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A crossover is an overlap between two different forms of media, with either owned by different or the same parent company. In many cases they are done with the property holders believing a mixture of properties would work well with one another, or done for marketing reasons. The Pokémon franchise has had numerous crossovers with other media throughout its lifetime, mostly coming in the form of games, however, there has been plenty of other media as well, including music and merchandising.

A crossover is is often differentiated from a reference or Easter egg in the sense that crossovers are often promoted and are an intended focus or feature of a piece of media.

List of crossovers

Self-contained

Ash's Greninja has appeared in multiple forms of media including the trading card game and video games to promote the XY&Z arc
Pokémon Masters EX has a primary focus on characters from all over the franchise

Pokémon has had a list of crossovers within itself, these are often used to promote other branches of the franchise.

Video Games

Series

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon incorporates the dungeon crawling elements from the Mystery Dungeon franchise

Very few Pokémon crossovers have had their own series. Although the ones that exist are long standing.

  • Super Smash Bros. series
    • Multiple video game crossovers
    • by extension, it also allows partial crossover with itself, as it includes many references to the anime with inclusion of certain trophies as Ash-Greninja.
  • Pokémon Mystery Dungeon
    • Crossover with the Mystery Dungeon series.

One offs

Nintendo's Kaori Ando had proposed a crossover between Pokémon and Intelligent Systems' Fire Emblem series, however, this fell through after learning about the proposal for Pokémon Conquest. The Fire Emblem game crossover was then pitched to Atlus with Shin Megami Tensei to form Tokyo Mirage Sessions.[1]

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Below are a list of video game titles that include Pokémon content, however, they aren't the focus of the crossover, and simply just feature Pokémon either as a form of promotion, or it was created by the same developers.

  • Picross NP Vol. 1
    • Multiple Pokémon had featured puzzles.
  • Donkey Konga
  • Streetpass Mii Plaza - Puzzle Swap
  • Harmoknight
  • Nintendo Badge Arcade
    • Many badges in the form of the the menu sprite pixel art and Pokémon Global Link artwork can be obtained.
  • Splatoon Splatfests
    • Splatfest are events in the Splatoon games where players can pick a team to fight along side with and play against opponents with another opinion claiming which role is the best between the two or more sides.
      • Splatoon in 2016 had three Splatfest centered around Pokémon. Pokémon Red vs Pokémon Blue in international locations, and Pokémon Red vs Pokémon Green in Japan
        • Pokémon Blue won in both North America and Oceania regions
        • Pokémon Green won in Japan
      • in 2022, Splatoon 3 also had a collaboration with Pokémon for the game' tricolor turf war. Grass VS Fire VS Water was a splatfest before the release of Scarlet and Violet to decide which of the best first partner Pokémon type was the best.
  • Super Mario Maker
    • As a collaboration with Super Smash Bros. and amiibo, every Pokémon playable in Smash Bros. appeared as a playable costume Power-Up
    • Also as part of Costume Mario, Bulbasaur, Charmander and Squirtle were playable for the Pokémon 20th Anniversary. Each had their own designed mini course introducing the costumes
  • Taiko no Tatsujin:

Art and apparel

  • Junji Ito collab
    • Mangaka Junji Ito drew artwork of certain Pokémon in his iconic horror style
  • Daniel Arsham x Tiffany & Co. x Pokemon
  • Pokémon x Van Gogh Museum

Art, Music and Merchandise

Project VOLTAGE had Pokémon and Hatsune Miku collaborate for the second time

References

  1. ↑ Nintendo Dream Vol. 262 February 2016, translated by Kantopia
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