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* ''[[Due South]]'' and ''[[Hard Core Logo]]''. [[Canada, Eh?|Because Canadians have to stick together, eh?]]

* There's a great deal of overlap, probably unsurprisingly, between fans of ''[[Horatio Hornblower]]'', ''[[Aubrey-Maturin]]'', and ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean (Film)|Pirates of the Caribbean]]''. (And possibly also ''[[Temeraire]]'' and ''[[Jane Austen]]'').

** The Bronies have developed friendships with a lot of fandoms in general, but it seems that the biggest one is the friendship between the [[Valve]] fandom. Mostly because the [[Valve]] games helped to spread the word on it's early days, specially ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]''. Many ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'' crossovers have been made, to the point of having designed characters from the show to represent the characters from the game in the crossovers, and many references to the game in the pony-related videos in YouTube.

*** Helped by the steadily growing number pony models for [[Garrys Mod]], which is used to create most [[TF 2]] fanvids.

* [[Fandom Rivalry|Rival fandoms]] who begin to see each other as [[Worthy Opponent|worthy opponents]] can develop into this over time. The modern-day rivalry between ''[[Mario]]'' and ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' seems to be developing into this, for example.

* Many [[Alternate History Dot Com]] users are fans of ''[[Code Geass]]'', due to the series being set in an alternate history. A good deal of timelines on the site are also ''Code Geass'' fanfics.

* ''[[Sherlock (TV)|Sherlock]]'' and ''[[Cabin Pressure (Radio)|Cabin Pressure]]'', due to the shared presence of [[Benedict Cumberbatch]].

* [[Western Animation]] fans and [[Anime]] fans are beginning to get along pretty well. Several Western Animation characters are even drawn in Anime style on [[Deviant ART]], most notably the ''[[South Park]]'' characters.

* [[Terry Pratchett]] fans and [[Neil Gaiman]] fans, because of their collaboration on ''[[Good Omens (Literature)|Good Omens]]''.

** And [[Douglas Adams]] fans overlap with both!

** Back in perhaps 2005 or 6, there was a major crash on a [[William Gibson (Creator)|William Gibson]] message board, so the members of that board were essentially invited to hang out on the official Gaiman forum until the site issues were resolved. They did, and the two fandoms got along so well that some members wound up participating on both boards for years.

* ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'' and ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', due to both being fantasy written by authors who were close personal friends and both had an intensely Christian worldview (which influenced their works to varying degrees).

* [[Tin Man (TV)|Tin Man]] and [[Alice (TV)|Alice]] - mostly because of their similar production staff and tone.

** Likewise with their literary ancestors. Baum was a fan of ''[[Alice in Wonderland (Literature)|Alice in Wonderland]]''.

* ''[[Smallville]]'' and ''[[Supernatural (TV)|Supernatural]]'' fandoms have a very, very large amount of overlap, to the point where it could quite reasonably argued that they share almost the same core base of fans. The fact that during the second half of the 2000s they almost always aired one after the other on the same network certainly helped this.....as did the fact that they were the two powerhouse [[Sci-Fi]] series that were basically keeping the ungrateful CW Network afloat. The then-current network president's perceived treatment of the two shows as [[Network Red Headed Stepchild|NetworkRedHeadedStepChildren]] (in favor of promoting shows like [[Gossip Girl]] or the 90210 remake as being the network's flagship programs) led to further unity between the two fandoms, which rightly or wrongly perceived themselves as being united against a common foe (namely, the perceived indifference on the part of the execs).

** The massive prevalence of fanfic crossovers between the two shows is also a testament to the unity between the Smallville and Supernatural fanbases.

** ...but on the other (sad) hand, [[YouTube]] monkeys play [[Fandom Rivalry]] in an utterly straight manner.

** This joint fandom can be expanded to include other [[Toku]] to various degrees; including ''[[Kamen Rider]]'', ''[[Metal Heroes]]'', and their [[VR Troopers|various]] [[Beetleborgs|American]] [[Kamen Rider Dragon Knight|adaptations]] ([[Masked Rider|except maybe one we'd like to forget]]). The Japanese production house, Toei, has been encouraging this in recent years by including crossovers as part of their [[Milestone Celebration|Milestone Celebrations]].

* [[Stephen Colbert]] and [[Jon Stewart]] seem to both share the same fandom. Makes perfect sense, since Stephen used to work on Jon's show, and they interact frequently. It's almost like [[The Daily Show]] and [[The Colbert Report]] are one show with two different hosts.

* The [[Band of Brothers (TV)|Band of Brothers]], [[The Pacific]], and [[Generation Kill]] fandoms, whose fans are collectively known as the "[[HBO]] war fandom".

* Interestingly, [[Food Network]] shows generally have a lot of overlap in their fanbases, but not completely. While they are largely ''friendly'' towards one another, one celebrity chef's fans will often complain that several others on the same network are "too grating" or annoying.

* There is generally a lot of overlap between fans of TNT's original shows.

** For a long time on [[Sci Fi Channel]], ''[[The Next Generation]]'' and ''[[SG 1]]'' were both staple shows, sometimes airing within hours of each other.

* ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'' and ''[[Twenty Four|24]]'' fandoms got pretty cozy what with all the former (and sometimes current) ''Trek'' actors appearing in the show in big and large parts. The connection was especially strong with ''[[Star Trek Enterprise (TV)|Star Trek Enterprise]]'' which saw Gregorty Itzin and Peter Weller doing both shows at the same time. (Itzin as President Logan on ''24'' while playing an alternate universe Starfleet Admiral on ''Enterprise''. Peter Weller portrayed a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] on both shows!) The biggest connection was when [[Show Runner]] Manny Coto left ''Enterprise'' after it was cancelled and became a producer on ''24''.

** [[Completely Missing the Point|But Ryan North]] [[Acceptable Targets|is a computational linguist!]]

** You can also count [[MS Paint Adventures|Andrew Hussie]] and [[Wondermark|David Malki!]] as creator friends with friendly fanbases.

* 910Comics (''[[The Wotch (Webcomic)|The Wotch]]'', ''The Wotch: [[Cheer (Webcomic)|Cheer]]'', ''[[Misfile (Webcomic)|Misfile]]'', etc.) readers used to have insane amounts of overlap with ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]]'' [[Fan Nickname|Bunnies]]. Until ''El Goonish Shive'' joined the 910Comics community, and now they're the same fandom. Same with ''[[Zebra Girl]]'', and probably others as well.

 

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