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How many instances are there where the site makes distinctions between the official canon of a story and the Licensing side of a franchise, and how does that affect character profiles? For instance, when it comes to franchises like Star Trek and Star Wars, you have what is the primary canon (the TV Shows and/or movies), and you have the Licensing side as its own universe. This is the distinction between the Star Trek TV shows and movies, and all the novels and other licensing media that came along with it.
I bring up Star Wars here as well because from the words of George Lucas himself, in Starlog August 2005 #337: “I don’t read that stuff. I haven’t read any of the novels. I don’t know anything about that world. That’s a different world than my world. But I do try to keep it consistent. The way I do it now is they have a Star Wars Encyclopedia. So if I come up with a name or something else, I look it up and see if it has already been used. When I said [other people] could make their own Star Wars stories, we decided that, like Star Trek, we would have two universes: My universe and then this other one. They try to make their universe as consistent with mine as possible, but obviously they get enthusiastic and want to go off in other directions.”
While we have those two above examples, what of series like Doctor Who, where some of the more crazy powers and shenanigans that occur in the series come not from the official TV show itself, but from spin-off/Licensing material like novels, radio shows, etc? The stuff from the different Licensing mediums that, while it exists, isn't ever referenced within the TV show itself.
Let us take Dragon Ball, for instance. Dragon Ball GT and Dragon Ball Xeno do exist, and the latter does bring in elements from Dragon Ball Super (while the latter fell out of continuity), but Dragon Ball Xenoverse is a different continuity, not connected to the main continuity that is continued by Dragon Ball Super. The Dragon Ball Super the manga and anime don't reference anything that happens in Xenoverse.
I bring this up because I feel it is an important distinction to make.
I bring up Star Wars here as well because from the words of George Lucas himself, in Starlog August 2005 #337: “I don’t read that stuff. I haven’t read any of the novels. I don’t know anything about that world. That’s a different world than my world. But I do try to keep it consistent. The way I do it now is they have a Star Wars Encyclopedia. So if I come up with a name or something else, I look it up and see if it has already been used. When I said [other people] could make their own Star Wars stories, we decided that, like Star Trek, we would have two universes: My universe and then this other one. They try to make their universe as consistent with mine as possible, but obviously they get enthusiastic and want to go off in other directions.”
While we have those two above examples, what of series like Doctor Who, where some of the more crazy powers and shenanigans that occur in the series come not from the official TV show itself, but from spin-off/Licensing material like novels, radio shows, etc? The stuff from the different Licensing mediums that, while it exists, isn't ever referenced within the TV show itself.
Let us take Dragon Ball, for instance. Dragon Ball GT and Dragon Ball Xeno do exist, and the latter does bring in elements from Dragon Ball Super (while the latter fell out of continuity), but Dragon Ball Xenoverse is a different continuity, not connected to the main continuity that is continued by Dragon Ball Super. The Dragon Ball Super the manga and anime don't reference anything that happens in Xenoverse.
I bring this up because I feel it is an important distinction to make.