Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-24744701-20160311092230/@comment-13895380-20160313165419

Guys, suspecting that a character may become nerfed because he is now a hero in a show that is known for nerfing heroes until the finale, and whose writer openly says that's how he writes his stories...that is not fanfiction. He's not making up his own canon about the show   (head-canon)  by saying this. Whether this actually happens, we'll find out in season 6 and make up our conclusions from there.

Canon matters when speculating, but only if it's reasonable. There are other factors as to why things happen, especially when it can't be logically explained by canon. A lot of the times, it can be a matter of budget, lack of time, the writer's style of story-telling, etc. All of these should be considered if canon just doesn't seem to explain it thoroughly or without speculators having to create fan-fiction using canon. Fan-fiction using canon is still fan-fiction.