Motif Merger: Difference between revisions

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A '''Motif Merger''' is a stylistic 'beat' sometimes used during a crossover. It's when both 'sides' have certain things that are their trademarks, and (during the crossover) there's a symbolic moment where the two motifs are either swapped or combined.

* The logo for DC's current{{when}} ''[[Superman]]/[[Batman]]'' series is Superman's shield logo inside a bat logo. [httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20151217034956/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Superman-batman_8_cvr_-_large.jpg\]

* The logo for the ''[[Comicbook/Trinity (comic book)|Trinity]]'' series combined [[Superman]], [[Batman]], and [[Wonder Woman]]'s symbols.

* Devils Due's ''[[G.I. Joe]] VS Transformers'' used a mash-up between the Cobra and Decepticon symbols in advertisements, but not in the actual comic (except to separate issues in the collected edition).

* The movie ''[[Freddy VSvs. Jason]]'' had a moment of mixing icons: a slow pan down from tree level, coming down onto a sign reading "Elm Street", while the soundtrack played the ''Friday the 13th'' "ki-ki-ki-ki, ma-ma-ma-ma" leitmotif.

== [[Live -Action TV]] ==

* The shows ''[[Homicide: Life on the Street]]'' and ''[[Law & Order]]'' , which had distinctive ways of sequeingsegueing from one scene to another,<ref>(''Homicide'' had smash cuts and a sort of industrial whooshing noise, ''L&O'' cut to black with its trademark 'glun-glung' noise, followed by text explaining the time and place of the next scene as it faded in.)</ref>, crossed over once. During the crossover, the scenes in New York [''L&O's'' turf] were filmed with ''Homicide's'' transitions, and those in Baltimore [''Homicide's'' setting] had ''L&O's'' transitions. (That is: Cut to black, glun-glung, text: "Baltimore Homicide Division, 10:30 AM.", fade in.)

== Videogames[[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (2006 (Videovideo Gamegame)||Sonic the Hedgehog 2006]]'': Mephiles has a sinister-sounding piano [[Leitmotif]] (with a techno remix as his boss fight music). Iblis is accompanied by a bombastic, orchestral score. When the two fuse together to form the [[True Final Boss]] Solaris, the phase 1 boss music is Mephiles' leitmotif, performed by Iblis' bombastic orchestra.

* ''[[Todd in The Shadows (Web Video)|Todd in Thethe Shadows]]'' uses this whenever crossing over with other reviewers from ''That Guy With The Glasses'' .com. For example, he plays [[Bad Movie Beatdown (Web Video)|Film Brain]]'s "Ready to Roll" theme, in the style of his "Playing today's song simply, on a keyboard" routine, and his 'similar-theme, but way better-done' bit over the credits of his review of "It Wasn't Me" with ''The Rap Critic'' (Todd chooses Mozart's "Cosi Fan Tutte" (lit. "Everyone's Doing It"). )

* In the animated DCAU crossover movie "World's Finest", the Bat-Signal (Batman's emblem) is broadcast onto the globe on top of the Daily Planet Building (Superman's).

* The exact logo at the top of the page also appears in "[[Superman /Batman: Public Enemies]]" {{spoiler|on the chest of a giant robot that Toyman, Japanese wunderkind Hiro Okamura, built to destroy a Kryptonite asteroid that would hit Earth. Cut him some slack: he designed it when he was seven.}}

* The crossover between ''[[Ben 10 Ultimate Alien (Animation)|Ben 10: Ultimate Alien]]'' and ''[[Generator Rex (Animation)|Generator Rex]]'', ''[[Ben 10 /Generator Rex: Heroes United (Animation)|Heroes United]]'', had Ben 10's Omnitrix at the center of Rex's gear logo.

* Similar to the above, the crossover of ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and& Mandy]]'' and ''[[The Kids Next Door]]'' has the openings combined, making the KND operatives grow flesh from bone like the former's opening.

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