User:Scoobydoopeliculas/Retcon

Retroactive continuity—commonly contracted to the portmanteau word retcon—refers to deliberately changing previously established facts in a work of serial fiction. The change itself is referred to as a retcon, and the act of writing and publishing a retcon is called "retconning."

Retcons in-universe

 * In The Disney Adventures comic The Buccaneer's Heart!, Blackbeard's spirit was imprisoned in the Buccaneer's Heart, and was ultimately freed when Will Turner smashed the object. The Comic takes place between The Curse of the Black Pearl and Dead Man's Chest. Despite this, Blackbeard appears alive in On Stranger Tides.
 * In The Curse of the Black Pearl, Joshamee Gibbs said that Jack Sparrow captained the Black Pearl, on the same voyage where Hector Barbossa's mutiny took place, before they first met. While in Jack Sparrow: Sins of the Father, Gibbs met Jack while freeing him and Teague from their cells. It is possible, as speculated by some fans, that his compulsive drinking from his flask damaged his memory.
 * The compass is probably the story with the most retcons in the series:
 * 1) Dead Man's Chest, established that Jack bartered the compass fromTia Dalma.
 * 2) The Complete Visual Guide says he got the compass from Tia Dalma seven years before the events of Dead Man's Chest (and six years before The Curse of the Black Pearl)
 * 3) Terry Rossio, who write the first four films with Ted Elliott, lsaid that Jack had the compass even before Barbossa's first mutiny on the Black Pearl, and that's how he knew where to search for Isla de Muerta and the Treasure of Cortés.
 * 4) The novel The Price of Freedom, reveals that Jack had the compass when he was a twenty-year-old pirate and that Tia Dalma gave it to him.
 * 5) The fifth instalment Dead Men Tell No Tales, show Jack bartered the Compass from Morgan, the Captain of the Wicked Wench, when he was 18-years old.
 * Before the release of Dead Men Tell No Tales, Ghosts had appeared in the franchise, like in the game Pirates of the Caribbean Online, Two novels in the Jack Sparrow series and the storybook Ghost Ship. And none were unable to step on land
 * In the Dead Men Tell No Tales Novelization. The main story is set seven years after the opening scene, not nine years like in the film.
 * The novel also explains changes Salazar's past, revealing that his father was an Admiral of the Spanish Royal Navy and that his mother died in a workshop following his father's arrest for corruption. Furthermore, in the novel, Salazar's father is instead described as being killed by Salazar himself after his return from prison, rather than pirates as in the film.
 * According to Geoffrey Rush, Salazar and his crew were trapped in the Devil's Triangle for twenty-five years, setting the Battle off the Devil's Triangle around 1726. However, that statement contradicts the established timeline, if Henry born in 1730, nine months after the War Against Piracy, then only will be three years between Salazar being curse when Jack whas 18-years old to the Events of The Curse of the Black Pearl, where he clearly older.
 * In The Price of Freedom, Jack gets the Black Pearl (in that time the Wicked Wench in both versions) from Cutler Beckett, who was just an old merchant ship, however Dead Men Tell No Tales show that was a pirate ship, seven years prior the Novel event, and that he get the ship from his old captain Morgan

Historical Retcons

 * Gibbs was seen sleeping with a teddy bear in his arms in At World's End, which takes place in the 1720s, although teddy bears weren't invented until 1902.

Not Exactly retcons

 * Jack lost or gave away the compass in nine different occasions before he betrayed the Compass in Dead Men Tell No Tales. Six times it was taken from him when captured, one time he gave it to Elizabeth Swann in order to find the Dead Man’s Chest, one time to Will Turner to led Lord Cutler Beckett to the Shipwreck Cove, and one time to Joshamee Gibbs for him to find the Black Pearl. In all these occasions, Jack fully expected to get the compass back somehow, therefore never betraying the compass in the process.