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It makes quite a difference whether the crossover reveals that the characters have supposedly been sharing the same world the whole time; or if they're "just" from [[Another Dimension]]. While not as big a deal if both series are "relatively" realistic, such as Crime Dramas, if each show has its own version of fantastic events a la [[Fantasy]] or [[Science Fiction]]; then the implication is that these elements have been [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink|existing side by side the whole time, unaware of each other.]] It also makes for some great [[Fridge Logic]]. "Hey, Problem A for Cast B is no big deal, if Cast A and B are friends, why don't they just ask for help?" Of course, [[Reed Richards Is Useless]].
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 March 2008) 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-four'' series (as of March 2012) 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)|Mash]], [[Cop Rock]]'', and ''[[Home Improvement]]'' 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.)
It has been noted on this and other sites that the web of crossovers connects many shows, directly or indirectly, to ''[[St Elsewhere]]''. Since that entire series was shown in its final episode to be the fantasy of an autistic mental patient, we might reasonably conclude that the whole of television is [[All Just a Dream]]. In the words of [[Dwayne McDuffie]], one of the executive producers of ''[[Justice League (animation)|Justice League]]'', "The last five minutes of ''[[St Elsewhere]]'' is the only television show, ever. Everything else is a daydream."
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* ''[[Slayers]] VS [[Sorcerer Stabber Orphen|Orphen]]''
* Rodimus's backstory in ''[[Transformers Energon]]'' states that he left Cybertron with a band of Autobots and "traveled into the future", which reflects the ending of ''Transformers: The Headmasters'', in which he ventures off into space to find/found a new home planet.
* To promote the [[Jump Super Stars]] game for the DS, a manga was included for those who preordered drawn by the people behind ''[[Eyeshield 21]]''. A standard "sucked into a world to defeat the villain" affair but damn if its not cool seeing [[Naruto]], [[One Piece|Luffy]], [[Dragon Ball|Goku]], [[Ichigo 100%|Toujou]], and [[
* 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!
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* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/899535/1/Heero_Potter_Yr_01 Heero Potter], where [[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing|Heero Yuy]] is [[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry's]] son, Duo Maxwell is Duo Weasley, Trowa Barton is Trowa Weasley, and Quatre Raberba Winner is Quatre Malfoy. I never knew the After Colony years started sometime soon after ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' allegedly ended.
* 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.
* ''[[Stars Above]]'', a crossover between ''[[Lucky Star]]'' and ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]''. [["Not Making This Up" Disclaimer|Yes, really.]]
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'' and ''[[BattleTech]]'' crossovers have a bit of popularity due to the similarity of their FTL systems.
* [[Connecting the Dots|"Connecting the Dots."]], a intercontinuity crossover between the [[Justice League of America]] and [[Naruto]], along with a few thousand random cultural references. Think Superman fighting Naruto.
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** The Doctor and Rose showed up for a panel of [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy Season 8]], which means that aliens and demons may (if it's canon) exist in the same universe.
** The ''[[Doctor Who]]''/''[[Eastenders]]'' crossover (of very dubious quality, but it was for charity) ''Dimensions in Time'' could also be mentioned, although it's [[Fake Crossover|actually not in either of the shows' continuities]] (and indeed, since then they've [[Mutually Fictional|both featured each other as fictional programmes]]).
** The ''Kaldor City'' [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe]] audio dramas written by Chris Boucher and produced by Magic Bullet are set in the titular city from the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story ''The Robots of Death'' (also by Boucher), but feature Scott Fredericks reprising the role of Psychostrategist Carnell from the ''[[Blake's
** Similarly, back in the heyday of [[Marvel Comics]]' British arm, there were several crossovers between the [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe]] (or at least the ''[[Doctor Who Magazine|DWM]]'' comics branch of it) and the [[Marvel Universe]]. The first and most notable was the Special Executive, a [[Time Travel|Time Travelling]] [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]] created by Alan Moore. Originally introduced in ''DWM'' as Ancient Gallifrey's Special Ops, they later appeared in Moore's ''Captain Britain'', where they were mercenaries.
** Marvel also linked ''Doctor Who'' with ''[[Transformers]]'', by way of bounty hunter (sorry, "freelance peacekeeping agent") Death's Head. This is a borderline case, however, as the linkage only occurred when Death's Head fell through a dimensional rift from the Marvel UK ''[[Transformers]]'' universe and ran into the Doctor as a result.
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* Although it's all from the same company, this schtick is a favorite of [[Nippon Ichi]]. Characters tend to show up in each other's games with reckless abandon, ranging from minor cameos to secret characters to actual plot-relevance. Laharl ends up in a bottle in ''[[Phantom Brave]]'' and chews out Revya in ''[[Soul Nomad and The World Eaters]]'' for trying to take his title. Etna is a central secondary character in ''[[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories]]''. Lujei (from ''[[Grim Grimoire]]'') is responsible for Endorph (who is really {{spoiler|Walnut from ''Phantom Brave''}}) appearing in ''Soul Nomad''. Everyone of any importance shows up in ''[[Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice]]'' as downloadable content. And to top it off, you have Asagi, the wandering protagonist without a game of her own, trying to usurp the hero role in almost every game.
* Interesting crossover here, in ''[[Devil May Cry]]''. Dante receives the sword named Alastor, imbued with an electrical motif. Later on in ''[[Viewtiful Joe]]'', a character named Alastor appears, complete with the electrical motif. The connection is later made in the [[PlayStation 2|PS2]] port of ''Viewtiful Joe'' in which Dante guest stars and Alastor harbors some unfriendly feelings towards Dante.
** After this, the connection is pushed forward in [[
* Free Flash game crossover: In ''[[Shift]] 3'' you can unlock [[Fancy Pants Adventures|Fancy Pants Man]] as a [[Secret Character]].
* ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]'' featured a bonus minigame where Solid Snake is assigned capture a bunch of escaped monkeys from the ''[[Ape Escape]]'' series. In turn, ''Ape Escape 3'' featured a bonus mini-game where the player controls a monkey named Pipo Snake who must rescue Solid Snake.
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** And, as a result, aliens are now [[Canon]] in ''[[Recess]]'' and ''[[The Proud Family]]''... Which seems kinda odd, considering how relatively realistic their premises were.
*** Though it does somewhat fit with ''[[The Proud Family]]'''s usual weirdness. Heck, Penny's great-aunt canonically has telekinetic powers.
** And the fact that, by extension, ''[[American Dragon: Jake Long]]'' is set in the same universe as ''[[Lilo and Stitch (Disney film)|Liloand 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]]'')
* In one episode of ''[[Duck Dodgers]]'', Dodgers gets his dry cleaning mixed up with [[Green Lantern|Hal Jordan's]] and ends up as the newest Green Lantern when he finds the power ring in Jordan's uniform pocket.
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