I'm pretty sure that is exactly what "head canon" means.TheMightyOzaru wrote:You can't just take bits and pieces of something and incorporate into a head canon just because you like it =/.
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I didn't know head canon was any different than canon. I thought a head canon would be material accepted by fans, I didn't know you could pick and choose bits and pieces from the material. I honestly don't see the point of a head canon if that's what it is.Rocketman wrote:I'm pretty sure that is exactly what "head canon" means.TheMightyOzaru wrote:You can't just take bits and pieces of something and incorporate into a head canon just because you like it =/.
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"Head canon" is whatever a particular fan chooses to accept; it's unique to individuals.
"Canon" would be what an official source declares to be The Story. Dragonball does not have this.
"Canon" would be what an official source declares to be The Story. Dragonball does not have this.
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Care to explain why fans shouldn't?TheMightyOzaru wrote: You can't just take bits and pieces of something and incorporate into a head canon just because you like it =/.
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I figure if you wanna add something to your head canon, you have to incorporate the the whole thing, not bits and pieces. At that point it's what you want to be canon, not what should be.Insertclevername wrote:Care to explain why fans shouldn't?TheMightyOzaru wrote: You can't just take bits and pieces of something and incorporate into a head canon just because you like it =/.
Vegeta: "Funny... I seem to recall Kakarot being fed the same information right before he transformed; the distinct look on your faces when he went Super Saiyan didn't exactly inspire confidence. One does not predict or calculate power like ours."
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That's what it has always been anyway. Without an official statement on what should be canon, what is canon is up to the individual (as you well know). Even if all they want are bits and pieces, that's up to them to decide.TheMightyOzaru wrote:At that point it's what you want to be canon, not what should be.
Continuity is an entirely different story though...
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Battle of Gods and Yo! Son Goku and Friends Return. And sometimes, depending on my mood, GT. Although after BOG that's becoming more rare.
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I don't have a particular bias when deciding the canon though. I can choose what is and isn't canon and still refrain from choosing bits and pieces I want to be canon. I just think it's weird to choose bits and pieces of something to be canon as opposed to the entire piece of material. Shadow Dragons and SSJ4 being the only canon GT things is just, again, weird to me.TheDevilsCorpse wrote:That's what it has always been anyway. Without an official statement on what should be canon, what is canon is up to the individual (as you well know). Even if all they want are bits and pieces, that's up to them to decide.TheMightyOzaru wrote:At that point it's what you want to be canon, not what should be.
Continuity is an entirely different story though...
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That's...that's literally what "head canon" is. Like...literal literally. That's why it's called "head canon", it's the canon exclusive to your head.TheMightyOzaru wrote:At that point it's what you want to be canon, not what should be.
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Since there are manga-guidebooks that cover specific parts of the franchise (manga, Kanzenban, EoB, Nako Majin, etc), there are anime-guidebooks that also cover specific parts of the franchise (DB/Z/GT/Kai, movies, etc), since we have an official timeline that covers specific parts of the franchise (anime, EoB, BoG, JSAT, M1, etc), and since we officially know that the movies take place in an alternative universe, while BoG takes place in the main continuity, I think that Shueisha has implied what's canon for them through their guidebooks.
James Teal (Animerica 1996) wrote:When you think about it, there are a number of similarities between the Chinese-inspired Son Goku and that most American of superhero icons, Superman. Both are aliens sent to Earth shortly after birth to escape the destruction of their homeworlds; both possess super-strength, flight, super-speed, heightened senses and the ability to cast energy blasts. But the crucial difference between them lies not only in how they view the world, but in how the world views them.
Superman is, and always has been, a symbol for truth, justice, and upstanding moral fortitude–a role model and leader as much as a fighter. The more down-to-earth Goku has no illusions about being responsible for maintaining social order, or for setting some kind of moral example for the entire world. Goku is simply a martial artist who’s devoted his life toward perfecting his fighting skills and other abilities. Though never shy about risking his life to save either one person or the entire world, he just doesn’t believe that the balance of the world rests in any way on his shoulders, and he has no need to shape any part of it in his image. Goku is an idealist, and believes that there is some good in everyone, but he is unconcerned with the big picture of the world…unless it has to do with some kind of fight. Politics, society, law and order don’t have much bearing on his life, but he’s a man who knows right from wrong.
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... No. Head canon is what you accept as canon. What you want to be canon is not necessarily what you accept as canon. E.g. you like movie 4 and want it to be canon, but you can't accept it because it's contradictory to the source material. And it's a problem when people accept as canon what they like, rather than what, according to them, makes sense to be canon.Rocketman wrote:That's...that's literally what "head canon" is. Like...literal literally. That's why it's called "head canon", it's the canon exclusive to your head.TheMightyOzaru wrote:At that point it's what you want to be canon, not what should be.
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In my head canon, what I personally like to think happened to the characters, in-universe, at some point after Goku left the 28th TB with Uub, a Tsufru parasite came to Earth and took over Vegeta's body, Goku achieved a form resembling SSj4, and the Dragon Balls overflowed with negative energy and released super powerful Evil Dragons that the heroes had to combine their efforts to defeat. I use what was depicted in GT as a base, an idea, a rough-not-necessarily-fully-accurate example, of how these specific things (that I personally like to think happened to the characters, in-universe, at some point after Goku left the 28th TB with Uub) occurred.TheMightyOzaru wrote:I figure if you wanna add something to your head canon, you have to incorporate the the whole thing, not bits and pieces. At that point it's what you want to be canon, not what should be.Insertclevername wrote:Care to explain why fans shouldn't?TheMightyOzaru wrote: You can't just take bits and pieces of something and incorporate into a head canon just because you like it =/.
Simple enough, right? Because that's what this topic's for. Stuff like that. Discussion on the semantics of the term "head canon" isn't really the point, though the discussion is more than welcome in the thread I guess.