Fic because of actors

[arcanetrivia]

Is there a general term for the sort of thing represented by "Teninch" fic, where people put together random characters played by Billie Piper and David Tennant other than Rose and the Doctor? I have been browsing Hitchhiker's Guide fic for a couple of days and have run across both Sherlock and Khan in fics which I therefore assume have Martin Freeman's Arthur Dent in mind, since they have both been played by Benedict Cumberbatch.

(not sure what other tags might apply)

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[arcanetrivia]

What I had in mind was crossing over characters from otherwise unrelated fandoms because there also existed some fandom which a given pair/set had both been in. Like, A and B both played characters in series X, so let's now cross over A's character from series Y with B's character from series Z, even though there's not any other relation between series Y and Z.

[silveradept]

Oh, so "Captain Picard and the Tenth Doctor get crossed over because Patrick Stewart and David Tennant were in Hamlet together, despite there never being an official Doctor Who/Star Trek crossover" (to that point, anyway, as there have been some comic ones and the like.)