10 Video Game Crossovers That Went Too Far

Nintendo’s Super Smash Brothers, perhaps the king of crossovers, takes extreme care when respecting and representing all first and third party characters.

And whilst a couple of these are tonally odd - after all, Smash is a series that features kid-friendly Pokémon alongside the much more mature Solid Snake - Nintendo does its best to retain a consistency for its audience.

Technically, this is also true of MultiVersus… but it’s also nuts. From the game’s first announcement, gamers were losing their heads at the pure idea of Scooby Doo’s Shaggy getting into a scrap with Arya Stark from Game of Thrones. Using the full depth of Warner Bros’ intellectual property meant mascots from kids shows like Jake the Dog appearing alongside - and beating the snot out of - the swearing drunkard nihilist Rick of Rick and Morty.

Leaks have revealed upcoming characters to include the Mother of Dragons Daenerys Targaryen and, uh, college football coach Ted Lasso.

Which begs the question. How far is too far? Yes, it’s fun that the game seems to have no boundaries but it also means they’re near-impossible to define. At least with Smash we knew it was video game characters only and no matter how much some pined for Goku it wasn’t happening.

Warner Bros Discovery owns CNN and at this point seeing news anchors in MultiVersus seems entirely plausible.