Board Thread:Policies/@comment-16461120-20161107075255/@comment-61022-20161107204840

Duellante magic wrote: Days ago I removed all of the apparences of their movie counterparts in Spider-Man (2002 video game), Spider-Man 2 (video game), Spider-Man 3 (video game), X-Men: The Official Game (GBA version only is actually non-canon) and X-Men Origins: Wolverine (video game), but someone undid those edits...

I think in the case of video games they key thing is that they are "based on" the movie, not taking place in the reality of that movie. Much in the same way (For example) there are many versions of Days of Future Past.

I think the big problem with a lot of these adaptations and video games is that they fill in blanks with concepts that are part of Marvel in general. That creates some problems down the road because the developers of future games and movies are certainly not looking at this supplementary material.

Example: A lot of the video games in question feature villains that were never introduced in the movie universe or introduced later and those were vastly different than how they are depicted in the video games and, of course, they interact as though they are meeting for the first time.

I get what game developers are doing, if they stuck with strictly the source material there's not a lot in terms of variety of foes to fight especially with movies that feature a handful of different characters, yet there is a wealth of material from the comic books they can borrow from.

Strictly speaking about video games: I think that if we're going to write stuff about them we need to treat them all as separate entries unless they tie in with another video game (a sequel or spin-off for example)

I think the idea of putting video game stuff in a profile for a character who has appeared predominantly in comic books, or movies, or whatever, makes for awkward tonal changes. Because when you look at movies, comics and TV shows these characters have a linear story that evolves with time. Video game characters are usually "Here's this guy, in this game he does this" that doesn't really fit with explaining the movie version of a character for example.

The Wiki accounts for video games as a separate entity, we should stop trying to make video games part of cannon unless there is a specific instance that would validate it.

The only one I can think of off the top of my head is that the Spider-Man from the Marvel vs. Capcom games appeared in Spider-Verse. That one actually works because that video game has it's own reality designation it's not directly tied into anything and there won't be anything new coming out of it in the foreseeable future (since Marvel and Capcom aren't in a partnership anymore)