In comic books, continuity has also come to mean a set of contiguous events, sometimes said to be " set in the same universe " ( see fictional crossover and fictional universe ) or " separate universes " ( see intercompany crossover ).

The terms multiverse, parallel universe, alternate history, story or screen bible, backstory and crossover have a considerable amount of overlap with fictional universes.

* Saya, the antagonist of the fictional crossover Namco x Capcom

A type of fictional crossover is the placement of two or more otherwise discrete fictional characters into the context of a single story.

* In a crossover on The Simpsons, Richie Rich takes the place of his friend Bart Simpson in a clip from the ( fictional ) episode " Disorder in the Court ".

In addition to the character Alan Partridge and many of the cast and writers, there is other crossover between the fictional worlds of On the Hour and The Day Today and the radio and television series of Knowing Me, Knowing You ... with Alan Partridge.

The series is a fictional crossover between two film franchises about alien species: the Aliens and the Predators.

In the fictional crossover event " Age of Apocalypse ", Mister Sinister is one of Apocalypse's Four Horsemen and the foster father of Cyclops and Havok.

A fictional crossover ( short: crossover ) is the placement of two or more otherwise discrete fictional characters, settings, or universes into the context of a single story.

The Simpsons and Futurama had two crossover mini-series in which the Futurama characters become trapped in a Simpson comic book and then upon escaping cause characters from The Simpsons, as well as many other literary characters, to be brought into the Futurama universe, this being the only way, according to editor Bill Morrison, " in which fictional characters ( could ) interact with " real " ones.

Depending on the complexity of the franchise, though, the crossover can be even more indirect, serving to suggest the size of the fictional world.

* " On Crossovers ", Jess Nevins ' history of the fictional crossover

Uncle Fester, or Fester Addams, is a member of the fictional Addams Family and the antagonist of the crossover films.

* Fictional crossover, a storyline combining characters or settings from separate fictional properties

Meanwhile, the term baritsu developed a life of its own during the latter 20th century, and it was duly recorded that fictional heroes including Doc Savage and the Shadow had been initiated into its mysteries ; those last two were established as knowing Baritsu in a DC-published crossover that spilled over into The Shadow Strikes.

The fourth, fifth, and sixth installments of the series also feature cameos ( effectively, a fictional crossover ) by Django and Otenko of Konami's Boktai series, in which Django and Otenko are part of a sidequest that allows MegaMan to get the GunDelSol ( a BattleChip based on Django's main weapon ) as well as the PileDriver Program Advance.

The most celebrated fictional depiction of a Lord Chancellor occurs in Iolanthe, the comic opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan.

The series occurs in a fictional universe in which different countries fight for power using ninja soldiers.

* A fictional war which occurs in the scenario of the role playing game named Twilight 2000.

It occurs in the fictional city of Metropolis.

Whether or not such a transformation occurs within the fictional " world " of the series, however, is unclear, as no characters ever remark on his physical change, though some remark him as ' looking taller on TV '.

A fictional use of a mycotoxin occurs in William Gibson's seminal novel Neuromancer.

A side story is a story that occurs alongside established stories set within a fictional universe.

Pon farr () is an element of the fictional Star Trek universe that occurs in the canonical TV series and in fan fiction based upon the series.

The distinct fictional settings in which space warfare occurs are far too numerous to list, but popular examples include Star Trek ( in all of its various incarnations ), Warhammer 40, 000, Star Wars, Babylon 5, Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, Battlestar Galactica, Mass Effect, Stargate, Freespace, the Halo Series and many comic book franchises.

Harmony of Dissonance occurs in the fictional universe of the Castlevania series ; the premise of the series centers on the eternal conflict between the vampire hunters of the Belmont clan and the immortal vampire Dracula.

* The larger part of the plot occurs on a fictional satellite of the Earth's, named Kahani, whose orbit is controlled by " Processes Too Complicated To Explain ".

Slavery and labor situations like depression era company towns still exist in remote areas in Brazil like the Amazon ( A fictional portrayal of such a town occurs in The Rundown ).

In fantasy literature, Arcadia has been used as a magical realm, respective to the fictional universe in which the story occurs.

Set in a fictional town in northern Russia, where highly classified research in magic occurs, the novel is a satire of Soviet scientific research institutes, complete with an inept administration, a dishonest, show-horse professor, and numerous equipment failures.

* Star Wars galaxy, the fictional galaxy where the setting of the Star Wars saga occurs

To accommodate American viewers, anime dubbed in the United States is usually modified to prove it occurs within the United States or a fictional country thus resembling it.

Although nothing specifically science fictional occurs in the story, Gerrold does drop hints.

Saloon owner Kent ( Brian Donlevy ), the unscrupulous boss of the fictional Western town of Bottleneck, has the town's Sheriff, Keogh, killed when the Sheriff asks one too many questions about a rigged poker game.

At least one work of fiction, the film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, uses Gaia philosophy as a central point to the plot, and may arguably represent a fictional parallel to Sir James Lovelock in the character of Dr. Cid, who is met with skepticism from the scientific and social community when he promotes the idea of a " living Earth ".

Still believing the situation is fictional, Jason orders the Thermians to fire upon Sarris's spaceship and then insists on returning home, but when they send him through space to Earth, he finally realizes the events were real.

The less fictional part of Jordanes ' work begins when the Goths encounter Roman military forces in the third century AD.

" Although Sadie Sachs was possibly a fictional composite of several women Sanger had known, this story marks the time when Sanger began to devote her life to help desperate women before they were driven to pursue dangerous and illegal abortions.

A nonfiction essay that is embedded in There Will Be Time and attributed to the book's fictional protagonist, but seems to reflect Anderson's own views, sharply criticizes the American Left of 1972 ( when it was written ) for two instances of a double standard: for neglecting to address human rights violations in the Soviet Union and for failing to notice Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.

In the fictional Star Trek universe, the impulse drive is the method of propulsion that starships and other spacecraft use when they are travelling below the speed of light.

At a time when many RPG settings were cobbled together, RuneQuest offered players a vibrant living world, giving them much a more developed fictional world with established geography, history, and religion.

In the Star Trek franchise, the books The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh ( Volumes 1 & 2 ), by Greg Cox, detail the fictional Eugenics Wars of the early 1990s – still many years into the future when first mentioned in the episode " Space Seed " in 1967 – giving alternative explanations for real world events such as the Indian nuclear test of 1974 and the violent breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, presenting them as small parts of a single wider conflict.

Anecdotes remained popular in Europe well into the 18th century, when the fictional anecdotal letters of Sir Roger de Coverley were published.

It was published at a time when role-playing games did not typically feature a well-defined fictional universe, but instead offered rules appropriate to the conventions of a particular genre.

Famed fictional gunslinger Morgan Kane was Roosevelt's bodyguard when Roosevelt was a general, and Kane worked as a Pinkerton special agent.

Her love for him ruins her acting ability, as she no longer finds pleasure in portraying fictional love when she is experiencing love in reality.

The book is organized as a series of fictional conversations that occur between the courtiers of the Duke of Urbino in 1507 ( when Baldassare was in fact part of the Duke's Court ).

The Allies finally accepted Pujol when the Germans spent considerable resources attempting to hunt down a fictional convoy.

Enemies include fictional Martian species Yorps and Gargs ( in episode 1, after which a yorp follows Keen onto his ship, the Bean with Bacon MegaRocket, only to be noticed by Keen when he lands back on Earth, at which point he makes it his pet and calles it Spot ), and Vorticon or Vorticon-related creatures ( in all three episodes ).

The utopian Adrian, Earl of Windsor, who leads his followers in search of a natural paradise and dies when his boat sinks in a storm, is a fictional portrait of Percy Bysshe Shelley, although other minor characters such as Merrival bear traces of Percy as well.

By the fictional chronology, Leia first appears in Revenge of the Sith, when Padmé Amidala gives birth to her and Luke at Polis Massa.

In an interview in 1984, Jason claimed to have changed his name as a homage to his childhood fictional hero Jason, in Jason and the Argonauts, because when he decided to enter into a career in acting, he was told that there was already an actor called David White.

Jules Verne describes in his novel Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen ( 1878 ) that when a fictional African " King of Kazounde " tasted a punch set aflame, " An act of spontaneous combustion had just taken place.

In James Robert Baker's novel, Boy Wonder, fictional movie producer Shark Trager makes it his goal to surpass Touch of Evils three minute opening tracking shot when filming a movie of his own.

His most recent appearance was on June 25, 2007 when he appeared wearing a mini-turban strapped to his head to accompany a joke about his own fictional documentary titled An Unappealing Hunch ( a wordplay of An Inconvenient Truth ).

These involve Bart asking to speak to some fictional person with a provocative name ( e. g. Mike Rotch, aka " My crotch "), which, when Moe says it, makes it dirty / naughty and / or insulting to himself, making everyone in the bar laugh at him.

The story, though fictional, is loosely based on the real-life murder spree of Charles Starkweather and his girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, in 1958, though such a basis was not acknowledged when the film was released.

" Early in the book it is learned that Felix Hoenikker ( a fictional co-inventor of the atom bomb ) was playing cat's cradle when the bomb was dropped, and the game is later referenced by his son, Newton Hoenikker.