Board Thread:Policies/@comment-16461120-20161107075255/@comment-4651179-20161107231421

Nausiated wrote: For example, in the recent Marvel's Captain America: Civil War Prelude Vol 1, War Machine is rebranded Iron Patriot in those comics, but he's back to being called War Machine in Captain America: Civil War.

That mini-series isn't actually a prelude per se. As it is mentioned in the notes section of each issue, they're simply abridged adaptations of Iron Man 3 and Captain America: The Winter Soldier (with the first two issues being dedicated to the former movie, and the final two to the latter).

And now linking this to a point brought up by Duellante magic: I don't believe comic adaptations of movies should be considered to be set in a different reality. They're the equivalent of those comics from the Silver to the Bronze Age when they used to go over the origin of the protagonist once in a while because getting to read back issues was hard and you couldn't really google "How did Peter Parker become Spider-Man?" Those types of stories do feature some differences from the original telling, but aren't considered non-canon.

In addition to that, War Blade mentioned some inconsistencies between prequel comics and the source film. They should probably be treated as such, in the same way Luke Cage shouldn't be able to crack Iron Man's armor because Iron Fist couldn't even dent, for example.

Maybe we're holding movie-related material to a higher standard than comic stuff. Inconsistencies and retcons in comics are common currency, so we shouldn't be spitting hairs because it happens in movie-related material.

The events from those ignored X-Men movie prequels could simply be considered retconned, the same way Ulysses Klaw went from Dutch physicist to Belgian hired assassin.

Some of the comic tie-ins, at least in the case of MCU tie-ins, have Marvel Studios personnel credited, so it's very possible they were written under some kind of supervision.

I believe comic tie-ins should be considered canon, and have their events held to the same standard as comic books. If the movie later contradicts something from the comic, it can be a simple inconsistency. And if the contradiction is bigger, the events from the source should overtrump the tie-in and what the tie-in stated should be considered retconned.

The only difference in this approach should apply to video games. Video games feature blatant contradictions and don't really try to find a way to nicely fit what's established in the movie with what they're going for. The developer of the latest Amazing Spider-Man video games even outright confirmed he was doing his own thing, and basically just borrowing the visual style from the movies.

In that case, I think all video games should be considered non-canon (something that I kinda wanted the wikia to do some years ago but the initative ended up in limbo).