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The middle line of that rant LITERALLY refers to that situation.
Besides, contradiction is an inhherant risk in works of fiction, especially those that have more than 1 total writer. Most shows have more than 1 writer on staff, and they all have slightly different head-canons. The point of working as a team is for them to develop a united continuity.
Remember: MLP G1, G2, and G3 are all still canon. They are, however, different continuities.
A good modern example: Game of Thrones
The books have very little contradiction because there is only the one 1 writer, George Martin.
The TV show has 3, one is George Martin. There are some contradictions, and changes aways from the books.
The TV show and books are different continuities.
Unless a work of fiction has only 1 writer, with absolute authority, there will be contradictions as the team naturally vias for creative dominance. Simply for it to line up with their own, unique head-canon.
Closer to home: Faust, herself, had her head-canon debunked by the show.
The show creator’s head-canon… is not canon.
Keep that in mind.
“Whatever the copyright/trademark holder releases is canon, unless specifically stated otherwise.”
Even the stuff that contradicts other stuff?
Finally, somebody with a saltlick of sense.
Serious guys, canon or not comes down to this:
Whatever the copyright/trademark holder releases is canon, unless specifically stated otherwise.
Star Wars is the best example.
Back in the days of George Lucas, the official ruling was that anything released by Lucas Arts was canon, because they had an approved license and George did not let them release anything he did not take a look through. That gave us the Expanded Universe.
Now, Disney owns it. And as the copyright holders, they have declared all the Expanded Universe (anything not in the movies) as non-canon.
Because Hasbro has not explicitly declared the comics as non-canon, and they have been licensed and released with Hasbro’s approval; they are canon.
Continuity, on the other hand, allows things to exist in canon that contradict.
For this, Marvel.
Marvel Zombies is canon. The Marvel movies are canon. The old 90s X-Men is canon. How? Continuity. They exist in alternative timelines/realities.
The comics are CANON. Whether they are the same CONTINUITY as the show remains to be seen, since they don’t ACTUALLY confirm nor contradict. (Despite what many waifu-fags may say.)
Finally, Fanfiction is not canon. Because is it unlicensed, unapproved, and wholly unofficial.
TLDR: READ IT, BITCH!
/rant
@KirbyfanNeox
Doesn’t Hasbro get to decide what is canon?
“We give kids and consumers the opportunity to relive the story, but what sets us apart is that we are not quite interested in telling you what happened in a particular episode, but more interested in telling you what happened between episodes. When the TV goes off and the movie theater goes dark, those characters are alive in your imagination. We build that story out and give you stories that happen in between the episodes and movies. A big part of our success is, from a content standpoint, that we deliver not just an interpretation or adaptation, but provide original content that is expanding that universe and giving a different experience of characters.”
-Michael Kelly, director, global publishing, Hasbro
Source: http://www.licensemag.com/license-global/hasbro-magic-branded-play”
But this mean TCB: Not Alone is Cannon so Equestria will get Curbstomped by Humanity
No! Wanted to be Cure MoonLight!
Technically, EqG only confirmed the existence of one alternate universe. It was the comics that ramped that number up to “all of ’em.”
I already know this. It’s this reality…
The ride never ends.