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[character]'s sworn (elder) sister had mind control powers and manipulated [character] to do her bidding. [character]'s sworn (younger) sister who shares several shippy moments with [character] has a similar skillset, so she must be mind controlling [character] into loving her too!

this was invented out of whole cloth by an adaptation's writer who under-researched the source material and had [character]'s close friend be the mouthpiece for the writer's headcanon. fans whose introduction to the series was that adaptation promptly jumped on to the "[character]'s sworn sisters have sinister mind control powers" bandwagon despite... this contradicting every depiction of the sisters' skillsets in previous/other ongoing material, as well as the close friend being a friend to the sisters in that material.

recent instalments shot that adaptation writer's headcanon down furiously, and also had that close friend being supportive of [character]'s little sister as if to distance themselves from the writer's portrayal of the friend as much as possible.

does it really count as a "headcanon" when it was used by someone writing official canon? i think that's just called "canon," anon.

—granted, it's "canon" in the way long-running comic superheroes have canon, where different writers are liable to contradict each other's interpretations, so it's not like i'm gonna try to tell you that you have to honor a now-retconned bit of canon which you also hate.

it's just, you know.
it's still not a "headcanon." (also, you might as well just name the series at this point? it's not like you need to protect the identity of a fictional work??)

speaking of comic superheroes, if some adaptation decided to, say, make wolverine a clean-shaven, tall and dashing pretty boy with a girly voice, would you still consider that "canon" or write it off as the adaptation's creator's weirdness?

it's not headcanon if it's in official, published material, anon. that's the point anon's making.

"headcanon" isn't a measure of subjective quality, it's a matter of what the person digesting the fiction determines about the story that the story might leave out.

the value/canonicity of officially published material can vary though. see: those novelizations of movies that add or change bits which weren't part of the script, or manga anthologies drawn by fanartists and printed by the same publishers who release official print works. or even the 50 billionty filler anime episodes for adaptations of shounen-genre manga that often don't have much of any input from the original creator and might be disproved by the source material.

Okay, but that still doesn't make it headcanon. Headcanon is made by fans, not the creators of the media itself.

The word you're looking for is non-canon.

He's already typically taller and handsomer than he used to be because of jackman's casting. Movie synergy yo.

given artists rarely draw Wolverine as short as he's supposed to be pre-Jackman, though he definitely got cleaned up post-movies.

—granted, it's "canon" in the way long-running comic superheroes have canon, where different writers are liable to contradict each other's interpretations, so it's not like i'm gonna try to tell you that you have to honor a now-retconned bit of canon which you also hate.

you know i could have sworn i explicitly covered that question.

but since i guess it wasn't obvious:
it is "a" canon. not the whole of the canon or the dominant/mainstream part of the canon. it might get retconned, or it might just exist as a random outlier that any reasonable mod would let you… wait for it… headcanon out of the picture/otherwise treat as non-canon. depending on the context it might even qualify as functionally a different universe—e.g. MCU.
nevertheless, it is still a version of canon in its own right.

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