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A lesser version of the [[Crisis Crossover]], but bigger than a regular [[Crossover]], is the [[Bat Family Crossover]], which typically occurs around a group of titles that are related by the heroes appearing in them or the location in which they take place.
 
It's named for its repeated use by the group of superheroes around Gotham City, since so much happens in Gotham that affects everyone in the city, but has limited, if any effect on [[The DCU]], with [[Batman (Comic Book)|Batman]] usually [[Superman Stays Out of Gotham|ordering all of the other heroes to stay out]]. ''Maybe'' [[Superman (Comic Book)|Superman]] will show up for a issue or two, but only because, well, [[Wolverine Publicity|he's Superman]].
 
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== Comic Books ==
 
* From the [[Batman (Comic Book)|Batman]] titles themselves, and the [[Trope Namer|Trope Namers]], though not the [[Trope Codifier|Trope Codifiers]]:
** ''Batman: [[Knightfall]]''
** ''Batman: [[wikipedia:Batman: Contagion|Contagion]]''
** ''Batman: [[wikipedia:Batman: Legacy|Legacy]]''
** ''Batman: [[wikipedia:Batman: Cataclysm|Cataclysm]]''
** ''[[Batman: No MansMan's Land]]''. [[Superman (Comic Book)|Superman]] did make two appearances, but left both times after being shown that he was basically useless in a situation like the one Gotham was in at that point.
*** Never mind that they had just fixed Metropolis recently in his own series.
** ''Batman: Bruce Wayne: Murderer/Fugitive''. Again, [[Superman (Comic Book)|Superman]] made an appearance, but....
** ''Hush'' had the subversion of the usual "Superman makes one or two appearances in Gotham before being told to buzz off" variety of the trope in that Superman doesn't go to Gotham... Batman goes to Metropolis.
** ''Batman: War Games''
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*** Actually, Batman and Detective were inter-connected for the last several years pre-Crisis. The Nocturna arc is probably the best example of this, as it lasted for almost a dozen issues right before COIE.
** The ''Night Of The Owls'' crossover from May/June 2012. Building on the "Court of Owls" arc from Scott Snyder's Batman run, '''nearly every''' single Bat-Family book (save for Batwoman [already in a story arc] and Batman Incorporated [relaunched at the end of May and continuing Morrison's long running storylines]) had at least one issue dedicated to the protagonists of each book fighting Talons, the [[Elite Mooks]] of the story. Even "All-Star Western" (set in the past with Jonah Hex), "Birds Of Prey" (taking place in Gotham with Batgirl as an unofficial team-member but otherwise unrelated) and even a small cameo in an issue of the '''completely''' unrelated "Justice League" book.
* [[Green Lantern (Comic Book)|Green Lantern]]:
** ''[[The Death of Superman]]'' (see below) did have a minor in-universe ripple, which would be the Green Lantern crossover "Emerald Twilight," encompassing the main GL book, ''Guy Gardner: Warrior'' and ''Green Lantern Corps Quarterly''. The event ended ''GLCQ'' and caused its own extremely minor ripple when Hal Jordan destroyed Guy Gardner's ring and set off his new search for powers (which crossed over with ''Green Lantern'' again and the anthology series ''Showcase'').
** ''Green Lantern: [[Sinestro Corps War]]'', which crossed over between ''Green Lantern'' and ''Green Lantern Corps''; the war's final battle took place on Earth, and was touched on in the otherwise unrelated title ''[[Blue Beetle]]''. People like Superman and the Teen Titans did figure into some tie-ins as well, but only as background or extended cameos.
** ''[[Blackest Night]]'' was originally envisioned as one of these before being expanded to full-blown [[Crisis Crossover]] status. This was partially because of some sentiment that the aforementioned ''Sinestro Corps War'' had been a missed opportunity for the wider DCU. This led directly into the [[Crisis Crossover]] ''[[Brightest Day]]''.
** ''War of the Green Lanterns'' is 2011's Green Lantern-focused crossover that is actually a proper [[Bat Family Crossover]] running through ''Green Lantern'', ''Green Lantern Corps'' and ''Green Lantern: Emerald Warriors'' and is supposed to lead up to yet another series focusing on the Red Lanterns.
* [[Superman (Comic Book)|Superman]]:
** ''Panic in the Sky'' in 1992.
** ''[[The Death of Superman|The Death and Return of Superman]]''. Actually DID affect the rest of the Universe, most notably the destruction of Coast City. But did any of this occur outside of Superman's own books? Not really.
*** A chapter of the original ''Death'' storyline happened in Justice League, since Superman was a member at that point and it was written by Dan Jurgens, who also was more or less in charge of the Superman books at that point. And the first issue of ''Funeral'' was also in JL, which drew so much attention that rumour has it that when DC saw people's reaction to the scaled-down JL of that time, they began the first discussions that would eventually result in the new JLA. Part of the "Return" of Superman also had an issue of [[Green Lantern (Comic Book)|Green Lantern]] that basically ran concurrently with the final Superman issues, showing just how displeased Hal Jordan was with the destruction of his hometown.
** ''Worlds Collide'' from 1994 bordered between this and [[Intercontinuity Crossover]], featuring titles from the Superman family crossing over with several titles published by [[Milestone Comics]].
** The various ''New Krypton'' stories, from 2008-2010.
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** Ditto its sequel, ''Annihilation: Conquest'', which has exactly the same structure (only difference is that one mini was this time replaced with the ''Nova'' ongoing series as tie-in) and has no influence on any other comics.
* ''The Janus Directive'' was a 1989 crossover between DC's secret-ops-themed titles: ''[[Suicide Squad]]'', ''[[Checkmate]]'', ''[[Captain Atom]]'', ''[[Manhunter (Comic Book)|Manhunter]]'', and ''Firestorm''.
* ''The Children's Crusade'' was a crossover through the [[Vertigo Comics]] annuals in 1993-94. Although this was during the time Vertigo was part of [[The DCU]] (especially the titles involved: ''[[Black Orchid (Comic Book)|Black Orchid]]'', ''[[Swamp Thing (Comic Book)|Swamp Thing]]'', ''[[Animal Man (Comic Book)|Animal Man]]'' and ''[[Doom Patrol (Comic Book)|Doom Patrol]]''; characters from ''[[The Sandman (Comic Book)|The Sandman]]'' and ''[[Hellblazer (Comic Book)|Hellblazer]]'' were featured, but didn't get titles), no non-Vertigo characters even noticed.
* [[The DCU]] also had ''Trinity'', in which their three [[Space Police]] organisations, the [[Green Lantern (Comic Book)|Green Lantern]] Corps, the Darkstars and [[Legion of Super-Heroes (Comic Book)|L.E.G.I.O.N.]] had to work together against ancient Maltusian entities that predated the Guardians and Controllers.
* ''Black Reign'', a crossover between ''[[Justice Society of America|JSA]]'' and ''[[Hawkman]]'', both written by [[Geoff Johns]] at the time.
* ''Way of the Warrior'', a crossover between ''[[Justice League of America|Justice League America]]'', ''[[Green Lantern (Comic Book)|Guy Gardner: Warrior]]'' and ''[[Hawkman]]''.
** The ''Justice League'' titles also had ''Breakdowns'' (''Justice League America''/''Justice League Europe'') and ''Judgement Day'' (''Justice League America''/''Justice League International''/''Justice League Task Force'').
* "Convergence", a crossover between the four titles of [[The DCU]]'s "Weirdoverse" (a late 90s group of titles that amounted to "Vertigo Lite"): ''[[Challengers Of The Unknown]]''; ''[[Scare Tactics (Comic Bookcomics)|Scare Tactics]]''; ''[[Doctor Fate|The Book Of Fate]]''; and ''Night Force''.
* ''[[Shadowland (Comic Bookcomics)|Shadowland]]'' did this for Marvel's street-level heroes, such as [[Daredevil]], [[Luke Cage]] and [[The Punisher]].
* [[Spider -Man|Spider-Man's]] [[The Clone Saga|Clone Saga]] was essentially one of these, albeit one stretched out for OVER TWO YEARS, and requiring you to read all four Spider-Man titles to follow.
** 2011 has a big Spider-Man centric story coming in the form of Spider Island which does include other Marvel characters but is contained to the main Spider-Man title, 2 tie-in minis, a one-shot and tie in through Venom's title.
* ''[[Fall of the Hulks]]'' for ''[[Incredible Hulk (Comic Book)|Incredible Hulk]]'' and ''[[Red Hulk|Hulk]]'', plus a number of minis and one-shots.
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== Live-Action TV ==
 
* ''[[A Muppet Family Christmas]]'', which goes beyond the regular Muppet cast to include other cornerstones of the creations of [[Jim Henson]], such as ''[[Sesame Street (TV)|Sesame Street]]'', ''[[Fraggle Rock]]'', and ''[[Muppet Babies]]''.
* There was talk of doing one of these for ''[[Law and& Order (TV)|Law and Order]]'', ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit]]'', and ''[[Law and Order: Criminal Intent]]'' when the latter launched, with all three shows investigating a potential terrorist attack on New York City from different angles. [[Too Soon|And then 9/11 happened.]]
 
== Video Games ==
 
* Whether it be ''[[Mario Kart (Video Game)|Mario Kart]]'', ''[[Mario Party (Video Game)|Mario Party]]'', or the plethora of sports titles based on the ''[[Super Mario Bros.]].'' series, you'll be sure they'll add some characters and settings from the ''[[Donkey Kong Country]]'' series. In fact, [[What Could Have Been|they were planning to have Donkey Kong himself participate in]] ''[[Crossover|Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games]]'' (DK's model was ultimately [[Dummied Out]], but he made it into the sequel). They also threw in ''[[Wario Ware (Video Game)|Wario Ware]]'' in these titles, though its representation is not as pronounced. All we got basically was art of Wario from the ''WarioWare'' series on the walls of ''Mario Power Tennis'''s Wario Factory stage, and the Wario Bike in ''Mario Kart Wii'' -- none of Wario's supporting cast from the ''WarioWare'' series has actually shown up in these games yet.
** We could technically add ''[[Wii Sports Resort]]'' into the mix since Wuhu Island ends up having not one, but ''two'' courses in Mario Kart 7, as well as a battle arena dedicated to a portion of the island.
 
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== Western Animation ==
 
* The ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' [[Milestone Celebration]] ''[[Turtles Forever]]'' was a Turtles Family Crossover, teaming [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987 (Animation)|the 80's toon]] with [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003 (Animation)|the 00's toon]] {{spoiler|AND having them meet [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mirage (Comic Book)|the original comic Turtles]]}}.
 
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