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It can. Say you wanna write a first meeting between two characters. The whole story is based on the fact that it's the very first meeting ever. It's basic to the plot that the story be the first time they. But, some guy already wrote a first meeting between those characters in a story nobody remembers from 15 years ago, that is in continuity. What do you? Do the first meeting and then brainwash the characters so they can have the second and think it's the first? That's fucking lame.



Oooh, oooh! I know, I know!!

I, a proffesional writer, would go to message boards and whine how much continuity sucks because it doesn't let me hack the work.

Did I get it right??

I would whine that someone else did my idea first and, instead of being trully creative and come up with ANOTHER idea, I would cry and piss and moan that continuity is chocking me?

OR maybe I can just write a story that picks up from that first meeting and runs alongside it, how about that?

It has happened before, where a writer tells a story that runs alongside someone else's.

Look at Karl Kesel's World's Finest maxi series.

This is just one of many examples of a completely original story that was told within the framework of Superman and Batman's Post Crisis continuity.

Of course, one has to be creative to do this. If one just likes to whine because someone else beat them to it, then that's that person's hang up, it's THEIR problem.

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