Fortnite is rarely out of the news for very long, and one aspect that grabs attention more than anything else are Fortnite crossover events! Big collabs that began with simple skins, but recently started to get bigger in scope and size. Some can even break the internet when they’re revealed, like when Peter Griffin or Goku came to Fortnite.
Not every crossover gets huge though. Fortnite gets them so regularly some just kind of fade away. Others absolutely catch fire though, and are still talked about as a peak of the game. What are the biggest crossover events in Fortnite?
These are the 10 best we’ve ever seen.
10. Marshmello
One of the first huge Fortnite crossovers was Marshmello. This introduced a few things to Fortnite. Concerts. Big live events. Musicians as skins.
It was a whole live event featuring the artist performing songs. It was these concerts that really started to push the envelope for what Fortnite is capable of.
9. Spider-Man
We’ve had loads of Marvel, but Spider-Man is special. The Spider-Man collab was the biggest thing in the game during Chapter 3. The skins were great, the POI fantastic, and the web slinger mythics are still missed to this day. Spider-Man is one of the best delivered Fortnite collabs we’ve ever seen.
8. Arcane
Arcane, the League of legends animated series, got a simple Fortnite collab to promote its first season. It was fairly popular, finally getting League skins in Fortnite. What’s become particularly prominent about this collab though is how often players ask for it back. While it doesn’t seem likely to return, it’s become one of the most requested.
7. Hatsune Miku
There’s been loads of Festival artists, but Hatsune Miku was a meme choice for a skin that it was great to see included. The vocaloid is now fully playable in Fortnite, with guns, musical instruments, whatever mode you want to put Miku into. This collab had the amazing effect of making old clickbait thumbnails of bizarre skins now retroactively accurate!
6. Lego
One of the biggest expansions we ever got from all Fortnite seasons was Lego. Not just some cosmetics in-game, but all the cosmetics and multiple game modes. Every skin has a Lego version along with a fully fleshed out survival game in the Lego style. More Lego maps are coming all the time. Now it’s part of Creative too.Â
5. Master Chief
Fortnite features icons from gaming in its Gaming Legends series and one of the first notable additions was Master Chie. The iconic protagonist from Halo showed up in Fortnite, and was accessible on every platform, not just Microsoft owned ones. This was one of the inclusions that really established that anything was on the table for Fortnite collabs.
4. Marvel
If we’re talking about the biggest Fortnite collabs, then the most obvious pick is Marvel. It might be the franchise with the most representation in Fortnite. There are tons of skins, At one point we got one in each Battle Pass. Not to mention having two full seasons which replaced the whole map with Marvel!
3. Ninja
Fortnite doesn’t just make skins of fictional characters, it makes them of people too. The first Fortnite Icon was Ninja. Bringing a streamer who became famous playing Fortnite, into Fortnite.
Now, we have tons of streamers available with skins but it started with ninja.
2. Dragon Ball
Fortnite’ progression into the world of anime has been exciting in recent seasons but the Dragon Ball collab was special. The Dragon Ball characters showed up in Fortnite, capable of wielding guns and even going Super Saiyan with the right emote.
The included in-game items were fantastic, they felt as accurate as any tie in game but they fit perfectly into Battle Royale. Plus, we got to see young Fortnite streamers completely mangle the pronunciation of Kamehameha, which was fun.
1. Star Wars
The biggest Fortnite collabs has to include Star Wars which returns to the game each and every year. However, one of these was particularly exciting. The Star Wars event at Risky Reels.
This was a prequel to the final film, at least it was supposed to be. It turned out to be a bizarre clip and voice file. However, this voice line was vital set-up to the movie. When the film came out, baffled audiences read the first line of the opening crawl “The Dead Speak” and received no explanation any further. If you wanted to understand one of the biggest movie releases of the year, you had to have shown up to an event in Fortnite. There was no other explanation.
A baffling decision and one that didn’t help the movie, although that film needed no help in confusing audiences. It cemented the culture power of Fortnite, and we’ve had further Star Wars crossovers every year.
