- Fire From Heaven was a 1996 Image Comics crossover with Backlash, Deathblow, Gen¹³, Sigma, Stormwatch, Wetworks, and Wild C.A.T.s. Publishing delays lead to a confusing plot and reading order.
- Although cross-company crossovers usually end up either being non-canon or forgotten, JLA/Avengers led to some small changes:
- The universe of the Crime Syndicate of Amerika (an evil JLA) was rebooted as a result of the defeat of Krona (who had destroyed that entire universe in the prologue). This led to vague (and therefore non-copyright breaking) references to the events of the crossover the next time that the JLA met the CSA.
- Marvel has also officially accepted JLA/Avengers as canon, since references to it are made in the Marvel Universe Handbooks, without actually naming the DC characters.
- The crossover was fully integrated into DC continuity with the release of Trinity #7, with the Avengers being referred to as the "Others".
- Marvel Versus DC / Amalgam Universe story, in which both the Marvel and the DC multiverses face annihilation — and so the two multiverses were forcibly merged for a short time to keep their worlds alive. (Amalgam Dark Claw = DC Batman + Marvel Wolverine; Amalgam Super Soldier = DC Superman + Marvel Captain America; Amalgam Amazon = DC Wonder Woman + Marvel Storm; Amalgam Lobo The Duck = DC Lobo + Marvel Howard the Duck; Amalgam Captain Marvel = DC Captain Marvel + Marvel Captain Marvel; et multiple cetera.)
- Played for Laughs in The Boys. Every year the superhero community fakes one of these in order to host a massive drug-fueled orgy called "Herogasm".
- Disney did more than one.
- The first one is probably La Storia Infinita, a transposition of the basic plot of The Neverending Storynote note . The story opens by an emergency meeting of all the heroes in the Disney universe (and we do mean all: not just from the comics, but also from the movies, including the more obscure ones) to try to solve the threat of the Nothing, a maybe-sentient cosmic force that is absorbing the whole universe and replacing it with blank, featureless nothingness. Mickey Mouse is chosen to look for a solution, and, after getting help from Merlin and Dumbo, finds out that Donald is the real Chosen One. On the way, they fight various Disney Villains led by Maleficent. However, this story differs from traditional Crisis Crossovers in that the hundreds of summoned crossover heroes do very little, since Mickey, Donald, and maybe Dumbo are doing most of the adventuring and the others are just hanging around in the Castle the whole time; it was also a self-contained two-part story arc, rather than spanning several titles.
- The Legend of the Chaos God is a multi-episode crossover between one and every show of The Disney Afternoon that was part of the Disney Duck and Mice comic universe. That includes DuckTales (1987), Darkwing Duck, TaleSpin, Goof Troop and Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers, who were all battling against the vile sorcerer Solego.
- The New Year celebration of year 2000 was the setting for the Millenium Orbs saga, featuring a crossover between the Mice and Duck comic universes, all battling against evil wizard Euclidus.note
- The Zodiac Stone series does a similar thing, with Ducks and Mice both travelling the world to look for the pieces of the Zodiac Stone, a mythical artifact that can predict the future, and stopping the Phantom Blot (assisted by Pete and the Beagle Boys) from getting it first. The scope of the "crisis" is not actually much higher than usual Disney comic adventures, but it was nevertheless advertised as one.
- In 2011, Boom! Comics was losing the license to The Disney Afternoon comics, so they went out with a bang. As such, Darkwing Duck and DuckTales are crossed over for the last arc of the respective series, with various villains led by the Phantom Blot (from the Mickey Mouse comics, though the mouse himself doesn't appear) who himself mind-controlled by Magica De Spell.
- Subversion: New England Comics ran a Crisis on Finite Tick Crossovers, which featured all 3 titles in the Tickverse. The editors explained that having only 3 comics severely limited the number of money-making crossovers they could do.
- Parodied in Top 10, where a character has an Ultra-Mouse infestation in his mother's apartment. So, he hires the EX-VERMINATOR, who releases Atom Cats to deal with them, but with so many super-powered creatures in such a confined space, it turned into a "Whole Secret Crisis-War Crossover Thing" which eventually rewrote the timeline so the Ultra-Mouse infestation never happened, and nobody even remembers it — except the EX-VERMINATOR, who is thus pissed nobody will pay him.
- Though Astro City is the only series in its continuity and thus incapable of crossovers, they still managed to play with this one.
- In "The Nearness of You", a man becomes increasingly obsessed about a woman who keeps appearing in his dreams. It turns out it's because a minor villain caused a Temporal Paradox that threatened the universe and required all of the heroes to stop it — and the woman is his wife who ceased to exist in the repaired timestream. Yes, the Crisis Crossover is relegated to a background reference.
- Also appears in the ending of the "Confession" arc, which is basically a Crisis Crossover as seen from the sidelines. The event in question is a worldwide alien invasion with dozens of heroes against an army of shape-shifting extraterrestrials, yet there's only a dozen panels devoted to the actual battles themselves.
- Valiant Comics:
- The "Unity" Crossover early in its history, in which the 41st century heroes and the 20th century heroes had to join come together to face a woman with the power to destroy all history.
- They also did a crossover with Image Comics called Deathmate.
- When Bongos Collide was a crossover of Bongo Comics, which publish comics based on The Simpsons. It included Itchy & Scratchy #3, The Simpsons #5, and Bartman #3. It can be read in Bartman: The Best of the Best collection. Also, there was The Simpsons Futurama Crossover Crisis — which reaffirm the Mutually Fictional nature of the two shows in the other's universe (though the crossovers take place in the Futurama universe, because it'd be easier to use its sci-fi nature to use the Trapped in TV Land and Refugee from TV Land plots to allow the meetings).
- In 2008, the Star Wars Expanded Universe got in on the act with Vector, which told a single story starting in Knights of the Old Republic, then moving in chronological order through Dark Horse's four Star Wars titles, before ending in a Wham Episode in Legacy. And it was really good, too.
- Legacy also crossed the prequel era with Tatooine's Sand People and the NJO era.
- The now-defunct Eclipse Comics got into the act with Total Eclipse, written by Marv Wolfman. The story involved a villain named Zzed[sic], who was born many millenia ago during an event called the Total Eclipse (all the planets and moons of the Solar System aligned with thousands of planets, moons and stars across the galaxy). As a result, he has been cursed with immortality, and seeks only his own death, which he can only achieve by destroying all creation. He has no problem with that at first. Unique in being the only Crisis Crossover to feature appearances by Miracle Man, Airboy, Ms. Tree and Beanish of Tales of the Beanworld.
- The long awaited War Of The Independents mini-series brings together creator-own characters as diverse as Gumby, The Tick, Scud the Disposable Assassin, Cerebus the Aardvark, Shi, Bone and Hack/Slash. Some of the same characters also appeared previously in the normalman/Megaton Man special, Gen¹³ ABC, and Shi / Cyblade: The Battle for Independents.
- Image United, a series which brings together not only Image's iconic characters, but also their creators to personally draw them in each appearance.
- Zenescope has The Dream Eater Saga. A threat so major that even Belinda and The Queen of Hearts are fighting against it.
- Sonic the Hedgehog/Mega Man: Worlds Collide, a large 12-part crossover flowing through Archie Comics' three video game licenses: Mega Man (Archie Comics) #24-27note , Sonic the Hedgehog #248-251note , and Sonic Universe #51-54note . The gist is that following the Sonic Genesis arc in the Archie Sonic comics, a Chaos Emerald has landed in the Mega Man universe, leading to a chance meeting between Doctor Wily and Doctor Eggman as they team up to cosmically conquer their universes. The ramifications are that Mega Man hits the Reset Button on his universe, pushing the crossover to at least after an hypothetical Mega Man 10 adaptation in the Mega Man universe, whereas Eggman inadvertently causes a cosmic retconning of Mobius on a scale the Archie Sonic comics have never faced before in its 20-year history, primarily designed in real life terms to jettison the aftermath of the Ken Penders legal case on the Sonic comics' narrative without just unceremoniously killing his characters off-screen or invoking What Happened to the Mouse?.
- This was later followed up on with Sonic the Hedgehog/Mega Man: Worlds Unite, which followed up on the ramifications of the previous crossover and included Sonic Boom and Mega Man X as well thanks to X's arch-enemy Sigma as the instigator of the events. By the third act, with Sigma in full A God Am I mode thanks to being amped up on planetary energy, the combined heroes begin pulling characters from other worlds to help, crossing over with half a dozen franchises from Sega and Capcom each. In a reversal of the previous event, Sonic came out of the story with no consequences while Mega Man saw Xander Payne get thrown back in time by Sigma's defeat and take The Slow Path to become Mr. X in the present.
- IDW Publishing had a few.
- Infestation has IDW's Zombies vs. Robots infecting the publisher's licensed universes of Transformers, Ghostbusters IDW, G.I. Joe and Star Trek. Its most notable impact is having Kup be Put on a Bus on the Transformers corner, not coming back until Dark Cybertron below. Its sequel Infestation 2 had the Elder Gods crossing out instead, and the addition of 30 Days of Night and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (IDW) but has no lasting repercussions on even a single series.
- The X-Files: Conspiracy had Fox Mulder and Dana Scully aiding the Lone Gunmen in their search to discover the cure for a virus, which lead them to stumble upon Transformers, Ghostbusters, The Crow and TMNT.
- The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye and The Transformers: Robots in Disguise crossed over in Dark Cybertron, a multi-part storyline involving Shockwave launching his Evil Plan on Cybertron. The two series are set in the same universe and have intersected and referenced each other multiple times, but this was the first real crossover between the two. The battle against Shockwave notably results in Optimus Prime returning to Autobot leadership after a self-imposed exile that started said two comic series and Megatron becoming an Autobot cast member of More than Meets the Eye. The event also saw the debut of franchise-recurring character Windblade.
- Revolution marks the inauguration of the Hasbro Comic Universe. The basic gist is that the Transformers, G.I. Joe, ROM and the newly-formed M.A.S.K. have a severe case of Conflict Ball over mistaken intentions while the Micronauts head to Earth in a bid to save Microspace, then they all join forces when they realize that a Villain Team-Up has set them up.
- This was followed up by First Strike in 2017, where a cabal of Earth-based villains launches a genocidal assault on Cybertron, its leader sick and tired of the extraterrestrials conflicts the Transformer race is bringing to Earth. But one of their numbers has a secret agenda of his own for Cybertron, leading to the IDW debuts of the Visionaries and Unicron.
- Cartoon Network Super Secret Crisis War, a 6-part Mini-Series that crosses the main characters and villains of the shows Dexter's Laboratory, Samurai Jack, The Powerpuff Girls, Ben 10, and Ed Edd n Eddy. The story also branchs off into 6 One-shots featuring Johnny Bravo, Codename: Kids Next Door, Cow and Chicken, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, and The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy.
- IDW's Sonic the Hedgehog featured a 19-issue Zombie Apocalypse storyline involving nearly every Sonic character featured in a modern Sonic game as well as the comic's Original Generation, with the notable exception of Blaze the Cat (who at least appeared in the Dénouement Episode).
- Dynamite Entertainment had "Prophecy", starring Vampirella, Red Sonja and, uhh, some additional characters nobody remembers. (Xena wasn't on the payroll. Fans still pout.)
- Dynamite later did the "Swords of Sorrow" crossover event, which was similarly based around all of their Stripperiffic Action Girl characters allying and/or fighting due to a multiversal threat.
- Doctor Who (Titan) has yearly Crisis Crossover events featuring all the Doctors with regular titles, plus cameos by some others. So far, there have been Doctor Who: Four Doctors, Doctor Who: Supremacy of the Cybermen, and Doctor Who: The Lost Dimension. The first two were published as stand-alone miniseries, but the third was published as a traditional superhero-comic crossover event taking over an issue of each of the regular series. (Possibly because the two miniseries had suffered embarassing Schedule Slip.)
- The Transformers multiverse has a Crisis of sorts, called the Shroud (or Shrouding). Which results in altering the fabric of reality that strengthened the boundaries between universes from that point on. A major result being the splintering of the multiversal singularities into infinite variations of themselves throughout the multiverse.
- Starting in May 2019, Terry Moore's Five Years is a crossover set in the Terryverse, in which the casts of Strangers in Paradise, Echo, Rachel Rising and Motor Girl deal with the threat of the Phi Bomb, a super-weapon that a group of defense experts are scheduled to complete in five years. The Phi Bomb is designed to destroy all hydrogen atoms in a target area. Once it's tested, according to information that Katchoo, Tambi and Rachel uncovered, the uncontrolled explosion will spread out to destroy all hydrogen. Everywhere in the universe.
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