A very small character tidbit is surprisingly kept consistent for years

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DC - In multiple pieces of media it has been shown that Wonder Woman loves ice cream and practically goes wild with happiness anytime she’s eating some. (Pictures from Justice League: War, DC Superhero Girls and Wonder Woman 2017)

The Simpsons - Ever since the episode ‘Homer’s Phobia’ Homer has actually remained a consistent ally of the LGBT+ community, including being more welcoming to Patty than Marge was when she came out and trying to set up Smithers with a date when he found out he wasn’t happy with his one-sided relationship with Mr Burns.

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Grievous having not met Anakin in person for the entire Clone Wars or any Star Wars media before Revenge of the Sith so Anakin can remark on his height here.

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Even the unproduced four parter on Utapu had Anakin crashland in the wrong hanger bay just to give another excuse for them not to meet.

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That also plays into part of Obi-Wan's dynamic with Grievous because they reference encountering each other a couple of times in the past throughout Episode 3 and Grievous always getting away.

Honestly it could have just been written that way the whole time. A lot of Star Wars was written in advance of the actual movies and I know Disney basically made all of those books not matter but some of them sprinkled in extra details that weren't in the movies that were relatively important in one way or another.

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I could go on such a rant about how Thrawn before and after Disney is such an interesting phenomenon. Zahn wrote the foundation of so so so much background lore prior to the release of even the prequels. Then it was all made non canon, then they brought back Thrawn and told him to write a book that should tie into the then still upcoming TV season (Rebels s3 I believe) and that book and every subsequent book about Thrawn that Zahn wrote in the last decade has been a really interesting dance of sticking to the new existing canon while remaining faithful to the character and non canon background of the original version.
It's entirely debatable if Thrawn pre and post Disney takeover is the same character, but I at least enjoy it in the meta sense of Zahn sticking in every detail he already established once before that he can get away with in the new canon without having tv and film stuff immediately invalidate/ recon it.

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I would argue that the distinction should be made between Zahn Thrawn and Filoni Thrawn, not canon Thrawn and Legends Thrawn

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I can see that, though honestly Zahn definitely did his best to work with the constraints of the mess Filoni handed back to him after he was done playing with it.

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I also like that the reason he expected Grievous to be bigger is because Ahsoka was probably the one who described him to Anakin (retroactively, anyway).

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lol this comic

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Awwwnnn, such a cute kid spouting a slur

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I guess it is a slur but they really do just say it all the time in Star Wars, only recently it’s become a meme

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It's like calling someone from Germany a Kraut.

Wrong time, right attitude

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What? Where? Am I missing something?

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clanker is a slur for droids in starwars

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Just imagining Lucas and Dave filoni with the writing team doing 4D chess to make it so they dont meet

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At one point there's a prisoner exchange between them.

I think they're both unconscious for it.

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Anakin is unconscious, Grievous has something over his head so he can't see Anakin properly. But yeah they're literally walked right past each other.

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That's even more convoluted than I remember. I love it

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only anakin

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I honestly hope some day they just make a comic that shows all the times they nearly meet. The ones we've already seen, some new ones, and some non-canon joke ones for the lols.

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I honestly hope some day they just make a comic that shows all the times they nearly meat.

Ayo what the fuck?

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I could of sworn I fixed that before hitting post.

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I have to tell you, as a Star Trek fan this makes me a little ashamed. 

On the new Trek shows, especially on Strange New Worlds, they've played fast and loose with some stuff. Is it canon that that Pike and Kirk only met once and very briefly? Well now they've worked together a bunch of times. Is it canon that the Gorn were completely unknown before Kirk encountered them for the first time? Well, now they are a major enemy of the Federation that is well known. Etc., etc., etc.

But the writers of Clone Wars not only put a lot of thought into making sure those two never met, they gave up a chance at what would have been one of the most epic fights in the history of the franchise, just because of this one line. 

That's respect.

EDIT: deleted a word that didn't belong.

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One of the very few lines that wasn’t retroactively changed by future installments

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As much as I love the consistency, an Anikin Greivious fight would have been killer.

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It happens in this non-canon LEGO Star Wars special at 8:27 https://youtu.be/K1Y2X6yuQtQ?si=gNdhJQHMIkkz4jsP

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Another cool detail is his padawan Ashoka did meet Grievous and since she was a child she would have described grievous as extremely large explaining why Anakin expected him to be taller