r/whowouldwin • u/Kotetsuya • Mar 21 '14
[Meta] What Universe, Character, Work of Fiction, Video Game, or Series would you like to know more about?
Hey everyone, in light of the "What is your area of Expertise in this sub?" thread, I spoke to /u/Roflmoo about setting up a thread where people can come and ask questions about topics they would like to know more about, and others can come and offer explainations, answers, etc in order to give anyone interested more information about that particular topic. He gave me the go-ahead, so here we are!
AS A WARNING:
This thread will likely be Cram-packed with spoilers of all kinds, so tread lightly!
As the title says, What topics are you not very familiar on but would like to gain some knowledge in? THERE ARE NO STUPID QUESTIONS HERE
This is a place where you can ask even the most basic questions. "What's Batman's deal? Just who is that Harry Potter guy? Does anyone have more information on Solumnbum from Eragon, he seems like a pretty cool (were)cat."
EDIT 1: I have to admit I was quite surprised at the turnout, but I am glad you all like the idea of a thread like this so much! Keep on Sharin' that knowledge. My hope is that we get some pretty cool battles after this that many people can participate in!
EDIT 2: Common Questions that have already been answered:
Wheel of Time series:
Starwars EU
Warhammer 40K
Anime in General
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann - LOTS O' LINKS!
Multi-explaination posts
Specific Characters:
Ike - From Fire Emblem/Super Smash Brothers Brawl.
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u/roninjedi Mar 21 '14
That should be easy to do since the Star Wars univers has a long but stable timeline with each book, comic, game, or show fitting somewhere in it. With most of the books or comics you dont need an indepth knowledge to get into them (unless you were to like pick up book three in a trilogy, i have done this before) but if you have then you will notice call backs to other things that happened in the EU. If you want to get into the EU everyone will agree that post OT you should start with the thrawn triliogy because even though it dosent' take place right after endor (the book truce at bakkura takes place one day after endor) it was the first set of books that really set up the expaded universe.
As for the Clone wars there is the comic book series called "Republic" which takes place during it, and some stand alone books that take place in this period. There is a series based on the clone wars TV show but its aimed more at a younger audience while the novels and comics are aimed at teens and adults.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_books
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_comics
these should help you can see the total list of comics and books and see what time period they take place in