Personal canon

This article is about fans' homebrewed storylines. For Generation 1 Decepticon leader Megatron's personal cannon, see Fusion cannon.

A personal canon (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 he or she favors and assembling them as he or she likes, to discarding one or two discerned distasteful properties from an otherwise accepted continuity.

For example, one's personal canon could be:

• The first two seasons of the Generation 1 animated series, but not including the movie or subsequent seasons.
• The Marvel Comics continuity, but without accompanying material from Marvel Comics UK.
• The American Beast Wars continuity, but without the accompanying series Beast Wars II and Beast Wars Neo.
• Renaming toys after pre-existing characters, such as considering Energon Shockblast to be Generation 1 Shockwave.
• Disregarding one animated-series origin of the Constructicons for another.
• Merging elements of the Dreamwave comics version of Armada with the animated cartoon's.
• Accepting Marvel's Generation 2 comics as "true" except for the death of Nightbeat.
• Accepting everything in every known Transformers continuity having happened as a single jumbled entity, ignoring the inconsistencies as "gray areas" that one mustn't be concerned with.
• Not considering the Cybertron series to be in the same continuity as the Armada and Energon series.
• Considering one's own (or somebody else's) fan fiction as a part of continuity.

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

From Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki, a Wikia wiki.