The Snyder Cut:
How I learned to stop worrying and love the canon
So they did it, after nearly four years, thousands of tweets, petitions and support from the cast and Zack Snyder himself, they finally released the Snyder Cut.On the 18th of March Zack Snyder’s Justice League made it’s big boi debut thanks to HBO Max (or whatever streaming service is in your country) and is expected to make a big release into physical media too.
This is a huge event for a number of reasons but on this wiki there’s one in particular, how does this affect the wider DCEU canon going forward and do we need to revise the ratings? We’ve obviously been using the Theatrical Cut of Justice League from 2017 so surely we’d have to rework our scaling to accommodate the Snyder Cut right?
Well….
Some people are going to hate what I’m about to say (and I’m not fond of it either) but it has to be said before we can go forward - the Snyder Cut isn’t canon. There's been dozens of statements from Zack Snyder and one accredited to executive producers that seem to indicate the universe is progressing with the understanding the Theatrical Cut of Justice League is the canon installment with Zack’s film being spoken of as being an elseworld of sorts, canon to the wider Multiverse but not the core film franchise
Zack has said this himself no less than nine times and since he’s accredited in the latest example that this was a studio directive, we can assume this isn’t just a headcanon that Zack has and is actually the official stance going forward. There’ll surely be some disagreements but as someone who’s spent the last three months going through everything I can safely say that there’s far more against the SC being Canon then anything supporting the opposite. And that sucks since the Snyder Cut is so damn good but sometimes that’s just what we have to live with honestly.
This has already gone on too long so I’ll just link
this Google Doc that I’ve used as a compendium of everything said about the matter. It’s long but I’d advise a read since it provides all the statements I’ve gathered and some checks for certain counter arguments I guarantee will be heard.