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* 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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