I'm in an odd mood...

[gardendoor]

Question for y'all:

Which character do you think is the little black dress of fandom (goes with everything, i.e., crossover friendly)?

And which character do you think is the fries of fandom (comes with everything/everyone)?

Comments

[vamysteryfan]

I think the Sentinel is the little black dress. I've seen Jim and Blair placed into the oddest fandoms (even more than SGA) and they all work. I think it's because the characters and premise are so strong yet adaptable.

The fries? Mulder on the X-files.

[gardendoor]

Mmmmulder. *g*

Yeah, I think Jim and Blair meld so well with everyone because the show is so cross-genre. You've got cop stuff, international terrorism, secret agencies, ancient myths, ghosts, 'supermen' and spirit animals. It's really hard to find something that wouldn't bring them into contact with another show's storyline.

[briarwood]

Quantum Leap is the quintessential crossover fandom. I never watched the show, but I've seen QL crossovers in every fandom I've ever touched. I guess the concept just makes sense for crossovers.

I don't think that, for me, there's any fandom or character that "goes with" absolutely everything. I guess Highlander/Methos comes closest: he can certainly fit into any 'verse set vaguely in the real world, historical, present or future. But I need at least some plausibility factor in my crossovers, so I couldn't drop Methos, for example into the LOTR 'verse and have it work for me.

[gardendoor]

I'm with you, I'm game suspending disbelief for a crossover, but suspending it from the neck until dead is beyond me. I can't see LOTR crossovers aside from Dr. Who or someone else who can cross dimensional rifts into alternate universes or whatever.

I'm with you on Methos -- both because he's been around long enough to get into everything and because he has such a wonderfully open mind about sex in canon.

QL, though... it's funny; I like the show, but I always feel unsatisfied by crossovers, maybe because Sam's supposed to solve things or change situations, and if he solves the main premise of a show, it lets the wind out of the sails, and if he gets two people together who've been dancing around each other, we miss seeing those two people finally come together because one of them is really Sam. Have you found QL crossovers you really like, though? I'd be curious to read them.

[briarwood]

Have you found QL crossovers you really like, though?

Only one - though as I said, I'm not a huge fan of the show.

QL/Stargate SG-1: Sam I Am by Dorothy Marley. Sam Beckett becomes Sam Carter. I like it precisely because the characters concerned don't get together, not within the story itself, but that's okay because getting them in bed was never the point. It was about getting the acknowledgment...and the way Sam gets there is all the more poignant because of the mistakes he makes along the way.

[gardendoor]

Ooh, thanks! *toddles off to read*

Crossover-friendly characters

[ponders_life]

Just off the top of my head:

"Little black dress" characters: Jim and Blair (The Sentinel), Xander (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Sheppard and McKay (Stargate: Atlantis), Chris and Vin of Magnificent Seven

"Fries of fandom" character: Spike<(i>Buffy the Vampire Slayer), in the sense that he can be paired with anyone, male or female. Also Sheppard (Stargate: Atlantis); his character could be paired with anyone AND fit in just about any fandom.

Re: Crossover-friendly characters

[gardendoor]

*g* I'm with you on Sheppard; he definitely gets around! I haven't read nearly enough Spike fic to judge, though.

And yeah, Jim and Blair are so cross-genre in canon that they're so easy to pop into someone else's world and hardly bat an eye. McShep, though? You gotta point me to some of those crossovers!

McShep crossovers

[ponders_life]

Check out the McKay/Sheppard Crossovers and Fusions section at Crossroads: the Stargate Atlantis Slash Index.

There's even an SGA/TS crossover fic: The Sentinel and Guide Of Atlantis by Belladonna!