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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).

 

 

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]].

* ''[[Aliens]]'' and ''[[Predator]]'' have their own [[Expanded Universe]], including several cross-over miniseries published by Dark Horse Comics during the late 80s and 90s. The first three miniseries for Aliens were originally a continuation of the second Alien movie; however, the release of ''Alien 3'' rendered the events of those series incompatible with the movie's [[Continuity]] since it killed Newt and Hicks at the beginning of the movie, and Ripley at the very end. Dark Horse got around this by rereleasing the series in graphic novel format, with new names for the series as well as [[Retcon|renaming Newt as Billie and Hicks as Wilkes]], and stuck with using original characters after that. There have also been many ''[[Aliens]]'' and ''[[Predator]]'' novels and [[Video Game|video games]] released, including a few ''[[Alien vs. Predator]]'' games for the PC.

* 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.

* Other New Line Cinema horror properties such as ''[[A Nightmare On Elm Street (Film)|A Nightmare On Elm Street]]'', ''[[Final Destination (Film)|Final Destination]]'' and ''[[The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Film)|The Texas Chainsaw Massacre]]'' also have a large number of novels, short story collections, comic books, and in Freddy's case, [[Freddys Nightmares|a television series]].

* ''[[Hellraiser (Film)|Hellraiser]]'' has a surprisingly huge, detailed [[Expanded Universe]], primarily due to many of the cast and crew from the film series contributing, even series originator [[Clive Barker]], and Peter Atkins (the writer of the second, third and fourth films).

== 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|Mythology Gags]]. Other parts contradict it. But then the [[Whoniverse]] (Expanded and otherwise) tends towards [[Broad Strokes]] [[Continuity]] and to a large extent anything goes within it. Former producer [[Russell T Davies]] has stated that he considers the [[Big Finish Doctor Who]] audio plays to be in-[[Continuity]]. That statement was made back when the audio plays explicitly broke from [[Continuity]] with the books; they've since been amended into a single [[Continuity]] by the audio play ''The Company of Friends''. The Series 3 episodes "Human Nature" and "Family of Blood" have been acknowledged as an adaptation of the Seventh Doctor [[Virgin New Adventures|New Adventures]] novel ''Human Nature'' (the novels themselves form two distinct and only semi-compatible [[Continuity|continuities]]) and, confusing things yet further, some writers of the spin-off material took the view they took place in [[Alternate Universe|Alternate Universes]] to each other.

* The novel-based ''[[Star Trek Expanded Universe]]'', published by Simon & Schuster, primarily carries forward the future history of ''[[Star Trek the Next Generation (TV)|Star Trek the Next Generation]]'', ''[[Star Trek Deep Space Nine (TV)|Star Trek Deep Space Nine]]'', and ''[[Star Trek Voyager (TV)|Star Trek Voyager]]''. It's been given full rein over [[Star Trek (Franchise)|Trek]] stories post-''Nemesis'', as it's likely that version of the [[Star Trek (Franchise)|Trek]] universe won't appear on-screen again. The ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'' [[Expanded Universe]] most recently includes a fan series called ''[http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.12/startrek.html Star Trek: New Voyages]'', which is attempting complete the "five year mission" of [[Star Trek the Original Series (TV)|the original series]]. It's being supported by a number of people with professional links to the official series runs, most notably Walter Koenig and [[George Takei]], who reprise their roles of Chekov and Sulu, respectively.

* ''[[Lost (TV)|Lost]]'' has a relatively small [[Expanded Universe]] so far -- a few books, two [[Alternate Reality Games]], and a [[Video Game]]. The only one of these that's been declared [[Canon]] is the first ARG, ''The [[Lost]] Experience'' -- and that only applies to the backstory information given relating to the series, not the main plot.

* ''[[Glee (TV)|Glee]]'' has its own [[Prequel]] book now.

* ''[[Heroes (TV)|Heroes]]'' has a small [[Expanded Universe]] with comic books and graphic novels, not much of it [[Canon]] and [[Retcon|the rest getting smaller the longer the show goes on.]] Now that the show itself has been canceled, the [[Expanded Universe]] presumably has free rein again.

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|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 (TV)|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 [[Prequel|prequels]]. The novel ''Go Ask Malice'', for example, is a backstory for Faith that goes up until the episode ''Faith, Hope, Trick''. It's status as [[Canon]], like all of the novels, is unknown, but it does give a backstory for a character with very little and it doesn't violate [[Canon]].

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