There's a contradiction though

Question on minis by IndeMaat on 2010-07-04 22:55:00 UTC Reply

In fandoms that have two canons there occasionally are characters that appear in one canon, but not in the other.

I'll work here with A-Team, because that's where I encountered the problem. In the movie there is a character named Charissa Sosa (wikipedia and Imdb seem to disagree on how many S's). She most definitely is not a character from the TV show.

Now, what to do when she some how shows up in TV verse based fic, and the author has misspells her name? Would that create a mini or an OC?

(I'm in favour of a movie-verse mini, but mainly because I haven't got one, and minis are instant Rule of funny).

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Hmm... by Sedri on 2010-07-05 01:06:00 UTC Reply

Personally, I try to consider as many 'verses as possible to be part of the same canon - that is, if it's canonical somewhere, to treat it as such everywhere where there isn't a contradiction. So I'd go with a normal mini.

There's a contradiction though by IndeMaat on 2010-07-05 07:21:00 UTC Reply

or at least, an impossibility. In the movie she had a position in the military that I doubt was available to women thirty years earlier. Fic implies she had the same position.

Ah. Didn't know that. by Sedri on 2010-07-06 00:45:00 UTC Reply

Hmrm. Not sure. I just don't know the fandom well enough - sorry.