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OK KO! brings all of Cartoon Network into the Rabbidsverse ⊟

You may recall my unimpeachable, very important scholarly work of tracing all the Nintendo/Ubisoft character crossovers in Mario vs. Rabbids into a single universe, which unified everything from Monster Hunter to TMNT to Assassin’s Creed to Galaxian. I really thought that article was longer when I wrote it -- maybe I’m due for an expanded version of this critical research... but I can break it down. 

Basically, thanks to Mario vs. Rabbids, everything in an Ubisoft game crosses over with everything that’s been in Super Smash Bros., which then crosses over with everything that’s been in Street Fighter or Pac-Man or Marvel Comics or any other branch that brushed any other franchise involved in this series.

And now Smash Bros. character Sonic (who, through various cameos and appearances in games like Sega Superstars Tennis, crosses over with Space Channel 5, Super Monkey Ball, Shenmue, Alex Kidd, and other Sega franchises) is in OK KO, establishing a link between our greater Rabbidsverse and this extremely great, beautifully animated cartoon.

OK KO is also a crossover nexus, having run an event literally called “Crossover Nexus” that brought every Cartoon Network series into continuity with OK KO. So now Steven Universe shares a reality with Mario, among other things. Teen Titans Go! is in there, making another connection to DC Comics.

Teen Titans Go! also crossed over with Powerpuff Girls, which means that Powerpuff Girls villain Ace is in our universe. Which means that real-life/cartoon band Gorillaz, who canonically featured Ace as a member, is in the Rabbidsverse too. 

It looks like a really fun episode too! Watch it August 4 at 4:45pm ET on new video game universe hub Cartoon Network.

Thanks to Solid Pupper for alerting me to this development!

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Thanks to Rabbids, all these games are in the same universe now ⊟ 

Ubisoft and Nintendo, uh, didn’t technically announce Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, but it’s happening. And now that Mario and the Rabbids exist together, it follows that everyone who has interacted with Mario in a game also exists in the same world.

So that means... the Rabbids now share a universe with Mario, Luigi, Peach, Toad, Toad, Toad, et al, as well as Wario and Waluigi, Daisy, Rosalina, and all the other Mario characters. So yes, Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr. now have to inhabit a world full of Rabbids.

Mario Kart brought in more guest characters in Mario Kart 8, so... The Legend of Zelda, Animal Crossing, and Splatoon also take place in the same reality as the farting rabbits.

And then... Super Smash Bros. That series has united every single Nintendo franchise under a single umbrella -- along with Sonic the Hedgehog, Pac-Man, Mega Man, and even Metal Gear. So yes, Rabbids are there now too. Metal Gear Solid also crossed over with Monster Hunter, so they’re in there too.

Oh, and there’s Ryu.

The Rayman Raving Rabbids Wii Plunger Gun. The dumber a Wii gun shell looks, the more I enjoy it, and this one, designed to resemble the plunger guns used in the Rabbids' games light-gun-style minigames, looks like it came straight out of a cartoon.

Even dumber: the Raving Rabbids Gripz. More like Waving Rabbids, amirite?