Leonardo wrote:Damolisher wrote:Leonardo wrote:Just a further question: if it is all one canon, does that mean people can't speak of "a canon for the IDW universe", for example?
WTF? One Canon? Has he been smoking rocks again? There isn't one canon, there's several different canons. There's comic canon, there's TV canon, there's Japanese canon, there's english canon, etc. For Example: The events of Masterforce are canon in Japan, but are non-canon over here, since we have different characters with different origins for our takes on characters who appeared in Masterforce. So, as I said, it's canon in Japan, it's non-canon to us, since their take doesn't effect our continuities at all. We also don't have Minerva, much like they don't have Nightbeat. Over there, Ginrai is not Optimus Prime, he's a lifeless body who is powered by a trucker, whereas here, it's Powermaster Prime poerwed by Hi-Q, you see?
That's sort of my point. Tramp's viewpoint is that it is all one canon, a canon that contains multiple universes. I'm asking, if that's the case, does it preclude discussions of a canon specific to any one universe?
In Tramps point of view it does....I'll give you an exsample,In the G1 toon it was Primacron that created Unicron as a weapon of mass destruction....this was unique to the Transformers Universes of the time and since {both Marvel U.K. and U.S. had him as a God of sorts] [Dreamwave,The Ulitamate Guide,Armada,Energon and Cybertron also a God]
From Tramps point of view the Guide rewrites any inconsistasy about issues with Unicron or Primus,in effect changing the stories told in ether minor or major ways and in some cases wipeing the story compleaty clean ,depending on the story.
Now I'm not saying he's wrong,But the Guide does a F'd up job of fixing the inconsistasy of those retcons.
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