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- Floating_timeline abstract "A floating timeline (also known as a sliding timescale) is a device used in fiction, particularly in comics and animation, to explain why characters age little or not at all over a period of time — despite real-world markers like notable events, people and technology appearing in the works and correlating with the real world. A floating timeline is a subtle form of retroactive continuity. This is seen most clearly in the case of comic book characters who debuted as teens in the 1940s or the 1960s but who are still relatively young in current comics. Events from the characters' pasts are alluded to, but they are changed from having taken place years ago to having taken place more recently. For an example taken from animation, in The Simpsons, episode "I Married Marge", which was broadcast in 1991, Homer and Marge are shown in flashback to have conceived their son Bart in 1980, after watching The Empire Strikes Back in the cinema. In an episode that was broadcast in 2008, "That '90s Show", however, another flashback shows Homer and Marge in an earlier stage of their relationship, but sets those scenes in the early '90s grunge music era. In both sets of present-day scenes, the characters are shown to be the same age - for example, Bart is still 10 years old in 1991 and 2008.For comic book examples, any dates given within the comic are not relative to the publishing date of the comic (i.e. "10 years ago" means ten years prior to the story being read by the reader). This device enables publishing companies to continue to use their characters for as long as they wish without changing them significantly.A floating timeline is usually abstracted from that of actual historical events, but may contain subtle references to the real world timelines. There may also be attempts made to maintain certain characters' historic timelines if it is felt to be essential to the character's personality, while allowing the rest of the world's timelines to continue to develop. For example, in the 2000s comic book miniseries The Punisher and its subsequent continuation, the titular character is shown to be a Vietnam War veteran, just as he was in his earliest appearances in the Marvel comics of the 1970s. However, the stories place him in contemporary New York, where he meets fellow Marvel characters such as Spider-Man, who is barely much older than he was when introduced in 1962.An example taken from novels is the case of mystery writer Rex Stout, who created a floating timeline for master detective Nero Wolfe and other principal characters in the corpus, while the stories take place contemporaneously with their writing and depict a changing landscape and society. Nero Wolfe's age is 56. "Those stories have ignored time for thirty-nine years," Stout told his authorized biographer John McAleer. "Any reader who can't or won't do the same should skip them. I didn't age the characters because I didn't want to. That would have made it cumbersome and would seem to have centered attention on the characters rather than the stories." In the early novels, Wolfe dated himself somewhat by discussing his life before World War I and his combat service in that war, but in later stories he was less explicit about his past.".
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- Floating_timeline wikiPageWikiLink Bart_Simpson.
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- Floating_timeline wikiPageWikiLink Category:Ageing.
- Floating_timeline wikiPageWikiLink Category:Continuity_(fiction).
- Floating_timeline wikiPageWikiLink Category:Setting.
- Floating_timeline wikiPageWikiLink Category:Timelines_of_fictional_events.
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- Floating_timeline wikiPageWikiLink I_Married_Marge.
- Floating_timeline wikiPageWikiLink Marge_Simpson.
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- Floating_timeline wikiPageWikiLink Retcon.
- Floating_timeline wikiPageWikiLink Retroactive_continuity.
- Floating_timeline wikiPageWikiLink Rex_Stout.
- Floating_timeline wikiPageWikiLink Soap_opera_rapid_aging_syndrome.
- Floating_timeline wikiPageWikiLink Spider-Man.
- Floating_timeline wikiPageWikiLink That_90s_Show.
- Floating_timeline wikiPageWikiLink The_Empire_Strikes_Back.
- Floating_timeline wikiPageWikiLink The_Punisher_(2000_series).
- Floating_timeline wikiPageWikiLink The_Punisher_(2001_series).
- Floating_timeline wikiPageWikiLink The_Simpsons.
- Floating_timeline wikiPageWikiLinkText "Floating timeline".
- Floating_timeline wikiPageWikiLinkText "Years".
- Floating_timeline wikiPageWikiLinkText "apparently ageless".
- Floating_timeline wikiPageWikiLinkText "chronological stasis".
- Floating_timeline wikiPageWikiLinkText "comic book time".
- Floating_timeline wikiPageWikiLinkText "current year".
- Floating_timeline wikiPageWikiLinkText "do not age".
- Floating_timeline wikiPageWikiLinkText "do not physically age".
- Floating_timeline wikiPageWikiLinkText "expected to run for several years".
- Floating_timeline wikiPageWikiLinkText "floating one".
- Floating_timeline wikiPageWikiLinkText "floating timeline".
- Floating_timeline wikiPageWikiLinkText "fluid and relative to the present rather than fixed".
- Floating_timeline wikiPageWikiLinkText "less precise about exactly when he served".
- Floating_timeline wikiPageWikiLinkText "never age".
- Floating_timeline wikiPageWikiLinkText "sliding timescale".
- Floating_timeline wikiPageWikiLinkText "staying the same age for the run of the show".
- Floating_timeline wikiPageWikiLinkText "the last ten years".
- Floating_timeline wikiPageWikiLinkText "unaging nature".
- Floating_timeline hasPhotoCollection Floating_timeline.
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- Floating_timeline wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Multiple_issues.
- Floating_timeline wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Floating_timeline subject Category:Ageing.
- Floating_timeline subject Category:Continuity_(fiction).
- Floating_timeline subject Category:Setting.
- Floating_timeline subject Category:Timelines_of_fictional_events.
- Floating_timeline hypernym Device.
- Floating_timeline type Article.
- Floating_timeline type Device.
- Floating_timeline type Event.
- Floating_timeline type List.
- Floating_timeline type Article.
- Floating_timeline type Event.
- Floating_timeline type List.
- Floating_timeline comment "A floating timeline (also known as a sliding timescale) is a device used in fiction, particularly in comics and animation, to explain why characters age little or not at all over a period of time — despite real-world markers like notable events, people and technology appearing in the works and correlating with the real world. A floating timeline is a subtle form of retroactive continuity.".
- Floating_timeline label "Floating timeline".
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- Floating_timeline sameAs m.0cjh6r.
- Floating_timeline sameAs Q2181904.
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- Floating_timeline wasDerivedFrom Floating_timeline?oldid=679023479.
- Floating_timeline isPrimaryTopicOf Floating_timeline.