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One thing I've noticed is that a lot of crossover fics just slap characters from one universe into another universe's story. This to me seems the laziest. We know how the story went without the new characters, so it just becomes a case of trying to insert the new people while keeping the same basic plot. If you wanted to go that route, then why not actually change how things happened dramatically?

(Though I might be a bit sensitive to this. When I read a crossover, I want an original story incorporating the characters, not the same story but with someone awkwardly inserted within it. KCS does a pretty good job of it in "However Improbable" a Star Trek: Original Series/ Sherlock Holmes crossover. The crew of the Enterprise have to use the Guardian from "City on the Edge of Forever" to recruit Sherlock Holmes to face a foe only he can face. It manages to stay mostly true to the characters with only a few awkward moments toward the end and a few additions that works well with the source material while being an entirely new and entertaining story.)