Christmas Crossovers You Never Expected--Or Probably Wanted

 I had a couple of ideas for bizarre crossovers involving a couple of Christmas movies and a couple of regular movies.

First, one day at work there was a check with the name "Gower" and I remember the Rifftrax line mention "Mr. Gower wouldn't have poisoned that kid."  (Which is false in the real universe as young George Bailey stopped him.)  And then I had this weird idea.

So basically you'd start with It's A Wonderful Life and keep it the same until World War II.  George is turned down for the war because of his damaged ear from saving his brother or whatever.  So now we get to the crossover where George volunteers to be part of a German scientist's super-soldier experiment so he can get into the war and help his brother and all that stuff.  But of course while the experiment works, there are rogue Germans who kill the scientist and destroy equipment.  George tracks down the bad guys but they die before they can talk.

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Now it becomes Captain America: The First Avenger!  George says goodbye to his family and then goes to sell bonds for a little while.  Then he gets into the war and fights the Red Skull and Nazis.  The only difference is instead of Bucky you have his brother (who probably doesn't die or become a Winter Soldier) and there's no romance with Peggy Carter since he's married.

Eventually George runs the plane into the ocean and disappears before waking up in 2011--on Christmas Day!  It's been almost 70 years so Mary is dead but some of his kids are alive and he has grandkids and great-grandkids.  While it's weird getting to know them, it does help him to acclimate to the future.  And he has Captain America stuff to do yet as well.

Yes, this is the Christmas movie you didn't know you needed!

This next one is thanks to this blog entry about a weird Japanese King Kong movie where he fights a robot Kong called Mechani-Kong.  The movie was partially animated by Rankin-Bass, who are most famous for animating the classic 1964 TV special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

So naturally, I thought:  why not combine them?  King Kong and Rudolph Save Christmas! (Or whatever.)

It's getting close to Christmas at the North Pole and the Abominable Snow Creature is feeling lonely because there are no other huge beasts and it's hard for him to play with the smaller critters.  Rudolph decides to take off and search around the Island of Misfit Toys and such for someone the Abominable's size.  

Eventually Rudolph finds an iceberg and sees a large gorilla frozen inside.  Using his nose, he thaws the ice enough that the gorilla awakens and busts out.  It's King Kong!  But of course he's not happy to be free from the ice.  He starts stomping around and throwing shit and makes his way to Christmas Town.  Not even the Abominable--or Santa--seem capable of stopping him!  

Then Kong pulls a roof off and grabs the big Christmas tree inside and is mesmerized by it.  Rudolph explains what the tree is and what Christmas is and Kong starts to settle down as he thinks of his home on Skull Island.  There's probably a song here as everyone gets in the Christmas spirit.

Kong starts to help repair the damage and get things ready for Christmas Eve.  He of course is too big to go with the sleigh.  Once Rudolph, Santa, and the rest get back, it's decided that Santa will help Kong go back to Skull Island.  And at least for a little while the Abominable will go with him since there are lots of big critters there like dinosaurs and whatever.

Everyone says goodbye to Kong and there's another song as he leaves--until next Christmas.  And that's how King Kong and Rudolph Save Christmas--From Themselves, Really.

Maybe I'd tweak that story, but it mostly works to me.

One I posted on Facebook a while back combined Die Hard and Home Alone 2.  Basically it's like Die Hard only Kevin gets on the wrong flight to LA and somehow ends up at the party.  He and John McClane then use goofy traps and plenty of bullets to stop the bad guys.

If I have more weird ideas for Christmas crossovers, I'll share them.  Maybe you have one?