https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYv2Q4mXfEA
This shit is fucking goofy, this is so fucking stupid I cant think of a better way to describe it than fucking moronic.
Not a single decision in this was made by someone who wasnt an executive ghoul lobotomized by capitalism.
I notice a gradual blurring of the line between fiction and reality.
Characters are no longer just a set of traits that can be adapted and updated to keep with the times. They're treated like real people, but in a fixed state with a right or wrong canon.
One of the earliest examples I can think of is Optimus Prime. A lot of lonely kids saw him as a father figure in the 80s and now it's hard to tell stories with him that break away from that image.
The recent Transformers canon describes the robots as genderless, using terms and knowledge that wasn't widely shared forty years ago. It's jarring to particularly reactionary fans who don't want to think of their projected father figure as anything but male.
I bring this up because the idea of canon can be really dangerous in the hands of a soulless corporation. This soulless corporation is selling canon to the highest bidder. Companies do it regularly, but with extra steps involved.
IP laws and the commodification of canon sets a bad precedent for art.
And the blurring between fiction and reality means that it'll be easier to apply the logic of canon to the real world and real people.
If fictional people aren't allowed to change because of canon, and if fictional people are being treated like real people, real people are going to held up to a canon.
Real people are already held up to the standards of social constructs, and making those social constructs adhere to a canon is what leftists have been fighting against.