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* ''[[Journey Through the Multiverse (Roleplay)|Journey Through the Multiverse]]'' takes the multiverse-hopping premise from [[Kamen Rider Decade]] and [[Kingdom Hearts]] and plays it with a huge multiversal war for power, with multiple factions taking part in the war.
* ''[[Journey Through the Multiverse (Roleplay)|Journey Through the Multiverse]]'' takes the multiverse-hopping premise from [[Kamen Rider Decade]] and [[Kingdom Hearts]] and plays it with a huge multiversal war for power, with multiple factions taking part in the war.
* ''[http://aykfrpg.forumotion.net/forum.htm The Adventure You'd Kill For]'' was a roleplaying forum thread game, in which fictional murderers (and a handful of legitimate soldiers) are imprisoned together by supernatural jailers and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeqLGbjSpXA forced to work together in order to escape.] Characters included [[The Sandman|the Corinthian]], [[Heroes (TV series)|Sylar]], [[Metal Gear|the Fear, Naked Snake / Big Boss]], [[Assassin's Creed|Altair]], and [[Kill Bill|Beatrix Kiddo / The Bride]]. [[Order of the Stick|Belkar Bitterleaf]], [[Sin City|Dwight McCarthy]], [[Johnny the Homicidal Maniac|Johnny C.]], [[Batman|the Joker]], [[Nightmare On Elm Street|Freddy Krueger]], [[Sweeney Todd]], [[Lord of the Rings|Saruman the White]], [[Silence of the Lambs|Hannibal Lecter]], [[Harry Potter|Bellatrix Lestrange]], [[The Witcher|Geralt of Rivia]], [[The Texas Chainsaw Massacre|Leatherface]], and many more. However a lapse in activity for several years led to it becoming an Orphaned Series.
* ''[http://aykfrpg.forumotion.net/forum.htm The Adventure You'd Kill For]'' was a roleplaying forum thread game, in which fictional murderers (and a handful of legitimate soldiers) are imprisoned together by supernatural jailers and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeqLGbjSpXA forced to work together in order to escape.] Characters included [[The Sandman|the Corinthian]], [[Heroes (TV series)|Sylar]], [[Metal Gear|the Fear, Naked Snake / Big Boss]], [[Assassin's Creed|Altair]], and [[Kill Bill|Beatrix Kiddo / The Bride]]. [[Order of the Stick|Belkar Bitterleaf]], [[Sin City|Dwight McCarthy]], [[Johnny the Homicidal Maniac|Johnny C.]], [[Batman|the Joker]], [[Nightmare On Elm Street|Freddy Krueger]], [[Sweeney Todd]], [[Lord of the Rings|Saruman the White]], [[Silence of the Lambs|Hannibal Lecter]], [[Harry Potter|Bellatrix Lestrange]], [[The Witcher|Geralt of Rivia]], [[The Texas Chainsaw Massacre|Leatherface]], and many more. However a lapse in activity for several years led to it becoming an Orphaned Series.
* ''[http://murpg.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=ageofheroes Age of Heroes]{{Dead link}}'' is a roleplaying campaign which starts with Marvel and DC which then crams in anything that can be fit in. ''Castlevania, Soul Calibur, Yu Yu Hakusho'', and more. Now it might seem that such a campaign would collapse under its own weight, but it seems to be doing quite well.
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20210905055357/https://murpg.proboards.com/ Age of Heroes]{{Dead link}}'' is a roleplaying campaign which starts with Marvel and DC which then crams in anything that can be fit in. ''Castlevania, Soul Calibur, Yu Yu Hakusho'', and more. Now it might seem that such a campaign would collapse under its own weight, but it seems to be doing quite well.
* ''[[AGENCY]]'' by [http://jediannsolo.deviantart.com/ JediAnnSolo] is an adventure comic staring [[Shadow the Hedgehog]], [[SpongeBob SquarePants|Sandy Cheeks]], characters from [[Animal Crossing]], [[Arthur|DW Read]], [[Star Fox (series)|Fox, Krystal, and Marcus McCloud]], [[Pokémon|Pikachu]], [[Parappa the Rapper]], and the [[Pink Panther]]. Fox, Marcus, and DW are kidnapped, causing Krystal and Mrs. Read have hired the Pink Panther (who is a [[Private Investigator]]) to find them. He has hired Sandy to help with field work, and Krystal has hired Shadow as her body guard.
* ''[[AGENCY]]'' by [http://jediannsolo.deviantart.com/ JediAnnSolo] is an adventure comic staring [[Shadow the Hedgehog]], [[SpongeBob SquarePants|Sandy Cheeks]], characters from [[Animal Crossing]], [[Arthur|DW Read]], [[Star Fox (series)|Fox, Krystal, and Marcus McCloud]], [[Pokémon|Pikachu]], [[Parappa the Rapper]], and the [[Pink Panther]]. Fox, Marcus, and DW are kidnapped, causing Krystal and Mrs. Read have hired the Pink Panther (who is a [[Private Investigator]]) to find them. He has hired Sandy to help with field work, and Krystal has hired Shadow as her body guard.
** The series has also spawned a series of ''[[Berserk Button|non-canon]]'' pictures featuring Shadow and Sandy as a couple. JediAnnSolo has [[Word of God|repeated said]] that she currently has no plans to [[She Is Not My Girlfriend|pair them up in the actual series]], but she has also said that they do make for a [[Belligerent Sexual Tension|dynamically interesting couple]].
** The series has also spawned a series of ''[[Berserk Button|non-canon]]'' pictures featuring Shadow and Sandy as a couple. JediAnnSolo has [[Word of God|repeated said]] that she currently has no plans to [[She Is Not My Girlfriend|pair them up in the actual series]], but she has also said that they do make for a [[Belligerent Sexual Tension|dynamically interesting couple]].
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* The ''[[Battle Fantasia Project]],'' where the nationally televised attempted suicide of a magical girl reveals the existence of magic to the world, and the existence of magical girls to each other. Includes ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', ''[[Lyrical Nanoha]]'' (post-''A's''), ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'', ''[[Kämpfer]]'', ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' ''all'' the ''[[Precure]]''s and others.
* The ''[[Battle Fantasia Project]],'' where the nationally televised attempted suicide of a magical girl reveals the existence of magic to the world, and the existence of magical girls to each other. Includes ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', ''[[Lyrical Nanoha]]'' (post-''A's''), ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'', ''[[Kämpfer]]'', ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' ''all'' the ''[[Precure]]''s and others.
* ''[[Both Syllables]]'' combines ''[[Invader Zim]]'', ''[[Lilo and Stitch (Disney film)|Lilo and Stitch]]'', and ''[[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command]]''.
* ''[[Both Syllables]]'' combines ''[[Invader Zim]]'', ''[[Lilo and Stitch (Disney film)|Lilo and Stitch]]'', and ''[[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command]]''.
* While ''[http://neoyi.deviantart.com/journal/12042628/ Chess Piece]'' is primarily a ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' based webcomic, it has enough characters from other Nicktoons intertwined in its story to constitute its own kind of Mega Crossover.
* While ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080430150501/http://neoyi.deviantart.com/journal/12042628/ Chess Piece]'' is primarily a ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' based webcomic, it has enough characters from other Nicktoons intertwined in its story to constitute its own kind of Mega Crossover.
* The massive ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3587925/1/Chicago_Convergence Chicago Convergence]'' includes characters from ''[[Myth Adventures|Another Fine Myth]]'', ''[[Bolo]]'', ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', ''[[Charmed]]'', ''[[Catch-22]]'', ''[[Dark Angel]]'', ''[[Diagnosis: Murder]]'', ''[[Doctor Who]]'', ''[[Due South]]'', ''[[Early Edition]]'', ''[[Forever Knight]]'', ''[[Friday the 13th: The Series]]'', ''[[Hammer's Slammers]]'', ''[[Highlander]]'', ''[[Indiana Jones]]'', ''[[Knight Rider]]'', ''[[Kung Fu The Legend Continues]]'', ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', ''[[Love and Curses]]'', ''[[MacGyver]]'', ''[[Martial Law]]'', ''[[Mechwarrior]]'', ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]'', ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]'', ''[[Nash Bridges]]'', ''[[Kolchak the Night Stalker]]'', ''[[Quantum Leap]]'', ''[[Quincy]]'', ''[[Relic Hunter]]'', ''[[Seven Days]]'', ''[[Sliders]]'', ''[[Space: Above and Beyond]]'', ''[[Special Unit 2]]'', ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'', ''[[Star Wars]]'', ''[[The Terminator]]'', ''[[The Black Company]]'', ''[[The Incredible Hulk]]'', ''[[The Pretender]]'', ''[[The Sentinel (TV series)|The Sentinel]]'', ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'', ''[[Time Bandits]]'', ''[[The Time Tunnel]]'', ''[[The Transformers (animation)|The Transformers]]'', ''[[Viper]]'', ''[[Walker, Texas Ranger]]'', and ''[[The X-Files]]'' all coming to [[The Windy City|Chicago]]. It manages to stay both coherent and hilarious.
* The massive ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3587925/1/Chicago_Convergence Chicago Convergence]'' includes characters from ''[[Myth Adventures|Another Fine Myth]]'', ''[[Bolo]]'', ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', ''[[Charmed]]'', ''[[Catch-22]]'', ''[[Dark Angel]]'', ''[[Diagnosis: Murder]]'', ''[[Doctor Who]]'', ''[[Due South]]'', ''[[Early Edition]]'', ''[[Forever Knight]]'', ''[[Friday the 13th: The Series]]'', ''[[Hammer's Slammers]]'', ''[[Highlander]]'', ''[[Indiana Jones]]'', ''[[Knight Rider]]'', ''[[Kung Fu The Legend Continues]]'', ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', ''[[Love and Curses]]'', ''[[MacGyver]]'', ''[[Martial Law]]'', ''[[Mechwarrior]]'', ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]'', ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]'', ''[[Nash Bridges]]'', ''[[Kolchak the Night Stalker]]'', ''[[Quantum Leap]]'', ''[[Quincy]]'', ''[[Relic Hunter]]'', ''[[Seven Days]]'', ''[[Sliders]]'', ''[[Space: Above and Beyond]]'', ''[[Special Unit 2]]'', ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'', ''[[Star Wars]]'', ''[[The Terminator]]'', ''[[The Black Company]]'', ''[[The Incredible Hulk]]'', ''[[The Pretender]]'', ''[[The Sentinel (TV series)|The Sentinel]]'', ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'', ''[[Time Bandits]]'', ''[[The Time Tunnel]]'', ''[[The Transformers (animation)|The Transformers]]'', ''[[Viper]]'', ''[[Walker, Texas Ranger]]'', and ''[[The X-Files]]'' all coming to [[The Windy City|Chicago]]. It manages to stay both coherent and hilarious.
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20090211173532/http://lubakmetyk.infinology.net/others/bootleg/act1.html Convergence]'' is another one, set on ''[[Babylon 5]]'', from the late 90s. Politics and squabbling between the many authors eventually drove everyone away.
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20090211173532/http://lubakmetyk.infinology.net/others/bootleg/act1.html Convergence]'' is another one, set on ''[[Babylon 5]]'', from the late 90s. Politics and squabbling between the many authors eventually drove everyone away.

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The Fan Work equivalent of the Massive Multiplayer Crossover—a fan-made creation combining three or more properties into a single, hopefully coherent, whole. By necessity also a variety of Alternate Universe Fic, the Mega Crossover attempts to dovetail many often wildly different settings together in the process of telling its story; it is perhaps the ultimate challenge an author can pose to himself.

When well done, a Mega Crossover can be an amazing and impressive piece of work, often epic in scale. When it isn't, it's an obvious stillborn Frankensteinian mess. Particularly bad, violently out-of-control megacrossovers, where sources are thrown together with no regard to blending their continuities, simply because the author is hopelessly in love with all those series, books, and comics, are called crossorgies.

The only problem with liking a Mega Crossover is that no matter how amazingly good it may be, trying to describe it to someone else inevitably ends up sounding corny and geeky.

Examples of Mega Crossover include:

Fan Works

Fan Fiction

Fan Videos

  • The grandaddy of all Fanvids is the Daicon IV Opening, made for a Japanese anime convention in 1983 by a group who would go on to become Studio Gainax. It's impossible to list (although somebody tried) all the sci-fi, fantasy, movie, comic book and game references found in these five incredibly animated minutes.
  • Dead Fantasy unites (mostly) female characters from Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, and Ninja Gaiden as they end up having to fight each other in very brutal ways.
  • Niconico video list Muv-Luv Crossovers, blends the Unlimited storyline of Muv-Luv, and spliced it with Gunparade March universe, in addition to having characters from Zegapain. Running parallel to the story is the Planet Fairy setting of [[Sentou Yousei Yukikaze]], in which Ryu Sohma becomes the copilot to Rei Fukai after his transformation from Takuto Kaneshiro. And both worlds are fighting what seemed to be a combination of JAM, BETA, and/or Festum, and it seems that Sumika is the AI core of Yukikaze, linking the two worlds. The story is told in Visual Novel-style dialogues interspersed with footage from anime/games related to the media, as well as careful splicing to ensure that everything is consistent. The "opening" animation of the series proper is in the second episode, but while it starts with the Muv-Luv setting and the beginning of Argento Soma, Yukikaze's arc proper starts at episode 6. As of 12 February 2011, the series has 10 episodes ranging from 20 to 30 minutes. Unfortunately, since the series is very heavy on dialogues, non-Japanese speaking viewers would have quite a problem in following it.
  • Many MUGEN video series on Youtube, when they're not just series of fights, will be a Mega Crossover, such as:

Fan Games

  • Gokou Sama (aka Somarinoa or Thor Steinbach) is currently[when?] working on following Mega Crossover Video Games: Ultimate Showdown (top down action game about characters from everything engages massive duel of death) and Amalgam Online (Alien-themed Mega Crossover Strategy game)
  • Mushroom Kingdom Fusion, a fangame-in-progress, sends Mario and Luigi (later a host of others) across a few of the most famous gaming franchises in order to bring down Legion before he can successfully fuse all worlds and drain the energy from the reaction...or something. The creators are keeping the plot a secret—will they finish before it becomes the gaming equivalent of a Dead Fic? Given the ambition of the project, I'd have to guess no...but hey, we know Solid Snake is mentoring them! If that doesn't make it awesome, what does?
    • And its sister project 'Super Mario Fusion Revival'. Which, though more Mario-centric, still features levels and areas from many other franchise once outside the first world. A smaller and less ambitious project then MKF, but built with a stronger engine and with great care put into each stage. Take a look for yourselves.
  • Card Saga Wars (see here) was another ambitious fangame, combining many characters from several different games. It's the sort of thing that can only exist due to dedicated fans or else the legalities of it would make everyone's heads spin.
  • Xeno Fighters R, a Bullet Hell Shmup featuring ships and characters from Gradius, Raiden, Legendary Wings, Twinbee, Galaga, and even Pokemon.
  • MariO takes the original Super Mario Bros. and gives Mario a Portal gun.

Other Media

Real Life

  1. The Clan has been crossed with (as of this writing): Devil May Cry, Digimon, Disgaea, Full Metal Panic!, Harry Potter, Hellsing, Mahou Sensei Negima, Lyrical Nanoha, Ouran High School Host Club, Persona, Pokémon, Ranma ½, Rosario + Vampire Sailor Moon, Suzumiya Haruhi, A Certain Magical Index, Usagi Drop, Valkyria Chronicles and a few others... not including the Nasuverse and Sekirei elements already present in the fanfic it's based on.