Oddest X-overs that actually worked...

Rift120

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#1
Well I was perusing a few of the odder stories I enjoy reading and I got curious. WHat are some of the more odder/off the wall x-over stories that you guys know of.

Of course leaving it at that woudl be too easy, after all It doesn't take more than 5second to find a bunch of crap fics where the author apparantly decided to just pick to unrelated series and smasht them together without even thinking if theyc ould work together (Much less if they SHOULD be x-overed in the first place)

So the catch is the story has to be a decent read, not one that makes you want to burn your eyes for reading the summary of the story int he first place.

Well here's a few of my favorites.

"Evil be thou my Good"- Harry POtter/Hellraiser- http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2452681/1/

Horror movie meets little kid fantasy novel.... and its good to, without making either x-over suck...

"Misery Chick"- Cypher3au- http://addventure.bast-enterprises.de/109297.html

Yes its an adventure thread, that hasn't been updated in a while... still out of ALL the things X-overed with Ranma... I NEVER in a million years owuld have thought Daria would even be remotely possible.... Yet Cypher makes it work....

"Something Grim This Way Comes"-Ruskbyte-http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2666277/1/

Apparantly Horror wasn't enough for Ruskbyte, so he went to the other extreme and wrote a amusing tale of x-overing HP with the Grim adventures of Billy and Mandy...


Honorable Mention

Freakazoid/Ranma x-over- Black Dragon- No known current address as the author owuld like to forget he ever wrote the thing... THe only fic I know of where the author wrote a second chapter that he also disliked because fans of the fic demanded it, and the second chapter still was good....
 

Terdwilicker

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#2
DB Sommer did some funny ones. There's a wonderful xover between Quiet Country Cafe (Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou) and Fist of the North Star.

I wrote a cute one that is Ghost in the Shell and Love Hina. I also wrote another one which is Love Hina and the Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi.

There are quite a few xovers that are odd but work, if they're done by someone mature enough to know the characters properly. That part is crucial.
 
#3
Well there was this one fic that crossed over RahXephon and Evangelion... somewhat decently written, but the writer was a bit of an oddball. 'Endgame' I think it was called.

Huh? Shameless plugging? Where?! :unsure!: :p

But more seriously, General Grievous's Legend Of Uzumaki Naruto springs to mind. Although I am worried about how he's aping the plot NP2. :no:

Another one is It's All Relative On The Hellmouth; HP/BtVS crossover with Giles as Harry's uncle and a believable plot. :blink: Amazing, I know.
 

Jakkun

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#4
Conspiracies and Deception is Naruto, Teen Titans and Yu Yu Hakusho. Slade is Kyuubi in it, and Kurama's cousin. It works out pretty well. I think Naruto is going to get nearly every female because he has to rebuild his clan. Kurenai and Slade get together. Kakashi is an ass, and Sasuke gets owned. I don't remember what happens with Sakura, but I don't think she is in the harem.

I'm worried about the second part of Legend of Uzumaki Naruto as well. Kira is good, Sakura is not. I think nearly everyone has requested that he stick with Kira as the pairing.
 

Jakkun

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#6
Ranma and Warhammer seem to be getting pretty common. WAAAAGH! Ranma has him being the war boss of a tribe or orcs. There's another one where he is a champion of Tzeentch by the same author. There's a Warhammer 40K story where Ranma is one of the sons of the emperor and his true heir.
 
#8
Rift120 said:
"Misery Chick"- Cypher3au- http://addventure.bast-enterprises.de/109297.html

Yes its an adventure thread, that hasn't been updated in a while... still out of ALL the things X-overed with Ranma... I NEVER in a million years owuld have thoughtá Daria would even be remotely possible.... Yet Cypher makes it work....
Cypher3au is an awesome writer. He's also got an Addventure thread called Hogwarts and Anime - Lone Wolf which is, essentially, Harry Potter is Terry Bogard. He's also got the beginning of a thread (only three eps) where Ranma has become the DC Comics version of Thor because of Urd, Belldandy, and Skuld.

Hogwarts and Anime - Lone Wolf
 

lethum

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#9
"Make a Wish" by Rosacharb's Plot. I't a coincidences follow Harry like crazy while he slowly gets more powerful. The crossovers are mostly minor, but the fic is very good.
 

Lufio

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#10
Are you limiting recommendations to regular crossovers? Or do extreme ones such as fusions count? Since fusions basically takes elements from one source material, splice in parts from other source materials, then mix it all together to form a completely new story, those kinds of fics take the easy way out of crossing over this series with that series.

Anyways, for oddball fusions that somehow work, look up Brian Randall's Mystery Fusions. They'll give you all sorts of different reactions. :huh!: :rolleyes: :D :blink: :yay: :huh:

There are other authors that work on the theme of fusions that should be never be written (but they did it anyways). DB Sommer is one of those. Like his Fusions That Should Never Be series that someone recommended. His Azumanga Royale is definitely a crack crossover.
 
#12
Alan Harnum's Lovecraft/Ranma crossover series, there were about 3 or so large fics that made up one over-reaching arc. I think the second one was titled "thy fate overtake" and the last one was titled "the dying of the light", can't remember for the life of me what the first was called.

Huh, that makes about three decent lovecraft crossovers...

Another crossover that came right out of left field was the "Saotome Gambit" a battletech/ranma crossover (of all things) it's the sort of thing you would never think of, but the author manages to carry it off.

Since the said authors site appears to be down, some bright spark has reposted on fanfiction.net so that people can read it.
 

cilrais

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#13
Revanant Dragoon said:
But more seriously, General Grievous's Legend Of Uzumaki Naruto springs to mind.? Although I am worried about how he's aping the plot NP2. :no:
I loved part 1 of that fic, but part 2 is really not working for me.
 

MC80a Liberty

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#14
Metal Gear Solid: Slytherin Eater by Rogue 11

HP/MGS cross

"Memory charm is the only spell I'm really good at, but to make up for it I'm very good with it. And I do apologize this, but you know too much."

Lockhart had made one crucial mistake. He had turned away as he got out his wand.

As he turned around he stared straight down the barrel of a silenced gun.
 

ttestagr

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#15
ikarugan1984 said:
Alan Harnum's Lovecraft/Ranma crossover series, there were about 3 or so large fics that made up one over-reaching arc. I think the second one was titled "thy fate overtake" and the last one was titled "the dying of the light", can't remember for the life of me what the first was called.

Huh, that makes about three decent lovecraft crossovers...

Another crossover that came right out of left field was the "Saotome Gambit" a battletech/ranma crossover (of all things) it's the sort of thing you would never think of, but the author manages to carry it off.

Since the said authors site appears to be down, some bright spark has reposted on fanfiction.net so that people can read it.
I hate Ranma crossovers with a passion, almost as much as I hate Naruto/Sasuke yaoi.
 

cilrais

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#16
ttestagr said:
I hate Ranma crossovers with a passion, almost as much as I hate Naruto/Sasuke yaoi.
But Ranma looks so Kawaii in her Sailor Sun outfit!
 

ttestagr

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#17
cilrais said:
ttestagr said:
I hate Ranma crossovers with a passion, almost as much as I hate Naruto/Sasuke yaoi.
But Ranma looks so Kawaii in her Sailor Sun outfit!
:flameon: :flameon: :flameon:

Burn

:no: :no: :no:
 

Dubrichius

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#18
cilrais said:
ttestagr said:
I hate Ranma crossovers with a passion, almost as much as I hate Naruto/Sasuke yaoi.
But Ranma looks so Kawaii in her Sailor Sun outfit!
Actually; he'd look better in brown, knee-length leather boots, cream pants and tunic, and a large brown cloak.
 
#19
Dubrichius said:
cilrais said:
ttestagr said:
I hate Ranma crossovers with a passion, almost as much as I hate Naruto/Sasuke yaoi.
But Ranma looks so Kawaii in her Sailor Sun outfit!
Actually; he'd look better in brown, knee-length leather boots, cream pants and tunic, and a large brown cloak.
Ah, but that's true for almost everybody. :p

Otherwise, I have to side with Ttestagr. Ranma crossovers are not to be indulged in. :no:
 
#20
Question. :huh: Why? I know a majority of them suck, but some of them are decent
 

ttestagr

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#21
Ranma is a character that just doesn't work outside of the ridiculousness that is Ranma 1/2. He's a chauvinistic pig with dubious morals, who refuses to change his views on the matter. He works as a character because no one in the manga is believable and they're funny like that. To do a crossover you either have to change Takahashi's characters to have them interact with the other series believable, or rape the characters of the cross series to fit Ranma. The only series I really tolerate Ranma crosses are other Takahashi stories like Inu Yasha or Lum, because in many ways they share the same over the top ridiculousness.
 
#22
I can see your point, however you could say the same thing about normal ranma fanfiction because a lot of them are not founded on the silly little world that Takahashi made up; granted not all of them are good, but some are awesome.
 

ttestagr

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#23
I also don't like the Ranma fandom. I generally avoid it like the plague.
 

GenocideHeart

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#24
ttestagr said:
Ranma is a character that just doesn't work outside of the ridiculousness that is Ranma 1/2. He's a chauvinistic pig with dubious morals, who refuses to change his views on the matter. He works as a character because no one in the manga is believable and they're funny like that. To do a crossover you either have to change Takahashi's characters to have them interact with the other series believable, or rape the characters of the cross series to fit Ranma. The only series I really tolerate Ranma crosses are other Takahashi stories like Inu Yasha or Lum, because in many ways they share the same over the top ridiculousness.
Meh, I don't agree. There ARE serious points in Ranma, the Jusendo fight with Saffron being one. Using that base for a fic makes serious fics with Ranma entirely possible.
 

Jakkun

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#25
Ranma has to be the series with the most adaptability. I love Ranma crossovers. I'm pretty sick of the standard Ranma stories, pretty much every plot has been covered. Crossovers are good because it is relatively easy to adapt Ranma to other scenarios and still keep him Ranma. It is my belief that Ranma can crossover with any series, and work as a non-crack fic with most of them. I can't imagine a smurfs or my little pony crossover right now, but it can probably be done.
 
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