These days, no property has made it until it ends up on the internet on a two things T-shirt, in a mash-up with Doctor Who, The X-Men or Calvin and Hobbes. Sometimes, though, your concept is itself a hybrid: ‘Firefly’ mixes science-fiction and western genres, ‘Usagi Yojimbo’ has elements of historical samurai tales, detective and horror, ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?’ is a retelling of ‘The Odyssey’ in the depression-era South. Heck, ‘Steven Universe’ is a little bit of ‘Sailor Moon’ and a little bit of ‘Full House’, sprinkled with a soupçon of Justice League, leading to today’s chimerical query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) has two words: “Patrick Batman”, asking: What’s the greatest mash-up of all?
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Sengoku Basara. Its Warring States era Japan real historical samurai generals with totally over the top superpowers.
A series novels by Charles Stross known as “The Laundry Files.” Part spy thriller, part Lovecraftian horror, part The Office, it all blends together into a coherent universe where the Men In Black are mostly everyday jerks playing office politics.