Comments on: Blowing Holes in Ships: The Many Kinds of Canon

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:00:41 +0000

I like french silk pie, pumpkin pie, pecan pie…any kind of pie really. This directly feeds into the discussion, which is great- the whole tie-in comics part of the canon thing, not the pie.

By: Jo

Jo — Sat, 13 Sep 2014 03:53:38 +0000

Phil’s comment to Pepper happens *after* he uses the acronym in conversation with Fury (in the tie-in comic), who has apparently never heard it before but gives it his seal of approval. Before that, it’s implied that the name SHIELD was only used casually among agents, never officially. So, in terms of canonical timeline, the name Strategic Homeland etc. doesn’t officially get shortened to SHIELD until about 3/4 through the events of IM1, which coincides with the IM2 tie-in. If the name SHIELD was in strictly casual use prior to 2010 (roughly the date of IM1, based on the official MCU timeline), it’s doubtful that nickname would have existed in 1946(?), before the organization was even founded, which makes its use in the Agent Carter one-shot nonsensical and inconsistent with existing canon.

…I’m gonna go back to writing my fan fiction now.

By: Beth

Beth — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 21:23:24 +0000

Your pie tag at the end gets you a +1 Adam.

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 21:14:53 +0000

I hate to contradict anything here, because it was a fun read, but Coulson does tell Pepper to call the organization SHIELD in the first Iron Man. It’s at the very end before Tony’s press conference. Which really doesn’t matter, since these were just examples used to talk about canon, and not the MCU itself. I like pie.