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For more information and examples, see [http://www.poobala.com/crossoverlist.html Thom Holbrook's Crossovers and Spin Offs Master List], which documents all known crossovers between TV series, except for cartoons. With this information, the site has been able to identify no fewer than 38 contiguous TV "universes" (as of MarchSeptember 20082020) which are home to widely disparate (and apparently unlikely) combinations of series from different eras and networks. For instance, see Holbrook's [http://www.poobala.com/crossoverlistb.html#G2 "Group 2"] -- ''ninety-fourone hundred and three'' series (as of MarchSeptember 20122020) ranging from ''[[Six Feet Under]]'' and ''[[Everybody Loves Raymond]]'' to ''[[Law & Order|Law and Order]]'' and ''[[The X-Files]]'', taking in ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]], [[Cop Rock]]'', and ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]'' and ''every'' [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]] TV series along the way. Thanks to the baroque web of interconnections and crossovers, it is suggested that these shows all inhabit the same universe. (Holbrook also discovered the "[[Jean-Claude Van Damme]] is dead" plague that poses a grave threat to any future crossovers including ''Star Trek'' and other Group 10 shows.)

For a [[fanfic]]tion equivalent, see [http[media://www.accessdenied-rms.net/images/xoversCrossovers.jpg |this image]]. (The mapIt needs to add ''[[The Bet (fan work)|The Bet]]'', ''[[The Teraverse]]'' and ''[[City of Heroes|City of Villains]]'', but nobody's complaining, really.)

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* Part of the Red Ribbon Army story arc on ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' had Goku chasing Captain Blue to Penguin Village, the setting of Akira Toriyama's earlier manga/anime, ''[[Doctor Slump]]'', and featured appearances by Arale, Dr. Norimaki, and several other characters. This appeared in the manga and anime (since both shows were made by Toei and aired on Fuji TV); moreover, when ''[[Doctor Slump]]'' was animated again in 1997, a new ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' crossover was written in.

* It's not much, but in ''[[G Gundam]]'', during the finale episode where all the world's Gundams had banded together to fight the Dark/Devil Gundam, you can see Gundams from other series in the mob. For example, both the standard RX-78-GP01 and the RX-78-GP01 Full Vernian, the Wing Gundam, RX-78-2, etc. They weren't kidding when the said they had all the Gundams!

* The online [[Fan Film]] ''[[Haloid]]'', a truly impressive ''[[Halo (series)|Halo]]''/''[[Metroid]]'' crossover created by [[Monty Oum]]. Technically, also a {{spoiler|''[[Dead or Alive]]''}} crossover.

* There is actually a rather good one between ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' and ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]''. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160313213103/http://forums.avatarspirit.net/index.php?topic=12814.0 here]. He rationalizes the events as an influence for Zuko's [[Heel Face Turn]], and Malfoy's hesitation. And it's actually partially believable as well.

* An early ''[[Star Trek]]''{{context}}<!-- MOD note: Which Trek? Certainly not TOS... --> fanfic (created after Season 2) crossed over with ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' with the excuse that Doctor Bob (Rowlf) was the ship's new doctor. [http://www.st-minutiae.com/humor/muppets.html Read the resulting hilarity here.]

* The fanfic ''[http://nsider.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=78378 The Chronicles of the Nine Kingdoms]''{{Dead link}}'' is essentially all the Nintendo Worlds (with a few other worlds that have appeared on Nintendo systems, like ''Dragon Warrior Monsters'') crossed over together with the ''Mario'' world as a centerpiece for a quest against evil. The author even takes it farther by planning to cross his fanfic with a ''Metroid'' fanfiction written by his friend.

* [[Fuku Fic]]s -- ''[[Ranma ½]]''-''[[Sailor Moon]]'' crossovers where Ranma becomes a Sailor Senshi -- are so common they merit their own trope.

* There's been a few ''[[ZeroThe noFamiliar Tsukaimaof Zero]]'' stories on fanfiction.net where Louise instead summons a different familiar from another series. So far we've had [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3703802/1/The_Alchemist_of_Zero Edward Elric] from ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5285567/1/Tsukaima_no_Chrono Chrono Harlaown] from ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' and [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4784134/1/Zeros_Dinobot Grimlock] from ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]''.

** And Shirou EMIya (partial caps intentional) of [[Fate/stay night]] in ''[[The Hill of Swords]]''.

* Because of the popularity of a background character "Dr Hoof/Whooves", there are a swarm of crossovers between ''[[Doctor Who]]'' and ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]''. It is even the case that many fics that ''aren't'' an actual crossover will have the Doctor as a side character and more or less explicitly make clear that yes, he is the time-travelling alien beloved by fans; he just regenerated as a pony.

* ''Crossovers between [[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]](2004 TV series)|the 2004 ''Battlestar Galactica'' reboot]] and ''[[BattleTech]]'' crossovers have a bit of popularity due to the similarity of their FTL systems.

* ''[http://www.moonie.ca/uglyduck/lnb/lbb.html#top Law and Bubbles]'', probably the only time you'll see ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' [[X Meets Y|meets]] ''[[Law and& Order (Franchise)|Law and& Order]]''.

* ''[https://my.w.tt/8jwBy6qtGU Final Stand of Death]'' gets a [[Continuation]] fic of ''[[Celebrity Deathmatch]]'' and mixes with [[Planet Dolan]], random [[YouTube]]rs, and [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]].

== [[Film]] ==

* In ''[[Casper (film)|Casper]]'', the bad guys attempt to de-haunt the house using the services of Father Guido Sarducci, and Dr. Ray Stanz from ''[[Ghostbusters]]''. "Who you gonna call? Someone else!" (According to [[Wikipedia|TheOtherWiki]] there was also a scene filmed with Zelda Rubenstein (Tangina Barrons from ''[[Poltergeist (film series)||Poltergeist]]'') but it was cut.)

*** This is made even funnier by the realisation that the book was published over a year before the first ''[[X-Men 1(film)|X-Men]]'' movie was filmed. There are apparently very few charismatic bald actors to go round...

* Diane Duane is a ''[[Doctor Who]]'' fan, and as a result the Doctor (in different incarnations) has appeared in both her ''[[Young Wizards]]'' series and in at least one of her ''[[Star Trek]]'' novels.

*** ''[[Martial Law]]'' also had a crossover with ''[[Walker, Texas Ranger]]''. The first episode takes place on ''Martial Law'' and begins with the characters standing in their station discussing a recent crime. Then a voice rings out from off-screen, saying "I hear you could use some help." And then the camera shifts to a pair of cowboy boots and slowly pans up to reveal Ranger Cordell Walker, illuminated by a bare lightbulb overhead like some pagan godling. Then he and Sammo team up to stop violent, genocidal white supremacist militia members attempting to steal chemical weapons to use to ethnically cleanse Los Angeles.

* [[USA Network]] does this on a regular basis in their ads. If you take, say, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8oW0wBWlog "Monk: A Tribute"] as canon, ''[[Monk]], [[Psych]], [[Royal Pains]], [[Law and& Order: Criminal Intent]],'' ''[[In Plain Sight]]'', and ''[[Burn Notice]]'' all take place in one universe. Sooner or later, all of their major series end up there.

== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==

* When [[Hulk Hogan]]'s first movie, ''No Holds Barred'', hit theaters, the [[WWEWorld Wrestling Entertainment|WWF]] thought it'd be a good idea to bring in the villain of the film, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130317112602/http://www.thewrestlinglegendsforum.com/wrestlecrap/zeus.html Zeus], to battle Hulk in a WWF ring. They were never really clear on whether this was supposed to be the movie character come to life, or the actor assuming the character's persona to wreak havoc (in some promos, he'd lean one way, in others, the other), but one thing was absolutely clear throughout the entire angle: it was [[Wrestlecrap]].

** And don't forget G.I.Joe's original Intercontinuity Crossover character, [[WWEWorld Wrestling Entertainment|WWF]] wrestler Sgt. Slaughter.

== [[Tabletop RPGGames]] ==

* ''Die, Vecna, Die'' was an intercontinuity adventure module, intertwining events in ''[[Greyhawk (Tabletop Game)|Greyhawk]], [[Ravenloft]]'', and ''[[Planescape]]''.

* [[Nickelodeon]]'s shows ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]'' and ''[[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius|The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius]]'' had three cross-over [[Made for TV Movie|Made For TV Movies]]: "The [[Jimmy Timmy Power Hour]]", "Jimmy-Timmy II: When Nerds Collide", and "Jimmy-Timmy III: Jerkinators".

* Disney took this to another extreme with ''[[Lilo & Stitch: The Series|Lilo and Stitch The Series]]'', doing [[wikipedia:Lilo & Stitch: The Series#Cross-Overs|several specials]] that crossed it over with a bunch of the other shows on Disney Channel. Of course, this fits with the movie's initial marketing push, showing Stitch crossing over with various Disney movies, wrecking the place, and being told to get his own movie.

** And the fact that, by extension, ''[[American Dragon: Jake Long]]'' is set in the same universe as ''[[Lilo and Stitch (Disney film)|LiloandLilo and Stitch]]'', ''[[Kim Possible]]'', and ''[[Recess]]'' has lots of strange implications...

** It's ''very'' confusing with ''[[Recess]]'', as it's made explicitly clear in the series that it takes place over the course of the Fall of 1997 until the Summer of 1998 (and then Fall 1998 for ''Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade''), even for the episodes made in the 2000s (this is firmly established in ''[[Recess: School's Out|Recess Schools Out]]'')

** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130522090344/http://media.screened.com/uploads/0/5735/318691-thesimpsons_super.jpg The Agents asked if any of the following aliens are familiar]: [[Looney Tunes|Marvin the Martian]], [[ALF]], [[Star Wars|Chewbacca]], and [[The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 film)||Gort]].