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Topic	Times when a retcon actually made a piece of story retroactively better?
Goldice 08/08/21 3:21:53 AM #41:	FortuneCookie posted... In the first movie, Apollo Creed was depicted as a bigot. He was a Black boxing champion who delighted in the prospect of making an example of a White boxer and specifically asked that his replacement opponent be White That wasn't over bigotry as far as I remember. Or rather creed being a bigot. Rather using racism to sell tickets Creed was a showman. Since it was a replacement fighter on a short notice and there was no way they were getting a good replacement match, he figured the best way to boost numbers was to get an underdog boxer to serve as a "great white hope" against the black champion. --- New England Patriots: Super Bowl XXXVI, XXXVIII, XXXIX, XLIX, LI, LIII Champions <cite>Goldice posted [p:956884996] in Times when... [t:79595088]...</cite> <quote>FortuneCookie posted...</cite> <quote> In the first movie, Apollo Creed was depicted as a bigot. He was a Black boxing champion who delighted in the prospect of making an example of a White boxer and specifically asked that his replacement opponent be White</quote> That wasn't over bigotry as far as I remember. Or rather creed being a bigot. Rather using racism to sell tickets Creed was a showman. Since it was a replacement fighter on a short notice and there was no way they were getting a good replacement match, he figured the best way to boost numbers was to get an underdog boxer to serve as a "great white hope" against the black champion. --- New England Patriots: Super Bowl XXXVI, XXXVIII, XXXIX, XLIX, LI, LIII Champions</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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