XKCD: It's more than a comic

Raw is the only way to eat beetles!

You eat nine spiders a year raw in your sleep.

spiders georg

I'm assuming you mean allergic to raw meat and you can still eat, like, raw carrots and apples.

edited 7th Oct '15 7:19:16 PM by Galadriel

"'Course, we're doin' the humane thing an' killing the cow first. You're eatin' that apple ''alive''."

I love raw meat and fish. I had a bad experience with oysters once, so I stopped eating them (but they were not my favourite seafood anyway).

I van basically only stand seafood in ceviche.

Hardware Reductionism.

I have trouble understanding what this ones's talking about.

These are the cases where Explain xkcd helps. It sometimes tends to overexplain things, as is the case for this comic. It also has a Don't Explain the Joke feeling when you read it.

It's a play on the "Two Halves of the Brain" stuff in the popular media. Supposedly your artist self is in your right half, and your scientist self is in the left half, and blah blah.

Funny terminology. XD

Oh, lord. He just touched a sore spot with me: the idea that everyone gets to have their own personal idea of how a story goes that they can use as a counterargument whenever you want to discuss the actual story. "Headcanon" can go flush itself.

Here's the thing: the Doctor is Frankenstein. Victor Frankenstein.

The monster? He's called "Adam". Both him and Victor consider Adam to be Victor's "son".

So the monster is Frankenstein. Adam Frankenstein.


Of course, there's also the interpretation that Frankenstein (Victor) is the real monster.

"Headcanon" is supposed to fill the holes in the story, not supersede the story itself...

So you think.

Headcanon as a concept is not without merit, but it does greatly annoy me when people try to put it above actual canon. See it a lot in Tumblr fandoms.

Maybe it's just me, but the alt-text seems to be a clear sign that we're being trolled. Nothing good comes of bringing "The Doctor" into arguments about titles not matching names...

edited 12th Oct '15 9:53:58 AM by Pyrite

The whole comic is a clear sign that we are being trolled. IMO.

I think that headcanons are just good fun, and give people something to talk about. I see nothing wrong with them. I loved the comic. How is it trolling?

edited 12th Oct '15 12:52:39 PM by Nintendork64

Well, peoples' issues with headcanons seem to stem from people with them insisting that theirs' trumps the actual canon.

Plus, Frankenstein's Monster is not actually itself called "Frankenstein".

You know, there's a comic that addresses this...

edited 12th Oct '15 2:15:52 PM by Nintendork64

It's Pronounced Frahnk-un-steen

edited 12th Oct '15 4:30:04 PM by stevebat

Headcan(n)on