LeafeonLive Rants #15: Crossovers

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Hello everyone, DarkWolfWavius here and it's time for another rant.

So what will I be talking about today? Crossovers in TPI's(sort of, but I will get to that in a bit).

Now a Crossover should be self-explanatory but since I need a transition into my first point, Crossovers are moments in a show where the creator decides to include a character from another series and put them into their show.

Now the idea of Crossovers isn't a new concept, in fact this shit has been done for decades. However, the problem I have with this concept is when these Crossovers become permanent(IE: Becoming a contestant) and or, they mention a lot of events from the other person's series.

When I watch someone's TPI, I expect to watch a TPI with this guy's characters, stories, etc. But when a TPI has contestants from other people's TPI's and makes them contestants, it no longer becomes a TPI but rather, a circus. If you want to do a crossover with someone else's show, fine, but make that its own show at least.

Now that I've talked about the idea of bringing in contestants from other people's shows, it's time to discuss the 2nd part of this rant. References to events from the other person's show.

This argument is a double-edged sword because while some people will get the reference, not everyone will watch that other person's show so they won't understand the reference. This especially happens when a couple on one person's TPI is composed of people from different series. How the fuck did they hook up? You showed how the other characters hooked up, so why not these two?

"Well you gotta watch the show first!"

NO! I shouldn't have to watch some other person's show to understand how these two hooked up. If you're going to make this couple canon in your series and you showed how the other characters hooked up, then show how they hooked up!

Okay, rant over... For TPI's...

Now I want to talk about something that's been bugging me for a bit and this was what inspired this rant. The Emerald Chronicles Fan Character Stories.

More specifically, the chapters that have characters from other people's stories showing up for no reason.

As I said before, if you want to have a crossover with someone else's character that is not romantically or physically related to your Fan Character(even then, you need to explain how that happened in your story), then just make that its own story because when I click on <insert FC name here> 's story, I expect to read a story about THAT character.

Hell, that might actually work out for the better if your FC and the FC you do a crossover with have different enough personalities and viewpoints :)

And for those who say it can't work:

Power Man and Iron Fist 50th Issue cover by DarkWolfWavius

A man based off Kung-Fu movies and a man based off Blaxploitation films together in one book. Arguably more popular than their initial solo books.

Ga-gl1 by DarkWolfWavius

Another very successful book back when it came out because of Hal Jordan and Oliver Queen's differing personalities, as well as other things :P.


90743-18070-106410-1-cable--deadpool by DarkWolfWavius
A guy from the future who wants to kill a God and a Mercenary who breaks the Fourth Wall constantly. Nuff said :P

Also Avengers

So ya, this concept can work :) , and I do recommend it since it can be fun depending on who you're doing a crossover with.

But before I go, I'll let you know what Emerald Chronicles FC stories I have read :P . (If I don't mention you, it's because it either came out after this, wasn't added to the Emerald Chronicles group, or it didn't pop up in my search "ZutzuCrobat55" (Newest First) )


Susan Maria story: Chapter 1 Off to Santa Verde
    Welcome to the world of Super Central, a universe where humans and superhumans live in peace. This world is divided into 6 nations, our story begins Illuminatos City at a school called Saint Violet, a private academy here in Illuminatos City, this academy is for those who want to become super heroes similar to Santa Verde in United Emerald City, only this academy is for those with assisting powers such as healing or powering up, this school teaches those with or without powers. Those without powers were humans who were determined to help change the world, so they enroll here at Saint Violet when they turn 15, once you complete 4 years here, if you pass the final test, you have awesome grades and your heart is good and you follow the superhero code, you become an assist superhero. This story will be following one of these students here and I'm going to tell you about the chance she got to becoming an exchange student at Santa Verde and how it will changed her life forever,

Susan Maria(:iconsusanlucariofan16:): I am reading this series because I genuinely like it and it also inspired me to make my own FC :P

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Sam(:iconghostisgone: ): I am also reading this because I think it's interesting(though it does have several spelling mistakes)

I have also read :iconfawnthewatermaster: 's first chapter, but I heard it got canned :(

Takuya Akiyama Story: Chapter 1 Santa Verde
  Saint Violet, a private academy for those who want to become superheroes similar to Santa Verde, only this academy is for those with assisting powers such as healing or powering up.  One of these students I'm going to tell you about the chance he got to be an exchange student at Santa Verde and how it changed his life forever, his name is Takuya Akiyama.
  Takuya Akiyama is one of many students at Saint Violet's, his powers is to charge a weapon using electricity but... in an incident, two months ago, he and his childhood friend had a fight... and his friend seriously injured him with his powers, causing Takuya's power to go haywire and almost killing his childhood friend.  And when Takuya is in the hospital, he received a letter from one of the nurses and when he reads it... he started to cry.  After he got out of the hospital, his childhood friend drop out of Saint Violet and Takuya felt lonely because of it and his grade went falling down and never interac

Takuya(:iconpachigirl1: ): I started reading it but then I stopped after Chapter 2 because of the plagiarism from Susan Maria's story. (No joke, read the first chapter of Takuya's story and then Susan's. )Now I did hear this got fixed, but I haven't gone back due to College.

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Myko Rovin(:iconsupersnivy01:): Haven't read yet but I did hear good things about it =)

Now as I said before, if I didn't mention your story, it wasn't intentional. I just couldn't find it.

But that's about it for today. What is your opinion on Crossovers Let me know in the comments below.

Take care :) (Smile)
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ZutzuCrobat55's avatar
Despite our respective blunders with crossovers I'm glad we're collaborating on a video in the near future.