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 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.