STAR WARS - What Is Still Canon?

STAR WARS - What Is Still Canon?

Star Wars canon has undergone some massive changes of late due to Disney and Lucasfilm's joint continuation the franchise. Hit the jump for clarification on which parts of the Expanded Universe are now axed, which parts are staying, and what it all means for the future of the series.

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By MrSundayMovies - Jan 30, 2015 07:01 AM EST
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SuperCat
SuperCat - 1/30/2015, 8:14 AM
LEVITIKUZ
LEVITIKUZ - 1/30/2015, 8:21 AM
Here's what's canon.

Original Trilogy
Prequel Trilogy
Clone Wars CGI animated series
Rebels
New movies

and all the stuff with Darth Bane
SuperPickle
SuperPickle - 1/30/2015, 8:22 AM
Nice. Great video. It helped explain what's going on.
LEVITIKUZ
LEVITIKUZ - 1/30/2015, 8:23 AM
Also the Knights of the Old Republic games are canon I believe. The games being canon has always been the biggest grey area.
Marshmallow
Marshmallow - 1/30/2015, 8:25 AM
@Levitikuz Marshmallow says you are wrong. You forgot the new SW novels from this point forward such as Tarkin, A New Dawn, etc. Those are canon as well.
LEVITIKUZ
LEVITIKUZ - 1/30/2015, 8:26 AM
Yea I forgot about the new books. Those are canon also.
MightyZeus
MightyZeus - 1/30/2015, 8:30 AM
The comics?
LEVITIKUZ
LEVITIKUZ - 1/30/2015, 8:34 AM
@MightyZeus

The new Marvel comics are canon. Not the old Marvel stuff or the Dark Horse comics...

But Marvel doesn't seem to have a problem selling off Dark Horse's old Star Wars comics that are no longer canon as their own comics............






The least Marvel could have done was add the Dark Horse logo on the cover and maybe give them a cut of the profits. SMDH Marvel.
DeathSeal
DeathSeal - 1/30/2015, 8:35 AM
Thrawn, he's all I care about from the expanded universe. And will never be retconned away from my heart, Disney you evil empire you! (I love your work with Marvel and expect a great new Star Wars Btw but you're still evil for taking my blue skinned Grand Admiral away)
DeathSeal
DeathSeal - 1/30/2015, 8:37 AM
@Levitikuz

Here's what's canon.

Original Trilogy

Clone Wars CGI animated series
Rebels
New movies

and all the stuff with Darth Bane

Fixed that for ya. :)
OmegaBlack13
OmegaBlack13 - 1/30/2015, 8:39 AM
@Levitikuz Yeah I really hope they don't lose the Darth Bane stuff. Such a great character and story.
LEVITIKUZ
LEVITIKUZ - 1/30/2015, 8:40 AM
@Batmaniac

KOTR is the biggest grey area. Disney said all the films and cartoons are canon but not the games.

At the same time, both the Clone Wars and Obi-Wan in Episode 4 referenced the Old Republic.
LEVITIKUZ
LEVITIKUZ - 1/30/2015, 8:41 AM
@OmegaBlack13

Darth Bane will forever remain canon thanks to the final episode of the Clone Wars where Yoda confronts Darth Bane.
MarkyMarkRises
MarkyMarkRises - 1/30/2015, 8:43 AM
I found a lot of the EU canon to be very self-contradictory, totally bizarre at some points, and sometimes plain boring (huh, kind of like the bible)

But now, Disney has begun constructing a singular canon that's easy to follow, very much in the vein of the Star Wars, and takes heavy inspiration from the good parts of the EU.
LEVITIKUZ
LEVITIKUZ - 1/30/2015, 8:48 AM
@MarkyMarkRises

Yea most of the EU was more of a mess than the Fox X-Men films.
MisterPL
MisterPL - 1/30/2015, 8:53 AM
"... much beloved Expanded Universe?"

That's a riot. Right up there with a much beloved colostomy bag. What a fückîng train wreck.
Brainiac13
Brainiac13 - 1/30/2015, 9:00 AM
Long as I know whats Canon now.....That's all that matters....I think.. ;)
ThedamnBatman
ThedamnBatman - 1/30/2015, 9:00 AM
love this guy (no homo)
KrazyForKomix
KrazyForKomix - 1/30/2015, 9:02 AM
Disney just wiped out the Star Wars Expanded universe in support of the movies and cartoons (not complaining or panicking). How hard a decision is it for them to do the same thing to Marvel?

Not hard at all.
gaikinger
gaikinger - 1/30/2015, 9:30 AM
Can the prequel trilogy not be cannon? Please? Pretty please??
McGee
McGee - 1/30/2015, 9:47 AM
Super fan Dexter A. Netman probably knows. Let's ask him and find out!
IronFistPrime
IronFistPrime - 1/30/2015, 9:54 AM
Any idea on how "The Force Unleashed" plays into the new canon? I always thought it was an official bridge between Episode III and IV?
grif
grif - 1/30/2015, 10:02 AM
why is the movie not called episode 7? and will it be called episode 7?
thatcoldblackcloud
thatcoldblackcloud - 1/30/2015, 10:04 AM
Sweet jesus. WHO CARES what is canon and what is not???? Its a bloody movie! And they're all bloody comics! Ive never been able to undestand this flipping obsession with continuity and canon.

Canon will be whatever the people making money off of these characters say it is. GET IT ??
Asmodeus
Asmodeus - 1/30/2015, 10:06 AM
Thrawn? Are you still out there. I love you.
ekrolo2
ekrolo2 - 1/30/2015, 10:15 AM
I wish Force Unleashed was canon, I really like its interpretation of how the Rebel Alliance started. I was sure it was gonna be too since Lucas was apparently quite involved with it.
ekrolo2
ekrolo2 - 1/30/2015, 10:19 AM
@LEVITIKUZ

Yeah Marvel selling Dark Horses comics pisses me off too, couldn't Disney at least let them have the rights to reprint those? It feels really wrong for a company that had [frick] all to do with them being allowed to sell them.
jahcriado
jahcriado - 1/30/2015, 10:26 AM
I am glad they wiped a lot of that clear. There is a lot of crap with the SW branding (I think the 2 CG animated series are horrid myself along with the prequels) & this will help. I did love me some KOTOR, but it being legend doesn't detract from it being good. To bad Lucas didn't have a partner who was a good showrunner.
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