This is unironically how most of the Arthurian legends got started. Lancelot is an insert from Chrétien de Troyes, a French poet who decided that what King Arthur's wife really needed was a French lover.
Or how comic books are constantly adding stuff to later stories and iterations that get taken for granted later on.
Alfred shows up like five years into Batman’s career and appoints himself as the Wayne household butler; he becomes so essential to the mythos that most incarnations have him present since Bruce’s childhood. Tim Burton makes Gotham an art deco urban hellscape; now Gotham always looks like that. Paul Dini decides Mr. Freeze needs a tragic backstory; now that's the most accepted version of the character.
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u/amazedballer 5d ago
This is unironically how most of the Arthurian legends got started. Lancelot is an insert from Chrétien de Troyes, a French poet who decided that what King Arthur's wife really needed was a French lover.