Board Thread:Policies/@comment-16461120-20161107075255/@comment-4651179-20161109185238

Again, the elements relating to topical references weren't what I was talking about.

And the main problem with Klaw's origin is, as I mentioned above, the inconsistency between the events and not simply stated facts. Klaw's first origin has him arriving to Wakanda in search for Vibranium, being intercepted by T'Chaka and gunning the king down, and then being attacked by T'Challa in retaliation while burning down his village. His most recent origin has him infiltrating the hotel T'Chaka where was being accommodated for a conference in a different country altogether, and going James Bond on his security guards and the king himself before being forced to flee after T'Challa shot his arm off.

That level of insconsistency is far beyond adaptable. You can't fit those two narratives together unless you explain them in the most vague approach possible. It's not like Iron Man's origin where you simply pretend the jungle is instead a desert and it's basically the same as his latest origin revision. It's a plain retcon. And there have been other retcons in Marvel's history that aren't simple modifications to adapt to current times or something that could be explained as "it happened off-panel."

And even if the inconsistencies can be glossed over, or have the events they are involved in talked about vaguely (like, for example, purposefully omitting how old was Matt Murdock when his father died), they're still retcons by definition. Some kind of new story elements that contradicts previous established canon elements is a retcon, no matter how big or small, or whether it can be adapted to the previous narrative or not.