Thread:Spencerz/@comment-16461120-20151128004137/@comment-61022-20151203053714

When it comes to material based on Marvel movies and television shows... Such as comic books, prose novels, video games etc.... The general idea is that while those materials are BASED off those forms of the franchises, it doesn't meant it is cannonical to those universes.

Meaning, while this book is based off the Earth-199999 universe, it likely is not that universe. Primarily because while books are based off that material, the films themselves will not even touch these expanded stories. If you take a look at every video game, comic book, or novel that is based off a film version of a Marvel franchise, you can see that there is never a case where any of that material is referenced in movies that are released later.

Honestly, it's kind of like all the novels that are based on Stark Trek or Star Wars. They are based on the existing mythos, but they are not considered cannon are often ignore and forgotten.

Novels based on Marvel comic books (and movies and TV shows) seldom are as well. There are a few very rare exceptions (that I believe have already been touched) but honestly, but those are almost always the rare exceptions. Of all the different novels that have been published (original stories, not adaptations) I think probably only five are considered part of any sort of official continuity. There's an entire (albeit outdated) appendix of Marvel novels in the hardcover run of the Marvel Handbooks. You can get a good idea of how many of these stories are not cannon, which is to say nearly all of them.

Also, we're giving the author a lot of stock here. As I've said before countless times, even though an author or writer will WANT a story to take place in such-and-such a reality, ultimately that is an editorial decision by Marvel.

In another five years when nobody cares about this novel anymore -- because lets face it, all of these novels are eventually forgotten by most readers -- all this will be conjecture and the movie franchises will have gone one and I highly doubt anyone in Hollywood is going to be looking to add elements of Margaret Stohl's novels into the latest Avengers movie.