that 200 years of Great Crusade barely managed to discover anything substantial. Hell, Word Bearers actively searched for any chaos with dozens, maybe hundreds of fleets and only found it after years of searching. Also while you look at the manifestations of chaos there's barely anything that can't be traced to humanity, there's much talk about chaotic xeno spiecies but their actual effects are always very local (except eldar and slaanesh).

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