>>103915099This argument isn’t very good, but it’s the best so far in the thread. To a degree, continuity matters as far as other writers recognize it. To a degree. It’s certainly a better argument than “I don’t like it, therefore it’s not canon.” Or “I don’t think Harley would act like that -even though it’s right there on the page, it doesn’t fit my preconceived idea of her character, therefore it’s non canon.”
However. In the long careers of, say, Spider-man or Superman I’m sure there have been a few issues where they fought some random villian who was invented for that issue and who was never seen or mentioned again. That shit happens all the time. If some random villian that showed up in one issue never gets mentions again, -that doesn’t mean it’s non-canon. That just means that the event that very well may have happened in the heroes life, just wasn’t important enough to get mentioned again. But it very well probably still happened -unless retconned otherwise.
Also, your idea of popular consensus with how people view the character falls apart with Poison Ivy. The current canon -according to King’s book is that Ivy has never killed ANYONE. It’s retarded, but that’s the current canon. It doesn’t fit how anyone -other writers or audience alike view Ivy’s character, but that is what is canon for now.
