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In spite of its recently emerging prevalence, this trope is [[Older Than Feudalism]]. The ''[[Argonautica]]'' by Apollonius Rhodius (3rd century BCE) features nearly every ancient Greek mythical hero all going on a quest to find the Golden Fleece.
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* [[Crisis Crossover]] (a company-wide [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]])
** [[Cross Through]] (a company-wide event that affects every series involved without having them cross over)
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* ''[[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 From the Black Lagoon]] and the [[Mummy]]. There is also a cameo by Abraham Van Helsing.
* [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
* 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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== [[Literature]] ==
* [[Science Fiction]] author [[Philip Jose Farmer|Philip José Farmer's]] [
* [[Philip Jose Farmer|Philip José Farmer's]] ''[[Riverworld]]'' series does this with actual people from history.
* [[Kim Newman]] once wrote a short story about Terry and Bob of the British sitcom ''The Likely Lads'' fighting in the Vietnam war with William of Richmal Crompton's old ''Just William'' stories and other fictional characters.
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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 ''[[
* [[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
** 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 [[HP Lovecraft]] and Arthur Conan Doyle, it contains subtle hints that characters such as [[Dracula]], [[Frankenstein]], and Dr. Jekyll also exist in the same universe.
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* 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 [
* [[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 On the Tin|are right out of]] [[Nursery Rhyme|nursery rhymes]].
* Peter David wrote two novels where X-Men characters appeared in the Star Trek: The Next Generation universe.
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* ''[[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 ''[[
* ''[[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]].
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** 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 Series|Tales]]'' games. So far only 8 have been announced. They are: Stahn Aileron and Mighty Kongman from ''[[Tales of Destiny (Video Game)|Tales of Destiny]]'', Kratos Aurion from ''[[Tales of Symphonia (Video Game)|Tales of Symphonia]]'', Richter Abend from ''[[Tales of Symphonia Dawn of the New World (Video Game)|Tales of Symphonia Dawn of the New World]]'', Luke fon Fabre and Anise Tatlin from ''[[Tales of the Abyss (Video Game)|Tales of the Abyss]]'', Shing Meteoryte from ''[[Tales of Hearts (Video Game)|Tales of Hearts]]'', and Yuri Lowell from ''[[Tales of Vesperia (Video Game)|Tales of Vesperia]]''.
** ''[[Tales of Hearts (Video Game)|Tales of Hearts]]'' itself is a borderline example. The cameo summons are somewhere between the trope and a very prominent [[Shout
* 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]]'', ''[[The Powerpuff Girls (Animation)|The Powerpuff Girls]]'', and ''[[Ben 10 (Animation)|Ben 10]]'', among others).
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** 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 (Webcomic)|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 Alt Del]]'', would turn the whole group into one quasi-incestuous ball of webcomics. I'm reasonably certain that [[
** And the Author of ''[[Ctrl Alt Del]]'' exists as a person in the ''[[Penny Arcade]]'' universe, so that means, if you follow the little red thread of universal strings, that he exists in the same plane of existence as his characters..
** 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.
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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 (Web Video)|Linkara]] being force-read his ''own'' Massive Multiplayer Crossover fanfiction by the Sage, the [[Professional Wrestling|Ultimate Warrior]] writes a comic series so bad that reality breaks down and Linkara and [[The Spoony Experiment (Web Video)|Spoony]] keep changing into different [[Alternate Universe]] selves and the Critic and [[The Angry Video Game Nerd (Web Video)|Nerd]] joining forces to review... a Making Of of a [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] Tour. Yeah.
** Later on when faced with Uwe Boll's [[Alone in The Dark]], the Nostalgia Critic gave up on reviewing it. Until! [[The Spoony Experiment (Web Video)|Spoony]] and [[Atop the Fourth Wall (Web Video)|Linkara]] arrived to assist him.
** 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 Abridged Series|LittleKuriboh]], [[Dragon Ball Abridged|MasakoX]] and [[The Happy Video Game Nerd]]. This was recorded while everyone was attending [
** 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 The Shadows]], [[Jesu Otaku]] and [[Rollo T]], plus various cameos). And Year Three had a [[Suburban Knights|crossover series]] and various individual joint reviews (Todd even opens [http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/specials/31178-bmbssm his one] saying that the trip means crossovers... and gets shot down by three people before [[Bad Movie Beatdown (Web Video)|Film Brain]] accepts to watch a movie with him).
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