History Main / WriterConflictsWithCanon

* A few years after WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}} was canceled, Greg Weisman confirmed that Lexington was gay. In the show itself, he's just as attracted to female gargoyles as the rest of the trio and competed for Angela's affection in ''Turf.'' WordOfGod is that this was because of him being closeted/not consciously aware yet of his orientation, pursuing Angela just because his brothers were, and he wasn't allowed to even imply his orientation at all since it went against Disney's Standards and Practices of the time.

* A few years after WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}} was canceled, Greg Weisman confirmed that Lexington was gay. In the show itself, he's just as attracted to female gargoyles as the rest of the trio and competed for Angela's affection in ''Turf.'' WordOfGod is that this was because of him closeted/not consciously aware yet of his orientation, pursuing Angela just because his brothers were, and he wasn't allowed to even imply his orientation at all since it went against Disney's Standards and Practices of the time.

* Creator/TobyFox, creator of ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', has said that Sans is too lazy to date anybody. But Sans said in-game that he's not actually lazy, and it's all but directly stated that he's depressed and overworked. Lampshaded by Toby himself, who then said that nothing he wrote on Twitter is canon.

* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': Takashi Iizuka's explanation for the lack of humans in certain games, such as ''VideoGame/SonicForces'', is due to Sonic and his friends living on a WorldOfFunnyAnimals. They sometimes world-hop to a human-populated world whenever they wish. This idea, however, muddles up a lot of what was depicted in previous games. For example, ''[[VideoGame/SonicAdventure Adventure]]'' clearly has Amy living in Station Square (with a NPC even mentioning she has an apartment there), both Knuckles and Tails live nearby Station Square in ''Adventure'', and Shadow's entire backstory was that he was created by humans in ''[[VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 Adventure 2]]''. There are no mentions of the characters going between dimensions in-series and multiple games (including ''VideoGame/SonicBattle'' and the two ''Sonic Adventure'' games) heavily imply that they live on Earth. The most damning evidence against this is the fact that ''Adventure'' (where this "split" allegedly dates back to according to internal documents at Creator/{{Sega}}) clearly showed Angel Island and Mystic Ruins being in the human world (which also implies that ''VideoGame/{{Sonic 3|AndKnuckles}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Sonic Advance|Trilogy}}'' took place there too). More recent statements have instead gone with the explanation that [[LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy anthropomorphic animals and humans just live]] in separate parts of the Earth (islands and cities, respectively).

* This is directly addressed by the creator of ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'', who would preemptively state before the release of a post-series book that [[https://twitter.com/Radrappy/status/1594274881293910016 the show and said book override]] whatever conflicting information he might have said during any prior interview. He uses the ages of the characters as an example, noting that he doesn't even ''remember'' saying that Sasha was the oldest.

** The creator, Creator/ButchHartman, insists that "ghosts" are not deceased people, but [[OurSpiritsAreDifferent creatures from the Ghost Zone]] that take on the memories and appearances of dead people. While the show has one throwaway line in this regard, overwhelming in-series evidence establishes that while some ghosts are an example of this, most ghosts are deceased humans.

* The various writers of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' are happy enough to answer fan questions about the show, but they're pretty upfront about the fact that the show is the only real canon -- and anything they say might be overruled by future episodes. In particular, things that Creator/LaurenFaust, the creator, say are often ignored by the series as she stopped being involved with it after season 2. Examples include:

** According to Faust, the reason for Luna's [[EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference season one design]], which is markedly different from her appearance in other episodes, was that she lacked most of her magic at the time. She has said it was an on-the-spot explanation and that the writers could explain it some other way. No writer would try, with the IDW comics randomly using her original design at different points, and the show featuring Luna with little-to-no magic but keeping her redesign and ethereal mane.

** Lauren Faust has suggested that Luna is still growing and is physically a teenager. The series itself treats Luna as a full-grown adult.

* ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'': Series producer Yoshio Sakamoto, on [[https://metroiddatabase.com/old_site/features/faq4.php the official Japanese website]] for ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'', answered a number of questions from players. One of these questioned how Samus was able to use the Ice Beam at the end of the game despite it being said her physiology would reject it due to inheriting the Metroids' cold vulnerability. His response was that absorbing the SA-X restored her original pre-Metroid genetic profile. Two decades later, this was retconned by ''VideoGame/MetroidDread'', where not only does she still have her Metroid DNA and cold vulnerability, but it also serves as a major plot point.

* [[WordOfGod Yoshio Sakamoto stated]] that in ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'' Samus absorbing the SA-X Core-X restored her to how she was before she received Metroid DNA, explaining how she was able to use the Ice Beam despite it being said her physiology would reject it due to inheriting the Metroids' cold vulnerability. This was seemingly ignored by ''VideoGame/MetroidDread'' where she still has her Metroid DNA and cold vulnerability, [[spoiler:the former becoming a major plot point.]]

* Webcomic/SlightlyDamned: The [[https://www.sdamned.com/angels race page for Angels]] claims that they're born like humans. The comic later contradicts this, instead establishing that they hatch from eggs.

* Launch was a recurring character in ''Manga/DragonBall'', but she didn't appear in ''Anime/DragonBallZ''. When asked why, series creator Akira Toriyama claimed to have just forgotten she existed -- but there were a handful of lines in the manga indicating that [[PutOnABus she was written out intentionally]]; he may have forgotten to bring her back afterward but that's not why she left in the first place.

* WordOfGod is that ''WesternAnimation/AvengersAssemble'' is meant to be a sequel to ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'', with a {{flashback}} in one episode showing the Avengers in their costumes and {{art s|hift}}tyle from ''EMH''. However, this is contradicted by events both show (Comicbook/TheFalcon makes his debut as a hero in ''Assemble'', while he was already active in ''EMH''), and implied (in ''Avengers Assemble'', the characters make a reference to a team of high-schoolers that Nick Fury is training in ''[[WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012 Ultimate Spider-Man]]'', but two of them, Iron Fist and Luke Cage, are clearly shown as adults and members of Heroes for Hire in ''EMH'').

** The creator, Creator/ButchHartman, insists that "ghosts" are not deceased people, but [[OurSpiritsAreDifferent creatures from the Ghost Zone]] that takes on the memories and appearances of dead people. While the show has one throwaway line in this regard, overwhelming in-series evidence establishes that while some ghosts are an example of this, most ghosts are deceased humans.

** Meghan [=McCarthy=] once stated that "Twilight will not outlive her friends." This is contradicted in the GrandFinale where Twilight has grown to the same stature as Celestia and appears to have become TheAgeless while her friends have visibly aged.