retroactive continuity
noun
Narrative continuity imposed on a fictional work or series by the introduction of new information which alters the interpretation of previously described events, (now) typically in order to facilitate a dramatic plot shift or account for an inconsistency.
Origin
1980s.
- the Upper House
- the Urals
- theurgic
- theurgical
- theurgist
- theurgy
- the very idea!
- the very same
- the villain of the piece
- the Virgin Birth
- the Virgin Queen
- the Visitation
- thew
- the Wain
- the Wall
- the Wallabies
- the watches of the night
- the water of life
- the way of the Cross
- the way of the world
- the weaker sex
- the weakest link
- the Web
- thewed
- the weight of the world