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* ''[[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.).

** ''Chibi Chara Go Nagai World'' was a crossover which featured SD versions of ''[[Mazinger Z]]'', ''[[Devilman]]'', and ''[[Violence Jack]]'' (with in-story explanations for the characters being SD).

* The ''[[Pretty Cure All Stars]]'' movie series allows the Cures from the past seasons to meet (and be friends with) the new team.

* Done with toys in ''[[Indian in The Cupboard|The Indian In the Cupboard]]''.

* And with horror-movie creatures in the ''Waxwork'' movies.

* ''[[The Avengers (film)|The Avengers]]'' serves as this for the [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]].

* 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]]''.

** 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.

** [[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.

* 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: ''[[Lawman]]'', ''[[Cheyenne]]'', ''[[Bronco]]'', ''[[Sugarfoot]]'', and he stops by the office from ''[[Colt 45]]'' but nobody was home (a reference to the show being recently canceled).

** 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.

 

 

** And then there is ''[[Namco X Capcom]]'', a action/strategy RPG featuring characters from [[Namco]] and [[Capcom]].

** ''[[Street Fighter X Tekken]]'' and ''Tekken x Street Fighter'' however are actual fighting games featuring Namco (''[[Tekken]]'') and Capcom (''[[Street Fighter]]'') characters.

** There's also ''[[Tatsunoko vs. Capcom]]'', which returns to the gameplay of the Marvel series but instead pits the Capcom characters against the works of [[Tatsunoko Productions]] like ''[[Science Ninja Team Gatchaman|Gatchaman]]'' and ''Casshern''. It is basically ''Marvel vs. Capcom'' using Japan's Marvel.

** ''[[Project X Zone]]'' is an upcoming [[Spiritual Successor]] to ''[[Namco X Capcom]]'', only now adding [[Sega]] (and technically [[Bandai]] of [[Namco Bandai]], with ''[[Super Robot Wars Original Generation]]'', and ''[[.hack]]'' being Bandai's franchises before the merger with Namco) into the mix.

** And to top it all off, ''[[Another Century's Episode]]'' is ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' [[Mix and Match|using the system from]] ''[[Armored Core]]''.

* ''[[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.

* Yet another pastiche of ''SRW'' would be ''[[Battle Moon Wars]]'' which merges the three major published [[Nasuverse]] canons together: ''[[Tsukihime]]'', ''[[Fate/stay night|Fate Stay Night]]'', and ''[[Kara no Kyoukai:]]''.

* ''[[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]].

* 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 on the Tin|Cartoon Network]] characters. (BTW, it's not a clone just because it's a crossover either. It literally has the same gameplay, right down to tilt/smash attacks, Final Smashes, assist characters, and the percantage point system.)

* [[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 ''[[Super Mario Kart]]'' into a fighting game, while ''World Heroes 2'' (not to be confused with the actual ''[[World Heroes]]'' games) includes [[Street Fighter|Ryu, Chun Li, M. Bison]], [[Final Fight|Haggar]], [[Fatal Fury|Andy Bogard, Lawrence Blood, Mai Shiranui]], [[Super Mario Bros.|Mario, King Koopa]], [[Sonic the Hedgehog]], [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|Leonardo]], and [[Dragonball Z|Goku]].

* ''[[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.

** 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.

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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|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|Spoony]] keep changing into different [[Alternate Universe]] selves and the Critic and [[The Angry Video Game Nerd|Nerd]] joining forces to review... a Making Of of a [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] Tour. Yeah.

** 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.

* How about '''''[[Trope Namer|The]]''' [[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny (song)|Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny]]'' flash video? Good guys; bad guys; explosions as far as the eye can see. Way too many pop culture icons to count.

** [[The Massive Multi Fandom RPG|It has its own page now]]. Although technically I'd say it's more of a [[Mega Crossover]].