…books — has evolved into something closer to a full-blown multimedia franchise. On the horizon: A prose novel , a crossover with DC’s Swamp Thing , and both a movie and animated series…
…The two Marvel characters very briefly existed in the same universe, and a crossover was teased in post-credits sequences in Venom: Let There Be Carnage and Spider-Man: No Way Home…
…Martin isn’t the only epic franchise HBO is currently adapting. The popularity of Game of Thrones created several big-budget fantasy imitators like Netflix’s The Witcher and Prime Video’s…
…Universes Beyond, the program that brings outside franchises into Magic for lucrative crossovers, is expanding into D&D. The first, which leaked earlier this month, is a full World of Warcraft campaign…
…Further, for much of its formative history, the X-Men as a comics franchise has often felt like it inhabits its own specific bubble . Outside of the occasional crossover or cameo, it…
…Capcom who? The next fighting game starring Spider-Man, Wolverine, and more Marvel heroes isn't a crossover, but an anime-inspired tag-team fighter from Dragon Ball FighterZ and Guilty Gear…
…Every universe feels like another franchise waiting to be explored, constructed using massive CGI pipelines and yielding generic green-screen voids. Too often, those worlds exist to advertise the next crossover, rather…
…in crossover characters like Star Fox's Fox McCloud and Pikmin. But there's one core Mario character who has yet to appear in Nintendo and Illumination's animated film franchise: Wario…
…To cut to the chase, the card I'm talking about is Splinter, Radical Rat from Magic 's most recent Universes Beyond crossover set, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles . But before I get…
…The guy has giant, overflowing emotions, and in this animated movie franchise, he's canonically a singer, songwriter, and pianist who sometimes expresses those feelings through song. Where'd that idea go…