"A Shadow of a Shadow"
Readers of a certain age are invited to cast their minds back to the playgrounds of the 1990s. Back when mascots were hugely popular and gaming was still a bit non-mainstream, we'd make up daft crossovers in which a family-friendly character was crudely transported into the universe of a violent series which we probably hadn't played due to parental intervention, or given various 'cool' attributes to 'improve' them. We thought it was a good idea, and now, perhaps, we don't, but shifts like that wouldn't be the basis for...