Crossover
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A crossover is a fan work that combines two or more separate fandoms into a single piece of fanart or fanfiction.
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[edit] Examples
The Twisting the Hellmouth archive hosts approximately 9,000 crossover stories between Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Angel and other fandoms.
[edit] Historical Definitions
The following definition dates to January 2001 and the site Bad Fanfic! No Biscuit!:
- fanfic involving characters from more than one fandom. Example: Mulder and Scully go to Sunnydale to investigate vampire activities, and meet up with Buffy.[1]
The following definition dates to May 2003 in the Combat! and Nash Bridges fandoms:
- crossover: A story which straddles two different fandoms. Can be as close mixing characters from different universes within a genre (ie. Batman/Wolverine) or as wildly disparate as you can imagine (ie. Buffy/Teletubbies). These stories can either be great fun or infamously horrible, depending on the skill of the writer. Sometimes spelled "cross-over" or abbreviated to "C/O" but not with comic fandom. [2]
The following definition dates to August 2003 in the Gundam Wing fandom:
- Crossover: A fic with characters/locations from two (or more) anime series.[3]
The following definition dates to May 2004 in the Harry Potter, Horatio Hornblower and Pirates of the Caribbean fandoms:
- Crossover:
- a fic incorporating canon characters (and sometimes even OCs from AUs) from two or more fandoms.[4]
The following definition dates to September 2005 in the Stargate fandom:
- A story that contains the characters from Stargate SG-1, but also another TV show (crossovers between Stargate SG-1 and The Sentinel seem quite popular). [5]
The following definition dates to October 2005 on MediaMiner.Org by fanilia:
- Crossover: Involving two or more separate and distinct anime series into one story. [6]
The following definition is was written by Jane Leavell and updated in June 2006:
- CROSSOVER: Sometimes this appears as X/O or Xover. A story which involves two or more different shows. For instance, Jane Leavell's "Quantum Island" crosses QUANTUM LEAP with GILLIGAN'S ISLAND. A good crossover is difficult to produce, as first you must have a good combination and secondly a reasonable excuse for the two of them getting involved--they can't just happen to stumble across each other. There's no reason why Horatio Hornblower would meet Starsky & Hutch, for instance, and "Because I wanna!" is no excuse, but if one of the shows you're crossing involved time travel, it might work.[7]
The following definition dates to November 2006 in the Harry Potter fandom:
- Crossovers
- Combining elements of two or more universes (e.g. a House M.D./Harry Potter crossover would likely have Dr. Cameron and Remus bonding over a cup of hot tea, or Dr. House himself exchanging barbs with Severus Snape). [8]
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