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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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He can flop in the right direction on accident, I suppose. :|a

I really like how rounded and fleshed out Howard sounds like! Plus the whole setting he comes from sounds kind of post-apocalyptic badass.

I keep hearing how good Portal is and you're just making it sound even more awesome 8D. That's really cool about Chell's background -- I'd been wondering about her.

He's actually not that well-rounded in the canon, since he's a pretty tertiary character. I like to take a lot of the credit. XD Then again, neither is Eva!

The setting he comes from is fueled by RIDICULOUSNESS.

Character: Hikari Hoshi. Y'all know at this point that she's an OC.
Canon: Beyblade, or more conveniently, that animanga that features spinning tops.

Interesting things about the character:
- Hoshi's father is in the military! He's a decorated major general to the JGSDF (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JGSDF) and has helped her to become the person she is today.
- She loves little kids. If you're under the age of, like, twelve, you're gonna have her tag along with you. And possibly dote on you because she is like that.
- She found her teammates through helping them and in return, they gave her their unwavering loyalty.
- Back home, she knows a guy who goes by the name of Pops. When BEGA went "NO YOU CAN'T HAVE PARTS BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT US!" to Team BBA, Hoshi called him up and Team BBA had their parts again since Pops is like a Japanese Robin Hood.
- She tends to not give up with things, even when it seems futile. She also believes the best to come out of people and wants to make people feel comfortable around her.
Interesting things about the canon/fandom:

WELL, you have moments like this (http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp6c05S98v1ql914ko1_r1_500.png). Why? Because Takao is a derp. :B He's also the main character, too! His holy beast is Seiryuu, an ancient wind dragon.

Takao's rival is none other than Hiwatari Kai (http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lm7swgyeKW1qcdgnto1_500.gif). Look at that fine kid, doesn't he look fab? He wields Suzaku, the legendary phoenix! And he's also... grumpy. Very grumpy. Unless if you are a fuzzball of a cat or a kid who's looking to be a beyblader.

And then you have this guy (http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpycr3nypV1qbe5du.gif) named Max Mizuhara who has both American and Japanese heritage in him. He loves to put mayo on his noodles for some reason. :|a His holy beast is Genbu, a water turtle.

Finally, for our beybladers, there is the resident pretty boy named Rei Kon (http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpw66sX1KU1qkoglso1_500.gif). His holy beast is Byakko, a lightning tiger! Annnd he comes from China and is a ninja or something cool like that.

Through the power of , their world was saved thanks to ~~the Powerpuff Girls~~ Takao saying that he wanted to help Brooklyn and there were some pretty amazing people (sans Volkov/Boris and some other dudes) (http://cybertigeranime.com/bbspirit/index3.php?bbcharacters) that wanted to help him out. You know, Defeat Means Friendship and all.

Your emotions help make your holy beast stronger! The more you feed into it, the more powerful it becomes! And beyblades are customizable to hell, too.

And there's plenty of Large Ham moments. Come on, it's a shonen series. What else would you expect from it?

There's also some (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOAn-CeGoRE) kickass (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd9-IjQpE-4&feature=related) dub (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23EtnSsUm6I&feature=related) tracks (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7muzlOrbDu8&feature=related). This doesn't mean that the original music pales in comparison, though! There is Go Ahead (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnXcHvZGyGs), Kaze no Fuku Basho (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quYEnDFnWpE), Sign of Wish (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oK1kFB1aJg&feature=related), Victoria (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QcnJ9jMduI) and more here (http://www.youtube.com/user/windpower#p/u)!

Pretty much, it's an amazing series. ♥ You can watch it right here (http://www.veoh.com/watch/v604470bwZpP2yF?h1=Beyblade+Episode+1+-+The+Blade+Raider)!

Anything else?: Let it Rip!!

Watch, this comment is gonna be edited over 9,000 times.

Edited 2011-08-20 04:46 (UTC)

If that's the case, then it sounds like you definitely should get a lot of the credit, for playing him with depth and also for selling it so well I assumed he would have that depth in canon. :3

Thanks. <3 That warms the very cockles of my heart to hear. :D

~~AKA GG fills out one post for 75% of her characters!~~

Character: Chris Redfield
Canon: Resident Evil

Interesting things about the character:
- He is six years older than his sister Claire. The Redfields' parents were confirmed to have been killed in a car accident. Chris at least partially raised her.
- A former Air Force pilot, Chris was kicked out for reasons never really explained. Everybody's got their own theories, though mine involves his apparent inability to respect authority when it clashes with his Boy Scout Superman Hero Guy outlook on life.
- He has also been a police officer and a special operative for at least two different agencies. Every group he works for seems to get brutally murdered by zombies and shit.
- He spent a few months as a drifter and probably grew a really sweet beard.
- The original male protagonist of the RE series, he's also the star of Resident Evils Code Veronica and 5.
- Chris' best friend is his original partner, Jill Valentine. He has a tendency to be partnered up with improbably young, attractive women, including B.S.A.A. West Africa Agent Sheva Alomar, and in the upcoming Revelations, some chick named Jessica who wears a dumb hat and seems to be a whiny bitch.
- He is an expert at pretty much every modern type of firearm. Chris was the top marksman in S.T.A.R.S. and won a trophy to attest as much, stealing the title from his close friend Forrest Speyer. (Forrest was later eaten by zombie crows.)
- Visiting his junk-covered desk in RE2 and 3 provides evidence that he did very little real, actual work during his stint as a police officer.
- I'm really not kidding about the boulder thing. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xuXkVzBdJQ)

Character: Luis Sera
Canon: Biohazard

Interesting things about the character:
- His only appearance is in Resident Evil 4, where he actually has about seven collective minutes of screentime before he dies horribly. You spend the rest of the game reading his nerdy science memos.
- Luis claims to be a former police officer when you meet him, and his skill at marksmanship seems to back this up-- he is absolutely full of shit, though.
- He uses a sweet Red9 pistol, which IS the best freakin' handgun in the game.
- He willingly worked for Los Illuminados, a religious cult/terrorist organization bent on taking over the world with a creepy parasite calls Las Plagas. How much he knew about their goings-on is left ambiguous, but Luis blames himself completely for his actions and has a MAJOR guilt complex about it. He was also accidentally in league with Wesker, though he was only trying to save his own ass at the time.
- Most of his in-game research involves parasitic creatures that control their hosts, and Ada refers to him as a "brilliant scientist." So yeah. He's pretty good.
- His inventions include an anti-Plaga medication and a laser that can destroy maturing Plagas from inside the body without killing the host. Said laser was somehow weaponized, which was probably also Luis' doing.
- He also claims to be a ladies' man, but seeing as he strikes out horribly with both Ashley and Ada, this claim is very skeptical.
- When you first meet him in the game, he's bound and gagged in a locked wardrobe in an abandoned house after being on the run from the cult for several days. That's why his hair looks so greasy.
- This is why he's afraid of tentacles. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ58KB9kPRM)

Character: Steve Burnside
Canon: Silent Hill (just kidding, it's Resident Evil)

Interesting things about the character:
- Steve only appears in one game, Resident Evil: Code Veronica. His current icons are from the graphical overhaul recap of the game in Darkside Chronicles.
- Steve is actually one of the most widely-hated characters in the fandom due to his angsty personality, his bratty behavior and the fact that his original voice actor might be the worst voice actor in a series rife with bad voice acting. On the flip side, though, he has a lot of frothing teenage fangirls. His Darkside incarnation had a much better VA, luckily.
- So why is Steve so goddamn moody? Steve's father was an Umbrella scientist who tried to make quick cash by selling company data on the black market. In retaliation, Umbrella stormed the family's house, shot Steve's mother to death and arrested 17-year-old Steve and his father to ship them off to their private offshore gulag, Rockfort Island. There, after months of subhuman treatment in what amounts to a concentration camp, they're slated to be tortured to death and/or used in horrific viral experiments.

Umbrella Human Resources takes employee loyalty very, very seriously.
- Steve and Claire were the only prisoners to survive Wesker's bombing of Rockfort Island and the subsequent T-virus outbreak. Steve's father turned into a zombie and Steve was forced to kill him.
- Somehow, in a bizarre plot twist that's left completely unexplained, Steve proves to be capable of flying a cargo plane all by himself.
- At 17, he's the youngest playable RE character capable of defending themselves. (Sherry is the real youngest, but she's defenseless.)
- Steve died at Umbrella's Antarctic base after he and Claire were captured by lunatic psychobitch Alexia Ashford. She injected him with her custom virus, T-Veronica, which then went haywire, mutating Steve into a Tyrant. He managed to regain control over himself, but the strain on his body (and being impaled through the stomach) killed him.
- Wesker stole Steve's body to use as his personal source of T-Veronica, which pops up four years later in South America.
- In Darkside Chronicles, Steve has an amusing tendency to break the fourth wall, probably because he's doomed to die anyway, so he can get away with it.
- Steve is apparently an ass man.

Interesting things about the canon/fandom: CAPSLOCK EDITION
(ahem)
- SURVIVAL HORROR BITCHES! THIS GAME IS THE GRANDDADDY OF THEM ALL! ZOMBIES! MONSTERS! SCARY MUTANT THINGS THAT POP OUT AT YOU! SHOOT 'EM IN THE FACE! SHIT, SON, YOU'RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER GUN!
- THERE'S LIKE SEVEN GAMES ALREADY AND A BUNCH OF SPINOFFS (some of which kind of suck) BUT THEY'RE ON ALL KINDS OF PLATFORMS! PLAY THAT SHIT!
- HOT CHICKS! YEAH, THAT'S EVERY VIDEO GAME BUT HEY LADIES AND GAY MEN! LOOK AT THESE SEXY BASTARDS! THEY'RE YOUR PLAYABLE CHARACTERS! GET A LOAD OF THAT BEEFCAKE! THOSE HUNKS OF MANLY ARE GODDAMN BADASSES! I COULD STARE AT THE BACK OF THEM FOR A FEW HOURS WHILE I BLOW SHIT UP, HOW ABOUT YOU?
- THIS STORYLINE IS COMPLETELY RIDICULOUS! IT DOUBLES AS A COMEDY! HOW CAN YOU BE TOO SCARED TO PLAY WHEN YOU'RE LAUGHING YOUR ASS OFF!

Anything else?:
If you play it, you'll finally get this classic video.

... brother?

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?:

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)

And for the love of all that is holy NEVER READ "CUPCAKES."

Hand of a cow, what did I just watch? I like the battle music. :)

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.

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)

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

Spoilers but: the trailers for S5, Christmas Special, S6 and S6b.

Series 5 trailer (Eleven's first run)
Series 5 trailer

A Christmas Carol
Eleven's first Christmas special trailer

Series 6 trailer
Eleven gets a cowboy hat briefly

Series 6b trailer (this series was cut in half, hence: 6b)
Eleven gets his top hat back. Also the Ponds get a motorcycle

Fan trailer for Series 1-5 of New Doctor Who
spoilers for 1-5

Fan Trailer with clips from Old and New Who
Seems like mostly Old to New

Edited 2011-08-20 11:04 (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.

Oh my god at the GIF. Is that from the movie?

And Billy's taste in burgers sounds kind of awesome, you know.

Wow, I had no idea the setting of the world was like that. Especially the zombie meat Earth thing. So who made him if he's artificially created?

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)

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?:

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CANON INFORMATION NIGHT!

Re: Only doing Eleven's run things!

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Re: this got so long I am so sorry also Portal 2 spoilers in the links

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Beyblade

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RESIDENT GODDAMN EVIL

RESIDENT GODDAMN EVIL PART TWO

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DOCTOR WHO (Jamie version)

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Re: PONIES PONIES PONIES PONIES

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Re: DOCTOR WHO (Jamie version)

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Forgot to add - trailer links

Stargate and Stargate SG-1

Video clips:

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Re: MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS

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Teen Titans(cartoon)/Teen Titans Go