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BeautifulAgony
01/28/09

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Where are the numerous Buffy the Vampire Slayer connections? There have been references to Star Trek, Star Wars, Dungeons & Dragons, Homestar Runner, Aliens, and much, much more.
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bonniegrrl
12/30/08

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Would now be a good time to mention the Muppets - Indiana Jones crossover?

[muppet.wikia.com]
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Meirelle
12/26/08

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I'm rather surprised I haven't seen a Transformers/Dr. Who crossover yet. Because Dr. Who gets crossed with everything. You know, kind of like the obligatory Quantum Leap fic you find in every single fandom that has ever existed.
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ShamelessSingingRennie
12/26/08

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There's also a Doctor Who cameo (Rose and the Doctor in front of a Telephone booth (admittedly, it's red) in a Buffy comic. [www.comicvine.com]
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JennaW
12/27/08

@ShamelessSingingRennie: Well, that's probably the artist not getting the joke and supposing it was meant to be a British phone booth, OR they were trying to be subtle and were just showing Rose and 10 in London (where one does see the red phone booths all over the place).

But, yes indeed, I'd say that is Rose and 10
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♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
12/26/08

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clusterfuck, much?

seriously, this must have taken a LONG time to put together...
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adg3825
12/26/08

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I call Shenanigans! "Andy Warhol's Dracula" by Kim Newman is not a valid source--pretty much all the other relied on the companies owning the characters/universes working together, or being owned by the same people (Alias/Lost/Cloverfield/Fringe). I could write a novel in which every single fictional character ever created met, simply by writing the phrase "and then every single fictional character ever created met," but it wouldn't count.

Putting that aside, Scooby Doo enters solely by having met Batman in the New Scooby Doo Movies. Batman met Hellboy, therefore SD and HB are connected. And they're all connected to the Addams Family, who appeared in the New Scooby Doo Movies.
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BeautifulAgony
01/28/09

@adg3825: Seriously? Shenanigans? Are you saying none of it is real?

Well, than how do you explain this!?

The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny

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Meirelle
12/24/08

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I absolutely adore this chart. However, there are a few big ones missing: X-Files? Buffy? Stargate? This makes me sad. :(

But this reminded me of a weird fic I read once that connected Transformers to Stargate based solely on the use of spacebridge technology. And the strange thing is it actually worked.

And then, of course, there's this: [mattmoylan.deviantart.com]
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DyslexicDan
12/22/08

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Your refering to Image's Invincible then I think we could argue that Savage Dragon, Invincible, Spawn, and the entire Shadowline universe should be included like the Marvel and DC universe.
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braak
12/22/08

@DyslexicDan: And also Cerebus, which would tie right back into TMNT, I guess.
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JennaW
12/22/08

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Where's Buffy?

Also, I'm going to start using "see JLA inset" as a non sequitor to escape from over-earnest fandom conversations.
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Charax
12/22/08

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Anyone spot Sandman in there? that's had a few crossovers/cameos
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braak
12/22/08

@Charax: Does it need it? Or is everything in the DC Universe implicitly crossed over?

I guess you'd probably want Sandman just to keep the DC and Vertigo stuff tied together (though: you could also do that through Swamp Thing).
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choinski
12/21/08

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Here one impossible to verify easter egg unless you travel to Washington DC with a magnifying glass: In the Air & Space Museum (not in on the Mall, the annex out by Dulles) is the original spaceship model from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". In all the busy "mechanical" looking detail are tiny additions like a US mailbox, a submarine, and R2D2 (and the Millenium falcon?)
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
12/21/08

@choinski: Except we've known that for like 30 years, since the movie came out. You can even see R2 in the movie (maybe not the video, but in the theater).
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Grey_Area
12/21/08

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This is the Glass-Bead Game for Geeks and the chart looks like the Kabbala for crazv people. Uhh, that should be crazier people. Wonderful job, Stephanie!

Now to really blow your mind. There is a sculpture in the living room in the first few seasons of Fraiser that I'm positive was done by Clark Ashton Smith who contributed much to the Lovecraft Mythos. Connect that to Cheers -> Kristie Alley -> Star Trek...
Oh, the endless possibilities!
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B
12/21/08

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Evil Dead should have an Easter Egg link to The Day The Earth Stood Still. Also to the Majestic, but that's not really sci-fi.
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braak
12/21/08

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Isn't Predator a Dark Horse comic, rather than a DC comic?

(also: this is a great and fascinating chart)
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uglyMood
12/21/08

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If you want to see the ultimate crossover chart, visit Tommy Westphall's Mind. In the final episode of St. Elsewhere it was revealed that the entire series had been a fantasy in the mind of an autistic child. Since the characters from that show had done multiple crossovers with other shows, and each of those shows had done crossovers themselves, or made reference to characters or institutions in other shows, it follows that, working backwards and forwards, at last count 182 television programs exist entirely in the mind of Tommy Westphall. This is known as the "Tommy Westphall universe hypothesis," which holds that about 90% of all television takes place entirely within Tommy Westphall's mind.

Following the chart (with the annotations) leads to the inescapable conclusion that I Love Lucy, Star Trek, Three's Company, NCIS, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Brady Bunch, Firefly, Battlestar Gallactica, Doctor Who, and The X-Files are all part of the same universe.
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choinski
12/21/08

@uglyMood: I don't buy it. If a Westphalian 'character' meets another character it dioesn't mean its all fictional. To wit: Dr Who meets Queen Elizabeth the First. Does that make her a fictional character of Tommy Westphal? and by extension, the Black Adder?
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ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.
12/22/08

@choinski: You're not keeping up. This is the mind of an Autistic child that is holding together the universe in which 90% of television exists. The queen Elizabeth in TOmmy's mind is separate from the Elizabeth we all know and love. Unless of course Tommy's Out There. . .
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