Aliens vs Avengers

[Mr.Turok]

Spoiler

This kinds of implies that in the OG main Alien timeline that Engineer tech has the ability to jump from not only timelines, but universes as well.

Which also tickles the concept of The Predator's deleted endings of universe travelling a bit more into reality.

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[Oasis Nadrama]

There's twenty years of a universe of comics and books that omit Black Goo, Engineers, Super Predators, Ferals, Upgrades 

But they have praetorians and royal jelly.

And also the White Hybrids. Don't forget the White Hybrids. They are the worst thing to ever come out of the Extended Universe.

Does it really matter if it's official?

I like the idea of alternate Alien-Predator universe that can co-exist alongside with the cinematic entries.

It still surprises me how many franchises, to this day, have trouble with the idea of multiple, parallel canons. It works pretty well for Marvel and DC since decades.

[SM]

Because anything goes in Marvel and DC like time travel and other dimensions or universes. Ditto Star Trek.

We're decades in to Alien and those things haven't ever been established.

[RakaiThwei]

It still surprises me how many franchises, to this day, have trouble with the idea of multiple, parallel canons. It works pretty well for Marvel and DC since decades.

Don't forget Godzilla, Halloween and Robocop.

I think having multiple canons would be a good thing.

Great thing, really.

Because anything goes in Marvel and DC like time travel and other dimensions or universes. Ditto Star Trek.

We're decades in to Alien and those things haven't ever been established.

Except that now, Alien-Predator is now in the hands of Marvel and both are owned by the same parent company. So these crossovers aren't just your typical inter-company publication that can be handwaved as they're in-house now.

And the idea of an Alien-Predator multiverse doesn't really have to be explicitly stated or narratively shown. There's plenty of franchises that do this, the earlier ones I mentioned do that and they don't deal with dimension hopping or time travel.

Would it be bad if we wound up with multiple canons?

[Nightmare Asylum]

Alien has had multiple continuitues since 2012, when Prometheus released and was totally incompatible with AVP and AVPR.

[Slutty Badger]

Would it be bad if we wound up with multiple canons?

We already have. Alien, Predator, and AVP are all separate universes. Can't remember where I read it, but three versions of Aliens occur in all three timelines according to Andrew Gaska.

[SM]

Wut?

It still surprises me how many franchises, to this day, have trouble with the idea of multiple, parallel canons. It works pretty well for Marvel and DC since decades.

Don't forget Godzilla, Halloween and Robocop.

I think having multiple canons would be a good thing.

Great thing, really.

Because anything goes in Marvel and DC like time travel and other dimensions or universes. Ditto Star Trek.

We're decades in to Alien and those things haven't ever been established.

Except that now, Alien-Predator is now in the hands of Marvel and both are owned by the same parent company. So these crossovers aren't just your typical inter-company publication that can be handwaved as they're in-house now.

And the idea of an Alien-Predator multiverse doesn't really have to be explicitly stated or narratively shown. There's plenty of franchises that do this, the earlier ones I mentioned do that and they don't deal with dimension hopping or time travel.

Would it be bad if we wound up with multiple canons?

I was talking more in terms of the source material than the spin off material which has multiple canons anyway.

Or one canon and many apocrypha if you want to look at it that way. And since some of that apocrypha is cool, no it would not be bad.

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according to Andrew Gaska.

To be fair, some of us don't give a f**k what Gaska thinks.

[Nightmare Asylum]

It's so weird that (in my very limited second hand experience) this friggin crossover comic seems to be the most interesting thing Marvel has done with the license thus far.

[SM]

Utopia was cool, but as far as series go, it's easily the most interesting.

according to Andrew Gaska.

To be fair, some of us don't give a f**k what Gaska thinks.

Quite.

[Mr.Turok]

*raises hand*

I do, I like consistency.

Would it be bad if we wound up with multiple canons?

We already have. Alien, Predator, and AVP are all separate universes. Can't remember where I read it, but three versions of Aliens occur in all three timelines according to Andrew Gaska.

I would have to wonder what went different on the Predator version of the Aliens incident. I figured Fire and Stone/Life and Death was the AVP version of what went down on Hadley's Hope, so funny wondering on the Predator "only" side of things.

I just want them to plop down the Predator bible already.....

[BlueMarsalis79]

Alien has had multiple continuitues since 2012, when Prometheus released and was totally incompatible with AVP and AVPR.

I'm not sure I'd call that alternate continuities, just them being retconned. (In my perspective anyway, and in the near future Badlands might do the sane with The Predator imo)

With everything outside the films existing in a grey area between them being acknowledged or not on a case by case basis.

[426Buddy]

according to Andrew Gaska.

To be fair, some of us don't give a f**k what Gaska thinks.

according to Andrew Gaska.

To be fair, some of us don't give a f**k what Gaska thinks.

The more I hear about his ideas from Badger, the less I like him. Now I hear his name and my eyes automatically role.

[RakaiThwei]

The X-Men will appear in issue #3.

https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/comic/3372168/aliens-vs-avengers-3