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%%* The [[Creator/BryanFuller Fullerverse]], comprised of ''Series/DeadLikeMe'', ''Series/{{Wonderfalls}}'', ''Series/PushingDaisies'', ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'', the entire ''Franchise/StarTrek'' primeverse thanks to ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'', and ''Literature/AmericanGods''. Possibly even ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' if the ''American Gods'' adaptation keeps a certain cameo from one of the characters. Fanficcers, start your keyboards.

* ''WebOriginal/AcademyOfSuperheroes''

* The WebOriginal/AcademyOfSuperheroes universe is a superhero universe with hundreds of stories and even more characters.

* ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'' by Crossoverpairinglover started as a Pokemon AU fic that has expanded into a growing shared universe centered by the titular fic with numerous one shot spin offs and side stories.

* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomverse'' is a trilogy of crossovers involving ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'' that also has help from the author of ''Pokémon Reset Bloodlines''.

* Many, if not all, Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses series seems to be set in the same 'verse owing to the number of [[CrossOver crossovers]] between them, but a special note must be made for WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall and WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment, seeming to have the most points in common, most prominently BigBad Dr. Insano.

* The Franchise/{{Riordanverse}}, by Creator/RickRiordan, encompasses ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'', ''Literature/TheKaneChronicles'', ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'', ''Literature/MagnusChaseAndTheGodsOfAsgard'', and ''Literature/TheTrialsOfApollo''. ''Percy Jackson'', ''Heroes of Olympus'', and ''Trialso of Apollo'' are all part of what's called ''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'' (with ''Kane Chronicles'' and ''Magnus Chase'' sometimes being under that umbrella too, maybe).
** By internal timeline: The ''Percy Jackson'' books are typically set over consecutive summers, with the exception of ''The Titan's Curse'' (''Percy Jackson'' #3) being set the winter after ''The Sea of Monsters'' (''Percy Jackson'' #2). ''The Lost Hero'' (''Heroes of Olympus'' #1) is set the December after ''The Last Olympian'' (''Percy Jackson'' #5); ''The Red Pyramid'' (''Kane Chronicles'' #1) picks up just days later.
** ''The Throne of Fire'' (''Kane Chronicles'' #2) is set the following March. The remaining four books of ''The Heroes of Olympus'' take place from June to August of the same year. ''The Serpent's Shadow'' (''Kane Chronicles'' #3) is in September. The three-part crossover ''Literature/DemigodsAndMagicians'', in which Percy and Annabeth meet the Kane siblings, is set after this, followed by ''The Chalice of the Gods'' (''Percy Jackson'' #6).

* The character Guido Panzini appears in ''Series/TheSteveAllenShow'', ''Series/TheJackPaarShow'', ''Series/McHalesNavy'', ''Series/TheManFromUNCLE'' and ''Series/OneDayAtATime''

** All ''Persona'' games are in fact a spin off from ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIf'' given the player character of that game, [[CanonName Tamaki Uchida]], appears in both ''Persona 1'' and the ''2'' duology. ''If'' also shares its world with the ''VideoGame/DevilSummoner'' sub series, which both have a premise of the events of ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTensei'' not happening, as ''Devil Summoner'' reveals both parties responsible for the apocalyptic events have been rendered unable to do so. In fact, ''Persona 2'' has Tamaki working for the Kuzunoha detective agency, a primary institution of ''Devil summoner'' with the current titular Kuzunoha implying to be [[ItMakesSenseInContext posessing Daisuke Todoroki]], referencing his role in the original ''Devil Summoner'' game. Thus, all three verses are connected, though the fate of the original ''Shin Megami Tensei'' heroes are never revealed due to them never encountering the apocalypse.

** WebOriginal/ThePixarTheory is a widespread fan theory that suggests every single Creator/{{Pixar}} film is set in the same universe, though an ever-increasing number of movies makes it increasingly difficult to reconcile all of them. Officially, aside from obvious cases of sequels and prequels, this is not the case.

* The Franchise/MonsterVerse: After the release of ''Film/Godzilla2014'' with Warner Bros. and the reveal that they were working on a ''King Kong'' reboot with Universal, Creator/LegendaryPictures announced that they were using the former to kickstart a kaiju-focused cinematic universe. The ''Kong'' reboot, which [[ChannelHop changed distribution from Universal to Warner Bros.]] and is titled ''Film/KongSkullIsland'', established King Kong within the universe, followed by ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters'' (which brought Mothra, Rodan, and King Ghidorah into the universe as well) and ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'', pitting Godzilla and Kong against each other.

* Creator/RickRiordan, the writer of ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'', ''Literature/TheKaneChronicles'', ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'', ''Literature/MagnusChaseAndTheGodsOfAsgard'', and ''Literature/TheTrialsOfApollo'', has set all of them in the same universe, which fans often refer to as the 'Riordanverse'. [=PJatO=], [=HoO=], and [=ToA=] are all part of what's called ''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'' (which [=TKC=] and [=MCatGoA=] sometimes being under that umbrella too, maybe).
** By internal timeline: ''The Last Olympian'' ([=PJatO=] #5) takes place in August of one year. ''The Lost Hero'' ([=HoO=] #1) is set the following December; ''The Red Pyramid'' (TKC #1) picks up just days later.
** ''The Throne of Fire'' ([=TKC=] #2) is set the following March. The remaining four books of ''The Heroes of Olympus'' take place from June to August of the same year. ''The Serpent's Shadow'' ([=TKC=] #3) is in September. The three-part crossover ''Literature/DemigodsAndMagicians'', in which Percy and Annabeth meet the Kane siblings, is set after this.
** ''Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard'' #1 (with Annabeth's cousin, a demigod son of Frey, as the lead protagonist) and ''The Trials of Apollo'' #1 are both set in January of the following year, with #4 of ''The Trials of Apollo'' set in April. Book #3 of the ''Magnus Chase'' trilogy takes place the following June, at the same time as ''The Trials of Apollo'' #5; the epilogue of ''Magnus Chase'' #3 takes place in early July, and the followup ''9 From the Nine Worlds'' is set sometime later.

** Literature/{{Earthsea}}, a fantasy world that is the setting for The Earthsea Trilogy (''A Wizard of Earthsea'', ''The Tombs of Atuan'' and ''The Farthest Shore''), as well as ''Tehanu'', ''The Other Wind'', ''Tales from Earthsea'' and the short stories which introduced Earthsea, ''The Rule of Names'' and ''The Word of Unbinding''.
** The Literature/{{Hainish}} Universe, aka the Ekumen. A science fiction setting featuring many populated planets, that is the setting for many novels and short stories. Among the more well-known are ''Literature/TheDispossessed'', ''Literature/TheLeftHandOfDarkness'' and ''Literature/TheWordForWorldIsForest'', though there are many others. A few works, such as ''Literature/TheEyeOfTheHeron'' [[ShrugOfGod may or may not be set in the Hainish Universe]].
* Creator/BrandonSanderson: Most of the author's adult fantasy (with a few exceptions, such as the three [[Literature/TheWheelOfTime Wheel of Time]] books he's published on behalf of the [[DiedDuringProduction deceased]] Robert Jordan), take place on different worlds in the same universe, known as ''Literature/TheCosmere''. This is not made clear in the books themselves (although several contain hints) but is information provided by WordOfGod.
* Commonly referred to as the ‘Snicketverse’, the universe containing ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'', ''Literature/AllTheWrongQuestions'', and ''Poison For Breakfast'' counts as one.

* The Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse. Since the release of ''Film/IronMan1'' in 2008, the MCU has been steadily expanding into one of the biggest media franchises of all-time, with twenty-nine films and counting, multiple TV shows, several web mini-series, loads of tie-in material and [[TheMerch merch]] like nobody's business... and it shows no signs of stopping or even slowing down. Moreover, it basically codified the idea that movies with ''wildly'' varying tones could not only share a universe, but have characters regularly crossing over and meeting each other.

*** Some commentors have pointed out that the skull looks like a xenomorph but could be of any other alien, in reality wasn't confirm until much later.

* ''Webcomic/Rain2010'' and ''Webcomic/MyImpossibleSoulmate'' are both written by Creator/JocelynSamara and take place in the same universe, officially called the ''Rainverse''.

* ''Webcomic/Rainverse'', the 'Verse of several works by Creator/JocelynSamara.

** Two famous EasterEggs show cameos of characters making appearances in other films. Scar's skin from ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'', for example, makes a split-second {{cameo}} in ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' while Belle from ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' can be seen walking down the street in one scene of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}''. Of course in the case of Scar this would contradict canon as Scar [[spoiler:dies eaten by hyenas at the end of the movie, thus the skin seen in Hercules couldn't be his or at least not be that intact]] and in ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'' France is normally run by the monarchy whilst in ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' the Prince was magically cursed into looking like a Beast, which would be hard to reconcile.

* ''VideoGame/IvaliceAlliance'': ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'', its sequel ''Revenant Wings'', ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'', ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'' and ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2'' all take place within the world of VideoGame/{{Ivalice|Alliance}}, as might ''VideoGame/VagrantStory''.

** ''Franchise/FabulaNovaCrystallisFinalFantasy'' project, which encompasses ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII-2'' and ''VideoGame/LightningReturnsFinalFantasyXIII''
*** These examples haven't even touched on things like Gilgamesh of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'' being a dimensional traveler.
*** These examples (and many others) were later quantified as many universes all being connected to one another in ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'', all thanks to a dimensional bridge that called the Interdimensional Rift, first introduced in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV''.
* The ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong'', ''[[VideoGame/YoshisStory Yoshi]]'', {{VideoGame/Wario}} and ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' series' are all in the same universe and many of the Mario spin-offs tend to feature characters and locations from them. Mario and DK started off as enemies after all and DK still shows up in Mario spin off games and vice-versa, same goes with Wario.
** Back in TheNineties, it was implied that ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' and ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'' also shared this universe (chiefly because of Banjo and Conker being playable racers in ''VideoGame/DiddyKongRacing'', among other hints) but Microsoft's purchase of Rareware caused this to [[{{Retcon}} no longer be the case]].
** ''VideoGame/RhythmHeaven'' is also implied to inhabit this universe as well due to the many references and crossovers between it and the VideoGame/WarioWare franchise.

* Most Creator/JacquesDemy films are interconnected. In ''Film/ModelShop'' (1969), Lola's story of being a nightclub singer in France and meeting an American sailor is the plot of 1961 film ''Film/{{Lola}}''; Anouk Aimee plays the character of Lola in both movies. She says her husband left her for a lady gambler named Jackie Lemaistre; the character of Jackie Lemaistre is the protagonist of 1962 Demy film ''Bay of Angels''. ''Film/{{Lola}}'' also features as Lola's boyfriend a character named Roland played by Marc Michel; Michel plays the same character in 1964 Demy film ''Film/TheUmbrellasOfCherbourg''.

* ''Series/StElsewhere'': The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Westphall#The_Tommy_Westphall_Universe_Hypothesis Tommy Westphall Universe Hypothesis]] looks at all of the shows that ''St. Elsewhere'' had crossovers with, all the shows that ''those'' shows had crossovers with, the shows spun off from those shows, shows that {{homage}}d shows in the Tommy Westphall Universe in such a way that connections could be drawn, and so on in order to claim that [[https://thetommywestphall.wordpress.com/the-master-list/ a large swath of modern television]] exists in the same universe... and since ''St. Elsewhere'' famously ended with an AllJustADream GainaxEnding, all of these shows are products of the imagination of an autistic boy. The idea was created by Creator/DwayneMcDuffie in 2002, ironically as [[http://www.slushfactory.com/content/EpupypyZAZTDOLwdfz.php a tongue-in-cheek criticism]] of how {{serious|Business}}ly fans of comic books take continuity. Cornell University's scholar Brian Weatherson published a rebuttal to the hypothesis, "[[http://tar.weatherson.org/2004/10/04/six-objections-to-the-westphall-hypothesis/ Six Objections to the Westphall Hypothesis]]," which among other things argues that even if the entire ''St. Elsewhere'' universe is in Tommy's mind, characters from other shows that appear on ''St. Elsewhere'' do not necessary exist only in Tommy's mind, as he could have put them in there after watching their respective shows.

* Speaking of ''Series/StElsewhere'', this trope is taken to its logical conclusion by the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Westphall#The_Tommy_Westphall_Universe_Hypothesis Tommy Westphall Universe Hypothesis]], which looks at all of the shows that ''St. Elsewhere'' had crossovers with, all the shows that ''those'' shows had crossovers with, the shows spun off from those shows, shows that {{homage}}d shows in the Tommy Westphall Universe in such a way that connections could be drawn, and so on in order to claim that [[https://thetommywestphall.wordpress.com/the-master-list/ a large swath of modern television]] exists in the same universe... and since ''St. Elsewhere'' famously ended with an AllJustADream GainaxEnding, the hypothesis goes on to claim that all of these shows are products of the imagination of an autistic boy. The idea was created by Creator/DwayneMcDuffie in 2002, ironically as [[http://www.slushfactory.com/content/EpupypyZAZTDOLwdfz.php a tongue-in-cheek criticism]] of how {{serious|Business}}ly fans of comic books take continuity; he argued that, if one took continuity in television as seriously as it's taken in comics, it can lead to ridiculous extremes. Of course, it took on a life of his own after he created it.
** Interestingly the Tommy Westphall Universe Hypothesis has been discussed in mainstream academic circles, especially as a philosophical exercise on logic. One example of this is Cornell University's scholar Brian Weatherson's article [[http://tar.weatherson.org/2004/10/04/six-objections-to-the-westphall-hypothesis/ "Six Objections to the Westphall Hypothesis"]] which among other things mentions (correctly) that even if the entire ''St. Elsewhere'' universe is in Tommy's mind, characters from other shows that appear on ''St. Elsewhere'' do not necessary exist only in Tommy's mind, he could perfectly just put them in there after watching their respective shows.

* Creator/StephenKing's 'Verse, which spins around ''Franchise/TheDarkTower.'' Almost every novel he has ever written makes some small mention to at least one of his others. He is even a part of his own 'Verse, referred to in ''Literature/TheTommyknockers'' as "that fellow who lived up in Bangor" who writes books "[[TakeThatMe full of make-believe monsters and a bunch of dirty words"]]." This is lampshaded in ''Literature/{{Misery}}'', in which [[AuthorAvatar writer Paul Sheldon]] has trouble starting a new book without his concordance.

* Manta Aisora's verse, consisting of ''Literature/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'', ''Miyamasanchi no Berutein'' and ''Valkyrie Works''. Confirmation comes thanks to [[TheCameo cameos]] both blatant and subtle (a radio show in ''Miyamasanchi no Berutein'' gets a write-in request from "Crawling Chaos", which is obviously meant to be Nyarko).

* Two quasi-connected universes share some writers and creators. ''Webcomic/MenageA3'' has spun off ''Webcomic/StickyDillyBuns'' and ''Webcomic/SandraOnTheRocks,'' and has featured [[TheCameo brief guest appearances]] by characters from ''Webcomic/PennyAndAggie'' and elsewhere. Meanwhile ''Webcomic/EerieCuties'' has spun off ''Webcomic/MagickChicks'' and ''Webcomic/DangerouslyChloe,'' while ''Manga/AoiHouse'', ''Webcomic/VampireCheerleaders'', and ''Webcomic/ParanormalMysterySquad'' are apparently set in the same universe. The second of those universes also exists as fiction in the first, leading to "crossover" character appearances that are actually cosplayers, fantasy sequences, and suchlike.

* Author Creator/CTPhipps has Literature/{{FuturePunk}} for all of his science fictories and Literature/TheUnitedStatesOfMonsters for all of his urban fantasy stories. Interestingly, both of these universes and some others have crossed over with his Literature/SupervillainySaga universe, making them all one big multiverse.

* The Naritaverse, for lack of a better term, entails the four light novels ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'', ''Literature/{{Vamp}}'', ''Literature/EtsusaBridge'', ''[[LightNovel/HariyamaSan Hariyama-san]]'', and ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'', written by Ryougo Narita. There is only some overlapping here and there, though, and never enough to change plot lines.

* Manta Aisora's verse, consisting of ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'', ''Miyamasanchi no Berutein'' and ''Valkyrie Works''. Confirmation comes thanks to [[TheCameo cameos]] both blatant and subtle (a radio show in ''Miyamasanchi no Berutein'' gets a write-in request from "Crawling Chaos", which is obviously meant to be Nyarko).

** AHEAD: The setting for ''LightNovel/TheEndingChronicle'': after conquering ten parallel worlds, we must make their own Concepts part of our universe lest it be destroyed. Comprises novels 16-29.

** [[http://www.pixartheory.com/ The Pixar Theory]] is a popular fan theory that suggests that every single Creator/{{Pixar}} film is set in the same universe, officially aside from obvious cases of sequels and prequels is not the case.
*** {{Jossed}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h74nAbx9Fgw here]].
*** Although ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' is most likely set in their own RetroUniverse and ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' well...is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin just that]] and they're probably not in there.
*** As more and more Pixar movies came along (like Coco, Luca, Turning Red and specially Lightyear) the more increasingly difficult to reconcile the Pixar Theory has become as many online commentors have pointed out, to the point that even some of the more hardcore defenders of the Pixar Theory now acknoledge that is near to be or already was debunked. Specially with Lightyear which pretty much makes impossible for it to co-exist in the same universe as Toy Story.