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CANON INFORMATION NIGHT!

The game's pretty big isn't it? With so many characters it's sometimes hard to keep up with everyone's canon and character backgrounds. Not to mention that the apps aren't always placed in the character's journal, and it leaves you wondering how they are, or even where they come from.

WELL WONDER NO MORE! It's time for a canon and character night!

The idea behind this post is primarily an information exchange. Just fill in this form, and think about factoids and things in a list form. Remember, you're trying to sell your character & canon to others, so talk about what makes them unique and fun. With any luck, you'll learn some new things about other people's characters that you can base relationships or friendships on, or even find a new fandom which catches your interest!

Note: Please mark the top of your thread with the canon. This way, other people in your canon can add whatever they want to it, such as their character stuff, and other cool factoids about the canon that they might remember.

You are perfectly fine and more than allowed to ask questions about the fandoms to the other players if you wish as well!

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Character: Jamie McCrimmon
Canon: Doctor Who

Interesting things about the character:
- Comes from a family of pipers - both his father and grandfather were pipers for Clan McLaren.
- Originally met the Doctor just after the battle of Culloden in 1746.
- Almost always wears a kilt, unless he's in a disguise of some sort of another, or a spacesuit.
- Is more than familiar with being captured.
- Has left the known universe, winding up in a place called the Land of Fiction, where he has met a Rapunzel.
- Along with Zoe, has had his memory of his travels with the Doctor removed, except for his first adventure. In at least two of the audio adventures, they were temporarily restored but then removed again.
- Why does Eleven keep going on about a paradox involving Jamie in game? Well, it's due to this. Aren't different timelines fun?

Interesting things about the canon/fandom:
- There's differing opinions about what's canon and what isn't for Who. Some people like to include everything, some people discount things that aren't actually televised, and some of us include what we're familiar with as long as it makes some sort of sense. Given this, things have a habit of sometimes contradicting themselves. IE: Eleven states apples are rubbish, but Two was seen happily eating them on screen.
- A very large chunk of One and Two's episodes do not exist on video. This is due to the BBC's archiving policies at the time. Luckily Doctor Who fans made audio recordings so some records of the episodes do still exist. Along with those, reconstructions and animations have been created using the audio material and the scripts.
- The reason Jamie's face changes in 'The Mind Robber' is actually due to the fact that Frazer Hines got chicken pox and had to miss a week of filming. There's a rumor that the actor who replaced him, Hamish Wilson, is his cousin, which is not true. However, Frazer's brother Ian does have a small part in this particular serial.
- Like Cam stated, Jamie has had one of the longest runs of any on-screen companion of the Doctor, joining in the Second Doctor's second serial. However, this is in part due to the number of episodes that were made, as serials for Classic Who varied in length. For example, 'The Highlanders', Jamie's first serial, is 4 episodes and 'The War Games', his last regular appearance, has 10. At the time, each season was comprised of seven serials. Add that with his cameo in 'The Five Doctors' and his appearance in 'The Two Doctors', and you have a lot of Jamie even before you get into any spin-off media.
- Frazer does a scarily accurate impression of Patrick Troughton's Doctor, which can be heard in many of Big Finish's audio books. He's also done an impression of Colin Baker's Doctor in said audios which is also fairly good.

Anything else?:

Two's so mean to Jamie sometimes. 8D But in a teasing way. I've wondered where he got the clutching from, come to think of it.

Jamie's just a touchy-feely sort of guy. :)

Also some other fun video bits:

The Doctor and Jamie coaxing Victoria in the Tomb of the Cybermen

Jamie teasing Victoria

"Look at the size of that thing, Doctor."

Edited 2011-08-20 07:24 (UTC)

Character: Mindy Macready/Hit Girl
Canon: Kick Ass

Interesting things about the character:

On of the most violent, twisted little girls you will ever meet, whether you read the comic or the movie. Kick ass describes her as "Rambo meets Polly Pocket." At one point (in both mediums) she and Big Daddy have a criminal in a compactor at the junk yard to get information about the big baddie. Even after he tells them, they have the compactor crush him anyway, with Hit girl's reaction: "What a douche."

Has quite a mouth on her, once again, whether its the comic or the movie. Not afraid to drop a few F-bombs at the drop of a hat.

Her training is done by Big Daddy, but the reasons from the movie and the comic are different. In the movie, Big Daddy as a cop refused to be a dirty one, so D'Amico has him framed and sent to jail, and Mindy's mother kills herself in grief. In the comic, that is the story he TELLS Mindy: in actuality, he's just an accountant who wanted a more exciting life, so he lies about this to his daughter and trains her to be a hero fighting crime. In both mediums, he dies: burns to death in the movie, shot rather gruesome like in the back of the head in the comic.

Mindy has kevlar down to her underoos. It's true.

In the big gunning scene, (movie) Mindy has a moment of reflection and fear before bringing out her weapons and going crazy on the bad guys. In the comic? She takes a whiff of cocaine (which her father called condition red) and proceeds to take out men WITH A FLAMETHROWER (she got it on ebay).

Hit Girl is not afraid to let body parts fly. Not even a little.

Hit Girl cares about the ship, if only because it made sure she didn't die. That doesn't mean she likes the idea of risking her life for people she doesn't know. That wound up getting her shot. It sucked.

If she has a partner (Kickass/Ruffnut) she takes their life preservation seriously, but expects them to pull their own weight.

Interesting things about the canon/fandom:

Canon is a little bit "The Watchmen" with a good dose of Frank Miller. The author's intention is essentially showing why being a her in real life gets you killed. The protagonist Dave Lizewski learns this the hard way.

There are several moments of totally nerding it up, in both the comic and the movie.

It's a pretty grim place, whichever medium you read. Even with the movie people get tortured pretty badly, especially Dave at one point.

I stayed away from the comic because of how darn depressing it gets for awhile, but eventually relented and like both mediums now. But the comic is definitely not for the faint at heart.

Its not finished yet: there is a 2 in the works.

Anything else?: BEST THEME EVER.

Edited 2011-08-20 06:40 (UTC)

Character: Daniel Jackson
Canon: Stargate/Stargate SG-1

Interesting things about the character:
-Daniel Jackson was played by two actors. He was played by James Spader in the Stargate movie, and Michael Shanks in SG-1. Both had equally floppy hair.
-Daniel starts out the movie and show as being solely an academic and less adept at combat than the other three SG-1 members. He progressively gets more adept at firearms and combat situations as the show goes on.
-He is a multiple PHD and speaks over 20 languages.
-He shot his career in the foot with his lecture on the pyramids involving a theory of his, was evicted, lost his grants all in the same day because of his need to prove himself right.
-His best friend is Colonel Jack O'Neill. They're an unlikely pair, but when you throw yourself in front of an energy blast meant for another, it tends to put things in a different light.
-Some might even say they fight like a married couple.
-Used to get captured a lot or generally need rescuing. He got better.
-Daniel can be arrogant and driven by a desire for knowledge. He claims he can get the first team back through the Stargate easily. Turns out he was full of shit.

Interesting things about the canon/fandom:
-The Stargate movie was the work of those who would later do Independence Day.
-The show itself has generally become it's own thing and go off in a completely different direction, especially in how the System Lords are handled.
-Until recently, this show was the longest running American Sci-fi show. It ran for ten years. It also has spin offs in Stargate: Atlantis and Stargate: Universe. It also has several movies. SG-1 has Ark of Truth and Continuum.
-The show has a little bit of everything. Aliens, alien parasites, mind probes, forests that look suspiciously like Vancouver, flying pyramids, time travel, body swaps, time loops and alternate realities. And a mirror universe. That you get to via a.....a quantum mirror.
-Ben Browder and Claudia Black, who were previously both on Farscape together, join Stargate in the later seasons.
-The show has Norse Gods in it. They look like this.
-The US Air Force worked closely with the Stargate SG-1 producers.
-While Egyptian "Gods" and Egyptian-inspired imagery drive the majority of the seasons, there is also a later focus on the Ancients and the Ori, and figures such as Merlin.
-Horus guards. Enough said.

Anything else?:

The Stargate movie in a nutshell:

And more incoming miscellaneous spam below.

Videos aren't that easy to find, so this is limited.

Stargate Intro Sequence, Season 8:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx7Rr_G0nro

Compiled clips from a later season:

A few humor clips:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9OdQ9xv5TU

And a random image dump;

Dignity. It's Daniel's middle name.

So is maturity.

The team.

SG-1

Edited 2011-08-20 08:16 (UTC)

The movie!Horus guards look so pimp. Also the clips you showed me of the later ship stuff in SG-1 looked pretty cool, like they got more of a budget.

I love those things. And yes! They seem to have more money in the later seasons.

Have some Vala too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chdTf0we4Xc

Edited 2011-08-20 11:38 (UTC)

OMG James Spader looks like John Denver.

TWENTY LANGUAGES? Jesus, Daniel, overachiever much?

KIND OF.

Okay it might be over 23, but yes. Maybe. 8P

...How many of those are dead languages? Inquiring minds want to know.

Lucky for me, someone else took the time and listed whatever the show or movie mentioned for Daniel.

"Daniel's languages - spoken
Ancient Egyptian, also spoken on Abydos (Stargate the movie, Children of the Gods, There But For The Grace Of God, Serpent's Song, Forever In A Day). Fluent.
Unas (The First Ones, Beast of Burden, Enemy Mine). Learned from scratch by talking to Unas. Has a basic knowledge of the language and a limited vocabulary.
Arabic (Childen of the Gods). Spoke one word.
German (1969). Fluent.
various Goa'uld dialects (Brief Candle, Within The Serpent's Grasp, Fair Game, Serpent's Venom, The Curse, The Light, Summit). Fluent enough to trick Goa'uld system lords.
Russian (1969, The Tomb, Lockdown, Full Alert). Fluent. Also knows proverbs and swear words.
Spanish (Evolution I). Fluent.

Daniel's languages - read or recognized
Middle English (Demons)
Mayan (Crystal Skull). Recognizes spoken words.
Latin (The Fifth Race)
Greek (Holiday)
the Ancients' Language (The Fifth Race, Window of Opportunity, Full Circle, Fallen, It's Good to be King). Learned it from scratch. Fluent.
The Ataniks' Language (Upgrades). Learned it within a few minutes while under the influence of Atanik technology.
Linear A (Brief Candle), which is related to Goa'uld. Is now the only man on Earth who can translate it.
Runic script (Thor's Chariot), which is also the Asgards' script, even though the Asgard language has nothing in common with Norse or Germanic (The Fifth Race). He knows enough about runes to be able to tell their numeric value.
the language of the people of Orlin's planet (Ascension). Learned it from scratch without known references within a few days.
Babylonian Cuneiform (The Tomb). Reads and translates fluently.
Phoenician Ugaritic Cuneiform (Serpent's Venom, The Tomb). Reads and translates fluently.
Sumerian and Akkadian Cuneiform (Fire And Water). Reads and translates fluently, without reference material, which makes him one of about half a dozen people on Earth who can do that.
Berber (Stargate the movie)
Chadic (Stargate the movie)
Omotic (Stargate the movie)
Ancient Welsh (2001). Has basic knowledge, doesn't know all the words."

Edited 2011-08-20 19:36 (UTC)

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Character: Beastboy
Canon: Teen Titans (Cartoon)/Teen Titans Go

Interesting things about the character:

While the Teen Titans TV Show Premiered in 2003 the character of Beastboy has been around since 1965 in other canons.

Beastboy's powers stem from a rare disease and gene therapy that his father more or less performed on the fly to save his life.

He is a resolute vegan (Due to the nature of his powers "Dude I've been most of those animals!" )

He was originally a member of The Doom Patrol before becoming a Teen Titan.

His real name is "Garfield Logan"

He can even turn into humanoid aliens, what he's unaware of is his powers are only limited by his imagination and will. He can turn into mythical creatures like dragons, unicorns ect. He's even been as small as an amoeba and replicated himself.

Interesting things about the canon/fandom:

The TV show canon joined with the comic series "Teen Titans Go" To not only fill in the gaps left behind from the TV series, but also expand on the characters including revealing Beastboy's origin story, his worst fears, and to tell some stories from his days with The Doom Partol.

There were 3 Teen Titan Console games, one for the gamecube where you could switch between all five Titans on the fly, and two for the gameboy advance where you alternated who you played as.

Anything else?:

Character: The Mister Master!
Canon: ~~Doctor~~Master Who

Interesting things about the character:

He's a Time Lord, so he's basically a very old alien who can also regenerate, or transform every cell in his body upon 'death' to create a fresh new body for himself.

He's a villain, but he used to be best friends with the Doctor. In fact, the Doctor's been known to call him 'my best enemy'. And it can be argued the Master's favorite pastime is basically going around the universe trolling the Doctor. You know, by threatening his loved ones and taking over Earth and such. Because that's what you do when you're obsessed with your space boyfriend.

He likes aliases. His most recent one was Harold Saxon, but usually they incorporate the word 'Master', in one language or another.

He hatches crazy, complicated plots. Once he was elected to Prime Minister. He then proceeded to take over the Earth with flying death balls. Another time he gave everyone on Earth his genetic code so that there could be six billion Masters to laugh madly at the Doctor.

He also once killed someone with a plastic chair.

He has a tendency to act flippantly, especially in front of humans. But he's pretty manic anyway, mostly to keep up with the Doctor's quirkiness. He likes awful pop music or even glam rock like the Scissor Sisters and enjoys children's television.

In New Who he acquired an auditory hallucination: a drum beat that plays constantly in his head. He thinks it's a call to War. It isn't, but I don't want to spoil the surprise because it's just too depressing.

He has a laser screwdriver, which is so much better than the Doctor's ratty old sonic.

He had a wife! Which is interesting in itself because he rarely takes on companions. Also, she was a collaborateur, totally on board with his going round killing Earthlings and taking over the planet.

Interesting things about the canon/fandom:

It's a super long-running show, mainly because the Time Lord regeneration aspect meant they could keep replacing actors to play the Doctor. Also, the show just rocks and it's embedded in British culture.

Did you know it's actually supposed to be a kid's show? Though Moffat seems determined to change that...

I mean really, if you take out the alien time traveler stuff it's about an incredibly old man who picks up young people, usually girls, and stuffs them into a police box to go on 'adventures'.

In some ways the show is total wish fulfillment. This guy can go wherever he wants and whenever he wants and never has to worry about food, lodging, or money. For most of us it's a dream come true, even given the monsters.

And oh, are there some incredible monsters. The classic episodes (anything before the 2005 reboot) especially feature some really cheesy low budget costumes and effects.

Like Stacy, the Doctor's TARDIS is a sentient being. It's also bigger on the inside, which means you get the potential for some fabulous interiors like this:

and this:

and this:

Companions have included a warrior woman, a penguin, a shapeshifting android, a tin dog, a teenager who's also sort of an ekrixiphile, and a pansexual, ultra-charismatic space captain (who got his own series now. It's called Torchwood).

Anything else?: The fans are crazy.

I almost think you need to link the plastic chair thing. That one's just...special. Like bubble wrap special. 8D

I was about to demand more information on the plastic chair too.

It's from 'Terror of the Autons', unless they did it again in the new series.

Here you are my dearies

Character: Tetsuwan Atom
Canon: Pluto

Interesting things about the character:
- Rocket-propelled flight!
- Super strong!
- Fires lasers!
- Also I guess he was called Astro Boy over here or something.
Atom was created to replace the dead son of a famous roboticist, Dr. Tenma. Unfortunately, Tenma decided he wasn't up to the par and sold Atom to a circus. BEST DAD EVER

Interesting things about the canon/fandom:
- Murder mystery IS THE KILLER A ROBOT OR A HUMAN?
- Robot rights!
- What Measure is a Non-Human?
Pluto is based on Tetsuwan Atom/Astro Boy by Tezuka Osamu. Most of the major plot comes from The Greatest Robot in the World storyline, but themes appear to be taken from many different Atom stories. Robots in Atom's world cannot hate, lie, or kill a human being... yet somehow, a string of murders has occurred that seems impossible for a human to have carried out. Who or what is Pluto?

Anything else?:
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/65137250@N03/6061982964/) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/65137250@N03/6061982990/)

*goes to read on strength of those pages*

I love this author, NGL.

Reposted bc that video was huge omg
also spoiler warning.

Character: Homura Akemi
Canon: Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Interesting things about the character:
- She used to be a very meek and awkward girl; through her magic she slowly desensitized herself and became the (outwardly) stone cold girl she is now.
- Homura's magical powers are time related. She can rewind to a very specific moment in time, and can completely stop time with her magic.
- She's a time traveler in case the above didn't make it obvious.
- She canonly googles/searches "how to make a bomb".
- Her parents are Mysteriously Absent.

Interesting things about the canon/fandom:
- MadoMagi is a deconstruction of the Magical Girl genre. It takes just about everything you automatically think of when you think "magical girl" and makes it grimdark.
- The magical girls' powers are based on the wish they make when they form the contract to become a magical girl.
- The bad guys the girls in this series fight against are in actuality other girls, just ones corrupted by magic.
- There are a lot of heavy implications (in the actual show and in interviews) towards girls' love in this series, so shipping girl/girl is not hard to do!

Anything else?:
Not too much of a spoiler, but imho the best fight scene in the entire show and also Homura's crowning moment of badass:

Character: Miku Hinasaki/Hinasaki Miku
Canon: Fatal Frame (the first and third!)

Interesting things about the character:
- Unassumingly badass: she goes to find her brother after no one else bothers to.
- She's pretty much scared of legitimately scary things. Like ghosts.

- Miku's is descended from folklorists who met Bad Ends on both sides of her family. Her father was spirited away, and her maternal grandfather got, well. Dead.

- Canonly likes crafty things. She makes candles and cooks!

- Hates microwaves and dishwashers.

- Has a cat, Ruri, who will sometimes react to Weird Things going on in her house. It's not clear if the cat was given to her before or after her parents bit it.

- Oh, and she's a post-cognitive psychic whose soul is being slowly stolen by the Camera Obscura. Which will eventually drive her mad and/or kill her. :D

- Her grandmother Yae and her mother Miyuki died the same way, hanging from a cherry tree (Miku unfortunately has to view this twice thanks to her powers).

Interesting things about the canon/fandom:

- Women are the primary protagonists of the game, having a noted stronger "sixth sense" than the men. Miku's is one of the stronger, though I think she's actually below any proper priestess - e.g. Kirie, Sae/Yae, Reika

- You'll find more girl/girl shipping in the fandom, and a bit of incestuous les yay from the Fatal Frame II game.

- You'll also find some brother complex stuff on Miku/Mafuyu's end.
Anything else?:

I hiccuped and sounded like a guinea pig a moment ago, and I don't know how to feel about that.

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Teen Titans(cartoon)/Teen Titans Go

Master Who

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CHAIR DEATH BY POPULAR DEMAND

PLUTO

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PUELLA MAGI MADOKA MAGICA

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