User blog comment:Bugashi/Character Crossover Connections - Part 1/@comment-7706473-20140804081749/@comment-3417255-20140804211055

Not bad. It really got me looking into a few things as well, especially on where that Doom-ed space marine could end up. Getting him to the Olympic games? Sounds like an acceptable challenge.

Doomguy is no stranger to extreme violence, what with having gone through hell and back, but that's not the only extreme thing he's done. Though it's a little tame by today's standards, Doomguy is a skater... as in skateboarding. In the PC version of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, the armor clad demon destroyer was added as a secret character. Granted his air skills are a little lacking, but that guy could grind with the best of them.

With that in mind, we could just wait until skateboarding is made into an Olympic event, and done. After all, you have snowboarding in the winter Olympics, so it shouldn't take that long, right? Well, let's try to speed things up with a few more connections, like how Wolverine is also in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3. That's right bub. He's the best there is at what he does, and he does skateboarding too.

Now, of course, Wolverine is better known for shredding enemies, more so than a half pipe. And while it's easy to go Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 to the upcoming Smash Bros, then Sonic & Mario & the Olympic Games... that would be a little too easy, wouldn't it? After all, it's just going from what cross over, to another, and to another. Isn't there another way that would bypass Marvel Vs. Capcom, and Smash Bros?

Well... eh... it's debatable. Backing up to the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series, another character that made an appearance is none other than Spiderman. What's debatable about the web head's skateboarding history? Nothing really, except for the fact that Spiderman also kinda sorta makes an appearance in the Genesis/Mega Drive game, Revenge of Shinobi.

Here's where things get thrown in the air a bit. In the first and second versions of the game, he appears as one of the boss characters, who later turns into a flying bat creature (or Batman himself in the very first one). This in itself would disqualify the whole thing, along with the fact that the downloadable versions removes the resemblance in appearance. But it's the third and forth versions of the game that features the real Spiderman. He was still a boss character, but he would leave the fight instead of turning into the flying bat creature. On top of that, SEGA changed the character's appearance to resemble Spiderman even more, given how it was finally licensed by Marvel at that point.

Overall, at one point in time, Spiderman took on SEGA's legendary Shinobi himself. Man, Joe Musashi, where has that guy been? The Shinobi series is more or less on life support, and hasn't seen much love by gamers of late. Of course, most don't know him by name ether, though anyone who's played Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing Transformed knows that the ninja is a hidden character that can be unlocked. Using his ninja skills against the likes of Alex Kidd, B.D. Joe, Nights, and Sonic the Hedgehog himself.

Of course, from there, it's just heading into Sonic & Mario at the Olympic Games in which... well... it's still the Olympics. So, overall, there's two possible routes to take in getting there. There's... or... Ether way, I think I just opened the portal for the entire video game world to be slaughtered... have fun!
 * 1) Doom to Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
 * 2) Tony Hawk's Pro Skater to Marvel (Spiderman)
 * 3) Marvel (Spiderman) to Shinobi
 * 4) Shinobi to Sonic & SEGA All-Stars
 * 5) Sonic & SEGA All-Stars to Sonic the Hedgehog
 * 6) Sonic the Hedgehog to Sonic & Mario at the Olympic Games
 * 1) Doom to Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
 * 2) Tony Hawk's Pro Skater to Marvel (Wolverine)
 * 3) Marvel (Wolverine) to Marvel Vs. Capcom
 * 4) Marvel Vs. Capcom to Megaman
 * 5) Megaman to Super Smash Bros.
 * 6) Super Smash Bros. to Mario
 * 7) Mario to Sonic & Mario at the Olympic Games