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Wow, you really do think you’re clever, huh.
That’s so sad.
Declaring my entire post as a “NO U” ?
Expert reading skills. Stay mad~
Sorry, bro– “NO U” wouldn’t have been clever a month ago when this thread was still alive.
Protip, dude– declaring other peoples opinions as invalid is just not something that people who can be taken seriously say.
Especially when throwing around painstakingly arrogant terms like “grownups table”.
Stay mad~
The term was used as an analogy, not a literal usage, so it’s fine.
If only you would read my full post, you would understand that I never stated that official works are just “totally non-canon amateur fanfics”. Quite contrary. I only drew parallels that fans could understand. If any parallels between fanfics and official works gonna rustle your jimmies, then your jimmies must be very easily rustled.
Are you even read full post? Or you just wanted to use cheap “do what I say or U are not adult” tricks that work only on teenagers?
Protip, dude– unironic use of the phrase “official fanfiction” automatically removes any of your opinions from the grownup’s table. It’ just not something that people who can be taken seriously say.
It’s like official fanfiction: it has their own “headcanons”, that can be shattered by show’s canon. If it’s a minor thing, it will be overwritten by show and retconned in later issues, but if it’s major thing, material writers don’t have choice but silently ignore show canon (or pretend that both contradicting events happened) and pray that no one will notice that plot hole. And like one fanfiction don’t care about others, comics don’t care about books, books don’t care about illustrated books, and illustrated book don’t care about TCG.
Every one of that materials can be considered canon separately in moment of their release. But show will inevitably render some parts indirectly nonsensical or will break some characters and events altogether. And if you will try to squeeze all materials into one canon, you will imminently fail, because some parts will be outdated by show, without those parts other parts will not make sense, comics will contradict books, and book will contradict itself and TCG.
Well obviously the folks over at Hasbro and DHX haven’t been officially arranging their canon to the degree that Star Wars has. I’m just making a comparison based on what’s been recently said about it (the comic conforms to the show, while the show does whatever it wants).
The thing is, unless you are personally on the board of directors at Hasbro, you cannot make any absolute claims about their internal management of canon. They haven’t disclosed if they use a ranking system or a single canon.
Technically, if they do use a hierarchical system, Lauren’s bible the episode SCRIPTS (not the final episodes themselves) would be at the top. Copies of the scripts get sent to IDW before animation is done AFAIK.
Indeed, I’ve found the Star Wars system to be a really nifty way to organize such things.
Best way to explain any canon right there
True even if it’s more horrifying then amusing when you look deeply into it
We would no longer be able to logically plot the course of anything. Not even a cork board with a bunch of pictures, thumb tacks, and colored string would help make sense of all the headcanon becoming canon.
Though it is an amusing picture taken seriously.
Rather than WoW, I’d actually compare MLP’s canon more closely to Star Wars.
There are different levels of Canon in Star Wars. Anything that’s of a lower canon level takes everything higher-leveled as absolute, indisputable canon. Higher-leveled things might reference lower-leveled things, but are also free to disregard anything and everything lower-level.
For instance, the Star Wars movies are at the very top of the canon priority. Everything else takes the movies as canon, and the movies don’t have to take anything else as canon. In Friendship is Magic, this is the position that the show occupies.
Yeah so everything fan-made being “canon” instead of “headcanon” would be terrible
The comic never said that. It was fans misinterpreting a tiny, insignificant plaque in the background of a panel that were saying that.
Let’s not forget the ponies would be at war with the zebra over arguments concerning the exchange of coal and gemstones, compounded with various acts of dishonor against the other ultimately lead to a long and grueling conflict that ends with magical nuclear annihilation.
Example: It was canon that Twi’s mom created Daring Do because the comic said so. Until the episode where we find out Daring Do is real.
Context is very important here. He wasn’t talking about fan fiction. He was replying to questions of comic vs novel vs card game vs TV show vs upcoming movie. He /did not in any way/ mean to imply that Cupcakes or anything else made by fans is canon. Please, please pay attention to context. It’s something too few people do anymore.
|| This could cause some problems…Let’s look at this more logically. If all fanfictions were canon : Rainbow Dash, The CMC and hundreds of ponies would be dead. Everyone would have about 5+ romantic partners. Alicorns wouldn’t be a rare species. Dragon Ponies, Insectaponies, and other weird mixtures would exist. Luna and Celestia would be at war causing even more bloodshed. Fluttershy would be in a nuthouse for sawing RD in half with a chainsaw. And who knows what else. || Long story short you should select certain fanfics, ships and etc. As you headcanon and let that be that.
According to Jim, yes.
Does that mean Space Jam is canon too?