Subject: My understanding
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Posted on: 2012-05-06 22:34:00 UTC
Comic book universes are all vast and complex and interconnected in even more complex ways. There are discreet Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, and Thor universes, and then there's the Avengers universe, which gets to pick and choose the elements from the other four that all fit together and leave out anything that doesn't work. So, what's a canon break in Avengers isn't necessarily a canon break in the Iron Man universe, and vice versa.
Where PPCing is concerned, the question is, what continuum does the fic say it's set in? If the fic says it's an Avengers fic, then you PPC based on Avengers canon, which includes elements of all four of the component 'verses plus some of its own, but you can't charge for anything that doesn't actually appear in Avengers-verse. Similarly, if it says it's an Iron Man fic, then you can't charge for violations based on the Hulkverse or the Thorverse or anything not particular to the discreet Iron Man canon. (You can charge for pulling in elements from other canons that don't belong there, though.) Unless it's an Iron Man and Hulk crossover, but that's something else again. Also, if it's a movieverse fic, you don't get to charge for stuff that only shows up in the comics, and vice versa.
As far as these films are concerned, though, they are pretty explicitly set up as a series—they all take place in the Avengers universe.
~Neshomeh