Timeline for What would be considered canon in the Pokemon franchise?
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| Sep 30, 2015 at 0:33 | comment | added | кяαzєя♦ | There is no set rules of what's canon, but it's typically the came first is generally accepted amongst the fans as canon. The only exception the word of the author or creator. The Pokemon series has many different continuities, few of which coincide with one another. So in terms of the franchise, all of them are canon, but of different continuities. | |
| Sep 30, 2015 at 0:32 | comment | added | кяαzєя♦ | While you explain what canon is in your answer, your answer fails to answer the question in regards to Pokemon. What's canon to what? While the terms is broad, the canonical nature of each different Pokemon series (the different manga series vs. anime vs. OVAs/Specials vs. the game) can be inferred objectively. | |
| May 12, 2015 at 9:54 | comment | added | Peter Raeves | Re-reading your answer, seeing how the (Pokemon adventures) manga is based on the games, I would assume the games to be most canon, but I found this page on the bulbapedia on what they see as canon and it looks like it is way more complicated than we had first thought. | |
| Aug 23, 2014 at 23:12 | comment | added | Torisuda | +1 for "it's hard to answer this question definitively". Over at SFF, many of the major franchises have defined levels of canonicity, e.g. Star Wars has A, B, and C-canon. The movies take precedence over the novels and video games and animated series, but some of the novels are considered more canonical than some of the other media. So far as I know, there's no such definition for Pokemon, making canon conflicts hard to resolve. | |
| Aug 21, 2014 at 8:11 | history | edited | Maroon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 19, 2014 at 13:33 | vote | accept | Peter Raeves | ||
| Jul 30, 2014 at 18:27 | comment | added | Mindwin Remember Monica | Canon is what the copyright owner wants to. Some even reverse canon (retcon) at a whim. So to wrap around what is canon and what is not as a definite boundary is almost impossible. | |
| Jul 29, 2014 at 22:55 | history | answered | Toshinou Kyouko | CC BY-SA 3.0 |