Editing Personal canon

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[[File:Lockdown gun face.gif|thumb|right|upright=1.67|No, not this sort of head cannon.]]
A '''personal canon''', '''headcanon''', (or a more limited '''personal continuity''') is one fan's interpretation of the Transformers mythos. This can range from picking and choosing stories and characters that they favor and assembling them as they like, to discarding one or two distasteful properties from an otherwise accepted continuity. A personal canon can also be various events from different universes brought together into one single storyline (e.g. G1 and the Unicron Trilogy in the same universe).

This is often used in [[fan fiction]], where an author will use an established continuity ''up until a certain point,'' from which they would start telling their own stories. Motivations for these stories can range from a desire to [[retcon]] another story that the author dislikes, or to curiously pursue a 'what if' continuity based on a key event happening in some different way.

On a more simple level, personal canon can refer to an individual fan's overall preference for certain interpretations of the ''Transformers'' mythos over multiple continuities, such as saying "[[Quintesson]]s are cool, as long as they didn't create the Transformers", or the acceptance/assumption of the popular [[retcon]] that Transformers have [[spark]]s in all timelines.

==Common examples of personal canon==
*Accepting some seasons of a continuous show or some shows in a sequence of shows, but not others. Examples: only accepting the first two seasons of the Generation 1 animated series, but not the subsequent ones. Or only counting ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'', but not ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]''.
*Having one's fan-favorite characters survive their depicted deaths. Examples: saying that Brawn survived ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'' or [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] survived  Marvel's ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (franchise)|Generation 2]]'' comics.
*Renaming unnamed characters after ones who fulfill similar roles in another continuity.
*Disregarding one animated-series origin of the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] for another (or concocting a way for them to work together somehow).
*Merging elements of the [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]] [[Transformers: Armada (Dreamwave)|version of ''Armada'']] with the animated cartoon's.
*Regarding Decepticons being descended from the [[Liege Maximo]] or [[Quintesson]] military hardware (and thus being ''intrinsically'' evil) as antithetical to the concept of [[Cybertronian Civil Wars|the Civil War]] being political and that wartime factions were chosen through the exercise of free will.
*[[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] is not evil, he's just misunderstood.
*Considering one's own (or somebody else's) [[fan fiction]] as a part of continuity.
*Taking one's favored pairing as canon... And waging flame wars on anyone who disagrees.

And so on. There are, of course, infinite possibilities.


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