When the grizzled war veterans from the video game franchise Contra take over fellow video game star Paperboy‘s route, due to an unforeseen decapitation, there’s going to be a lot more than broken windows and ruined birdbaths on Easy Street.
This time around the guys from Contra don’t even need an unlimited lives cheat code to tear up the competition!
–via Topless Robot

DevantART member DrFaustusAU, who brought us Horton Hears The Call of Cthulhu and Dr. Seuss’ Ghostbusters, has done it again! See his versions of Batman, Catwoman, the Riddler, the Joker, and Harvey Dent in the style of Dr. Seuss illustrations. Link -via Laughing Squid
Anticipation for the new Batman movie The Dark Knight Rises has spawned so many parodies and mashups that it seems like a new one is springing up every week. This one’s all about the Lion King, though, and that makes it stand out from the rest in my opinion.
Watch as Simba’s fate takes a turn for the worse, and laugh as voices from the movie trailer are cleverly synced to the mouth shapes of animated animals!
–via Topless Robot
Do not attempt to adjust your computer screens, Katy Perry did not recently become a huge World Of Warcraft nerd and convert her song E.T. into an homage to the rocky race known as the Draenei.
Rather, this video was created by YouTube user taintedlore to show some love to WoW and Katy Perry at the same time! MMO nerds-here’s a new track to add to your gaming playlist!
–via The Mary Sue
If you think everything looks better blocked out Minecraft style, then you’re going to love this Skyrim-Minecraft mashup, created by an avid Skyrim player who somehow found the time to piece together this pixelated landscape in between epic gaming sessions.
It’s a perfect recreation, in that built with blocks kind of way, and for some reason this vid really makes me want to buy a bunch of LEGOs and start building a cubic landscape of my own.
–via Ology
DJ Earworm’s annual mashup of the biggest hit songs of the year is appropriately called “World Go Booom.” You can download the tune at his site. Link
Totally gross, totally goofy, and it totally looks like the Garbage Pail Kids I totally loved collecting as a kid. Now I want need to get my hands on the whole set! Barf Vader, Yodelin’ Yoda, Hung Solo-this would be the ultimate crossover series! Who’s got some good ones?
Itsa mashup trailer, featuring gameplay footage of everyone’s favorite stereotype plumber and the audio track from the latest Grand Theft Auto V teaser. Every time Mario tries to get out they pull him back in, like a giant pipe with a secret chamber inside.
–via GeeksAreSexy
Using the motion graphics style and song from the Parks and Recreation tv show seems to have given some of the characters from Twin Peaks a slightly different feel: the Man From Another Place seems less sinister, Sheriff Truman looks more intense, and Donna is way more weepy. Boy, Twin Peaks sure looks like a nice little town!
–via BuzzFeed
This is one badass Fantastic Mr. Fox X Inglourious Basterds mashup! Watch as Mr. Fox and his animal squad prepare to fight the Nazis in an alternate furry version of WWII.
–via Heavy
Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name and they're always glad you came. Here's your favorite watering hole in Tatooine: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Geekleetist
It’s hard to think of Spongebob Squarepants as tough. He usually comes out of his ridiculous adventures just fine, but that’s mostly dumb luck. So these mashups by DeviantART member DazTibbles might cause a bit of cognitive dissonance. He placed the various characters from the Spongebob Squarepants TV show into the video game universe of Street Fighter. See the rest of them at Unreality magazine. Link
Draw2D2 has a collection of art mashups called “Zombie/Steven Spielberg” that place zombies in Spielberg movies, or otherwise combine the two ideas. The example shown is by Alex Ryan. Go see the rest! Link -Thanks, Jason Welborn!
Some movies just seem to naturally mesh with board games. See a collection of 14 such mashups rendered in movie posters gleaned from the Something Awful forums at Unreality magazine. Link
There are 22 different Beatles songs in this medley. Can you catch them all? And even more remarkable, they are all performed by one guy -Grant Woolard, who brought us the National Anthem Mashup last month. -Thanks, Grant!
Relativity Portal is a mashup of M.C. Escher’s work Relativity and the video game Portal, by DeviantArt member linkitch. Link -via Boing Boing
It’s is part of a collection of masterpieces mashed up with video games on imgur called Fine Art, with the artist credits in the accompanying reddit thread. Link
Here is a photo of President Abraham Lincoln “taken during his brief, yet memorable stint as a paranormal investigator and eliminator circa 1864.” Link -via Buzzfeed
How many different songs can you include in a mashup and make it sound good? Chris from Ithaca Audio proves that if you know what you’re doing, the answer is “all of them.” The tune is available as a free download. Link -via Buzzfeed
Artist Jason Welborn mashed up two of your favorite movie heros in this poster, featuring Clark Kent as agent 007 in The Man with the Kryptonite Gun. It’s part of collection of DC Comics/James Bond mashups featured at Draw2D2. Link -via @johncfarrier
Grant Woolard is so patriotic, he sang the national anthems of six countries -and then mashed them up in this musical collage. It works surprisingly well! You’ll hear the anthems of Germany, Canada, France, the UK, Spain, and the US. -Thanks, Grant!
Last week, Jill posted 65 Seriously Great Comic Con Costumes here at Neatorama. But she took hundreds of photographs at Comic-Con! If you are jonesing for more fans dressed as comic book, video game, TV, or movie characters, you can see (or find links to) a lot more in a massive photo post at Rue the Day. Some costumes even mashed up different universes, like this Star Trek red shirt being attacked by an Alien facehugger. Which makes perfect sense when you think about it. Link
Well it makes sense, doesn’t it! Love the shield. Design by Ben Chen. Check out all of his pop art in his incredible Flickr feed, including plumbers in the 1930′s featuring Mario and Luigi and cutie-pie designs with knitting pandas and a Darth Vader goose–yeah, you read that right–laying a Death Star egg.
Sillof, the artist who brought us Steampunk Superheroes, World War II Star Wars, and Samurai Wars, has a new collection of sculptures that sets the personalities from Star Wars into a western story! Read a description of each character and how they came about at his website. Only the “good guys” are pictured here. Link
What happens when you mashup Moby Dick and Apocalypse Now? You get a movie script by Perry Hall, available in its entirety in a .pdf.
MAN (GENERAL AHAB)
Blood and thunder! Mobys gone off the reservation– he’s swimming and fighting out there, General, answering to no one but himself. An albino daemon! He’s collected his own army from the native rank and is running completely amok. He must be stopped!
ISHMAEL (VOICE OVER)
This overbearingly grim man, Ahab, was roughly of sixty years; bronzed, weathered like an ancient tree, his form suggested a man released from a burning stake just before its fire could fully engulf him. The mad glint in his eye began a tale; the barbaric white leg upon which he partly stood– which had been fashioned from the polished bone from a sperm whale’s jaw– completed it.
GENERAL BILDAD
Captain Ishmael, this be General Ahab. Ahab has… encountered Moby in the field, or should I say, upon the waters. He be an expert on our renegade Colonel.
We can assume that the part of Ishmael should be played by a young Martin Sheen, and it won’t be the first time Marlon Brando has been likened to a white whale. Link -via Metafilter
What if the characters from Star Wars invaded the super hero world of Batman? Graphic design student Luca Lago, who has a blog full of imaginative doodles, drew each character as a bat-hero. Link -via Buzzfeed
The right music makes a world of difference. In this remixed movie trailer, the family musical The Sound of Music turns into a zombie Nazi thriller! -via Buzzfeed
DJ Earworm has released his annual mashup of the top 25 songs of the year. The songs used in this video are listed at the YouTube page. -via The Daily What
Leandro Copperfield put together 500 scenes from eleven Pixar films to make this super mashup. If you’ve seen the movies, you’ll love this! -via The Daily What
College Humor has a collection of science fiction stories done up as children’s books. I liked Goodnight Dune the best, but you really need to see Oh, The Places You’ll Go by Dr. Who. Link -via mental_floss
“Roxanne” by The Police mixes well with “Rudolph, the Red-nose Reindeer” in this mashup by mojochronic. -via Laughing Squid

