Anyone’s who’s watched both THE MENTALIST and NCIS has surely noted the similar origin stories of of the central characters; both Gibbs and Jane are hypercompetent investigators, difficult to get along with, who abandoned their former careers after the murder of their wives & daughters. But though they would doubtlessly be sympathetic to one another in some ways, it’s hard to imagine the two of them interacting for more than five minutes without a fistfist breaking out; Jane doesn’t know when to stop pushing, and Gibbs is deficient in patience. A fight between them is unavoidable.
Wait, that’s not exactly right. It’s more than Gibbs would surely beat up Jane at some point. Not only is the former far more martially competent, but there’s good odds that Jane won’t have any support from his team. Van Pelt is iffy, but Lisbon, Cho, and Kimball, upon finding Jane on the floor bleeding with Gibbs standing over him, are probably going to say, “What did you say, Jane? Never mind, no one cares. We apologize for whatever he did, Agent Gibbs.”
Anyway – what other TV show crossovers would surely involve a fight breaking out between the characters, would you say?
Captain Kirk of the original series and Captain Jack Harkness of Torchwood. Two supreme hypersexual alpha-males - it can only end in fighting or fucking, and Captain Kirk doesn’t swing that way (as far as I know).
Can’t quite see it.Mal would judge Janeway as needing a punch in the face, but despite his doing so to Saffron he’d not be able to make himself do so unless she started something.
That said, Zoe will get tired of Kathryn’s shit in short order and punch her her in the gut.
Then Seven kicks Zoe’s ass.
Then .. well, it ends badly for the crew of Serenity, sadly. Voyager’s got a lot more numbers, and one of those is Seven.
I haven’t seen much of RoE. Which of Eliot’s buttons would Rusty push? Not the violence against children, surely. Even threatening harm to a child in Eliot’s presence is probably best interpreted as a suicide attempt.
Nah. Sheldon hates Wesley Crusher, so I am willing to infer that he loves Data. And even if he doesn’t, Data doesn’t do slapfights. His violence settings are binary. If he didn’t find it logically necessary to murder Sheldon on the spot, he’d just ignore him.
Sheldon loves Data but Brent Spiner is on his Enemies List. That is in-universe canon. Data would probably overload and go all Star Trek robot crazy when faced with the contradiction.
While I mock your contention that Zoe is invincible, I am reminded that River would be on the Serenity crew’s side, and that tilt the numbers in Serenity’s favor. They’d still lose, but the Voyager crew would know they’d been in a fight.
I was thinking, ‘hey, how about that class-system stalwart the Dowager Countess of Grantham, versus noted socialist…er…um…’
Then I realized I couldn’t think of any television characters known for being in favor of a level playing field and the end of inherited privilege. I mean, there are some sort of vaguely-progressive characters from various Aaron Sorkin shows, but none of them are really fierce advocates for the end of social hierarchy.
Next I was thinking, ‘hey, how about noted masculinist Don Draper, versus noted feminist…er…huh…well…’
And I realized that every “feminist” character in television is basically a joke, or the Plot Obstacle, or isn’t really interested in seeing any changes to the status quo.
…So I guess I should concentrate more on less-political sources of TV-character conflicts. :dubious:
Also, you must’ve missed the movie Serenity. Numbers do not guarantee anything.
Kirk is straight? 
I mean, there are some sort of vaguely-progressive characters from various Aaron Sorkin shows, but none of them are really fierce advocates for the end of social hierarchy.