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    I'll guess sometime around 2026.
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    Didn't we establish earlier in the thread that "I didn't like these sequels so I pretend they don't exist" isn't interesting and barely even qualifies as a headcanon?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Malimar View Post
    Didn't we establish earlier in the thread that "I didn't like these sequels so I pretend they don't exist" isn't interesting and barely even qualifies as a headcanon?
    It doesn't matter whether "we" (meaning "some of us") decided that or not. The essence of a headcanon is something that one person chooses to accept regardless of what anybody else thinks.

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    It doesn't matter whether "we" (meaning "some of us") decided that or not. The essence of a headcanon is something that one person chooses to accept regardless of what anybody else thinks.
    I mean, theres a difference between headcanon and denial. "There was no prequel trilogy for Star Wars" isn't headcanon no matter how much you want to believe it.
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    I mean, theres a difference between headcanon and denial. "There was no prequel trilogy for Star Wars" isn't headcanon no matter how much you want to believe it.

    Well I haven't seen any. I may have seen a trailer for one, but that proves nothing.

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    I mean, theres a difference between headcanon and denial. "There was no prequel trilogy for Star Wars" isn't headcanon no matter how much you want to believe it.
    Why? Any headcanon is denial to some extent. The only difference is in other people's heads. Denial is a negative comment about somebody's headcanon that you deny.

    I disagree with this one as much as you do, but that just means I disagree with his or her headcanon, not that I have to say something negative about it.

    I repeat: The essence of a headcanon is something that one person chooses to accept regardless of what anybody else thinks. [Emphasis added.]

    Also, isn't a prequel something that occurs before episode one?

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    Headcanon isn't denial unless it goes against WOG.
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    Headcanon isn't denial unless it goes against WOG.
    Indeed. The whole point of headcanon is its plausibility.
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    Why? Any headcanon is denial to some extent. The only difference is in other people's heads. Denial is a negative comment about somebody's headcanon that you deny.

    I disagree with this one as much as you do, but that just means I disagree with his or her headcanon, not that I have to say something negative about it.

    I repeat: The essence of a headcanon is something that one person chooses to accept regardless of what anybody else thinks. [Emphasis added.]

    Also, isn't a prequel something that occurs before episode one?
    Headcanon isn't supposed to contradict canon canon
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    Not to be nitpicky, but "X never happened" is fanon discontinuity a similar but different concept.
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    A headcanon about pokemon:
    We see pokeballs get teleported around like nothing. We see pokeballs get teleported right out of peoples hands to the storage system. My headcanon is that this big set up, this capability of teleporting pokeballs anywhere on the globe, requires a massive internet-level network, satellites, supercomputers, the whole nine yards. My headcanon is that a hacker can hack into this network......and just teleport pokeballs out of trainers hands and bags. Just *snap fingers* gone, nothing you can do about it.....except for modding your pokeballs to be off the grid. But! This is illegal, because a trainer is only allowed to have six pokemon, because if you just had tons of pokemon on you, it'd just be chaos and you'd call your pokemon army to overwhelm everyone, and this enforcement is only possible because of the network automatically detecting the pokeballs registered to your account on your person and automatically teleporting away any seventh pokeball registered with a pokemon in it.

    So as pokemon goes into the cyber age, you start to see a culture of underground trainers who care lot about their pokemon, modding all their pokeballs so that they aren't connected to the wider network and thus can't get stolen by hackers. These modders are at the same time distrustful of authority because they might get caught having more than six pokemon. Meaning the Pokemon League faces criminal threats from both sides.
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    Headcanon isn't supposed to contradict canon canon



    "canon canon" would have one believing clearly erroneous stuff like the immortsls in Highlander are space aliens that forgot that, and that Captain Kirk met Picard and then died from falling off a bridge.

    Just nope.

    And don't try that "logic", "common sense", and "proof" stuff on me pal, IT WON'T WORK!!!

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    "canon canon" would have one believing clearly erroneous stuff like the immortsls in Highlander are space aliens that forgot that, and that Captain Kirk met Picard and then died from falling off a bridge.

    Just nope.

    And don't try that "logic", "common sense", and "proof" stuff on me pal, IT WON'T WORK!!!
    Highlander very clearly doesn't just have a single canon timeline though, to say nothing of the fact that fanon discontinuity is not the same thing as headcanon.
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    For the longest time, I have felt that RL lochaber axes don't accurately match the description given in Elenium for Bevier's cavalry (and later hand) axe. In the book, it is described beaked like an eagle, capable of cutting posts (or decapitating men) at a gallop and, crucially, "can crack open armour". The forward, spear-like lochaber just doesn't quite fit that description in my head.

    Well, I just found a different axe-like weapon that fits the description so well, I'm headcanon it: the igorot headhunting axe.



    The video linked above demonstrates that the post and head cutting are perfectly within the ability of this axe, and the shape is far more beak-like, not to mention that if slipped into a slit in full plate armour, it'll provide a much better leverage to crack open the armour. So, in my headcanon, the people of Lochaber, Arcium, came up with this design, quite different from the one from the people of Lochaber, Scotland.

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    I prefer to believe that Use Magic Device is based on charisma because you seduce the item into functioning for you.
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    I prefer to believe that Use Magic Device is based on charisma because you seduce the item into functioning for you.
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    I prefer to believe that Use Magic Device is based on charisma because you seduce the item into functioning for you.
    This is now a house rule at my table.
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    My favorite head cannon is that in Fallout New Vegas, if you side with the Legion, and are female,(note: the Legion is very sexist) you will be enslaved and forced to be Ceasers wife.

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    My favorite head cannon is that in Fallout New Vegas, if you side with the Legion, and are female,(note: the Legion is very sexist) you will be enslaved and forced to be Ceasers wife.
    I feel bad for anybody who tries to enslave a Bethesda protagonist.
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    Speaking of Fallout: New Vegas headcanons, mine is that the Mojave Express is the secretly single most powerful faction in Nevada. The final boss fight of the Lonesome Road DLC suggests that Mojave Express employs multiple people who are just as impossibly superhuman as the game's protagonist.
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    In the TV show Milo Murphy's Law Agent Cavendish is a blood relative of the Murphys. I base this on the fact that the episode The Island of Lost Dakotas depicts him as having an even more extreme propensity for bizarre accidents than the protagonist, to the point that Agent Dakota is forced to spend a significant amount of time and effort going back to undo timelines where Cavendish has been killedc
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    This is a long thread, so it's possible this is a repeat. That said:

    The Croods takes place in the aftermath of an apocalyptic war on a low gravity alien planet, which involved extensive genetic modifications to both humans and a lot of the other invasive species they brought from Earth, plus a good long time for weird adaptations to crop up from a seriously screwed up ecosystem.

    It makes so much more sense than the implicit stone age caveman setting, and there's absolutely nothing there that contradicts it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Knaight View Post
    This is a long thread, so it's possible this is a repeat. That said:

    The Croods takes place in the aftermath of an apocalyptic war on a low gravity alien planet, which involved extensive genetic modifications to both humans and a lot of the other invasive species they brought from Earth, plus a good long time for weird adaptations to crop up from a seriously screwed up ecosystem.

    It makes so much more sense than the implicit stone age caveman setting, and there's absolutely nothing there that contradicts it.
    On the other hand: I think this idea can be applied to most cartoons, and that last sentence (with the implicit setting replaced) would still be true.
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    On the other hand: I think this idea can be applied to most cartoons, and that last sentence (with the implicit setting replaced) would still be true.
    It's been a while since I've seen it, but there's a few things that particularly stand out here - starting with the huge amount of blatantly alien life definitely not from Earth history. Their implicit setting simply doesn't fit what's shown.

    Meanwhile for something like Avatar the setting of the strange fantasy world and associated spirit world fits just fine. For something like Up the setting of somewhere in south america also works, with every animal there being a real animal (if subject to stylized art).
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    Perry the Platypus is a kind of mad scientist social worker who attends to Phineas, Ferb, and Doof. Mad science probably runs amok in their world and one solution was found in enhanced therapy animals that moderate situations. Perry lives with P+F and hides because they are young and they also clean up their messes by the end of the day. Perry needs to take more drastic interventions with Doof because he repeatedly relapses into big schemes.
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    Hey, that was pretty much my reaction when I first read UMD rules, high five!

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    Judge Dredd and Mad Max take place on different continents of the same world. (See when OG Dredd goes outside and is attacked ny cannibals).
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    The machines run The Matrix using a simplified physics model. One that is based on mathematical rules that can easily be simulated by a machine. The "real" world outside the matrix has no such limitations. Outside the matrix, the power of love and prophecies are real, while the second law of thermodynamics is not. We, the audience, having grown up in the strict mathematical causality of the simulated world, are only familiar with the restricted physics of the matrix and think that mind powers are only a myth from stories.

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