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[[File:DimensionsInTime_320x240.jpg|link=Doctor Who/Recap/30th AS Dimensions in Time|frame|These ''[[Eastenders]]'' ladies [[Canon Discontinuity|never actually met]] [[Doctor Who|the Third Doctor and Mel]]. Er, that we know of.]]
A [[Crossover]] which, for some reason or other, clearly doesn't count even remotely within the visiting characters' continuity. The characters might look and act the same, but you know these events are never going to be referenced in their own show. This may be due to copyright or because one continuity clashes too much with the other.
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** Particularly since ''The 4400'' has been cancelled. Sigh.
** USA loves doing this:
*** The campaign leading up to the premiere of ''[[In Plain Sight]]'' had Mary being visited by characters from USA's other shows, who would give her "housewarming" gifts and welcome her to "the neighborhood". Perhaps the funniest involved [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] wrestler The Big Show bringing Mary a gift wrapped folding chair, then being denied access to her bathroom.
*** Similarly, in one ad for ''[[Royal Pains]]'', [[Burn Notice|Michael Westen]] sends Hank Lawson a care package containing sunglasses, sunscreen, and a brick of C4 "because you never know when you'll need a stable plastic explosive."
*** The characters from ''[[White Collar]]'' have started appearing in these as well - they have done crossover commercials with ''Psych'', [[WWE Raw]] (the Big Show again) and ''[[Burn Notice]]''.
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** While the ''Soul'' series ''does'' share continuity with ''[[Tekken]]'' (Soul's Yoshimitsu is the ancestor of Tekken's Yoshimitsu), Heihachi's appearance in [[Soul Calibur]] II was '''not''' cannon.
** Actually, there is a ''[[Soul Calibur]]'' crossover under the ''Star Wars'' label: ''Visions of the Blade'' and both titular weapons made appearances. However, it was published under the Infinities label and is non-canon. Like the [[Indiana Jones]] crossover where the ''Millenium Falcon'' crash-lands on Indie's homeworld and he finds a [[Actor Allusion|very familiar-looking fellow]] inside, dead.
* ''[[Hercules (
** [[Anachronism Stew|Which never stopped]] the villain Mechanikles.
* The ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' comics had two in-continuity crossovers with the ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]'' comics during the Marvel run (with one of them occurring within the regular ''G.I. Joe'' series). When the comic was later revived by Devil's Due, the events of both crossovers were retconned and major events in the crossovers that affected the ongoing continuity (such as {{spoiler|Dr. Mindbender's revival}}) had to be explained differently.
** G.I. Joe actually did this a few times. In Amazing Spider Man #268 (1985), Duke makes an unnamed appearance as head of a military unit assigned to carry out the wreckage of the Heroes for Hire building (which the Beyonder had turned into gold). It's the first item at the top of the page here: [https://web.archive.org/web/20080720140423/http://www.myuselessknowledge.com/joe/comics/gijxovers.html
** Similarly, an early issue of the ''Transformers'' comics had the Autobots briefly teaming up with [[Spider-Man]], before later issues indicated that the Transformers were in a seperate universe from most other Marvel comics.
*** It should also be noted that the military vehicles used by the army in that episode were in fact G.I. Joe weapons: The MOBAT Tanks and the Wolverine Missile vehicle.
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* The events of "Mesal Gear Solid: Snake Escape" and "Snake vs. Monkey" will unlikely be referenced in any future ''[[Metal Gear]]'' or ''[[Ape Escape]]'' game.
* Basically any game in [[Capcom]]'s ''[[Capcom vs. Whatever|Vs series]]'' (i.e: ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom]]'', ''[[SNK vs. Capcom]]'', ''[[Tatsunoko vs. Capcom]]'').
* There were a few ''[[X-Men]]'' + ''[[Star Trek: The
** And NOW{{when}} there's an upcoming [[Ghostbusters]], [[Star Trek]], [[Transformers]] and [[G.I. Joe]] comic with [[Everything Is Deader With Zombies|Zombies]] crossover event [[Serial Escalation|coming up]]!
* ''[[The Cosby Show]]'' had an entire episode of a dream sequence, with the second half involving characters from ''[[The Jim Henson Hour]]''.
* Several ''[[Sesame Street]]'' [[Muppet|Muppets]] guest-starred in one episode of ''[[Scrubs]]''. All within J.D.'s [[Imagine Spot|Imagine Spots]] of course.
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