Sorry, but when we finally manifest the dark rEaL WoRld monarchy into existence by my 45,000 Serbian monarchy timelines, you’re going to be jealous.
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Alternate History General Discussion
- Thread starter Elektronaut
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Is Corsica domestic or foreign?
The Emperor of Man was a AH dork?! Everything makes sense!
It's Italian so it's Roman so it's closer to Gallo-Roman than the Frankish yoke. Not ideal but at least it's not Germanic barbarians I guess.
He really is peak SI protagonist isn't he.
Talwar
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"I'm just sitting here on a golden throne and they're feeding me all these delicious souls and praising me like I'm a god and it's pretty cool and all but after about eight thousand years I'm like, guys, round up some space marines and go out through the whole galaxy and bring me back the finest anime you can find, alright?"
“What’s anime, our dread and never-aging lord?”
That’s when I knew things were about to get awesome beyond my wildest dreams…
See you at dawn, Syagrius. Got my boys from Tornacum, ready and rearing for a good old fashioned scrap. We’ll see how yours from Noviodunum do.
I'd love to keep the bit going but I have to admit defeat because I've reached the limits of my historical knowledge on the period (which is very low).
As long as Getafix hasn't got into complementary medicine...
Does Look Both Ways, recently released on Netflix, qualify as "personal alternate history" in the vein of Blind Chance, Run Lola Run and Sliding Doors? I haven't watched it but from what I've read the POD is a pregnancy test that either comes out positive or negative, with each possibility explored in turn.
With that description I don't see why it wouldn't be. (And for a sillier example you have the movie Clue with its multiple endings)
How big a sub-genre is it in mainstream culture? It's a pretty massive one in fanfiction
(Mid-typing the post, I remember Black Mirror's Bandersnatch where you can greatly change the timeline)
(Mid-typing the post, I remember Black Mirror's Bandersnatch where you can greatly change the timeline)
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Perhaps this might be the topic of an article. Personally I wonder if some people came to "regular" AH through that subgenre.
TR1996
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It's been placed in my to watch list, and will probably be reported on in the film thread. But yeah, I very much got Sliding Doors vibes from the preview snippet.
On another note, if you search the movie one of the most prominent results is, uh...
I feel like there's room to flip the "goofy looking wunderwaffe" cliche on its head with a Vati/The Big One story featuring Northrop flying wings delivering atomic "presents" to Germany in a continued World War II.