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* Creator/DCComics is not much different. It has Greek and Roman gods, wizards, Faeries, aliens, Dinosaur Island, [[ComicBook/TheWarlordDC sword-and-sorcery tales]], Literature/DocSavage, the guy from ''Gladiator'' (the [[Literature/{{Gladiator}} superhuman novel]], not the [[Film/{{Gladiator}} anachronistic movie]]), ComicBook/TheShadow, ten different versions of {{Atlantis}}, mind-controlling worms, pre-human civilizations, sentient robots, AncientAstronauts, ComicBook/AmbushBug, ComicBook/FlexMentallo, metafiction, the [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Green Lantern Corps]], normal guys with arrows and boomerangs who can defeat Characters/{{Superman|TheCharacter}} and ComicBook/TheFlash, and on and on and on. There was also mention, in-universe, of there being full-scale battles fought between the angelic hosts of Heaven and the more villainous aspects of the Hindu pantheon at some point.

* Philip Pullman's ''Literature/HisDarkMaterials'' Trilogy, as you might expect for a series being set in the Omniverse. We have a steampunk-esque alternate earth with Zeppelins, an ambiguously powered psychic-flying-spider-thing, angels (gay ones, no less), witches, gypsies, talking bears, cowboys, the harpies, gun-toting priests, shape-shifting 'daemons' (although definitely not of the satanic variety), ghostly 'spectres' roughly analogous to energy vampires, fairies, whatever the hell the Mulefa are, and God. And that's only what we see. Its implied in the briefly glimpsed culminating battle that there's an awful lot more out there.

The reason for this lack of overlap is to keep things resembling what they are supposed to resemble. If you add angels to the setting, you want people to see them as angels and give them angel-related motivations and agency. Besides, you always need to iron out many details when incorporating such beings to the setting. For example, in the case of angels, will {{Heaven}} be a recurring place in the setting? Is {{God}} going to be a character, and if so, [[OurGodsAreDifferent what kind of character]]? Anyone can see them, or are they InvisibleToNormals? It would be a good idea to stay focused on the angels while you do all this work, and leave the vampires, werewolves, elves, dwarves and the like for a later episode. However, once {{Worldbuilding}} has done its magic, everybody is sufficiently established and there is a good developed lore of who is who and which is their deal in the setting... then yes, everybody shall meet everybody, and let's get crazy with the results!

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rick and Morty}}'' revolves around a mad scientist and his grandson portal-hopping throughout The Multiverse on a multitude of wacky self-aware metafiction adventures, so it is only natural for it to be this; in the words of Rick, there are "infinite realities, infinite possibilities". There are endless species of extraterrestrial life (classic aliens and otherwise, including the Yautja from "The Predator", a species of parasite that are a direct nod to the face-huggers from the "Alien" franchise, and many nods to "Doctor Who" and "Star Wars" creatures), alternate versions of every single person in existence, clones, various hyper-intelligent robots and AI, time travel, vampires, dragons, wizards, giant telepathic spiders, Bigfoot, Universal Studios horror monsters (including Frankenstein's monster, the Gill-man from "The Creature From the Black Lagoon", the werewolf from "The Wolf Man", the mummy from "The Mummy", and Count Dracula), the Christian Heaven and Norse Valhalla, technologically-advanced dinosaurs, a hole that when entered reveals demonic entities and manifestations of your greatest fears in an alternate reality, Jesus Christ, superheroes, anthropomorphic personifications of metafiction tropes, and so so so much more.

* The ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' series features numerous different elements of fantasy mashed together, from ancient long forgotten civilizations with powerful demigods, aliens that can range from evil to friendly, superhero and shonen anime elements, light science fiction hallmarks, ghosts, monsters, magical artifacts, mutants, storybook characters, "Ghost in the Shell" type stories (i.e. the story arc of Gamma in ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'') and so on.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rick and Morty}}'' revolves around a mad scientist and his grandson portal-hopping throughout The Multiverse on a multitude of wacky self-aware metafiction adventures, so it is only natural for it to be this; in the words of Rick, there are "infinite realities, infinite possibilities". There are endless species of extraterrestrial life (classic aliens and otherwise), vampires, dragons, wizards, clones, giant telepathic spiders, alternate versions of every single person in existence, time travel, and more.

* ''Podcast/TheStoragePapers'' has psychics, demons, aliens, [[MenInBlack a shadowy government agency]], sentient nightmares, BigCreepyCrawlies that live in the Californian wilderness, ghosts, werewolves, time travelers, and various [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch]], [[HumanoidAbomination Humanoid]], and [[AnimalisticAbomination Animalistic Abominations]] running around killing people.

* ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'': let's see...super-human butlers, Robots, {{Talking Animal}}s, TimeTravel, {{Miko}}, [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Vampire Mikos]], ghosts, demons, demonic snakes, aliens, and [[Myth/ClassicalMythology whatever Athena is.]]

** The final battle of ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' shows the nature of the setting pretty well, taking the previous example of ''Infinity War'' and just ''[[ExaggeratedTrope pushing it to its furthest extreme]]''. [[spoiler: On the villains' side, you have your bog standard [[AlwaysChaoticEvil evil]] army of [[AlienInvasion alien invaders]] toting cybernetics, hover tanks, hovercraft, a mothership, and plasma guns. On the heroes' side, you also have the standard science-fiction soldiers (including RubberForeheadAliens) and swashbuckling space heroes with their own fighter craft and guns, albeit [[KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter mostly kinetic ones]]. But then you also have other heroes who are modern humans [[MugglesDoItBetter toting modern weaponry]]. And then there are others in (Earth-created) PoweredArmor. Next ,you have some SchizoTech {{Afrofuturism}} gear. After that, there's outright wizards casting spells! Add in (superhuman aliens loosely inspired by) Nordic gods, toting magic powers and ([[MadeOfIndestructium enhanced]]) medieval weaponry like swords and spears, with some of them even riding Pegasi. So on and so forth. In other words, ''Avengers: Endgame'' gives us the ''absolute LARGEST'' Marvel mash-up in the MCU of all time]].

** The final battle of ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' shows the nature of the setting pretty well, taking the previous example of ''Infinity War'' and just ''[[ExaggeratedTrope pushing it to its furthest extreme]]''. [[spoiler: On the villains' side, you have a pretty typical [[AlwaysChaoticEvil evil]] army of [[AlienInvasion alien invaders]] toting cybernetics, hover tanks, hovercraft, a mothership, and plasma guns. On the heroes' side, you also have standard sci-fi mooks (including RubberForeheadAliens) and swashbuckling space heroes with their own fighter craft and guns, albeit [[KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter mostly kinetic ones]]. But then you also have other heroes who are modern humans [[MugglesDoItBetter toting modern weaponry]]. Plus some in (Earth-created) PoweredArmor. Plus some with SchizoTech {{Afrofuturism}} gear. Plus outright wizards casting spells. Plus (superhuman aliens loosely inspired by) Nordic gods, toting magic powers and ([[MadeOfIndestructium enhanced]]) medieval weaponry like swords and spears, with some of them even riding Pegasuses. So on and so forth. In other words, ''Avengers: Endgame'' gives us the ''absolute LARGEST'' Marvel mash-up in the MCU of all time]].

** Finally, they find out that the aliens and demons weren't invading. They were trying to escape an invasion of their own realm by the [[EldritchAbomination Elder Gods]]. Creator/HPLovecraft is mentioned to have been under control from an Elder God when he wrote his ''Franchise/CthulhuMythos'' before a member of a secret society dedicated to keeping the Elder Gods locked away poisoned him. Oh, and this once again causes rips in dimensions, forcing other realities to deal with the Elder Gods as well: ''Franchise/GIJoe'', ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'', ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', and ''Comicbook/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|IDW}}''.
* Creator/DCComics is not much different. It has Greek and Roman gods, wizards, Faeries, aliens, Dinosaur Island, [[ComicBook/TheWarlordDC sword-and-sorcery tales]], Literature/DocSavage, the guy from ''Gladiator'' (the [[Literature/{{Gladiator}} superhuman novel]], not the [[Film/{{Gladiator}} anachronistic movie]]), ComicBook/TheShadow, ten different versions of {{Atlantis}}, mind-controlling worms, pre-human civilizations, sentient robots, AncientAstronauts, ComicBook/AmbushBug, Comicbook/FlexMentallo, metafiction, the [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Green Lantern Corps]], normal guys with arrows and boomerangs who can defeat Characters/{{Superman|TheCharacter}} and ComicBook/TheFlash, and on and on and on. There was also mention, in-universe, of there being full-scale battles fought between the angelic hosts of Heaven and the more villainous aspects of the Hindu pantheon at some point.
** ''Comicbook/TheSandman1989'': Many of the mythological creatures and gods are explained as products of [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve human dreams]], but there are some that exist independently of belief like the titular character and his siblings. It helps that it's split off from (and may be part of, depending on how convenient it is for a given storyline) Franchise/TheDCU.

* Mike Mignola's ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' comics stitch together Nazis, mad scientists, mythical monsters and folklore from all over the world (he used to be part of the Legend-verse, which included Creator/FrankMiller's ''Comicbook/TheBigGuyAndRustyTheBoyRobot'', Art Adams' ''Monkeyman And O'Brien'', John Byrne's '' Danger Unlimited'' and ''Babe'', and Mike Allred's ''ComicBook/{{Madman}}''.)

* The Franchise/MarvelUniverse is undoubtedly a Fantasy Kitchen Sink, and is quite happy to have ComicBook/IronMan beat up on [[Characters/MarvelComicsLoki Loki]], or have the Characters/SilverSurfer take on Dracula, if it feels [[RuleOfCool it'll make a good story]]. Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian, Franchise/{{Transformers}}, Franchise/{{Godzilla}}, and Franchise/{{Zoids}} all used to be part of the Marvel Universe and elements from those series are still floating around occasionally bumping into the Characters/{{Incredible Hulk|BruceBanner}}, ComicBook/GhostRider, or the ComicBook/FantasticFour. Marvel's very first character was [[ComicBook/SubMariner Namor]], the UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity-hating king of {{Atlantis}}, and his nemesis was a fire-shooting android. While characters from completely different genres usually don't mix, and lighter series don't usually cross over with the grimmer ones, nothing is ever off limits.

* ''The Elder Scrolls: Equestria'' takes the already large kitchen sink that is [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Equestria]] and merges it with ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls''' sink, resulting in a world of talking equines, werewolves, thestrals, dragons, and other fantastical sights. Special mention goes to the variety of mythological weapons, which include [[Comicbook/TheMightyThor Mjolnir]], Muramasa, and [[Myth/ArthurianLegend Excalibur]] (which fittingly belonged to a king).

* ''VideoGame/MarvelUltimateAlliance'' lets you have a party consisting of Comicbook/DoctorStrange, the half-vampire Characters/{{Blade}}, ComicBook/IronMan, and one of the Comicbook/XMen fight Characters/DoctorDoom, [[Characters/MarvelComicsGalactus Galactus]], and [[Characters/MarvelComicsLoki Loki]].

* Jokingly referenced in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', where pirates board the Venture family's ship.
-->'''Hank:''' Brock, if pirates really exist, then Santa Claus and The Tooth Fairy could even be real, right?! It's like all bets are off!
-->'''Brock:''' Hank, nobody ever said pirates don't exist.
-->'''Hank''': So you agree with me that this is impossible!

* ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' has zombies, ghosts, robots, psychic powers, time travel, aliens, talking animals, and the Loch Ness monster in 1980's {{Eagleland}}. It really does come across as satire.

* Befitting [[Creator/{{Nintendo}} Nintendo's]] [[WidgetSeries weirdest series]], the ''VideoGame/WarioWare'' series is known to indiscriminately mix up different fantasy elements in its games. The main cast alone stars [[FurryConfusion anthropomorphic animals]] (Dribble and Spitz), [[AliensAmongUs an alien]] (Orbulon), [[CuteWitch a witch]] (Ashley), [[GratuitousNinja five-year-old ninjas]] who battle ghosts and demons (Kat and Ana), [[RobotMaid a sentient robot]] (Mike), and [[AstralProjection a woman with ghostly powers]] (5-Volt).

* Similarly, the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse follows its base closely, with various alien races, Greek gods, Atlantis, genetic mutants, immortals, spell-casting witches, Aztec fire gods, demons, cyborgs, wormholes, secret government projects, mystic artifacts, extra-dimensional entities, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and]] the goddamn Batman.

* ''Fanfic/HarryAndTheShipgirls'' has [[VideoGame/KanColle shipgirls]], [[Franchise/HarryPotter wizards and witches]], [[AllMythsAreTrue every fantasy pantheon in recorded history]], enough {{Yokai}} that they can create a 1:1 replica of [[VideoGame/TouhouProject Gensokyo]] and still have some Yokai left over...one family even has a [[Literature/AtTheMountainsOfMadness shoggoth]] for a maid.

* The universe of ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' includes all manner of beings from the undead, corporeal souls to Japanese gods of wind and thunder. Expect a few humans to drop by as well to keep things interesting... Justified as Outworld is a collection of dimensional realms defeated in Mortal Kombat and annexed by Shao Khan. So you can expect to see centaurs, reptilians, insectoids, trees with animated human faces and other monsters in Outworldd but most of them are not native to there.