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{{trope|wppage=Canon (fiction)}}
{{quote|'''Mate''': We’ve never had any cannon on this ship, sir.
'''Ponsonby''': How can that be?!
'''Mate''': The pirates are the protagonists of this story. Everything canonical happens over there!
|''[[Irregular Webcomic!]]'' # [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/4624.html 4624]}}
[[File:TsarCannon350 2182.jpg|link=Visual Pun|frame| [[Visual Pun|Nice try there]].<ref>"A cannon can be used to reinforce canon"</ref>]]
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Canon should not be confused with [[Fanon]], but everyone [[Word of Dante|does it all the time]]. See [[Fanon Discontinuity]] for when people decide ''en masse'' to disregard actual canon, and [[Canon Discontinuity]] when the writers do it. Alternatively, see the [[Continuity Tropes]] index for all related concepts. [[Official Fan-Submitted Content]] is when the creators ask the fans to add to the canon.
Contrast [[Headcanon]], which fans ''know'' isn't official, but like to think is anyway.
For the similarly titled [[Visual Novel]], see ''[[Kanon]]''. Not to be confused with the camera company of the same name, or with singer/songwriter K'naan. Or [[The Legend of Zelda|Ganon]].
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{{examples|Examples of canons in fiction}}
== [[Anime]] ==
* When it comes to the [[Gundam]] franchise, the official word from [[Sunrise (company)|Sunrise]] is that all works that appeared in official releases count as canon unless stated otherwise. Even if they try their hardest to line up with continuity and get appearances in crossover media like ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'', this still creates quite a lot of problems. Most of the time they act more like written guides are most canon, anime is more of a film/movie adaptation of what actually happened, yet much more canon than manga and novels, and games are, all non-canon, unless retconned by any previous mentioned media and with no contradiction with the guides.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Superhero comics have wildly fluctuating levels of canon with generally the most popular stories written by currently established writers being considered canon, often even if they weren't originally.
** For example, ''[[Kingdom Come]]'', originally an [[Elseworlds]] story, was eventually retconned to be the official future of the DC Universe (and later retconned to be one of the Fifty Two earths with the Superman of that universe interacting with his mainstream universe counterpart.)
** Often after a major retcon or reboot, classic stories are considered canon until proven otherwise by new canon. ''[[Superman: Birthright|Birthright]]'' was considered [[Superman]]'s origin story even after ''[[Infinite Crisis]]'' until Johns wrote ''[[Superman: Secret Origin|Secret
== [[Film]] - Animated ==
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== [[Film]] - Live-Action ==
* The ''[[Star Wars]]'' canon is [https://web.archive.org/web/20140517163832/http://www.canonwars.com/weblog/2005/09/ecce-starlog.html explictly] [https://web.archive.org/web/20100915064934/http://forums.starwars.com/thread.jspa?threadID=222689&start=612 patterned] [https://web.archive.org/web/20110907151645/http://www.canonwars.com/weblog/2008/04/once-again-yet-another-new-lucas-quote.html after] ''[[Star Trek]]'' canon. However, since the ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]'' has its own canon hierarchy, most people don't realize that and consider ''EU'' canon as ''the Star Wars'' canon. The struggles to retcon ''EU'' to accommodate new ''[[The Clone Wars|Clone Wars]]'' material [https://archive.is/20130105005336/http://karentraviss.typepad.com/blog/2009/08/end-of-one-era-start-of-another.html has actually caused one SW EU author to quit]. For more on this, see [[Expanded Universe]] (and the ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]'').
** Lucasfilm has Leeland Chee, whose entire job is "keeper of the canon": to draft the canon policy, keep the EU material consistent with Lucas' story and vision of [[The Verse]], and in the case of any contradictions of events between sources, to come up with the official canonical explanation. So while Lucas does not view the EU as part of ''his'' story, the official policy is that the EU is canon to the ''[[Star Wars]]'' universe.
** However, after Lucasfilm got bought by Disney and the new trilogy was announced, all of the old Expanded Universe material was swept aside into the not-really-canon ''Star Wars Legends'' label. The only canonical materials as of 2016 are the films, ''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars]]'', and ''[[Star Wars Rebels]]'' (i.e. the CG animated series).
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* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' has no official policy from above on what is or isn't canon. Being a show about time travel and history being altered, this probably makes sense.
** "Why all this fuss about canon - and, indeed, continuity - in a show about a man who changes history for a living?" [[Steven Moffat]] ([https://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.drwho/browse_thread/thread/3e98be7340dd173c/78dcc19f05381668?pli=1#78dcc19f05381668 link])
* [[Paramount]] maintains that nothing that didn't happen or wasn't referenced onscreen in ''[[Star Trek]]'' is canon. This technically includes the film series beginning with the [[Star Trek (film)|2009 "reboot"]], which features a few characters from after ''[[Star Trek: Nemesis]]'' in the "prime universe". ''[[Star Trek: The
* Like, ''Star Wars'', ''[[Babylon 5]]'' also has canonical licensed tie-in media.
* ''[[Lost]]'''s [[ARG]]s and tie-in video game have mixed canonicity, and the showrunners have used the podcast to declare what can be taken as canon and what cannot.
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* This also happens in ''[[Fire Emblem Tellius|Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn]]''. The game assumes that you got the most perfect ending possible in the predecessor, ''Path of Radiance''. This means that you would have had all possible characters recruited and alive, as well as having defeated {{spoiler|The Black Knight, a boss battle you could escape}}. This makes less sense as ''Radiant Dawn'' offers you to transfer your game save from ''Path of Radiance'' to draw from it and alter things in the game. On the other hand, the story of ''Radiant Dawn'' would be somewhat boring if all characters had died in Path of Radiance.
== [[Western Animation]]
* [[The Fairly
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