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For a series, game franchise or transmedia project, which relations between installments do the sources define (expansion, modification, transposition; snowball vs planned franchise), and what consistency checks follow?

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Ryan's Possible Worlds entry defines transfictionality (migration of characters, plots or settings between texts) and uses counterpart relations and Doležel's three operations (expansion, modification/displacement, transposition) to describe it. Her 'Narration in Various Media' entry distinguishes transmedial 'snowball' growth around a central text from franchises planned across media from the start, and lists four open questions: autonomy of components, same global world vs incompatible worlds, what signals sameness of storyworld, and what stories invite transmedial growth. Toolan's 'Coherence' adds that a name does not guarantee co-reference and that characters should stay self-consistent within narrated limits. A cross-installment canon ledger is a synthesis built on these; no source tests one.

Ryan's Possible Worlds entry defines transfictionality (migration of characters, plots or settings between texts) and uses counterpart relations and Doležel's three operations (expansion, modification/displacement, transposition) to describe it. Her 'Narration in Various Media' entry distinguishes transmedial 'snowball' growth around a central text from franchises planned across media from the start, and lists four open questions: autonomy of components, same global world vs incompatible worlds, what signals sameness of storyworld, and what stories invite transmedial growth. Toolan's 'Coherence' adds that a name does not guarantee co-reference and that characters should stay self-consistent within narrated limits. A cross-installment canon ledger is a synthesis built on these; no source tests one. Curator qualifications: Excerpted evidence located (one unexcerpted row); relations between installments (series/franchise/transmedia). Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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  • [sourced_fact] Ryan's Possible Worlds entry defines transfictionality (migration of characters, plots or settings between texts) and uses counterpart relations and Doležel's three operations (expansion, modification/displacement, transposition) to describe it. Her 'Narration in Various Media' entry distinguishes transmedial 'snowball' growth around a central text from franchises planned across media from the start, and lists four open questions: autonomy of components, same global world vs incompatible worlds, what signals sameness of storyworld, and what stories invite transmedial growth. Toolan's 'Coherence' adds that a name does not guarantee co-reference and that characters should stay self-consistent within narrated limits. A cross-installment canon ledger is a synthesis built on these; no source tests one. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts source

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