Thread:BEJT/@comment-32038509-20190428053654/@comment-26838855-20190514092246

This is where the problem of "inspired canon" comics comes in.

Up to about 2013/2014, there were a lot of these sponsored and otherwise "bonus" comics (there's been a few more bonus comics since 2013/2014 but far fewer and none of this sponsored stuff I don't think).

Because of this, around 2012 Marvel introduced the system for confirming official canon, with the red stamp that goes on official canon comics to affirm them. They made clear which comics prior to 2012 were full canon and should've had that red stamp, and used the red stamp system from there on out (except for the Jessica Jones comic, which was otherwise officially confirmed canon).

This is the list of official canon comics.

Everything else was reduced to what Marvel labelled as "inspired canon" - all the sponsored and bonus comics. Any comic not listed there.

The reason behind the "inspired" terminology was due to the comics being considered "inspired by" the MCU, not actually quite set in the MCU.

I don't know if you're familiar with Star Wars Legends, but it's similar to that. "The analogy is that every piece of published Star Wars fiction is a window into the "real" Star Wars universe. Some windows are a bit foggier than others. Some are decidedly abstract. But each contains a nugget of truth to them. Like the great Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi said, "Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view."" Essentially: no, they're not canon, but for a lot of them you can assume very similar, if not almost identical events did happen in the MCU. But if the events don't fit with the MCU, well, that's fine because they're not actual canon.

For some reason, and I don't know why, the wiki treats inspired canon comics as "canon-until-proven-otherwise". That's the policy, despite the inspired canon comics a) not being official and b) being expendable. That's why we put them onto the timeline.

But also, it seems to take quite a lot for an admin to declare an inspired canon comic non-canon. So even though Nick Fury: Spies like Us contradicts the canon from Captain Marvel, there was the excuse given that perhaps Fury was in disguise on his mission and so chose to wear an eye patch.

The fact that the comic is expendable, not actually canon to begin with anyway, and that would be quite the coincidence as well as bending over backwards to justify it, to me means that comic can absolutely be thrown out. I also feel that Iron Man: Will Online Evils Prevail? should absolutely be thrown out considering it features in-universe toys of Hulk and Spider-Man, one of whom was not known by the world for another several months and the other who was 8 years old at the time and 6 years out from being bitten by the spider. But the admins have decided not to throw them out.

Weirdly though, they have thrown out the official canon novel Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War - The Cosmic Quest Volume Two: Aftermath despite there being no hard contradiction to canon. The policy rules don't really make sense to me for what constitutes justification of throwing out wiki-considered canon.