For the author, see Frantz Fanon. Frantz Fanon (1925–1961) was perhaps the preeminent thinker of the 20th century on the issue of decolonization and the psychopathology of colonization. ...

Fanon is a fact or ongoing situation in fan fiction stories related to a television program, book, movie, or video game that has been used so much by fan writers or among the fandom that it has been more or less established as having happened in the fictional world, but it has not actually been established as having happened on the show, book or movie itself. Fanon is a portmanteau word of fan and canon. Fan fiction (also spelled fanfiction and commonly abbreviated to fanfic) is fiction written by people who enjoy a film, novel, television show or other media work, using the characters and situations developed in it and developing new plots in which to use these characters. ... This is a listing of topics pertaining to television programs. ... Look up book in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... A computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players interact with in order to achieve a defined goal or set of goals. ... Keen aficionados of any phenomenon such as authors, hobbies, ideologies, genres or fashions can collectively manifest as fandom. ... A portmanteau (plural: portmanteaux or portmanteaus) is a word that is formed by combining both sounds and meanings from two or more words. ... Fans of Janet Jackson, at Music Music The word fan refers to someone who has an intense, occasionally overwhelming liking of a person, group of persons, work of art, idea, or trend. ... In the context of fiction, the canon of a fictional universe comprises those novels, stories, films, etc. ...

The term is sometimes used pejoratively by purists to refer to such explanations as faulty or illogical given the nature of a story, or "common lore" copied amongst fans, especially in webpage proliferation, that actually contradicts a simpler explanation that was even alluded to in canon. This is especially common for foreign works which are sometimes mistranslated or to when backstory and exposition elsewhere in a work has not been ported over (for example, manga that was associated with a commercial anime, but of which only one has been translated.) A purist is one who desires that a particular item remain true to its essence and free from adulterating or diluting influences. ... A webpage or web page is a page of the World Wide Web, usually in HTML/XHTML format (the file extensions are typically htm or html) and with hypertext links to enable navigation from one page or section to another. ... Rurouni Kenshin manga, volume 1 (English version) Manga (漫画) is the Japanese word for comics; outside of Japan, it usually refers specifically to Japanese comics. ... A scene from Cowboy Bebop (1998) Anime (アニメ) is Japanese animation, sometimes referred to in the Western world by the portmanteau Japanimation. ...

Fanon is sometimes well known by creators and may even be accepted as true (or at least as reasonable an explanation as any) to something they have not explicitly explained. On the other hand, some creators of serial works introduce facts in subsequent installments of their work which invalidate specific fanon.

In a series with a substantial Expanded Universe (official, but not necessarily canon, additions to the series proper), such as Star Wars, Star Trek, or Doctor Who, elements of fanon will sometimes become established as part of the expanded canon; this is particularly common when fans become contributors to the Expanded Universe. Expanded Universe material (e. ... The Expanded Universe (or EU for short) is an extensive collection of fictional background material from the Star Wars universe that is derived from official novels, comic books, and various other media besides the movies themselves. ... The Star Trek Expanded Universe is a generic term to describe an extrapolation of events which occur in the Star Trek Universe outside the scope of the television series and feature films. ... Doctor Who spin-offs refers to material created outside of, but related to, the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

A variation of fanon is "personal canon", which is a set of "fanon"-like facts that are accepted as canon by an individual fan or a group of fans. Proponents of "fanon" or "personal canon" have been known to be offended when these terms are used, as "fanon" facts have often become better accepted than canon. This is widespread among Star Trek fans; for example, the prequel TV series Star Trek: Enterprise is rejected by many Trek fans on the basis that it violates "fanon" regarding the history of the Federation (rather than canon facts seen on earlier series). Similarly, some Trek fans have also seen fit to reject and "decanonize" individual episodes or films that don't fit with their vision of the Star Trek universe (or, alternately, the perceived vision of the late Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry). Some consider such a selective view elitism, or simply an egotistical way to label stories one simply didn't like very much. Most recently, many Star Trek fans have indicated that they choose to not accept the finale episode of Enterprise as canon, for reasons ranging from anger over the fate of a major ongoing character to the fact that it was written by the series' unpopular creators to the perception of the episode as being insulting to fans of Enterprise (a perception shared by at least some of the Enterprise cast members). The starship Enterprise (NX-01) Star Trek: Enterprise is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe. ... Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek Eugene Wesley Roddenberry (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was born in El Paso, Texas, USA, and spent his boyhood in Los Angeles, California. ...

Fanon can also be true for one version of the story, but not in another. For instance, fanon for a Japanese anime and manga series may be true in a manga version of a series, but not an anime version of a series, or vice versa.

A list of fanon facts

Andromeda

• There is some speculation that Andromeda may be linked to Star Trek, another franchise developed by Gene Roddenberry.
  • Star Trek: Enterprise episode 404 introduces Dr. Arik Soong, the grandfather of Dr. Noonien Soong, who is the creator of the androids Data and Lore (of Star Trek: The Next Generation). It is possible that the ancestors of the Nietzscheans in Andromeda are the genetics augments who hijacked the Klingon ship in the same episode, as there was a brief mention of Nietzsche in the episode.
  • Also the future technological mention of slipstream in Star Trek: Voyager episode 506, presumably linked the Systems Commonwealth of the Andromeda universe to be a possible future to the Star Trek universe.

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Battlestar Galactica (1978 ABC TV series)

• The Battlestar Pegasus definitely survived the battle against Baltar's basestars and is now assisting the Galactica by continuing its campaign against the Cylons. This diverts Cylon resources that could otherwise have been deployed to hunt the refugee fleet.
• Starbuck later managed to escape the desert planet he was marooned on by salvaging the Cylon wreckage to create a working ship that allowed him to reach the Galactica.

Battlestar Galactica is an American science fiction movie and television series, produced in 1978 by Glen Larson and starring Lorne Greene, Richard Hatch and Dirk Benedict. ... Battlestar Galactica is an American science fiction movie and television series, produced in 1978 by Glen Larson and starring Lorne Greene, Richard Hatch and Dirk Benedict. ... Battlestar Galactica is an American science fiction movie and television series, produced in 1978 by Glen Larson and starring Lorne Greene, Richard Hatch and Dirk Benedict. ...

Doctor Who

• The Doctor Who universe has its own version of the Doctor Who television series, known as Professor X. (This is canon in some spin-off novels.)
• The real reason that Davros survived the betrayal by the Daleks was that he prepared defenses in his life support chair after learning about the treacherous nature of his creations from the Doctor.
• The reason that the Time Lords never showed disapproval of the Doctor failing to prevent the creation of the Daleks in Genesis of the Daleks was that that they were aware that the Doctor's intervention inadvertently allowed Davros to survive when his creations turned on him. When he was revived, his presence created profound schisms in the Daleks which crippled their threat to the universe. Thus they considered the Doctor's mission accomplished.
• The Daleks have two timelines. One that existed prior to the Doctor's invention in Genesis of the Daleks and the other, after it, in which Davros survives because of the Doctor's inadvertent intervention. Davros causes a schism in the Dalek Empire which will later cause the Empire to collapse and the Daleks to fail.
• The Colin Baker era story, The Two Doctors, depicts the Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton) and Jamie on a mission for the Time Lords. The Doctor's origins and the Time Lords were not introduced until the final Troughton serial (The War Games) where he calls them for help. This resulted in his trial, forced regeneration, and exile to Earth, while Jamie and Zoe are returned to their respective eras with no memory of the Doctor past their first adventure. Fans have theorized that the Doctor's exile didn't occur immediately: the Doctor and Jamie were on secret missions for a period prior to exile with this period possibly erased from both of their memories before the beginning of the Doctor's exile period and eventual regeneration. This is supported by the fact that contrary to most regeneration episodes, the change-over from Troughton to the Third Doctor (Jon Pertwee) occurred off-screen between the end of The War Games and the beginning of the next story, Spearhead from Space. It also provides an in-story explanation for the change in appearance of the Second Doctor and Jamie due to the actors being twenty years older. Furthermore, in The Five Doctors, the second Doctor is not fooled by the false images of Jamie and Zoe because he knows that they have no memory of him past their first adventure. The Second Doctor's presence without a companion at the beginning of this story clearly indicates that he was travelling alone for at least part of this period, which he was never seen to do onscreen. Because season 6 was Troughton's final season, fans often call this theoretical period Season 6B. (This is canon in some spin-off novels.)
• Ace has the last name McShane. (This is canon in some spin-off novels.)
• The unproduced second serial The Masters of Luxor may have a place in continuity.
• Fans have chosen for the most part to ignore or rationalize away a scene in The War Machines in which a character refers to the Doctor as "Doctor Who".
• Fan speculation has it that the story Inferno portrays a fascist parallel England ruled over by a parallel version of the Doctor, versus a fascist parallel England ruled by an un-named and unknown Big Brother figure. (This is canon in some spin-off novels.)
• The Jon Pertwee era of the series, featuring the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce, takes place in the 1980s. (This is actually a case of fanon supporting facts that were initially established but later ignored by canon - see UNIT dating controversy.)

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Genesis of the Daleks is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was originally broadcast in six weekly parts from March 8 to April 12, 1975. ... In the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, Davros is a wheelchair-bound scientist from the planet Skaro who created the Daleks during a long-running war between his race, the Kaleds, and their enemies the Thals. ... Colin Baker (born June 8, 1943) is a British actor who is best known for playing the sixth incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The Two Doctors is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in three weekly parts from February 16 to March 2, 1985. ... Patrick George Troughton (March 25, 1920–March 28, 1987) was a versatile and prolific British actor. ... James Robert McCrimmon, or simply Jamie, is a fictional character played by Frazer Hines in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The Time Lords are a fictional race of humanoids, originating on the planet Gallifrey, seen in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The War Games is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in ten weekly parts from April 19 to June 21, 1969. ... John Devon Roland Pertwee (July 7, 1919–May 20, 1996), better known as Jon Pertwee, was a British actor. ... Spearhead from Space is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from January 3 to January 24, 1970. ... The Five Doctors was a special movie-length episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, produced in celebration of the programmes twentieth anniversary. ... Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor in The Two Doctors Season 6B (also Season 6 (b)) refers to a popular fan theory related to the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... BBC Books is the book publishing division of BBC Worldwide, the commercial subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation. ... Ace (given name Dorothy) is a fictional character played by Sophie Aldred in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The Virgin New Adventures (often referred to simply as NAs within fandom) were a series of novels from Virgin Publishing based on the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who, which had been cancelled in 1989, continuing the story of the series from where the television programme had left off. ... Doctor Who spin-offs refers to material created outside of, but related to, the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The War Machines is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in 4 weekly parts from June 25 to July 16, 1966. ... Inferno is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in seven weekly parts from May 9 to June 20, 1970. ... Big Brother may refer to: Big Brother (1984), a character from the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four Authoritarianism, referred to as Big Brother, any omnipresent, seemingly benevolent figure representing the oppressive control over individual lives exerted by an authoritarian government, a concept from the above novel. ... The Virgin New Adventures (often referred to simply as NAs within fandom) were a series of novels from Virgin Publishing based on the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who, which had been cancelled in 1989, continuing the story of the series from where the television programme had left off. ... The United Nations Intelligence Taskforce (also known as UNIT) is a fictional military organization from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... In the context of fiction, the canon of a fictional universe comprises those novels, stories, films, etc. ... The UNIT dating controversy refers to an ongoing debate in Doctor Who fandom about exactly when the stories featuring the fictional military organization known as the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce actually take place in the timeline of the television series. ...

Digimon Adventure

• The anime ends with the death of Oikawa after Belial Vamdemon's defeat, anything occurring afterwards didn't actually happen and is not admissible for evidence in shipper wars, though it has made for some good fanfics. (The epilogue, which was created later, was controversial amongst fans)

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Dragon Ball Z

• Chi-Chi uses a frying pan as a weapon, often to reprimand Son Goku or her sons (Son Gohan and Son Goten).
• Bulma is very bad at cooking.
• Trunks will marry either Pan, Marron, or Goten.
• Chaozu's empire or country is called Mifan.
• Korin Tower was built in honor of Olibu.
• Saiyans bite thier mate's neck and create a psycic bond between them, that can transmit thoughts and feelings.
• The co-directors of the "Saiyaman movie" in the Great Saiyaman Saga are the sons of Commander Red and Assistant Black.
• "Vegeta" is a regnal name.

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Gargoyles

• The English gargoyles were close allies of King Arthur during his reign.
• According to the series creator, Greg Weisman, the gargoyle Lexington is homosexual. He noted that he felt his superiors would never have allowed him to present that fact in the canon.

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Halo

• Events in the Halo series are ambiguously tied to the earlier Marathon series. Dates Halo takes place in match a strangely blank section in the Marathon timeline, for example. This example is considerably unique, as the connections between the game series are official canon, but are left open-ended enough to be judged by the player, not by them.

Halo: Combat Evolved, or simply Halo, is a video game in the first-person shooter (FPS) genre, created by the Microsoft-owned Bungie Studios. ... Marathon is a series of science fiction first-person shooter computer games from Bungie Software released for the Apple Macintosh. ...

Harry Potter

• Ginny Weasley's full first name being Virginia, later disproved when J. K. Rowling revealed it was actually Ginevra.
• Lily Potter was in Slytherin, despite comments by Rowling to the contrary. This was later refuted in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
• Lily Evans and James Potter had a love/hate relationship. This was later confirmed by Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

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Hellsing

• It is widely misconcieved that Integral Hellsing's father is called Arthur. In fact, his name is never mentioned. Arthur is actually the name of Integral's grandfather/great grandfather in the Hellsing: Dawn prequel
• It is similiarly widely thought that Integral is half asian. This is based on nothing more than her skin-tone.

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Highlander

• The events of the movie Highlander 2: The Quickening never happened (sometimes phrased in parody of the series' tagline as "There Should Have Been Only One"). Some fans extend this to also remove the events of Highlander: The Final Dimension, the Highlander TV series, and/or Highlander: Endgame. The apparent incompatibility between the events of the second Highlander film and the rest of the series could well be considered to retcon those events out of existence.

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James Bond

• There are only nine 00 agents (001-009). In fact, Ian Fleming mentions an 0010 in his novel, Moonraker and a later book by Raymond Benson mentions an 0012. On a related note, some fanon states that M is in fact the original 001, the first 00-agent; nothing in Fleming supports this.

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Knight Rider

• KITT, the car on Knight Rider, is actually built around a Cylon brain that crash-landed on earth at the end of Galactica 1980.

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The Legend of Zelda

• All of the Links are descendants of the Hero of Time. (It was never stated in a Zelda game or interview whether or not the Links are related except for Wind Waker, where the King of Red Lions states (after being asked whether or not this Link is the Hero of Time), "This one has no connection to the legendary one." Though the Links may not be descendants of the Hero of Time, they may be reincarnations of him according to Ganondorf's quote from Wind Waker: "Surely, you are the Hero of Time reborn!"

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Naruto

• Umino Iruka's family name was originally fanon. Kishimoto Masashi (the author of Naruto) decided to canonize the name, and it was included in the Naruto Databooks.

Naruto (ナルト) is a manga by Masashi Kishimoto and its anime TV series adaptation about a loud, hyperactive teenage ninja by the name of Uzumaki Naruto who constantly searches for approval and recognition. ...

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

• The full name of the evil organization THRUSH is the Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity. In fact the meaning of THRUSH was never revealed in the TV series; however, one of the many original novels based upon the series suggested the above meaning.

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Marathon

• The main character is the 10th Mjolnir Mark IV cyborg covertly brought aboard the colony ship Marathon.

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Mario video games

• Wario and Waluigi are brothers (or at least half-brothers).
• The Mario Brothers were born in the Mushroom Kingdom, but transported to our world and raised in New York (TV shows, movies, and games, are all contradictory on this matter). Furthermore, the ending to Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island shows both Mario and Luigi held by parents in a Mushroom Kingdom style house, suggesting they never came from Earth.
• Mario and Luigi's last name is Mario, providing a better explanation for their title of "The Mario Bros." They were first given this last name in the controversial Super Mario Bros. movie.
• Bowser has a twin brother named Morton, hence one of the koopa kids is named Morton Koopa "Jr."; which implies that they are not really Bowser's kids and wants everyone to believe they are for unknown reasons.

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Mobile Suit Gundam

• The demise of the Zeon officer Colonel M'Quve is depicted in the TV series but, like many other scenes, was cut out for the movie compilations. Many fans have specualted that the battle resulting in Makube's death never happened in the movies. Thus he survived the entire war and took Dozle's (Dozuru) widow and infant daughter Mineva, the last surviving members of the Zabi family into hiding (Mineva would play a small part later in Zeta Gundam), though there are no lines in the movie that clearly state this as the sequel series Zeta Gundam still had yet to be conceived. Hiroyuki Kitakubo's work, Char's Deleted Affair: A Portrait of A Young Comet, in Gundam Ace, an official magazine publiciation, attempts to rectify the matter by having M'Quve killed during the Zeon withdrawal to Axis.

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Mobile Suit Gundam SEED/Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny

• In the Japanese version of the show, many of the character names were spelled with Roman characters in ways that made little grammatical sense in any Western language (including names like "Mwu La Fllaga" which would be difficult to pronounce). Despite the fact that official English spellings have been released, some fans continue to cling to the Japanese spellings, claiming the English translation to be of "poor" quality (despite no similar objections coming up to the Bandai English translations of other Gundam series).
• The first episode of the series strongly implies that the parents and sister of main protagonist Shinn Asuka were killed by errant shot fired by Kira Yamato, the protagonist of Gundam SEED. It was widely assumed that Shinn blamed Kira (not knowing his actual identity, merely the mobile suit he piloted) for their deaths. However, there was never any direct indication Shinn was aware of who fired the shot, or even of the presence of Kira's Freedom Gundam. When Shinn later encountered Kira's mobile suit in combat, he expressed no anger toward it (or even a sign of recongizing the machine at all), confirming that he was indeed unaware that it might have caused the deaths of his family. Despite this, some fans still insist that Shinn blames Kira, and a few have even claimed it was a continuity error that he was not enraged upon seeing the mobile suit.

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Mortal Kombat

• Baraka and Mileena are or were lovers.
• Reptile and Khameleon are or were lovers.
• Smoke and Jade were briefly aligned with each other (perhaps because they both appear in the Living Forest in Mortal Kombat II).
• Chameleon is a member of the Saurian race.

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Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Power Rangers Zeo, onwards

• Billy Cranston of Earth and Cestria of Aquitar get married and have two heirs to the Aquitian throne named James and Cera. Upon marriage, they become the king and queen of Aquitar, respectively. This idea came about from the fact that Billy has proven himself to be a capable leader of the Power Rangers, thereby giving enough evidence that Billy should be king. This has come about from the fact that we never see Billy again after the episode Rangers of Two Worlds, part 2.

• Billy's last name is technically unknown, but generally assumed to be "Cranston". His last name was never revealed in the show; it comes from unused Saban materials.

The original Power Rangers, holding their respective Power Weapons Mighty Morphin Power Rangers is a live-action television and movie series, based on the Super Sentai series Kyōryū Sentai Zyu-Ranger, literally Dinosaur Task Force Beast Rangers and often abbreviated as ZyuRanger (after the Kunrei-shiki romanization). ... Power Rangers Zeo is a continuation of the television series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. ... Billy Cranston was the original blue ranger in the series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. ... Cestria is Billy Cranstons girlfriend/wife in the Power Rangers universe. ... Aquitar is a fictional planet in the Power Rangers universe. ... A monarch is a type of ruler or head of state, whose titles and ascent are often inherited, not earned, and who represents a larger monarchical system which has established rules and customs regarding succession, duties, and powers. ... A queen regnant is a female monarch. ... Aquitar is a fictional planet in the Power Rangers universe. ... In common usage, leadership generally refers to: the position or office of an authority figure, such as a President [1] a group of influential people, such as a union leadership [2] guidance or direction, as in the phrase the emperor is not providing much leadership capacity or ability to lead... Evidence can mean: Any objectively demonstrable circumstance which tends to indicate or disprove a proposition. ...

The Prisoner

• Number 6 is John Drake, the hero of Patrick McGoohan's previous series Danger Man aka Secret Agent. McGoohan has publicly denied it, although series co-creator and script editor George Markstein always maintained it was true. The established canon contains some minor hints that Drake and Number Six might be the same person, in particular "Potter", a character who appears in the Danger Man episode "Koroshi" and in the Prisoner episode "The Girl Who Was Death" (which was based on an unused Danger Man script). Potter only appears in Prisoner, however, in a story within a story whose relation to actual events in Six's life is rendered very questionable by the end of the episode. Certain officially licensed novels based on The Prisoner state definitely that Number Six is John Drake (but they also state facts that most Prisoner fans would be hesitant to see as canon, such as the entire Village being an experiment by extraterrestrials.)
• In "The Chimes of Big Ben" Nadia "strangely has no number". This claim is even repeated on the back of some video boxes, but it is based on a misreading of the episode; Nadia is clearly and openly assigned the number 8, and even though she later angrily declares "I'm no Number Eight, or Number anything else!" it's a statement with no more actual force than Six's declaration "I am not a number, I am a free man!"

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Ranma 1/2

• Akane is the only one to use mallets.
• Cologne is always coming up with schemes to hook Ranma into coming back to China. By the same token, Shampoo is always putting a magical spice into Ranma's food to lead to the same goal.
• The Joketsuzoku (Amazons only in the English translation) are male haters, only use them for breeding stock, and other anti-male associations. Note that while Shampoo and Cologne do hate Mousse (the only major male Joketsuzoku seen), they have a personal vendetta, and thus it doesn't work as evidence either way.

Ranma ½ Graphic Novel, Volume 1 English version, Second Edition Ranma ½ (らんま½, Japanese pronunciation: Ranma Nibun no Ichi) is a comedy anime and manga by Rumiko Takahashi (高橋 留美子) about a boy named Ranma Saotome (早乙女 乱馬) who was trained from early childhood to age 16 in the martial... Ranma ½ Graphic Novel, Volume 1 English version, Second Edition Ranma ½ (らんま½, Japanese pronunciation: Ranma Nibun no Ichi) is a comedy anime and manga by Rumiko Takahashi (高橋 留美子) about a boy named Ranma Saotome (早乙女 乱馬) who was trained from early childhood to age 16 in the martial...

ReBoot

• Official sources say Phong is the command.com of Mainframe. Other sources say he speaks for the true command.com, who is an unseen character through the rest of the series (he or she may be a zero binome, a one binome, a numeral, a robot-like sprite, a data sprite or even, unlikely but probable, a good virus).
• During Season Three, Phong knew all along that Enzo ("Matrix"), AndrAIa, and Frisket survived the game. In Matrix's dream in "Number 7", as Bob and Dot leave to meet Number One he looks at them with a certain expression on his face, knowing Matrix (in the form of Megabyte) will confront them. He may have been trying to contact him through some psychic connection in the same way as with Dot in "Idenity Crisis, Part 2", while being tortured by Megabyte.

ReBoot poster ReBoot is a Canadian animated television series produced by Mainframe Entertainment, noted for being the first completely computer animated television series. ... Television shows and stage plays sometimes include continuing characters who are never seen or heard by the audience, but only described by other characters. ...

Resident Evil

• Nemesis was assumed by many fans to be a mutated Albert Wesker until the release of Resident Evil: Code Veronica, wherein a more or less human-looking Wesker appeared.
• The Nemesis Parasite, which causes the host to mutate into Nemesis, is a genetically modified version of Las Plagas.

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Robotech

• The Jack Mckinney Robotech novelizations, especially The End of The Circle are widely panned by Robotech fans and many choose to ignore some of the events depicted in them. Series creator Carl Macek has stated that The End of The Circle bears little resemblance to what were to be his plans for Robotech III: The Odyssey, except that his notes did involve a causal loop via time travel which explains why Admiral Hunter and the Robotech Expeditionary Force failed to return to Earth in the final Robotech TV Episode: Symphony of Light. Something involving Hunter and the REF was to happen in the past that that would give rise to the events in the first Robotech Episode. Thus, fans mostly assume that Scott Bernard's search for Rick Hunter and the SDF3 (which was presumably supposed to be the premise of The Odyssey) is either a one way trip for Scott (if he finds them) or a total failure.

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The Simpsons

• The 48 short-length Simpsons cartoons aired as "bumper" material on The Tracey Ullman Show, where the Simpson family, some other characters, and a few catchphrases originated, are not part of the show's canon. This is widely assumed by Simpsons fans for several reasons: Continuity established in the shorts was routinely ignored on the half-hour show, even from the very first season (for example, Maggie speaks intelligibly a few times in the shorts); Lisa's characterization is completely changed (on the full-length program she is normally intelligent, mature, and reserved, while in the "Ullman shorts" she is as much a rambunctious troublemaker as Bart); and while many episodes of the half-hour show make direct reference to the plots of previous episodes going back to the first season, there are no clear allusions to the stories of the early shorts. In the entire lengthy run of the half-hour program, the only direct references to the Ullman shorts occur in episodes which fall outside regular continuity (including a Halloween episode and a retrospective about the show).
• Governor Mary Bailey and Bea Simmons are related.
• Milhouse Van Houten and the Shelbyville Milhouse are cousins.

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Smallville

• Lex's mother, Lillian, had red hair. The episode "Memoria," from Season Three, showed a brown haired Lillian, yet the fanon persists.

• Nell Potter and Lionel Luthor used to be lovers.

Smallville is a television series that airs in the United States on the WB television network. ...

Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar.

• The first Gamilons (Gamilus) seen during the battles in the Solar System (including Major Bane and Colonel Ganz) had the skin color of ordinary Earth humans, in this case Caucasian skintone. Also, in the first appearances of leader Desslok, he had a more mauve skin tone. Like the Klingon issue on Star Trek, this has never been explained but a widespread postulation (found on some fan web sites) jokingly suggests that the Gamilons were originally filmed under bad lighting and that Desslok had that film crew shot.

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Space Battleship Yamato movies (Star Blazers)

• The 1983 movie Final Yamato is set in the Year 2203. According to publications about the 1980-81 TV series Yamato III (aka Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars), Yamato III is set in the Year 2205. Many fans believe that because Yamato III did not measure up to the standards set by the previous two TV series (it was cut from a planned 52 episodes to a 25 episode series and it shows in the choppy animation and pacing), producers intended to remove the Bolar Wars from the continuity by setting Final Yamato two years earlier. In the opening narraration for Final Yamato, however, references are made to the Bolar Federation and to Garuman, thus establishing their importance in events between Be Forever Yamato and Final Yamato. As a result, many fans have also taken it upon themselves to switch the dates for the Bolar Wars and Final Yamato.

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Star Trek

• Ensign Pavel Chekov served on the USS Enterprise in the period depicted in the first season of Star Trek before being promoted to the bridge crew in the second season and encountered Khan Noonien Singh during that time.
• The reason why Mr. Spock was so emotional during his time with Captain Christopher Pike was that he was briefly dabbling with emotion in his youth.
• The Klingon homeworld is also known as Klinzhai.
• The ridged-forehead Klingons that debuted in Star Trek: The Motion Picture are sometimes unofficially referred to as Imperial Klingons thus denoting a difference between them and the more human-looking Klingons of TOS. A related piece of fanon is that the human-looking Klingons were discommoded as a race (origin: the DC Comics graphic novel, Debt of Honor). Various episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine have contradicted all of this, while an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise aired in 2005 has indicated that the smooth-headed Klingons were the product of genetic tampering using human DNA.
• Fleet Captain is a rank between Captain and Commodore.
• The events of Star Trek: The Motion Picture were followed by a new five-year mission. (The movie was based upon a script for a never-produced second Trek series, and the new five-year mission is referenced in the Star Trek Expanded Universe, but has yet to be acknowledged in canon.)
• Uhura's first name is Nyota. (Although some novels have chosen Nyota and some reference guides give this as her first name, no first name for the character has ever been mentioned on screen, and Gene Roddenberry said that Uhura had only one name, which meant "Freedom" in Swahili.) In the early 1980s, a fan-produced book series, The Best of Trek suggested that Uhura's first name is Penda but this was not widely adopted by the fan community. On the other hand, Sulu's first name, Hikaru, which was considered fanon for years, became part of official canon when it was mentioned in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. The fact the writers didn't take the opportunity in that film to officially give Uhura a first name, too, is seen as confirmation she doesn't have one. (In the movie Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, it seems that Kirk may murmer "Nyota" when speaking to Uhura at one point.)
• Mr. Spock was the first Vulcan in Starfleet. This has been suggested by non-canon novels and comic books, but has never been established in any television series or movies. To the contrary, Star Trek: Enterprise has established that the first Vulcan in Starfleet is Commander T'Pol.
• Dr. McCoy is divorced, and has a grown daughter named Joanna. A script introducing Joanna was nearly produced, and several non-canon novels refer to her. The novel "Shadows on the Sun" expanded on this concept and gave the name of Dr. McCoy's wife as Joocelyn Treadway, however the novel is not concidered cannon.
• The new Enterprise NCC-1701-A given to Kirk at the end of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home was formerly the U.S.S. Yorktown. This has been suggested by non-canon sources but was never stated on screen.
• Lt. Saavik is half-Vulcan and half-Romulan and stays behind on Vulcan at the start of Star Trek IV because she is pregnant with Spock's child as a result of helping him through the pon farr mating drive in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. Both these major plot points were included in the early scripts of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek IV, respectively, but were dropped from the final versions and thus are not considered canonical. A scene in which Spock and Kirk discuss Saavik's mixed heritage was actually filmed for Star Trek II but was cut from the film.
• Willard Decker of Star Trek: The Motion Picture is the son of Commodore Matthew Decker of the TOS episode "The Doomsday Machine." Although widely accepted by fans, this relationship has never been established in on-screen canon.
• The mechanics of the Vulcan nerve pinch have been the subject of much fanon speculation over the years. See the article for a couple of examples.
• Trelane, a powerful being encountered in the TOS episode "The Squire of Gothos" is a member of the Q Continuum. This speculation has been widespread since The Q was introduced in 1987, however it has never been confirmed in canon. An officially licenced novel, Q-Squared by Peter David suggests Trelane is a Q, however novels are not considered canon.
• Kirk's exact rank in Star Trek: The Motion Picture and later films is the subject of much speculation. Officially, on screen, he is never referred to as anything other than Admiral, but fanon speculation has suggested that his full rank at the time of TMP was Rear Admiral (or another form of Admiral).
• Some fans prefer to ignore the existence of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, directed by William Shatner, which is widely regarded as the weakest of the original Star Trek films. Gene Roddenberry commented that he considered some elements of the film to be "apocryphal at best," but the film was never officially ejected from canon. It should be noted however that several writers for The Next Generation have stated that there is an unwritten rule that no events in this movie are to be refered to in further writings.
• The complete name of Yeoman J.M. Colt in TOS pilot The Cage and the episode The Menagerie (using original footages from The Cage) is Julie-Margareth Colt. A few short stories use that name (there is also one short storie using the name Jeanne-Marie Colt) but it is nowhere to be seen in the canon.

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Star Trek collectively refers to six science fiction television series spanning 726 episodes, ten motion pictures, and hundreds of novels, video games, and other works of fiction, all set within the same fictional universe created by Gene Roddenberry in the early- to mid-1960s. ... The current DC Comics logo, adopted in May 2005. ... Space station Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (ST:DS9 or STDS9 or DS9 for short) is a science fiction television series produced by Paramount and set in the Star Trek universe. ... The starship Enterprise (NX-01) Star Trek: Enterprise is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe. ... Captain is both a nautical term and a military rank. ... The military rank of Commodore is used in some navies for officers whose position exceeds that of a Captain, but is less than that of a flag officer. ... The Star Trek Expanded Universe is a generic term to describe an extrapolation of events which occur in the Star Trek Universe outside the scope of the television series and feature films. ... Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek Eugene Wesley Roddenberry (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was born in El Paso, Texas, USA, and spent his boyhood in Los Angeles, California. ... Swahili (also called Kiswahili; see Kiswahili for a discussion of the nomenclature) is an agglutinative Bantu language widely spoken in East Africa. ... Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (Paramount Pictures, 1991; see also 1991 in film) is the sixth feature film based on the popular Star Trek science fiction television series. ... Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (Paramount Pictures, 1986; see also 1986 in film) is the fourth feature film based on the popular Star Trek science fiction television series. ... Ambassador Spock, commonly called Mr. ... Vulcans are a humanoid species in the fictional Star Trek universe who reside on the planet Vulcan and are noted for their attempt to live by reason and logic. ... Starfleet Command In the Star Trek fictional universe, Starfleet is the defense, research, diplomacy, and exploration force of the United Federation of Planets. ... The starship Enterprise (NX-01) Star Trek: Enterprise is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe. ... Commander TPol is a fictional character played by Jolene Blalock in Star Trek: Enterprise. ... Dr. Leonard H. McCoy Leonard Horatio McCoy, M.D., nicknamed Bones, is a fictional character in the fictional Star Trek universe, played by the late DeForest Kelley (January 20, 1920 - June 11, 1999). ... Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (Paramount Pictures, 1986; see also 1986 in film) is the fourth feature film based on the popular Star Trek science fiction television series. ... Lieutenant Saavik is a fictional character in the Star Trek universe. ... Vulcans are a humanoid species in the fictional Star Trek universe who reside on the planet Vulcan and are noted for their attempt to live by reason and logic. ... The Romulans, a fictional race in the Star Trek universe, are descended from Vulcans and are characterized as being deceitful, cunning, and treacherous. ... Vulcans are a humanoid species in the fictional Star Trek universe who reside on the planet Vulcan and are noted for their attempt to live by reason and logic. ... Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (Paramount Pictures, 1984; see also 1984 in film) is the third feature film based on the popular Star Trek science fiction television series. ... Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Paramount Pictures, 1982; see also 1982 in film) is the second feature film based on the popular Star Trek science fiction television series. ... In the Star Trek universe, Willard Decker was briefly captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise after its refit in 2270. ... In the fictional Star Trek universe, the Vulcan nerve pinch is a technique used by Vulcans to render other humanoids unconscious by pinching the base of their neck. ... Trelane in The Squire of Gothos Trelane is a fictional character who appears in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode The Squire of Gothos. Trelane is a childish and overbearing being who appears to be human; however, sensor scans reveal nothing about his physiology. ... The Squire of Gothos is an episode of Star Trek: The Original Series and was broadcast on January 12, 1967. ... In the Star Trek fictional universe, the Q are a race of near-omnipotent, immortal and near-omniscient god-like beings from a parallel existence called the Q Continuum. ... A Star Trek novel by acclaimed author Peter David. ... Peter Allen David (born September 23, 1956) is an American writer, best known for his work in comic books and Star Trek novels. ... Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (Paramount Pictures, 1989; see also 1989 in film) is the fifth feature film based on the popular Star Trek science fiction television series. ...

Star Trek: The Animated Series

• The 22 episodes of this animated series are not considered part of the Star Trek canon by Paramount Pictures (reportedly due to a request by Trek creator Gene Roddenberry). As a result, TAS provides a rare occasion in which officially licenced story developments shown on screen, which normally would fit the definition of canon, are instead rendered fanon. This is very controversial among Trek fans, as TAS established several major elements of the Trek universe, including details about Spock's childhood, and the introduction of the Enterprise's first captain, Robert April, which are not considered official and therefore may be contradicted by future movies or TV series. References to TAS occasionally sneak into scripts for recent Trek series, most recently the Star Trek: Enterprise episodes "The Catwalk" and "The Forge" which included direct references to concepts from the TAS episode "Yesteryear". TAS references are widespread in the Expanded Universe of novels and comic books.

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Star Trek: Enterprise

• Fanon clashes with canon on many aspects of this prequel series, with many fans alleging the series violates continuity with the rest of the Star Trek universe, even though many of these facts are based upon fanon, and not accepted canon (see the show's main entry for a list of alleged violations). An example is the treatment of Vulcans on this series, which goes against the culture developed for the race by fans over the years which has never been actually confirmed in canon.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation

• The insignia for Fleet Admiral is five gold pips within a gold collar rectangle.

The title as it appeared in most episodes opening credits. ... A Fleet Admiral is a generic term for a senior admiral in command of a large group of ships, comprising a Fleet or, in some cases, a group of Fleets. ...

Star Wars

• Han Solo was formerly a Lieutenant Imperial Navy officer who left the service after deciding to free Chewbacca from slavery. In the Expanded Universe, this was confirmed, with Han, a Lieutenant, leaving through dishonorable discharge.
• Grand Admiral Thrawn, who is featured in the major follow-on novels to Star Wars, was an active Vice Admiral in the Imperial Fleet during the time frame of the Star Wars movies.
• Anakin Skywalker's penultimate duel with Obi-Wan Kenobi ended with him falling into a volcano which traumatically aggravated his wounds received from his former teacher, necessitating the massive medical protheses that would be part of his signature identity of Darth Vader. This comes from a brief paragraph in the Return of the Jedi novelization which describes this event. Has been proven in Revenge of the Sith.
• The title Darth is a contraction of DARk lord of the siTH.
• Emperor Palpatine's first name is Cos.
• Jar Jar Binks was killed on Alderaan when it was destroyed by the Death Star.

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Street Fighter series

• Due to Zangief's bio stating that he "dislikes beatiful women", many fans have taken that to mean that Zangief is a homosexual. However, his ending in Capcom Fighting Evolution, while not fitting into the canon storyline, does depict him checking into a hotel with a blonde woman. Capcom has never confirmed Zangief's sexuality one way or the other.
• Charlie's last name is Nash. This is taken from the fact that Nash is his name in the Japanese versions of the games.
• The scar on Cammy's left cheek was delivered by Vega
• Ryu and Chun-Li have the last names of Hoshi and Zhang, respectively. Likewise, Guile's first name is William(Middle initial "F"). These names were only given in the movie.
• Ibuki is the daughter of Geki.

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The Supermarionation TV series of Gerry Anderson

• All of the futuristic puppet series produced by Gerry Anderson in the 1960s (Supercar, Fireball XL5, Stingray, Thunderbirds, and Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons) take place in the same universe and timeline. This originates from publicity material generated to promote the series, but was never established in on-screen canon by any of the shows.

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Tintin

• Tintin is always known under his sole name, which implies that "Tintin" is a nickname. Apparently, after several spin-off comics from Belgium, it seems that Tintin's real name is "Augustin van Kuifkje". Still, it is doubtful since it was not made by Hergé and the "real name" is composed by Tintin's name in Wallish ("Kuifkje") and a typical French first name ending by "tin" (resolving in the syllabe-repetition nickname "Tintin").

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The Transformers

• An undocumented Autobot exists, named "Bumblejumper." This is due to a Microman toy released as a part of the Transformers Toyline that combined features of Bumblebee and Cliffjumper and was released in the packaging of either.

• The Decepticon jets - Starscream, Thundercracker, Skywarp, Thrust, Dirge and Ramjet - are collectively known as the Seekers. The latter three are also known as "Coneheads".

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Yu-Gi-Oh! (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)

• Yugi Muto (Yugi Mutou in the English-language manga and Japanese versions) in an orphan (although it has been specifically stated that his father is abroad while we see his mother in the original japanese anime.

• Seto Kaiba was a victim of physical/sexual child abuse. This assumption came about when a panel in early chapters of the manga depicted a younger Seto wearing a dog collar, being forced to study under piles of books with a riding crop held at his neck by his father (who is sneering, while Seto is frantically huddled over his work). The young Seto had indications of either beads of sweat, or tears. The intrepretation of the latter would cause some fans to imply that Seto was being physically or sexually abused. Note that while it is canon that Seto was verbally and emotionally abused as a child by Gozaburo, it is questionable whether the abuse was physical as well.

• Ryou Bakura is said to be British because of his dub accent.

• Serenity Wheeler (Kawai Shizuka in the japanese versions) is said to have sung a lullaby to Seto Kaiba.

• Jounouchi Katsuya's name is fanon to be shortened to 'Jou', notwithstanding that this is his family name and it is extremely impolite in Japan to shorten a last name.

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Zoids

• Stroemer and Elena survived the meteor strike in ZAC 2056; Elena became the president of the Helic Republic under an assumed name (There is some evidence in the canon to support this).

• The Organoids bonded to the Liger Zero and Berserk Fury in the New Century Zero anime are Zeke and Shadow respectively from Chaotic Century and Guardian Force.

• Bit Cloud is descended from Van Freiheit and Fiona from Chaotic Century and Guardian Force. Similarly, Vega Obscura is descended from Raven. Similarly, Sarah, who bears more then just a passing resemblance to Reise from Guardian Force is his mother.

• Bit Cloud has an older brother called Isaac.

• Chris Tasker and Kirkland have a relationship.

• Fuzors is set in the future of New Century Zero (It is actually set in its own continuity)

• RD is the son or decendant of Bit Cloud

• In Fuzors, the Energy Liger is actually the Alpha Zoid, and is piloted by RD’s Father (This assumption was often mistaken for fact, even after it was proven otherwise in the series.)

• Genesis is in the far future of one of the previous series (This is yet to be confirmed; Genesis may be its own continuity like Fuzors)