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The Bat-family that fights crime together, stays together.
"So, wait a minute. There's an elite crew with all the best Spider-People in it?"
— Miles Morales on the Spider-Society, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

If a setting has more than one Alternate Universe, then there is probably more than one version of the main character. If there are an infinite number of universes (or even just 52) then there will be lots of versions of the main character. So what's better than meeting one of them?

Meeting all of them at once! This gives lots of opportunities for Other Me Annoys Me bickering, while at the same time, most versions of the character can find some version they can get along with. If Evil Me Scares Me, they could be there too, but at least they'll probably be outnumbered. The most important thing, though, is that they'll all be able to fight a common foe that previously overpowered them or accomplish a significant goal.

Time-travel examples, such as a character meeting his past or future self/selves, don't count unless the mechanics of the work mean time-traveling creates a different universe. For a meeting of selves from the same universe, see Me's a Crowd. When other selves simply meet or exist without necessarily teaming up against someone or something, see Alternate Self.

Sister Trope of Intra-Franchise Crossover, which is when different incarnations of the story itself crossover. Might also qualify as Cameo Cluster. Contrast Never the Selves Shall Meet.

Examples:

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    Anime & Manga 
  • In the last episode of Digimon Adventure 02 the characters get blasted into another dimension that makes wishes into reality. When they ask for more power they split off into all of their alternate forms. For example, Daisuke is able to summon V-Mon, Fladramon, Lighdramon, XV-Mon, Paildramon, and Imperialdramon in both Dragon and Fighter Modes all at once, whereas in a regular battle V-Mon would only be able to transform into one of the above. Multiply this by the 6 main characters and they form a small army.
  • In Dragon Ball Super, Goku Black and Future Zamasu, the former who is actually Present Zamasu who stole Goku's body, both team up together to accomplish their plan for mortal extermination.
  • In Fairy Tail, the main cast of Fairy Tail team up with their Edolas counterparts while battling the Edolas Royal Army.
  • Downplayed in The Red Ranger Becomes an Adventurer in Another World. The Doppel Anothers are not the actual alternate versions of Kizuna Red but demi-humans surgically modified by Betrayis to be able to take on the appearance, powers, personalities, and memories of others after observing them in parallel realities. However, their mimicry is so complete that they're effectively the same people, but are completely loyal to Betrayis due to the circumstances of their creation. However, even this loyalty is superceded by their affection for Idora, who is the most precious person in the real versions' lives.
  • Space☆Dandy pulls this in one episode. After traveling to a couple of different dimensions and meeting alternate versions of himself and his friends he returns to his own reality with them in tow and they all start living together aboard Dandy's ship. This becomes a problem whenever more alternate selves continue arriving with no way of sending anyone back.
    Comic Books 
  • 2000 AD:
    • Several specials have featured alternate versions of Zombo who, at the end of the story, are recruited by Zombo-Prime (Harry Angel) to face an unspecified multiversal threat. At the end of the Harlem Zombos story in the Sci-Fi Special 2024, Thargg the Mighty tells Angel to either get on with it and have his Crisis Crossover or stop disrupting other stories with it.
    • Prog 2262 had the Judge Dredd story "Trinity", in which comic-Dredd reluctantly teams up with Stallone-Dredd and Urban-Dredd. Stallone-Dredd returned in the Judge Dredd Megazine storyline "Lawmen of the Future", beginning in Meg 473, to commemorate the movie's 30th anniversary.
  • The KaBOOM! Comics run of Darkwing Duck had the appropriately-named arc "Crisis of Infinite Duckwings" in which alternate universe versions of Darkwing are initially brainwashed by Magica De Spell, only to team up against her and Negaduck once they break free of her control.
  • In The DCU:
    • In Batman (Chip Zdarsky), the finale of "The Bat-Man of Gotham" has Batman catapulting through the multiverse, teaming up with his counterparts against their Jokers (who have either got a power boost or come back to life due to Red Mask). The final scene reveals that the Batman of Zur-En-Ahr has somehow teamed up with his multiversal counterparts inside Bruce's head.
    • During "Countdown to Final Crisis", Breach gathers a group of alternate Captain Atoms to defeat Monarch. They fail, miserably.
    • Crisis on Infinite Earths has the Supermen of Earth-One, Earth-Two, and Earth-Prime joining the battle against the Anti-Monitor.
    • During Dark Nights: Metal, the Dark Knights of Barbatos are this, consisting of 7 Batmen from the Dark Multiverse, each twisted by a fear, regret, and tragedy that the Prime Bruce Wayne has...all empowered further to make them counterparts to the Justice League. There's also a brief appearance by a team of similarly twisted Supermen. Dark Nights: Death Metal features even more Dark Knights, as well as a more prominent appearance by a different group of evil Supermen, and a side-story featuring a group (flock?) of insane Penguins.
    • During Final Crisis, Superman and The Question recruit the Supermen of the Multiverse, who face down Ultraman and eventually the Dark Monitor.
    • Grant Morrison's The Green Lantern had various Green Lanterns from various continuities come together to stop Anti-Man and find the Cosmic Grail from Earth-15 (the Perfect Universe Superboy-Prime destroyed during Countdown to Final Crisis). This team includes Hal Jordan of the main continuity, Len Lewis from Stan Lee's reimagining of the DC Universe, the Tangent Comics Green Lantern, the Earth-20 incarnation of Abin Sur, Earth-36's Flashlight from The Multiversity, Bat-Lantern from Batman: In Darkest Knight, Magic Lantern from Morrison's run on Animal Man, John Stewart's counterpart from Earth-23 (where the superheroes are predominantly black and Superman is President of the United States), Kai-Ro from the DC Animated Universe's future timeline, Carol Jordan from Earth-11 and Spectra (a new character based on Doctor Spectrum from the Squadron Supreme, Marvel Comics' Alternate Company Equivalent to the Justice League).
    • The various incarnations of the Legion of Super-Heroes teamed up in Legion of 3 Worlds against Superboy-Prime. And in an 11th-Hour Ranger example, the finale of the arc also sees Superman and the Legion's founders summoning more incarnations of the Legion to overwhelm the Time Trapper.
    • A team-up between the Legion of Super-Heroes and the Teen Titans pitted them against the Legion's rogues the Fatal Five, in which the latter increased their numbers by summoning other Fatal Fives from across the multiverse, making them the Fatal Five Hundred.
    • In The Multiversity: Thunderworld Adventures, Dr Sivana contacts other universes to form a League of Sivanas. Notable members include a cartoon snake (presumably the enemy of Earth-26's Hoppy the Marvel Bunny), a Torture Porn-themed depraved serial murderer Sivana in a bite-mask who even gives Thunderworld!Sivana the creeps, and a respectable scientist who's horrified to realise the others are all criminals.
    • The conclusion of the miniseries Multiversity: Harley Screws Up the DCU reveals that the conflict of Harley having to go back in time and undo her screw-ups that resulted in erasing all the superheroes from existence and leaving no one to oppose Starro's conquest was set up by the Council of Quinn, a group of alternate versions of Harley Quinn whose members include a Talking Animal hyena (whose real name is Snarleen Quinzel), a zombie, Old Lady Harley, her Injustice counterpart, her Bombshells counterpart and her original DCAU incarnation.
    • The third issue of Outsiders features a variation: While not an alliance per se, Luke Fox infiltrates a gathering of alternate versions of Batmen in the "Batman's collective unconscious". Batwoman also meets her alternate counterparts, including a fishwoman version that can only speak in glubs.
    • In Scooby-Doo! Team-Up #50, "Crisis of Infinite Scoobies", Bat-Mite brings together multiple Elseworlds Batmen (including Captain Leatherwing, Gaslight Batman, Elliot Ness Batman from Scar of the Bat, Golden Age Batman, and Batman Vampire, while Scooby-Mite adds Victorian, knight, vampire and zombie versions of Scooby. Scooby-Mite then ups the ante with versions of Mystery Inc, from the live-action movies, Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get A Clue!, The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo (where Fred and Velma apparently don't even exist), Scooby Apocalypse and even a brief appearance by "Puppet Daphne" from Scooby-Doo! Adventures: The Mystery Map.
    • An arc of the '90s Superboy series ("Hyper-Tension!") had various versions of Kon-El (and a couple of Clark Kent) allying themselves to fight a version of Kon that was grown up, more powerful because of his age, and so Drunk on the Dark Side that he became a Multiversal Conqueror. The evil Kon-El had an advisory team consisting of the only people he trusted — every world's counterpart to Paul Westfield.
    • In Superman/Batman issue #25, the Supergirls of three different comic continuities, as well as Power Girl, team up to pry off Superman from the Source Wall — the edge surrounding the universe — where he had been nailed into by Darkseid. (Although, technically, only Earth-One Supergirl [Kara Zor-El] and Power Girl [Kara Zor-L] are alternates of each other; New Earth's Linda Danvers and the possible-future Cir-El just share the hero name.)
    • Superman: Grounded: The Superman Squad is a massive, trans-temporal superhero conglomerate formed of future descendants of Superman and beings who were simply inspired by his example to take up the shield. They decide to intervene in Clark's life despite their general rules against interfering with the timeline in order to inspire him back to the right path.
  • Captain Valor attempts this at the start of Hero Squared. Sadly, the alternate version he goes to for help never got superpowers in this universe and is just an immature slacker. There's also the Captain Valor Corps, a team of several dozen alternate Valors gathered together to defeat Caliginous. They're led by Goofy.
  • At one point, villain Angstrom Levy in Invincible gathers Evil Twin type alternates of the hero Invincible from Mirror Universes to kill him and take over the world.
  • In the Marvel Universe:
    • Also by Aaron, Avengers Forever (2021) includes the multiversal Howling Commandos, who are all Steve Rogers, except for one Peggy Carter, the Carol Corps, who are all Carol Danvers, and Stark Repair, which comprises multiple versions of Tony Stark. Notably, while the Commandos and the Corps are essentially the Multiversal Avengers' army and air force, Stark Repair is a self-help group.
    • The Avengers (Jason Aaron) has the Council of Red, who are Mephistos of multiple universes.
    • Also the Captain Britain Corps, although not all of them are alternates of Brian Braddock (but many of them are). They're basically mystically powered protectors of The Multiverse under the direction of Roma and Opal Luna Saturnyne.
      • The new Captain Britain Corps created in X of Swords are mostly alternate Betsy Braddocks.
    • Deadpool has teamed up with several alternate universe versions of himself to form the Deadpool Corps. which include: Lady Deadpool, Kidpool, Dogpool, and Headpool. They join forces to stop the villainous Dreadpool.
    • Played for Laughs in Deadpool: Too Soon where multiple Wolverines are having a baseball match against multiple Spider-Men (yes, the ones from the Spider-Verse example above) and Deadpool shows up as a supporter of both teams.
    • In one arc of Exiles an Exiles team of Wolverines from assorted realities band together to stop an evil Wolverine from yet another reality.
    • Fantastic Four homaged the Council of Kangs with the Interdimensional Council of Reeds, led by three versions of Reed Richards with Infinity Gauntlets. Earth-616's Reed quickly discovers that their For Science! attitude clashes with his own morality and sense of family.
    • The Evil Counterpart to the Council of Reeds (to the extent that the Council count as good guys) is the Parliament of Doom, which appears in Fantastic Four vol 4 #9, and features established alternates from What If?, Exiles, and Ultimate Fantastic Four.
    • Gwenpool Strikes Again combines this with Depending on the Writer: given every title where Gwen appeared had her with different quirks, the present day one uses her fourth wall powers to get the other ones.👁 Image
    • Kang the Conqueror has the Council of Cross-Time Kangs, formed to rule multiple realities. They clashed several times with the Avengers during their plans.
    • Spider-Gwen: Gwenverse teams Spider-Gwen up with different versions of Gwen Stacy, such as a Gwen wearing a suit of mechanical armor, a Gwen with the Super Solider Serum, a Gwen with an enchanted uru-hammer, etc. Essentially, it's the Marvel Universe... AS GWEN STACY!
    • Spider-Man: India (2023): The first issue's Batman Cold Open shows Pavitr on Earth-616, teaming up with his counterpart Peter Parker and Miles Morales to defeat Mysterio.
    • The plot of Spider-Verse is all the Spider-Men of different realities teaming up to stop Morlun and his family from killing all the Spider-Totems. The short-lived Web Warriors continued this, with a team of Spiders protecting the multiverse.
    • The Variants (2022) is about Jessica Jones teaming up with various alternate selves, including a Captain America, a S.W.O.R.D. agent who married Daredevil, a vigilante called Knightress who married Quicksilver, and one who still uses the Jewel identity and hadn't been through any of Jessica's trauma because she's actually the psychotic Big Bad, and has her own alliance of alternates who are threatened into compliance.
    • Combined with an Evil, Inc. MegaCorp in the Vennema Multiversal created by Kashmir Vennema incorporating all of her multiversal counterparts in one company, then Deconstructed when one wants her own life which causes it all to unwind.
    • Venomverse is a darker parallel to Spider-Verse where Venom must team up with alternate incarnations of the symbiote to fight a threat called the Poisons.
    • X-Men '92 (set in the continuity of the 90s animated series) has the Council of Cross-Time Draculas.
  • He-Man and the Masters of the Multiverse involves the DC Comics version of He-Man teaming up with his alternate selves from other Master of the Universe continuities (up to and including The New Adventures of He-Man). Their goal is to oppose Anti-Eternia, which has begun destroying their universes.
  • Sabrina the Teenage Witch has actually done this twice. The first is in Archie Meets Riverdale where it's revealed that the prime Sabrina is connected to every variant of her across the multiverse and uses this ability to follow the chain back to Archie. The second in the special Magic Unleashed involves a crack in realities caused by Mother Striga souped up by an eldritch gauntlet. After Sabrina opens up the dimensional gap further, she calls forth variants of her from across all of existence to drive back Striga and send her back to the Nether Realm. Some of these other Sabrina's even include the Sitcom and Cartoon versions of her.
  • One issue of The Simpsons Super Spectacular had three versions of Bart who are superheroes (Bartman from "Three Men and a Comic Book", Stretch Dude from "Treehouse of Horror X" and Cupcake Kid from "Simple Simpson") sent to a Mirror Universe to overthrow King Bart, it was titled "League of Extraordinary Barts".
  • Done twice in Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics), first in an early issue where all the Sonics from across the multiverse teamed up to defeat a version of Robotnik who had roboticized himself and aspired to become a Multiversal Conqueror *NOT the same Robotnik from another dimension who roboticized himself who later became the comic's Big Bad after the original Robotnik died. It's complicated., and later on when Tails physically fused with all the different versions of himself to defeat Mammoth Mogul.
  • In the final issue of Transformers: Regeneration One, Rodimus Prime uses the Covenant to summon all his alternate selves note Including IDW (2005)!Rodimus, Animated!Rodimus, Classics!Rodimus, Alternators!Rodimus, and many more (some of which only appeared in a vision in Issue 93) to defeat the Dark Matrix Creature and its trio of evil Optimus Primes.
  • Uncle Scrooge and the Infinity Dime, the first Disney Ducks Comic produced by Marvel Comics, sees Scrooge take on his Evil Doppelgänger and Alternate Self, the Scrooge-Above-All. For that purpose he recruits three Alliances Of Alternates: He fights the evil Scrooge with the help of alternate selves of himself, a "Council Of Gyros" provides him with the scientific background for dimensional traveling and for the finale battle, the Scrooges unleash their secret weapon: an army of incredibly angry Donalds. The Scrooge-Above-All himself recruits a bunch of Beagle Boys from different universes to steal the Money Bins of the different Scrooges.
    Fan Works 
  • Anime X Marvel:
  • The DC Comics fic The Crisis Convergence of Countless Captain Carrots!👁 Image
     has Captain Carrot of Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew!, Captain Carrot of The Multiversity and Captain K'Rot of Threshold all called to a Portal Crossroad World by a villain who wants to destroy every incarnation of them. After that, it gets really weird.
  • Coreline: With a huge number of alternate versions of (almost) any single fictional character known to man running around somewhere, this is a regular side-effect of the setting (as an example, two Alternates of Michiru Kururugi, one working for the Avengers and one working for the Power Rangers, have allied themselves in the stories by OrionPax09). Of course, how good or how bad these alliances can be (and who benefits from them) definitely vary from case to case — to the point that the street term for these type of alliances is "a plague of (x)".
  • The Doctor Who fic "The Age of Paradox: Book Two- The World of Paradox👁 Image
    " concludes with the Eleventh Doctor allying himself with four alternate versions of himself (as depicted in the Big Finish Doctor Who "Unbound" audios) to prevent a multiversal collapse caused by the actions of the alternate Valeyard of "He Jests at Scars...".
  • Dragon Ball Multiverse has Dragon Ball characters from different universes/timelines team up to stop Babidi's rebellion in the Multiverse Tournament.
  • Equestria: Across the Multiverse:
    • During the Flim Flam Brothers' Invasion, Rainbow Dash teams up with Princess Rainbow Dash from Speed World and Shining Armor teams up with Sincere Heart, his alternate self from Ponyland.
    • Several dozen Pinkie Pies come together... to prepare the jaunting base for a Hearth's Warming party.
    • The Grand Changeling Compact, a subgroup within the Alliance, is composed of many different Changeling monarchs, but obviously a number of Thoraxes and benevolent Queen Chrysalises.
    • The Discord Continuum is a multiversal alliance of Discords, Accords, and other related entities united...to annoy Twilight Sparkles and starship captains on a multiversal scale. An obvious Shout-Out to the Q Continuum.
    • A Villain Team-Up of Accords is mentioned as having fought and been defeated by the Discord Continuum offscreen.
    • The Storm Empire is an alliance of Storm Kings from across the multiverse formed out of strength in numbers. They aren't an enemy of the Alliance because they have no interest in making enemies of other big fish in the multiverse, and simply want to focus on keeping their empire running. In addition, not all of them are evil.
  • Hellsister Trilogy: "The Apokolips Agenda" has Kara Zor-El from Earth-One and Kara Zor-L from Earth-Two work together to wreck Darkseid's latest universal domination scheme.
  • Infinity Crisis:
    • A villainous example pops up at the end of the spinoff Distant Cousins, which has Earth-38 Lex Luthor being recruited by the Lex Luthor of Earth-1978 into the Council of Luthors, whose goal is to kill every Superman in The Multiverse. Other Luthors in the Council are from Earth-51, Earth-167, Earth-1940, Earth-1979, Earth-1992, and Earth-2006. It's worth noting that they're all aware that any one member of the group would happily stab the others in the back to come out on top themselves, so they keep meetings short and in small numbers to limit the chances of that happening.
    • Chapter 9 of Counterpart Conferences reveals that Harley Quinns, Poison Ivys, and Catwomen are recruiting their counterparts from various alternate realities, and at least the Ivys and the Catwomen are planning something big in the future...
    • Other stories would establish that other such councils are forming, like the Summit of Statics, Miguel O'Hara's Spider-Army, the Council of Megatrons (with naturally, a Council of Primes forming to counter it), and The Strangers lightly parodies the trope with the revelation of a Council of Cocaine Bear Cocaine Bears.
  • Infinity Train: Wake Me Up has one in the Vermillion Citadel, a collection of alternate versions of Chloe Cerise who desire to turn the story's Chloe into a hero for some reason.
  • Kim in Exile👁 Image
     features an alliance of five alternate versions of Kim Possible; the Kim Possible of the author's Maternal Instinct (Kim Possible) (where Kim and Shego have a daughter), a Kim Possible who acquired spider-powers after a blood transfusion from her college roommate May Parker (Spider-Girl), a Kim who became Batgirl after Shego killed her parents and she was adopted by Bruce Wayne, a Kim who was rebuilt as a cyborg after a plane crash, and a Kim who acquired Shego's powers by accident during the events of "Go Team Go". The five have been brought together to stop a version of Ron who suffered a mental breakdown and became Zorpox after Kim was killed during the events of "So the Drama".
  • Marvel: Future Avengers x Disk Wars - Divided We Fall/United We Stand: Has the Avengers (along with their sidekicks) from both the Marvel Future Avengers and the Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers series team up. In order to stop the two Loki's from each universe after the pair form an alliance in an attempt to conquer the multiverse together.
  • Master, Pokémon? has an omake where Ash meets four of his alternate selves (including the one from canon), who were summoned by Hoopa.
  • Mischief: Ultron uses one of these as his personal henchmen during I-Island after the hero students easily dispose of the Iron Legion drones. They include: Ultron-11, the one who was resurrected by Beyonder for the Secret Wars event; Ultron-9997, who has the powers of the Absorbing Man; Ultron-199999, his MCU counterpart; Ultron-1610, who has the same powers as Yellowjacket; Ultron-61112, his Age of Ultron comics version and Ultrog, the gorilla version of him from Spider-Ham's universe.
  • Rise of the Minisukas: The titular Minisukas are legions of diminutive Asukas hailing from billions of parallel timelines and working together to protect Shinji and save the present universe. Leader is the original, Shiki is Asuka Shikinami from the Rebuild films, "Blonde" is from the manga timeline, "Blue" is from a particularly screwed universe...
  • Same Difference: After falling through one of the portals, and traveling aimlessly through various Turtle dimensions, Miwa ends up in the 2003 Turtle dimension, where after she helps them deal with the Kraang, she enlists their help to get her back to her home dimension.
  • One of the follow-up fics to The Secret Return of Alex Mack is "The Secret Collocation of Alex Mack👁 Image
    ", which sees Alex Mack not only reuniting with most of her teammates from the League of Extraordinary Women👁 Image
    (Sam Carter, Hermione Granger, Buffy Summers, Selina Kyle and Jaime Sommers), but she also meets her counterpart from their respective realities, as well as a version of her from a "new" reality (The Dresden Files). Fortunately for all parties, each of the alternate Alexes goes by a different nickname and has a different power set; Alexandra was host to two Goa'uld symbiotes, Alexan is a recent graduate of the Shasta Academy for Magical Education in America, Lexi is a Slayer who has been training with Buffy, Alee is a new member of the Teen Titans, Aly is adjusting to her bionics, and Alexa received an unwanted boost to her magical abilities after a chemical spill.
  • Songs of the Spheres: The League of Sweetie Belles, comprised of Sweeties from across the Spheres, feature as minor characters and have a Spin-Off focused on their adventures.
  • The post-Spider-Man: No Way Home fic "Spiderman: A Way Back Home"👁 Image
    opens with Gwen Stacy (The Amazing Spider-Man Series) and Mary Jane Watson (Spider-Man Trilogy) arriving in the MCU, where they meet Peter-1 and are unwittingly introduced to Michelle Jones, who swiftly gets over the spell-induced amnesia while talking with Mary Jane in particular. While Gwen isn't the direct counterpart of the other two, they acknowledge that the three of them are essentially their counterparts given their mutual ties to the Peter Parker of their world, working with Peter to find a cure for the Harry Osborn of Gwen's world when it's revealed that the two Harrys were also "displaced".
  • Thieves Guild👁 Image
     is a crossover between the author's various Persona 5 AU fics, (including Forewarned is Forearmed and Breaking (all the) Things), eventually bringing together seven versions of Akira from different timelines.
  • trickcal "what if": In "Elena meets up with elenas from other dimensions", Elena holds a meetup with the other Elenas across the different Alternate Timelines so they can discuss how to escape from Elias back to their home dimension.
    Films — Animated 
    Films — Live-Action 
    Literature 
  • In Faction Paradox, the vast city at the end of time known as the City of the Saved, which contains every human who ever lived and many who didn't, is home to the Great Detective Agency, a detective agency made up of multiple versions of Sherlock Holmes (plus assorted Watsons, Mycrofts and Mrs Hudsons).
  • In InterWorld, it's revealed that all the Walkers are alternate universe versions of Joey.
  • Played with in Subcutanean: Orion and alternate Niko team up to take out Elder Niko. Because of the the way the alternates work, being in close proximity to your other versions induces extreme discomfort. This doesn't stop alternate Orion from providing a Kiss of Life to Orion after escaping through the submerged airlock, doubling as a Heroic Sacrifice.
  • In The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village, Shinobu is separated from Yukari by countless barriers, each of which forces him to experience an agonizing death in an alternate timeline. Even moving through a handful of the barriers nearly breaks Shinobu, but this also summons the spirits of Shinobu's many alternate selves who died in those timelines. All of them agree with Shinobu's desire to save Yukari and share the burden so he can reach her.
    Live-Action TV 
  • The Flash (2014):
    • In "When Harry Met Harry", Harrison "Harry" Wells of Earth-2 calls upon three of his doppelgangers from other Earths into the so-called "Council of Wells". One is a stuck-up German physicist named Harrison Wolfgang Wells (Earth-12). The second is a "genius, billionaire, playboy philanthropist" from Texas named H. Lothario Wells (Earth-47). The third is an Australian cyborg from the post-apocalyptic Earth-22 named Wells 2.0. Yet another Wells attempts to join the Council, only to be rebuffed. He calls himself Wells the Gray and is dressed as Gandalf.
    • The Council of Wells was revisited in "Harry and the Harrisons", where Harry goes to the Council for help because one of his inventions had given him brain damage — and Herr Wells kicks him out for failing intelligence requirements. He forms a new "Council of Harrys" out of other alternates: the French Harrison H.P. Wells, Totally Radical New Yorker Sonny Wells, and Lothario Wells again (whom Herr Wells also kicked out of the original Council).
    • In "Goldfaced", Nora arranges a conference with all of Sherloque Wells's ex-wives, who turn out to all be alternate-Earth doppelgangers of the same woman.
  • Loki (2021): Loki finds himself reluctantly working with a female variant Loki midway through the series. He ends up meeting many more Lokis. Since Loki suffers from Chronic Backstabbing Disorder, they quickly fall apart fighting over a pointless throne. This turns out to have cosmic importance. He Who Remains was one of many variants of himself in the multiverse who originally worked together to better it. It eventually fell apart, leading to a multiverse war that almost destroyed everything. He Who Remains prunes alternative timelines to prevent it from ever happening again by ensuring that another, more evil variant of him never comes to power.
  • Stargate SG-1: In "Ripple Effect", a whole bunch of alternate SG-1s arrive in the SGC because of black hole-related technobabble, and the various Carters all have to work together to fix the problem.
  • The Umbrella Academy: In the final episode, Five, while traveling on a supernatural subway train that connects the timelines of the multiverse, ends up in a diner run and attended by multiple alternate verions of himself. From them he learns that the Hargreeves' very existence is what causes The End of the World as We Know It in every timeline, and that to end it the Hargreeves must sacrifice themselves.
    Tabletop Games 
  • Between the canonical Storyborn, the variations on them as Dreamborn, and the radically different Floodborn (who are actually easier to play if you have another version of the on the field), it's possible for a Disney Lorcana deck to contain many different versions of the same character and have them coexist on the battlefield.
    Video Games 
  • 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel: Different versions of the same piece from different timelines can cooperate with each other.
  • Near the end of Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time, Dr. Tropy betrays Cortex and finds a new partner- a Distaff Counterpart version of himself from another universe. It's later revealed that this alternate Tropy is from the same universe that this game's version of Tawna hails from, and that she succeeded in killing Crash and Coco in her universe.
  • Hearthstone: The card Timethief Rafaam represents an alliance of Rafaams from across the multiverse, all banded together to take over the world. Putting him in your deck brings along nine other Rafaams from different universes, each with their own silly gimmick like one that's a murloc and another that's a member of the League of Explorers. Even more Rafaams can be seen in the background of various Warlock cards from the same set.
  • I=MGCM:
    • According to the Backstory of "Black V (Five)" (Sinister Five in the English version) co-op guild raid battle event, Omnis and the magical heroines have to cooperate with their alternate selves from other alternate universes to prevent 5 outstandingly powerful mutated demons from the Demon Realm from entering the fluxes and wreaking havoc in other universes.
    • In Chapter 14 onwards, the heroines from the main universe arrive Just in Time to save the alternate version of Lilly, who is the last surviving magical girl in her native universe and the main universe Omnis, who gets trapped in that Dark World. Which also means the party and the alternate Lilly cooperate together to fight the Drake demon. Unfortunately, the alternate version of Lilly ultimately dies at the hands of Drake, although the party is able to defeat it at the end.
    • The proposed and occasionally fan-preferred alternate, much more humane and less grimdark solution to the same problem the Sabbath battles are stated to be created to counteract, combining in some ways with Composite Character outcomes. The existence of player clans, where each player is supposed to be a version of Tobio/Omnis working in concert with one another, seems to lend this a level of validity.
  • In Kingdom Hearts, the "real" Organization XIII—featured in Dream Drop Distance and Kingdom Hearts III—is designed to include twelve alternate incarnations of Master Xehanort from across time, led Xehanort himself. Four of these incarnations are directly related to him: Young Xehanort, from when he was a teenager; Terra-Xehanort, from when he pulled a Grand Theft Me on Terra; and Ansem and Xemnas, the Heartless and Nobody of Terra-Xehanort, respectively. The rest are his minions and members of the old Organization who've accepted a piece of his heart (essence) as their own, making them copies of Xehanort in spirit.
  • The "Clone Team" in The King of Fighters 2002: Unlimited Match consists of three clones of series protagonist Kyo Kusanagi: Kusanagi, his homicidal Yata Mirror-created doppelganger, and Kyo-1 and Kyo-2, a Red Oni, Blue Oni pair created by NESTS.
  • Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart: The plot is kicked off by Dr. Nefarious stealing the Dimensionator to find a dimension where he was successful in taking over the universe and team up with his successful self. Unfortunately, not only is Emperor Nefarious not all that interested in teaming up, but once Victory Is Boring sets in and he decides to become a Multiversal Conqueror, he decides to start with Dr. Nefarious' dimension. Conversly, Ratchet and Clank are able to work well alongside their counterparts, Rivet and Kit.
  • Brainiac's plan in Scribblenauts Unmasked is to steal Lily's teleporting globe and use it to summon alternate universe versions of himself to defeat the Justice League. The key to defeating him potentially uses the same trope- You have to summon alternate versions of superheroes, so you can, if you wish, have a dozen different Supermen fighting the Brainiacs.
  • Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions had four different Spider-Men — Amazing, 2099, Noir, and Ultimate — all working together.
  • Spider-Man Unlimited has the player collect different multiversal Spider-Men and pits them against an opposing alliance of alternate Sinister Sixes.
  • Super Smash Bros. has Mega Man, who summons his various other incarnations from the series together for his Final Smash, including X from the X series, Rock Volnutt from the Legends series, MegaMan.exe from Battle Network, and Geo Stelar from Star Force.
    Web Animation 
    Webcomics 
  • The Cloister is an ongoing interactive Sonic the Hedgehog fan webcomic where four different versions of Sonic and Shadow (from Sonic Prime, Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric, the Film Series and Sonic x Shadow Generations) get teleported into a labyrinth and try to find a way out. Prime Shadow and Movie Shadow team up early on, but they have trouble working with Boom Shadow.
  • Goblins has the Maze of Many arc, in which Minmax and his allies travel to a Pocket Dimension where multiple realities overlap and multiple instances of the same person can exist at once. Kin is invited to join a Kins-only team consisting of Kins from other realities, and several different Minmaxes team up against another Minmax when they realise he's trying to erase the Maze, and everyone inside it, from existence.
  • League of Super Redundant Heroes has Laser Pony and Kieth find themselves gathered along with all the other versions of Laser Pony and Kieth...or rather, Laser Stallion and his badass sidekick. It turns out that they're the least accomplished and capable versions of themselves, including the version of Laser Pony who's in a wheelchair in addition to being blind and a only partly seen Kieth who's either a kid sidekick or extremely short.
  • Ms Paint Adventures:
    • Problem Sleuth: The three main antagonists are Mobster Kingpin and his two alternate selves: A female version of him named Madam Murel and Mobster Kingpin's imaginary self, Demonhead Monster Kingpin (DMK for short). The three detectives also are allied with several alternate versions of themselves, including Nervous Broad and Hysterical Dame (PI and PS' Female Alter Egos), Lil' Ace Dick (Ace Dick's Female Alter Ego, except his imagination is so low that his Female Alter Ego is just himself in a wig), Fiesta Ace Dick and Zombie Ace Dick.
    • In Homestuck, the time-travel mechanics of a Sburb session almost always end up creating offshoot timelines overlapping with the main one. Scratching a session creates a new universe where the players and guardian roles are swapped. It is thus easy to meet and work with counterparts.
      • Aradia gathered thousands of alternate selves to help fight the Black King in the troll session.
      • Jane finally meets her pre-Scratch counterpart Nannasprite before the final battle. And there's a second Nannasprite due to the retcon. They end up fighting together.
      • Thousands of ghost versions of the troll players from doomed timelines are brought together to fight Lord English near the end of the comic.
  • In Spinnerette, Spinny teams up with Silver Age and '90s Anti-Hero versions of herself, which arrived through spacetime rifts, in order to stop an immensely powerful supervillain called the Editor from "rebooting" the world. Then they also met the retired Golden Age version... who revealed that the Editor's "reboot" was not The End of the World as We Know It, but rather the creation of yet another Alternate Universe, this one in space.
  • Done in the first comic-as-an-actual-comic of Val and Isaac. A male version of Val emerges from a portal to tell her that he's "Gathering Vals from across the universe to save all of reality!" When she meets the rest of the group, she finds they're all men and Main!Val introduces her to the group as "Girl-Val".
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  • In various Glowfic continuities, a set of members of the Bell template (alternates of Bella Swan, from Luminosity) form a Peal.
  • A common theme in The Legend of Zelda fanart due to the Magic Music and Songs in the Key of Lock so present in the series is to show the Links of different games playing together as an orchestra.
  • Jenny Everywhere sometimes meets up with her parallel selves, sometimes to help a particular Jenny with a tight situation, and other times just to hang out.
  • The Black Queen of the SCP Foundation universe is classified as a "Group of Interest" in the sense of this trope. Allison Chao, the daughter of SCP Researcher Dr. Gears, has had her family fall apart in part due to the Foundation's influence, and this series of events has played out similarly across the multiverse. Having gained the means of bridging the universal gap in the Wanderer's Library, the various Allisons have become a collective dedicated to dismantling the Foundation across the Multiverse and finding her father. Considering the infinite of the multiverse, some of the Allisons are either more peaceful or more maniacal than this mission statement would indicate. Regardless, the various incarnations refer to each other as "Little Sister", or L.S. for short, indicating that they consider each other family either way.
  • Solid jj: "Spider-Man: Please Just Go Home" has MCU Spider-Man and Green Goblin summoning alternate versions of themselves from other dimensions, including the Spider-Man from a dimension where he has a gun, the Spider-Man from a dimension where he has a gun and there aren't any moral implications, the Green Goblin from a dimension where everyone wears a bulletproof vest, the Spider-Man from a dimension where he has a gun and there aren't any moral implications and also bullets go through vests, the Spider-Man from a dimension where you didn't read this text, and it just keeps escalating as the Raimi and Webb Spider-Men look on.
  • #19 of Mightygodking's "Why I Should Write Dr Strange" series of blog posts was the Supremenet👁 Image
    , a magical connection between all the Sorcerers Supreme of the multiverse, so they can discuss things and get advice. Not all of them are alternate Stephen Stranges, but many are.
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  • Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake:
    • In "The Wolves Who Wandered", Huntress Wizard forces herself to ask for help from Hunter, her gender-bent human counterpart in Fionna World, in searching for DJ Flame. She's so antisocial that it physically pains her to do this, even from someone who she knows is quite literally herself, much to Hunter's amusement.
    • In "The Bird in the Clock", Fionna (a female version of Finn) and Huntress Wizard team up with Farmworld Finn (a version of Finn from a timeline where human civilization crumbled, but the Mushroom War didn't happen) inside the dreamscape to save the life of "main" universe Finn, who is in a coma, but will die in real life if he dies in his dreams when the Cosmic Owl (a deity who turns dreams into prophecies) is present in it.
  • The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes: Season 2 reveals there's a Council of Kangs. Much like in the comics, Kang hates his alternates and they hate him right back. They've all sworn never to interfere in one another's businesses, but the Council decide the Avengers of Kang's timeline are becoming too powerful, and spring Kang from prison.
  • Batman: The Brave and the Bold: In "Game Over for Owlman!", where Batman has to fight an evil alternate universe version of himself (Owlman) who is the leader of an evil alternate universe version of the Justice League, he manages to gather (Page image!) a team of heroic Batman alternates to fight the villains.
    Batman: In the end, I'd have to count on myself. So in the split second I was gone, I spent a week visiting parallel Earths. Traveling alone is a great way to get in touch with yourself. In fact, I really bonded with me, myself, and I. Shall we?
  • Ben 10: Omniverse had a two-parter that involves Ben and his AU counterparts (as well as an AU Gwen, who had that universe's Omnitrix) teaming up to Stop Eon and Vilgax from enacting an Evil Plan. There are 2 twists involved: Vilgax and Eon also have their own army of AU!Bens (and Albedo), and Part One ends with Vilgax pulling a multiverse-scale Cosmic Retcon that erases every Omnitrix-wielder and their timelines from existence, and that includes both Albedo (who is technically from the main Ben 10 timeline) and Eon (who is himself an AU version of Ben). The blast ends up leaving only one Ben behind, one who never even heard of the Omnitrix in his reality, had lived a mostly normal life until he got caught in the crossfire of Vilgax's plan, and wound up getting Ben Prime's Omnitrix as he was erased from existence. The next episode focuses on No Watch Ben using Ben Prime's Omnitrix to help reverse this.
  • The Fairly OddParents!: In the climax of "The Crimson Chin Meets Mighty Mom and Dyno Dad", Timmy calls forth the many alternate versions of the Crimson Chin, from the '30s pulp version to the '80s edgy version, to defeat the Nega-Chin.
  • At the beginning of Season 2 of Invincible (2021), scientist Angstrom Levy gathers a multitude of alternate Angstroms to combine their consciousness and solve all the world's problems, but an accident during the procedure sees them all merge into Prime Levy, driving him violently insane and leading him to become a supervillain. The end of Season 3 sees him trying this again, only this time Levy calls together an army of other universes' evil Invincibles, to devastate the world and permanently smear Prime Invincible's name.
  • In the Justice League Action episode "Watchtower Tours", Booster Gold summons the assistance of several counterparts of himself from alternate timelines, including one where he chose to stay in bed today and one who never knew love.
  • My Adventures with Superman has the League of Lois Lanes, a group of alternate universe Lois Lanes (and occasionally Jimmy Olsens) who protect the multiverse from threats such as Mr. Mxyzptlk or evil alternate universe versions of Superman. They also include at least one "Lewis Lane" and a "Jalana Olsen".
  • Rick and Morty: Hundreds of iterations of Rick from across the multiverse founded the Citadel of Ricks in order to escape the governments of their respective worlds. The main Rick (C-137) sees it and its Council of Ricks as an abandonment of their I Work Alone philosophy, while the Council sees Rick C-137 as a threat to their society who's gotten too attached to his Morty. As it turned out, the Citadel was originally built by Rick C-137 himself, but once they started turning into the very government he hated, he went to the universe we see at the beginning of the series (the one Rick Prime was originally from) and grew genuinely attached to that dimension's native Morty.
    • Another parody take on the concept appears in the season 6 episode "Analyze Piss", when Jerry eliminates a Planet of Hitlers where such a Council is residing. One of the Hitlers even points out how ridicolous it is for Adolf Hitler of all people to form such an alliance.
  • Sonic Prime: New Yoke City is ruled over by the Chaos Council, a quintet of alternate versions of Dr. Eggman. Although, unlike most examples of the trope, they're all from the same universe, since the existence of The Multiverse is a surprise to them.
  • The finale of Spider-Man: The Animated Series had Spidey teaming up with multiple alternate dimension versions of himself to save the universe with the help of Madame Web and The Beyonder. They include a Tony Stark style inventor engaged to Gwen Stacy (who "our" Spidey had never even met), a version of Ben Reily, a Spidey still having multiple arms due to a mutation problem, a Spidey with Doc Ock arms, and an actor with no powers who plays Spidey in movies, hailing from a universe where Spider-Man is just a famous comic character created by Stan Lee.note In his review of the finale, SF Debris speculated that the actor was really Spidey's voice actor, Christopher Daniel Barnes, As Himself
  • Star Trek: Lower Decks: In the episode "Fissure Quest", the Anaximander has been traveling across The Multiverse for some time, trying to find who's been opening fissures across realities. The ship's crew is made up of people from many realities, with most of the crew made up of Harry Kims (all but one of which are still ensigns). There's also a T'Pol who's been married to her Trip for six decades, a still-living Curzon Dax, and a Dr. Elim Garak who's married to the hologram of a Julian Bashir. The latest person they pick up is a Mariner who's an engineering whiz (in a gold shirt). The ship's captain himself is William Boimler, the transporter duplicate of Bradward Boimler, who has faked his death and joined Section 31.
  • Ultimate Spider-Man (2012) had its own version of Spider-Verse; a multipart story where Peter teamed up with Spider-Man 2099, Spider-Woman/Petra Parker, Spider-Man Noir, the Spectacular Spider-Ham, Medieval Spider-Man, and Miles Morales to stop the Green Goblin from stealing their DNA. Interestingly, he didn't meet them all at once, but instead travelled from one dimension to another, until the end where they all come back together.
  • What If...?: A version with alternate versions of several characters instead of several versions of one character. The final episode sees Uatu the Watcher assembling a team, the Guardians of the Multiverse, to challenge Infinity Ultron. Said team is made of variants of several characters of the main timeline of the Marvel Cinematic Universe — Captain Carter, T'Challa Star Lord, Doctor Strange Supreme, Erik Killmonger/Black Panther, Party Thor, an alternate Gamora and a Sixth Ranger, Natasha Romanov/Black Widow from a universe that was completely destroyed by Ultron. Except for Gamoranote whose introductory episode was pushed back to next season when COVID-related production difficulties caused a cut from 10 to 9 episodes per season, they were all introduced in the previous episodes of the series.

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