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Over the course of time, the Tomb Raider series ' canon has undergone various changes or retcons.

These changes correspond to the series entering a new medium, such as comic books or film, or being taken over by another game developer.

For example, in the first Tomb Raider game manual, Lara Croft is said to have survived a plane crash in the Himalayas at the age of twenty one, and was later disowned by her parents, who are still living.

However, in the comics, Lara lost both her parents and her fiancé in the crash.

The films make no mention of a plane crash, Lara's mother died when she was too young to remember, and her father died under different circumstances.

When development of Tomb Raider was transferred from Core Design to Crystal Dynamics, Lara's biography, was that she and her mother survived a plane crash and later, her mother disappears in the site where they crashed ( see Tomb Raider: Legend ).

She was then left to her father, who did not take part in the crash, and he was later killed by Jaqueline Natla, a recurring character in the series, leaving Lara an orphan.

However, in the Lara Croft movie, Lara's father gets killed by the Illuminati ( see Tomb Raider ).