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* [[Hack Slash]] is treated to part of the same universe of the ''[[Re-Animator]]'', the Living Corpse comic, ''[[Child's Play (film)|Child's Play]]'', as well as the [[Lady Death]] Multiverse since Evil Ernie was reborn into the Hack/Slash universe after his latest death. Plus by extension [[Nightmare On Elm Street|Freddy]], [[Friday the 13th|Jason]], and [[Evil Dead|Ash]] are part of this universe because of the Evil Dead Re-Animator crossover.
** It makes sense seeing as how the creator of Hack/Slash believes that all slasher films and comics take place in the same universe.
* [[Savage Dragon]] treats the [[Mars Attacks
** Believe it or not there was a [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] and [[Image Comics]] crossover... that's STILL CANON!
* Terminator has had crossovers with [[Alien (franchise)|Alien S]] and [[Predator]], [[RoboCop]], [[Superman]] ,and the comic book [[Painkiller]] with each one considering Terminator to be canonically part of their universe. However thankfully every setting Terminator has crossed over obviously can't be in the same universe and at best all these storys can be considered [[Elseworlds]] preventing this becoming really confusing.
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** Mind, Marvel started this with the first issue of ''[[Spider-Man]]''. And even before that, Marvel started this 21 years earlier in the Timely Comics era, when Human Torch faced off against Namor the Submariner for the first time. They teamed a few more times over the next few years, and some of the less prominent characters occasionally got involved. Then, in 1946, Timely launched the All-Winners Squad, teaming up existing characters like Captain America, the Human Torch, and the Sub-Mariner (among others)
** DC started it twenty years earlier in All-Star Comics #3 with the Justice Society's first meeting. To this day, it's generally accepted that the Justice Society is the first-ever example of a super hero team lasting longer than a single issue in comics history.
** DC has also historically made a habit of assimilating the characters of other comics companies into their multiverse - Quality Comics (Uncle Sam and the [[Freedom Fighters (
* Back when comic crossovers where more common [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]] and [[DC Comics]] would have crossover one shots that would treat the Marvel and DC characters being in the same universe. However as time progressed most crossovers between the two companies involved inter-dimensional travel until in 2003 Marvel and DC crossovers outright stopped after JLA/Avengers. But Marvel would continue to have crossovers that would have characters be in the same universe and thus Earth-7642 of the Marvel Multiverse was born.
** ''[http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix3/earthcrossoverall.htm A list of all the crossovers that happen on this Earth as well as an accurate timeline can be found here]''
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*** He even threw in some real people: the characters of ''[[The Number of the Beast]]'' run into [[Lewis Carroll|Charles Dodgson]] while in Wonderland, and near the end of the novel, it's mentioned that [[Robert A. Heinlein|Bob]], [[Arthur C. Clarke|Arthur]], and [[Isaac Asimov|Isaac]] should be showing up for a big meeting soon.
** It's worth noting that nearly all main characters he ever wrote are in one scene at the end of ''[[The Cat Who Walks Through Walls]]''. It involves most of them trying to recover Mycroft Holmes, whose death was perhaps the biggest [[Tear Jerker]] he ever wrote. Towards the end the characters are aware they are in a story, and find the Author to be a bastard...
* [[Larry Niven]] originally had two continuities: the first was the "slowboat" stories of early colonization of space by humanity (featuring the novels "World of Ptaavs", the Gil Hamilton stories, and "A Gift From Earth"), while the second featured faster-than-light travel and aliens (featuring the stories of Beowulf Shaeffer, Louis Wu, and the [[
* The first novel in [[Terry Pratchett]]'s [[Nomes Trilogy]], ''Truckers'', takes place in the (real) town of Grimethorpe, but in the later books the Store is relocated to Blackbury, which is also the setting of the [[Johnny Maxwell Trilogy]].
* [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]] did this when ''[[Tarzan]]'' first traveled to the underground world of Pelucidar to rescue that title's hero. It grew from there under his pen and under the pen of others using his characters.
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* Leslie Charteris introduced Inspector Teal in the novel Daredevil featuring Storm Arden before Teal appeared in the Saint series.
* [[Poul Anderson]]'s Nicholas van Rijn stories and Dominic Flandry stories weren't, originally, part of the same universe. But a bit of prodding by fans, and he wrote some bridging so that now they are both part of the [[Technic History]].
* [[Dale Brown]] has done this. Rebecca Furness and Daren Mace, characters originally in the non-Patrick McLanahan book ''Chains of Command'', joined the main continuity in ''Battle Born'' and ''Warrior Class'' respectively. The eponymous space station of ''Silver Tower'', thought a victim of [[Canon
* [[Iain Banks]], in his mainstream literature (non-SF, [[The Culture]] etc.) has said he doesn't do sequels/prequels; though he did include one subtle crossover in ''Complicity'': Cameron's friend Al, an engineer he met on a paintballing weekend, is Alexander Lennox, recovered from his car-crash in ''The Bridge''.
* All of [[Christopher Moore]]'s varied books appear to take place in the same verse, whether the setting is modern suburbian California or Israel in Jesus' time. Various characters make appearances outside of their respective novels, like angels and vampires and fruit bats.
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** Interestingly, ''Lost Galaxy'' once referenced the universal coordinates of the location of planet Gallifrey, meaning ''Doctor Who'' may also be part of the Power Rangers 'verse.
* The Disney Channel has done several crossovers with their live action series, so that [[That's So Raven|psychics]], [[Wizards of Waverly Place|wizards]], [[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody|Tipton Industries]], [[Cory in The House|President Martinez]], [[I'm in The Band|Iron Weasel]], and [[Hannah Montana]] all exist in the same [[DCLAU|universe]].
* It's been more-or-less established that all Nickelodeon sitcoms beginning with [[Drake and Josh]] all have some form of connection. Eventually enough crossovers happened for the [[Nick Verse]] to form. It is horrendously complicated by the fact that due to the way it came about, the actors and characters all exist alongside each other as real people. It includes [[Drake and Josh]], [[Zoey 101]], [[
* In the last episode of ''[[Spin City]]'' where [[Michael J. Fox]] appears as a regular, it is suggested that the series takes place in the same universe as ''[[Family Ties]]''.
* [[Steven Moffat]] has welded a fair number of his series together over the years: ''[[Chalk]]'' contained frequent references to ''[[Press Gang]]'', and was in turn referred back to by ''[[Coupling]]''; ''[[Jekyll]]'' also referred to ''[[Press Gang]]'' and ''[[Coupling]]'' has references to ''[[Joking Apart]]''.
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** Similarly, hints have been dropped [[Final Fantasy X 2|here and there]] (and [[Word of God]] has outright stated) that ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' takes place in the far future of the ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' world, on a different planet.
** And then ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy]]'' made it so they're all parallel worlds in a shared multiverse, although it's canonicity is uncertain. Would make sense, though. It is a series.
** ''[[Final Fantasy IV:
* When the Czech developers of ''[[Operation Flashpoint]]: Cold War Crisis'' (their first game) Bohemia Interactive Studios split with the publisher, they were able to keep the "assets" (i.e. the game engine) but not the name, so they ended up creating a [[Spiritual Successor]] called ''ARMA''. However, BIS has since come out and said that both series are in a [[Shared Universe]], as will be BIS' spin-off Take On Helicopters.
** The latest patch for Operation Flashpoint even renames it to ''ARMA: Cold War Assault''. Talk about paying attention to details.
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