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| 1 | In the Family Guy episode, Lois Kills Stewie, which turned out to be a simulation along with the previous episode, Stewie Griffin attempts to hack into the power grid at the CIA in a plan for world domination, only to be confronted by Stan Smith and Avery Bullock from American Dad!, who have no choice but to give in to Stewie's demands to be "President of the World." Both shows were created by Seth MacFarlane. | 38427 |
| 2 | Michael Jordan meets the Looney Tunes in Space Jam (1996) | 36271 |
| 3 | In The Simpsons episode The Springfield Files, a police linup of "aliens" includes the following: ALF, Chewbacca, Gort, and Marvin the Martian. | 30390 |
| 4 | Batman meets The Darkness (The Darkness/Batman) Note that Jackie Estracado frequently mentions this event, implying that the Top Cow universe has its own version of Batman and Gotham City, rather than the official DC Universe version, however, this particular issue was in fact, a collaboration with DC and Top Cow. | 26594 |
| 5 | Neil Patrick Harris appears as himself hitchhiking in the movie Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle. | 25104 |
| 6 | Superman was controlled by Skeletor and fought He-Man in issue#47 of DC Comics Presents | 20726 |
| 7 | In the Star Trek novel Ishmael, author Barbara Hambly has Mr. Spock, through time travel, meeting the characters from the TV series, Here Come the Brides. The inspiration for this was likely the fact that Mark Lenard played Aaron Stempel in Brides, and Spock's father in the Star Trek TV series and movies. In the book (which like all novels is not considered part of Star Trek canon) Stempel turns out to be one of Spock's human ancestors. Doctor Who also makes two cameos in the book. | 15621 |
| 8 | Freddy Krueger also fights Ghostbusters too (Freddy vs. Ghostbusters) | 15519 |
| 9 | Captain America, Iron Man, Thor and The Hulk team up (The Avengers) | 14975 |
| 10 | Disney characters and Final Fantasy characters coexisting in the Kingdom Hearts series. However, the setting of this particular crossover can be seen as a whole different reality from Disney canon and the Final Fantasy universe, because of the story mainly focusing on original characters, such as Sora, Riku, and Kairi. | 14883 |
| 11 | X-Men meet Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: The Next Generation characters | 14874 |
| 12 | William Shatner meets Peter Griffin (Family Guy). | 12176 |
| 13 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Usagi Yojimbo have had crossovers in virtually every medium either has appeared in. | 11960 |
| 14 | Green Lantern Kyle Rayner met Marvel's Silver Surfer in a crossover where they fought Parallax (Hal Jordan). (Green Lantern/Silver Surfer #1) | 11460 |
| 15 | Amitabh Bachchan's character in the Bollywood film Maard briefly appears in the comic guise of Father Anthony, a persona that a different character played by Amitabh Bachchan, Anthony Gonsalves, had previously adopted in the film, Amar Akbar Anthony. In both films, the Father Anthony persona has the same costume, mannerisms and accent, even though Amitabh Bachchan is playing a different character in each of the two films. | 10809 |
| 16 | Multiple Mario characters competing against each other in sports and bringing Pac-Man (Mario Kart Arcade GP) and Final Fantasy (Mario Hoops 3-on-3) characters. | 10635 |
| 17 | Wolverine vs Spider-Man (Spider-Man animated series) | 10289 |
| 18 | The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers team up with Masked Rider for a second time. (Masked Rider, Marvel Comics) | 9646 |
| 19 | Pixar characters often appear in other films of the company. Near the end of Monsters Inc., Boo plays with a Nemo squeaking toy (a character from Finding Nemo which was in production at the time Monsters Inc. was released), as well as a Jessie (Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 3) doll. Similarly, there is a Mr. Incredible comic book and a Buzz Lightyear toy as well as a Pizza Planet truck in Finding Nemo. | 9135 |
| 20 | Stan Lee, the creator of many famous comic-characters, tends to make short cameos in (recent) movies based on Marvel Comics (such as Spider-Man and The Hulk). He also made appearances with Jack Kirby inside the panels of his own comics. He also appeared at the end of Spider-Man: The Animated Series | 9099 |
| 21 | Marvel Comics comics characters travel to the Ultraverse, and vice versa | 9033 |
| 22 | Pac-Man's symbol being featured in many Namco and early Midway games. | 8753 |
| 23 | Darth Vader, Darth Vader's Secret Apprentice, and Yoda from Star Wars appear in Soulcalibur IV. | 8706 |
| 24 | Multiple Nintendo and third party video game characters exist in Video Land, including Mega Man, Simon Belmont, Pit (erroneously referred to as Kid Icarus), Eggplant Wizard, Mother Brain, King Hippo, and Link (Captain N: The Game Master). | 8111 |
| 25 | Sonic the Hedgehog meets the characters of Sonic Underground in a Sonic Super Special issue. | 8087 |
| 26 | Godzilla makes a brief cameo in an episode of Drawn Together, protesting to Ling-Ling that he's turned to American English for taping his eyelids open, so he will look more western. | 8037 |
| 27 | King of the Hill characters appear on The Simpsons to comment on a peewee football game in the episode "Bart Star". A Bart Simpson doll often appears in Bobby Hill's room on King of the Hill. | 7818 |
| 28 | Andy Griffith also appeared as Ben Matlock on Diagnosis: Murder in the Season 4 episode: Murder Two (1997). | 7667 |
| 29 | Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, Pluto, Mighty Mouse, and Superman are mentioned in Stand by Me. | 7465 |
| 30 | Michael Myers fights Jason Voorhees | 6951 |
| 31 | ER Characters appeared on Friends from ER's set. | 6569 |
| 32 | Tak (Invader Zim) wears Johnny the Homicidal Maniac's boots | 5714 |
| 33 | The Smurfs also appear in Eric Cartman's fantasy on the South Park episode "Dances with Smurfs". | 5702 |
| 34 | E.T.'s race is a member of the Republic's Galactic Senate in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. | 5303 |
| 35 | Aladdins magic carpet being shaken out in The Hunchback of Notre Dame | 5224 |
| 36 | The Rugrats meet The Wild Thornberrys (Rugrats Go Wild, 2003) | 5176 |
| 37 | That's So Raven, The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, and Hannah Montana all meet up at The Tipton Hotel in the episode That's So Suite Life of Hannah Montana. | 5139 |
| 38 | David Letterman and Paul Schäfer once teamed up with the Avengers to face the Mechano-Marauder. | 5099 |
| 39 | Aliens, Predators, and Terminators fight each other (Aliens versus Predator versus The Terminator). | 4973 |
| 40 | Looney Tunes, Disney cartoons, Woody Woodpecker, Droopy, and Betty Boop appear as residents of Toontown in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. | 4940 |
| 41 | It | 4897 |
| 42 | The Hanna-Barbera cartoon party of Yogi Bear, Boo-Boo Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss, Quick Draw McGraw, Augie Doggy and Doggy Daddy come to a strange old house to celebrate Christmas with Casper the Friendly Ghost (Casper's First Christmas). | 4878 |
| 43 | In the Batman live-action television series, celebrities often appeared when the Dynamic Duo are scaling a wall and the celebrity in question opens a window for a short conversation. | 4833 |
| 44 | Bugs Bunny appeared on a commercial of Trix breakfast cereal with the Trix Rabbit to ask if the Trix Rabbit should have a taste of Trix cereal (from a write-in contest). The Trix Rabbit was eventually rewarded with a taste. | 4791 |
| 45 | Ted Nugent made an appearance on the Adult Swim cartoon Aqua Teen Hunger Force as himself. Glenn Danzig of The Misfits has also made an appearance as himself on the show. | 4759 |
| 46 | In The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, a window is in the castle courtyard. Upon closer inspection, it can be seen that inside the castle are framed pictures of Mario and Yoshi. | 4697 |
| 47 | The Dark Tower series is connected to other titles by Stephen King: | 4697 |
| 48 | Boston Legal had an episode where Steven Harper (Boston Public) appeared. | 4501 |
| 49 | Homer Simpson appears at the end of an episode of Duckman. | 4343 |
| 50 | The Jetsons travel back in time to meet The Flintstones (The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones TV movie) | 4170 |
| 51 | Tomb Raider meets Witchblade and The Darkness, and assists in reviving Butcher Knight (Top Cow comics) | 4150 |
| 52 | Ray Romano has also appeared as Fran Fine's high school classmate in The Nanny where Fran (played by series star Fran Drescher) attends her high school reunion. | 3948 |
| 53 | Stewie Griffin from the Family Guy appears in an episode in Bones called The Critic in the Cabernet. Due to Booth's brain cancer, Booth can see Stewie and talk to him. | 3931 |
| 54 | In 2001, select cast members of The Young and the Restless crossed over to The King of Queens. In an episode of the Kevin James sitcom, Doug Heffernan (James) dreams about the series. His wife Carrie (Leah Remini) dumps Doug for Jack Abbott, and Arthur Spooner (Jerry Stiller) searches for a secret antiaging cream that Nikki Newman has in her possession. This dream took place on the Y&R set at "Crimson Lights". | 3873 |
| 55 | The Doctor (from Doctor Who) meets Death's Head numerous times in the comic of the same name | 3798 |
| 56 | The Necronomicon from the Evil Dead films appears in the Voorhees' family home in Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday. This is later revisited in the comic book Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash. | 3532 |
| 57 | Spawn sees Cerebus the Aardvark (Spawn) | 3523 |
| 58 | Conan meets Elric (Conan the Barbarian, Marvel Comics). | 3397 |
| 59 | Dexter's Lab "Dial M For Monkey" villain Huntor appears briefly as hunting Jack in Samurai Jack. | 3384 |
| 60 | In Mad Magazines spoof of Star Trek, one panel has Charlie Brown flying his kite in outer space! | 3224 |
| 61 | Jeanni (Barbara Eden) of I Dream of Jeannie makes an appearance at the end of A Very Brady Sequel. | 3169 |
| 62 | Judge Dredd visits Batman's universe (Judgment on Gotham, Vendetta on Gotham, The Ultimate Riddle, Die Laughing) | 3038 |
| 63 | The TARDIS appearing in the first episode of Roman Britain-set comedy Chelmsford 123 | 2915 |
| 64 | The Stand | 2908 |
| 65 | King Kong battles Godzilla (King Kong vs. Godzilla) | 2897 |
| 66 | Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys (both of which were owned by Stratemeyer Syndicate) first appeared together in 1978 in The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries TV show, and three years later, in 1981 they appeared in a novel together for the first time, titled Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys Super Sleuths!. Since then there have been numerous crossovers between Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys, most notably in the 1988 young adult novel series, Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Supermystery and currently in the new Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys Super Mystery series. In 1992, the Hardy Boys teamed up with another Stratemeyer Syndicate character, Tom Swift for a short lived two volume crossover series, untitled Hardy Boys and Tom Swift Ultra Thriller. | 2812 |
| 67 | Jay and Silent Bob appear as visitors to the movie studio in Scream 3 | 2811 |
| 68 | The Green Hornet and Kato also appeared in a cameo episode of Batman as themselves; in another episode, Batman and Robin have to leave for the Batcave after setting down to watch The Green Hornet TV show (apparently an in-joke). | 2569 |
| 69 | Goofy hat in Aladdin | 2542 |
| 70 | Johnny Bravo occasionally interacts with older Hanna-Barbera characters (i.e. Scooby-Doo, The Flintstones, and Huckleberry Hound). | 2520 |
| 71 | Alien battles Predator (Alien vs. Predator) | 2404 |
| 72 | Robert Patrick, who played the T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, appears in the movie Wayne's World as a cop, appearing the same way he did in T-2. He stops Wayne and shows him a photo asking, "Have you seen this boy?", to which Wayne screams and drives away. The cop then starts walking like he did in T-2. | 2371 |
| 73 | Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe for the Xbox 360 and PS3 is a crossover fighting game which contains characters from both the Mortal Kombat franchise and DC Comics universe. | 2370 |
| 74 | Peter Falk appears as himself playing a Columbo-like character, in Wim Wenders' film Wings of Desire. | 2347 |
| 75 | A Danny Phantom-based Timmy Turner appears in Reality Trip. | 2295 |
| 76 | The Practice had an episode that continued on Boston Public, which was also a network crossover from ABC to FOX. | 2270 |
| 77 | Akira Toriyama (creator of Dr. Slump, Dragon Ball, and Dragon Ball Z) appears in the manga as a Robot, this exact design also appears in Chrono Trigger. | 2243 |
| 78 | Witchblade and The Darkness fight Aliens and Predator | 2175 |
| 79 | Link, Heihachi, and Spawn appear in Soulcalibur II and come from "other dimensions" searching for Soul Edge. However, only one of the three appears in each version of the game, so they do not meet each other. | 2173 |
| 80 | In the Transformers animated series, which took place in the then-futuristic year of 2005, G.I. Joe's arch-nemesis Cobra is defunct, and Cobra Commander is a broken old man who hangs out in the park feeding pigeons, and occasionally selling off some of his old supervillain technology to interested criminal parties. Also, it is believed that EDF Agent Marissa Fairbourne is the daughter of Dashiell Fairbourne, a.k.a. Flint (G.I. Joe). An older man who looks and sounds like Flint makes an appearance as her father in a message. | 2137 |
| 81 | Various Konami characters join together to defeat a common or unknown enemy (the Wai Wai World and Parodius series) or competing against each other (Konami Krazy Racers). | 2135 |
| 82 | 'Salem's Lot | 2129 |
| 83 | Bender finds a Bart Simpson doll (Futurama) | 2118 |
| 84 | Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess have numerous crossovers - Xena originally began as a Hercules' character, and the viewer demand caused the series' creation. Both Lucy Lawless and Renee O'Connor, stars of Xena, were discovered by the producers of Hercules' during the movies, and later cast as Xena and Gabrielle. Some characters appear on both shows quite frequently like Ares or Aphrodite, while others primarily exist on one show but occasionally cross-over like Joxer or Iolaus. Some characters were originally conceived of on one show, but make appearances on the other show, such as Salmoneus, Autolycus, Hope, and Callisto. | 2112 |
| 85 | The Murder, She Wrote episodes "Novel Connection" and "Magnum on Ice" feature Thomas Magnum, the titular character of Magnum, P.I. | 2095 |
| 86 | Third Watch has had crossovers with ER and Medical Investigation. | 1926 |
| 87 | In It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World a cameo shows a rescue squadâThe Three Stooges. | 1898 |
| 88 | Eb from Green Acres appeared on the Beverly Hillbillies, in spite of once acting in a Hooterville Production of the TV show. | 1818 |
| 89 | Daffy Duck made an appearance on the commercial Cheetos snack studio Chester Cheetah | 1795 |
| 90 | Timon replaces Genie and Stitch appears over the mountains in the Virtual Magic Carpet Ride on the Aladdin Platinum Editions DVDs. | 1790 |
| 91 | The Angry Beavers finding a mask of Helga Pataki | 1693 |
| 92 | Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends episode featuring Mandy of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy appearing at the door, seemingly wanting to adopt an imaginary friend. | 1653 |
| 93 | The Pretender and Profiler had a two-part episode. | 1552 |
| 94 | In The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, there are pictures of Krazy Kat and Popeye hanging in the background of the ice cream parlor. | 1530 |
| 95 | Power Rangers: Turbo teams up with Beetleborgs Metallix. (Power Ranger: Turbo Vs. Beetleborgs Metallix, Acclaim Books). | 1513 |
| 96 | Quake III features the protagonists of several Id Software first-person shooter games meeting together solely to fight each other. | 1434 |
| 97 | Invincible joins Spider-Man in Marvel Team-Up #14. | 1386 |
| 98 | Ash of the Evil Dead series battles Marvel's superhero zombies (Marvel Zombies vs. The Army of Darkness), as well as later battling Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees in Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash. | 1345 |
| 99 | Zatoichi and The One-Armed Swordsman engage in a sword duel (Zatoichi Meets the One Armed Swordsman) | 1241 |
| 100 | The Grinch battles The Cat in the Hat (The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat). | 1179 |
| 101 | Paddington Bear, The Cat in the Hat, and Gumby were some of the characters that appeared in the movie Jingle All the Way. | 1102 |
| 102 | Jay Sherman visits The Simpsons in "A Star Is Burns". Bart breaks the fourth wall by telling himself he feels "another cheap cartoon crossover" coming on when he is watching TV and hears The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones coming up next. He is then introduced to Jay Sherman. When Jay says that the family can visit him on his show, Bart tells him that won't happen. Jay Sherman would later appear in the episode Hurricane Neddy, being confined to a mental ward where he said nothing except "It stinks!" repeatedly. | 1093 |
| 103 | Stitch appears in outer space in the third Timon and Pumbaa Virtual Safari 5.1 DVD ride on The Lion King II: Simba's Pride Special Edition DVD. | 1076 |
| 104 | Toriyama, Hironobu Sakaguchi and Nobuo Uematsu also appear as "The Dream Team" in Chrono Trigger. | 917 |
| 105 | Transformers meet G.I. Joe (Transformers, Marvel comics). | 888 |
| 106 | Static from Static Shock teams up with a variety of DC Comics heroes, including Superman, Batman, and at one time the members of the Justice League (except for Wonder Woman). | 868 |
| 107 | In The Brady Bunch Movie, The Partridge Family's bus is seen as the Bradys are heading to the talent show. | 862 |
| 108 | Skeleton Crew | 828 |
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