Fictional crossovers in video games

A gaming crossover (short: crossover) occurs when otherwise separated fictional characters, stories, settings, universes, or media in a video game meet and interact with each other. These may exist as a gimmick if two separate games in question are developed by the same company. Otherwise, they may exist as a gag from a rival company.

The following is a list of games in which crossovers appear in either the form of a cameo of any kind, a guest character, or the theme of "crossover" in general in a video game itself:

First and Second-party crossovers

This includes crossovers and cameos of characters from games owned by one company and close affiliates.

Minor Crossover

A character from another First or Second-party franchise appears as a playable character or boss in the game as a special-guest character:

Aggressors of Dark Kombat (Fuuma from World Heroes series)
Anarchy Reigns (Bayonetta and several characters from MadWorld)
Anna Kournikova's Smash Court Tennis (various Namco characters, including Richard Miller from Time Crisis, Heihachi Mishima and Yoshimitsu from the Tekken series, Kei Nagase from Ace Combat 2, and Pac-Man)
Art of Fighting 2 (Geese Howard from Fatal Fury series)
Asura's Wrath (in a DLC, Asura fights Ryu from Street Fighter)
Captain Rainbow (various Nintendo characters)
Civ II: Fantastic Worlds (scenarios based on other MicroProse games such as Master of Magic, Master of Orion and X-Com)
Civilization V: Brave New World (You can recruit XCOM Squads from XCOM: Enemy Unknown)
ClayFighter 63⅓ (Earthworm Jim and Boogerman appear as playabe characters)
Cthulhu Saves the World (characters from Breath of Death VII and Molly the Were-Zompire)
Dead or Alive (series) (Ryu Hayabusa, Momiji and Rachel from Ninja Gaiden. Naotora Ii from Samurai Warriors is added in Dead or Alive 5: Last Round as DLC.)
Digimon World Re:Digitize (Lili from Tekken)
Disgaea (series) (various Nippon Ichi Software characters)
Dissidia Final Fantasy
Ehrgeiz (various characters from Final Fantasy VII, including Cloud, Tifa, Sephiroth, etc.)
Everybody's Golf series (various PlayStation characters)
Evolution Skateboarding (Solid Snake and Raiden from Metal Gear Solid)
Fatal Fury Special (Ryo Sakazaki from Art of Fighting)
Fighter's History (Karnov)
Injustice: Gods Among Us (Scorpion from Mortal Kombat shows up as a DLC).
Killer Instinct (2013) (Rash from the Battletoads game series and the Arbiter from the Halo game series appear as guest characters in the Season Three lineup)
The Lego video games feature many different franchises and crossovers among them:
- Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga (Indiana Jones from the saga of the same name)
- Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures (Han Solo from the Star Wars saga)
- Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham (Duck Dodgers from the Looney Tunes franchise appears as the Green Loontern)
Mario Kart DS (R.O.B. appears as a playable driver)
Mario Kart 8 (Link from The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword and the Villager and Isabelle from Animal Crossing: New Leaf appear as playable downloadable drivers.)
Mortal Kombat (2011) (Freddy Krueger from the Nightmare on Elm Street film series appears as downloadable content)
Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 (Lars Alexandersson from the Tekken series)
New International Track & Field (various Konami characters)
Ninja Gaiden (Ayane and Kasumi from Dead or Alive (series))
Nitroplus Blasterz: Heroines Infinite Duel (various Nitroplus characters)
Onimusha Blade Warriors (MegaMan.EXE and Zero)
Pac-Man Fever (characters from various Namco franchises)
PaRappa the Rapper 2 (characters from Um Jammer Lammy live in the PaRappa universe)
Penny Arcade Adventures: Episode 3 (Cthulhu Saves the World and Molly the Were-Zompire)
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands (Ezio Auditore from Assassin's Creed II)
Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy (Scorpion from Mortal Kombat)
Punch-Out!! (Wii) (Donkey Kong makes a cameo as a boss)
Red Ash: The Indelible Legend (Mighty No. 9)
Rival Schools: United By Fate (Sakura from the Street Fighter series)
Quake III Arena (Doom and Quake)
Samurai Warriors (Lu Bu of Dynasty Warriors makes an appearance as a hidden boss)
Saturday Night Slam Masters (Mike Haggar from Final Fight)
Solomon's Key (Mighty Bomb Jack)
Sonic Riders (AiAi from Super Monkey Ball, Ulala from Space Channel 5, and NiGHTS from Nights into Dreams...)
Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity (Amigo from Samba de Amigo, Billy Hatcher from Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg, and NiGHTS from Nights into Dreams...)
Soulcalibur II (Heihachi Mishima from Tekken in the PS2 and HD versions)
Soulcalibur Legends (Lloyd Irving from Tales of Symphonia)
Star Ocean series (Lenneth Valkyrie and Freya from the Valkyrie Profile series. Many tri-Ace games also feature crossover secret bosses and the like.)
Tales series (some games feature crossovers with other Tales of timelines—i.e. Lloyd Irving in Tales of Symphonia—, sometimes featuring characters from other Namco series)
Tecmo Super Bowl (Mighty Bomb Jack)
Under Night In-Birth (Sion Eltnam Atlasia (dubbed as Eltnum) from Melty Blood)
Urban Reign (Paul Phoenix and Marshall Law)
Venus & Braves (Multiple Tales series characters on the PSP remake)
Viewtiful Joe (Dante and Trish from Devil May Cry are playable characters in the PlayStation 2 version)
Warriors Orochi 3 (Ryu Hayabusa, Momiji, and Rachel from Ninja Gaiden; Kasumi and Ayane from Dead or Alive; Joan of Arc from Bladestorm: The Hundred Years' War; Achilles from Warriors: Legends of Troy; Nemea from Trinity: Souls of Zill O’ll; and Sterkenburg Cranach from Atelier)
Wangan Midnight (Shutokou Battle series characters)
We Love Golf! (Assorted Capcom characters)

Major Crossover

A big crossover where two or more franchises encounter:

Alex Kidd in Shinobi World (Alex Kidd and Shinobi characters)
Astro Boy: Omega Factor (several other characters created by Osamu Tezuka appears with important roles on the plot of the game, included Hosuke Sharaku from The Three-Eyed One, Black Jack from the series of the same name and Phoenix)
Cannon Spike (Capcom characters)
Capcom Fighting Evolution
Capcom Fighting Jam
Fighters Megamix (Sega characters)
Heroes of the Storm (Characters featured in games developed by Blizzard Entertainment)
Itadaki Street series, such as the PSP iteration Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy in Itadaki Street Portable (Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy)
The King of Fighters (characters from Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting, Psycho Soldier, Ikari Warriors, Buriki One, Savage Reign, Metal Slug and Samurai Shodown)
Konami Krazy Racers (Metal Gear, Pop'n Music, Legend of the Mystical Ninja, Twinbee among others)
Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam (Paper Mario saga and Mario & Luigi saga)
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale (various Sony characters such as Kratos, PaRappa, Sweet Tooth, and Sly Cooper)
PlayStation Move Heroes (crossover of the Ratchet & Clank, Jak and Daxter and Sly Cooper franchises)
Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure
SEGA Superstars
SEGA Superstars Tennis
Segagaga
SNK Gals' Fighters (several female characters from SNK games)
Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing (various Sega characters)
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed (various Sega characters)
Street Fighter series (tie-in with Final Fight)
Street Fighter X Mega Man (a crossover between Street Fighter and Mega Man)
Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix (chracters from Street Fighter, Darkstalkers and Red Earth)
Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo (various characters from Capcom fighting games)
Super Smash Bros. series (various Nintendo characters including Mario, Link, Samus, Kirby, Pikachu, Fox McCloud, etc.)
Warriors Orochi (Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors series)

Third-party crossovers

This includes games which have crossovers from two or more separate companies.

Alice: Madness Returns (a skeleton of Razputin from Psychonauts)
Ape Escape 3 (a Metal Gear-based minigame)
Capy Fine Racing GP (a crossover racing game between Double Fine Productions and Capybara Games)
Car Town (many cars from various franchises such as The Fast and The Furious, Ghostbusters, the DeLorean from Back to the Future, and the GT by Citroen from Gran Turismo series. Additionally, the Top Gear feature is also included.)
Chaos Wars
Cross Edge (Nippon Ichi 's Disgaea, Koei 's Atelier, Capcom 's Darkstalkers, and Namco 's Tekken)
Battle Arena Toshinden (Interplay's Earthworm Jim appears as a selectable character in the PC version)
Battletoads & Double Dragon (game produced by Tradewest/Rare with characters from Technos' Double Dragon series)
Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage and Spyro Orange: The Cortex Conspiracy
Dead or Alive 4 (Nicole - a Spartan super-soldier created by Bungie Studios for exclusive use in DoA 4)
Dead or Alive: Dimensions (Metroid: Other M themed stage with Ridley appearing as a stage hazard while Samus appears at the end of the match)
Dead or Alive 5 (Akira Yuki, Pai Chan, and Sarah Bryant from the Virtua Fighter series. Jacky Bryant appears on the Ultimate and Last Round versions of the game.)
Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax (Akira Yuki from the Virtua Fighter series as well as Selvaria Bles from the Valkyria Chronicles series appear as playable guest characters in the console/1.2 build and updated versions. Pai Chan and Alicia Melchiott appear as assist characters.)
Diddy Kong Racing (Rare's Banjo and Conker) (At the time, Rareware was a second party developer)
Disney Infinity series (characters from the many assets owned by The Walt Disney Company like the Disney original characters, the Pixar characters, the Marvel Comics super heroes and Lucasfilm's Star Wars)
Divekick (Johnny Gat from Deep Silver's Saints Row franchise appears as a guest character in the free Addition Edition + update. The Fencer from Nidhogg was later added as a guest fighter in the final patch.)
DreamMix TV World Fighters (characters from Hudson and Konami's video game series and Takara's toy lines)
Eternal Fighter Zero (characters from the visual novels Moon, One: Kagayaku Kisetsu e, Kanon and Air)
Fighting Layer (Allen Snider and Blair Dame, created by Arika, were previously in the original Street Fighter EX)
Fight Night Round 2 (Little Mac from the Punch-Out!! series)
Fortune Street (Dragon Quest and Mario)
Forza Motorsport (the voices of Top Gear appeared as announcers, and three movie cars appeared as selectable vehicles, these being the Aston Martin DB5 from the James Bond series, the Delorean from Back to the Future, and the Pontiac Trans Am driven by Burt Reynolds in Smokey and the Bandit. Additionally, the Autovista roster featured the Warthog military vehicle from the Halo series.) In Forza Horizon 2 it features The Fast and the Furious DLC series content including the tutor voice of Toretto's member Tej Parker (voiced by Christopher Brian Bridges) let's you be the role of Toretto's gang that has given you to unlock all the cars from the Furious 7 film. In Forza Motorsport 6 you can purchase the Fast and the Furious car pack from the previous movies as selectable vehicles as a DLC pack.
Genei Ibun Roku X FE (Shin Megami Tensei and Fire Emblem)
Gran Turismo series (features some movie cars as selectable vehicles, like the Delorean from the Back to the Future trilogy, the Pontiac Trans Am from Smokey and the Bandit, and the BMW Z8 from the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough.
Iron Man and X-O Manowar in Heavy Metal (characters from Marvel's Iron Man and Valiant's X-O Manowar)
Itadaki Street DS (characters from Dragon Quest and Mario)
Just Dance 3 (a song based on the Super Mario Bros.)
Killing Floor (Team Fortress 2's Pyro is a playable character should the player downloads both games)
Konami Wai Wai World (King Kong and The Goonies appear with characters from various Konami franchise)
KOF: Maximum Impact Regulation A (Makoto Mizoguchi from Data East's Fighter's History series)
Lego Dimensions (playable characters and settings from the Back to the Future, DC Comics, Doctor Who, Ghostbusters, Jurassic World, Legends of Chima, The Lego Movie, The Lord of the Rings, Midway arcade games, Ninjago, Portal, Scooby-Doo, The Simpsons and The Wizard of Oz franchises and intellectual properties, with more planned to come in the future. HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey makes a cameo. Using the TARDIS in certain locations allows you to access areas from The Flintstones and The Jetsons)
Lost Planet 2 (Marcus Fenix and Dom Santiago from Gears of War)
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games series
Mario Kart Arcade GP series (characters from the Mario and Pac-Man franchises)
Mario Hoops 3-on-3 (characters from Mario and Final Fantasy franchises)
Mario Sports Mix (characters from the Mario, Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy franchises)
Marvel vs. Capcom series (characters from Capcom and Marvel Comics)
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (contains missions where Naked Snake can face either Rathalos or Tigrex from the Monster Hunter (series) by Capcom)
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (features a minigame where the player has to catch the apes from Ape Escape)
Mortal Kombat (2011) (Kratos from Sony's God of War series appears as a PS3/PSVita exclusive)
Mortal Kombat X (Jason Voorhees from the Friday the 13th film series and Predator from the titular Predator film series appear as DLC for Kombat Pack 1. Leatherface from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre film series, and the Alien from the titular franchise appear as DLC in the Kombat Pack 2.)
Namco × Capcom
NBA Street V3 (Mario, Luigi, and Peach)
NeoGeo Battle Coliseum (characters from ADK, which was bought by SNK Playmore, appear in the game alongside SNK characters)
Nitroplus Blasterz: Heroines Infinite Duel (Saber from Fate/stay night, Homura from Senran Kagura, and Heart Aino from Arcana Heart)
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale (Dante from Devil May Cry, Big Daddy from Bioshock, Heihachi Mishima from Tekken, and Raiden from Metal Gear. Also, Isaac Clarke from Dead Space appears as a DLC character.)
Pokémon Conquest (Pokémon and Nobunaga's Ambition)
Poker Night (series) (Tycho from Penny Arcade, Strong Bad from Homestar Runner, Brock Samson from Venture Bros, Claptrap from Borderlands, Ash Williams from The Evil Dead and various Valve characters)
Professor Layton vs. Ace Attorney (Professor Layton and Phoenix Wright from Ace Attorney)
Project X Zone (characters from Capcom, Sega and Namco Bandai)
Project X Zone 2 (characters from Capcom, Sega and Namco Bandai. Nintendo's Chrom and Lucina from Fire Emblem Awakening and Fiora of Xenoblade Chronicles fame make guest appearances with the former two being teammates and the latter being partnered up with KOS-MOS from Xenosaga.)
Ridge Racer (Hornet car from Daytona USA)
Samurai Warriors 3 (Takamaru from Nazo no Murasame Jō)
Scribblenauts Unlimited (characters from the Super Mario and the Legend of Zelda series)
skate 3 (Isaac Clark from Dead Space)
Skylanders: SuperChargers (Donkey Kong and Bowser from Nintendo's Mario franchise)
Skyrim (Valve and Bethesda teamed up and made a mod that added a space core from Portal 2 to the game)
Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne (Dante from Devil May Cry)
Shoot Many Robots (the steam version of the game contains Gordon Freeman's suit, turrets from Portal and some items from Team Fortress 2)
Shovel Knight (Kratos and The Battletoads appear as console-exclusive boss fights.)
SNK vs. Capcom (series) (characters from Capcom and SNK Playmore)
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed (Danica Patrick, Wreck-It Ralph, Team Fortress 2, Miis and Xbox 360 Avatars, Yogscast)
Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing (Banjo and Kazooie, Xbox 360 Avatars, and Miis)
Soulcalibur II (Link from The Legend of Zelda in the Gamecube version and Spawn of Image Comics in the Xbox and HD versions)
Soulcalibur IV (Darth Vader, Starkiller and Yoda from Star Wars; the bonus character Angol Fear is implied to be the cousin of the character Angol Mois from the Sgt. Frog series.)
Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny (Kratos from Sony's God of War series)
Soulcalibur V (Ezio Auditore from Assassin's Creed)
SSX on Tour (Mario, Luigi, and Peach)
Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty (Metroids from Metroid can be seen)
Street Fighter X Tekken (Street Fighter characters, Tekken characters, Cole MacGrath from Sucker Punch's inFamous series^{[n 1]}, Capcom's Mega Man, Namco's Pac-Man and Sony's mascots Toro and Kuro)
Super Crate Box (characters from Canabalt, Spelunky and Super Meat Boy)
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Konami's Solid Snake and Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog)
Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U (Capcom's Mega Man, Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog, Namco's Pac-Man. Also, Ryu from Capcom's Street Fighter series, Cloud Strife from Square Enix's Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, and Bayonetta from Sega's Bayonetta are DLC characters, two Mii Brawler suits are openly based on Tekken's Heihachi Mishima and Virtua Fighter's Akira Yuki, and a trophy of Ubisoft's Rayman is present in the game.)
Super Meat Boy (various indie game characters, such as Tim and Gish)
Super Robot Wars (characters from various series)
Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars (characters from various Capcom and Tatsunoko Production franchises)
Tekken 7: Fated Retribution (Akuma from Street Fighter)
Tekken X Street Fighter (Street Fighter and Tekken characters)^{[n 2]}
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up (Ubisoft's Rabbids on the Wii version)
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (Spider-Man from Marvel Comics)
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 (Darth Maul from Star Wars, Wolverine from Marvel Comics, Kelly Slater and Doomguy from Doom)
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 (Iron Maiden's mascot Eddie the Head, and Jango Fett from Star Wars)
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 (Tyler, the Creator and The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were added in the patch)
Tony Hawk's Underground (Iron Man from Marvel Comics)
Tony Hawk's Underground 2 (Shrek from the Shrek films)
Trinity Universe (characters from the Disgaea and Atelier series)
Under Night In-Birth (Akatsuki from SUBTLE STYLE's Akatsuki Blitzkampf appears in Under Night In-Birth EXE: Late and updated versions)
Wario Blast: Featuring Bomberman! (Nintendo's Wario and Hudson's Bomberman)
Warriors Orochi 3 (Sophitia from Bandai Namco's Soul series appears in Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate)

Comic book/video game crossovers

Video games that have comic book franchise characters encountering or facing off against other comic book franchise characters or third-party video game characters in a crossover video game or as a guest character in a third-party video game include:

Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes
Injustice: Gods Among Us (Mortal Kombat's Scorpion)
Iron Man and X-O Manowar in Heavy Metal (Marvel's Iron Man and Valiant's X-O Manowar)
Marvel Super Heroes (Darkstalkers' Anita)
Marvel vs. Capcom (series) (characters from various Capcom and Marvel Comics series)
Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe (Mortal Kombat and DC Comics characters)
Soul Calibur II (Spawn of Image Comics in the Xbox and HD versions)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up (Ubisoft's Rabbids on the Wii version)
Revenge of Shinobi (Batman and Spider-Man are bosses)
X-Men: Children of the Atom (Street Fighter's Akuma)

Cartoon/video game crossovers

Video games that have cartoon franchise characters encountering or facing off against other cartoon franchise characters or video game characters in a crossover video game or as a guest character in a third-party video game include:

Manga/anime crossovers

Video games that have manga franchise characters or anime franchise characters encountering or facing off against other manga or anime franchise characters in a crossover video game include:

Astro Boy: Omega Factor (several other characters created by Osamu Tezuka appears with important roles on the plot of the game, included Hosuke Sharaku from The Three-Eyed One, Black Jack from the series of the same name and Phoenix)
Battle Stadium D.O.N (Dragon Ball, One Piece, and Naruto)
Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax
Dengeki Gakuen RPG: Cross of Venus (crossover of Dengeki Bunko light novels)
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 (Arale from Dr.Slump)
DreamMix TV World Fighters (Takara's Transformers and Beyblade characters alongside Hudson and Konami characters)
Dynasty Warriors: Gundam
Famicom Jump: Hero Retsuden (Jump Manga)
Famicom Jump II: Saikyō no Shichinin (Jump manga)
Gran Turismo series (two cars from the Initial D manga—Takumi Fujiwara's Toyota AE86 and Mako Sato and Sayuki's Sileighty^{[n 3]}—are available throughout the series)
Heroes Phantasia (crossover of Slayers, Sorcerous Stabber Orphen, Blood+, Rune Soldier, Read or Die, Sgt. Frog, My-HiME, Darker than Black and s-CRY-ed)
J-Stars Victory VS (Jump Manga)
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle (Ikuro Hashizawa from Baoh)
Jump Super Stars (Jump Manga)
Jump Ultimate Stars (Jump Manga)
Magical Battle Arena
Magical Chaser ~Stardust of Dreams~ (crossover of five magical girl anime series)
Miracle Girls Festival (crossover of eleven anime shows)
Monster Hunter Tri (exclusive to Japan's version, some event weapons are based on anime and manga series from Kodansha, Shogakukan, and Shueisha)
Nakayoshi All Stars - Mezase Gakuen Idol, a Japanese game for Nintendo DS
Nitroplus Blasterz: Heroines Infinite Duel (Nitroplus & XSEED Games)
Panic in Nakayoshi World
SD Gundam G Generation
Soulcalibur IV (the character Angol Fear is said to be the cousin of Angol Mois from Sgt. Frog)
Super Heroine Chronicle
Super Robot Wars series (features mecha from various anime and manga series)
Shounen Sunday x Shounen Magazine Nettou! Dream Nine
Sunday vs Magazine: Shūketsu! Chōjō Daikessen
Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars
Tekken 3 (Gon from the eponymous manga)

Notes

↑ Developed by Capcom.
↑ Developed by Namco.
↑ Nissan revoked their licensing rights for the Sileighty from Initial D: Street Stage and Initial D Arcade Stage 4 (where it was branded as "Initial D") onwards, and re-licensing it as a Nissan vehicle in Gran Turismo 5 instead due to lack of the manufacturer for the Sileighty in earlier Gran Turismo games.