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A [[Crossover]] that involves characters from more than two shows or more than two [[Ficton|fictons]].
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* The ''[[Giant Robo]]'' [[OVA]] series featured characters taken from several other series Misuteru Yokoyama -- the original creator of ''[[Giant Robo]]''/''Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot'' -- had written. This included adaptations of the medieval Chinese stories ''Romance Of The Three Kingdoms'' and ''The Water Margins'', which led to many main and secondary characters in ancient Chinese clothing coexisting with people in three-piece suits [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]. It also included the very first [[Magical Girl]], ''Mahotsukai Sally'' (''Sally, the Witch''), under her original name "Sunny", as Shockwave Alberto's daughter.
* Legendary Manga creator [[Osamu Tezuka]] similarly uses [[Reused Character Design|Reused Character Designs]], wherein a character from a previous work will actually play a different role in another story, [[Animated Actors|as if they were an actor or actress]]. The Game Boy Advance game ''[[Astro Boy]]: Omega Factor'' pulls nearly all of them into one massive story.
* ''[http://www.bedetheque.com/Couvertures/DragonFall5_17022007.jpg DragonFall]'' blended [[
* The intro to the [[Rumiko Takahashi]] gallery show ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf953nWYSlA It's a Rumic World]'' explicitly crosses over ''[[Ranma One Half]], [[Urusei Yatsura]],'' and ''[[Inuyasha]]''.
* ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'' has the characters jumping from [[Alternate Universe]] to [[Alternate Universe]] filled with [[CLAMP]] characters from their various series.
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** Their first crossover happened in ''Clamp Campus Detectives'' since the three main character were in series/stories on their own before CCD: Nokoru Imonoyama in Duklyon, Akira Ijuin in ''20 Mask ni Onegai'' (Man of Twenty Masks) and supposedly Suou Takamura showed up in an old oneshot. Then there was ''X/1999'' where characters from past CLAMP series started appearing, including Subaru, the main character of ''[[Tokyo Babylon]]'', as a major character, and during his series set in the early 90s it was said that he would have a role in [[Endofthe World As We Know It]] that is X, making for a bit of [[Foreshadowing]].
* ''[[Kyoshiro to Towa no Sora]]'' is primarily a crossover of the mangaka and studio's previous works: ''[[Kannazuki no Miko]]'', ''[[Steel Angel Kurumi]]'', ''[[Magical Nyan Nyan Taruto]]'', and ''[[UFO Princess Valkyrie]]''.
* Before ''Dengeki Gakuen RPG: Cross of Venus'' (mentioned below), there was [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CksYnT1qO8 this animated short] produced for Dengeki Bunko's 2007 Movie Festival, featuring chibi versions of characters from ''[[Kino's Journey]], [[Inukami!]]'' and ''[[Shakugan no Shana]]'' (Note that the chibi Shana here is '''not''' [[Omake|Shana-tan]]; for one, ''she'' is the stalker rather than said omake series' Kazumi.).
* While most [[Go Nagai]] series contain cameos here and there, the recent ''[[Shin Mazinger]]'' seems to be going the whole way. Characters from several alternate versions of ''[[Mazinger Z]]'' have shown up, as well as characters from [[Violence Jack]] (itself, a [[Deconstruction Crossover]]) and the titular demon from ''[[
** ''Chibi Chara Go Nagai World'' was a crossover which featured SD versions of ''[[Mazinger Z]]'', ''[[
* The ''[[Pretty Cure All Stars]]'' movie series allows the Cures from the past seasons to meet (and be friends with) the new team.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]'' has a [[Superhero]] team composed of multiple [[Public Domain Character|public domain characters]].
* ''[[Crisis
* ''[[Fables]]'' is about various figures from fairy tales and folklore living secretly in a neighborhood in NYC.
* ''[[Planetary]]'' is about an investigative super-team in the Wild Storm universe. Their members have had run-ins with [[Dracula]], [[Sherlock Holmes]], Jenny Sparks from ''[[The Authority]]'' and multiple versions of [[
* ''[[Dykes to Watch Out For|The Indelible Alison Bechdel]]'' offered a mash-up of various lesbian and gay comic artists, who threw their characters into the same world for a party. As the mash-up included Diane DiMassa, creator of ''Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist'', the results were hilarious.
* ''[[
* A non-canon ''[[Judge Dredd]]'' story in the 1980 ''[[Dan Dare]]'' annual had Tharg bring all the popular characters currently being published in ''[[
* ''[[Superman]] and [[Batman]] versus [[Aliens]] and [[Predator]]''
* The [[Alan Moore]] comic [[Albion]] shoves together a whole bunch of British comic characters of varying obsurity, most of whom are imprisoned by the Government as part of [[The Masquerade]].
* [[Shi]]/[[Cyblade]]: The Battle for Independents featured many independent comic book characters, including [[Cerebus]], [[Bone]], [[Hellboy (
* ''[[Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash]]'', and its sequel ''Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash: The Nightmare Warriors''.
* Dark Horse comics had ''[[Alien]] versus [[Predator]] versus [[The Terminator]]''.
* ''[[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Fantastic Four]]: True Story'' has the FF traveling to the realm of fiction, that is attacked by Nightmare, lord of the dreamworld. To fight him they join forces with [[The Divine Comedy
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'' crossed over Disney characters with Warner Bros. and MGM characters, saying that they all co-existed with humans [[Animated Actors|as actors in Hollywood]], and that they all hail from "[[Toon|Toontown]]", which seemed to be half Los Angeles and half [[Alternate Universe]].
* ''[[The Monster Squad]]'' had Dracula as the [[Big Bad]] who controlled all of the other classic movie monsters: [[Frankenstein|Frakenstein's Monster]], the [[Wolf Man]], the [[Creature
* [http://video.yahoo.com/watch/411762/2393937 The Area 52 scene] in ''[[Looney Tunes: Back in Action]]'' involved the heroes facing off against Marvin the Martian, who led a group of sci-fi aliens which included [[The Day of the Triffids|a Triffid plant]], the eponymous ''[[Robot Monster]]'', the mutant from ''[[This Island Earth]]'' and even ''freaking [[Doctor Who|Daleks]]!''
* Many [[Seltzer and Friedberg]] works, such as ''Epic Movie'' and ''Disaster Movie'', could be considered [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover|Massive Multiplayer Crossovers]], insofar as they feature many characters and plot elements (or [[Shallow Parody|weak parodies]] thereof) from recent movies and mash them all together. By all rights, this really ''should'' produce something worth watching on some level.
* A version of this in ''[[Star Trek Generations]]'', which featured the captains of two Enterprises from completely different eras (Kirk and Picard) in the same film. ''[[Star Trek]]'' has done this numerous times, if you consider the different series separate entities of the same intellectual property.
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* And with horror-movie creatures in the ''Waxwork'' movies.
* ''[[Toy Story]]'' features many toys from rival companies as major or minor characters including Mr. Potato Head, Barbie, and Legos among many others. (And probably some [[Expy|expies]] too.)
* ''[[The Avengers (
* In 1959 a movie was released called ''[[Alias Jessie James]]'' starring [[Bob Hope]], who was a big fan of TV westerns; he used his clout to include characters from nine different shows in what would turn out to be the first of three Western massive multiplayer crossovers. People appeared in that movie from ''[[The Lone Ranger]]'', ''[[The Gene Autry Show]]'', ''[[Annie Oakley]]'', ''[[Davy Crockett]]'', ''[[The Life And Legend Of Wyatt Earp]]'', ''[[Gunsmoke]]'', ''[[Wagon Train]]'', ''[[Roy Rogers|The Roy Rogers Show]]'' and ''[[Maverick (TV series)|Maverick]]''.
* In the 40th Anniversary ''OOO, Den-O, All Riders: Let's Go [[Kamen Rider]]'' has all of the main riders from [[Kamen Rider (TV series)|Kamen Rider #1]] to ''[[Kamen Rider OOO]]''.
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** A fairly extensive list of specific references can be found [http://www.anitra.net/commonwealth/refindex.html here].
* [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[The Number of the Beast]]'' features a [[Time Travel]] device that does double duty as a portal into [[The Multiverse]], allowing his characters to visit every fictional universe ever, including all of Heinlein's own novels. They coin the term "World as Myth" to describe the [[Recursive Canon]] necessary to make this work, and wind up hosting a convention for just about every [[Science Fiction]] character ever.
* Spider Robinson's ''[[Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
* [[Simon R. Green]]'s ''[[Nightside]]'' take place in a secret city under London that's a giant crossoverfest. John Taylor, Green's protagonist, has met characters from all manner of books, movies, television shows, and other assorted places though they are largely referred to in vague, shadowy terms so he doesn't violate the copyrights too badly. There's everything from a [[Doctor Who|Traveling Doctor]] who had a trick with celery to having to exorcise Kandarian demons from his answering machine to giant 'bears of little brain' that work for the auction house.
** For even more fun, representatives from most of Green's other series (the ''[[Deathstalker]]'' novels, the ''Darkwood'' books, etc) show up, waiting around to speak to Father Time.
* While [[Neil Gaiman]]'s short story ''A Study in Emerald'' is primarily a crossover between the works of [[
* ''[[A Night in
* And again in [[Roger Zelazny]]'s book "Roadmarks" where Red runs across a short man with a small mustache whom Red refers to as "Adolph" driving a battered black Volkswagen, and later on in the book he makes a call to someone he calls "Doc", who is described as "A big golden-eyed guy with one hell of a suntan, wearing a torn shirt, and driving a hot little 1920's roadster" which could only have been [[Doc Savage]].
** [[Doc Savage]] villain John Sunlight also makes an appearance.
* Zelazny was a comic book reader and fan. In _Blood of Amber_ Merlin has dinner at Bloody (Last Deceased Owner's Name)'s place--Boody Andy's at the time--while a gent (with a pronounced scar through his eye) eats at a neighboring table and warns Merlin to show a blade so the local roughs get no ideas. "Old John" was clearly John Ostrander and Tim Truman's mercenary John Gaunt (aka Grinner, [[Grim Jack]]) from Cynosure, a cross-dimensional city in a multiverse adjacent to Amber. The two roughs did not last the night.
* The works of [[Dr. Seuss]] were combined into a Broadway musical called ''[[Seussical]]'', which mainly takes its story from ''[[
** Jim Henson's ''The Wubbulous World of Dr Seuss'' did something similar, with Yertle the Turtle as a recurring villain.
* Stephen King's [[The Dark Tower]] series spans across the majority of his prior works.
* The ''[[Harold Shea]]'' series of short stories are about Harold and company visiting various [[The Verse|settings]] taken from mythology and [[Public Domain Character|public domain fiction]], usually one per story.
* Brazilian author [[wikipedia:Monteiro Lobato|Monteiro Lobato]] took this trope to [[Rule of Cool|insane]] [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|levels]] in his kid's books set in the ''Yellow Woodpecker Farm''. The eponymous farm is an interdimensional nexus to, essentially, every fantasy and adventure fiction character ever written, including but not limited to the Greek Gods, [[Sherlock Holmes]], the Neverland people, the ''[[
* [[Jasper Fforde|Jasper Fforde's]] like this trope a lot. Pretty much every Bookworld character in the [[Thursday Next]] series comes from another book. According to the rules of its [[The Verse|universe]] ''every'' book crosses over with it. [[Meta Fiction|Including itself]]. Many of the characters from the Nursery Crimes series [[Exactly What It Says
* Peter David wrote two novels where X-Men characters appeared in the Star Trek: The Next Generation universe.
* [[L. Frank Baum]] did this in the fourth book of the Oz series, ''The Road to Oz,'' by inviting characters from his other books to attend Princess Ozma's birthday party, hoping to get his Oz readers interested in those other non-Oz stories. This included everybody up to and including [[Santa Claus]] (as in ''The Life and Adventures of''). The implication, of course, is that every book Baum ever wrote takes place in the same universe as the Oz books.
* James A. Owen's ''Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica'' does this with pretty much every major work of fantasy, history, and real life. It's awesome.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* The "Night of Elizabeth Taylor", broadcast on CBS around 1995-96, saw a diamond necklace lost by [[Elizabeth Taylor]] became a common plot element linking four [[
* Disney did a triple-episode MMC with three of its shows. The show was entitled ''[[That's So Raven|That's So]] [[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody|Suite Life Of]] [[Hannah Montana]]'', with one classed as a Suite Life episode, one as a Raven episode, and one as a Hannah Montana episode, where Hannah and Raven visited the hotel the twins live in.
** Likewise, there's the ''Wish Gone Amiss'' triple-episode, except it is more loosely tied together. It all involves the title characters from ''[[Cory in The House]]'', ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]]'', and ''[[Hannah Montana]]'' making a wish on apparently the same shooting star. Each episode has its own method of returning to the [[Status Quo Is God|Status Quo]] -- Cory gets a literal [[Reset Button]], Zack and Cody's wish was [[All Just a Dream|all just Zack's dream]], and Hannah returns her life to normal when Jackson unwittingly wishes that the world did not know Hannah's double life.
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* ''[[Kamen Rider Decade]]'' is this in regards to the Heisei era ''[[Kamen Rider]]'' shows. The main character dimension jumps into [[Alternate Universe|alternate universes]] based on the 9 previous ''[[Kamen Rider]]'' series of the last 10 years (as well as the canonical universe of ''[[Samurai Sentai Shinkenger]]''). Plus, the first movie features every main Rider created before Decade, even ones that only had appeared in one-shot movies previously.
** The second movie, a [[Grand Finale]], even includes some [[Post Modernism]] commentary on the "interesting effects on the fiction chosen" mentionned in the opening paragraphs. To quote the original universe [[Kamen Rider Kiva|Wataru]]: "The tales of the Riders were something that would be eventually lost to time. But because of Decade's battles, they will remain fresh in people's minds..."
* Similarly to ''[[Kamen Rider Decade]]'', ''[[
** There's also ''[[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger vs. Space Sheriff Gavan:
*** Perfectly justified that Inazuma Ginga in [[Taiyou Sentai Sun Vulcan|Sun Vulcan]] episode 45 was wanted by the Galactic Police. Shozo Uehara who wrote the character would be the main writer of the Space Sheriff trilogy.
** It all comes to a head with ''[[Kamen Rider
* ''[http://www.childrenspartyatthepalace.com/ The Children's Party at the Palace]'', a British production broadcast live from Buckingham Palace on June 25, 2006, celebrated Queen Elizabeth II's 80th birthday with a wild romp featuring dozens of literary and TV characters including (among many others) Cruella DeVille, [[Peter Pan]] and Captain Hook, Sir Topham Hatt from ''[[Thomas the Tank Engine]]'', [[Wallace and Gromit]], the White Rabbit from ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'', [[Enid Blyton]]'s ''The Famous Five'', [[Harry Potter]], Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger and Neville Longbottom from the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' movies, and starred the Queen as herself.
* The ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'' episode "Inna-Gadda-Sabrina" extended its story through the following three shows that night: ''[[Boy Meets World]]'', ''You Wish'', and ''[[Teen Angel]]''. Each show was set in a different time period in going with the theme.
** It wasn't the first time - in fact, quite a few crossovers spanned the entire TGIF lineup from time to time, and even an occasional though less involving tie-in for all ABC weekly sitcoms during this period.
** There was also one that was linked by Steve Urkel. He ends one episode of ''[[Family Matters]]'' by blasting through the Winslow's roof in a jet pack, and he crashes into the Lambert's roof at the beginning of the an episode of ''[[Step
* A very simple one, but the ''iStart A Fan War'' episode of ''[[
* ''[[A Muppet Family Christmas]]'' included characters from all Muppet-related programmes: ''[[The Muppet Show]]'', ''[[Sesame Street]]'', ''[[Fraggle Rock]]'' and even ''[[Muppet Babies]]''.
** Its conclusion even featured [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|a brief cameo of Jim Henson as himself]].
* In ''[[Doctor Who]]'', the climax of the Second Doctor serial ''The Mind Robber''. D'Artagnan vs. Cyrano de Bergerac! Blackbeard vs. Sir Lancelot! Plus Gulliver and Rapunzel on the sidelines.
* ''[[Law and Order]]'' crossed over with ''[[Homicide: Life On the Street]]'' a few times, until they eventually just decided they were set in the same continuity altogether, to the point of having [[John Munch]], who originated in the latter show, permanently set up shop in the former.
* [http://home.vicnet.net.au/~kwgow/crossovers.html The Tommy Westphall Hypothesis] states that dozens if not hundreds of television series have all happened within the mind of [[St Elsewhere|a young autistic boy living in Baltimore]].
** [[John Munch]] is a central figure in this Hypothesis.
* ''[[The Earth Day Special]]'', which aired on [[ABC]] in 1990, was a huge crossover featuring just about every pop culture icon from [[The Eighties]] in a very bizarre, thoroughly nonsensical plot.
** Also in 1990, ''[[Cartoon All
* In the ''[[
* The 2009 ''[[Two Pints of Lager and
* The second western MMC took place a year after the first on what seemed to be an ordinary episode of ''[[Maverick (TV series)|Maverick]]'' called "Hadley's Hunters"; during the course of that hour he ran into people from 5 other shows: ''[[
** Strangely he also ran into the parking lot attendant from ''[[77 Sunset Strip]]'' which was set in the 1960s -- I guess he had an ancestor who lived in the old west.
* The final western MMC took place over 30 years later in the made for tv movie ''The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw'', where the title character crosses over with 10 different series. During the course of the film [[The Gambler]] meets people from ''[[Bat Masterson]]'', ''[[The Life And Legend Of Wyatt Earp]]'', ''[[Maverick (TV series)|Maverick]]'', ''[[Cheyenne]]'', ''[[
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== [[New Media]] ==
* Weezer's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muP9eH2p2PI Pork And Beans] music video. It's got almost everything that ever appeared on Youtube short of OK Go and [[
** There's an [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjbahK6Rk0U updated version]. It is as though the internet gave birth.
* The Machinima "Beans". Firstly, it crosses over characters from three different series and is made by three different machinima directors, then the storyline involves various internet memes... Oh. And it's made on ''[[Super Smash Bros]]''. Making it a crossover on a crossover.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[
** ''[[
* This is effectively what defines the [[Mascot Fighter]] genre.
* A staple of store demo displays in the later 90s, Sega produced ''[[Fighters Megamix]]'', a crossover of ''[[Virtua Fighter]]'', ''[[Fighting Vipers]]'', and a couple one-off games such as ''[[Virtua Cop]]'', ''[[
* [[Capcom vs. Whatever|Capcom's "VS" series]]:
** The [[Marvel vs. Capcom]] games, (''[[
** Following this is the [[
** And then there is ''[[
** ''[[
** Only related through the VS. series via the appearance of ''one'' Capcom series rather than ''multiple'' but what the heck: ''[[
** There's also ''[[
** ''[[
* Even before ''Tatsunoko vs. Capcom'', there was a [[Fighting Game]] called ''[[Tatsunoko Fight]]'', which pitted four Tatsunoko superhero anime (and one original made-up anime) characters, along with their females/sidekicks and villains.
* Capcom's own [[Mascot Fighter]]: ''[[
* In contrast, the ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' series (almost certainly the originator of this trope in video game form) has magnificent, complex plots, and the individual games have touched upon nearly every [[Humongous Mecha]] series in existence. Particular of note is how they merge individual ''episodes'' to make missions, including having the famous "dancing" episode of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' set on [[Macross]] Island.
** Additionally, ''[[Super Robot Wars Original Generation]]'' is a Massively Multiplayer Crossover of various ''Super Robot Wars'' [[Original Generation|original characters]] (as each ''Super Robot Wars'' sub-series is set in its own universe)
*** Furthermore, ''[[Super Robot Wars]] OG Saga: [[Endless Frontier]]'' is a crossover between ''[[Super Robot Wars Original Generation]]'' and ''[[
** And to top it all off, ''[[Another
* ''[[Chaos Wars]]'' uses a similar SRPG system to ''Super Robot Wars'', but instead has more typical JRPG heroes from Atlus, RED, Idea Factory, and Aruze. This doesn't sound all that impressive -- outside of Atlus and ''maybe'' Idea Factory those companies are virtually unknown in the States, until you realize this includes ''[[Shadow Hearts]]'' (Aruze), ''Growlanser'' (Atlus), ''Spectral Souls'' (Idea Factory), and ''[[Gungrave]]'' (RED). A sequel has been talked about, and there are hints that ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]''/''[[Persona]]'' characters may make it in, and that [[Nippon Ichi]] might be invited to join the other 4 designers in the next series.
** And ditto ''[[Trinity Universe (
* Yet another pastiche of ''SRW'' would be ''[[Battle Moon Wars]]'' which merges the three major published [[Nasuverse]] canons together: ''[[Tsukihime]]'', ''[[Fate/stay
* ''[[Super Smash Bros]]'' has a number of first- and second-party Nintendo characters fighting each other - and the third iteration of the series, ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'', has taken it a step further, including Solid Snake from Konami's ''[[Metal Gear]]'' games and Mario's longtime rival, Sega's [[Sonic the Hedgehog]].
** There are also various fanmade Smash Bros. clones, then most notable example being the ''[[Super Smash Flash]]'' series for its inclusion of more third-party characters and anime characters.
* Square-Enix's ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' series merges nearly every movie in the [[Disney Animated Canon]] and some outside of it with the feel and characters of the ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series (though, just like the ''Tsubasa'' example above, the Disney characters are alternate universe incarnations, as implicitly stated in the ''[[Tron]]'' world).
* On the PSP is ''[[
* ''Tales of the World'', Namco's set of [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]] games for their ''[[Tales
** A recent download introduces Taki and Mitsurugi from ''[[Soul Series|Soulcalibur]]'' for use as well.
** ''Tales of VS'' has recently been announced. It's a [[Fighting Game]] that we have been told is going to have a total of 35 characters from 13 different ''[[Tales
** ''[[
* As noted above, ''[[Astro Boy]]: Omega Factor'' for the GBA contains characters from many of Osamu Tezuka's works. You gain levels by meeting new characters.
* ''[[Fusion Fall|Cartoon Network: Fusion Fall]]'' is a [[Cartoon Network]] MMORPG that combines their various original series (including ''Codename [[Kids Next Door]]'', ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'', ''[[
* ''[[Another
* ''[[Mortal Kombat]] vs. [[DC Universe]]'', where blood-thirsty kombatants and superheroes beat up each other due to a [[Hate Plague]] spread by an ugly fusion of two [[Big Bad|Big Bads]].
* THQ's ''[[Nicktoons Unite!]]'' series, merging various [[Nickelodeon|Nicktoons]] with ''[[
* ''[[Gundam vs. Series|Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam vs. Gundam]]'' is an arcade [[Fighting Game]] with a [[Crisis Crossover]] [[Excuse Plot]] that throws all thirty years of the ''[[Gundam]]'' franchise together so characters like [[Mobile Suit Gundam|Amuro]], [[G Gundam|Domon]], [[Gundam Wing|Heero]], [[Gundam Seed|Kira]], and [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00|Setsuna]] can beat the stuffing out of each other.
** Similarly, there is ''[[Gundam|Dynasty Warriors]]'' that has several stories focusing on different pilots teaming up into two forces because of this. Eventually, you can even have different pilots using different mecha.
* ''Dengeki Gakuen RPG: Cross of Venus'' is a [[Nintendo DS]] [[Action RPG]] that throws ''[[Shakugan no Shana]]'', ''[[Iriya no Sora UFO no Natsu]]'', ''[[Kino's Journey]]'', ''[[To Aru Majutsu no Index]]'', ''[[Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu]]'', ''[[Bludgeoning Angel
* ''[[Dream Mix TV World Fighters]]'' is a fairly bizarre crossover [[Fighting Game]] featuring characters from [[Konami]], [[Hudson Soft]], and [[Takara]]. It's a shame it wasn't very good; where else could you pit [[
* ''[[Magical Battle Arena]]'' is a 3D flying [[Fighting Game]] that pits the female mages and [[Magical Girl|Magical Girls]] of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'', ''[[
* ''[[Jump Super Stars]]'' has characters from dozens of ''Weekly Shonen Jump'' series in a ''[[Super Smash Bros]]''-style battle royale.
** Similarly, ''Battle Stadium D.O.N.'' is the same, but specifically has characters from ''[[
* Speaking of which, Shounen Sunday and Shounen Magazine are looking to take a bite out of ''Jump Super Stars'' together with ''[[
* ''[[Quake]] III'' (and by extension, ''[http://www.quakelive.com Quake Live]'') included the ''[[Doom]]'' guy, the ''Quake'' marine, the ''Quake II'' marine and the guy from ''[[
** The mod ''[http://www.wireheadstudios.org/generations/ Generations Arena]'' takes the above concept and runs with it, extending the crossover to the ''gameplay'' via five classes, each adapting the gameplay of said five games to the ''Quake III'' engine, right down to the finest details. ''Doom'''s fast-paced battles and BFG against ''Quake'''s flexible air control and powerful rocket launcher? You got it.
** And that's not even including custom skins, with which the crossovers skyrocket through the roof.
* [[MUGEN]] is a customizable 2D fighting engine that permits end users to homebrew reproductions of any other character in the entire genre, and create unique ones. Fighters already exist for every "vs" title released and almost every fighting games, and can be crossed over in unique ways.
* [[Nippon Ichi]] has recently released a new one in Japan with a release coming in summer 2010 to the US, [[Trinity Universe (
** Also, [[Disgaea 3 Absence of Justice]] has characters from almost all [[Nippon Ichi]] Series. Including the entire cast of the earlier Disgaea games. [[Makai Kingdom]], [[Soul Nomad]], [[Phantom Brave]] and [[La Pucelle]]
* [http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=271473 This] [[Game Mod]] for Civilization IV has an [[All Myths Are True|All Fiction is True]] premise, allowing for a player to fight wars and build empires as several famous fictional leaders ranging from [[The Iliad
* The [[Square Enix]] board game series ''Itadaki Street'' has character crossovers of [[Dragon Quest]] with either [[Final Fantasy]] or [[Super Mario]] depending on the game. Though traditionally [[No Export for You]], a Western release has been announced for the [[Wii]] as ''[[
* [http://www.cinemassacre.com/2010/05/03/fan-games-cameo-founder-of-ljn-passes-away/ Mentioned] by [[The Angry Video Game Nerd
* The fan-made ''[[Mushroom Kingdom Fusion]]'' combines a wide variety of classic and contemporary video game characters and universes together into one game. For starters, playable characters include [[Super Mario Bros.|Mario and Luigi, Wario]], [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic and Tails]], [[The Legend of Zelda
* ''[[Indie Brawl]]'', a [[Fighting Game]] à la [[Super Smash Bros]], but with characters from the Indie Gaming culture.
* ''[[
** In theory, expansions or further installments could potentially include characters from just about any video game you could name (in practice, any character owned by a company too chicken to go in on a project solely on the basis that it's a cool idea can be struck from the list).
* Any [[Wii]] game that uses Miis as playable characters or NPCs can become this if you make enough of them.
* ''[[Playstation Move Heroes]]'', featuring [[Jak and Daxter]], [[Ratchet and Clank]], and [[Sly Cooper]] ([[My Friends and Zoidberg|and Bentley]]).
** ''[[
* ''[[Gwange Dash
* The ''Macross Frontier'' PSP game series allows you to play all [[Macross]] universes. The recent title, ''Macross Triangle Frontier'', covers ''[[Macross Zero]]'', ''[[Macross]]'' (as well as '' Do You Remember Love''), ''[[Macross Plus]]'', ''[[Macross 7]]'', ''Macross Dynamite 7'', ''[[Macross Frontier]]'' (as well as ''Macross Frontier: The False Songstress'') and ''Macross 2''.
* In a more literal example, ''[[Minecraft]]'' allows anyone to make their own character skins, which leads to 20+ characters all working together to build a house/civilisation and mine for diamonds.
* ''[[Cartoon Network Punch Time Explosion]]'' is a Smash Bros. clone with [[Exactly What It Says
* ''[[Heroes Phantasia]]'' is an upcoming RPG from [[Namco Bandai|Banpresto]], featuring ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'', ''[[Slayers]]'', ''[[Darker Than Black]]'', ''[[Mai
* [[Konami]]'s [[MSX|MSX2]] Mahjong game ''Hai no Majutsushi'' featured eight mascots from various other Konami games: [[Maze of Galious|Popolon, Aphrodite]], [[Antarctic Adventure|Pentarou]], [[Ganbare Goemon|Goemon]], [[Gradius|Dr. Venom]], a [[Snatcher]], a [[Eenie Meenie Miny Moai|moai]], and a perverted version of [[Castlevania|Simon Belmont]].
* NES pirate cartridge ''Kart Fighter'' drops the characters from ''[[
* The ''[[Warriors Orochi]]'' games has the characters of both [[Dynasty Warriors]] and [[Samurai Warriors]] dropped into the same setting due to the [[Big Bad]] messing around with time to seek out powerful warriors to challenge him. Along for the ride are some mythical beings exclusive to the series and by the third game, [[Dead or Alive|Ayane]], [[Ninja Gaiden|Ryu Hayabusa]], Achilles of [[Warriors: Legends of Troy]], Nemea of [[Trinity Souls of Zill Oll]] and Jeanne d'Arc of Bladestorm.
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* ''[[Kevin and Kell]]'' and ''[[General Protection Fault]]'' had an arc where two GPF characters wandered into K&K's Domain world. The artists managed to work the events into ''both'' their storylines that were running at the time, and apparently drew a strip each day--both had two-strip days where the storyline advanced.
* ''Starslip Crisis: Alterverse War'' is a mashup of a large number of science fiction webcomics, and had just started as of October 2007.
* The webcomics ''[[
** Choo-Choo Bear hired the Pet Professional from the webcomic of the same name to kill his homicidal cousin Twitchy-Hug.
** And recently Davan from S*P has been seen texting with Candy from [http://www.daniellecorsetto.com/gws.html ''Girls with Slingshots''] after running into her at the wedding of Jameson and Maureen.
** Choo-Choo Bear later had kittens with Sprinkles of ''Girls with Slingshots'', one of whom Davan gave to Roz of ''[[Walkyverse|Shortpacked]]!'', and another is by Hazel to her cousin Robyn from [[All New Issues]].
*** Even better, none of those strips have been shy about crossovers of their own. QOW drags in [[Punch and Pie]], which stars its [[Breakout Character]] Angela; ''It's Walky'' pulls in [[Fans]] and [[Avalon (
* ''[[Questionable Content]]'' has crossed over with ''Diesel Sweeties'', which has itself crossed over with ''[[Scary Go Round]]''. ''[[Questionable Content]]'' has also crossed over with ''Applegeeks'', which, having crossed over with ''[[Ctrl
** And the Author of ''[[Ctrl
** Don't forget that ''Applegeeks'' had a major crossover (well, on its end) with ''[[Megatokyo]]'' at one point. Which chains the whole thing to a specific date, making things even crazier.
** It gets better. Questionable Content is now having background extras as characters from other comics like [[Girls
** The cast of Shortpacked has visited the Coffee of Doom coffee house from QC on occasion, including once when both artists did a take on the [http://www.shortpacked.com/2009/comic/book-10/03-the-comedy-laugh/coffeehouse/ same] [http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1550 scene]. Combine that with the S*P [[Intercontinuity Crossover]] Nexus mentioned above, along with all ''their'' respective crossovers, and we have a massive webcomic universe that could give Marvel a run for its money.
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' hosted one of these during the [[Filler Strips|Filler Arc]] "[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=000327 Sluggy Freelance: Where Are You?]" When all of ''Sluggy's'' [[Animated Actors|actors]] are kidnapped (a.k.a. Pete Abrams decides to take some time off) characters from several other webcomics are hired to fill in for them and/or find the kidnappers.
* Several members of the [http://www.webcomicsinc.com/ Webcomics Inc.] social networking site collaborated on a crossover comic, where they made all their characters teen-aged and put them into high school together. The result, [http://www.wcihigh.com WCI High], merged characters from [http://www.goodtimescomic.com/ Good Times], [http://mikeyslife.com/ Mikey's Life], [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php Everyday Heroes], and [http://www.bigsandygilmore.com/ Big Sandy Gilmore].
* [[Least I Could Do]] recently finished the Ultimate Final Civil War Invasion Crisis Thing, which featured the gaming webcomic characters trying to kill the slice-of-life comic characters. ([[Order of the Stick]], meet [[
* [[Ménage à 3]] and [[Sore Thumbs]] crossed over at some point and are implied to be in the same universe, and [[Ménage à 3]] crossed over with [[School Bites]]. If this keeps up we'll wind up with every webcomic crossing over to one another.
* The writer of [[Web Comics/No Rest For The Wicked|No Rest For The Wicked]] footnotes her comics so you can get all the fairy tales she's using characters from.
* [[Final Blasphemy]] has characters from [[Mega Man (
* ''[[
== [[Web Original]] ==
* Although there are [[Journal Roleplay|many similarly-themed RPs]], ''[[Milliways Bar]]'' deserves mention just for its ''size''. The basic premise is that any character from any fandom can find themselves at the titular bar... and sometimes it seems like just about everyone has.
* The Game in which ''[[Life in A Game]]'' takes place seems to take ''all'' video games as true, with [[The Legend of Zelda
* The [[That Guy With
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** All the cast stayed in Chicago for a couple more days to film crossovers after this. Highlights include [[Atop the Fourth Wall
** Later on when faced with Uwe Boll's [[Alone in The Dark]], the Nostalgia Critic gave up on reviewing it. Until! [[The Spoony Experiment
** And kicking off 2010, we have an epic review of [[Dragon Ball Evolution]], starring Paw, LordKat, Rollo T, Hopewithinchaos, and Y Ruler of Time, with guests including [[Yu-Gi-Oh!:
** The [[Kickassia|Two Year Anniversary]] is another huge crossover event. And in turn, it allowed some once-in-a-lifetime crossovers as by this point, quite a few reviewers are from around the world.
** In 2011, things repeated. Y Ruler of Time used MAGFest to do another multiple reviewer crossover (''[[The Last Airbender]]'', with [[Todd in
* How about '''''[[Trope Namer|The]]''' [[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny (
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=867cnxpqmkkzb2bjc06knmpe&page=1 This] roleplay, taking place right here on our own forums. ''[[Princess Tutu]], [[Naruto]], [[Pokémon (
** [[The Massive Multi Fandom RPG|It has its own page now]]. Although technically I'd say it's more of a [[Mega Crossover]].
* ''[http://keisuwabe.shikisokuzekuu.net/page035.html Symphony Of The Blood]'', a fake video game crossover between all the characters of the [[Reused Character Design|Star System]] of [[Osamu Tezuka]].
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Disney owns all the characters it uses plus a whole network. The most recent example is ''[[House of Mouse]]'', which has Mickey and Co. as hosts of a nightclub/theater, with the characters of the feature films as the audience.
* Many classic [[Hanna-Barbera]] characters have been used across the board, in shows like ''[[Laff-
* Nearly all recent [[Warner Bros]] animated television series made references and overt cameos with one another.
* As stated above, the early-90s [[Very Special Episode|public service announcement]] ''[[Cartoon All
* The '80s cartoon ''[[
* Much earlier, in 1972, the one-off animated special ''[[
* ''[[Captain N:
* The [[Children in Need]] music video "Peter Kay's Animated All-Star Band", which features nearly every significant British [[Stop Motion]] characters with a few 2D British and American characters broadcast "live via satellite", including ''[[Roary the Racing Car]]'', ''[[Fifi and
** [[Doing It for
* Done with advertising mascots in the short film ''[[Logorama]]''. [[Better Than It Sounds]]; it won the 2009 Oscar for Best Animated Short.
* ''[[The Rosey And Buddy Show]]'', a 1992 TV special produced by [[Nelvana]], featured not only animated versions of [[Roseanne]] and Tom Arnold, but also the [[Care Bears]], [[Beetlejuice (
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