Comic books/Videogames/Books: Canon or not? |
07-04-2009, 07:33 PM
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#1 | | Omnibot Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 221 | Comic books/Videogames/Books: Canon or not?
The Transformers movie franchise has it's own line of Comic books, Videogames, Books and etc.
In it, several Autobots and Decepticons not present in the movies we're featured, like:
Prowl.
Breakaway.
Wheeljack.
Cliffjumper.
Camshaft.
Cosmos.
Hound.
Tailbreaker.
Warpath.
Shockwave.
Wreckage.
Nightbeat.
Dreadwing.
Hardtop.
Etc.
Many of them, like Hound, Shockwave, Wreckage, Camshaft and Cliffjumper, are alredy dead and can't appear anymore. Basicly, My question is:
Should those vehicles be considered "Canon" and respected withim the limits of the movies or not? | 
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07-04-2009, 09:53 PM
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#2 | | I voted for Super_Megatron and all I got was this stupid user title. Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 2,158 Location: The Hammer, Ontario News Credits: 1 | The problem with Transformers continuity is that, even if you only assume Hasbro licensed products to be canon, there are numerous inconsistencies and things that don't make a whole lot of sense.
Basically, it might be best to assume that everything is canon, unless it is contradicted by a more major source. That is, if Movie Prowl appears in TF3 and is completely different from the comics, the movie supercedes the comics, I would think. Unless you want to start thinking of absolutely everything as parallel universes where some things overlap. | |
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07-04-2009, 10:42 PM
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#3 | | I <3 Roger Ebert Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 7,371 Location: Under a river Collection Count: 400 or so News Credits: 4 | Anything that isn't directly in the movies is not canon. Why? Because they're not reading all the comics/books/games etc and can overwrite them at any point. JOIN THE ROGER EBERT FAN CLUB | Sales Thread | |
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07-04-2009, 10:51 PM
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#4 | | Rawr Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 5,852 Location: Southern California Collection Count: Ever growing News Credits: 1 | While we are on this subject...was there ever an explanation given in regards to the first movie line's Arcee, which of course was based on the design they had for her for the film before she got replaced with Ironhide, and the Arcee triplets in Revenge of the Fallen? 
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07-04-2009, 11:08 PM
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#5 | | Fiery Adventurer Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 385 Location: Why do you need to know this? Collection Count: Quite a few. Never counted. | Arcee's original design was her Cybertronian form. Her Earth motorcycle form never existed. Instead, it was a Cybertronian motorcycle with rubber wheels. It made no sense to me, personally. This was shown in the Eeign of Starscream comic. | |
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07-04-2009, 11:19 PM
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#6 | | Omnibot Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 285 Location: West Virginia, Silent Hill Collection Count: Everything from the 80s | On the subject of the Transformer: Defiance/Prequel/Reign of Starscream/Alliance Titles they're their to answer set-up question from the films/introduction of characters and detailed subjects that were only in film short-exposition on the subject | |
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07-04-2009, 11:34 PM
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#7 | | Predacon Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 473 | in my opinino the games arent canon but the Prequel Books, and the comic books are cannon Sig pictures are to be no larger than 40KB in file size and should be no larger than 300 pixels in height and 500 pixels wide - 2005 Staff | |
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07-05-2009, 02:29 AM
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#8 | | Hi. I'm better than you Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 911 Location: Perth, Western Australia | Quote:
Originally Posted by NGW  While we are on this subject...was there ever an explanation given in regards to the first movie line's Arcee, which of course was based on the design they had for her for the film before she got replaced with Ironhide, and the Arcee triplets in Revenge of the Fallen? | As I understood it the more proportional and bulky look was replaced with the slender wheel unifoot look seen in the movie when she went for the combination retrofit (in the prequel comics for the movie taking place before the launching of the Allspark (Vengeace) she is still seen in the TF1 Arcee body) | |
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