Note: For the rest of this article "copyright character" will describe any character from an "established", copyrighted piece of media, such as a video game, film, cartoon, or comic, as opposed to a personally owned original character or fan character[/section]
Crossover Types/Subgenres
General Crossovers
- Characters from multiple pieces of media are interacting within a scene
- Copyright characters from one piece of media are inserted into the setting of a different piece of media
- When a copyright character is dressed in the identifiable costume of a character from a different copyrighted property
- Clothing Swap - applies when the two characters are in the same post, wearing eachother's outfit
- Short for "Crossover Relationship"
- When two characters from two separate media properties are shown as a romantic and/or sexual couple
- Crack Ship - a subtype of crossover shipping with intentionally bizarre and humorous character combinations
- When two characters are drawn in clearly visually distinct art styles from one another, and are interacting within the same space
- Not inherently a crossover of media properties, but usually involves drawing characters from multiple media properties in their on model art styles
- Merging two distinct characters into a single new combined character, who has attributes and visual features of both separate characters1
- Not inherently a crossover of media properties, but often involves multiple copyright characters being "fused"
- hexafusion - an "art meme" where three characters are combined in a circular diagram, showing a fusion of all three, and two-character fusions between each of the three
- When distinct versions of the same copyright character are interacting with one another
- Important Note: Square crossovers should not be tagged as `crossover`, not a crossover between characters of separate media properties
Related Tags
