List of Fictional Crossovers - Crossover Concepts or Ideas

Crossover Concepts or Ideas

Appearances and/or references of plots, items, materials, and/or objects that appear in another setting. Often used as a non-sequitur or anachronistic gag.

• Characters from multiple media franchises may put up and play their versions of pre-existing classic fiction works as another means of a fictional crossover, here are the notable examples:
  • The Care Bears put up their own versions of Alice in Wonderland and The Nutcracker respectively. (The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland and Care Bears Nutcracker Suite)
  • Mickey Mouse, the Looney Tunes gang, Mr. Magoo, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Sesame, Dennis the Menace and Doctor Who have all but homaged, spoofed and lampooned the famous Charles Dickens Christmas story, A Christmas Carol. (Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol, A Special Sesame Street Christmas, Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol, Mickey's Christmas Carol, A Jetson Christmas Carol, Blackadder's Christmas Carol, The Muppet Christmas Carol, A Flintstones Christmas Carol, An All Dogs Christmas Carol, Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo, Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas, A Dennis the Menace Christmas and Doctor Who in: A Christmas Carol respectively)
  • Tom and Jerry, Scooby-Doo, The Muppets, Beetlejuice, Earthworm Jim, Robot Chicken and Phineas and Ferb and many others have all played their own versions of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Scooby's Trip to Ahz, Wizard of Ooze, The Wizard of Ooze, The Muppets' Wizard of Oz, Wizard of Odd, Cannot Be Erased, So Sorry and Tom and Jerry and the Wizard of Oz respectively)
  • The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo is an animated cartoon series that found Mr. Magoo storytelling and playing his own versions of various fairy tales and other famous classic stories from popular culture, such as Snow White, Don Quixote, Rip Van Winkle and Uncle Sam.
• Goofy hat in Aladdin
• Aladdin's magic carpet being shaken out in The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• The TARDIS appearing in the first episode of Roman Britain-set comedy Chelmsford 123
• Tak (Invader Zim) wears Johnny the Homicidal Maniac's boots
• The Angry Beavers finding a mask of Helga Pataki
• Bender finds a Bart Simpson doll (Futurama)
• Milhouse gets Matt Groening to sign a Bender doll. (The Simpsons)
• Tool box bearing the Binford Tools logo (Disney's Home Improvement) in Toy Story (1995)
• 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.
• Belle, the heroine of Beauty and the Beast, appears amidst the crowd during the opening festival scene in The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
• E.T.'s race is a member of the Republic's Galactic Senate in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.
• Two kids in the "real world" wear Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck pajamas in The Nightmare Before Christmas. During the same scene, they are being chased by Scary Teddy, which resembles Mickey.
• Stitch appears on one of Koda's outtakes on the DVD release of Disney's Brother Bear.
• 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.
• The original preview for Lilo and Stitch featured an opening scene taken from Beauty and the Beast, where Belle and the Beast are dancing in the ballroom. Stitch falls from the ceiling, bringing the chandelier with him, and almost lands on top of Belle, to which she responds: "Get your own movie!" and then storms away.
• A Stitch doll is visible in Treasure Planet (shown in theaters in the same year, 2002).
• Timon replaces Genie and Stitch appears over the mountains in the Virtual Magic Carpet Ride on the Aladdin Platinum Editions DVDs.
• There are some characters mentioned, seen, or heard in The Shining. At the beginning, in the kitchen at the hotel, Bugs Bunny is mentioned while talking about calling Danny Torrance "doc". Later, Mickey Mouse is seen on Danny's black-sleeved shirt while attempting to get the fire engine toys. Then, before the end, Danny watches Looney Tunes cartoons. Road Runner is heard from the television because he says "Meep meep", but the camera does not face Road Runner.
• Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, Pluto, Mighty Mouse, and Superman are mentioned in Stand by Me.
• In The Brady Bunch Movie, The Partridge Family's bus is seen as the Bradys are heading to the talent show.
• Dexter has a Samurai Jack doll on his shelf in the later episodes of Dexter's Lab.
• An unseen Mario is the announcer in Pac-Man Vs.
• Pac-Man's symbol being featured in many Namco and early Midway games.
• The Naboo N-1 starfighter from Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace is featured as a hidden fighter in the Nintendo 64 game Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, which was released nearly a year and a half before (the code to unlock the ship was only revealed after the release of The Phantom Menace).
• 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.
• In The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, there are pictures of Krazy Kat and Popeye hanging in the background of the ice cream parlor.
• In an episode of "The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius" titled: "the Evil Beneath", Jimmy, Carl, and Sheen are seen watching an episode of "Mysterious Mysteries", the show that Dib from "Invader Zim" watches regularly.
• A scene in Disney's Tarzan features Mrs. Potts and Chip. They appear as everyday lifeless dinnerware, but upon closer inspection, actually resemble these characters moreover.
• Laugh It Up, Fuzzball: The Family Guy Trilogy; in which Peter Griffin retells the stories of all three films of the original Star Wars trilogy, along with the Griffin family, with the Family Guy cast of characters recast in the Star Wars roles.