History Main / ArmedWithCanon

* Dan Slott's final issue of ''[[SheHulk She-Hulk]]'' was devoted entirely to explaining away events from other comics as alternate-universe doppelgangers who were visiting the MarvelUniverse on vacation; this has since been largely ignored. The reveal was a "fix" to a story in Uncanny X-Men which had She-Hulk uncharacteristically sleeping with the Juggernaut.

** Recent events have only strengthened the "Anarky is Joker's son" issue by revealing that Duela Dent, the so-called "Joker's Daughter" is actually the multiversally displaced offspring of Earth-3's Jokester (so yes this means that Anarky and Duela are essentially the other's OppositeSexClone). But this is to be taken with a grain of salt in that this was introduced during the ''Countdown to Final Crisis'' storyline and may or may not by canon.
* Dan Slott's final issue of ''[[SheHulk She-Hulk]]'' was devoted entirely to explaining away events from other comics as alternate-universe dopplegangers who were visiting the MarvelUniverse on vacation; this has since been largely ignored. The reveal was a "fix" to a story in Uncanny X-Men which had She-Hulk uncharacteristically sleeping with the Juggernaut.

** Well, technically, Weis wrote the one where he lost his virginity ''herself''- it was always supposed to be an in-universe folktale of dubious canonicity. The unfairness of it is even lampshaded by Raistlin at one point- "It is just my luck that I made love to a beautiful woman ''and have no memory of it''. " In any event, he's an incredibly complex character and Weis is one of the few who can do him justice (a fact even co-author tracy Hickman admits) so in this case it may all be for the best...

* When it comes to WorldOfWarcraft, Blizzard and {{Whitewolf}} tend to come into these kinds of conflicts from time to time, with Blizzard vieing to keep the story faction-neutral, and Whitewolf adopting a noticeably pro-Alliance standpoint. One of the more infamous examples is with Alterac Valley, a battlefield where dwarves and orcs fight for ownership of the titular valley. Blizzard had always advocated that which side truly had the right to the Valley was ambigous, but then Whitewolf, in one of their sourcebooks, declared that the ''dwarves'' were the rightful owners, and that the orcs were the bloodthirsty invaders who deserved to die for ''daring'' to intrude on the almighty Alliance's lands. Needless to say, both Blizzard and the fanbase [[{{Understatement}} were not amused]].
** They'd also frequently focus on Elves and other pretty races and give little focus or say negative things about the [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman non-human]] or [[BeautyEqualsGoodness non-attractive races]]. An Example of this is the Rpg saying the Blood Elf Farstriders kill all trolls they come accross, [[MoralDissonance including their allies]] yet they claim they are NeutralGood.

* The New Testament of TheBible has four Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John; all of which have varying degrees of contradictions, and all of which are considered canonical.
** For what it's worth, none of the books outright say the others are wrong. Most chalk it up to the LawOfConservationOfDetail; different authors writing to different audiences chose to conserve different details.
*** There are still contradictions in what details the authors ''do'' give, however. (Such as: Was Jesus born in Nazareth or Bethlehem? Did he hang from the cross for three hours, six hours or nine hours? And so on.)

** Perhaps it's justified with "someone's character" -- especially given those settings were made for [[TabletopGames RPGT]], so it's almost ''someone's PlayerCharacter''. It would be both nice and more consistent to just ''ask'' original authors if someone else wants to use "their" characters in {{canon}}ic material. On the other hand, there's always precarious balance between counterproductive (for SharedUniverse) doting over prominent characters by their authors and derailing these characters (and vexing their authors) without any good reason when ExecutiveMeddling happens or another author is hit with an IdiotBall.

* ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' had a bit of a shipping war among the staff, where the [=NanoYuuno=] shippers ran the [[FourthWallMailSlot Sound Stages]] and tried to torpedo the [[SchoolgirlLesbians NanoFate]] ship by having Nanoha and Hayate suggest that Fate was trying to distance herself from being [[HasTwoMommies Vivio's other mother]]. [[OfficialCouple It didn't work]]. Vivio kept seeing Fate as her other mother in ''[=ViVid=]'', Fate once referred to ''herself'' as "Fate-mama" while speaking with Vivio, and Fate and Nanoha's relationship resembled that of a HappilyMarried lesbian couple ''even more'' than in previous seasons.

** It would be more accurate to say that whoever was writing the Drama CDs in Japan was gunning to keep everyone single, or at least provide a plausible excuse. Megami Magazine drama cds were rife with fourth wall and contradictions.

* GeoffJohns is generally thought of as one of the best DCComics writers when it comes to sticking to continuity, but almost every book he's been involved in has undergone some degree of CharacterDerailment or Retconning. Most of these have the catch-all excuse that InfiniteCrisis, a series he wrote, [[CosmicRetcon re-wrote the DC Universe's history at large and changed various details that are just now being explained.]]

* Kurt Busiek's ''UntoldTalesOfSpiderman'' featured stories set in between and around the early stories of Spider-Man by Lee and Kirby. It stuck closely as possible to the old continuity of those issues. Many fans considered it the most entertaining Spider-Man book especially since the series appeared around the time all the regular Spider titles were entangled in the CloneSaga mess.'''Then John Byrne came along.''' SpidermanChapterOne was his attempt to update the old Lee and Ditko stories and he pretty much disregarded most of what Busiek had done in his Untold Tales series.

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* Garth Ennis and Frank Tieri had a back-and-forth feud fought in the pages of their respective books ''The Punisher'' and ''Wolverine''. It started in Ennis' ''Punisher'' #16-17, where Frank Castle blasts a wildly over-the-top Wolverine in the face with a shotgun, hits him in the balls with a baseball bat, and runs him over with a steamroller. Tieri responded in ''Wolverine'' #186 by implying Punisher was gay (which given Ennis's intense to the point of protesting too much homophobia in his writing, is an apt slap in the face).

** When Weis & Hickman returned to write the further adventures of the ''{{Dragonlance}}'' Companions and their progeny, the ''Heroes'' and ''Preludes'' novels that other authors had written were considered [[DisContinuity non-canonical]] and [[RetCon retconned]] into "legends or folktales" of the Companions. To be fair to Weis & Hickman, while most of the ''Heroes'' and ''Preludes'' books were decent stand-alone fantasy novels in their own right, almost none of them lined up with established canon.

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* This is the backstory for the main plot of ''OrderOfTheStick'', in which [[AWizardDidIt A God Did It]], literally. Well, several pantheons.
** The resulting ContinuitySnarl [[spoiler:(aptly named "the Snarl") is [[EldritchAbomination trying to destroy the world]]]].
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* JamesRobinson's ''JusticeLeague: Cry For Justice'' reveals that following Prometheus's original appearances in GrantMorrison's ''JLA'', someone else has been using the suit, while the original Prometheus lay low, until now. Since Prometheus has been subjected to galloping VillainDecay over the past few years, this is probably a good thing.

** After {{Hawkman}} was rendered [[ContinuitySnarl "radioactive"]] in the wake of ''Zero Hour'', Johns resurrected the GoldenAge Hawkman while leaving the SilverAge alien one in limbo. While this version worked out well, Jim Starlin (for reasons known only to him) decided to retcon the Johns-written character, making the Hawkman who was part of the JSA be the alien Hawkman. It's gotten so confusing, Hawkman is now somehow both the Gold ''and'' Silver Age Hawks at the same time.

* V4 ''{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}'', having been [[RunningTheAsylum written by fans]], has a lot of this. For instance, fan speculation had had it that Element Lad is gay, so his girlfriend was {{retcon}}ned into a man taking sex-change drugs.