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[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

What would you say is the weirdest thing about your pup's canon? On an OOC or IC level, either or both.

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[againsttherules]

Ermm

Sunspots are hot...

They are actually the coldest places on the surface of the sun.

Also, sunspots being permanent features of the sun's surface (of the, the same one's as the egyptians saw, are still there. Again, irl they change and fluctuate continuously, and the sun's rotation period (~28 days) and the way that that changes the sun's magnetic field has an effect on how easily sunspots form.

And I haven't even touched the second and third books, which only get weirder, in places.

[sdelmonte]

Kirk: The money-free economy. Roddenberry's utopian leanings ran wild in projecting a future that sometimes makes no sense. And the lack of money in any form, increasingly common over the years, is the worst example by far. (Since rumor has it that Peter Weller is playing an Evil Businessman in NuTrek 2, I think there might a retcon from JJ even I can accept with ease.)

Knox: If you want to count all four of the Batman films from the 80s and 90s, the weirdest thing must be the Batsuits with nipples. This does not exist in millicanon.

Cyborg: The strange little 5th dimensional Robin. Followed by all the chibi stuff they're doing now.

The Question: What ISN'T weird in the DC Universe now? In Charlie's own life, however, it must be the election day in Hub City marred by a tornado that killed the winner and an assassination attempt on the runner-up - Charlie's one true love - by her drunken husband, the outgoing mayor. Denny O'Neil really lost control of the narrative at this point. But it still reads well.

Howard Stark: Let's ignore the present-day stuff (where the weirdest thing is how Bruce Banner seems to look like a different person every time you see him). In the 40s, I suppose the Red Skull counts as exceedingly weird. The red skin, the mask, the crazy plans, and the defiance of Hitler himself. (I wonder what happened to all the HYDRA troops that were left behind in Germany after the Skull died. I doubt all of them were just integrated back into the army, even during the last desperate days of the war).

Gibbs: Davey Jones. He stands out as the Georgian age's epitome of weird. And that is saying something.

[bcgphoenix]

Bruce Banner: secretly a Time Lord. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

[crazyfurries]

Tyler: it's a hard thing between the weirdest series of events and the weirdest noun in the canon. Malphast wins weirdest noun due to the face that he's the child of an angel and a demon, and yet is somehow only allergic to beets and lactose intolerant.

The weirdest events would be those that happened right after the alien invasion. No joke, having the lamest superhero comic plot twist happen to you in order to save the world is right up there for now. Well played Mr. Williams.

Dot: ....oh geeze that's like shooting fish in a barrel, but I think her Uniboob through the first two seasons covers a multitude of sins.

[gottadealwithit]

Bolin

The world's fauna.

[bjornwilde]

Ben Grimm: I'll assume you meant within canon so won't say the writers...oh wait I just did. Anyway, I would say the average citizen. I mean you guys really think a murdering, egomaniac businessman is qualified to run an organization like SHIELD simply because he got the kill shot on the leader of alien invaders. Okay.

Julie Finster: How no one but a select few have realized Tyler is Moon Shadow. I know it's a running joke but come on.

Mars: Seeing as he is an evolution or adaptation from Greek mythology, I'm gonna say Zeus and his furry obsession. Talk about kink. Or I could point out how Juno got pregnant with him on purpose by eating a flower to show Jupiter that he's not the only one who can do the one parent birth.

Batwoman: How about how the whole NuDCU? Yeah everything else has changed but her sandbox. Really? How do I write with this? I mean don't get me wrong, I'm glad my girl's basically the same but where does that leave her and Renee or her and Charlie?

Hank McCoy: Hovering super-sonic jet. I can take the super sonic but the hovering? Also, Magneto levitating himself and Shaw's body, I'm sorry but I don't think magnetism works that way.

Beast Boy: Where does he get his mass from when he turns into a gorilla or where does it go when he turns into a mouse?

[ceitfianna]

Magneto controls metal not magnetism, so he's picking Shaw up by the metal in his body like his belt, what's in his teeth, that sort of stuff. I agree that its truly obvious how he basically flies but well, he does.

[death_gone_mad]

My pups share in this weirdness with Blu Medic, Cam. Hat based economies. Well, it isn't totally hat based, just on the high finance end of things. But still. Hat based economies.

The rest of weirdness in canon can be summarized as scale theory

[sardonicynic]

You know, as I read over this, these aren't truly weird -- just more like tiny and bemusing logistical gripes.

In the world of 24:
→ one can get anywhere in L.A. in twenty minutes or less;
→ there are mountains in Iowa;
→ there are so many duplicitous employees in a supposedly secure counter-terrorism agency that CTU may as well be Whac-A-Mole; and
→ torture is always the answer to pesky bureaucratic problems.

In 3:10 to Yuma:
→ events apparently occur in 1865 and sometime after 1876, as ~factual continuity~ is as fluid as necessary; and
→ Ben Wade is a proto-Houdini with 100 percent more violent tendencies.

In Justified:
→ the writers are s l o w l y remembering to factor in the real-world three-hour drive from Lexington to Harlan, and vice versa. It amuses me when Raylan just hops in the car for a jaunt to eastern Kentucky, like it's the equivalent of the twenty-minute drive to Frankfort;
→ contrary to what the show would have you believe, Tates Creek Road never intersects with I-75; and
→ for all the maverick crap Raylan Givens pulls, one would think he'd surrender his service weapon and his badge a lot more often.

[andproud]

I just LOL'd at Whac-A-Mole.

[innerbrat]

Dinah: Her specific corner? How about the timme that Deathstroke defeated her by putting a paper bag on her head.

Putting.
A paper bag.
On her head.

This is a top level martial artist, mind. Paper bag.
(It was an off day for her)

Or: NO! What about the fact that for a while in the Silver Age, the Joker was in love with her.
I'm not even making this up!

Renee: Well, as of the DCnU reboot thing, she doesn't have a canon. So. Let's go with No Man's Land. That was pretty weird.

Lawton: Ragdoll. Ragdoll is the weirdest thing in his canon.

Marguerite: The fact that Orczy plain could not make up her mind whether her brother was older or younger than her.

Mac: The costumes. ITALIAN RENAISSANCE CONVERSES. Weirder that Niccolo Machiavelli being a teenage street urchin before his historical birthdate? Definitely.

Teresa: Clare is a frankenClaymore. Made up of bits of Teresa, Ilena, Rafaela, and probably many more ladies at later points.
I really think that if we ever see Clare's torso, it'll be Teresa's face smiling out at us.

Will Turner: What Alex said re: Davy Jones.

Death: Nothing about his canon is weird I don't know what you mean.

[1nv1nc1ble]

Lawton: Ragdoll. Ragdoll is the weirdest thing in his canon.

I think you meant to say "most awesome thing in his canon." Because Ragdoll made that comic. Well, in all honesty, they all made that comic, but Ragdoll made it hilarious. (King Shark helped, but only in later issues.)

[campkilkare]

I really

don't even know where to start.

There is the stuff introduced in Homestuck this week--the Cherubs, who are skull-headed aliens who come two to a body and are locked in an eternal deathmatch with each other. The one we have met so far hates herself and her species so much that she spent most of her time in the story so far pretending to be a thirteenth troll. She is the obnoxious fandom avatar character.

Who is actually a green skull monster.

She shares her body with her brother, who it is gradually being revealed is probably the youthful/past form of the big bad skull-headed pool-themed demonic pimp who underwrote literally the entire plot and recently murdered the author's avatar.

It turns out they live on a desolate dead planet under a mega-giant red sun days away from collapse, surrounded by copies of the Statue of Liberty that suffer from actual, physical jpeg artifactation.

This is the sixth act, Hussie, things are supposed to start making sense by now.

[kd7sov]

This is the sixth act, Hussie, things are supposed to start making sense by now.

I think he's actually reversing it. Things made a lot more sense back in Act 1 than they have since, though of course there were mysteries even then.

[boston_bruiser]

Voodoo's canon is actually pretty normal.

But John's has a disturbingly concentrated population of absolutely batshit bonkers people in just a few hundred square miles.

[minkhollow]

Cata and Sam: Nothing in particular is leaping to mind, oddly enough, so I'm going to go with the lengths Mizzamir went to in the name of THE GREATER GOOD. (Thiiiiis is why these two will not be meeting Dumbledore; it'll end badly.)

Claudia: Well, she lost three years of age between her first appearance and the S1 finale; while the show wants to stick with the younger age, the older one makes more sense to me. And for the world at large, the weirdest thing... that hasn't been given an explanation yet, anyway, since she works in a building full of weird... is the wobbly geography. I just want to know how they're making these trips that take less time than they have any right to, show!

Apollo: His dad's exploits in the name of getting some tail. Even Apollo says so. For Percycanon in particular, I vote the Lotus Casino (first time I hit that, I actually said 'oh no, don't do it!' out loud.)

Imp: He disappears from canon after Soul Music! You'd think at least a mention that he and Susan didn't work out in the end would be in order!

Regulus: ...I don't see how the secrecy thing could possibly hold up in America. Even (somewhat especially) in the colonial days, we were too damn nosy for that to work.
So it's inextricably my headcanon that the colonies treated it more like a guideline than actual rules, the new country didn't adopt it, and in that case, the Internet is going to kill secrecy, probably not long after the end of canon.

Red/Ruby: The entire canon is "I reject your reality and substitute my own!" writ large. I have to go for that. XD

[kd7sov]

Golden Sun is actually fairly normal, as such things go. There's the Cutscene of Utter Crack, and there's a ship that disappears without trace or mention, but beyond that there's nothing that really stands out. Except maybe how people in a particular town could think of wind-powered water travel as revolutionary, considering that professional sea-travelers are already called sailors and taking into account the otherwise Standard Medieval-Type Fantasy tech level.

My Little Pony has two contenders for Weirdest Thing: the fanbase and the weather. I'll tackle the latter. Weather, in Equestria, simply doesn't happen without ponies. The Princesses (and, in backstory, unicorns-as-a-group) have to specifically raise and lower the sun and moon or there's no day-night cycle; clouds, rainbows, and snowflakes (probably among other things) are produced in factories; there is an annual event to make autumn leaves fall, and another to transition from winter to spring; and it is implied that precipitation doesn't even happen without the ponies' say-so. Part of what freaks ponies out about the Everfree Forest is that "the clouds move all on their own!"

[1nv1nc1ble]

Viltrumite males all have pornstaches. Mark's hasn't grown in yet. The ruler of Viltrum looks like Freddie Mercury. SERIOUSLY.

[mnt_mike]

You mean aside from the basic premise?
I'd say the timeline is the wonkiest thing about the Turtle Universe, in that there isn't a solid one, and is RIFE with inconsistencies.

The only wonky thing about the Middle-verse is that enough people didn't watch it so now we don't have it anymore. That makes me sad.

And the weirdest thing about the Avatar universe? Off the top of my head it's that comets are made of fire.

[evil_koala_626]

My canon? Weird? Where'd you get an idea like that?!

[1nv1nc1ble]

Can't. Stop. Watching. Stitch's. Butt.

[sky_child]

I'm going to bypass that the protagonist and eponymous character of the Zelda series (who are not the same person) are actually several different characters spread across the series' timeline, with different backstories and different relationships between themselves and other people (try keeping track of ships this way! OH BOY). And that the series' primary antagonist is somehow the same in every game (excluding games where he doesn't exist, such as Skyward Sword).

So let's talk about how this Link has every reason not to understand 95% of other people's culture, and that he questions things *I* take for granted, despite that his universe has electricity, robots and artificial intelligence.

I do not even.

[kaabii]

As for this one? It's not that he's a cute pink puff who can inhale a lot of things and gain superpowers from that.

It's that people look at his canon and assume everything is cute when that is decidedly not the case (warning: the last one has blood and eye horror; no I'm not kidding)--and the fans think that's mostly normal.

In the same vein, people who aren't too familiar with the series assume music like this is typical for Kirby when it's actually more like this.

[ceitfianna]

Will's canon is fairly normal if you don't look too hard at just how many versions of Robin Hood there are and how different from each other they are. I have my mental version that I use, which is put together from many others.

Oh X-Men, how does Cerebro work exactly? I'm fairly sure there are many more, but that's the first one I can think of.

Crys mentioned the weirdest parts of Yuma, which otherwise makes a good bit of sense.

How did no one in Sameth's family notice that he was so terrified of Death? He doesn't hide it very well. Yes, Sabriel and Touchstone are busy and not around that much but he shivered and went pale. I know it was useful for the plot but it made them seem like far worse parents than they probably are. Also really canon, that's how long you give him to mourn his parents and how does he make stuff?

Moist is from the Disc, where his canon makes some sense.

Demeter's a Greek goddess, her canon is pick which version you like as they're all odd.

Jane's canon also makes a decent amount of sense and is one I've never really poked at.

How long was Tumnus a statue? How much time passed between his last meeting with Lucy and the Witch catching him? It bothers me to not know this.

I'm not even looking for sense in Gilbert and Sullivan.

[gavin62truck]

Besides the ghosts with whom Tommy Gavin has very involved and very interactive conversations? Not much.

Except I'm pretty sure that Tommy's hair length is against FDNY regulations, but it never catches on fire.

[ikissdhimbck]

It's 100% your fault I watched seven episodes of Rescue Me last night as opposed to sleeping.

[anthologia]

I have nothing to say about that right now.

Instead, I just want to announce that I just finished making these bad boys (minus the glaze), and they are delicious. :D

[alexiscartwheel]

Yum!

[ihavemyflaws]

It wouldn't be unfair to eventually call Kara one of the weirder things about her canon?

And there's something for most people, I think, depending on your definition of weird:

- Humanoid robots made by chrome robots.
- Glowing red spines on these humanoid Cylons when they have sex (which we mysteriously never see again after season one because they realized it looked cool but didn't really work: kind of a telltale sign if your girlfriend's spine regularly starts glowing red during sex. Gaius is pretty self-absorbed, but I don't think he possibly could've gone two years without noticing something like that).
- Raiders, the bio-mechanical (although Kara doesn't know that detail yet) fighter ships the Cylons kind of think of as pets, also go through the resurrection process. (And can hold a grudge!)
- Hybrids, the Centurions' first attempts at organic models, are plugged into baseships, where they monitor functions and jump the ships as necessary (or on their whim, sometimes). The original concept art is pretty creepy, although on the show we get to see that hybrids do have working arms and hands.
- One humanoid Cylon actually does get glimpses of the future (see Leoben in The Plan) and another repeatedly kills herself as she becomes fixated on what happens between life and death.

But one of the strangest things about the show is probably just that they never run out of booze.

[cbucsrule]

Here's to the alcohol never running out.

Frak, but that hybrid concept art is disturbing. One of the creepier things in the show is the flashback set showing the original hybrid experiments. It's not savory and not for the faint of heart.

I also have to nominate the farms on general principle, along with most of the senior crew of the Pegasus.

And the cut corners. Can't forget them.

[vance_prime]

...I'm tempted to just say "Aperture Science" and be done with it.

[mmexlibris]

Oh jeez, um...

Alex - Oh just everyone's subconscious manifestations running around, mucking about with her day. (French clowns, other people's neurosis, ghosts. So many fucking ghosts.)

Olga - So get this. Dark Others feed on the negative energy of the normal human populace: fear, anger, sorrow. Yeah, that's their bread and butter. But in fine Russian tradition, Light Others feed on positive energy, (joy, delight, contentedness) and by doing so, decrease it. So you're having an awesome day, and you meet a Light Other. Now, you're just havinga so-so day. Srsly, wtf.

Fi - A spy who stays in one city for years.

Vlad - The man condemned himself to eternal life. >.~

Mills - Morality is for other people.

River Song - Wibbly wobbly timey wimey that all happened, but didn't. Her canon still makes my head hurt.

Earl - Fast food.

Sherlock - Body parts in the fridge are a normal day at #221B.