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What's Your Favorite 'Head-Canon' ?

Discussion in 'General Movie Discussion' started by Ruralfarmboy, May 16, 2018.

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    That reminds me of another head canon that I don't quite subscribe to, but I really like- that the Gennedy animation is canon, and the Filoni show is actually propaganda created by Palpatine either during the Clone Wars for morale, or afterward to skew the narrative.

    It doesn't quite add up quite as nicely as it used to, but it explains why Anakin is such a more likable hero in the show, etc. Also, the narrator voice is very propaganda-like.
     
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    Yeah that's a really cool theory...that I won't subscribe to but I'll admire nonetheless!
    I did forget a related head-canon though! Anakin's voice is different in TCW because that's how Anakin hears himself. That's why the discrepancy is so big (but Latner's so good we don't really care).
     
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    My Clone Wars 2003 head canon is that most of the events happened but not the way that they’re depicted in the show. I still think that Asajj gave Anakin his legendary scar, he was probably knighted in a similar way in canon, and the Battle of Coruscant played out more or less the same way as it does in the show.
     
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    A lot of people here don't seem to understand what 'headcanon' actually is.

    It's not 'making things up and trying to pass them off as Canonical' or 'rejecting what is Canonical and substituting my own ideas'.

    'Headcanon' is 'a detail or story beat that isn't explicitly Canon but can fit within established Canon and therefore is considered to be Canon by me'.

    An actual example of 'Headcanon' would be 'Nik Sant is Rex under a different name' or 'The Asset is a secret love-child of Yoda and Yaddle'.

    On-topic, I have two favorite 'headcanons':
    1) Lando and L3 were romantically and intimately involved before she died on Kessel

    2) They had a really long - and long-overdue - reunion conversation after the escape from Cloud City in which he regaled her with tales of his adventures and they groused a little bit about Han
     
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    Isn't this canon?
     
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    Thanks @DigificWriter tell you a secret again I will not.
    Btw. 'The Asset' is a) not respectful b) not the real name (but I won't tell you).
     
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    I think either "definition" will suffice for the purposes of this light hearted little thread.
     
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    If it is, I’m not aware. I’d be pleased as punch (the spiked kind ;)) if you could point me to a source.

    Seems pretty definitive that Palps has that Halloween mask of a face because of his ‘auto-electric asphyxiation’ routine. Even though Luke got just as zippy zapped with that 80s lightning effect <shoulder shrug>.

    Which is another dealie bobber faux canon of mine: Palpie’s Ian McDiarmid face was a darkside illusion. A literal expression of his figurative disguise. That lovely meatloaf look of his was the true face he’d kept hidden all the while as yet another deception.

    As far as ‘necrosis Vader’, it would make my day to find out that was Star Wars gospel.
     
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    Yeah I'm sure that's the bit that is canon. I remember it being discussed in what was the official SW discussion forum back in the day, and 'word of god' was that the disfigured face was one he had been hiding up until that point.
     
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    Isn't something like that hinted in one of the novels. I think I read something like that in an excerpt.
     
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    Pretty sure “headcanon” is a totally made up phrase, with it’s definition totally open to interpretation to each individual...which is sort of the point. The first rule of headcanon is there are no rules. It’s yours, and it exists in your head...do as you please.
     
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    Dang, how can you post quicker than me? Unatural ability I would say.
     
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    I've turned to the dark side.
     
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    My new head canon is that when the Knights of Ren appear in TROS, one of the stormtroopers says "Goals."

    @Jaxxon :p
     
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    I've altered my rating to the Lando, hopefully you see what I did there.
    :cool:
     
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    That reminds me that in German in that very scene the stormtrooper actually says "cool"

    ... Like wtf
     
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    Seriously?! HE DOES SAY COOL?
     
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    I just checked, I was wrong. Yeah, tros ist not my favourite movie and it shows ... Looks like I should have paid more attention : p sorry everyone!
     
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    Oh, thank goodness! I thought I was going mad after being so adamant! Hahaha.
     
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