Here's a mash-up we'll see quarter to never. Rey Arzeno took the Original Trilogy's leading cast, threw in some of the X-Men's genealogy, and voilà — "Darth Holme" and her wayward children Kurt Skywalker and Princess Leianna. By the way, that's Destiny (not Storm, deceiving Force lightning) as a stand-in for the Emperor…

We've been enjoying the heck out of Kevin Wada and Max Wittert's X-Men clothing line (previously: 1, 2) — these drawings transform Marvel Comics' strangest superteam into a collective of blasé performance artists who blow Xavier's endowment on smart drinks imported from the farthest reaches of the Shi'ar Empire.

Superheroes can escape almost any trap... except for 50 years' worth of backstory that's dated, self-contradictory or gets in the way of a story. So what do you do? Reach for the retcon! Here are 15 examples of retcon fail.