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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 [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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** ''Millennium Falcon'' is one of these, following the ''Falcon'''s history through the Clone Wars up to Han's ownership of it. And it works well.
* [[Grant Morrison]]'s ''[[Seven Soldiers]]'' was this; with seven heroes all individually fighting the same threat. This was in fact enforced by the bad guys, who targetted seven-member enemy teams; if the heroes were to succeed they ''couldn't'' meet each other.
* ''The Fall of the Mutants'' storyline in the [[X-Men]] comics in the mid-80s. The three titles involved don't directly cross into each other (The [[New Mutants]] were the only ones who even knew what the other two teams were up to). Instead, the books are a crossover in the thematic sense of loss and rebuilding: the X-Men's deaths and resurrection, Angel from [[X-Factor (comics)|X-Factor]] becoming Archangel, the New Mutants losing one of their own and becoming full superheroes, and the subsequent formation of [[Excalibur (Comic Book)|Excalibur]].
* IDW's comic book event ''Infestation'', in which an attempt by IDW's own ''Covert Vampiric Operations'' to contain an interdimensional breach of [[Hive Mind|hive minded]] zombies from the ''Zombies vs. Robots'' universe goes awry, allowing the zombies to infest IDW's ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]'' universe, the [[Star Trek Expanded Universe]] (circa the [[Star Trek: The Original Series|original series]]), ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' and ''[[Ghostbusters]]'', attempting to bolster their strength by assimilating the four worlds' technologies. Also qualifies as a [[Crisis Crossover]] for ''some'' of the series involved, with the ''Transformers'' segment having a Transformer be [[Put on a Bus]] and leading right into the "Heart of Darkness" miniseries, itself a lead-up to the "Chaos" [[Story Arc]], and ''CVO'' seeing a major status quo change at the end.
** It did well enough that they are in fact doing [http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=35543 a sequel for the series], this one starring [[H.P. Lovecraft|the Elder Gods]] in place of Zombies, and ''Transformers: Hearts of Steel'' (A Victorian era [[Steampunk]] [[Elseworld]]), ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IDW|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' and the ''[[Dungeons
** They're also doing a smaller-scale ''Assimilation<sup>2</sup>'' crossthrough between various periods of the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' and ''[[Star Trek]]'' universes, with different Doctor-companion teams meeting different ''Trek'' regular casts to fight a cross-time Borg-Cybermen team-up.
* ''[[Brightest Day]]'' wound up being this; all the storylines came out of ''[[Blackest Night]]'' and many were unified under "people resurrected by the White Entity for a specific task", but each series involved was pretty much self-contained with little overlap.
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* There were several series of ''[[Star Trek]]'' books that did this, with the crews of the [[Star Trek: The Original Series|original series]], [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|TNG]], [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Deep Space Nine]] and [[Star Trek: Voyager|Voyager]] all facing the same villains.
** ''Invasion'' was the first, with the Furies making their first strike in 2267 (TOS), returning in 2369 (TNG), the enemy that originally drove them out of the Alpha Quadrant returning in 2371 (Deep Space Nine), and their final defeat occurring in the Delta Quadrant the same year (Voyager).
** ''Day Of Honor'', which culminated in the ''[[Star Trek:
** ''The Captain's Table'', a bar from another dimension that [[Good Guy Bar|only admits captains]]. Originally six novels, featuring Kirk and Sulu, Picard, Sisko, Janeway, [[Star Trek: New Frontier|Calhoun]], and Pike; a later book, ''Tales from the Captain's Table'', turned this into short story format with more captains (including Riker of the ''Titan'', Picard in his ''Stargazer'' days, Chakotay of the ''Voyager'' post-ending, Klag of the ''Gorkon'' (a decade after the exchange program with Riker), Colonel Kira of ''Deep Space Nine'' (whose Bajoran military rank is a ''Captain'' equivalent), Captain Archer, Demora Sulu 40 years after ''[[Star Trek Generations|Generations]]'', Captain David Gold of the ''Starfleet Corps of Engineers'' e-Book series, and Shelby a decade after "Best of Both Worlds" (and from the ''New Frontier'' timeline)).
** ''Double Helix'', in which the "villain" was a virulent disease, featured a mix 'n' match approach, with characters not necessarily appearing in the time period most associated with them: 2364 (''Next Gen'' Season 1); 2366 (''Next Gen'' Season 3/''Deep Space Nine'' during the Occupation); 2369 (very old Spock and McCoy); 2371 (the Maquis: Tom Riker prior to ''Deep Space Nine'' Season 3/future ''Voyager'' characters); 2375 (Movie-era ''Next Gen''/''[[Star Trek: New Frontier|New Frontier]]''); and 2350 ([[Prequel]]: ''Stargazer'' [Picard's first command]/Ensign Tuvok).
** ''Gateways'', wherein the Iconian gateways spring to life again, with disastrous results. Gives the interesting hook of an opening real-time holoconference between many of the principles.
** ''The Brave and the Bold'' was a series of novels in which all four crews had to deal with one of four legendary artifacts - with a framing story in which [[Star Trek: Enterprise|Jonathan Archer]] (whose first season was still in production) was the first human to hear the legend! Also, much like the DC Comic of the same name (which also gave rise to ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]''), each crew was paired with a lesser-known crew from their timeline (Kirk with Commodore Decker and the ''Constellation'' from "The Doomsday Machine", DS9 with the ''Odyssey'' crew from "The Jem'Hadar"; Voyager with Captain DeSoto and the ''Hood'', Riker's post prior to the ''Enterprise'' (and Chakotay's Maquis cell teaming up with Cal Hudson's Maquis cell), and the Next Gen crew teaming with Captain Klag from the ''Gorkon'', a decade after the exchange program with Riker).
* The concept is also used in the [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe]].
** ''Blood Harvest'', a [[Virgin New Adventures|New Adventures]] novel where the Seventh Doctor fights vampires in 1930s Chicago and on Gallifrey, led into the very first Missing Adventure, ''Goth Opera'' by [[Paul Cornell]], which had the Fifth Doctor fighting vampires in 1990s Manchester, as a fairly obvious ploy to get new readers interested in the [[Virgin Missing Adventures|Missing Adventures]] books. (A short comic in a ''Doctor Who Annual'' by [[Paul Cornell]] also led into ''Goth Opera''.)
** The later Missing Adventure ''Cold Fusion'' by Lance Parkin is a Fifth Doctor novel that also features the Seventh Doctor, and fit into an ongoing New Adventures [[Story Arc]] which had, in real world terms, actually concluded some time ago. However in terms of the Seventh Doctor's timeline it fit into between two of the books in that [[Story Arc]].
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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
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