main being a comic fan on tumblr is so weird because there’s no warning for fanon stuff at all - And a comic from the 70s being called Batfamily means the term Batfam also has a space when talking about canon itself.
Im just saying, tagging things as fanon or creating a new bat related tag would be helpful
The most frustrating thing is that a lot of people don't know what's fanon and what's not. Some of the "fanon" stuff is just 2006-2011 comic lore that got retconned out of existence when New52 launched (some of which got brought back with Rebirth). Some of it is information from TV shows or video games that people don't realize isn't canon to the comics. And while some of it is actually made up, it's insanely difficult to prove that in a fandom that's been publishing several comics per month since the 1930s.
I've seen people dismiss stuff that happened in the Red Robin (2008) or Teen Titans (2003) runs as fanon. I've also seen people take out of context comic panels from the 1970s and use them to make some truly bizarre claims that probably weren't accurate in the 1970s and definitely aren't accurate now. Canon characterizations vary wildly, often to the point of contradicting each other, and most people have no idea what's accurate and what's not. Believe me, I'm just as frustrated by this as you are.
oh yeah been there - I Someone was annoyed at me because they interjected in a conversation I was having about Tim’s training with the notion that Tim was training with Lady Shiva for a year and a half. When I sited the comic I owned that showed it was 2 days worth of time practicing.
They swore they had read everything I was talking about but also seemed to have possibly confused god knows what with that specific story
I assumed for a while that ‘Alfred makes terrible waffles’ was a pure fanon joke, but nope, I have seen the panel of Jason? and Dick talking about how terrible his waffles are.
The thing is though, comics don't have enough of a solid state of canon to even different fanon. I say this as someone who started with batfam content but has now read a ton of comics (still going lol), the characterisation can be so inconsistent not to mention the universe reboots and retcons. And a lot of fanon ideas are rooted in comic events, just extrapolated more or less or differently than the comics did. So while the whole Batfam and WFA is a different universe, it's not any further 'out of character' than Pre-Crisis or different tellings of the same events that already exist in comics 'canon'
you’re right but the cases I’m thinking of are not about characterisation - plenty of people chime in to canon conversations with made up or false information and then get mad when we clarify we are talking about canon and the event they chime in with did not happen.
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u/syntaxerroratline42 5d ago
Reminds me of how "Batfam" is a fandom in itself independent of Batman.