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<blockquote data-quote="Ryujin" data-source="post: 8833319" data-attributes="member: 27897"><p>"Marvel Canon" is a rather mercurial thing. It changes every few years when they reboot, in order to try and shore-up flagging sales. They even had to create multiple "universes" in order to explain why comics released at the same time seem to have contradictory stories. DC did the same. That makes it a little easier to accept changes to "canon" in the MCU. And while I haven't seen it, it would appear that "Black Adam" takes place in the world of the Justice Society of America, not the Justice League of America. This is the same for the TV show "Stargirl." </p><p></p><p>Then there are the companies that decide to retroactively obliterate canon. The FASA Star Trek RPG material was considered canon for quite a while, until CBS/Paramount started plans to make their Star Trek prequel series. The RPG material explained the existence of various different looking Klingons, for example. "Enterprise" threw that all out the Window, then "Discovery" doubled-down. no Klingon hybrids. No Four Years War. The Romulans show up but there doesn't seem to be a war, let alone a war in which FTL communications only had audio.</p><p></p><p>And was the Star Wars EU considered canon too? I think that I might have read "Splinter of the Minds Eye", because the cover looks familiar, but can't really remember. All of that was tossed out, anyway, when Disney bought the franchise.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ryujin, post: 8833319, member: 27897"] "Marvel Canon" is a rather mercurial thing. It changes every few years when they reboot, in order to try and shore-up flagging sales. They even had to create multiple "universes" in order to explain why comics released at the same time seem to have contradictory stories. DC did the same. That makes it a little easier to accept changes to "canon" in the MCU. And while I haven't seen it, it would appear that "Black Adam" takes place in the world of the Justice Society of America, not the Justice League of America. This is the same for the TV show "Stargirl." Then there are the companies that decide to retroactively obliterate canon. The FASA Star Trek RPG material was considered canon for quite a while, until CBS/Paramount started plans to make their Star Trek prequel series. The RPG material explained the existence of various different looking Klingons, for example. "Enterprise" threw that all out the Window, then "Discovery" doubled-down. no Klingon hybrids. No Four Years War. The Romulans show up but there doesn't seem to be a war, let alone a war in which FTL communications only had audio. And was the Star Wars EU considered canon too? I think that I might have read "Splinter of the Minds Eye", because the cover looks familiar, but can't really remember. All of that was tossed out, anyway, when Disney bought the franchise. [/QUOTE]
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