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Films — Animation
- Compared to the television animation community, the animated film community doesn't have borders between Western Animation and Anime.
- The fandoms of The Secret of NIMH, An American Tail and The Great Mouse Detective all seem to get along with one another pretty well (as long as the topic of which film was better is avoided), with a lot of crossover fan-art and fan-fiction existing between them.
- Largely due to releasing around the same time and the respective protagonists' ages being close together, overlapping fandoms of the Rise of the Guardians, Brave, Tangled and How to Train Your Dragon movies became Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons. Fans of Frozen are also on good terms with fans of these movies, probably because of the Rapunzel-Flynn cameo and Elsa's similar powers to Jack Frost (in fact, the two are often shipped together)
- Big Hero 6 fans with the Marvel Cinematic Universe fans. They have come up with possible crossovers that involve Hiro joining S.H.I.E.L.D. or Baymax greeting the Avengers.
- While most Disney Animated Canon fandoms get along, three in particular often intersect and get along especially well. "Four Seasons" is the Fan Nickname for Frozen, Tangled, and Brave together. The name comes from the main girls being seen as representing seasons: Rapunzel (or Anna) is spring, Anna (or Rapunzel) is summer, Merida is autumn, and Elsa is winter.
- Rise of the Guardians, How to Train Your Dragon, and The Croods fans tend to get along well primarily because said fans have a particularly strong liking to the central teenage, male character of each film (Jack Frost, Hiccup Haddock, and Guy Crood, respectively).
Films — Live-Action
- Anna and the Apocalypse and Spirited (2022) are a pair of fairly different Christmas musicals that nonetheless share some of the same fans for both, having catchy soundtracks, unique and quirky set-ups, Bittersweet Endings and atmospheres, and being greatly under-appreciated in the eyes of their admirers.
- Hulk and Logan surprisingly get along because of the similar tone and dark uniqueness of both Marvel-related films. It also helps that both focus much more on character development.
- The fandom of the Harry Potter films overlaps with that of Tim Burton's film of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street due to the many shared actors in both films. Comments on YouTube clips of the latter often jokingly refer to Judge Turpin, Mrs. Lovett, and Beadle Bamford as Snape, Bellatrix, and Pettigrew, respectively.
- Evil Dead, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Friday the 13th. In addition to being three of the biggest horror franchises to come out of The '80s, its creators were fans of each other's work and referenced each other at least once in their respective films. All three had enough fans to warrant not only a cinematic crossover between Freddy and Jason, but also a comic book crossover between all three.
- While Alien and Predator fans getting along was expected given the series' famous crossover, there's also an overlap with Terminator, as all were violent 80s sci-fi franchises with some shared cast and crew.
- Giant monster fans of multiple franchises tend to get along very well, despite studio rivalries. Gamera fans and Godzilla fans are prime examples. Fansites to one nearly always include the other and crossover fan-works are extremely common. In that vein, there are plenty of people who love Pacific Rim and Godzilla (2014) for being big budget giant monster movies in spite of their different tones (and there is a rivalry because of that).
- A surprising Odd Friendship had formed between the Deadpool (2016) and Wonder Woman (2017) fandoms even though the heroes are complete polar opposites. It may be because Deadpool's actor Ryan Reynolds himself offered his heartfelt congratulations to Wonder Woman when it outgrossed Deadpool. This cordial relationship continued with Deadpool 2 making some sly shout-outs to Wonder Woman that Gal Gadot personally found endearing and funny. It also helps that Gail Simone previously wrote for both of the characters' comics.
- Marvel Cinematic Universe:
- The MCU fandom gets along better with the fandom of Deadpool than with those of previous post-Avengers Marvel efforts by other studios mostly because Deadpool's black comedy and graphic violence would be better off in its own universe than in the Lighter and Softer MCU, as well as the entire aspect of Ryan Reynolds pushing his vision of an accurate adaptation of Deadpool onto the big screen. It helps that Deadpool made a few affectionate shout-outs to the MCU, with MCU producer Kevin Feige offering his consultation and approval to the production crew. This has only gotten stronger with Disney's acquisition of Deadpool studio 20th Century Fox, as the buyout addresses any potential Dueling Works animosity whether or not Deadpool and its sequel will be retconned or integrated into the MCU.
- Surprisingly, MCU fans are on much better terms with MonsterVerse fans than DC Extended Universe fans. This may be due to both franchises sharing the same actors such as Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Elizabeth Olsen for Godzilla (2014) and Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson and Samuel L. Jackson for Kong: Skull Island. It could also be the fact that Marvel had produced a Godzilla comic book line in the '70s, therefore some Marvel fans consider Godzilla an honorary Marvel character. Regardless, both fandoms like each other so much so that both fandoms would like to see a crossover with The Avengers fighting Godzilla or other famous Kaiju.
- While there was some rivalry going on, Captain Marvel (2019) fans generally do hold a cordial relationship with Wonder Woman and SHAZAM! (2019) fans. For the former, it was helped by their respective fanbases uniting against their Girl-Show Ghetto detractors, as well as the two movies' cast members and directors being supportive of one another (Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins voiced her enthusiasm for the MCU superheroine movie, while Captain Marvel star Brie Larson has been open about being a big Wonder Woman fangirl growing up and even cried in happiness when she saw the movie). For the latter, that positive relationship was helped by Shazam director David F. Sandberg and star Zachary Levi denouncing trolls trying to drag Captain Marvel down in favor of Shazam, a sentiment that was repaid for with Captain Marvel fans encouraging others to go see and support Shazam.
- Black Panther fans and Aquaman fans get along well with each other since they are the first films in their respective franchises to have both non-white leads and directors, giving the superhero movie genre some much-needed diversity. The fact that DCEU fans raised money for black kids from impoverished backgrounds to see Black Panther in a nice theater makes it clear that some things (like giving kids of all backgrounds a hero they can see themselves in) override petty rivalries.
- Similar to the above fandom friendship, Black Panther and Wonder Woman (2017) fans tend to have a very cordial relationship since both films star a superhero from an often underrpresented group and proved the supposed "beliefs" that black and/or female superheroes don't sell well very wrong.
- While Star Wars fans as a whole, especially those into the sequels, have a rather massive rivalry with MCU fans for various reasons, the prequel fans and MCU fans have started to get along rather well. It helps that sequel era fans and prequel era fans have their own internal rivalry and "the enemy of my enemy" after all.
- Spider-Man: No Way Home, due to its premise, managed to bring fans of the MCU Spider-Man, fans of the Spider-Man Trilogy and fans of The Amazing Spider-Man Series together in celebration. There had been much rivalry over who's the best actor between Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield and Tom Holland in the years prior, and this film's Multiverse approach at least signifies that neither Maguire nor Garfield have been forgotten by Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios and haven't been invalidated due to the Continuity Reboots.
- Several fans of Willow have become fans of Solo, and several people who liked Solo have discovered Willow, thanks to both movies being oddball Lucasfilm productions that both happened to be directed by Ron Howard. Especially since the idea of a sequel/follow-up to Willow floated around after that, eventually materializing into a Disney+ series project.
- Fans of Heath Ledger's Joker and Joaquin Phoenix's Joker get along very well, helped by Ledger and Phoenix having been good friends before the former's untimely death and for both of them winning Oscars for their respective performances. However, it is frowned upon to compare the two, as they're playing very different interpretations of the same character.
- Due to the three films' shared satire/critique of the elite and wealthy as well as all of them coming out in 2022, fans of The Menu, Triangle of Sadness, and Glass Onion get along very well. So much so that the three movies have been dubbed by some as "2022's Eat the Rich Trilogy".
- Film fans looking forward to Barbie and Oppenheimer got along very well due to the films sharing a release date (July 21, 2023). Despite the drastically different tones and subject matter, a lot of people declared that they were going to see both movies as a Double Feature rather than try to choose between them. The "Barbenheimer" phenomenon even earned its own Wikipedia page. That unique and uncommon symbiosis benefitted to both films and resulted in the 4th largest opening weekend in Hollywood history (behind Avengers: Endgame, Avengers: Infinity War, and the The Force Awakens), and the first time a movie opened over $100 million while another released the same day opened over $50 million.
- Fans of the films of Todd Haynes and Todd Field get along very well. Along with their shared first name, both directors do share some things in common: they've both made films starring Cate Blanchett that are beloved among her fans (Carol and Tár, respectively), like to tackle dark themes and heavy subjects with a methodical but still empathetic approach to those subjects, and oftentimes focus on the nature of the female psyche through the use of complex female characters, which has led to a sizable mutual fandom between the two.
