10 Video Game Spinoffs Of Movies That Are Canon To The Film Franchise (screenrant.com)

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[-] Linuto@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

• Enter The Matrix [Ties Into The Matrix Resurrections]

• Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora [Co-Exists With The Avatar Movies]

• Ghostbusters: The Video Game [Acts As A Sequel To Ghostbusters II]

• Marvel's Spider-Man (2018) [Exists In The Spider-Verse]

• The Thing [Takes The Mystery Out Of The Movie's Ending]

• Saw: The Video Game [Saw's Creators Contributed To The Game]

• Mad Max [Introduced Furiosa's Main Villain]

• The Lord Of The Rings Online [Expands The World Of Middle-Earth]

• Star Wars Jedi: Survivor [Part Of The Star Wars Timeline]

• Kingdom Hearts 3 [The Toy Story world is meant to take place before Toy Story 3 in the canon timeline of the movies.]

Some of these are a stretch, imo

[-] Zahille7@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

That Kingdom Hearts one is more like reaching on their tiptoes

[-] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

During promotion of the game, they tried to say it was going to be canon. But I think it got misconstrued by PR. I think the intention was that they wanted the movies of the pixar worlds to be canon to kingdom hearts, not the other way round. But they didn't state it as such.

[-] Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

So, no mention of Reservoir Dogs? The perfect ending is canon.

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 3 points 9 months ago

The "Star Wars Timeline"is about as straightforward as the Zelda timeline.

[-] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

The current Disney timeline is very straight forward, what you on about

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 1 points 9 months ago

I've read the books, played the games & seen the things that have been "removed" from canon, but are still referenced. The fact that you had to state "Current Disney Timeline" shows that there are multiple, and the current scatter point happens in a retcon.

[-] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

They make it pretty easy to tell you what is and isn't canon though. Anything made since Disney bought them and not under the non canon "legends" line is canon. With everything prior to Disney, other than the movies and the clone wars also going into "legends".

Also then referencing older legends stuff in new stories is just implying that those stories in some way may also have happened in this version of Star wars. But they don't make the old stuff canon, because they can't be canon because all of the old stuff was an absolute mess and constantly contradicted each other. Which is why Disney did what they did.

I take the little easter eggs about legends as like "hey, we may adapt this story into the canon at some point with a new interpretation"

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