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Needs Help: Trope Decayin Canon Wielding

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frogpatrol Since: Mar, 2011
#1: Jun 16th 2014 at 10:30:33 PM

The stated definition of Canon Welding says that it refers to a creator linked together his or her works together. The entry, though, has a lot of examples of Intercontinuity Crossovers, either literal meetings, in-jokes and shared products which supposedly "wield together" disparate fictional worlds in a Wold Newton or Tommy Westphall way. Do you see the distinction?

For instance:

((Wildstorm)) and The Spirit merged into the DC Universe, permanently. DC bought the rights and everything. But Judge Dredd and Spawn have not merged into the DCU even though they have both crossed over with Batman.

See the distinction? How about a new trope for Canon Welding of the more loose sort? Fanon Welding, perhaps? It does tend to overlap with fan speculation.

FastEddie Since: Apr, 2004
#2: Jun 16th 2014 at 10:58:30 PM

This should be a YKTTW rather than a Repair Shop discussion. You can propose the new trope definition there.

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