Definder - what does the word mean?

What is fanon?

A great psychiatrist of the post WW2 era. Frantz Fanon was perhaps the most influential decolonialist philosopher of the 20th century. A highly trained psychiatrist, Fanon was also a revolutionary soldier fighting the Nazis in WW2. He doubled his efforts towards the Algerian revolutionaries fighting French barbarity in the post war period.

Fanon however will always be best known for his papers on existential deconstructionism, essentialized notions of racism and his perspectives of a black man in the west.

Frantz Fanon was a renowned philosopher, soldier and revolutionary. Despite dying at the tender age of 36, Fanon has left enough decolonialist articles to last a critically thinking student a lifetime to ponder.

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Fanon - what is it?

When people get really emotionally intense about something when in reality there's nothing interesting happening.
When people have read so much fanfiction that they begin applying all these intense emotions from the fictional universe to things that are happening in real life, which in reality are probably just really boring and uneventful.

Person 1: "Why does she always make weird and random Doctor Who references?"

Person 2: "It's called Fanon Goggles."

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What does "fanon" mean?

Something that the fans of a Fandom came up with that isn't Canon to the actual story or character. Not to be confused with Headcannon, which is a personal fanon that is usually only used by you or a small group.

"The fanon character is completely different from the Canon character!"

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Fanon - what does it mean?

A term for something that includes a character from a game or show that has a similar definition to canonically, but is twisted by the fandom of said game or show

Ex. The character of this game is fanonically able to do RANDOM THING SAID BY FANDOM

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Fanon - meaning

Something fan-made for a fandom.

Blue Army is fanon of Eddsworld.

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Fanon - definition

Fanon is canon for your Fanon Self.
Includes Headcanons and au
Can be based on a canon idea, but would never happen or not yet canon

My Fanon idea is..

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Fanon - slang

Fanon is something so widely believed in the fandom that it is considered cannon even though not actually stated in the original storyline

Tratie is so fanon.

Not as much as Thaluke.

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Fanon

often connect to fan fiction; ideas or events that are accepted by most fans, but were not actually in the original story/book/show etc.

In Death Note fanfics, Matt and Mello are often a fanon pairing.

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Fanon

a term used in fanfiction to describe commonly accepted ideas among authors even if they are not actually expressed in the canon work.

In Harry Potter, SiriusxLupin is virtually fanon.

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Fanon

The canon of fandom.

Fanon is the collection concepts and ideas that are normally used in most fan fiction, but don't really existence in the real story's canon.

If a concept was used in the canon, it is only mention once in the entire series and is never mentioned again. Fan fiction writers will most likely instigate these concepts in their fics.

Some people think that fanon is phoney and stupid, but most fanon concepts are actually pretty good.

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