Fighting brings us together
Everyone remember "Capcom Versus Whatever"? Well I thought it would be amusing to see how many worlds can be linked by their characters beating the crap out of each other in video games.
For starters, Capcom's Street Fighter, Final Fight, and Rival Schools share a world.
Marvel vs. Capcom brought in not only the Marvel Universe, but also Captain Commando, Darkstalkers, Megaman, Resident Evil, and Strider. Marvel vs. Capcom 3 had others like Devil May Cry.
Street Fighter x Tekken has SF characters fighting Tekken characters as they all pursue an unidentified object in Antarctica (there's no indication that the characters are meant to be from separate worlds, unlike the MvC series). Playstation versions have Megaman, Pac-Man, and Sony's mascot cats Toro and Kuro showing up.
The Sony cats, Dante, and Heihachi from Tekken also fight in this game. Note the characters from Metal Gear and God of War.
Now we must note that Tekken takes place in the future of the Soulcalibur world, as established by the presence of a Yoshimitsu in all the games. The Soulcalibur fighters have fought Link, Spawn, Darth Vader, Yoda, Ezio from Assassin's Creed, and... there's Kratos from God of War again.
Link of course has fought all the major Nintendo characters in Super Smash Bros., as well as Sonic the Hedgehog and Solid Snake from Metal Gear.
You know who else Solid Snake has fought? Everyone in this game. Like Optimus Prime.
I'm sure we could go on...
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Sonic: The Fighters and Sonic Battle bring in pretty much the entire Sonic cast.
Sonic was also a bonus character in Fighting Vipers, which is a goldmine of connections. Vipers crossed over with Virtua Fighter in Fighters Megamix. It also had Pepsi Man for some fucking reason. The Vipers character Bahn will be in Project X Zone, an upcoming 3DS game crossing over tons of Sega, Capcom, and Namco/Bandai games.
From Virtua Fighter, we can get connections to Dead or Alive 5 through Akira and a few others, and from there you get the entire Tecmo empire.
If you count wacky go-kart shenanigans, Sega All-Stars Racing brings in all kinds of obscure Sega mascots.
EDIT: If someone can find a way to link Tom & Jerry: Fists of Furry, you will get like a bajillion cookies.
Bee: Whoa.
All right, let's see if we can diagram this. I'll start:
DC >< Mortal Kombat >< Tekken ? Street Fighter/Final Fight/Resident Evil/Devil May Cry >< Marvel
>< is a portal between universes, - is a shared universe, ? is "I don't know".
SF/FF/RE/DMC's future is Captain Commando, then Megaman, Megaman X, and Megaman Legends. Arthur and Doggy Amaretsu are from its distant past. I don't know where Darkstalkers fits in.
Soulcalibur is set in Tekken's universe in the late 16th century. Maybe God of War took place here more tha 2000 years earlier. Apparently Hyrule has portals both to here and other Nintendo worlds.
We can figure out Sega and Tecmo connections if someone knows how the travel betwee worlds in Project X Zone works.
Does Pepsi Man have a rivalry with Cool Spot?
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
I think it was IDW too, so if they get frisky enough we might see ponies in there.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Man, adding comics makes it so confusing. Like in Dream Mix TV, Transformers are celebrities in the same world as Konami and Hudson Soft heroes. In the comics and cartoons, G1 is a shared universe with GI Joe. And GI Joe's PT instructor is Sgt. Slaughter. Should we assume that WWE's kayfabe takes place in the world of GI Joe and Transformers?
Bee: I dunno, man, I just found out about him!
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
which via a long chain of crossovers technically places all of this in the same universe as St Elsewhere
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
you can pick up Twinbee and Kid Dracula and a few other Konami series
as well as Parodius itself obviously
and Sky Girls
And if you can get Kid Dracula you automatically also get Castlevania
Well, King of Fighters itself depicted Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting, Ikari Warriors, and Psycho Soldier as a shared world as far back as the original (KoF '94).
Man, you know what's been a huge missed opportunity? Werewolf by Night and Marvel's Dracula alongside Darkstalkers.
Ok, I checked out Project X Zone, and it clarifies a lot.
Street Fighter, Tekken, and Virtua Fighter characters inhabit the same present-day Earth, which is also the setting of the "zombie" games (Capcom's Resident Evil and Dead Rising, Sega's House of the Dead...) With the Virtua Fighters in Dead or Alive 5, add that and Ninja Gaiden to the setting.
Via its connection with Tekken, Soulcalibur is this world's late 16th century.
The Megaman timeline is a possible future that characters travel from. Xenosaga is a different future. There are a few others, like God Eater (present day characters are disturbed that this one has the apocalypse within their lifetimes).
Darkstalkers, Ghosts & Goblins, and the Ds from DMC are from a parallel "Demon World". And Sakura Wars is a parallel universe with steampunk mecha.
It's unclear whether God of War is a parallel universe or just 2000 years in Soulcalibur's past. Hyrule and Spawn's Earth are parallel universes that have crossed over via Soulcalibur. From Hyrule, Link can reach the rest of the Nintendo multiverse, Sonic's universe, and Metal Gear Earth. According to Dream Mix TV World Fighters, Solid Snake is a celebity in the same universe as Castlevania, Adventure Island, Bomberman, Transformers, etc.
And the the Marvel universe is accessible from PxZ's present-day Earth, Kratos can get from its past to Mortal Kombat's universe, the DC universe is accessible from Mortal Kombat's, and DC and Marvel can cross over (in comic books). Whew!