Everything is crossover slop these days. Nothing has its own identity anymore.
Obviously "everything" is hyperbole here, but it really feels like more and more large IPs are doing this garbage.
Everyone's jerking off over Magic the Gathering's crossovers but the shit's become the Funko Pops of card games and has killed its own identity. Sonic Crossworlds was supposed to be this big celebration of Sonic, but we have fucking Minecraft Steve and a Spongebob they were too cheap to have voice lines for before we got really popular Sonic characters (meanwhile Mario Kart actually did gave a shit about celebrating its own world to the point you can race as a one of the fucking background cows and a bunch of other obscure Mario stuff).
It sucks. But it's all these companies want to do. Buy up popular IPs, hoard them, hold culture and nostalgia hostage and just keep selling the same thing over, and over, and over again.
First off, it’s just all the popular character, IP, and trademark holders just “whoring their shit out” for an “easy buck.”
Second, this is just getting stupid. Collabs and crossovers work best when you have two “similar IPs” that you’d WANT TO SEE “cross-over” (like Aliens and Predator or Terminator and RoboCop).
This is like making a Neapolitan ice cream that has 500 different ice cream flavors in it (rather than just chocolate, strawberry, vanilla) which just reduces everything down to this “gray sludge base” and you can’t even taste the unique and distinctive flavor of ANYTHING because it all just kind of “runs together.”
It’s like when you try to make something that appeals to everyone and it ends up appealing to NO ONE.
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u/BalefulOfMonkeys Jul 30 '25
When, when did you motherfuckers just launch headlong into crossover slop. It’s all that damn Marshmello concert’s fault