zuckyd1 wrote:

Loki wrote:

From 
Emi

TO
Luther

1) Emi and Ken Washio are both regular characters in Infini-T Force.



Ken is originally from the anime series Science Ninja Team Gatchaman. When it was adapted into English as Battle of the Planets, his name was changed to Mark.

2) Mark and Lion-O appeared in Battle of the Planets/Thundercats #1.

Yep. Once you identify Emi, you find Infini-T Force, which immediately crosses over several Anime, and gives you Gatchaman, one of the relatively few Anime to have crossover into Western comics.

zuckyd1 wrote:

6) Fox Mulder and John Munch appeared in the X-Files fifth season episode “Unusual Suspects”.


7) John Munch is an acquaintance of Luther, as revealed in the fifth episode of Luther.





The Munch mention in Luther is probably unauthorized (although Munch did make an authorized appearance in Luther star Idris Elba’s previous series The Wire). The only other Luther connections that I could turn up was a BBC advertisement teaming him with Sherlock’s Sherlock Holmes and The Fall’s Stella Gibson and a mashup video posted by the BBC that depicts Luther’s Alice Morgan and Killing Eve’s Villanelle having a conversation.

I suspected people might go through Luther's mention of Munch, and that's perfectly acceptable, albeit almost certainly unauthorized like you said. That said, there is an authorized route in, and you came pretty close to locating it with those adverts. Using Sherlock is awkward, since the character is public domain and we therefore normally would have to find another link to the BBC's Sherlock, not just any version of Sherlock Holmes; the Alice/Villanelle one is problematic since it's using clips from the shows and not new footage (afaik). However, there's another ad, which links Luther, Sherlock, Eastenders, chat show host Graham Norton, TV talent shows The Voice, Strictly Come Dancing (think Dancing With the Stars) and The Great British Bake-Off (!!), and...Doctor Who. And once you add the Doctor to the mix, you have your links to the Omniverse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnoxGr_sTz4
It's a bizarre mixture of characters and unusual link, but it's definitely authorized.

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Bump. This one is newer, so it'll stay active for a while longer.

Loki wrote:

One I hope should be an interesting challenge, if only at one end. I figured this could be done using public domain characters but I've just worked out there is at least one route (probably more) via all authorized, if somewhat unorthodox, appearances.
From
Conan

to
Detective Conan

Conan's got plenty of routes to and from the Omniverse, but we've not touched on too many Anime/Manga types and getting to them.

Time to put this one to bed.

Loki wrote:

From
BANANAMAN

to
COWBOY GORILLA

1) Bananaman and Desperate Dan are rivals, and have fought both together and against one another multiple times since Bananaman move to Dan's Dandy comic.

2) Dan entered into a biggest chin in comics competition in the Comic Relief Comic.

but though this provides a route to get to 2000AD (and thus IPC/Rebellion characters across the board), Marvel AND DC, we're using this to get to another universe, because another group appear in CRC - the TMNT!

3) From the TMNT, we get to Savage Dragon
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4) Dragon met Megaton Man in a crossover issue.


5) And Cowboy Gorilla is one of Megaton Man's supporting cast, appearing in multiple issues with him.

From Compassion

to
Revenge (well, the Revengers)

The difficult ones are fun, but they can take time that I don't always have available.

zuckyd1 wrote:

Loki wrote:

From Compassion

to
Revenge (well, the Revengers)

1) Compassion and the Doctor appeared in Interference Book One.
2) The Doctor and Spider-Man appeared in Incomplete Death's Head #12.
3) Spider-Man and Invincible teamed up in Marvel Team-Up (2005) #14.
4) Invincible and the Tick appeared in The Tick #100.
5) The Tick and Halloween Man appeared in War of the Independents #3.
6) Halloween Man and the Revengers appeared in Hack/Slash vs. Halloween Man.

Excellent. I deliberately picked some characters who might be tricky to place; if you didn't already know of them, tracking them down is tricky since they're not listed on Comicvine or comics.org afaik, and have generic enough names that a Google search isn't much help. It is possible to cut one step; you can go straight from Invincible to Cassie Hack via FCBD 2017: I Hate Image, and Cassie then replaces Halloween Man in the final step.

From
Kreuzritter

to
Wee Jimmy Krankie

Loki wrote:

I know we've only got a few members so far, and that this is a fairly specialised game, but the lack of response to my recent challenges makes me suspect I'm making them a little too difficult. Lmk if that's the case, and I'll try dialing it down a notch or two.

As for this one:
From
Tasslehoff Burrfoot

to
Argun Treefoot

I haven't been able to link Thorgal to anything. Perhaps one of the "public domain" gods showed up in another Lombard title?

Last bump on this. If no one wants to take a stab at it, I'll reveal the route I found tomorrow.

Loki wrote:

Bump. This one is newer, so it'll stay active for a while longer.

Loki wrote:

One I hope should be an interesting challenge, if only at one end. I figured this could be done using public domain characters but I've just worked out there is at least one route (probably more) via all authorized, if somewhat unorthodox, appearances.
From
Conan

to
Detective Conan

Conan's got plenty of routes to and from the Omniverse, but we've not touched on too many Anime/Manga types and getting to them.

 

zuckyd1 wrote:

Loki wrote:

Last bump on this. If no one wants to take a stab at it, I'll reveal the route I found tomorrow.

Loki wrote:

Bump. This one is newer, so it'll stay active for a while longer.

 

 

1) Conan and the Thing appeared in Fantastic Four #405
2) The Thing and Raydeen appeared in Shogun Warriors #19.
3) Raideen and Mazinger Z appeared in 3rd Super Robot Wars.
4) Mazinger Z and Akira Fudo appeared in Mazinger Z vs. Devilman.
5) Akira Fudo and Yaiba Kurogane appeared in Sunday vs Magazine: Shūketsu! Chōjō Daikessen.
6) Yaiba Kurogane and Detective Conan appeared in Conan vs. Kid vs. Yaiba - The Grand Battle for the Treasure Sword.

Yep, that works. A slightly different route from the one I found, though interestingly it utilizes a couple of the same links in the middle.

I think we have three (?) access points to link Western fiction to Manga/Anime. The Shogun Warriors' robots, Godzilla and Gatchaman/Battle of the Planets. From what I can figure out, hampered somewhat by not being able to speak or read Japanese, within Manga/Anime there are various crossovers, but far fewer than in Western fiction; the place to forge a good number of links isn't either of those formats, but in computer games, where companies seem far readier to authorize having their characters meet up with those from other companies.

Fwiw, my route was:
Conan to Thor via What If? #39
Thor to Godzilla via Godzilla #23
Godzilla to Mazinger Z via Super Robot Wars X-Ω video game
Mazinger to Devilman/Akira Fudo using the same link you proposed.
And then using Sunday VS Magazine: Shūketsu! Chōjō Daikessen video game as you did, but to link Devilman to Inuyusha instead of Kaiba.
Then finally Inuyusha to Detective Conan via Shonen Sunday Commercials - much like some Cartoon Network commercials, some of these have depicted the characters hanging around in the vicinity of one another.


Got to admit though that your final step works better, being a proper in-universe crossover, albeit via a dream.

Bump.

Loki wrote:

From Stanford Pines

to
Rick Sanchez
without using coffee mugs, pens or notepad Easter eggs!

And bump.

Loki wrote:

From 
The Teletubbies

to
The Goodies

zuckyd1 wrote:

Loki wrote:

From
Tasslehoff Burrfoot

to
Argun Treefoot

1) Tasslehoff Burrfoot and Raistlin Majere appeared in Dragonlance #5.
2) Raistlin Majere was quoted in and Tymora appeared in Tymora’s Luck.
3) Tymora was mentioned in and Archduchess Glasya appeared in Brimstone Angels.
4) Archduchess Glasya's "unspeakable legions" were defeated by Rick Sanchez, as he revealed in Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons #2.
5) Rick Sanchez and Milhouse Van Houten appeared in the Simpsons episode “Mathlete’s Feat”.
6) Milhouse Van Houten and Michelangelo appeared in The Lego Movie.
7) Michelangelo, Huey, Dewey, and Louie appeared in Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue.
8) The duck triplets and Thorgal appeared in Asterix et ses Amis.
9) Thorgal and Argun Treefoot appeared in The Archers.
 

Interesting. I think it's fair to say that the second link is a touch tenuous, but still an excellent find! Link 8 needs to be links 8 and 9, since the ducks and Thorgal appear in different stories, but still a valid connector. Good going, and some excellently obscure connectors!

I went a slightly different route, and used a few previously mentioned connectors.
1) Tasslehoff to Raistlin via multiple Dragonlance novels and/or comics.
2) Raistlin to Nodwick - he once refereed a magical match between Raistlin and Elminster, top mage of the Forgotten Realms. Gary Gygax was one of the commentators. Published by TSR in Dragon Magazine, so all links count as authorized. 

3) Nodwick takes us to Phil Foglio. Mentioned before, Nodwick encountered Phil during a multiversal jaunt in Nodwick #10, an authorized cameo drawn by Phil Foglio himself. However, that's not their only crossover - here's Phil reclaiming his stolen bowler hat in another Nodwick installment.

4) Phil takes us to Munden's Bar and Gordon Munden, another link previously mentioned.
5) And Munden takes us to the TMNT, also mentioned earlier in the thread.
6) Cartoon All-Stars links Michaelangelo and the Duck triplets, as you mentioned.
7) The Ducks met Obelix and Asterix in Asterix et ses Amis...
8) which is also where Obelix met Thorgal.
9) And finally Thorgal to Argun.

Mind you, if we want to avoid the possibly unauthorized appearance of the Ducks in Asterix et ses Amis, the route can still be made, albeit with a few additional steps:
7) Huey, Dewey and Louie encountered Darkwing Duck in Dangerous Currency.
8) Darkwing and Marsupilami shared a restaurant table in Bonkers episode 3.10 "The Tenth Page"

9) Marsupilami has made a few cameos in Asterix, such as in Asterix and the Big Fight
but they actually encountered one another properly in Asterix et ses Amis, and this is an authorized crossover.

10) Then Obelix to Thorgal in another story in the same volume.
11) And finally Thorgal to Argun.
 

zuckyd1 wrote:

Loki wrote:

zuckyd1 wrote:

Interesting. I think it's fair to say that the second link is a touch tenuous, but still an excellent find! Link 8 needs to be links 8 and 9, since the ducks and Thorgal appear in different stories, but still a valid connector. Good going, and some excellently obscure connectors! 

Yeah I'm not too familiar with the various D&D worlds, so I scrounged together what I could. Tymora’s Luck IS a legitimate crossover between Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms, but it might have required an additional step, probably involving Emilo Haversack, to make it fully kosher.

You can link pretty much all the D&D worlds - they are all part of a single multiverse, per this interview with writer Jeff Grubb, who authored Tymora's Luck. So I agree that the book is a legit crossover, and an impressive find given it's not your area of expertise. The only reason I felt the link was a tad tenuous was because Raistlin himself wasn't present in the book, just his quote. Even so, good work!

 

From Judge Dredd
to 
Cupid (this specific version)