This one's easy or hard depending how you look at it.
Teen Titans Go! To The Movies (2018)
Stan Lee cameos, and says "this is a DC movie!?! I gotta get outta here!".
Now, if you look at it as "a Stan Lee cameo is a Stan Lee cameo" then boom, open and shut.
Stan Lee crossed the universes, and we're done here.
But if you're a narrow focused nitpicky stickler type who says "that's just a joke in a silly little cartoon! That's not canon!" then okay, now I have to go the long way around to canonize that shit.
And you know I can.
Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans (2019)
Yep, the immediate sequel to TTGTTM fixes this right up.
The TTG Titans meet the regular 00's Titans, and then at the very end, they summon all of their multiverse incarnations, including their 80's comic book versions.
Once they canonize comics, I'm unstoppable.
The Uncanny X-Men and
The New Teen Titans (1982)
Original review here.
80's comic Teen Titans crossed with X-Men.
The big-baddie of that story being Darkseid.
Sandman: The Wake (1997)
Darkseid pops up in this in the dream world.
And we also get Superman and Batman.
Superman/Clark says...
"The one I hate is where I'm just an actor in a strange television version of my life. Have YOU ever had that dream?"
To which Batman answers...
"Doesn't everyone?".
Minimum, bare minimum, that means comics Superman and comics Batman dream of George Reeves, and Adam West.
The Flash (2023)
Original review here.
George Reeves and Adam West are in the DCU multiverse, thus we go from cartoon, to comic, to live-action DC.
But! So far, the live-action multiverse is a dream of comic book Superman/Batman, who co-exist with comic Teen Titans, who dimensionally cross with cartoon Teen Titans.
So, weirdly, so far, only cartoon Titans and their cartoon Stan Lee are real.
Superman vs. The Amazing Spider-Man (1976)
Original review here.
1976. Holy shit, I was one year old!
Anyway! Woken up non-dreaming (comic book) Superman met (comic book) Spider-Man.
Spider-Man:
Across The Spider-Verse (2023)
Original review here.
Comic book Spider-Man is among the cavalcade of multi-Spideys in this flick.
And we get crosses with the McGuire-verse, and the Garfield-verse, and the Venom-verse.
And the McGuire/Garfield/Venom-verses all cross in....
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
Original review here.
Which is in the MCU, which is where live-action Stan Lee lives.
So, cartoon Stan is real, comic book Titans are real, woken up comic book Superman is real, comic book Spidey is real, Miles-verse is real, MCU live-action Stan Lee is real.
So live-action Stan is cartoon Stan, and his cameo counts.
But the live-action DC-verse is still a dream.
Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness (2022)
Original review here.
Picks up not long after "No Way Home" and says dreams are peeks into parallel realities, so are real.
So, assuming this movie is real, then "No Way Home" is real, "Across The Spider-Verse" is real, Supes vs Spidey is real, and Superman's dream is real, so the DC-live-action-multiverse is real.
So Marvel and DC's live-action universes intersect, and they intersect at Stan Lee's animated Teen Titans cameo.
Nitpick wiggle-room cut off.
Bam.
Oh, and Stan is also his CG cartoon self in "Into The Spider-verse".
But that should go without saying at this point.
And, done!
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