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[aria]

Something I have discovered about being polyfannish is that, when I am in the shower or on a bus or folding clothes or whatever it is that puts my brain on screensaver mode, I will start making up crossovers. I love clever crossovers, and clever fusions (and, I'll be honest here, I would be perfectly happy if every fandom ever had a His Dark Materials fusion where all the characters had daemons and this did interesting things to the fic plot). Most of the time I do not actually get around to writing them down, but I do like to pretend that I might.

I am not quite sure why the rest of this post is a poll, except that I am in a poll-making mood and I want to know if people know what I'm talking about.

Poll #5133

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 51

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Buffy/Highlander: Both groups of Watchers are part of the same organization. Post-series for both shows, Duncan goes to visit Methos and discovers that Methos' house has been converted into a Slayer training facility. Also, Joe and Giles have jam sessions.

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yes
37 (80.4%)

no
1 (2.2%)

what?
8 (17.4%)

due South/DCU: Baby Kal-El's ship crash-lands in Canada; Kal-El is raised as Benton Fraser. For reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture, he chases Lex Luthor to the USA and fights crime in Chicago. Ray Vecchio is Lois Lane. Ray Kowalski is Batman.

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yes
20 (40.8%)

no
5 (10.2%)

what?
3 (6.1%)

BATMAN!!
21 (42.9%)

Doctor Who/Young Wizards: Dairine and Ten go on adventures in time and space, trying to find Roshaun! They fight the Lone Power and probably also the Master.

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yes
16 (34.0%)

no
1 (2.1%)

what?
15 (31.9%)

...haven't you been meaning to write this for YEARS?
15 (31.9%)

Highlander/White Collar: Neal Caffrey first died somewhere in the 1930s; Amanda was his mentor. Now Peter Burke is his Watcher, and breaking pretty much every noninterference clause in the book. Mozzie is Immortal too; no one knows how old he is, and he's not telling.

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yes
30 (61.2%)

no
3 (6.1%)

what?
5 (10.2%)

MOZZIE!!
11 (22.4%)

Inception/Smallville: The team's been hired to do another inception, this time for another billionaire, Lex Luthor. The job is simple: they just have to incept Superman to trust Lex again.

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yes
30 (62.5%)

no
3 (6.2%)

what?
15 (31.2%)

Comments

[scrollgirl]

Just wandered off network because if there's one thing I love, it's clever crossovers :)

I'm definitely in favour of the Buffyverse/HL Watchers are Watchers crossover--I think nothing in canon contradicts that idea. Plus, Giles and Joe jamming together? Awesome :D

I'm not so sure on the others, though. Neal comes off to me as too young (emotionally) to be an Immortal, though I can definitely buy Mozzie as one. I like the idea of Lex getting the Inception team to probe Superman's mind, though I wouldn't want it to actually succeed--that's just too disturbing for me!

[aria]

Hi! :D

You make a good point about Neal's emotional maturity! I think it could be believably sold, but whoever was writing it (not necessarily me!) would have to write really excellent Neal.

I have no idea what would actually happen in the Lex-hires-the-Inception-team one. It would be really alarming if they succeeded, wouldn't it.