Continuity

In entertainment, a continuity is the consistency of the characteristics of the people, plot, objects, and places seen by the reader or viewer over some period of time. It is relevant to several media and set to their own universe.
In the Friday the 13th franchise it has multiple adaptations, parodies, and spin-offs from the movies that it's easy to indicate what is and what isn't canon.
==Canon==
Canon is the definition of Official material for a series such as Friday the 13th has two separate canon universes, the Original canon is from:
*Friday the 13th (1980 Film)
*Friday the 13th Part 2
*Friday the 13th Part 3
*Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (Friday the 13th Part 4)
*Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (Friday the 13th Part V)
*Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
*Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
*Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
*Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (Friday the 13th Part IX)
*Jason X (Friday the 13th Part 10)
*Freddy Vs Jason
While the new canon universe and the separate universe is the 2009 Friday the 13th film which is a revision of the original first 3 films making this it's own timeline as no sequel was sadly ever made.
The Novels such as...
*Friday the 13th (Novel)
*Friday the 13th Part 2 (Novel)
*Friday the 13th Part III (Simon Hawke) (Novel)
*Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (Novel)
*Freddy Vs Jason (Novel)
*Jason X (Novel)
Are all official novelizations of the films themselves making them canon in a primary source.
Other Novels such as...
*Friday the 13th: Hell Lake
*Friday the 13th: Hate-Kill-Repeat
*Friday the 13th: The Jason Strain
*Friday the 13th: Carnival of Maniacs
*Jason X: The Experiment
*Jason X: Planet of the Beast
*Jason X: Death Moon
*Jason X: To The Third Power
*Friday the 13th: Church of the Divine Psychopath
Are either timeline fillers to fill in holes or are interoperated sequels to the films so in other words? they are primarily seen as Non-Canon or Pseudo-Canon in terms of their timeline placements.
As of right now Scott Phillips himself states in his mind and in his Novel that it takes place between Part VII and Part VIII.
The Comics such as...
Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday #1/Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday #2/Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday #3 are canon because these were officially licensed comics to help adapt the movie into a comic series.
==Non-Canon==
Want to know the Non-Canon material of the Friday the 13th Franchise? Click here! Non-Canon
==See Also==
*Continuity Errors
*Timelines
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