User talk:Msilverstar/closed canon temp

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See also:	Canon, Fanon, Headcanon
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A fandom is considered to possess a closed canon when no additional source material is expected to be forthcoming (there are no upcoming books, episodes, or movies in the series). Examples of fandoms with closed canons are Due South, P.G. Wodehouse, and Cardcaptor Sakura.

By contrast, an open canon would thus be one in which new episodes, books, or movies are being produced. Examples of these would be Naruto, Vorkosigan Saga, and Wonder Woman comics.

Multi-media Canons

Fans of a universe who find it extended in a different medium (as comics following a completed television series, television series following a movie, etc.) sometimes have difficulty agreeing on what constitutes canon. There are Star Trek fans who only believe the first series (ST:TOS) is canon. Bleach fans argue about the manga vs. anime vs. movies, especially Hell Chapter.. Some old-school My Little Pony toy fans disavow My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Certainly there are plenty of Star Wars fans who consider the first three Star Wars movies to be closed canon, despite the second trilogy, animated series, tie-in novels such as the Thrawn series, and a new series of movies that has been announced, explicitly disclaiming the novels

In some cases, fans look to creators for guidance (e.g., canon for The Sarah Connor Chronicles officially ignores the third movie in the Terminator universe); in others, a rough consensus emerges (e.g., Supernatural comics are generally rejected from canon due to a high continuity-error rate).

Multiverse Canons

In still other fandoms, no consensus exists, and creators of fanworks may disclaim extensively exactly what they are and are not willing to consider. This happens a lot in comics fandoms (e.g. DC Comics, Marvel) where "canon" has been ongoing for decades, frequently retconing and contradicting itself.

Fanwork creators will sometimes simply pick the characters they want to write regardless of whether those characters were ever all on the same team (or all alive) at the same time.