Substitute Daily Entertainment- Crossover Edition

[aeons_crackshot]

Chances are that you like crossovers, or you wouldn't be inflicting Milliways on your poor pups. 

What crossovers have you seen featuring your canon that were really good?  What crossovers do you think might be good?  What crossovers should probably never be attempted because they can only end in fire?

I haven't seen any crossovers for the Trinity Universe.  In fact, I've only seen one Adventure! era fic.  I admit I haven't thoroughly scoured the Internet, but my fandom is tiny.   As for what crossovers might be good, any of the original Indiana Jones Movies would fit in very well with Adventure!'s setting.  I've also had an idea for a crossover with Harry Potter, though I'm not sure whether it would be in the good or end in fire portion of the spectrum...

This Daily Entertainment Post is also open to anything else you folks want to talk about, I'm not picky. :-)

Comments

[tinylegacies.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, Twilight has been crossed over with everything.

The one that made me WTF the most was an SPN crossover that paired Bella/Dean.

I would like to see some Twilight/Women of the Otherworld crossovers personally.

[aeons_crackshot]

Isn't the idea of Supernatural that they go around killing supernatural creatures?

I haven't heard of Women of the Otherworld. I'm guessing that it involves vampires?

[bluespells.livejournal.com]

"Crossover" has a very special, horrible meaning to comics fans that sends yours truely into a twitching state that lasts from roughly May March JANUARY WTF MARVEL to November. So, those usually end in fire or at least character-derailing stupidity. Or, you know, pointlessly killing off iconic characters in order to substitute the current critical darling's Mary Sue. Not that I'm bitter or anything.


As for fic, Young Avengers doesn't get a lot of it so I can't really recall any crossovers at the moment. I have a reoccurring dream where Billy gets a Hogwarts letter, however, which makes NO SENSE and yet would be awesome.

Steve, however, has been in plenty. Most of them probably shouldn't exist. I personally would love to see him meeting Jack Harkness during the war.

[aeons_crackshot]

I've heard horror stories about Comic book crossovers making bad fanfic look respectable by comparison.

I'd like to see Billy get a Hogwarts letter too! HP canon can't be meaner to him than his actual canon, right?

I'm almost afraid to ask about the crossovers with Steve that shouldn't exist. That meeting with Jack Harkness would be interesting, especially if they caught up with one another again in the modern day era. They could commiserate about being outside of the era they're supposed to have lived in.

[52-dropoff.livejournal.com]

Hm. I have many concerns about DC's crossover events, but for the most part the characters stay in character and the iconic characters do rather well (especially given that I think Final Crisis' contribution to DC was to bring back at least one and maybe more icons).

[sdelmonte]

I don't know much about fanfic. But I know the "official" crossovers.

While The Question has never been included in any of the DC/Marvel crossovers, some of the events that brought the Big Two together, most notably Batman-Captain America and X-Men-Teen Titans, were really good. The Amalgam specials of the mid-90s, which mixed elements of Marvel and DC heroes into new characters, were also lots of fun. Which leads me to wonder if anyone out there in the fic community makes amalgams of their two favorite canons.

The best DC crossover, though, is Batman/Hellboy/Starman, with art by Mognola and script by James Robinson. It was my first meeting with Red, a great Starman tale, a good Batman comic, and loads of fun.

There were a series of Star Trek/X-Men crossovers. I think that most fans of both canons ignore them. Trek seems ill-suited to me to easy blending with other SF shows, though I am sure that stops no one.

[aeons_crackshot]

Canon or fanon, they're all crossovers. :-)

I haven't seen any of those, I'm afraid. However, since I'm not a comics reader that's hardly surprising.

I'm now picturing Wolverine saying "Beam me up Scotty." This is a rather jarring mental image.

[gorgonfondness]

All of my Lunar crossover dreams have come true thanks to Milliways, though in ways I never imagined. And I've read my share of Lunar fanfiction, mostly from the Shrine to Ghaleon. The crossover I liked most (that is, induced the most laughter) was The Young and the Vane, a soap opera story that put Lunar characters in Passions situations. At some points blatantly out of character and as melodramatic as you expect a soap opera to be, but I think it qualifies for So Horrible It's Funny. After all, soap operas are So Horrible It's Funny for the most part to me.

[aeons_crackshot]

Milliways is the ultimate crossover. :-) I'm not terribly familiar with soap operas, but I can imagine some of what might have happened. At least someone coming back from the dead or having an evil twin isn't quite as disbelief inducing as it is for something supposedly set in the 'real world'.

[camwyn]

I have to be honest: I don't know the last time I read other people's fic, so I don't particularly know what's out there that's good. That being said...

The Real Ghostbusters cartoon deliberately, canonically crossed the Cthulhu Mythos with Ghostbusters in the episode "Collect Call of Cthulhu". There were a few other quasi-crossovers, but they used paper-thin disguises to get away with them since they didn't have the legal rights to do so. I don't really think the Mythos counts quite as much for crossover purposes, though, since so many strains of modern horror entertainment have Mythos roots in one way or another. This was more like breeding back to ancestral stock, if you ask me.

Transformers has been canonically crossed over with a few things, including GI Joe and Doctor Who (there were Daleks involved there). That's not the movie continuity, though.

Dog Soldiers was an isolated canon to begin with, but Batya and I opted to cross it into the Slayerverse since the temptation to make the Wellses relatives was too great. Harry Wells also got taken to the Equilibrium universe early on, when we had a John Preston, since his actor played Father. That was actually why I apped him in the first place- the original plan had been for John Preston to come in from dealing with Father and essentially see Wells and go 'didn't I just kill your ass?'.

The Belgariad's not really designed for crossovers, and I don't know that I'd want to try.

Team Fortress 2 has the option of possible crossovers with other Valve universe games, given that some of the deuterocanonical materials like the web sites for in-universe companies make mention of Aperture Science and Black Mesa. The only way I can really get that to work is by assuming that the RED and BLU teams are actually unconscious and being put through some kind of bizarre virtual reality simulation being put through as much hell as possible in anticipation of being awakened and released into the Half-Life universe when the appropriate levels of skill and innovation are reached. And I'd rather not do it like that. On the other hand, outcrosses to other canons could probably be fun.

The Sneakers canon hasn't been hybridised with anything except in the sense that anyone who comes here hybridises the canon automatically. Whistler's bought into the Sime-Gen universe of Jacqueline Lichtenberg and Jean Lorrah, big time.

The Half-Life stuff, well, you were there for that.

And Fallout- at least Fallout 3, since I haven't played Fallout 1 or 2 or the Fallout: Tactics side game (we don't mention Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, we just don't)- well. Fallout is special. Aside from my private impression of 'holy cow, they're totally living on Earth-That-Was as of 2277', the game's littered with enough references to other canons to choke a pony. The most outstanding one that leaps to mind is when you undertake a quest to get a radio broadcasting dish up on the top of the Washington Monument, so that an independent DJ can broadcast music and news throughout the Capital Wasteland. The first thing he says when it's online again is "Whoooo-eee! You can't stop the signal!". But there are plenty of others...

That being said, probably my favourite crossover fic, both on principle and in execution? Godzilla Vs. Cthulhu.

[aeons_crackshot]

Milliways has enabled all sorts of crossovers, which is part of the fun. I'm looking forward to sending Annabelle, hopefully, back to help in Gordon's Universe and spike the Combine's wheel once more. I'm also looking forward to having her help Ellen out, though the Fallout 3 Universe is likely to unnerve her a bit.

I really like the Slayer-verse cross, the two canons seem like they were meant for each other.

The Virtual Reality simulation would certainly explain how people keep coming back from the dead in Team Fortress 2, it could be another one of the G-man's plots. I can see why you wouldn't want to do that though.

The crossover with Firefly and Fallout 3 sounds reasonable. The crazies that Ellen ran into in the school did sound a lot like Reavers. I suspect that the game designers may be enormous geeks. ;-)

Godzilla Vs. Chulhu? That sounds awesome.

[blinkandyoumiss.livejournal.com]

...I srsly want a crossover that turns the Young Justice into the Young Avengers, and vice versa. I would giggle lots. (Also, this Bart here would make an awesome Runaway, not that I've ever done AUs with Bart in the Marvel Universe or anything, nope.)

Ummmm. For some reason, I think Luke should meet Data, from TNG. And Dax. Dax should meet everyone. Dax should especially meet the Doctor, because they would be the most awesome OTP ever. (And by 'The Doctor', I also mean 'My Eleven'.) I also really want Kyle Rayner in Smallville, largely because I ship Bart/Kyle and it would make me :D.

Also, Bart and Tommy are mythological tricksters in disguise, and I still can't shake the mental image of them hanging out with gods and bringing fire exploding rocks to mankind and generally screwing with the universe. They're wearing Greekish robes and sneakers. HALP.

[bluespells.livejournal.com]

And I keep picturing them dressed like Hermes from Disney's Hercules. =DDDD

Luke should meet the little boy from Meet the Robinsons. They would be cute together.

[bodldops.livejournal.com]

Doctor Who used to have very few crossovers, and then the new seasons started a few years back, and it's been crossed with pretty much everything going. The best crossover I've seen is one from pre-RTD days, between the 4th Doctor (teeth and scarf) and the original Star Trek. Wherein Spock and the Doctor are both antagonistic and oddly team-like, McCoy loses control of his medbay, and Kirk comes to the rather uncomfortable realization that humans are not the big dogs in the galaxy. Fantastic fic - I wish I'd bookmarked it at the time, so I haven't seen it in years. There's another Star Trek (TNG) vs Doctors... what, 4-7? I think there were more, but I can't remember exactly who. Anyway, Geordi and Data steal the show in that one. Worf and Six are totally BFF as well.

I've also seen a lot of crossovers for LotR, but. Um. I've yet to see one be done well. There is one very very well-written 'Girl from Modern Earth in Middle Earth' fic - 'Don't Panic', I recommend it lots. It even has a sequel!

Star Wars... doesn't seem to get crossed that often, though Mary Sues abound (even in the books *shifty*). I think it's the whole 'long time ago galaxy far far away' that's making difficulties. Though, I once saw a post-dead Qui Gon - Sixth Sense crossover ficlet thing that was actually really good. The worst was LotR-SW. That thing was painful. No sorry, Elrond would not be amazed at Luke's fighting prowess. Corran Horn wasn't amazed at Luke's fighting prowess.

'We Will Rock You' gets crossed with every bandom going. Seriously. And, sadly, most WWRY fic is utter crap, crossed or no, so there really isn't much of a standard.

I... um. Don't know if there's Disney Robin Hood fic? And what the hell would you cross it with, anyway?

*squints at list* I think that's all of my current canons. Possibly. Maybe. Until new pups are approved, anyway.

[acts_of_gord]

For what it's worth, that Transformers-Doctor Who crossover involved... I think Four. Possibly Seven- I only remember that he was described as 'the hatted Doctor', not which of the two known for wearing hats it actually was.

[453-died-angry.livejournal.com]

The one thing that keeps kicking me in the plot brain and begging me to write it is one that takes the historical attributes of Attila Dragomer and merges them with Dracula. But just because it could be done doesn't mean it should be.

[aeons_crackshot]

I don't think I've seen that idea before, though it makes sense.

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

I want to see Ben Grimm in a Akira Kurosawa story.

Ben (with Jen, aka She-Hulk) in a Kaiju movie would be too awesome for words.

Ben on Friday Night Lights would be very cracky.

Ben on Desperate House Wives would end in flames.

That's all I've got.

[kali921.livejournal.com]

Well, S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers DID fight Godzilla, remember? :-)

[kali921.livejournal.com]

Do you mean canon crossovers? In which case, all three of my comic pups seem to lately drift from one crossover to next with no respite.

[aeons_crackshot]

Canon, fanon, it doesn't matter to me. :-)

[candied-rabbit.livejournal.com]

I've seen Fruits Basket crossed over with exactly one canon, namely Ouran. I think the one time I saw fic about it, it was a Momiji/Mori fic, which was really weird, but I'm pretty sure I've seen lots of crossover art for the two, while scrounging for iconable FB images.

(And I suppose I must've seen more, but my mind has probably blocked them all out?)

[akibapop.livejournal.com]

For what it's worth, I was really excited about the inevitable Momiji-Honey meeting as soon as I saw we had a Honey. 8D

[hero_farmboy]

I don't really pay attention to crossovers much with Smallville. It's cracktastic enough on its own. However, from what little I have seen, it seems to mesh well with things like Supernatural and Buffy, for what I think are obvious reasons. I've also seen people try to cross it with other projects the actors have been in and that doesn't tend to work out so well.

[tinylegacies.livejournal.com]

I've got quite a few Chloe/Dean Winchester shippers on my flist. Smallville does crossover nicely with Supernatural.

[agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com]

Let's see:

There was Turtles & The Flaming Carrot.
Turtles & Savage Dragon
Turtles & Usagi Yojimbo
Turtles & Cerebus the Aardvark
Turtles & Lovecraft
Turtles & Werewolf mythos
Turtles & Norse Mythology
Turtles & Archie

Usagi and Cerebus worked best, but then I'm biased for the old school Mirage stuff.
Savage Dragon never happened....never. Ever. The whole Image line? Just...*makes Jedi hand gesture* This is not the canon you're looking for.

But...seriously, Archie? What the hell? Just...what the hell?

[aeons_crackshot]

0-o There are no words.

[aberration]

I don't have anything canon-wise, but back when I used to look into Heroes fandom, there were actually a lot of crossovers involving Elle in particular, just because she's apparently fun to pair with everyone ever. I remember Heroes/Smallville so they could do Elle/Clark and Heroes/SPN for both Elle/Dean and Elle/Sam, though the big thing I saw a ton of people doing was Heroes/Moonlight so they could do Elle/Josef... pretty obviously just for the purpose of pairing characters played by Kristen Bell and Jason Dohring.

And I don't look into the fandom enough to know about any crossovers for BSG. Though I guess you could always have them find Earth and be like 'hey! It's Buffyverse!'

[aeons_crackshot]

I will admit to pondering what would happen if Sylar ate the brain of did whatever he does to the other heroes to a Nova from Aberrant...

[minkhollow]

The canons I play here are relatively small, in the fic world, but I'm fond of writing crossovers, so I've covered most of them. Also, I have a... very strange approach to crossovers, for which I blame Daria fandom. Seriously, when your first fandom has not one, but TWO Yellow Submarine crossovers (both of which are brilliant), it gives one an odd perspective on what might work out.
I've written a few things that probably should be on the END IN FIRE end of the spectrum, usually because I just... want to give it a shot (that would be where the Daria/Good Omens crossover came from, anyway).
Perhaps the biggest of these, though, was the Harry Potter/Sneakers crossover. Two great tastes that totally should NOT taste great together, except for where they did! (Once I found a little more of a plot than 'I have Issues with Deathly Hallows, and also Cosmo would totally kick Voldemort's ass without breaking a sweat.')
I also wrote Dr. Horrible/Villains By Necessity, on the strength of the thought that Neil Patrick Harris could play one of the main characters from the book - which led to cracky 'separated at birth Y/N?' thinking, and ended up a lot more plausible than I thought. XD

Slightly less ending-in-fire includes Sneakers/Iron Man (following an Iron Man timeline for elsegame, Tony and Carl would be the same age; it HAD to happen), Sneakers/Dr. Horrible (Cosmo doing the ELE's finances, anyone?), Rent/To Wong Foo (because Angel and Vida TOTALLY KNOW EACH OTHER), and Harry Potter/Neverwhere (the Veil dumps Sirius in London Below; hijinks ensue).

[aeons_crackshot]

I'm actually familiar with both Harry Potter and Neverwhere now, so that last one sounds interesting. I don't suppose you have a link?

[djcati.livejournal.com]

There's a Star Wars Tales comic that crosses SW with Indiana Jones. If I remember right, Han and Chewie crash on a "mysterious" planet, and Indy discovers the wreckage. :O

Fan-wise, er, I actually wrote a Star Wars/HP crossover once. It was shameless fourth-wall-breaking crack. Thrawn wore make-up and a beard to disguise himself as Dumbledore. Ginny was like, "whaaat." :|

[ceitfianna]

I don't really read that much into fandom stuff for the few fandoms I'm in but I know that Robin Hood is kind of just begging for wacky time travel hijinks. So at this point I'm not sure, I mean I've had a lot of crazy ideas that Milliways has enabled and allowed to happen.

Also though I've had ideas for some kind of strange crossovers ficwise, I haven't written that many of them and the idea of mine that I always mention due to the I don't know what I was thinking is Will Scarlett in ST: TNG. The whole point of this was so Will and Wesley could hang out.

[licensed-pro.livejournal.com]

^ is crossing your canon with a special something. Because the bug bit me.

[justcallmefee]

I've seen some very good crossovers between Harry Potter/BtVS.

I think Olga's canon (Night Watch) would crossover nicely with BPRD/Hellboy, BtVS, Dresden Files, X-Files/Millenium, Fringe (would anyone be interested in seeing Agent Dunham in the Bar?).

I would also love to see Burn Notice mixed up with any of the other spy canons. Or how about some Hellmouth for Michael & crew? (Sam totally knew about it the whole time. Something about a book.) Burn Notice crack? Add some old school A-Team.

Crossovers are a wonderful way to discover new things about your fanon.

In other topics, anyone else use the Livejournal "Writer's Block" for your pups? I'm finding it an interesting exercise.

[aeons_crackshot]

The only one of those that I'm familiar with is the Dresden files. :-(

Incidentally, thanks to Milliways I now have to stop myself from putting everything I 'say' in quotation marks when I'm writing an e-mail or commenting on somebody's journal.

[mr-v-and-mr-c.livejournal.com]

Neverwhere and BtVS might be cool. Or NW and Discworld . . .

[aeons_crackshot]

I suspect that Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar would be right at home in the Shades.

[vivien]

My favorite crossover of all time is daegaer's Good Omens/Dogma story Where the Heart Is. It is so well-written; it gets both sets of characters spot on.

[aeons_crackshot]

That does look interesting.

[a1enzo]

People have written lots of ReBoot crossover fanfics. I do not read them. They would offend my sensibilities and make my eyes bleed.

ReBoot doesn't work as well for crossovers as it does for parodies, for the obvious reason that you can't just plunk your favourite characters down into Mainframe if they're human (although that doesn't stop a lot of fickers), but you can create a Game version of some other canon to put the sprites through. This, they did a lot in canon and it works fine, but you have to accept that any representations of the other canon's characters will be Game sprites and not actual people.

I personally plan to (someday, promises, promises) write a "crossover" that puts our heroes into a Game based on Monty Python and the Holy Grail. They will spend the entire story being really weirded out.

[a1enzo]

Oh, but we have millicanonically crossed ReBoot with Tron. That, once you think of an excuse for the surface differences, works fantastically well.