I'll start with a short disclaimer here, because I don't want this to sound like I am bashing all crossovers. I don't think crossover fic is inherently bad; while I have never read a decent one myself, I believe others who say they have. And in the hands of a good author, just about anything is possible. However, I've been browsing the Crossover section of Fanfiction.net recently, and I just have to wonder, what would possess someone to write a Hamtaro/Lord of the Rings crossover? Or a Pokemon/Star Wars crossover? I think that part of being a good author is knowing your limits. While bad crossover fic is usually bad for many other reasons besides the crossover, trying to shoehorn two completely different fandoms into one story just adds an extra level of stupid.


So what terrible crossovers have you had the misfortune to read?

G.I. Joe and Sailor Moon.

For serious.

I HAVE MENTIONED THIS ON THREE DIFFERENT THREADS BECAUSE IT IS THAT BAD.

I saw one clusterfuck of Dragonball Z, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, ALF, Ninja Turtles and Ghostbusters.

It was magnificent in its utter tripe-osity.

I think that the problem with crossovers is people trying to combine fandoms that are completely incompatible. Since this happens so often I tend to stay away from reading them, but a long time ago when I was much more naive, I read a Pokemon/Star Trek crossover in which a dispute with the Romulans ended up with a Romulan Senator and Captain Picard resolving the issue with a pokemon battle, which Picard won of course. In this weird crossover the Enterprise was powered up by loads of electric type pokemon in engineering. All of the crew just took their pokemon to work with them, and in one scene Deanna Troi ended up telling Gengar to hypnotise Riker so she could implant suggestions into his mind. For some reason Data had a meowth that got pregnant with spot as well. It was pretty fucked up, I know there was more to it but I can't remember any more and I can't find it on FFN.

I'm debating whether to snark this:

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5619130/1/TLMA_and_pointyears_Present

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WARNING! This makes fun of Twilight, Harry Potter, Spiderman, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Star Trek. This was just a random story that we made up. We don't mean to offend anyone with anything we say in the randomness. We do not own Twilight, Harry Potter, Spiderman, Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Star Trek

I think I'm in love.

I still maintain that the crossover disaster I found many, many years ago is still the worst I've ever read (I can't find it anymore, because either the author deleted it completely or it vanished when his hosting service crashed).

At last count (and mind, I am basing it on memory), it connected the following fandoms together:

M*A*S*H*, Highlander: The Series, Kung-Fu: The Legend Continues, Bewitched, Mortal Kombat, The X-Files, Godzilla (Japanese version), Trapper John, M.D., Quantum Leap, Star Trek (all series but Enterprise). Side trips off of this led to most of the major anime popular in the 1990s, as well as a M*A*S*H*/JLA Amalgam universe.

The dramatis personae alone ran for about 5 pages.

I still say oldie-but-baddie "Sailor Babylon" (Sailor Moon/Babylon 5) qualifies for this for one reason and one reason only.

Two words: Tuxedo Garibaldi

Harry potter/star wars: forces of corruption.

Harry Potter/Black Jewels Trilogy.

I remember a Yu-Gi-Oh/Shining crossover that I thought was excellent at the time. I'm scared to go back and check.

All of those Harry Potter/Twilight crossovers are just laughable. Especially the ones who try to make Cedric Diggory and Edward Cullen the same person.

Anything crossed with Harvest Moon. In the right hands a purposely funny crossover can be funny, but man there are too many of these out there...

What is the point of crossing Kiki's Delivery Service over into the Potterverse? Especially if all you're going to do with it is mention, casually and in passing, that after her training year Kiki spent a year at Hogwarts and then returned to Koriko?

Well, I actually read quite a good one once. It involved the crossing over of seven disney shows, all put into the TaleSpin universe, and somehow it WORKED.

It works better if you crossover fandoms that come from the same genre. Most Doctor Who/ Torchwood crossovers I ever read weren't half bad, because both fandoms are sci-fic and deal with similar subjects. Plus, they've crossed the two series online, so you have a precedent for it being done.

Then you get the people who try to cross Dr. Who with Twilight, or Torchwood with Glee, and things just fall all to pieces.

You know...I totally forgot about a fic I saw which was a MiST of a Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Teletubbies crossover where Po became a slayer. Wrong on all levels...except for the fact Po slayed Angel, which was probably a GOOD thing.

Actually...what made the MiST really wrong on all levels was that that crossover was only part of it. The rest included a Marrisafic of Ratliff's and a preview of a Marrissafic...

...which was NC-17...

...and had Marrissa doing the nasty with a male version of herself from a mirror universe. (To quote a colleage of mine: Is that considered incest or masturbation?)

Oh, but "Female Character X discovers she's a Slayer" has so much potential, especially if you want to go for something comic like Po. [And yes, I have done "X as a Slayer" drabbles, but they were all human. Well, the ones in crossovers were all human.]

As for Doctor Who crossovers, a show that can go anywhere in time or space is like O blood. It crosses with just about anything; TARDIS shows up, Doctor and companion step out, cue fun with locals. Frankly, non-SF shows are even easier for this, since there isn't the worry about incompatible sciences.

Careful...not EVERY "female finds out she's a slayer" works. Some might take offense if the female in question is a KINDERGARDENER, for example.

I would like to see one possible crossover of this type though...

BELLA finds out she's a slayer!