Is Angry Birds 2 Canon To The Classic Timeline
So there is a specific detail in Angry Birds 2 that throws people off. This small detail is something I am going to argue could be reason to not place Angry Birds 2 in the Classic Timeline, but a separate timeline.
So as established in a previous post, in the classic timeline the King Pig royal line is huge due to the family having eaten eggs in the past.
With King Smooth Cheeks as established on page 13 of The World Of Angry Birds Official Guide, it the only King Pig to have never eaten an egg before.
"The present king, Smooth Cheeks, has never, ever eaten any eggs. He inherited the Piggy throne from his father, King Mudbeard."..............
King Mudbeard is implied to have been a competent King Pig, and likely was able to eat some eggs given the details we get from page 105.
"Things were better in the good old days. Mudbeard was a real king, not like our current slobbering lord and master."..........
One final thing to bring up is in Angry Birds Classic, in the special prequel episode titled Bird Island that was added to promote the movie, in which King Mudbeard actually shows up in it.
In episode he is depicted as being around the same size as his son, which makes sense given everything we've previously established.
So with all that being said, on the main detail.
In Angry Birds 2 Mudbeard aka Leonard is much much much smaller than his own son, and his depiction in the Angry Birds Classic.
He is only a bit bigger that Red, and is around the size of Bomb in Angry Birds 2.
Because of this I would like to argue Angry Birds 2 is not canon to the Classic Timeline but instead the Reloaded Timeline. This is because in Angry Birds Reloaded Leonard is depicted as being around the same size as his Angry Birds 2 depiction.
Now a detail about Angry Birds Reloaded is it combines Angry Birds Classic, Angry Birds Space, and the Angry Birds movies all into one timeline. With Mudbeard being the one behind Poached Eggs and Angry Birds Space, instead of Smooth Cheeks.
By extension Leonard is never successful in eating any eggs himself. So if the size lore detail is true in this timeline, then it makes sense for Leonard to not be huge. As there is no history of King Pigs growing in size from eating Eggs, and he would have only recently found the eggs.
And if the lore is not true, then Leonard can just simply be small and Smooth Cheeks simply be huge.
Also, Angry Birds 2 taking place after Angry Birds Reloaded would create some explanation on why Leonard is working with the Birds.
This because in Reloaded, Leonard while antagonistic and does try to steal the eggs multiple time can and does get along with the flock.
Thus making him more likely to work with them, say if he was overthrown by his own son.
Or heck maybe overthrown by a Smooth Cheeks who isn't even his relative.
It's also not like there Angry Birds 2 has to be a can sequel as the game title names don't reflect their game order. As in Angry Birds Seasons would be the actual sequel to Angry Birds Classic.
Meanwhile Angry Birds Space is considered a seperate timeline from the Classic Timeline.
So yeah, that's my reasoning on why I think Angry Birds 2 should be considered part of the Reloaded Timeline as opposed to the Classic Timeline.
Written by Eris the Lorekeeper