User blog comment:Maxlance/The Great Canon God of Quicksand/@comment-1173941-20160330190922

Eh. I have to disagree with the notion of canon that your post talks about.

Canon is it's own world, and should be used to connect together other stories that happen to take place in the same "world". Movies on Superman, Batman or even Spiderman don't take place in the same "canon"—they don't need to, and fans have never said they had to. So the argument presented seems rather odd to make claims about.

Most adaptations DO treat the original canon as simply an "origin", but that doesn't make for a better or worst sotry. Ultimately, an adaptation is just a reimagining by someone else, so things are bound to be flipped around.

However, changing things that fans hold as neccesary part of the canon, is can very often lead to discontent. Stuff like the Joker killing Batman's parents in the older movies.

Or, just looke at everything from the Dragon Ball Evolution movie. It used canon as an "origin" as described in your post, but then went on to completely tear it apart, and give a terrible story all at the same time.

So when it comes to reimaginings and special adaptations, canon isn't required, but changing aspects of the story that fans hold to be neccesary is over all a bad idea.