Fiction vs Nonfiction
Fiction vs Nonfiction
[Cueball is talking to Ponytail and White Hat.] Cueball: Star Wars ? Ponytail: Fiction.
[Same setting.] Cueball: The Making of Star Wars ? White Hat: Nonfiction.
[Closeup of Cueball.] Cueball: Star Wars: The Adventures of Boba Fett ? Off-panel voice: Fiction.
[Closeup of Ponytail.] Cueball (off-panel): Star Wars: The Official Guide to Boba Fett's Armor and Weapons ? Ponytail: Nonfiction, technically.
[Cueball has lifted a hand palm up as he talks to Ponytail and White Hat.] Cueball: Boba Fett's Gadgets and How He Got Them ? Ponytail: ...Fiction? Ponytail: It depends.
[Cueball is talking to Ponytail and White Hat. Ponytail has turned towards White Hat and has taken a hand to her chin.] Cueball: Boba Fett: A Life , by historian Doris Kearns Goodwin? Ponytail: Hm. White Hat: Maybe we should just have a Boba Fett section.

Cueball is asking Ponytail and White Hat to classify different Star Wars books and movies as fiction or nonfiction.  (Perhaps he is working at a library or bookstore, or sorting a personal collection.) Star Wars as a whole is a multimedia franchise, which includes films, TV series, novels, etc, but often singularly refers to the original 1977 film later more lengthily titled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (or, given the fact that the rest of the titles are books, one of several novelizations based on the script). The classifications get more complicated to determine as the conversation progresses while revealing a quite specific obsession with the character of Boba Fett . The complexity may even end up converting lumpers into splitters , a philosophical distinction that another recent comic touched upon.
Nonfiction (also spelled non-fiction) is any document or media content that intends, in good faith, to present only truth and accuracy regarding information, events, or people. In contrast, fiction offers information, events, or characters expected to be partly or largely imaginary, or else leaves open if and how the work refers to reality.
In the end, White Hat suggests that, since Cueball has so many works featuring Boba Fett, it would be more useful to group them together in a new category rather than sorting them into the fiction and nonfiction sections.
[Cueball is talking to Ponytail and White Hat.] Cueball: Star Wars ? Ponytail: Fiction.
[Same setting.] Cueball: The Making of Star Wars ? White Hat: Nonfiction.
[Closeup of Cueball.] Cueball: Star Wars: The Adventures of Boba Fett ? Off-panel voice: Fiction.
[Closeup of Ponytail.] Cueball (off-panel): Star Wars: The Official Guide to Boba Fett's Armor and Weapons ? Ponytail: Nonfiction, technically.
[Cueball has lifted a hand palm up as he talks to Ponytail and White Hat.] Cueball: Boba Fett's Gadgets and How He Got Them ? Ponytail: ...Fiction? Ponytail: It depends.
[Cueball is talking to Ponytail and White Hat. Ponytail has turned towards White Hat and has taken a hand to her chin.] Cueball: Boba Fett: A Life , by historian Doris Kearns Goodwin? Ponytail: Hm. White Hat: Maybe we should just have a Boba Fett section.
