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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.
* SHIELD Agent [[Canon Foreigner|Phil Coulson]] seems to be working his way through the [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]] one film at a time as the [[Hero of Another Story]].
* One of the latest ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'' games, ''Star Trek: Legacy'', does this.
** There were several series of ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'' books that did the same thing, with the crews of the [[Star Trek: theThe Original Series (TV)|original series]], [[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation (TV)|TNG]], [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV)|Deep Space Nine]] and [[Star Trek: Voyager (TV)|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: Voyager (TV)|Star Trek Voyager]]'' episode of the same name.
*** ''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 (Film)|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.
*** This is basically the plot of ''[[Star Trek Generations (Film)|Star Trek Generations]]'', where Kirk falls into the Nexus and Picard meets him there, with a 78-year long mystery about Kirk's fate in between.
*** ''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 (TV)|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: theThe Brave And The Bold (Animation)|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).
* A two-part episode of ''[[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 (Animation)|Future Batman]], [[Static Shock|Old Static]], and Warhawk (the son of Green Lantern and Hawkgirl).
* 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]].
** BBC Books [[Past Doctor Adventures]] had a [[Story Arc]] in which the companions of various Doctors were seemingly killed in [[Timey-Wimey Ball]] situations. This tied into the "Sabbath" arc in the [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]]. One of these PDAs, ''Wolfsbane'', also featured the Eighth Doctor during the EDAs' "amnesia" arc.
* ''[[Disney Adventures]]'' once serialized a five-issue story called "[[The Legend of the Chaos God]]" (no relation to ''[[Warhammer 40000]]''), involving an [[Artifact of Doom]] containing a [[Sealed Evil in Aa Can]]; the comics cycled through more or less the entire [[Disney Afternoon]] lineup, starting in ''[[Tale Spin (Animation)|Tale Spin]]'' and continuing decades down the timeline in ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (Animationanimation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'', ''[[Goof Troop (Animation)|Goof Troop]]'', ''[[Duck Tales (Animation)|Duck TalesDuckTales]]'', and finally ''[[Darkwing Duck (Animationanimation)|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 Byby 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}}.
* [[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.
* 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 (Animationanimation)|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 (Animation)|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 (Animation)|Wing Commander Academy]]'').
* ''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]] 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: theThe Original Series (TV)|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 Onon 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 [[HPH.P. Lovecraft|the Elder Gods]] in place of Zombies, and ''Transformers: Hearts of Steel'' (A Victorian era [[Steampunk]] [[Elseworld]]), ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IDW (Comic Book)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' and the ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' [[Eberron]] campaign in place of ''Transformers G1'', ''Star Trek'' and ''Ghostbusters'' (''CVO'' and ''G.I. Joe'' return for a second round).
** They're also doing a smaller-scale ''Assimilation<sup>2</sup>'' crossthrough between various periods of the ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' and ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'' universes, with different Doctor-companion teams meeting different ''Trek'' regular casts to fight a cross-time Borg-Cybermen team-up.
* Salem of ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'' had eaten a [[Timey-Wimey Ball|time ball]] and traveled through the other three shows airing on TGIF at the time: ''[[Boy Meets World]]'', ''Teen Angel'', and ''You Wish''.
* [[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 ''[[FostersFoster's Home for Imaginary Friends]], [[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]], [[My Gym PartnersPartner's a Monkey]], [[Camp Lazlo]]'' and ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy]]'', with a few cameos from uninvolved Cartoon Network shows thrown in for good measure. The crossover ended with the aliens concluding that the Earthlings were smarter than they thought and proceed to suck out the intelligence of their five abducted characters. Unfortunately for them, they turn out to be [[The Ditz|five of the dumbest characters from each of the shows]] (Cheese, Ed, Slips Python, Skip the dung beetle, and Fred Fredburger). All five of these shows have alternate endings that sever their connections to the event; for example, instead of the brain-sucking scene described above, the ''Billy and Mandy'' episode ended with a [[Crossover Punchline]] with ''[[Codename Kids Next Door (Animation)|Codename: Kids Next Door]]''.
* ''[[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.
* [[Disney Channel]] did one of this in regards to their [[Sit ComSitcom|SitComs]]: the main characters of ''[[Cory in The House]]'', ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]]'', and ''[[Hannah Montana]]'' saw a wishing star on the sky and made a wish (which came true and the episodes are [[Be Careful What You Wish For]] plots).
* [[DC Comics]] 90s crossovers like ''Underworld Unleashed'' and ''Day of Judgement'' were [[Crisis Crossover|Crisis Crossovers]], 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.
* In 2011, a hurricane storyline ran across [[Seth MacfarlaneMacFarlane]]'s three shows: ''[[The Cleveland Show]]'', ''[[Family Guy]]'' and ''[[American Dad (Animation)|American Dad]]''. Each episode of the night featured its main cast trapped in their homes due to a violent hurricane.
 
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