However, other stories in the volume (such as " Singularity Ablyss", " Parts", " A Meeting of Minds", and " Redemption Center") fit nicely into their respective continuities and could certainly "count" as canon as much as anything else published in those continuities. For some of the stories, such as " Paddles", " Fire in the Dark", and " Lonesome Diesel", it is quite clear from their inconsistency with pre-existing continuities that they have to represent micro-continuities. The foreword by editor David Cian asserts his intent that these short stories should not "count" as future facts in their respective continuities and should be considered "what-if?" tales. The prose anthology book Transformers Legends is a somewhat complex case. The Transformers Trilogy was intended to be set in the Dreamwave Generation One continuity, but as Dreamwave was not really involved in their publication and Dreamwave's subsequent comics made no explicit reference to them, it is a matter of taste whether the trilogy is part of the Dreamwave-verse proper or is a micro-continuity offshoot thereof. The success of Dreamwave inspired a small, short-lived boom in Transformers prose fiction.
The Find Your Fate Junior books are, by their very nature, micro-continuities (or, if you want to be pedantic, they contain multiple "nano"-continuities within them), since the various outcomes frequently involve the deaths of major characters. The same applies to the occasional prose stories included with certain IDW issues or paperback collections, as they are firmly rooted in the 2005 IDW continuity, often providing additional backstory for the comic stories they're included with. However, the prose stories that were included in the Marvel UK annuals are a notable exception, as most of these are usually treated as part of UK continuity. Probably the most underdeveloped medium in Transformers fiction, prose stories are considered to be offshoots from their parent continuities (as is often the case with the expanded universes of even prolifically novelized franchises like Star Trek).
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Other examples of limited fictions include any comic mini-series that present a clearly unique and isolated continuity that has only been shown within the pages of that series and has not been revisited, such as the WWII-set Transformers/G.I. Some continuities may even appear in only a single isolated work, such as the Transformers Beast Wars: Transmetals video game.Īlthough usually small and insignificant in the wider scheme of things, such tales can contain interesting or unique takes on certain characters or situations-for example, providing actual stories in which Ultra Magnus and Galvatron spent a prolonged period as opposing leaders, a status quo hinted at by much of the lead-in and post-movie product advertising but which was ultimately never realized in the major fictions.
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