Fictional crossovers in video games

A gaming crossover occurs when otherwise separated fictional characters, stories, settings, universes, or media in a video game meet and interact with each other. These may exist as a gimmick if two separate games in question are developed by the same company. Otherwise, they may exist as a gag from a rival company.

The following is a list of games in which crossovers appear in either the form of a cameo of any kind, a guest character, or the theme of "crossover" in general in a video game itself:

First-party crossovers

This includes games in which the crossovers are within the same company.

• Alex Kidd in Shinobi World (Alex Kidd and Shinobi characters)
• Aggressors of Dark Kombat (Fuuma from World Heroes series)
• Anarchy Reigns (Bayonetta and several characters from MadWorld)
• Anna Kournikova's Smash Court Tennis (various Namco characters, including Richard Miller from Time Crisis, Heihachi Mishima and Yoshimitsu from the Tekken series, Kei Nagase from Ace Combat 2, and Pac-Man)
• Art of Fighting 2 (Geese Howard from Fatal Fury series)^{[citation needed]}
• Asura's Wrath (In a DLC Asura fights Ryu from Street Fighter)
• Bad Dudes (Karnov)
• BattleBlock Theater (You can play as knight from Castle Crashers and the alien from Alien Hominid)
• Binding of Isaac (Characters from Gish and Time Fcuk)
• Blizzard All-Stars (Characters featured in games developed by Blizzard)
• Breath of Fire (Chun-Li)
• Cannon Spike (Capcom characters)
• Capcom Fighting Jam
• Captain Rainbow (various Nintendo characters)
• Civ II: Fantastic Worlds (Scenarios based on other MicroProse games such as Master of Magic, Master of Orion and X-Com)
• Civilization V: Brave New World (You can recruit XCOM Squads from XCOM: Enemy Unknown)
• ClayFighter 63⅓ (You can play as Earthworm Jim and Boogerman)
• Cthulhu Saves the World (Characters from Breath of Death VII and Molly the Were-Zompire)
• Dead or Alive (series) (Ryu Hayabusa)
• Dead Rising (You can find a Mega Man buster and suit)
• Dead Rising 2 (You can find Sir Arthurs armor from Ghosts'n Goblins)
• Dead Rising 2: Off the Record (You can find Protomans suit from Mega Man)
• Dissidia Final Fantasy
• Ehrgeiz (various characters from Final Fantasy VII including Cloud, Tifa, Sephiroth, etc.)
• Everybody's Golf series (various PlayStation characters)
• Everybody's Tennis Portable (A Helghast soldier from Killzone)
• Famicom Wars (Samus Aran)
• Fatal Fury Special (Ryo Sakazaki from Art of Fighting)
• Fighter's History (Karnov)
• Fighters Megamix (Sega characters)
• The King of Fighters (Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting, Psycho Soldier, Ikari Warriors, Buriki One, Savage Reign, Metal Slug and Samurai Shodown)
• Konami Krazy Racers (Metal Gear, Pop'n Music, Legend of the Mystical Ninja, Twinbee among others)
• Kirby Super Star (Various Nintendo characters is sitting in the audience during the Megaton Punch mini game)
• The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Contains reference to many various Nintendo games, and several enemies from the Mario (series))
• Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 (Lars Alexandersson from the Tekken series)
• Ninja Gaiden (Ayane)
• New International Track & Field (Various Konami characters)
• Onimusha Blade Warriors (MegaMan.EXE and Zero)
• Penny Arcade Adventures: Episode 3 (Cthulhu Saves the World and Molly the Were-Zompire)
• PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale (various Sony characters such as Kratos, PaRappa, Sweet Tooth, and Sly Cooper).
• PlayStation Move Heroes (crossover of the Ratchet & Clank, Jak and Daxter and Sly Cooper franchises)
• Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy (Scorpion from Mortal Kombat)
• Punch-Out!! (Wii) (Donkey Kong makes a cameo as a boss)
• Quake III Arena (Doom and Quake)
• Rival Schools: United by Fate (Sakura Kasugano)
• Rock n' Roll Racing (Olaf from The Lost Vikings)
• Samurai Warriors (Lu Bu of Dynasty Warriors makes an appearance as a hidden boss)
• Saturday Night Slam Masters (Mike Haggar from Final Fight)
• Secret of Mana (Moogles from the Final Fantasy games)
• Sega SuperStars
• Sega Superstars Tennis
• Segagaga
• Seiken Densetsu 3 (Moogles from the Final Fantasy games)
• Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne (Dante from Devil May Cry)
• SNK Gals' Fighters (Several female characters from SNK games)
• Solomon's Key (Mighty Bomb Jack)
• Soulcalibur II (Heihachi Mishima from Tekken in the PS2 version, Link from The Legend of Zelda in the Gamecube version)
• Soulcalibur Legends (Lloyd Irving from Tales of Symphonia)
• Star Ocean series (Lenneth Valkyrie and Freya from the Valkyrie Profile series. Many tri-Ace games also feature crossover secret bosses and the like.)
• Street Fighter Alpha series (tie-in with Final Fight)
• Street Fighter X Mega Man (A crossover between Street Fighter and Mega Man)
• Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix (Street Fighter, Darkstalkers and Red Earth)
• Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (Link and Samus both make cameos)
• Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo (Various characters from Capcom fighting games)
• Super Smash Bros. series (various Nintendo characters including Mario, Donkey Kong, Link, Pikachu, etc.)
• Tales series (some games feature crossovers from other Tales of timelines {i.e. Lloyd Irving in Tales of Symphonia}, as well as sometimes featuring characters from other Namco series)
• Tecmo Super Bowl (Mighty Bomb Jack)
• Tony Hawk's Project 8 (Grim Ripper from the Guitar Hero series)
• Tony Hawk's Proving Ground (Judy Nails from Guitar Hero)
• Urban Reign (Paul Phoenix and Marshall Law)
• Venus & Braves (Multiple Tales series characters on the PSP remake)
• Viewtiful Joe (Dante from Devil May Cry makes an appearance in the PlayStation 2 version)
• Warriors Orochi (Dynasty Warriors, Samurai Warriors)
• We Love Golf! (Assorted Capcom characters)
• World of Warcraft (The main characters from The Lost Vikings makes an appearance in the game)

Third-party crossovers

This includes games which have crossovers from two or more separate companies.

• Alice: Madness Returns (A skeleton of Razputin from Psychonauts)
• Ape Escape 3 (A Metal Gear-based minigame)
• Capy Fine Racing GP (A crossover racing game between Double Fine Productions and Capybara Games)
• Cross Edge (NIS, Gust, Namco-Bandai, Idea Factory, Capcom)
• Chaos Wars
• Battletoads & Double Dragon (game produced by Tradewest/Rare with characters from Technos' Double Dragon series)
• Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage and Spyro Orange: The Cortex Conspiracy
• Dead or Alive 4 (Nicole - a Spartan super-soldier created by Bungie Studios for exclusive use in DoA 4)
• Dead or Alive: Dimensions (Metroid: Other M themed stage with Ridley appearing as a stage hazard while Samus appears at the end of the match.)
• Dead or Alive 5 (Akira Yuki, Pai Chan, and Sarah Bryant from the Virtua Fighter series)
• Diddy Kong Racing 64 (Banjo, Conker) (At the time, Rareware was a second party developer)
• DreamMix TV World Fighters (Konami, Hudson, Takara)
• Dynasty Warriors Vs. (Custom character creation contains Link and Samus costumes.)
• Eternal Fighter Zero (Moon., One: Kagayaku Kisetsu e, Kanon, and Air)
• Itadaki Street Special (Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy)
• Fighting Layer (Allen Snider and Blair Dame, created by Arika, were previously in the original Street Fighter EX)
• Fight Night Round 2 (Little Mac)
• Final Fantasy XIII-2 (DLC costumes from Mass Effect and Assassin's Creed)
• Fortune Street (Dragon Quest and Mario)
• Itadaki Street DS (Dragon Quest and Mario)
• KOF: Maximum Impact Regulation A (Makoto Mizoguchi)
• Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games
• Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games
• Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games
• Mario Kart Arcade GP (Mario and Pac-Man)
• Mario Kart Arcade GP 2 (Mario, Pac-Man, and Tamagotchi)
• Mario Kart Arcade GP DX (Mario, Pac-Man, and Taiko no Tatsujin)
• Mario Hoops 3-on-3 (Mario and Final Fantasy)
• Marvel vs. Capcom (series) (Capcom and Marvel Comics)
• Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (Contains missions that tributes to the Monster Hunter (series) by Capcom, where Naked Snake can face either Rathalos or Tigrex)
• Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (A minigame where you have to catch the apes from Ape Escape)
• Mortal Kombat (2011) (Kratos from Sony's God of War series and Freddy Krueger from the Nightmare on Elm Street film series as downloadable content)
• Injustice: Gods Among Us, Scorpion from Mortal Kombat shows up as the 3rd DLC of the game , with the moveset from Mortal Kombat 2011.
• Namco × Capcom
• Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 (Lars Alexandersson from Tekken 6)
• NBA Street V3 (Mario, Luigi, and Peach)
• NeoGeo Battle Coliseum (Characters from ADK, which was bought by SNK Playmore, appear in the game alongside SNK characters)
• PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale (Dante from Devil May Cry, Big Daddy from Bioshock, Heihachi Mishima from Tekken and Raiden from Metal Gear)
• Pokémon Conquest (Pokémon and Nobunaga's Ambition)
• Professor Layton vs. Ace Attorney (Professor Layton and Phoenix Wright, from Ace Attorney)
• Project X Zone (Characters from Capcom, Sega and Namco Bandai)
• Ridge Racer (Hornet car from Daytona USA)
• Samurai Warriors 3 (Takamaru from Nazo no Murasame Jō)
• Scribblenauts Unlimited (Characters from the Super Mario and the Legend of Zelda series)
• Skyrim ( Valve and Bethesda teamed up and made a mod that added a space core from Portal 2 to the game.)
• Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne (Dante from Devil May Cry)
• Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem
• Shoot Many Robots] (The steam version of the game contains: Gordon Freemans suit, Portal turrets and some items from Team Fortress 2.)
• SNK vs. Capcom (series) (Capcom and SNK Playmore)
• Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed (Danica Patrick, Wreck-It Ralph, Team Fortress, Miis and Xbox 360 Avatars)
• Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing (Banjo and Kazooie and Xbox 360 Avatars)
• Soulcalibur II (Link from Legend of Zelda, Heihachi from Tekken, and Spawn from Image Comics make appearances on respective consoles)
• Soulcalibur IV (Darth Vader, Starkiller and Yoda from Star Wars; the bonus character Angol Fear is implied to be the cousin of the character Angol Mois from the Sgt. Frog series.)
• Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny (Kratos from Sony's God of War series)
• Soulcalibur V (Ezio Auditore fom Assassin's Creed)
• SSX on Tour (Mario, Luigi, and Peach)
• Street Fighter X Tekken (Street Fighter characters, Tekken characters, Cole MacGrath from Sucker Punch's inFamous series, Capcom's Mega Man, Namco's Pac-Man and Sony Mascots Toro and Kuro)
• Super Crate Box (Characters from Canabalt, Spelunky and Meatboy)
• Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Solid Snake, Sonic the Hedgehog, and various Nintendo characters)
• Super Meat Boy (Various indie game characters such as Tim and Gish)
• Super Robot Wars (series)
• Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars (Capcom and Tatsunoko Production characters).
• Tekken Tag Tournament 2: Wii U Edition (Mushrooms from the Super Mario series and Tekken characters in Nintendo themed character costumes such as Mario, Bowser, Link, Princess Zelda, Fox McCloud and Samus Aran)
• Tekken X Street Fighter (Street Fighter and Tekken characters)
• Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (Spider-Man from Marvel Comics)
• Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 (Darth Maul from Star Wars, Wolverine from Marvel Comics, Kelly Slater and Doomguy from Doom)
• Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 (Eddie the Head (Iron Maiden's mascot) and Jango Fett from Star Wars)
• Tony Hawk's Underground (Iron Man from Marvel Comics)
• Tony Hawk's Underground 2 (Shrek from the Shrek films)
• Trinity Universe (Disgaea and Atelier characters)
• Wario Blast: Featuring Bomberman! (Wario and Bomberman)
• Project X Zone (Characters from Namco ,Capcom and Sega)

Comic book/video game crossovers

Video games that have comic book franchise characters encountering or facing off against other comic book franchise characters or third-party video game characters in a crossover video game or as a guest character in a third-party video game include:

• Marvel vs. Capcom (series) (Capcom and Marvel Comics characters)
• Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe (Mortal Kombat and DC Comics characters)
• X-Men: Children of the Atom (Akuma was also present)

Cartoon/video game crossovers

Video games that have cartoon franchise characters encountering or facing off against other cartoon franchise characters or video game characters in a crossover video game or as a guest character in a third-party video game include:

• Cartoon Network Racing
• Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion
• Dream Mix TV World Fighters (Konami, Takara, Hudson)
• Epic Mickey
• Kingdom Hearts series (Disney and Final Fantasy)
• Nicktoons Unite!
• Nicktoons: Battle for Volcano Island
• Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall

Manga/anime crossovers

Video games that have manga franchise characters or anime franchise characters encountering or facing off against other manga or anime franchise characters in a crossover video game include:

• Battle Stadium D.O.N (Dragon Ball, One Piece, and Naruto)
• Dengeki Gakuen RPG: Cross of Venus (crossover of Dengeki Bunko light novels)
• Dynasty Warriors: Gundam
• Famicom Jump: Hero Retsuden (Jump Manga)
• Famicom Jump II: Saikyō no Shichinin (Jump manga)
• Gran Turismo series (two cars from Initial D manga (Takumi Fujiwara's Toyota AE86 and Mako Sato and Sayuki's Sileighty) are available throughout series)
• Heroes Phantasia (crossover of Slayers, Sorcerous Stabber Orphen, Blood +, Rune Soldier, Read or Die, Sgt. Frog, My-HiME, Darker than Black, and s-CRY-ed)
• Jump Super Stars (Jump Manga)
• Jump Ultimate Stars (Jump Manga)
• Magical Chaser ~Stardust of Dreams~ (Crossover of five magical girl anime series)
• Monster Hunter Tri (Exclusive to Japan's version, some event weapons are based by anime/manga cartoon series from Kodansha, Shogakukan, and Shueisha)
• Nakayoshi All Stars - Mezase Gakuen Idol a Japanese game for Nintendo DS
• Panic in Nakayoshi World
• SD Gundam G Generation
• Super Robot Wars series (Robots from Anime/Manga)
• Sunday VS Magazine: Shūketsu! Chōjō Daikessen
• Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars
• Tekken 3 (Gon)

See also

• M.U.G.E.N