Canon

Canon: Canon means what the author/editor/creators/writers determines what is consider as part of the continuity of their story and a direct opposite of Non-Canon or Filler sometimes editors determine whats canon other times its up to the team of people who help create it and whats Canon.
==Sources==
*Handbooks
*Datebooks/Mangas
*Comics that are within the correct universe and timeline of the continuity.
==Series Canon==
*Manga Canon: It's a manga which is canon by default.
*Anime Canon: It's a straight anime only.
*Game Canon: The game comes first before any adaptations are made.
*Comic Canon: The writers consider canon. (like Earth-616 from marvel)
*Movie Canon: When the director creates a series that doesn't follow a Novel/Game/Anime/Manga as any of those aren't official unless the company states otherwise.
*Novel Canon: The writer of the novel makes anything canon (as long as it doesn't contradicts anything major.)
==Levels of Canon==
#Canon: Fully part of the series continuity.
#Semi-Canon: It is basically half canon to the series continuity.
#Partial Canon: It has little canon in the continuity but is still coexist either leading or building up with another continuity.
==Examples of the Levels==
*Naruto Uzumaki Vs Sasuke Uchiha: Canon
*Beyonder (Cosmic Cube) Vs Molecule Man (Cosmic Cube): Semi-Canon
*Kylo Ren being Han Solo son: Partial Canon.
===Notes:===
*An Author(s), creator(s), writer(s) can make anything canon just as long as it doesn't contradict the main characters, plots and other developments.
*Companies like Toei create the handbooks for Akira Toriyama and has very little involvements in the books making them Secondary Sources aka non-canon other than the interviews from/by Akira which is Canon.
==See Also==
*Non-Canon
*Filler
*Professional Work Of Fiction
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