Fanon Discontinuity/Western Animation: Difference between revisions

* For quite a few fans, the ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' episodes directed by Gene Deitch never happened.

** Simply put: If it didn't come from Hollywood USA, it's not a ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' cartoon.

** Also, most fans deny the existence of the 1993 theatrically-released ''Tom and Jerry'' movie, due to the fact that Tom and Jerry [[Suddenly Voiced|talk]], sing, become best friends and, instead of doing slapstick, help some boring little girl find her missing father. Saying that's [[In Name Only]] is like saying Charles Manson was ''slightly'' unstable.

*** Not to mention the frankly terrifying scene of {{spoiler|Tom and Jerry standing on the chimney of a burning building watching helplessly as their only apparent means of survival is unable to rescue them. And then the building collapses.}}

* Most "true fans" of ''[[Total Drama Island]]'' consider ''Total Drama Action'' to never have existed at all, mainly due to its massive [[Character Derailment]] (the biggest reason: see [[Love Makes You Crazy|Trent]], [[Took a Level in Jerkass|Geoff]], [[Jerk Sue|Courtney]] ...), destroying many of the couples, and generally being worse quality than ''Island''. Thankfully, things shaped up for ''World Tour''....for about 13 episodes! Afterward, many fans reject the Gwen/Duncan/Courtney love triangle plot, as well as the unpleasant ending of the season as a whole. (The US ending is also more accepted than the Canadian one.)

* ''[[Transformers]]'': Hoo boy. Some fans ignore everything after The Movie (the animated one) or Season 2, ''[[Beast Wars]]'' fans often ignore ''[[Beast Machines]]'' and/or the ''Beast Wars''-specific comic stories, and others ignore ''Beast Wars'' itself. And fans sometimes reject that the comics [[retcon]]ned the origins of Unicron and Primus in ''every'' continuity. Many fans also deny ''The Rebirth'' as canon, mainly because of it's poor writing, animation, and characters. Ignoring this is made easier by the fact that the anime series [[Transformers Headmasters]] takes place after Season Three, but ignores ''The Rebirth''. The [http://tfwiki.net/ Transformers Wiki] has a good article on "[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Personal_canon Personal Canon]".

* Numerous fans of ''[[Thomas the Tank Engine]]'' wish the series ended after Season 4, after which a number of characters including Edward, Henry, Duck and Toby suffered from [[Character Derailment]] (no pun intended) or were [[Demoted to Extra]], unrealistic incidents (such as Thomas being shoved down a railway by a jet engine) happened, Thomas was shunted into nearly every episode (even when he didn't play any role whatsoever), and the Reverend Awdry's work was contradicted (such as Thomas pushing away snow ''without'' a snowplough). Some fans go further and wish Season 2 was where everything ended, as the writing quality arguably started to go downhill after then.

* ''[[The Critic]]'': Most fans of the TV series were disappointed with the webisodes that followed a few years after the show's cancellation. [http://www.retrojunk.com/details_articles/2048/ This fan review] should provide further explanation.

* A majority of ''[[South Park]]'' fans wish to acknowledge that the episodes [[Wham! Episode|"You're Getting Old" and "Ass Burgers"]] NEVER happened.

** Which is especially ironic considering the latter was in and of itself a [[Canon Discontinuity]] of the former.

** Some fans believe that the show ended with season 4, due to the following season 5 having Kenny killed off for an entire season.

** Stendy fans refuse to acknowledge the existence of "Raisins", "Follow That Egg", and to a lesser extent, "The List".

** And then there's the unnecessary sex change of Mr. Garrison...

* Most ''[[Daria]]'' fans hate the episode "Depth Takes a Holiday" so much to the point that fanfics have been written just to explain how it never happened and isn't canon. Granted, despite no [[All Just a Dream]] disclaimer at any point, the episode was probably never intended to be taken too seriously or intended to be canon.

** The same with "Daria!", the [[Musical Episode]]. In both cases it largely has to do with the [[A Day At the Bizarro]] themes interfering with the show's general realism.

* Many fans like to pretend Season 10 and onwards of ''[[King of the Hill]]'' don't exist for a few reasons. Luanne gets into a relationship with "Lucky", an ugly, middle-aged, stereotypical hillbilly and gets pregnant. This is jarring because Luanne beforehand had gone through a lot of [[Character Development]]: she realized that she had a lot of unused potential; she went to college; she had a vow to never have sex again until her wedding day; she never wanted to be a hillbilly ever again: and she had declared that she never wanted to marry a much older man. All of this was just ignored and wasted.

** Plus, the insult to the fans is that the [[Character Development]] went to the ''wrong'' character. Lucky, the show's [[The Scrappy|least popular character]], got good development and became a responsible husband, father, and homeowner, whereas Luanne—who has been on the show since Day 1—degenerated to [[The Ditz|an even bigger dummy than she was when the show first started]].

** Another reason was that Luanne's father in earlier episodes was said to be a small, timid, nerdy man who looked like a male version of Peggy. He was a good man who made a bad decision in marrying Leanne, who was abusive to him and caused him to flee to an oil rig in Montana whereupon he said he would not come back to Texas until he received news of Leanne's death. When he does show up many seasons later, this is all contradicted; he's a big fat guy that looks nothing like Peggy, and is a total [[Jerkass]] who fled to Montana because of his drug addiction and was in jail the whole time.

** The fact that the whole "new mother" storyline became a massive [[Tear Jerker]]/[[Funny Aneurysm Moment]] with the death of [[Brittany Murphy]] also doesn't help.

** Some fans wish not to consider "What Makes Bobby Run" canon either. It's that to this show as "The Boys Of Bummer" is to ''[[The Simpsons]]".

* There are a number of ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' fans who pretend that the {{spoiler|[[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]}} ending to ''[[Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension]]'' never happened at all.

* Some fans of ''[[Postman Pat]]'' disavow the existence of the newer episodes made by Entertainment Rights. The reasons include political correctness that has seeped into the show and the loss of some classic characters in the recent series.