It's just my personal feeling that the ones who write based on the comics tend to write characters more in character, because they've been immersed in the comics for a much longer time.

You're valuing comics canon in a way that I do not. I'm separating them. To me, if you're writing movieverse you're not beholden to anything other than the movie, in the end.

You're valuing comics canon in a way that I do not. I'm separating them.

I am, I am. I think because that many of the comic-based stories I've run across looking for Steve/Tony fics have just been very well-written and compelling, so I want more people to write stories that include the comics.

I think it's fine to separate media. It's like with the Trekverse. You have each different series, you have movies, you have book tie-ins, you have the animated series, you have reboot.

Ditto with Buffy. Movie, tv show, comics, tie-in novels, almost animated show.

Even when the creator claims that only this or only that is considered canon, the viewers/consumers will decide for themselves if that is how they want to divide them all up.

It's like on tumblr, when someone posts about how a character does this, that or the other thing that we never see onscreen, onpage, etc. but everyone instantly proclaims "head canon!"

That's a lot of canon!

TL;DR.

I respect your canon.

I respect your canon.

There needs to be a picture of an antique cannon with this as the caption.

I think I actually prefer movies-only canon, though of course I've been reading the comics sources for decades. There's more wiggle room for the characters to explore without that weight of history behind them.

I think I actually prefer movies-only canon, though of course I've been reading the comics sources for decades. There's more wiggle room for the characters to explore without that weight of history behind them.

Very much this. Plus, movie-canon allows for Coulson and Darcy, both of whom I like very much, and there's a whole thought of how the movies need some sort of accessibility the comics are lacking, but Phil organically grew into his (Coulson lives!) in a way I hope will be allowed for Darcy, because that kind of balance would be awesome.

Gotta beg off on both your plusses, as those send me to the back button as soon as I see them. (Actually, the mere presence of Coulson among a fic's character tags is enough to tell me it's not going to be for me.)

Why does the presence of Coulson ruin a story? Isn't he integral to many movie adjacent stories, especially casefiles? Darcy less so, but if Fury is in it, i wouldn't be surprised to see Coulson. I might be more surprised not to.

Because I really dislike fix-it fic that undoes a fairly important death in the story. I suppose if the story is set before the events of The Avengers it could be fine, but I've never run across one of those, just Coulson-didn't-die-so-there! fic.

I'm not properly in the fandom, but I've certainly come across a few of those. Sure, there's no Cap, but Iron Man or Thor interacting with S.H.I.E.L.D., I've seen.

However, since I've seen a lot of sincere speculation that he's alive, I'm not mad about stories concurrent or set later with him in, and they don't feel like desperate fanon.

Hi all. So, I've mentioned my ongoing game, "Scavenger Hunt on Infinite Earths here before, but I also wanted to share a story that's sort of emerging from it. Inadvertent fic, if you will. It's not terribly deep, but there are a few characters you're probably familiar with ...

"Mystery in Time!": Part One, Part Two, Part Three ...

More to come.