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Nausiated wrote: Outside of that, I think that video games should always be considered a separate reality from the source material. The only case I know of where we did that for video game tie-ins for movies, was for The Amazing Spider-Man 1 and 2 games, and that was because the developers explicitly stated in a tweet along the lines of "The game (The Amazing Spider-Man 2) is in a separate continuity from the movie, so therefore won't impact or spoil anything that happens in the movie."

For something to be apocryphal, I feel like it has to originally be intended to be canon but was later contradicted to not being, which I'm not even sure could be applied to the games.