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A '''personal canon''' (or a more limited '''personal continuity''') is one fan's interpretation of the Transformers mythos. This can range from picking and choosing stories and characters that he or she favors and assembling them as he or she likes, to discarding one or two discerned distasteful properties from an otherwise accepted continuity. |
A '''personal canon''' (or a more limited '''personal continuity''') is one fan's interpretation of the Transformers mythos. This can range from picking and choosing stories and characters that he or she favors and assembling them as he or she likes, to discarding one or two discerned distasteful properties from an otherwise accepted continuity. |
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For example, one's personal canon could be: |
For example, one's personal canon could be: |
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Revision as of 21:28, 24 August 2007
A personal canon (or a more limited personal continuity) is one fan's interpretation of the Transformers mythos. This can range from picking and choosing stories and characters that he or she favors and assembling them as he or she likes, to discarding one or two discerned distasteful properties from an otherwise accepted continuity.
This is often used in fan-fiction, where an author will use an established continuity up until a certain point, from which he or she would start telling their own stories. Motivations for these stories can range from a desire to 'retcon' another story that the author dislikes, or to curiously pursue a 'what if' continuity based on a key event happening in some different way.
For example, one's personal canon could be:
- The first two seasons of the Generation 1 animated series, but not including the movie or subsequent seasons.
- The Marvel Comics continuity, but without accompanying material from Marvel Comics UK.
- The American Beast Wars continuity, but without the accompanying series Beast Wars II and Beast Wars Neo.
- Renaming toys after pre-existing characters, such as considering Energon Shockblast to be Generation 1 Shockwave.
- Disregarding one animated-series origin of the Constructicons for another.
- Merging elements of the Dreamwave comics version of Armada with the animated cartoon's.
- Accepting Marvel's Generation 2 comics as "true" except for the death of Nightbeat.
- Accepting everything in every known Transformers continuity having happened as a single jumbled entity, ignoring the inconsistencies as "gray areas" that one mustn't be concerned with. (This, coincidentally, appears to be Takara's personal canon.)
- Not considering the Cybertron series to be in the same continuity as the Armada and Energon series.
- Considering one's own (or somebody else's) fan fiction as a part of continuity.
And so on. There are, of course, infinite possibilities.