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See also: [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]]

* One of the sweeter crossover yet not-a-crossover moments occurred on ''[[I Love Lucy]]''. George Reeves appeared, wearing his [[Superman]] costume, and was referred to exclusively as "Superman" by the rest of the cast. The dialogue was designed to avoid spoiling for the children in the audience the illusion that this was the genuine Superman -- while making it clear to the adults watching the program that Ricky and Lucy were interacting with the actor George Reeves and calling him Superman merely as a playful but respectful reference to his famous character.

** In "Super Best Friends", the cast of ''[[That's My Bush]]'' is shown in the White House. While both shows were created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, it still counts as fake since ''[[That's My Bush]]'' is a ''live action show''.

* ''[[Monk]]'' and several of the [[USA Network]] shows including ''[[The 4400]]'' and ''[[Psych]]'' were crossed over in a series of their commercials. Since ''Monk'' takes place in San Francisco CA, ''The 4400'' in Seattle WA, and ''Psych'' in Santa Barbara, CA -- it's unlikely the crossover would ever happen canonically to any of the aforementioned shows.

*** 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]]''.

** In 2009, ABC started a new ad campaign called the "ABC House" in which characters from various ABC shows live together under one roof.

*** One such ad seemed designed to toy with ''[[Lost]]'' fans: Dominic Monaghan, who played Charlie {{spoiler|until he died}}, appears in one of the ads, even though he wasn't on an ABC show at the time. His {{spoiler|death}} is even mentioned in the ad. Fans went wild wondering if the ad confirmed he was coming back to ''Lost''. A few weeks later, he was revealed to be joining the cast of ''Flash Forward'', a new ABC show...{{spoiler|although he did appear throughout the final season}}.

*** From season three onward, the creators have walked this back a bit, referring to Johnny only by his first name and Dr. Zin only as "Doctor Z". This is due to an upcoming [[Live Action Adaptation]] of ''Jonny Quest'' currently in development, which forced the writers to be more subtle about who the characters really are by turning them into [[Captain Ersatz|pastiches]] of the Quest cast.

* The scene in the ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode "Movin' Out (Brian's Song)" involving Quagmire and ''[[The Simpsons]]''...

*** But if it was an actual simulation, would this still be considered a [[Fake Crossover]], or would the characters really exist in the ''Family Guy'' setting?

**** Don't forget Roger's cameo at the end of the time-traveling season 5 finale.

* Most crossovers between [[Marvel Universe|Marvel]] and [[The DCU|DC Comics]] never get referenced in their own lines. The exception is ''[[JLA-Avengers]]'', which had lasting influences on DC's universe, though the other company's characters can't be mentioned or depicted in flashbacks.

*** What makes it awesome is that the Batman/Punisher crossover was the second part of a two-part story. The first one? ''[[Archie Comics|Archie]] Meets The Punisher'', which also [[Sequel Hook|Sequel Hooked]] it.

** It used to be a roughly-annual tradition, back in the 70's, for both the [[Justice League]] and [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]] to have a story taking place at the Rutland, Vermont Halloween parade. At least once, events in them influenced each other. It even spread to three other comic companies (Whitman, Charlton, and Warp). More info here: http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix4/rutlandvt.htm

** One story that started in [[Aquaman (Comic Book)|Aquaman]] #56 was concluded in [[Sub-Mariner]] #72, written by the same author. (Mind you, there was a three year gap between the two issues).

** Are we also assuming that ''[[Guiding Light]]'' did ''not'' in fact take place in the Marvel Universe? ...good.

* In the intermission of an episode of ''[[Black Jack Justice]]'', [[Red Panda Adventures|the Red Panda]] and the Flying Squirrel show up to deliver a contractually-obligated anniversary wish... and Jack and Trixie get annoyed at them "horning in on our racket". This results in a [[Cat Fight]] between the Squirrel and Trixie, and the men getting very distracted by it. At the end:

{{quote| '''The Red Panda:''' So, does this count as a crossover?<br />

'''Jack Justice:''' Don't push it. }}

** Oh really? [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/01/11/ It could work...maybe...]

** 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.

** [[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.

* [[Greg Weisman]] (Creator of both ''[[Gargoyles]]'' and ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]]'') staged a radio play for a con that was a crossover between his two shows. Naturally, it falls under this trope.

* ''[[Avenue Q]]'' and ''[[Fiddler On the Roof]]'' had a hilarious one of these for the 2008 Easter Bonnet competition in which everyone was Jewish and lived on "Avenue Jew", obviously it didn't affect the plotline of either show.

* Several ''[[Sesame Street]]'' [[Muppet|Muppets]] guest-starred in one episode of ''[[Scrubs]]''. All within J.D.'s [[Imagine Spot|Imagine Spots]] of course.

** ''Scrubs'' returned the favor by making a guest appearance in ''[[It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie]]'', as Miss Piggy's very brief acting career (she plays a patient who dies during an operation).

* [[Woody Allen]]'s play ''God'' has as one of its characters Blanche DuBois, who escaped the two men who were trying to put her into a straitjacket at the end of ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]'' and wants desperately to get herself into a play where God exists.

* ''Kamen Rider G'' has a scene where [[Kamen Rider Decade|Decade]] appears and calls in the other Heisei Riders to give G a pep talk. It's also a one-off special [[Affectionate Parody|Affectionately Parodying]] the entire ''[[Kamen Rider]]'' franchise, so odds are it's not canon to any of the shows, especially considering the [[Big Bad]] of ''G'' shows up in ''Decade'' as the [[Big Bad]] of the [[Kamen Rider Kabuto|World of Kabuto]] arc with nary a reaction.

 

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