{"id":27923,"date":"2018-04-26T16:10:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T20:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=27923"},"modified":"2018-04-26T23:03:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T03:03:54","slug":"five-other-great-shared-universes-you-can-enjoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/26\/five-other-great-shared-universes-you-can-enjoy\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Other Great Shared Universes You Can Enjoy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s finally all coming together on Friday where all the superheroes from the Marvel Cinematic Universe clash to bring down one of the galaxy\u2019s biggest threats. Since its introduction in 2008, Marvel and Disney have made building universe look easy, but many modern studios have proven it\u2019s an impossible task to pull off competently. Before Marvel and DC there were many established Extended and Shared, and if you\u2019re looking for a break from Marvel, these are five you might love.<\/p>\n

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5. The Hanna Barbera Universe
\n<\/strong>The Hanna Barbera clans have crossed over in to one another series so much that you\u2019d have kind of a hard time remembering them all. The Flintstones met the Jetsons in a famous movie crossover, Scooby Doo crossed over with Josie and the Pussycats in one of the more notable Scooby Doo movies. There was also the Wacky Racers which featured a massive crossover of Hanna Barbera characters racing through an endless course and scheming against one another.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also the contemporary Johnny Bravo series, where Bravo crosses over with Scooby Doo in his own mystery, as well as countless movies with Yogi Bear where he joined forces with folks like Snaggletooth, Auggie Doggy, Quick Draw McGraw, Top Cat, and Huckleberry Hound, just to name a few. It\u2019s a nigh endless series of meetings that\u2019s a ton of fun.<\/p>\n

4. Godzilla Universe
\n<\/strong>Godzilla is the king of crossover and meetings. Godzilla fights King Kong, he meets Mothra, Ultraman, Ghidora, Mechagodzilla, they all show up in each other\u2019s movies, and yes even 1998\u2019s Godzilla now known as \u2018Zilla shows up in a Godzilla movie to get his ass kicked by the genuine article.<\/p>\n

There are a bunch of monster mashes including \u201cDestroy All Monsters\u201d and \u201cGiant Monsters All Out Attack.\u201d Godzilla is very well known for sharing movies with a gallery of kaijus that have carved out their own fan bases, and we\u2019ll be getting a modern variation very soon in America with Kong meeting Godzilla, and eventually all the other monsters we know and love.<\/p>\n

3. The Full Moon Universe
\n<\/strong>There\u2019s the full \u201cPuppet Master\u201d movie series which features a gallery of murderous puppets, all of whom share the same mythos, and they\u2019re indirectly connected to \u201cGoobers\u201d about small monsters. They\u2019re all indirectly tied in to earlier horror films \u201cDemonic Toys\u201d which was supposed to set the stage for an all out cinematic Puppet Wars movie, but that never panned out.<\/p>\n

However the Puppet Master Puppets and the Demonic Toys did inevitably cross over cinematically. The inch high futuristic cop \u201cDollman\u201d also crosses over with the Demonic Toys to do battle with them. There\u2019s also 1999\u2019s \u201cPlanet Patrol,\u201d centering on a group of alien fighting teenagers with special powers, which crosses over in to 1998\u2019s \u201cKraa! The Sea Monster,\u201d a giant monster movie where they appear and are introduced\u2014for some reason.<\/p>\n

2. The DC Animated Universe
\n<\/strong>It all began with \u201cBatman,\u201d which then led to \u201cSuperman: the Animated Series.\u201d Shortly after was the \u201cBatman\/Superman Adventures\u201d where Superman and Batman eventually crossed paths in to a movie, and would guest star on each other\u2019s shows. After that ended, there was \u201cBatman Beyond\u201d where a young Batman is mentored by an elderly Bruce Wayne. Superman and the future Justice League inevitably appear for a two part episode involving Starro.<\/p>\n

After \u201cBatman Beyond\u201d ended, there was the combination of all universes \u201cJustice League\u201d and then the expansion featuring most of the DC Universe with \u201cJustice League Unlimited. Branching out further, there\u2019s \u201cStatic Shock\u201d where Jon Stewart, Batman and Robin, Superman, and the Justice League all appear. Static is given official canon status appearing in a huge time traveling arc in \u201cJustice League Unlimited.\u201d And if you want to cover the whole field, there\u2019s \u201cThe Zeta Project,\u201d a spin off of \u201cBatman Beyond,\u201d where Terry McGinnis\u2019 Batman appears for an episode.<\/p>\n

1. The Universal Monster Movie Verse
\n<\/strong>The Abbot and Costello movies alone feature them meeting Dracula, Frankenstein\u2019s Monster, The Wolfman, and the Invisible Man. The Universal movies not only have crossovers but battles with their signature monsters. There\u2019s \u201cFrankenstein Meets the Wolfman,\u201d along with \u201cDracula\u2019s Daughter,\u201d and \u201cHouse of Frankenstein\u201d which brings together Dracula, The Wolfman, The Hunchback, and Frankenstein\u2019s Monster once again. There\u2019s also \u201cHouse of Dracula,\u201d which rallies Frankenstein\u2019s Monster, The Wolfman, and Dracula once more.<\/p>\n

To a much lesser extent\u2014there\u2019s 2004\u2019s \u201cVan Helsing\u201d which teams Van Helsing, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dracula, Dracula\u2019s Brides, Frankenstein\u2019s Monster, The Hunchback, The Wolfman in one embarrassing movie. In 1987, Fred Dekker brought fans the unofficial monster mash \u201cMonster Squad\u201d featuring very very close facsimile\u2019s of Van Helsing, The Gillman, Dracula, Wolfman, Dracula\u2019s Brides, The Mummy, and Frankenstein\u2019s Monster batting horror movie loving teenagers in eighties suburbia.<\/p>\n