Five Movie Character Crossovers That Should Have Happened

Movie character crossovers have entertained audiences almost from the time Hollywood films became a thing. Whether it was Frankenstein's Monster meeting the Wolf Man, King Kong destroying Japan alongside Godzilla, Freddy Krueger taking on Jason Voorhees or Batman feuding with Superman, cinematic worlds colliding has become a movie staple.

There are, however, plenty of missed opportunities when it comes to movie crossovers, whether it was pairing action stars with each other or horror film monsters. Here are five movie character pairings I think should have (and some still could be) made.

M3GAN (M3GAN) versus Chucky (Child's Play) - It's probably just my opinion but killer dolls make the best horror movie monsters. In this case, you'd have an AI-powered doll, M3GAN facing the possessed-by-a-psychopath Chucky. While M3GAN is evil but only because she's trying to be good, I'd make her the hero by default, perhaps protecting whatever child she is living with now from Chucky or preventing him from possessing her much-stronger body.

John McClane (Die Hard) meets Axel Foley (Beverly Hills Cop) - Sadly, Bruce Willis' well-publicized health problems will prevent this from happening because there isn't anyone who is going to be able to replace him as John McClane. However, if we had a time machine and could go back to the late 80s or even 1990s, pairing New York's finest with Detroit's finest, Foley (Eddie Murphy), on a shared case in Los Angeles could have been a box office success.

If you wanted more fire power, you could have even thrown in Lethal Weapon's Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) at some point.

Michael Myers (Halloween) versus Leatherface (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre). I briefly thought about throwing Voorhees into the mix as well, mostly because of the chainsaw versus chainsaw battles he could have with Leatherface, but since these two were 1970s villains, I think I'd let them have the screen to themselves and keep their face off in that decade.

Obviously, there would be some geographical issues to overcome, since the characters hunt nearly 1,000 miles away from each other and I doubt they'd be allowed to board a plane, even in the 1970s. However, I'm sure there are some screenwriters that could find a way to overcome that obstacle.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) meet Spiderman (Spiderman) - The TMNT already had a superhero crossover when they met Batman and that was surprisingly good. However, I've always thought Spiderman made more sense because the web slinger and the teenagers all live in New York and would be likely to cross paths either in live-action or cartoon form.

Plus, could you imagine the already-dangerous Shredder and his Foot Clan receiving upgrades from Doctor Octopus? It might make him unstoppable.

Adrian Monk (Monk) versus Shawn Spencer (Psych) - I know these are television characters. However, each did have at least one made-for-TV movie so I'm going to take some liberties and count it.

This is a crossover that could have and should have happened a decade ago. The Psych series finale resulted in both detectives working as consultants in San Francisco and even established Monk (Tony Shalhoub) and Shawn (James Roday Rodriguez) as living in the same universe. 

A movie that had them crossing paths, perhaps collaborating on the same case or separate cases that were connected, would have made sense. They were characters that could have easily and comically irritated each other but also would be believable as coming to an understanding and working together to catch a killer despite that.

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