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* The story ''The Terran Jedi'' over on Twisting The Hellmouth throws in many random cameos into a story where Xander is a Jedi Master, including but not limited to ''Stargate, Discworld, Torchwood, Harry Potter,'' and ''Frasier'' (of all things).
* The story ''The Terran Jedi'' over on Twisting The Hellmouth throws in many random cameos into a story where Xander is a Jedi Master, including but not limited to ''Stargate, Discworld, Torchwood, Harry Potter,'' and ''Frasier'' (of all things).
** The ''Stargate'' parts have become so frequent and so large that they have long since gone beyond cameos, and at this point it reads like a straight crossover.
** The ''Stargate'' parts have become so frequent and so large that they have long since gone beyond cameos, and at this point it reads like a straight crossover.
* [http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=§ion=&q=three+kingdoms+reimu#/d30b3nf The Three Kingdoms] is another mega-crossover involving characters and objects from different game franchises, novels, movies and anime to suddenly start appearing in our world at December 21 2012, marking the Doomsday. After a short amount of joy, politics decided that these 'newcomers' were dangerous due to their magic capabilities, superior technology and other abilities. An event called Bad Apple Event led to [http://touhou.wikia.com/wiki/Reimu_Hakurei Hakurei Reimu] from the [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Touhou Touhou] video game franchise annexing the entire US which could be read on the prolouge. The Vocaloids and Miku eventually caught wind of the event and decided to annex other countries in the name of protecting them from Reimu. Of course, eventually, the kingdom of Gensokyo and Yamaha formed with war between them. They were soon joined by Haruhi no Suzumiya after realizing her god-like powers. By then, the three kingdoms have formed and the crossover 'The Three Kingdoms' led to Haruhi planning an invasion. This mega-crossover contains a variety of different creations. (From HMS Thunderchild, Alex Mercer, Familiar of Zero, Star Wars, Strike Witches, Metal Gear and even One Piece)
* [http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=§ion=&q=three+kingdoms+reimu#/d30b3nf The Three Kingdoms] is another mega-crossover involving characters and objects from different game franchises, novels, movies and anime to suddenly start appearing in our world at December 21 2012, marking the Doomsday. After a short amount of joy, politics decided that these 'newcomers' were dangerous due to their magic capabilities, superior technology and other abilities. An event called Bad Apple Event led to [http://touhou.wikia.com/wiki/Reimu_Hakurei Hakurei Reimu] from the [[Touhou|Touhou]] video game franchise annexing the entire US which could be read on the prolouge. The Vocaloids and Miku eventually caught wind of the event and decided to annex other countries in the name of protecting them from Reimu. Of course, eventually, the kingdom of Gensokyo and Yamaha formed with war between them. They were soon joined by Haruhi no Suzumiya after realizing her god-like powers. By then, the three kingdoms have formed and the crossover 'The Three Kingdoms' led to Haruhi planning an invasion. This mega-crossover contains a variety of different creations. (From HMS Thunderchild, Alex Mercer, Familiar of Zero, Star Wars, Strike Witches, Metal Gear and even One Piece)
* ''[[Troper Works/Three Messengers|Three Messengers]]'' is somewhere between this trope and a Crossorgy. Production at present is slow because of how much there is that the author isn't sure about in one of the source works.
* ''[[Troper Works/Three Messengers|Three Messengers]]'' is somewhere between this trope and a Crossorgy. Production at present is slow because of how much there is that the author isn't sure about in one of the source works.
* TKR2, a now-defunct massive fanfic series by multiple authors started off as a fairly straight ''[[Knight Rider (TV)|Knight Rider]]''/''[[Team Knight Rider (TV)|Team Knight Rider]]'' fanfic, then expanded to cross over with ''[[Star Wars]]'' (a lead character becomes a Jedi Master), then ''[[Star Trek]]'' (another lead character becomes a ''Borg queen''. One episode has our heroes on a chase across dimensions, culminating in the Starship Voyager landing to help talking cars fight Darth Vader, while a young [[Gene Roddenberry]], Glen Larson, and [[George Lucas]], who had apparently been out necking, look on), ''The Invisible Man'' (He gets a talking car), ''[[Highlander (Franchise)|Highlander]]'' (yet another character is an immortal. ''And also a Jedi''), ''Hercules: The Legendary Journeys'' (In a very complex crossover, a character described as looking like Kevin Sorbo teams up with the real Kevin Sorbo, and also Hercules), ''[[Teletubbies]]'' (They're evil aliens), ''Barney'' (He's ''A Great Old One''), [[James Bond]] (He teams up with our heroes to stop a supervillain plotting to ''build a giant lightsaber with which to cut the earth in half''), and ''[[Survivor]]''. Really.
* TKR2, a now-defunct massive fanfic series by multiple authors started off as a fairly straight ''[[Knight Rider (TV)|Knight Rider]]''/''[[Team Knight Rider (TV)|Team Knight Rider]]'' fanfic, then expanded to cross over with ''[[Star Wars]]'' (a lead character becomes a Jedi Master), then ''[[Star Trek]]'' (another lead character becomes a ''Borg queen''. One episode has our heroes on a chase across dimensions, culminating in the Starship Voyager landing to help talking cars fight Darth Vader, while a young [[Gene Roddenberry]], Glen Larson, and [[George Lucas]], who had apparently been out necking, look on), ''The Invisible Man'' (He gets a talking car), ''[[Highlander (Franchise)|Highlander]]'' (yet another character is an immortal. ''And also a Jedi''), ''Hercules: The Legendary Journeys'' (In a very complex crossover, a character described as looking like Kevin Sorbo teams up with the real Kevin Sorbo, and also Hercules), ''[[Teletubbies]]'' (They're evil aliens), ''Barney'' (He's ''A Great Old One''), [[James Bond]] (He teams up with our heroes to stop a supervillain plotting to ''build a giant lightsaber with which to cut the earth in half''), and ''[[Survivor]]''. Really.
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* [[Top Dog]], by [[Doghead Thirteen]], is a shared universe with several different storylines happening at once; the three main stories involve ''very'' AU versions of [[Harry Potter]], [[Ranma One Half]], and [[Naruto]]. It pulls in characters and references from everywhere under the sun, including [[Tenchi Muyo]], [[Firefly]], [[Star Wars]], [[Star Trek]], [[Girl Genius]], [[Sluggy Freelance]], and more. This list is very incomplete; the author is a fan of [[Undocumented Features]] and says that Top Dog is approaching its level of crossoverness.
* [[Top Dog]], by [[Doghead Thirteen]], is a shared universe with several different storylines happening at once; the three main stories involve ''very'' AU versions of [[Harry Potter]], [[Ranma One Half]], and [[Naruto]]. It pulls in characters and references from everywhere under the sun, including [[Tenchi Muyo]], [[Firefly]], [[Star Wars]], [[Star Trek]], [[Girl Genius]], [[Sluggy Freelance]], and more. This list is very incomplete; the author is a fan of [[Undocumented Features]] and says that Top Dog is approaching its level of crossoverness.
* [http://traitorgame.wikia.com/ The Traitor Game] is like CLUE. Except with various fictional characters dropped into a setting and violently murdering people amidst a usually epic background. So far, we've had Trigon getting beat up by [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Asuka, Rei,]] [[Superman|Cyborg Superman]], [[Marvel|Doctor Doom 2099]], and a slew of others by the usage of Yellow Lantern rings... actually, just go read the summaries there.
* [http://traitorgame.wikia.com/ The Traitor Game] is like CLUE. Except with various fictional characters dropped into a setting and violently murdering people amidst a usually epic background. So far, we've had Trigon getting beat up by [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Asuka, Rei,]] [[Superman|Cyborg Superman]], [[Marvel|Doctor Doom 2099]], and a slew of others by the usage of Yellow Lantern rings... actually, just go read the summaries there.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanVerse/TheTravelsverse The Travelsverse] is a collection of both Nintendo and other game series that are connected via Super Smash Brothers, by Bulbagarden Member Instrutilus. Though a majority of the action seem takes place on Sinumonas, the name of the Pokémon World here, the person in charge, Instrutilus, has expressed interest in looking at other series to help connect the universe, rather then just having [[Crossover Ship|Link and Samus]] live on the planet and several references to the Super Smash Brothers Core, a collection of the universes greatest fighters that was named after an old tournament they once participated in.
* [[The Travelsverse (Fanfic)|The Travelsverse]] is a collection of both Nintendo and other game series that are connected via Super Smash Brothers, by Bulbagarden Member Instrutilus. Though a majority of the action seem takes place on Sinumonas, the name of the Pokémon World here, the person in charge, Instrutilus, has expressed interest in looking at other series to help connect the universe, rather then just having [[Crossover Ship|Link and Samus]] live on the planet and several references to the Super Smash Brothers Core, a collection of the universes greatest fighters that was named after an old tournament they once participated in.
* ''[http://psychoe.deviantart.com/art/TCD-prologue-27019744 TRES]'' is a lesser known webcomic which stars several characters from different anime and has a ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'' influence.
* ''[http://psychoe.deviantart.com/art/TCD-prologue-27019744 TRES]'' is a lesser known webcomic which stars several characters from different anime and has a ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'' influence.
* [[Ultimate Crossover Wrestling]] combines not just wrestling organizations (WWE, TNA, etc), but anime, games, tv and movies.
* [[Ultimate Crossover Wrestling]] combines not just wrestling organizations (WWE, TNA, etc), but anime, games, tv and movies.
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* ''[http://edenstudiosdiscussionboards.yuku.com/topic/4219/t/Heroes-and-Monsters-of-the-Millenium-1995-2005.html?page=1 Heroes and Monsters of the Milennium]'' Is a conversion for the Unisystem RPG ruleset, mixing ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''/''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'' with everything from ''[[Marvel Comics|Marvel]]'' and ''[[DC Comics]]'' to ''[[Stargate SG 1 (TV)|Stargate SG 1]]'', ''[[Godzilla]]'', ''[[Ultraman]]'', ''[[Lyrical Nanoha (Franchise)|Lyrical Nanoha]]'', ''[[Gargoyles (Animation)|Gargoyles]]'', ''[[Negima]]'', the works of [[HP Lovecraft]], ''[[Mazinger Z]]'' and many others. With considerable overlap in themes, races, and technology.
* ''[http://edenstudiosdiscussionboards.yuku.com/topic/4219/t/Heroes-and-Monsters-of-the-Millenium-1995-2005.html?page=1 Heroes and Monsters of the Milennium]'' Is a conversion for the Unisystem RPG ruleset, mixing ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''/''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'' with everything from ''[[Marvel Comics|Marvel]]'' and ''[[DC Comics]]'' to ''[[Stargate SG 1 (TV)|Stargate SG 1]]'', ''[[Godzilla]]'', ''[[Ultraman]]'', ''[[Lyrical Nanoha (Franchise)|Lyrical Nanoha]]'', ''[[Gargoyles (Animation)|Gargoyles]]'', ''[[Negima]]'', the works of [[HP Lovecraft]], ''[[Mazinger Z]]'' and many others. With considerable overlap in themes, races, and technology.
* ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ani-Mayhem Ani-Mayhem]'', a [[Collectible Card Game]] produced in the middle 1990s by [[Geneon|Pioneer Entertainment]] that set characters from many different anime settings -- surprisingly including many series licensed by companies ''other'' than Pioneer -- in a grand romp across their various worlds.
* ''[[wikipedia:Ani-Mayhem|Ani-Mayhem]]'', a [[Collectible Card Game]] produced in the middle 1990s by [[Geneon|Pioneer Entertainment]] that set characters from many different anime settings -- surprisingly including many series licensed by companies ''other'' than Pioneer -- in a grand romp across their various worlds.
* [[TV Tropes]]' own [[Trope Pantheons]]. Characters from across all fiction gather together as deities, and presumably alternate between annoying each other, and fighting the villains.
* [[TV Tropes]]' own [[Trope Pantheons]]. Characters from across all fiction gather together as deities, and presumably alternate between annoying each other, and fighting the villains.
* [http://www.sowhowins.com So Who Wins], a any character battle website which a crossover between anything can happen.
* [http://www.sowhowins.com So Who Wins], a any character battle website which a crossover between anything can happen.

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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 Fic

Fan Vid

  • 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 footages 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 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 Game

  • Gokou Sama(aka Somarinoa or Thor Steinbach) is currently 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 it's 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 Sagas Wars (see here) is 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

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 One Half, Rosario to Vampire Sailor Moon, Suzumiya Haruhi, To Aru Majutsu no 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.