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There is a vast universe with multiple series taking place in different places/time periods/whatever, and a Cross Through is a [[Story Arc]] that starts in one of these series and cycles through several self-contained series (alternating between them), affecting each one, usually with one recurring element or character appearing in all parts. Compare with [[Shared Universe]] and [[Crossover]].
The trope's name was coined by comic writer [https://web.archive.org/web/20080204210241/http://farawaypress.com/Home/tabid/58/Entry%20ID/132/Default.aspx John Jackson Miller] for ''[[Star Wars]]: Vector'', which is an example.
Compare the [[Crisis Crossover]] (a step up in terms of interconnectedness) and the [[Red Skies Crossover]] (a nice big step down.)
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[Star Wars]]: Vector'' is a '''Cross Through''' of four ''Star Wars'' comic book series that take place during different time periods, featuring an [[Artifact of Doom]] of an ancient Sith Lord that carries a plague of [[The Virus|Rakghouls]]. The plot starts in ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'' (the year 3,963 [[Year Zero|Before the Battle of Yavin]] [[A New Hope|[the original film]]]), then cycles through ''Dark Times'' (19-18 BBY), ''Rebellion'' (1-2 ABY), and ends in ''[[Star Wars Legacy]]'' (137 ABY).
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* [[DC Comics]] 90s crossovers like ''Underworld Unleashed'' and ''Day of Judgement'' were [[Crisis Crossover]]s, but some of the secondary books were more Cross Throughs, with characters fighting over-powered villains/ghosts and demons without ever getting involved in the main story, or even learning what was actually going on.
* ''Night of the Owls'', a Bat-family storyline launching just after the [[New 52]]. The idea is that a cadre of rich, influential people have been ruling Gotham ever since its creation. Batman draws their attention by stopping an assassination, finding them, beating their assassin, and escaping from their clutches. In response, they raise an army of quasi-immortal, near super-powered assassins to strike at Batman and ''everyone'' associated with him. Every single Bat-family book faces off against a different assassin during the event.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* ''[[Drunkard's Walk]]'' crosses over with over a dozen different series, but only one at a time. The common factor in the stories is the [[Original Character]] Doug Sangnoir.
== [[Film]] ==
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== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* ''[[Disney Adventures]]'' once serialized a five-issue story called "[[The Legend of the Chaos God]]" (no relation to ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]''), involving an [[Artifact of Doom]] containing a [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]; the comics cycled through more or less the entire [[Disney Afternoon]] lineup, starting in ''[[Tale Spin]]'' and continuing decades down the timeline in ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (animation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'', ''[[Goof Troop]]'', ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'', and finally ''[[Darkwing Duck (animation)|Darkwing Duck]]'' (which, despite all being in the modern day, never directly crossed each other aside from Scrooge phoning Darkwing to warn him of the threat), {{spoiler|where the unsealed evil [[Hoist by His Own Petard|is blasted by his own magic bolts reflected off a satellite dish]] and is safely re-sealed; as it turns out, the legendary hero who sealed the self-proclaimed "Chaos God" away in the first place fought him with a mirrored shield}}.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* A two-part episode of ''[[Justice League (animation)|Justice League]]'' had Batman, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern chasing a [[Mad Scientist]] through time and joining forces first with the Heroes of the Old West, and later with [[Batman Beyond|Future Batman]], [[Static Shock|Old Static]], and Warhawk (the son of Green Lantern and Hawkgirl).
* When the [[USA Network]] was carrying Saturday morning cartoons, they had one day devoted to a storyline centered around an [[Original Generation|original character]], the Warrior King, wandering around each show's universe in search of a powerful [[MacGuffin]]. The specific episodes he appears in are, in chronological order, "The Warrior King" (''[[Street Fighter (animation)|Street Fighter]]''), and "Endgame" (''[[The Savage Dragon]]'', the only series out of the four to be based on a comic book series rather than a video game), "Resurrection" (''[[Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm|Mortal Kombat Defenders of the Realm]]'', focusing solely on the MacGuffin; the Warrior King makes only a cameo as a shadow at the end, leaving many ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' fans unaware of the crossthrough baffled) and "Recreation" (''[[Wing Commander Academy]]'').
* [[Cartoon Network]] ran an event called "Cartoon Network Invaded", which involved cheese-craving aliens from the moon that turn into werewolves. The shows involved were ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends]], [[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]], [[My Gym Partner's a Monkey]], [[Camp Lazlo]]'' and ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* In 2011, a hurricane storyline ran across [[Seth MacFarlane]]'s three shows: ''[[The Cleveland Show]]'', ''[[Family Guy]]'' and ''[[American Dad]]''. Each episode of the night featured its main cast trapped in their homes due to a violent hurricane.
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