Marvel owns Spider-Man. They produce his comic books, movies, merchandise, novels, cartoon shows, etc.
All of this "happens". By that I mean, nothing is fake. Confused? Good. Keep reading.
Spider-Man's comics are "canon material" (most, at least). By contrast, the movies and cartoons aren't. But. The movie is still actually happening though, and Marvel confirms that "this is the official Spider-Man movie, and it is indeed Spider-Man ". Of course they'd say that, because it's true.
I have no problem with them declaring canon and non-canon. But here's the thing: All of these different Spidey formats are happening, but Marvel has the right to declare canon and non-canon simply because it owns the rights to Spider-Man.
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Now, I own my life. No one else can make a rightful claim to it. So what's stopping me from declaring segments of my life "canon" and "non-canon"??
I'm not saying that specific parts of my life didn't happen. It all happened, and in a traditional factual sense, it's all real. But I'm talking about ME. I'm talking about my personal lifestyle idiom. What if, say, there's a circumstance I can't control, and it creates a situation in my life that is inherently "un-Digi-like"?? Can I not say, with 100% validity, "This isn't valid as it pertains to my personal canon."? I think I can. It still happened, but shouldn't be taken into consideration when discussing DigiMark the person.
Let's use an example many of you will be familiar with:
A few weeks ago I made an "Idiot's Guide to the Forums" in response to some trolls. It was out of character for me, as it was an overt, and sometimes insulting, response to trolls and socks. Days later, I was sorry I made it. It was also, coincidentally, made the day after my girlfriend had broken up with me for no apparent reason (to me, at least). I was noticably upset. I was out of character (it's hard to make me upset). Thus the thread.
The thread, then, is "non-canon". Did it happen? Sure. But it was an indirect result of forces beyond my control. I was forced out of my personal idiom by outside influences. Non-canon.
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Now, not everything in my life that's bad needs to be non-canon. The tourney final. Complete canon. I was intelligent, respectful, diligent, humorous. And we lost. Nothing I could do, and it was a good match against quality opponents. That's canon material, and I happily identify myself with it, even though I wish it was a different outcome.
So it comes down to me being honest with myself.
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Some of you mgiht be saying "You can't just do that." Well....um...I just did. So there.
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Conclusion:
A handy way to relieve that nagging feeling you have about things not turning out how you'd like. Don't fret. It's just a non-canon segment of your life.
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You know theoretically we already do this Digi everytime we lie about an event and or completely leave it out. Essentially we are retconing out of existence as something we do not want t obe known. Thus when you lie about a certain event in your life you essentially make it non-cannon.
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Re: The Canon of Digi
Um ... no.
Everything that happens in your life is an experience that adds to the ... essence ... of your self, the only way for them to be left out as "non-canon" would be to have said events completely erased from existence through some kind of time travel or mass memory wipe of everyone involved in those moments.
If I go out and kill a guy with my car today it's still canon ... even if I've never done it before.
If you remember it then it's canon. If other people remember it, it's canon.
Nice attempt to avoid responsibility for your life though ... Spider-Man would be ashamed of you.
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Feb 28th, 2007 04:59 AM
I am so confused. note to self: no reading things like this when sick, nothing makes sense. 
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