Canon Nazi
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| Synonyms: | Nitpick |
| See also: | Canon What Canon, Canon Compliant |
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A canon nazi is a fan who
- strictly adheres to canon in their own fanworks or
- notices deviations from canon in others' fanworks or
- decries continuity errors in the source text.
See also TV Tropes' definition.
Some people have pointed out that the term trivializes
- the horrors perpetrated by Nazi Germany before and during World War II
- what Neo-Nazis are and stand for
- how the German people today feel about it
The term itself can be a somewhat derogatory characterization of fans who are prone to nitpicking or who appear (to other fans) to be taking the canon too seriously. The Geek Hierarchy may come into play. Other ways of being fannish take a more flexible approach to canon — either treating it as just the starting point for their own imaginations, or being actively involved in critiquing problematic or contradictory aspects of the canon.
Examples of Useage
2005
My personal inclinication is to be a canon-nazi, and I make every effort to write (and read) canon that follows the lines of characterization and plot as laid down in canon, but I don't think that DEFINES fanfic.
Before I got to this part, I was about to ask, "Y'think it's mostly self-described 'canon-snobs' that are getting upset?" but you're not freaking out and you've identified as a canon-nazi. Which pretty much buggers my theory right there, which was (how's this for redundancy? *g*): [1]
2007
Wook: Yea, I think RPing, you know, and the games that everybody's in now, once Deathly Hallows comes out, basically every game that's out there is all of a sudden gonna become an AU game, and so it makes it kind of weird. I know at nothing gold, we're all freakin' out with, you know, what are we gonna do since we have Voldemort winning and it's pretty obvious that he's not gonna - you know, JKR's not gonna have Voldemort winning. I'm very much a canon nazi, so it's gonna break my heart to be playing in an AU game like that, so... [2]
All my stories are disclaimed, and while I'm a bit of a canon-nazi (Even in AUs, go figure), the 'breach of privacy' never comes into the equation for me. All our 'canon' is what they chose to make public, by interviews, concerts, radioshows. There's nothing we RPFrs (And doesn't that sounds weird) know that a regular fan can't know, so it's not as if we were rumaging through their trashcans. [3]
Also See
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- Outskirts Battledome(they never allowed Feats from fan works, even when Original posters specified feats for their favorite characters)
- Protectors of the Plot Continuum
- the icon imbroglio at Deleterius
References
- ^ from comments at Right place, wrong kerfluffle (August 8th, 2005)
- ^ from Slashcast Metachat: Role Playing (March 3, 2007)
- ^ from comments at RPS and privacy (April 29, 2007)