Canon vs. Fanon

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CANON Only has eyes for a single girl. * FANON e XXXXX Has a f-----' harem. WAY

Fanon Sans Canon Sans что hey Baby~ f------ love Ketchup

I F------ LOVE BREAD canon has talked about bread once or twice. maybe even eaten it onscreen. still his own person. fanon #1 fan of bread. only ever talks about bread. has eating nothing but bread since birth. his first word was "bread". has appeared at every bread convention ever. owns all of the bread merchandise. holds the speedrun wr for every bread game. has done nothing but teleport bread for 3 days.

CANON: FANDOM: Pool is open and free to use by anyone

Canon American localization >Normal line: "If you can get some fuel canisters, then I can reactive the main generator and get our shields back up. I marked the objective on your map" >Gearbox line: "Heyyyy buddy, great job killing all those mutants and all. You're really good at that! Shooting things, that is. One problemo though, as it turns out a bunch of monsters on the planet are gonna tear our eyes out if we don't get the shield back up. And this is just my opinion, but that's gonna suck. Not having eyes sounds terrible! Like, how am I supposed to read my collection of "Bodacious Space Babes" without any flippin' eyeballs? So here's my brilliant plan that I got written on this here napkin. There's this generator-thing. You following me? And it needs GAS! Who knew? So mayyybe, you can go out and fetch some canisters. And then we can get the generator running, and then the shield will go back up, and we won't get horribly viciously murdered! Doesn't that sound great? I know, right? So, since I did most of the work coming up with the plan, I was thinking you can do the last step and get the cannisters. If you see any monsters, shoot them in the face or something. Oh and one more tip: try not to get killed. That'll put a wrench in this plan- metaphorically that is. Not literally. I hate people who misuse the term "literally", it drives me FIGURATIVELY insane. Anyway I'll just be here, cowering in my bunker while you go do that. Go team badass!"

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About

Canon vs. Fanon refers to a series of memes and sketches that depict popular tropes in fanon, juxtaposing canon and fanon versions of characters. The format achieved popularity on X / Twitter in mid-March 2024.

Origin

On March 10th, 2024, X^[1] user @DaGamah_ wrote, "What's yalls favorite canon vs fanon depiction chat." The post (shown below) received over 2,200 reposts and quotes and 3,100 likes in four days.

e DaGamah @DaGamah What's yalls favorite canon vs fanon depiction chat 7:43 PM Mar 10, 2024 18.4M Views

In the following hours, users on X^[2] / Twitter responded with both their favorite and disliked tropes in fanon, often drawing comparison memes juxtaposing canon versions of characters with their fanon versions. On March 10th, 2024, X user @FectoPrisma posted the earliest notable meme within the trope (shown below) garnering over 2,600 reposts and 19,000 likes in five days.

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Spread

More users submitted their Canon vs. Fanon memes in mid-March 2024: on March 10th, 2024, X^[3] user posted a drawing depicting the animorphism trope in fanon that received over 7,000 reposts and 50,000 likes in four days (shown below, left). Later that day, X^[4] user @ElUnicoCosta posted a meme about Headcanons that gained over 3,700 reposts and 29,000 likes in four days (shown below, right).