Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-1713281-20130519071039/@comment-61022-20130521052528

Well when it comes with licensed stuff I think we've discussed that issue to death, but I'll say that we should coordinate with wikis that specialize with that material (Transformers, G.I. Joe, Dr. Who, Star Trek, Star Wars etc) by referring that sort of stuff to those sites and vice versa.

I agree with everything stated above though. There are (and always will be) some grey areas though and we should dictate those as they go along.

As an aside, the Hostest adds are kind of a grey area. The most recent Marvel Indexes reference them (particularly the Spider-Man and Captain America ones) and suggest where they would fit in continuity if they were considered cannon. This is a grey area because (and I don't know this from any specific examples just from what I've heard) that some of the Hostess villains have appeared in actual canonical stories. Anyone want to verify this for sure? It seems legit if Marvel is referencing them in their own indexes.

I would draw some lines with Epic and Icon and a few odd MAX stuff if it does not already deal with already established Marvel characters. In saying that I mean that a lot of the stuff published by Epic and Icon specifically (And a few MAX titles if I'm not mistaken) are creator owned material that will likely have no ties to the Marvel Universe ever. Again there are exceptions, but I think the best rule of thumb with those imprints is if they are referenced in an Index or a Handbook it's fare game. For example, Shadowline is considered Marvel Canon, as is Clive Barker's Razorline imprint form the 90s.

Newspaper strips, some are considered part of Earth-616 cannon, others are alternate universe stuff, ditto for the web comics. Merchandising? Not so much. I think they are on par with video games.

Which my standpoint on video games is instead of doing a TNR for every video game version of a character, we should do a combination for all the ones offs. Where we're dealing with multiple sequels (for example the Marvel VS Capcom series) they should all be combined together. I think instead of assigning a TRN we should do Peter Parker (Capcom) or Peter Parker (LJN) where and just combine all the video games that are associated with the same video game company.

Other merchandising.. ach... that's not even something I want to try to get into. I guess we can do a Peter Parker (Activity Books) or Peter Parker (Novels) or Peter Parker (T-Shirts)

If we're talking strictly comic books though, I think we could kind of set a cannonical guide line. What is, and what is not considered Marvel Cannon. TV shows and movies would be easy also. But when you're getting into the the other stuff. Video games, merchandising and so on, I think we're splitting hairs a bit.