yeah, etch has a point as well. it's also worth splitting canon discussions into two parts - one is the literal corpus of what counts, your paratexts and intertexts, and the other is the directly spoken about "canon" which acts more like a multiverse and time travel than any management of text sources.

it's like how goku never actually gets stronger, because goku is drawings. we just say he gets stronger so he can earn the win.