Avengers Vs. X-Men and Ten Other Great Mashups

It’s pretty clear that much of the appeal of Marvel’s Avengers vs. X-Men event is its simplicity. The X-Men and The Avengers are the chocolate and peanut butter of the Marvel Universe–they’re two great tastes, that taste great together, and if you can settle years-old fanboy arguments about who can beat up whom while you’re at it, all the better.That aspect of the story got us to thinking: What are some of our favorite mash-ups? The fights or team-ups so obvious that we thought they’d never get around to it, or so preposterous that we never even considered them before they made it to the printed page? Below we’ve got a list of ten of our favorites…what are yours?To be clear–intra-company crossovers are verboten here, so you won’t see “Superman and Batman” or “Hulk vs. Thing” on the list. There are hundreds of those and while the best of them may be great fodder for another list, this one occurred to us mostly as an outcropping of the “X vs. Y” formula that yielded movies like Alien Vs. Predator. It’s arguably a silly distinction, since Avengers vs. X-Men is unto itself an intra-company crossover…but it’s our silly distinction and we’re sticking to it. We also have steered away from the massive “event” stories and are sticking with stories that were either one-shots, movies or one-off stories, as opposed to something like JLA/Avengers or even DC Vs. Marvel.