User blog comment:Forrestib/Crossover/@comment-25405817-20141220023541/@comment-73.42.187.52-20141220223649

"Jimmy Neutron/Fairly Oddparents crossover episodes"

Same "parent" company, and neither have much in the way of plot, they are young children cartoons in which the writers goals were to keep characters in a perpetual holding pattern, and as such growth is not particularly necessary, and even detrimental to include in individual episodes. RWBY is supposed to have characters grow with the series, as said by Monty.

"Who Framed Roger Rabbit"

see my explanation for Kingdom Hearts above in the other convo. WFRR has no references for it's events in worlds other than it's own and those set in worlds where it is referenced as a movie. This means it is a repository for data from other worlds, not a "crossover"

"Judge Dredd/Batman"

Both series are "Character" driven(the only thing needed to call it "canon" is the character), as well as being comic books, which means "canon" is relative. RWBY is a series with an overarching plot, so unless they go the Naruto/bleach route and are interested in creating the most hated episodes that just confuse the actual plot, which they wouldn't even do if the plot episodes didn't need translation.

"Doctor Who/Star Trek"

these two series have a lot of different things in common which I stated in my above post as one of the necessary things for a crossover.

1. they both have time travel and dimension hopping, you only need one of those for different worlds to intersect.

2. they are both live action, the same general physics apply

3. they are both shows that excel at "fringe science"

4. neither have defined "worlds", the characters are transient in general.

"My point is, a crossover doesn't mean that the two take place in the same universe, operate on the same laws, or even use the same animation style. It can be Canon and have some form of interuniversal transit that makes the connection possible."

and my point is, that they do need (at least) one of those things in common in order for a crossover to make no issues with plot, "Adventure time" is designed to allow it to incorporate subplots/stories from other universes, but RWBY has a very defined world, if you port the AT crew into their world it would be a defining "event" in RWBY, it would be too weird to ignore, and make it difficult to get back into the plot which currently extends at least 10 seasons... so the creators would need to be incredibly stupid to do.(and they do seem competent)

"While I do agree that the styles aren't identical, I think they are similar enough to not be too jarring. A CGI Finn would not look entirely out of place at Beacon. Likewise the Grimm would fit right in on Ooo."

I disagree, and even if they had similar rigs, just the fact they got there and back would be jarring.