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[[The Verse]] may branch out across different media as the [[Fandom]] demands. There may be comic books, tie-in novels, movies, novelizations, [[Video Game|video games]], etc. Sometimes the TV show is itself a branching-out of a [[The Verse|verse]] that originated in another form (such as comics, as in the [[Marvel Universe]] or [[The DCU]]).
This can create a schism in fans. Some believe the entire
Even if it isn't [[Canon]], the
The term comes from ''[[Star Wars]]'', which has an extensive
Note: the "primary medium" is usually the original one, but not always. For instance, few would dispute that the primary medium of the [[Buffy Verse]] is the [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|1997 TV show]], not the [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film)|1992 movie]] (which is only [[Canon]] for the television series in the form of its altered comic book adaptation which is based off of Joss' original script for it).
After a show's cancellation, the
Sometimes [[Canon Foreigner|an element from the Expanded Universe]] is so popular (or just so good) that it gets put into the official [[Continuity]] of the original medium. This is a [[Canon Immigrant]].
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Please do not abbreviate it to [[EU]].
See also [[
Not to be confused with the [[Robert A. Heinlein]] anthology known as ''Expanded Universe''.
{{examples}}
* [[BattleTech Expanded Universe]]
* [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe]]
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== Anime and Manga ==
* There are select fans of ''[[Naruto]]'' that consider the databooks as
* ''[[Gundam]]'', as a [[Long Runners|30-year franchise]], has '''lots''' of manga, novels, [[Video Game|video games]], etc., including such popular titles as ''[[Crossbone Gundam]]'' and ''[[Gundam SEED Astray]]''. [[Word of God|According to]] [[Sunrise (company)|Sunrise]], only animated works are considered [[Canon]], meaning that everything
* Light novels are this for many anime shows,telling original stories that are sometimes adapted as ''filler''.
== Film ==
* ''Blade Runner'' spawned three novel sequels and a [[Video Game]] taking place in the film's
* The aforementioned ''[[Star Wars]]'' [[Star Wars Expanded Universe|expanded universe]]. All of it's vetted by either [[George Lucas]] or his employees, who have at times vetoed plot points, new characters, and entire stories. There are indeed people whose actual paid jobs are purely to assist in the management of all the disparate plot points in this [[Cash Cow Franchise|vast, money-generating machine]]. Even in cases where an
** ...Except that [[George Lucas]] has said publicly and repeatedly that "only the films are [[Canon]]."
*** ...Except that's only with regards to his personal view of the series. The fact is that he appointed Leeland Chee as the official record keeper for Star Wars canon, and it is he, not Lucas, who ultimately determines the canonicity of Expanded Universe works.
** Anyhow, after Disney got it, they said Expanded Universe continuity has to go. But failed to maintain even movie continuity. Or make much sense on their own. And, of course, the rest of [[Cash Cow Franchise|cash cow's]] udder was still there, waiting to be milked. Which led to the situation ''Star Wars'' fans summarized in "[//www.reddit.com/r/saltierthancrait/comments/d4kp3v/some_of_disneys_star_wars_novels_might_be_good/ Expanded Universe vs. Explanatory Universe]" meme.
* The cult favorite series ''[[Kolchak the Night Stalker]]'' has inspired a set of follow-on novels featuring the series characters. The latest one this editor can find was published in
* ''[[Darkman]]'' spawned a series of (quite good) novels, and a short-lived comic book series. Recently the character was licensed to Dynamite Comics, who will be publishing original stories. They've already put out an [[Evil Dead]] crossover.
* Few people know that the film ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'', itself based (very loosely) on the [[Gary
* ''[[Aliens]]'' and ''[[Predator]]'' have their own
* Each of the eight major characters from ''[[Repo! The Genetic Opera]]'' have their own Myspace page. Whatever happens there is considered [[Canon]]. Rotti is understandably a very busy man and only occasionally present, but his children are there whenever they're supposed to be working, and Grave-Robber apparently drums up a lot of new clientele through the site.
* Not counting (though some do) the [[In Name Only]] [[Friday the 13th: The Series|television series]], ''[[Friday the 13th (film)|Friday the 13th]]'' has a surprisingly large number of books and comics.
* Other New Line Cinema horror properties such as ''[[A Nightmare on Elm Street]]'', ''[[Final Destination]]'' and ''[[The Texas Chainsaw Massacre]]'' also have a large number of novels, short story collections, comic books, and in Freddy's case, [[Freddy's Nightmares|a television series]].
* ''[[Hellraiser]]'' has a surprisingly huge, detailed
* ''[[Labyrinth]]'' had a four-volume [[OEL Manga]] followup, ''[[Return to Labyrinth]]'', published over 2006-10.
* Although not actually canon, [[Red Dawn]] got an
== Literature ==
* The ''[[Cthulhu Mythos]]'' is a particularly informal
* ''[[Warrior Cats]]'' has 13 comic books, 2 plays and 4 guidebooks (as well as one that was [[What Could Have Been|cancelled]]). These are all canon, being written by the authors themselves, except possibly ''Brightspirit's Mercy'', which happens in the middle of a book's story rather than in one the series' plentiful [[Time Skip|time skips]].
== Live Action TV ==
* The [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe]] may in fact be [[Canon]] to the TV series as two episodes directly reference it in [[Mythology Gag
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'''s spin-off ''[[Torchwood]]'' has its own expanded materials in the form of novels, magazine strips, and audios. Perhaps the most interesting one so far is the magazine strip "Shrouded", penned by Gareth David-Lloyd (Ianto Jones' actor). {{spoiler|Our Ianto is quite dead, but an evil Ianto from an alternate timeline is very much alive, and saw the funeral. Is this [[Canon]]?}}
* The novel-based ''[[Star Trek Expanded Universe]]'', published by Simon & Schuster, primarily carries forward the future history of ''[[Star Trek: The
* ''[[Lost]]'' has a relatively small
* ''[[Glee]]'' has its own [[Prequel]] book now.
* ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' has a small
* ''[[Babylon 5]]'' has
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' has many novels and comic books written by writers of the series that are of varying apocryphal status, and a [[Joss Whedon|Whedon-helmed]] comic-book series (along with a similar comic-book series for its [[Spin-Off]] series ''[[Angel]]'') that's considered the [[Canon]] post-television storyline.
** The other, Non-Season 8/After The Fall comics are up in the air in [[Continuity]], as are all non-Post Chosen novels (those that are Post-Chosen are just non-[[Canon]]). Many of the novels are either side stories or [[
*** The only bit of non-show or non-Season 8 comic that is considered "[[Canon]]" came from the fairly short-lived ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' role-playing game, and that is Faith's last name; Lehane. This has been confirmed as [[Canon]] by its use in the Joss-Whedon-written last issue of the Season 8 comics.
* ''[[Charmed]]'' has novels of both original stories and several based on actual episodes.
* ''[[Firefly]]'' (the original [[The Verse|Verse]]) has a small Expanded Universe in form of comics, RPG supplements and one novelization (of ''[[Serenity]]'').
== Professional Wrestling ==
* Back in the days before the internet, when [[Kayfabe]] reigned supreme, pro wrestling had the Apter magazines (named for Bill Apter, the most prolific publisher of such), which were something between an
== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Warhammer
* The [[BattleTech Expanded Universe]]: A long series of sci-fi novels, a pair of [[Video Game]] [[Spin-Off|spinoffs]], and even a [[Western Animation]] series.
* ''[[Dark Future (game)|Dark Future]]'' gained an expanded background courtesy of a series of novels by [[Kim Newman]], who also wrote many of the early ''[[Warhammer Fantasy]]''-related fiction.
== Theme Parks ==
* Having one of these is the reason why ''[[The Haunted Mansion]]'' has a page separate from the rest of the [[Disney Theme Parks]], having spawned [[The Haunted Mansion (film)|a film]] with another coming soon, a [[Video Game]], a comic mini-series, and a few books.
== Video Games ==
* ''[[Assassin's Creed]]'' took its first stab at this with [[Assassin's Creed:
* ''[[Halo]]'''s
** When canon does conflict, policy is that new material overrides old material, and that games and other media created directly by Bungie/343 staff take precedence over everything else.
* Some [[Video Game|games]] like ''[[
* The [[Warcraft Expanded Universe]] consists of about ten books, one trilogy of manga, two western comic series and two tabletop RPGs.
* The ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series has built up an increasingly large
* ''[[Mass Effect]]'' and ''[[Dragon Age]]'' have
* ''[[Wing Commander (video game)|Wing Commander]]'''s
* ''[[Disgaea]]''’s
* [[Game Mod]] ''[[Red Alert 3: Paradox]]'' has an Expanded Universe [[Red Alert 3: Paradox Expanded Universe|(ATT page here)]]. It consists of fan-made factions with the goal of building them into their own game mod.
* [[Super Mario Bros.]] has/had one, having multiple TV shows, the movie, the anime movie, the various comics and the choose your own adventure books in various different 'continuities'. They tend to be even stranger than the original games.
** Note that Mario does not have a continuity, which means that each of these is as canon as any of the games.
* Surprisingly Gears of War has a very big one that includes the games, several books, and a comic book that as of 2012 is still going.
== Web Animation ==
* ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' actually directly references the concept; in the ''Cheat Commandos'' toon "[
== [[Web Comic]] ==
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* In an interesting case, [[The Slender Man Mythos]] consists ''entirely'' of an
* The film [[Red Dawn]] got an
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Transformers]]''. A bunchload of comic books. A number of text stories. A handful of [[Video Game|video games]]. And that's not even counting that not all the cartoons are in the same [[Continuity]]. Many fans are split over what the primary source really is: the original cartoon is named as such by most, but many others choose the original comic series instead, or the British version thereof, with mixing-and-matching becoming increasingly popular. The term ''[[Canon]]'' is hard to apply here: It all happened, but didn't all happen in the same timeline. And with all the other [[Continuity|continuities]] created since, it's become an expanded ''multiverse.''
** ''[[Beast Wars]]'' itself is an example of an
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' has a number of comics that chronicle the adventures of the Gaang that are not shown in the TV series.
* ''[[Daria]]'' has one, including the show, its two [[All There in the Manual|published manuals]], its parent show ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'' and any of its spin-offs. However, the ''term'' "Expanded Universe" usually refers to a group of interconnected [[Fan Verse
* ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' has had comic books, movies, picture books, TV specials, spinoffs, and story CDs galore.
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