Editing Continuity (fiction) (section)

===Plot errors===
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A plot error, or a plot hole as it is commonly known, reflects a failure in the consistency of the created fictional world. A character might state he was an only child, yet later mention a sibling. In the TV show ''[[Cheers]]'', Frasier Crane's wife Lilith mentions Frasier's parents are both dead, and, in another episode, Frasier himself claims his father to have been a scientist. When the character was spun off into ''[[Frasier]]'', his father, a retired policeman named Martin, became a central character. Eventually, in [[The Show Where Sam Shows Up|an episode]] featuring ''Cheers'' star [[Ted Danson]], the inconsistency was given the [[retroactive continuity|retroactive]] explanation that Frasier was embarrassed about his father's lowbrow attitudes and thus claimed his death. This is a frequent occurrence in sitcoms, where networks may agree to continue a show, but only if a certain character is emphasized, leading other minor characters to be written out of the show with no further mention of the character's existence, while the emphasized character (usually a [[breakout character]], as in the case of [[Frasier Crane]]) develops a more complete back story that ignores previous, more simplified backstories.