#there is not a single unifying Real Canon. they're separate fictional universes.

[thedreadvampy]

Wild to me that people don't understand how adaptation works. if a thing doesn't exist in the adaptation it doesn't exist in the adaptation. 'how can you ignore that this character-' stop. stop. it's a different character.

this happens so much with like. MCU stuff. 'this is so out of character Peter Parker would never-' no. Comics Peter Parker would never. but for comics Peter Parker becoming a hired gun for Tony Stark was uhhhhh the culmination of a heel turn and not his fucking origin story so I think. they may be different characters.

'how can you just ignore that this character went through [comics canon thing]' they didn't. They Did Not. the comics version of them did. if there's no evidence in the film version that they did, then the film version did not. it's not part of the text. often it directly contradicts the text.

this connects to that ask to Neil Gaiman a while ago that got up my nose that asked which of the comics or the TV show are the Real Sandman Canon and it's like. those are two different entities. they might be in metatextual conversation with each other but they're different texts and the characters in them are different characters. this isn't hard.

#red said #keep seeing this post that's like #in the tv show she hulk it's problematic that jen chews out Bruce for his anger issues when in the comics hes a child abuse survivor #ok? in the mcu there's no evidence of that to my knowledge (although I've not watched much mcu stuff for years) #(but either way you can't. pull out comics pages as evidence that it happened to the mcu character) #in the mcu. bruce banner is just sort of There he has no established backstory or trauma #mcu shehulk is not taking to comics hulk. what is. hard to understand in that? #they're DIFFERENT CANONS #and frankly comics fans of all people should be prepared to deal with divergent canons given that. you know. COMICS. #there is not a single unifying Real Canon. they're separate fictional universes. #and you can transpose one onto the other but that's fanon not canon #you know like it is canon that Harley in BOP does roller derby like Harley in the Harley Quinn comics #it is NOT therefore canon that she has a gang of harleys or a dog poop cannon or that she's punched out the joker