Trying to Please Everyone: Or Converting multiple Pop Culture Utopias into a Timeline.

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Season 4​

"Princess Twilight" depicts a flashback to the battle with Nightmare Moon. However, instead of a single battle, it is clearly depicted as being the final battle of a war between the two. Twilight is also briefly sent away because their inability to control their new godlike powers threatens to put her friends in danger. Otherwise it is largely same as OTL

Episodes largely same as OTL include Castle Mane-ia, Flight to the Finish, Bats!, Rarity Takes Manehattan(Sparkler takes Manehattan), Surprise Pie(The "Surprise might be related to Applejack episode"), Three's a crowd, Surprise Guest(OTL Pinkie Pride, The Weird Al Yankovic as Cheese Sandwich episode), Simple Ways, Filli Vanilli(without Pinkie/Surprise making Fluttershy/Posey nervous), Maud(OTL's Maud Pie), Leap Faith, Testing Testing 1 2 3, "Trade Ya!"(plotwise, it's somewhat better written than OTL), Inspiration Session, and the finale Twilight's Kingdom though with a different explanation for the castle, which is the rebuilt castle in the Everfree Forest).

Power Ponies is instead a Power Rangers parody since an entire spinoff is already a Superhero parody, with the Mane Six gaining Power Ranger type abilities and megazords to battle an alien threat and giant monsters. After this threat is defeated, the alien mentor returns to space and removes their powers. It's generally assumed this episode inspired the creation of "The Equestranauts" from an episode of Bob's Burgers.

Firefly Falls(Rainbow Falls OTL) has a slightly different plot, namely Soarin is seriously injured but recovers sooner than expected after Firefly has replaced him, causing a bit of a conflict with who to keep on.

Daring Do is fictional ITTL, meaning Daring Don't is instead a Story within a story episode. while having an outer story revolving around Firefly learning a lesson about not harassing the author of their favorite series.

It ain't easy being Breezies is instead focusing on Posey trying to save the migration of the Breezies without the assistance of the other characters.

The Equestria Games episode was released last Season and more episodes were dedicated to depicting the titular events(Several Pony Reviewers got together and turned the reviews of the episodes themselves into crossovers, placing themselves in the role of announcers, reporters, spectators and sometimes performers).

Cutie Mark Crusaders episodes include "Twilight Time" and "Somepony to Watch over me."​

Season 5​

Episodes same as OTL include ,The Cutie Map, Castle Sweet Castle(albeit with a different setting), Make New Friends but Keep Discord, Princess Spike, Party Pooped, Amending Fences(though with a scene of Twilight pointing out that they left their friends without saying goodbye because they literally had to save the world), Canterlot Boutique, Sparkler Investigates(Rarity investigates), Made in Manehattan, Brotherhooves Social, Hearthbreakers, Scare Master, What about Discord?,The Hooffields and McColts, and the Mane Attraction.

Tanks for the Memories is actually about Tanks dying rather than going into hibernation.

The Lost Treasure of Griffonstone has the cast actually battle the monster that stole the golden idol rather than it appearing only as a skeleton.

The 100th Episode Slice of Life, leans even further into fan service territory. Doctor Whooves is even further implied to be the Doctor, stepping into what is clearly the Tardis with the lab being the interior. A more prominent David Tennant impersonation and implications of his canon past. Bon Bon's secret is instead that they are a changeling rather than a spy, though they are not evil. Several deleted scenes were added in as well.

Do Queens dreams of Magic Sheep? has Selene suffering from nightmares, revealed to be an entity known as the Tantabus that is a remnant from the Nighmare Rarity arc. It does not have the same origin as OTL and is instead an entity that possessed Selene.

Cutie Mark Crusader Episodes include Bloom and Gloom, Appleoosa's Most Wanted, and finally Crusaders of the Lost Mark, in which the Cutie Mark Crusaders finally get their Cutie Marks.

"The One Where Surprise Knows(OTL the One where Pinkie knows) actually hides the twist from the audience as well until Twilight it is outright spoken.

The Cutie Re-Mark features one universe in which rather than villains dominating(Flim and Flam's reality is implied to be one where Celestia and Tirek destroyed each other. As such the duo did not takeover. It's simply that there's no one to stop their corporate expansion), a different group of Ponies saved the day. This creates a world that is neither better no worse. Sunset Shimmer is in Twilight's role while Twilight is still active. There are different elements of Harmony wielders such as Cheese Sandwich and Doctor Whooves. Different villains have been reformed such as Chrysalis and Sombra while others such as Nightmare Moon(and therefore Luna) and Discord were killed. This provides a dilemma of whether or not to actually thwart Starlight Glimmer's plan as it could mean that reality would cease to exist, though eventually Sunset Shimmer herself convinces Twilight to go back. This leads to Starlight being thwarted and being shown the alternate realities they created through their actions. Starlight's origin is revealed when she is tricked into being brought to her own past. Here rather than Sunburst leaving, Sunburst is mentioned to have died, leaving Starlight with an anger towards the idea of perceived Destiny that cutie marks symbolize. Twilight proposes the idea of saving Sunburst and they succeed. However, rather than joining the cast, Starlight instead sends Twilight back and is shown to be assisting the alternate realities in thwarting the dominant villains in every universe.​

Season 6​

Due to the different plot of the previous Finale, while Shining Armor and Cadence's child Skyla is born. It is not the cause of the main conflict. The Episode ends with an army that includes Starlight Glimmer as a soldier, an alternate versions of Firefly(with a metal wing), Surprise and Maude, breaking into King Sombra's Crystal Palace. Sombra is revealed to have become aware of the method in which Starlight arrived in that universe and travels through into the main universe with an army. The conflict of "The Crystalling" is therefore a battle with the alternate universe Sombra, who is shown to be far stronger and has a mind controlled army. This also allows the Mane Six to meet their alternate counterparts. A sub plot has Starlight being forced to deal with meeting a surviving Sunburst as he becomes instrumental in thwarting the invasion.

Episodes largely the same as OTL are The Gift of the Maud(Pie OTL), Gauntlet of Fire, No Second Prances, Newbie Fly(Newbie Dash OTL), The Saddlow Review, Applejack's Day Off, Flutter Brutter, Spice Up Your Life, Stranger than Fan Fiction(without Daring Do actually appearing), Buckball Season, Viva Las Pegasus(though the antagonist, a Pony Elvis, is called Pelvis). P.P.O.V.(Pony Point of View), Where the Apple Lies, and Top Bolt.

Cutie Mark Crusader episodes include "On Your Marks","The Cart Before the Ponies", "The Fault in Our Cutie Marks."

A Hearth's Warming Tail is a play in universe.

28 Neighs Later, is TTL's 28 Pranks Later, it deals with a disease that essentially turns the casts into Zombies, though a cure is found and released just in time, turning everyone back to normal.

The Times They are a Changeling, is same as OTL but with the titular Changeling having a voice effect. When introduced he doesn't have a name as so it jokingly given the name "Steve".

Dungeons and Discords consists largely of the group playing the actual game. Discord hosts, using his reality warping abilities to make the game real, and the Mane Six serve as the players. DnD Jokes abound.

The season finale "To Where and Back Again" includes Sunset Shimmer, who is. reintroduced in the opening of the episode and goes with Starlight as she can relate to her situation. In the conclusion, the Changelings do not physically transform though the reformation still occurs.​

 

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This one's a bit of filler as I was touching up the Anime Stuff and realized I needed more detail on the Gundam stuff. Plus I like this format as the limit of 10 images creates an artificial barrier on how much content to cover per entry. Now I myself am not a Gundam fan so for this I've been going with my perception from people online and a few "What Could Have Beens" for the franchise.​

Gundam: 1991-2011​

Mobile Suit Gundam F91(1991-1992)​

In 1991, Gundam Creator Yoshiyuki Tomio wished to launch a new series in celebration of the 10th anniversary and for the occasion teamed up once more with Yoshikazu Yasuhiko and Junio Okawara to design the characters and Mecha respectively, though Yasuhiko agreed to write his story like. Mobile Suit Gundam F91 was released as a television series(OTL it became a movie instead). Unlike OTL, the suits remained large as overtime their designs had been getting bigger and bigger(OTL, the suits were made smaller to cut costs, which ironically had the opposite effect of making them cost more and because the fans had gotten used to larger Gundams, this was disliked).

The movie has a simpler plot, focusing on "Family problems". A new weapon called "Bugs" was introduced. Set 30 years after Char's Counterattack. The story was set in the year U.C. 0123. The Earth Federation colony Frontier IV is attacked by the Crossbone Vanguard, the army of Cosmo Babylonia. Seabook Arno and Cecily Fairchild are caught in the middle of a battle but lead a group of refugees to the lower levels and to a lifeboat. Cecily is abducted by the Crossbone Vanguard and revealed to be Berah Ronah, a member of the royal family of Cosmo Babylonia. Seabook retreats to a lifeboat.

Cecily meets her real father Carozzo and her grandfather Meitzer, who seek to overthrow the Earth Federation and replace it with an aristocracy. Cecily is forced to join them. The lifeboat with Seabook reaches another colony that is also attacked. Seabook finds the Space Ark and an inoperative Gundam F91 and enters it, piloting it to repel the attack. Cecily meanwhile is trained to be a mobile suit pilot and learns about a superweapon codenamed "Bug" which are revealed to be machines designed to hunt humans and intended to be used to attack earth. Seabook and Cecily worked together to destroy the bugs. Carozzo attacks both of them with Cecily being injured but Seabook finishes the fight and both leave for the Space Ark.

The existence of this series butterflies away "Stardust Memory", as there is no need to have two series running at the same time.

Mobile Suit Victory Gundam(1993-1994)​

An entry in the Gundam series meant to appeal to kids(due to SD Gundam now existing). The series is set in UC 0153, after the battle between the Federation Force and the Crossbone Vanguard from the previous series. The Earth is attacked by the BESPA, the army of the Zanscare Empire. A resistance movement called League Militaire battle BESPA. 13-year-old Üso Ewin who lives in Eastern Europe and his childhood friend Shahkti Kareen encounter ace Marbet Fingerhut and the rest of League Militaire and join them in piloting Victory Gundam against BESPA. The series interestingly waited until the fourth episode to introduce the Gundam.

Polka Gundam(1994-1995)​

Polka Gundam focused on a struggle between people on Mars attempting to get back to Earth and the Earthlings on the planet. The Title became a subject of parody, even a similarly named Album by Weird Al Yankovic. Similarly Vtuber Omaru Polka has admitted to being a fan of the series(OTL this series came undone due to Victory Gundam underperforming, here that series did better due to SD Gundam not existing. As such Fighter G Gundam is butterflied away).

Mobile Meteor(1995-1996)​

OTL's Gundam Wing. Meteor is very different as OTL it was based on Mobile Fighter G Gundam. The show focuses more on drama, which led to a Yaoi Fanbase(not as extreme as OTL despite such fandoms rising from less. While this would normally not be a problem, the Yaoi fandom has been shown to be far too psychotic, even sending death threats). Shuko Murase acted as the character designer with an appeal towards a female demographic. The protagonist was Duo Maxwell(OTL he was replaced by Heero Yuy, though Maxwell remained a character in the show).

Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team(1996-1999)​

Unlike OTL, director Takeyuki Kanda does not die in a car crash and lends his assistance to the series. The series is set in Southeast Asia where the Earth Federation and the Principality of Zeon are fighting a guerilla war. Zeon has an experimental mobile suit and its pilot Aina Sahalin. Ensign Shiro Amada of the Earth Federation became commander of the 08th MS team. Aina and Shiro share a starcrossed lovers relationship while being on opposite sides.

The show is actually a composite of several OTL Gundam shows as rather than creating new shows while one ran and create competition. The elements of the shows were mixed, butterflying away After Gundam X, and Endless Waltz.

Turn A Gundam(1999-2000)​

The Series, while still serving to connect all the Gundam series as OTL, is not set in the distant future and instead closer to the end of the century since most of the Gundam Series are set much closer to each other than OTL. As such it is more condensed, basically helping to resolve plot elements and connect the universe while having many of the cast of characters meet. It is effectively the finale to the franchise.

Mobile Suit Gundam Seed(2002-2003)​

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED was directed by Mitsuo Fukuda with music by Toshihiko Sahashi, who was a long time Gundam fan. Fukuda asked the President of Sunrise for a chance, which resulted in SEED. The concept of the NEwtype Gundam was explored. The series is told from the point of view of Kira before shifting to other characters. An entirely new set of characters was introduced and a new conflict, seeing many years in the future.

Humanity is in the "Cosmic Era" and has been split between normal humans called "Naturals' and the augmented called "Coordinators". The two are at war due to Naturals being jealous of the superhuman abilities of the Coordinators and commit hate crimes, leading all Coordinators to flee into space in a colony called PLANTS. The War breaks out but the Earth forces are not united and fight amongst each other. One of the PLANT Spacestations is deatroyed by a nuclear bomb and PLANTS counter attacks by halting all nuclear reactions and electricity, resulting in Mobile Suits providing the edge.

Five advanced mobile suits are created on the space colony Heliopolis, along with a battleship called the Archangel. The Colony is attacked by ZAFT forces, the military of the PLANTS. Kira Yamato pilots the GAT-X105 strike mobile suit and fights the invaders with the survivors of the damaged base fleeing to Alaska. Kira is seemingly killed by his childhood friend and ZAFT soldier Athrun Zala. Kira survives and stops the battle between the two armies and joins a faction intend on ending the war as both sides have superweapons they intend to use to commit genocide. The war ending in the signing of a peace treaty. Seed was a runaway hit but attempts at a sequel fell through due to creative differences, Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny. does not exist ITTL, elements of it going towards a film instead.

Gundam Seed: The Movie(2004)​

While Plans for a Gundam movie had existed for some time, the mixed reception to the Original 1980's Gundam film led to hesitancy to greenlit projects like a Live Action Film titled G Savior. The Film was released in theatres and greenlit due to Gundam Seed being the then most successful entry in the Gundam franchise. It was also the last project scriptwriter Chiaki Morosawa worked on as she left Gundam soon after due to being treated for Brain Cancer.

Mobile Suit Gundam 00(2007-2009)​

Hiroomi Iketani approached Seiji Mizushima, who had worked on the first Fullmetal Alchemist anime series.

The series is set in 2307 AD. As a result of a loss of fossil fuels, humanity had to search for a new source of power. Dyson Rings were discovered, massive arrays that collect solar power. A group known as the Union controls the Americas and the Human Reform Leafue controlling Australia, New Zealand and Japan. The AEU controls Asia and the Middle East. The Advanced European Union controls Europe. Constant war over resources has begun. A movement to unite humanity through the use of four Gundams has begun called Celestial Being. The protagonists include 16-year-old Setsuna F. Seiei.

The three major powers united as the United Nations Army to counter the Gundams with their own which overpower Celestial Being. The United Nations Army then vow to destroy all Gundam.

While a well received series, the first season ended Reservoir Dogs style, which meant that any attempt to continue the story with the same characters would sour the ending to Season one, making the series limited to only one season.

Model Suit Gunpla Builders Beginning G(2010-2011)​

Released for the 30th Anniversary of the franchise. This was a How to Video that served as a guide towards Gunpla(the process of buying and working on Gundam figures). The most surprising part of the video is that it actually had a plot.​

 

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History of the Marvel Universe: The Iron Age
As the Comic Book Industry threatened to Crash, the creators did what they always did and tried to save the industry in their own way. Let us now dive into the stories on the page.

The struggling Marvel UK was given more focus by the X-Men including the mutant Psylocke, who never truly gained popularity[1]. Another mutant, the Fillipino Bishop, did become popular among a new audience(changed to Black OTL due to X-Men's large number of Black fans).

While at Marvel, Rob Liefeld and Jim Valentino pitched a Young Avengers series, which was folded into the New Warriors series. The series starred Namorita, Speedball, the teen version of Vance Astro), Firestar, and Richard Rider, who went by the name "Torpedo" after having lost his Nova abilities. Several new characters named Brahma, Photon, Cougar, and Combat also appeared(consequently meaning they are not reused for Liefeld's Youngblood series).

Another Comic Series Cyberforce, was an X-Men Book ITTL as planned. Concerning Mutants experimented on with Cybernetics. There was also a Technet Limited Series and the release of X-Terminators(name for X-Force ITTL which was chosen to prevent Liefeld from using the name). The division of the X-Men franchise into two books in 1991 had various effects. One team consisted of Wolverine, Beast, Forge, Strong Guy, Jubilee, Psylocke, Storm (in a new costume) and Rogue, with Magneto occasionally. The other series had Xavier, standing up, with Jean in an updated Phoenix costume, Storm (in the familiar '90s costume), Wolverine, Colossus, Gambit(another resurrected character) and Beast. There was also one team drawn by Whilce Portacio that included Cyclops, Jean, Archangel, Iceman, Gambit and Colossus with Xavier leading. The three teams would alternate on missions. Famously, Xavier was killed off, and a new antagonist appeared as a creepy Skrull woman and the return of Selene alongside Matsu'o, Omega Red, Longshot and Dazzler. Selene was the leader of the Upstarts, Jim Lee's replacement for the Hellfire Club. X-Factor #78 had the Mutant Liberation Front attacking a scientist who has developed a way to identify the X-Gene in unborn fetuses. The story had the scientist performing abortions on said mutant fetuses, with Wolfsbane's religious pro-life stance factoring into the story. John Byrne wrote a series titled North and South. Which treated Northstar's sexuality like that of any straight character. Something revolutionary for the time and which was done over Jim Shooter's head due to him fighting a hostile takeover at the time.

Marvel's Robocop

Marvel published a licensed RoboCop comic book series set in the continuity of the films[2]. Another licensed franchise for Marvel was Star Wars which it held onto the license for and continued to write stories set within that Universe, which helped the company greatly during the rough time of the 90's.

The Cover to What if Magneto had formed the Original X-Men?

Claremont and Byrne collaborated on a What If...? issue, What if Magneto Formed the X-Men? In this timeline, Charles Xavier is killed while he and a young Magneto are fighting the Hellfire Club. Magneto thus vows to carry on his friend's wish. The X-Men become essentially an expanded version of the Brotherhood, including Cyclops, Quicksilver, Iceman, Beast(who as the Brotherhood caused more and more chaos, is captured by Weapon X and experimented to see if he would survive the process, granting him mechanical Wolverine Claws), Archangel (who wielded a flaming sword gained from a defeated foe), Scarlet Witch and Jean Grey (who is called Psyke instead of Marvel Girl, as Charles Xavier came up with the Marvel Girl name). The issue saw the mutants defeating the Fantastic Four and Doctor Doom (with Magneto taking advantage of Doom's metal armor to kill him), only to be forced to save the world when The Coming of Galactus occurred at the end of the story. This reality was later revisited in the X-Men storyline Age of Apocalypse.

Marvel approved of more Slapstick stories after the completion of The Awesome Slapstick. James Fry expanded his Rogue's Gallery to include established Marvel villains such as The Toad Men and the poultry-based team-up of The Black Talon, Gamecock, and Bantam — revealing them to be rival siblings in a battle that ended with all the heroes doubled over with laughter at their expense.

Fabian Nicieza had Squirrel Girl join the New Warriors and develop a crush on Speedball.

Mark Waid used Kang as a major villain in his Captain America run, while Kurt Busiek used the villain in The Avengers, which ran side by side. Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross took over the Iron Man title after John Byrne left it. Ross and Busiek co-created the Iron Man armor to be used during that run.

The mysterious M in Generation X was revealed to be the twins Nicole and Claudette, with there being no real "Monet St. Croix"(as it was only an alias they'd use in their merged form). Penance also became a Bosnian refugee by the name of Yvette.

With the status quo changing events of the Spider-Man Clone Saga and the X-Men: Age of Apocalypse, it was now time to rescue the Avengers from their declining popularity. Peter David wrote the event Avengers: Disassembled. Which involved Kang, Ultron and other villains, nuking the Avengers mansion, seemingly killing most of the then current team and forcing the other Avengers to come together to fight the villains. While many heroes were killed, the villains were defeated and Captain America was revealed to be alive, placed in a type of cryogenic stasis until his wounds healed(A bit of a cross of OTL Avengers Disassembled and The Last Avengers Story).

Daredevil 2099
Another strategy meant to tackle declining sales was the extension of the Marvel 2099 line. Mark Waid released the multi-issue Daredevil 2099 title. Not all the Marvel 2099 entries were winners. The Ravage 2099 series failed, resulting in Doom 2099 sending Ravage and all the denizens of Hellrock Island to another dimension, and then destroying the island. In Contrast, Fantastic Four 2099 became one of the line's best selling titles(OTL a writer's strike caused the book to be cancelled. No writer's strike takes place). The most famous of the characters introduced in the 2099 line was Miguel O'Hara as Spider-Man 2099. Among the villains introduced in his series were Venom, who used the the corpse of Miguel's friend Aaron Delgado as a host, and Goblin 2099, who was revealed to be Father Jennifer, the sister of Miguel's dead fiancée. The success of the line expanded even outside the comic medium. There was a video-game tie in named Marvel 2099: One Nation Under Doom, released on the original PSX. To tie into the Spider-Man 2099 series, an animated Cartoon was created(OTL the Spider-Man 2099 cartoon was changed due to DC Comics and Warner Bros releasing the similar Batman Beyond. It became Spider-Man Unlimited). The Marvel 2099 ended in one of the biggest "Kill em All" moments in Comic History. All the heroes in 2099 were wiped out and the way made for the Marvel 2101 line up, which featured characters living in the post-apocalyptic Savage Land. After the end of Spider-Man 2099 vol.3, a new series was released named Defenders 2100. The series featured several 2099 heroes such as Captain America and Strange (not a doctor), and Miguel reuniting with his family.

Screenshot from One Nation Under Doom

McDuffie worked with Tom DeFalco (the future creator of Spider-Girl) and Mark Gruenwald on a pitch for a series of interlocking street level books set in the Marvel Universe. The title included a new Heroes for Hire, a radical ReTooling of Shang-Chi, and a team book led by Monica Rambeau which incorporated the Shadowline series from Marvel's Epic imprint.

Marvel's licensed 1997 Micronauts relaunch series was written by Shon C. Bury, with pencils by Cary Nord and ink by Dan Green. There was also a Marvel tie-in comic for the Micronauts animated series.

Jim Valentino proposed the Guardians of the Galaxy 1990 series be set in the 31st century, Tom DeFalco suggested the series be set in the 35th century(an idea used for the Galactic Guardians in issue #8, and the "Galactic Guardians" miniseries). The two split the difference and set the team in the 33rd century. Issue #19 featured the 1000 year old Wolverine after Rancor had already appropriated his skeleton. Issue #22 was titled "Enter: Shadowhawk", the new name for the dark Starhawk(OTL the name was used for an Image character instead which does not exist here). Jim Valentino's run continued longer than OTL and does not include #28-29, two throwaway plots brainstormed with Rob Liefeld before leaving the book. The two issues had a Masters of Evil team with Absorbing Man and Yellowjacket II, who would betray the team, ally with the Guardians, and leaving Vance Astro at the Avengers Mansion, with guest appearances by the New Warriors and Marvel Boy. Issues #30-51, by Jim Valentino continuing the plot of the Guardians in the 20th century, meeting the Starhawk re-living his life in an earlier time period mentioned in #7, and the repercussions of Vance idolizing Captain America in #30-34. #35-36 featured a War of the Worlds and Killraven story. #37-39 took place in one of Kang's alternate realities. #40 was a double-sized issue featuring a wedding between Vance and Aleta, with an older future Gladiator flashing back to the wedding in #41-43 and the future Galactics encountering a remnant of the Shi'ar Empire confronting the Badoon invasion. Doctor Doom, appearing in #23, returned in #44. #45-50 was the grand finale featuring the invasion of Earth and the death of Galactus and Vance Astro. #51 was the epilogue, featuring Vance's funeral, followed by a year's worth of stories exploring new worlds with no ties to the Marvel Universe. Other story parts included the female Adam Warlock joining the Galactic Guardians, and Yondu's god Anthos being related to Thanos. Another miniseries followed after the funeral, focusing on the evolution of the Guardians from 500 years in the future, with thousands of members, including those who abused their powers as dictators of other worlds. One Character, Major Victory was named after a Timely character. Vance travelling into the past during Timely Comics' creation established a stable time loop by leading to the creation of the company Marvel Comics in the Marvel Universe. Jim Valentino led a Guardians of the Galaxy reboot similar to Supreme Power, with four story arcs outlined.

Following the Daredevil storyline "Fall from Grace", D.G. Chichester's run went to #350. When the series was continued, Brian Michael Bendis had Bullseye appear in Daredevil #36 as part of the storyline where Matt Murdock's identity was leaked. Kevin Smith would next use Bullseye. Smith wanted to do a story about Daredevil regaining his sight(becoming less competent in the process), but nixed the idea after Scott Lobdell already wrote such a story. The result was the iconic "Guardian Devil" storyline.

In the Marvel UK line, There were further stories of the Warheads, wormhole-travelling mercenaries funded by Mys-Tech. Warheads: Black Dawn had two more miniseries in 1993. The all-female Virago troop was featured in the four issue Loose Cannons limited series by Dan Abnett and Mark Harrison. Dark Guard was about Marvel UK characters teaming up to fight Mys-Tek, and was followed by Dark Guard Gold. Death's Head Gold, by Dan Abnett and Liam Sharp, was published as Death Head's Gold #0, the flip cover of Death's Head II Vol 2 #14, followed by Death's Head Gold #1. Issues #2-3 followed, wherein Tuck was seduced by Cicatrice, Death's Head II became a sort of god and met his future self. Death's Head II had a story where Death's Head II and Tuck team up with the Punisher. The Punisher also appeared in Super-Soldiers #9. The Red Mist crossover, about the Red Mist 2020 virus introduced into the Super Soldier program, went through Super-Soldiers #9-10, Wild Thing #9-10, Bloodrush, Death Duty, and 'Roid Rage. Wild Angels was a Europe-exclusive Dark Angel and Wild Thing crossover published by Panini/Marvel Italia.

In 1994, after coming off of the odd crossover between Archie and The Punisher(which had with Archie's gang and the Punisher teaming up to bring down a criminal that looks like Archie) another crossover materialized between Marvel Comics and Harvey Comics, which had Ghost Rider and Casper switch places. An excerpt from the story has been transcribed below:

Ghost Rider and Casper

Cut back to the void, as Casper appears. He's confused, but before he has much time to think about his situation---

Danny, back in the bank, is on the ground. He crawls behind a pillar, hoping to hide himself from the other's eyes. The bankrobbers are getting all the cash. Danny calls on the GhostRider. He begins to melt away in a cloud of hell fire.... melts away... going into the void.

In the Void, Casper starts to disappear. He is scared and confused.

Casper appears in Danny's place... in the middle of the bank robbery. Everything in the bank freezes for a second as they all gape at this funny little ghost. Casper, confused, says his name.

One of the super- bankrobbers spouts off some generic supervillain dialog and then shoots at Casper with a laser blast. Casper is freaked. He's never seen so much violence. He fights the impulse to run away. He has to help the innocent people.

Casper grabs the guns out of the bankrobbers' hands and flies them out the window. He then takes the velvet ropes from the line dividers and proceeds to tie them all up together. When the police come in, they find the super robbers tied up.

When the police captain asks questions about who did all this fine work, Casper appears in front of him. The police captain then proceeds to let out the most shrill, high pierced scream of fright ever heard in a comic book. Casper has to cover his ears.

They start shooting at him, and Casper flies out of the bank, into the Marvel Universe, a wanted man.

The Ghost Rider stands in the forest. Wendy is very scared of him. She keeps calling him Casper, but GR doesn't respond. Pause. Then, GR asks what place this is. Wendy explains the situation. GR takes a look around He senses the purity of this place... the goodness...

***GR laughs. (This is part of his shtick now... the menacing laugh) His laugh bellows through the forest. The machines stop work for a second... it was even scary to them. GR tells her if she wants a champion, she'll get a champion. This place is well worth defending. GR creates his bike out of hellfire and proceeds to go against the machines. He does a good job of flattening the first few dozen, but they seem to be self regenerating.

The evil Mr. Rich shows up and begins to laugh. He presses a special button on a remote control, and the robots start jumping on top of each other, connecting like Lego pieces. There's nothing they can do. Their world is over. Robot Rich jumps into the giant robot body and becomes one with the rest. He gets bigger, absorbing the robots around him.

He becomes a giant and grabs GR in his giant fist. He then opens his mouth wide and swallows him up. The giant robot laughs. Maybe he's found a new power source after all.

Wendy whips up a lightning bolt and knocks the robot Mr. Rich down. He grabs her, and laughs as he starts to squeeze.

-Excerpt from Casper Meets Ghost Rider.

An intercompany crossover occurred in Onslaught(The ending concluded with his defeat but no outcome akin to the events of Heroes Reborn. The character of Joseph, a magneto clone, is never introduced ITTL). Anti-Heroes were becoming popular and the idea of turning existing characters into Anti-Heroes was tossed around, such as turning Iron Man into a villain, but this idea was shot down. Instead, the character of Deadpool was given his own series, where he was forced to share a room with Blind Al, a blind woman revealed to be the first Black Widow. The Thunderbolts was a series about villains who conceived a scheme of posing as a Superhero team, only to enjoy acting as Genuine Superheroes. Kurt Busiek introduced Yellowjacket (Rita DeMara) on the team and explored her back story, such as revealing that she was living under the name of her dead best friend after being pursued by the mob. One day, two fans of the Thunderbolts showed a fake ad for a 'Tastee Fruit Pies' starring the characters to Kurt Busiek, who liked it enough to show it to editorial. They came up with the idea to reillustrate the ad by giving it to Marie Severin, who had drawn many of the infamous Hostess Pie ads in the seventies. She did indeed recreate an authentic version of the ad.

The Original Thunderbolts Hostess Fruit Pie Ad

Captain America vol. 3 #14 by Mark Waid dived more into the Red Skull's twisted perspective, including the Red Skull's origins with Hitler, and his viewing Captain America as a Hitler figure that had to be killed. After orchestrating Captain America's brief death, many writers felt the character needed to be reimagined to tackle on Captain America's successor of Sam Wilson. This was made more apparent, as the Marvel Comics events MC2 kicked off, depicting the children of Marvel characters, including a teenage May Parker as Spider-Girl and Samantha Wilson(daughter of Sam Wilson as the new Captain America, or rather American Dream), in the future. Indeed, several new events were released, both minor and major to shake things up as the new Millennium approached. Some of these were small steps, such as the character of Triathlon being revealed to be gay, and more mixing of characters from each titles, as Chris Claremont had Kitty Pryde serve as the live-in nanny to Franklin Richards in his Fantastic Four book, which took place after the cancellation of Excalibur. This storyline allowed for the teasing of Marvel's next event, which tied into the Skrull Woman seemingly responsible for Xavier's death. The storyline was furthered in 1999 when Elektra, who had recently reappeared, was revealed to be a Skrull, the real Elektra was never resurrected after her death from Bullseye. This turn of events led readers to question what they thought they knew as any character killed and revived may in fact had been a Skrull.

The 12 issue series Avengers: In Chains, concerned the Avengers travelling to a world where Captain America was never frozen(previously explored in an issue of What if?(As a result of this series neither the similar Mutant X or Avengers: Forever exist). This story was largely seen as Age of Apocalypse for Avengers with its revival of the old What If? story. However, it also paved the way for the next Avengers event Kurt Busiek penned a Y2K story called Y2Kang where time travelling villain Kang used technology to, when midnight struck on December 31, 1999, it would suddenly be January 1, 1900, transforming the Marvel Earth into that time era, including the heroes. It was the largest event to involve Kang and was a further boost to the Avengers.

Footnotes

[1]Psylocke never received their infamous racelift, a British woman's mind becoming trapped in an Asian Woman's body. This means Psylocke does not become as popular as OTL since after this point they became so popular that the incident, which was meant to be temporary, became permanent.

[2] OTL losing the rights resulted in the creation of Deathlok instead. Deathlok doesn't exist ITTL. That Book's success transferred to the Robocop comic series). ​

 

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History of the DC Universe: The Iron Age
The comics industry experienced a brief boom in the early 1990s, thanks to a combination of speculative purchasing (mass purchase of the books as collectible items, with intent to resell at a higher value as the rising value of older issues, was thought to imply that all comics would rise dramatically in price) and several storylines which gained attention from the mainstream media. While these storylines were successful, the "Collectable" gimmick didn't last long and was quickly abandoned.

The Poster for the Film Adaptation of Road to Perdition.

DC had introduced other imprints such as Piranha Press, Vertigo(for Mature readers), the short lived Science Fiction imprint Helix, and Impact Comics, the heroes of which were part of their own shared universes. This allowed DC to diversify their content, which they did further with more creator-owned projects. The resulting works were critically lauded, mostly from Vertigo. DC made a deal with Milestone Media that led to a line of more racially diverse Superheroes provided by Milestone such as Static Shock. DC also released Paradox Press to publish multi artist focused stories in individual genres. One Crime Story in this collection, Road to Perdition, would be adapted into a film with other Adaptations of Graphic Novels following.

Monarch's identity revealed

After Legends, in which the villain Darkseid had his minions turns Earth against its heroes, DC's next event was Armageddon 2001 in 1991. This event revealed Captain Atom would become the villain Monarch in one of many possible futures when a time traveller came back and was able to touch people and see their futures. The time traveller became the Superhero Waverider and made contact with several superheroes, glimpsing several possible futures(which are actually stories set in established futures such as that of Dark Knight Returns and Twilight of the Superheroes). Captain Atom fought Monarch when he emerged from his own time following Waverider and sacrificed himself to kill the villain, ensuring that Monarch's future would not come to pass. The event was then largely forgotten. Low sales meant DC was kicked into high gear. They would put out a remarketing of the character Ambush Bug, which would instead be marketed as DC's answer to Deadpool, often using fourth wall breaking humor. Ambush Bug though would eventually fall to the wayside as Harley Quinn was introduced and essentially became DC's Deadpool in his place.

After Gaiman completed his Swamp Thing run in 1993, Fantasy award winning writer China Miéville took over and radically changed the series in his traditional style of subverting Fantasy tropes. His run on Swamp Thing is considered amazing by many and he is often put on the same pedestal as Moore and Gaiman for their quality Swamp Thing runs. As a result, Swamp Thing continued to see publication due to the talented work by the authors[1].

Wonder Woman and the Star Riders Tie in Comic Series.

Wonder Woman and the Star Riders Action Figures

Wonder Woman had an animated TV Show called Wonder Woman and the Star Riders. The series was made by DC and Mattel to sell toys. Diana, Donna and Stephanie were joined by Dolphine and Ice on the show. Other DC Characters such as Amethyst Princess of Gemworld would appear. The show was clearly the Western Answer to Sailor Moon, however, Bruce Timm would incorporate the series into the DCAU when introducing Wonder Woman. In the Comics, a Wonder Woman Crossover with Xena was made and later adapted into an episode of Xena proper, with a cameo from Linda Carter, though a different actress playing Wonder Woman.

Plans were made for the Heroes of the DC Universe to go through changes. Several crossovers occurred at once to preserve the iconic versions of the characters. This resulted in an interesting Crossover with Marvel. While the companies were on good terms and crossed over several times before, this crossover was different, creating an entire new line called the Amalgam Universe, centering on a merged universe containing both heroes.

The sorcerer character Doctor Fate, or rather his series, underwent a transformation, The new direction dived into the darker areas of the Supernatural(this is due to the ideas that became the comic series Scarab originally being planned for a Doctor Fate series), helping to bring the series in line with the popular Image comics at the time. Green Arrow, Oliver Queen lost his arm in his own series, leading to his retirement(an allusion in Universe to his fate in The Dark Knight Returns). He at this time discovered he had a son he didn't know about previously named Connor Hawke, who he would have a good relationship with, training him to be the new Green Arrow. The comic series The Death of Superman killed off the Man of Steel and introduced the new villain Doomsday, and new heroes such as Steel, the Eradicator and Cyborg Superman in the aftermath. The storyline ended with Superman's resurrection(unlike OTL Coast City is not destroyed).

The biggest change however, would occur to Green Lantern, as a young writer named Geoff Johns was given the chance to revamp the character in an event known as Emerald Dawn(avoiding the name Twilight to avoid confusion with the Moore story). The story depicted Sinestro forming his own Corps and attacking the Lanterns with all their enemies to initiate the Blackest Night, a prophecy discovered by Hal Jordan's predecessor Abin Sur about how the Green Lantern Corps would fall at the hands of their enemies(ironically an idea introduced by Alan Moore). The resulting battle was intense. Johns also introduced the villain Parallax as an entity imprisoned with the Green Lantern Power Battery. While the Sinestro Corps are defeated, even leading to Hal Jordan killing Sinestro, in the sequel Blackest Knight, Parallax corrupts the Lantern Power Battery forcing Hal Jordan, Guy Gardner and John Stewart to fight the Corps and destroy it, including blowing up the sentient Green Lantern Planet Mogo with a bomb in his Core as he was creating sentient rings. The act of killing Mogo falls on John Stewart who was placed in a similar situation in the Justice League Story arc Cosmic Odyssey. The strongest Green Lantern Sodam Yat is also slain thanks to the Ring's weakness to yellow. The Lanterns also discover other Lantern Corps exist and recruit their help, each taking on different rings and defeating the Corps. Only one Green Ring survives thanks the Guardian Ganthet. It arrives in the hands of an artist named Kyle Rayner. The next arc War of the Lanterns, introduces the Black Lanterns and to an extent, the White Lanterns. It involves Kyle Rayner having to master each ring to gain access to the White Lantern of Life and defeat an invasion. This event grew to involve the entire DC Universe combatting the undead, becoming an Arc. To add fuel to the event, Superman was believed to be Dead at the time and appeared as a member of the undead. Hal Jordan ultimately sacrificed himself to defeat the Black Lanterns and save the Universe at the end of the event, with Kyle Rayner succeeding him as Earth's Green Lantern.

Not Inked Cover of Alex Ross's Batboy

Alex Ross wrote a series titled Batboy, about an alternate Damian Wayne, and his ally, Superman, Jr. Most of the original heroes had by that point retired save for Green Lantern Hal Jordan with the Teen Titans becoming the Justice League. As the story progressed, Batboy realized his world was too perfect before learning the truth - he was under the thrall of the wish granting parasitic Black Mercy and his family was fighting to save him. This story introduced Damian Wayne, a character previously seen in the debatably canon Batman: Son of the Demon into continuity. He was made the child of Bruce Wayne and Talia Al Ghul born before Bruce and Selina married. The story ended with him going out and finding his father with the intent to become Robin. During his original run of Robin, Chuck Dixon had Tim Drake, the third Robin, move on to become Blue Beetle for a period of time. Dixon had set up foreshadowing by establishing Tim as a fan of Ted Kord, and giving Ted a heart condition that would make it more difficult for him to do strenuous crime-fighting. Tim would then take on the role, while Stephanie Brown would temporarily become Robin in his absence until Damian was ready for it. Tim would then go back to being Robin, and the "Blue Beetle" name would be franchised out, with Ted Kord training other new Beetles.

DC continued the Vertigo line for stories, sometimes welding them into continuity. Christopher Priest introduced a DC original character called the Avenger and in his Run on Triumph, Confirmed the Hero as closeted gay, elements later folded into DC continuity. Neil Gaiman concluded the last Volume of The Sandman with the speeches of Alianore, Odin, and Death in full, as well as Superman(possibly brought there by Death), at Morpheus's eulogy. This would not be the only time Superman appeared outside continuity.

Image from the Superman/Rocketeer crossover

Superman was featured in a Crossover with the Rocketeer ins a three issue story that had the two working together to save Orson Welles when his War of the Worlds broadcast becomes very real. It was written by Dave Stevens(only proposed OTL. Superman: War of the Worlds doesn't exist which has the same plot without the Rocketeer. This story is set on Earth Two in 1938.). Crossovers also occurred with Batman, due to the popularity of the Batman: Animated Series, which received a Comic tie in, some stories of which were later adapted into episodes. "Jolly Ol' Saint Nicholas", one of a series of shorts in The Batman Adventures Holiday Special later adapted in The New Batman Adventures episode "Holiday Knights", had a scene where Barbara Gordon, banking on the panicking crowd seeing Clayface being too busy panicking, changed into Batgirl in front of them. According to Bruce Timm, it was based off of a panel from an issue of Supergirl. A Batman/Gen¹³ crossover was created by DC and Image-Wildstorm, and drawn by Gen 13 artist J. Scott Campbell.

Panel from Kingdom Come depicting the Battle at the end of the original Twilight of the Superheroes.

For the tenth Anniversary of Twilight of the Superheroes in 1997, Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross penned the excellent story known as Kingdom Come. The Story is a prequel and sequels of sorts, as it shows the formation of Superman's own House(and also serves as a less detailed origin for Batman's faction, which is justified given its origin in The Dark Knight Returns). The story then shifts to other focuses during the actual events of Twilight. It does however Retcon the ending and allow Superman and Wonder Woman to survive and help rebuild by revealing they only appeared to die. At around the same time, Jim Lee's Wildstorm imprint was bought by DC. He approached his former coworkers at Image about an idea concerning both the Image and DC heroes by moving some of the Image heroes like Spawn to the DC Universe and this idea was greenlit(OTL this idea never materialized but the creators were enthusiastic for it). DC had acquired the heroes. Many joked that it was time for another Crisis. Ironically Peter David Joke that they'd have to kill Supergirl again. Two versions of the character had been introduced Post-Crisis. The first was Kara Kent, who in the new Universe, now went by Power Woman and was the daughter of Superman and Lois Lane, the two having been married shortly after the Crisis. They had chosen to reintroduce Supergirl aka Kara-Zor El, after Kara Kent had become Power Woman. With so much continuity, many writers were given permission to explore the early days of the heroes such as Jeph Loeb and Paul Smith's sequel to Batman: Year One in 1999, and Trinity, which provided a style take on the early days of DC's Trinity (Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman).

Twilight Superman enters the main DC Universe.

The Kingdom, the sequel to Kingdom Come, focused more on the civilian identities rather than the heroes themselves. Gog, the predecessor of Magog from Kingdom Come, appeared to attempt to murder the New Gods before Magog killed him. Superman of the Twilight Universe would enter the main Universe of DC and would take steps to prevent the dark future of Twilight from coming to pass on the Main Universe. He would then permanently reside in the main DC Universe. Lois Lane was also revealed to have been pregnant with Superman's second child. A Superman/Dirty Pair crossover by Adam Warren occurred at this time as well.

Changes had occurred to Batman as well. He had been crippled by the new villain Bane and briefly replaced by Jean Paul Valley in the role of Batman. Eventually, Bruce would return to the role he created. Jean Paul Valley would meanwhile became close with another of Batman's new apprentices, Cassandra Cain( introduced earlier than OTL due to John Byrne requesting an Asian American Batgirl, which he found fitting since Bats are good luck in several East Asian countries). Outside of the Batman franchise, its most famous alternate version was under attack. Frank Miller began to dislike other artists providing takes on his Universe as Alan Moore had written his own continuation to The Dark Knight Returns by connecting it with Twilight of the Superheroes. DC found Miller harder to work with and Miller angrily quit DC, vowing never to work for them again. He then seemingly retired from Comics for good after injuring his writing hand[2].

After the Crisis. The Team Titans were introduced as future version of the Teen Titans. Their mysterious leader was a grown-up Danny Chase from the future, something which should have been impossible given his death. There was also a team of teenage, alternate universe versions of the Wolfman/Perez Titans that wound up interacting with their current selves. Wolfman also had a Titans group modeled after the original five-member '60s team, but with more modern attitudes to contrast the originals' campy "goody-two shoes" personalities. Phil Jimenez, Wolfman's successor on the book, did a story with Duela Dent (previously shown as an asylum patient in one issue of his run), who was revealed to be a member of the '60s-70s team. Having been stranded in the future and separated from her team, she went insane and stole a special hourglass that allowed her to warp reality. Jimenez also revealed the Team Titans were from an alternate Earth(likely the Twilight future), and revealed the Terra from the future, Terra II, to be a lesbian and an earth elemental-type. He also killed off the character Mirage.

The New Titans had a largely adult cast at the time. The Team Titans series was created and would start with the cast as Decoy Protagonists, only to get rid of them all around issue #12, introduce the alternate universe Wolfman/Perez Titans as the new protagonists, and then finally rename the book Teen Titans. The new versions of the classic Titans were much younger, allowing them to bring back the Teen part of the name without making it an Artifact Title. The series also gave the character of Pantha an origin story, written by Louise Simonson. In it, Pantha was revealed to be a bookish woman transformed into a monstrous creature by the HIVE(OTL, Pantha did not receive an origin story until after she was killed off). Donna Troy would create a new costume after the "Total Chaos" arc, from the villain's cape. Peterson, working as editor, had her husband Terry Long killed off at the hands of a demonic Raven[3]. The Teen Titans continued to grow overtime including adding a character named Split to the team. His name became appropriate as around the same time the Teen Titans team itself split when Marv Wolfman brought Nightwing back to the team only for him to clash with Arsenal(Roy Queen) over leadership, leading to the team being split in two between the Titans West and Titans East teams.

Artist Rob Liefeld was given a spinoff book of the Teen Titans called "The Hybrid" and a team of villains called the Rogue Titans, which an editorial mandate requested be changed to Terror Titans. While Liefeld had his fans, he never gained much popularity, he did later go onto work for Marvel and is known for creating the characters of Deadpool and Cable, the former out of a desire to bring back the deceased Deathstroke. Other teams would take over these characters and give them new life, turning Deadpool into a comedic character and Cable into a hero from the future. Liefeld's design also helped create the modern design for most action figures, allowing them to have more points of articulation at the arms and joints.

Tim Drake joined the Teen Titans in Volume 2. Wildcat and Nightwing acted as mentors. Raven and Omen were also members. The group contended with alien hybrid children. Three children were left unaccounted for. One became the villain Sweet 16 while the other two were other wannabe heroes that showed up at a membership drive (Kid Emotion and The Solution). The new series had a spin-off called "Titans LA". It involved Terra II trying to find out the secrets of her past. Jay Faerber wrote a story where Slizzath, nemesis of Tempest, resurrected all the dead Titans as an army to fight the current team. Faerber included Mr. Jupiter(the team's funder) being killed off, with the Titans having to solve the mystery of his murder. Faeber's successor, Barry Kitson did more with specific characters like Bumblebee, Lilith, Terra II, and Risk, Lilith stopped using the Omen codename. Faerber also had Dolphin join the Titans team and become a more active character. The villain Epsilon was introduced and later revealed to be a serial killer that would hop dimensions to murder heroes. He was revealed to be the alternate version of Danny Chase from another Universe where he did not die, revealing he was the leader of the Team Titans.

When Teen Titans volume 3 began, Static Shock was part of the team, as he was coming off of the popular Static Shock TV show at the time. Geoff Johns had his Titans team to fight the Scarecrow in an early arc. Blackfire also appeared. Johns also wanted to use Supergirl but due to the "reign in Hell" arc, couldn't and created Miss Martian as a "Naive, Fun alien Chick". Johns then had Superboy regaining his confidence to fend off the "Titans of Tomorrow" or the Team Titans, who would found a way to attack the present timeline. Johns set up threads for the then-new Aquagirl to join the team. Rob Liefeld's two-issue filler arc with Gail Simone was meant to get his foot in the door at DC. There were plans for Liefeld to do a new Titans East series to help expand the franchise, as well as a possible Teen Titans-based limited series, but the deal fell apart due tension behind the scenes. Liefeld ended up walking away from DC, and had some unkind things to say about the company.

Issue 47 had Duela Dent officially join the volume 3 team, after deciding to stick with them after the "Titans East" arc. Sean McKeever revealed that the villain Sun Girl was pregnant with Inertia's child, upon which she appealed to Bart Allen and the other Titans for help. Kid Devil was resurrected in a story arc sometime after his Heroic Sacrifice. The demon Blaze revived him and used him as her slave, until he was freed by the Titans. JT Krul's run featured the new Aqualad from Young Justice joining the team, as well as the Teen Titans facing off against a new team of Anti-Hero Titans led by Deathstroke(still alive Post Crisis). Eric Wallace's run on Cinder had him finding child molester Nursery Cryme after she'd accidentally set him free, and metahuman Allegra Garcia joining Deathstroke's team. The finale of the Titans series before 2011 had Red Arrow and Jericho rebuilding the team.

In 1998, DC purchased WildStorm, which lived on as a separate imprint and its own fictional universe as was the practice at the time. Wildstorm's imprints also includes America's Best Comics, which included Alan Moore created stories such as The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Tom Strong, and Promethea.

Footnotes
[1]OTL it was canceled in 1993 with no Gaiman and Miéville run happening as was originally planned, Gaiman because DC refused his Swamp thing Jesus story for fear of offending christians despite its lack of anything that would conceivably insult them and both Veitch and Gaiman quitting in protest with the series ending before Miéville could write it. Given the prestige of both Gaiman and Miéville, one can assume the runs would have been amazing.

[2]OTL he was present for the September 11 attacks and later wrote the horribly racist Holy Terror, based on his experience. Seeing as most of his works after the event are considered terrible, he does not write again, he retires. The September 11 Terror attacks do not happen due to a Butterfly effect. Namely the song "Baby It's Cold Outside". Was Never written, which was the deciding factor in convincing Islamist Sayyid Qutb to become radicalized against the West since the song comes off as "Date-Rapey" and he was disturbed by the (to him) sexual dances that were made(fairly safe by today's standards). His writings were later read and inspired Osama Bin Laden, who split off from the Brotherhood which Qutb was the Godfather of through his teachings, and formed his own group in Al Qaeda. Without the song existing, Qutb does not start his movement and Osama Bin Laden does not form Al Qaeda meaning there are no September 11 attacks. I gave myself a rule that I could only alter Pop Culture or how it effects thing. While this limits my powers. Preventing 9/11 is one thing I feel I can do.

(Somewhat of a Monkey's Paw effect due to keeping Peterson on ITTL as Peterson wanted to kill him off, though Terry Long ended up dying anyway and was not popular at the time. Marv Wolfman in OTL pitched Donna Troy and Nightwing becoming a couple but this was because both Donna's marriage to Terry and the Nightwing/Starfire Marriage were his ideas that were nixed by DC, since Wolfman at least gets the Nightwing/Starfire Marriage and the Donna/Terry as the status quo for some time, that idea is never pitched).​

 

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Marvel's Robocop

He is a Robert, he is a Cop, he is the Robert Cop.

 

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He is a Robert, he is a Cop, he is the Robert Cop.

I don't get the reference., or the joke isn't funny. Robocop is not mispelled or anything.

 

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I don't get the reference., or the joke isn't funny. Robocop is not mispelled or anything.

It's a reference to a bootleg Robocop toy.

 

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It's a reference to a bootleg Robocop toy.

Oh yeah I know which one you meant. Says I’ll be Back and his partner is Johnny Five.

 

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What of Ben 10 ITTL?

 

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What of Ben 10 ITTL?

I could probably cover that In one post. I'll begin working on it since the others might take too awhile. I will say though the series had a very different early version, being based on Dial H for Hero, which was about a kid with a phone(back when phones had rotary dials) that each alien symbol turned him into a "Human" Superhero). For that version to exist I'm thinking of having Man of Action work on it a little longer before Dwayne McDuffie takes over and lives longer, leading the show to go down a very different path complete with alternate titles for each series minus the 2016 reboot. I can also picture some moments done differently such as the Universe not being destroyed and then restarted.

Also yes, given Ben 10 is a reboot of Dial H for Hero...Ben 10 in the DC Universe.

 

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Universal Monsters(1935-1940)

The Bride of Frankenstein(1935)​

The long planned sequel to Frankenstein with Henry Frankenstein made to survive the first film to allow the possibility of a sequel. Director James Whale initially refused to return but after The Invisible Man, changed his mind and was seen by producer Carl Laemmle, Jr. as the only possible director. Whale didn't think he could top the original so decided to do it just for fun. After several failed scripts, the writers returned to the original book where the monster demanded a bride. Ernest Thesiger was introduced as Dr.Praetorius. Mae Clarke returned as Henry Frankenstein's love interest, Elizabeth. All actors returned. Karloff was against the monster speaking, being quoted as saying: "Speech! Stupid! My argument was that if the monster had any impact or charm, it was because he was inarticulate – this great, lumbering, inarticulate creature. The moment he spoke you might as well ... play it straight." Bela Lugosi returned to play a surviving Igor, who had the scar from being hanged by the monster. Dwight Frye played a minor character named "Nephew Glutz", a man who murdered his uncle and blamed the death on the Monster. Boris Karloff is credited simply as KARLOFF, which was Universal's custom during the height of his career. The monster's Bride is credited as "The Bride" with the actress being credited a question mark. Something done with Karloff's name for the first film. The film was largely untouched by the censors ITTL. The plot is similar to OTL

Werewolf of London(1935)​

Unlike OTL, the film stars Bela Lugosi as a man who is bitten and turned into a Werewolf. There is some confusion as to when the film is set Edwardian era costumes are used but then modern cars from 1933 at the latest are seen, thus placing the film contemporary to its release date. The Film inspired the song "Werewolves of London" and the film "An American Werewolf in London".

Dracula vs Frankenstein(1935)​

Initially intended to be a Final Film based on the works of Edgar Allen Poe. The Studio pushed for Dracula vs Frankenstein. While The Bride of Frankenstein had been made, it soon became clear a sequel to Dracula was not going to be made, leading to the VS film being greenlit. Characters and actors from both films returned. From Dracula there was Bela Lugosi and Edward Van Sloan as Van Helsing. From Frankenstein there was Karloff as the Monster, James Whale as Director, and Colin Clive as Henry Frankenstein among others. The Film revealed that Igor and Dr.Praetorius were both minions of Dracula seeking to revive him. Dracula wished to command an undead army. the Vampire count is revived by Igor and his minions and intends to revive the Frankenstein Monster with Van Helsing and Henry Frankenstein both joining forces to stop him. The Frankenstein Monster is put under a spell to justify him acting in a way that contradicts his choice at the conclusion of The Bride of Frankenstein. The Bride herself also appears to justify that if the Monster survived the explosion at the previous film's conclusion, the Bride would have as well. in the end, the two monsters appear to finally destroy each other, ending their reign of terror. The Film was the biggest hit to date. Like with his previous films, Director James Whale was reluctant to do it but did it anyway and ended up topping the previous film.

Advertisements for the film began showing the two stars, similar to this OTL Video. Though both men then talk to the audience and introduce the trailer to the film.

Carmilla, Daughter of Dracula(1936)​

Based on a book ,which possibly contains the first fictional depiction of a Lesbian relationship. Carmilla's plot helped to tie up loose ends in the original Dracula, beginning with Van Helsing scouring Dracula's castle for other Vampires, missing one concealed coffin belonging to his daughter Carmilla, Carmilla awakens and follows Van Helsing back to London where she begins terrorizing women whom she seduces, however, she is shown to be searching for a way to be free of Vampirism and begins to fall genuinely in love with a woman, ending in her ending her own life. The film took some risk, such as showing a room in Carmilla's home full of whips and straps, which while never used on screen, their purpose was implied. Todd Browning returned to direct the film and did his best not to demonize Lesbianism despite the antagonist of the film belonging to such a group. The Film starred Gloria Holden in her first horror role. She disliked being in the film as she was afraid of being type cast and like many actors saw Horror films as being of a low standard of quality. Ironically, this disgust. arguably helped her performance as she plays a woman desperately trying to escape the conditions she finds herself in but still compelled to act out her predetermined role.

The Raven(1936)​

With the previous film starring Lugosi and Karloff together having been a massive hit, the plot of the Raven was changed. The Film's plot now concerning Auguste Dupin investigating a series of crimes that are modeled after Edgar Allen Poe stories, forcing the Detective and the author to work together to solve the crime as they encounter murders paralleling stories from the Pit and the Pendulum, the Masque of Red Death, The Cask of Amontillado, and the Tell-Tale Heart. Dupin is now played by Boris Karloff while Poe is played by Bela Lugosi, however the film often demonstrates a distrust between the two as they investigate the crimes.

Son of Frankenstein(1939)​

After a long break from horror films, Son of Frankenstein was released while universal considered remaking their older films, namely The Old Dark House. Karloff would return as would Bela Lugosi, and they would be joined by Basil Rathbone as the titular son of Frankenstein. Peter Lorre also joined the cast as did Claude Rains. Gene Wilder, only 6 at the time, played Baron Wolf Von Frankenstein's young son(and would play the same character in Young Frankenstein). Lugosi had fallen on hard times but then received a call from Eric Umann to appear at the Regina Theatre for screenings of Dracula, Frankenstein and Son of Kong, and shortly after was cast in Son of Frankenstein. Lugosi said; "I owe it all to that little man at the Regina Theatre. I was dead and he brought me to life." He ended up overshadowing Karloff's monster in the eyes of many.

The Script involved Wolf Frankenstein, his wife Elise and his young son Erwin travelling to the ruins of Castle Frankenstein due to his inheritance. Only for Igor to return and revive the monster to attack Wolf Frankenstein's family. The remains of Dr.Praetorius also appear in the film. The script also featured Inspector Neumüllerr, who lost an arm to the monster. While the film was a success, Karloff suffered several back problems due to the makeup and prosphetics required for the role and would retire from his role as the monster.

Richard the Third(1939)​

OTL's Tower of London, basically a horror film based on the murders alleged to have been committed by Richard the Third, using the Shakespear play for inspiration, starring Basil Rathbone.

The Invisible Man Returns(1940)​

Largely the same as OTL. Marking Vincent Price's first big film role.

The Mummy Returns(1940)​

With Son of Frankenstein and the Invisible Man Returns reviving the monster films, it was decided to revive the Mummy as well. This film plot wise is similar to The Mummy Returns of the Brendan Frasier films but several scenes are removes due to the inability to realize them at this time such as the presence of a Monkey mummies and the Scorpion King. Karloff returned but since he was taking a break from heavy monster makeup after Son of Frankenstein due to the pain it caused, he is instead revived in human form and seeks great power with another Mummy, Kharis, serving as his undead servant in life and in death.

The Invisible Woman(1940)​

Starring Margaret Sullivan, while originally conceived as a Comedy, it instead played the idea straight as a horror film, which centered on a woman who is stalked and tormented by an invisible man managing to kill him and recover the invisibility serum he used to seek revenge on several people who wronged her, resulting in several murders.​

 

[Marco Incognito]

Force Ten

Dial H for Hero received a remake into Force 10. Since executives doubted kids knew what a dial was by this point. The main character received the name of Ben Tennyson, a boy with freckles and red hair. From the original show the grandfather angle and the camping trip returned. Ben was given a classmate and friend named Gwen who travelled with him and his grandfather(The original idea OTL before it was changed to cousins).

The Megawhatt
The Dial was renamed into the Megawhatt, which was short for Megadeoxyribonucleictransdimensionaltransforminalnumerator. The heroes included were Diamondhead, Cannonbolt, Digger(who as his name suggests has digging abilities. OTL he was replaced by Wildmutt though elements of the character were included in Ditto and Armodrillo). Dragonfly(OTL's Stinkfly), Ghostfreak(remade into the same design as OTL), Graymatter(Different design than OTL), Inferno(OTL Heatblast),Plantguy(OTL's Wildvine),Razorjaw(OTL's Ripjaw),and StrongGuy(OTL's Four Arms). Upgrade and XLRB were also added later on in the series. Blitzwolfer and Upchuck were also introduced.

Digger

Dragonfly

Grey Matter

Inferno

PlantGuy

Razorjaws

StrongGuy

Most of the series continues largely as OTL including the enemies encountered such as Kevin Levin and Vilgax. However, the ending of the series is the OTL version of the episode "Goodbye and Good Riddance" in which Ben is ousted as a hero to his hometown of Bellwood and is accepted.​

 

[TheDetailer]

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Harry Potter​

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Cover for an American release of the book.​

The changes come about in the first book(which is never renamed The Philosopher's Stone in the US). Harry's parents are mentioned to have stolen the Philosopher's Stone. Harry later finds the small stone in the bag of gold his parent's left him and it is implied to be why the Potters became extremely rich. Hermione is in Ravenclaw and is mentioned to have a younger sister. Dean Thomas is given more of a backstory, his biological father was a wizard killed for refusing to join Voldemort, but Dean's mother just thought he abandoned her.

Chamber of Secrets carries more foreshadowing(which it almost did but the editor told her to cut it out and Rowling was not yet popular enough to ignore this, here she is). This prevents Half-Blood Prince from being Exposition heavy. There is an extra chapter called "Malfoy and Nott" in which there is a meeting between said characters. Theodore Nott comes with his father to Malfoy Manor to discuss whatever Death Eaters discuss, only for the boys to get kicked out of the discussion and have one of their own about Voldemort, the Death Eaters and The Boy Who Lived. Draco is actually shown respecting someone as his equal, because they were just as good students as each other and came from "elite" families. The book also revealed Nearly Headless Nick's backstory told in rhyme. Penelope Clearwater is also introduced as a fifth year.

Goblet of Fire contains a female character named Mafalda(not the Ministry of Magic employee who doesn't exist ITTL). She is the "black Sheep cousin" of the Weasleys, the daughter of the accountant squib relative Ron mentioned to Harry in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: extremely badly-behaved, unpleasant to be around, nosy and loose-tongued, and to top it off, being sorted into Slytherin. She was the first real rival to Hermione. She also desires to be a reporter. Rowling initially had trouble introducing her but it was decided she was a student of Beauxbatons(She takes the role of OTL Rita Skeeter as a result).

In Order of the Phoenix, Anthony Goldstein is introduced as a Hufflepuff.

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Florean Fortescue.​

In Deathly Hallows, a subplot involving Ice cream parlour owner Florean Fortescue, who is kidnapped and then rescued by Harry, Hermione and Ron, providing them clues about the Elder Wand and Ravenclaw Diadem(was cut OTL but explains why the shop closing and Fortescue's kidnapping get so much attention in Half-Blood Prince). Rolf Scamander(Luna's Future husband) appears in the book and is the one to explain The Tale of the Three Brothers. The epilogue contains details of the lives of the main trio(while all had children it receives less attention). The Epilogue also revealed Dudley had a muggle-born wizard child for added irony. Harry and Hermione end up getting together.

Harry Potter and the Curse Child was written by JK Rowling and includes much of the information later mentioned by Rowling. Rather than involving time travel, it involves a new threat, a witch called Delphi with no connection to Voldemort. Harry and Hermione both have affairs that form part of the plot. Rowling's behavior in general is different. She does not reveal facts unless asked and responds vaguely("There are many Jewish wizards at Hogwarts"). She also admits she gets birth dates and numbers mixed up and doesn't answer question like those. She also revealed Nagini was never a woman. Hermione is not retconned as being black though Rowling admits to having no problem if she is cast as a black actress.

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Prior to Films​

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Universal Studios Shop Promoting Nintendo's Harry Potter Video Game Series(Fittingly located between the Wizarding World and Nintendo World).

Before the Films, Nintendo was interested in developing a video game adaptation of the original book, initially aiming to provide a very British-oriented take in line with J.K. Rowling's wishes. Nintendo of Japan began to drift away from the British-orientation and brought it towards a Japanese friendly version that took considerable liberties from the source material, turning it into what became known as "Japanese Harry Potter" similar to the Animated "American Harry Potter" version. The Japanese Harry Potter series benefitted from being allowed to diverge from the source material and so gameplay and fun was prioritized, turning the Boy Wizard into a popular Nintendo series in its own right. Nintendo's Harry Potter later appeared in Super Smash Bros.

Bruce Springsteen wrote the song "I'll Stand By You Always" a ballad between 1998 and 2000, which he was inspired to write after reading the books to his son Sam. Bruce made the song available to Director Terry Gilliam and included in the first film.

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Films​

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Fanart of the Characters from the Animated Harry Potter series, by Stephen Byrne on Instagram.​

Terry Gilliam was handpicked by Rowling to direct Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Steven Spielberg was also considered but he wanted the film to be animated in CG. Steven Spielberg would go onto make his animated Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone film with Haley Joel Osment as Harry. Spielberg made only the first film before handing it off to other directors. it is sometimes called American Harry Potter. The Animated Severus Snape was voiced by Christopher Lee. Tim Roth was cast in the Live Action film(OTL he was playing General Thade in Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes, which does not exist ITTL, however he does not play Snape so as to keep Alan Rickman's excellent performance.). Rowling lifted her ban on British actors and so Robin Williams played Hagrid), Rosie O'Donnell played Molly Weasley, and Drew Barrymore also had a role. The character of Peeves appears in the film, played by Rik Mayall. The Movie is generally more fantastical and include Snape's trial to get the Philosopher's stone(while the scene could have been boring as its a puzzle involving which potions to drink in which order, Gilliam made it fun by having the potions have interesting effects on the drinkers).

For Chamber of Secrets, Terry Gilliam returned to direct. Frank Oz was offered to direct but had no interest, though he did provide the practical effects for Dobby the House elf. Madam Hooch mad a return( Zoe Wanamaker being paid more than OTL and so taking the role). Hugh Grant played Gildreoy Lockhart. The film included the Deathday party scene, Hermione getting a get well soon card from Lockhart, and Ginny seeing Harry with the diary.

Terry Gilliam did not return to direct Prisoner of Azkaban, Kenneth Branagh was offered to direct but declined as he would be directing his ex-wife Emma Thompson. Guillermo del Toro directed the film instead(OTL he declined as the movie's world didn't fit his darker perspective of the books, Terry Gilliam made the movies a bit darker than OTL so he accepts). Ian McKellen took over for Dumbledore after Richard Harris's passing(Yes he was seriously considered and declined because it wouldn't have felt right. Harris hated McKellen until his dying breath because he had wanted to play Gandalf and McKellen stole that role, considering Dumbledore to be the lesser of the roles. Here Harris never said any of that since he played Gandalf in the Hobbit first and was not replaced in the role by McKellen until after he had already died. McKellen thus jumps directly into the Dumbledore role after the Gandalf role). Fan theories abound that Gandalf eventually changed his named Dumbledore and is in fact immortal. Even more jokes are made about characters from the Harry Potter and Lord of the rings franchises meeting. Peter O'Toole was considered for the role but could not carry out the action scenes the role required in the later books. O'Toole did however voice Dumbledore in the Animated films. The new film also goes into detail about why Harry's patronus is a stag.

Guillermo Del Toro returned to direct Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Percy Weasley appeared in the film(Chris Rankin getting a five movie deal instead of the four he got). Henry Cavill played Cedric Diggory(OTL Potter fans campaigned Cavill for the role but he lost it to Robert Pattinson and funny enough was also up or the role of Edward Cullen in Twilight as the author Stephanie Meyer actually pictured him in the role when writing. He once again lost the role to Robert Pattinson. Here Twilight does not exist so Cavill got at least one over one Cullen). The Band Franz Ferdinand were huge fans of the series and appeared to play the Weird Systers, along with Jarvis Cocker of Pulp(OTL this did not happen due to a law suit by the Canadian folk rock band Wyrd Sisters. Cocker made a full album with guests such as Iggy Pop being included.

In the film itself, Winky the Elf appears, as does the lengthy plot between the Weasley twins and Ludo Bagman, played by Maritn Landham. There is an added scene in which Tom Felton is changed back to normal after being turned into a ferret and is naked, causing him to run off in embarassment, to the delight of fan girls.

For Order of the Phoenix, Del Toro returned to direct(pushing back Hellboy II: The Golden Army). Bellatrix Lestrange is still played by Helena Bonham Carter. Anna Friel played Nymphadora Tonks. Saoirse Ronan played Luna. There is a cameo from English footballer Theo Walcott. The St.Mungo's scene is included, complete with Hugh Grant reprising his role as Gilderoy Lockhart. Sirius's death scene is as it happens in the book. Radcliffe's performance caused multiple actors to cry on set.

Del Toro returned to direct Half Blood Prince. Bob Hoskins played Horace Slughorn. Kevin McKidd played Fenrir Greyback. Naomi Watts played Narcissa Malfoy. All the Voldemort flashbacks from the book are included. The appearance of the Carrow twins tied into Draco Malfoy traveling between the Vanishing Cabinet in Hogwarts and the one in Borgin and Burkes.

Del Toro returned to direct the last two installments. John Williams returned to do the score. Billy Connolly played Florean Fortescue in a minor role. Kate Winslet played the Grey Lady. Crabbe is killed in the same way as in the book, a victim of Fiendfyre(this is due to the actor playing Crabbe not beinf caught with Marijuana). In the final scene, Draco tossed his wand to Harry after he revealed himself to be alive, allowing him to fight Voldemort.

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Post Films​

After the films the series lived on through Pottermore. The book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them introduced the Lethifold, which appeared briefly attacking Harry in actual films. There was a Michael Jackson made Harry Potter Musical made(Along with Starkid's A Very Potter Musical now having much more to make fun of thanks to Michael Jackson's inclusion).

Following the release of Fantastic Beasts and Where to find them. A Second film was released Dumbledore and Grindelwald. Which focused solely on the relationship between the two Wizards, featuring no characters from Fantastic Beasts(Johnny Depp never went through the Amber Heard controversy and they divorced earlier so no one is uncomfortable with Depp's presence, though he does not advertise the film at Comic Con).The film concludes with Grindelwald's defeat in 1945. The next film is planned to be Marauders. A film about the titular group with Martin Freeman playing Peter Pettigrew and Tom Hiddleston playing a young Snape. It concerns the group going on an adventure as Voldemort is beginning to rise.

I reread this chapter today, and I must say, you did a great job. I really felt the aesthetic and feeling of HP during the 2000s like I do IOTL, plus I can easily imagine the changes to the live-action films ITTL.

When are Grindlewald and Dumbledore and Marauders released specifically?

 

[Marco Incognito]

I reread this chapter today, and I must say, you did a great job. I really felt the aesthetic and feeling of HP during the 2000s like I do IOTL, plus I can easily imagine the changes to the live-action films ITTL.

When are Grindlewald and Dumbledore and Marauders released specifically?

Grindelwald and Dumbledore replaces Fantastic Beasts 2 in 2018, Marauders is released in 2020.

 

[TheDetailer]

Grindelwald and Dumbledore replaces Fantastic Beasts 2 in 2018, Marauders is released in 2020.

Nice.

 

[Marco Incognito]

And now we conclude the Gundam series. While I barely knew anything about this series. I did find it interesting in terms of a few butterflies and What could have beens interesting. ​

Gundam: 2011-2021​

Hajimetai Capital G no Monogatari(2011-2012)​

OTL this was an unfinished novel by Gundam creator Tomino, Here the Unfinished novel is completed and released, later being made into Gundam Reconquista in G.

The Default Male and Female Protagonist for the Mobile Suit Gundam AGE Video Game.
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Mobile Suit Gundam AGE(2013)​

Released as a Video Game instead of a series as originally planned. The original three arcs are condensed and the player is given the choice of a customizable male or female character.

In A.G. 101 (the 101st year of the Advanced Generation calendar) a mysterious entity known at the time only as "UE", or "Unknown Enemy", attacks and destroys the space colony Angel. This day becomes known as "The Day the Angel Fell" and sparked the "One Hundred Years War". The campaign begins in A.G. 108 when the UE attacks the space colony Ovan and Flit Asuno, a survivor of the Angel Colony drop, sees his/er mother wounded. Before she dies she gives Flit access to a Gundam(Asuno gets the Gundam much earlier ITTL for gameplay purposes since the Colony attack becomes playable like in previous series when the Gundam is obtained during attacks. Gundams are also more plentiful to justify their appearance in gameplay).

After the first level, Flit is sent to the Earth Federation Base and begins training how to use the Gundam(in Tutorials, which can be skipped). After.the Tutorials, the UE attacks Nora, leading to another mission, with Flit working with the Diva crew and the battles begin more offensive, including a mission on the U.E. asteroid base of Ambat. They learn the U.E. are a human mission sent to colonize Mars left for dead, that formed the nation of Vagan on the red planet, taking the fight to Mars. While Flit thwarts an invasion from Mars of Earth, they also discover a conspiracy within the Earth Federation. The Game concludes with Flit overcoming their own prejudice to save a Vagan colony with the Earth Federation and Vagan forces working together, a biological weapon goes off, terraforming Mars into a lush planet like Earth. Flit is remembered as a hero with a statue of them seen in the future.

Gundam Build Fighters(2013-2014)​

A series like that of Model Suit Gunpla Builders Beginning G. This series adds an original story in which Gundam models can fight each other and there are robot fighting tournaments with Gundam models.

Mobile Suit Gundam-San(2015)​

A Gundam parody comic that was made official.

Gundam Reconguista in G(2015-2016)​

The Anime Adaptation of the Novel Hajimetai Capital G no Monogatari. The series is set in Regild Century 1014, 1,014 years after the end of the Universal Century, and follows a young member of the Capital Guard named Bellri Zenam, who protects an orbital elevator called Capitol tower. Bellri helps capture and mobile suit called the G-Self and its pilot, Aida Surgan, learning to control the mobile suit while defending the power from Pirates. The G self is recaptured by the Amerian Spaceship Megafauna. The Megafauna attempts to negotiate a ceasefire between the nations of earth as the Moon colony of Towasanga sends to flee to recolonize Earth. After learning the Towasangas had a hand in advancing military technology, the crew of the Megafauna, Bellri and Aida convince all sides to stand down.

Gundam Build Fighters Try(2016-2017)​

A Sequel series to Gundam Build Fighters. Masashi Hirose does not become ill and instead remains on the show for the entire run.

Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans is butterflied away as the setting would require introducing an entirely new calendar system and plot elements would be contradicted with earlier series such as details about the colonization of Mars. This is especially because due to its bigger success, cancelled material being added in, and the moving adaptation, the Universal Century era of Gundam is considered sacred and there is hesitancy to reboot the franchise and ignore it.

Mobile Suit Gundam: Firebolt(2017-2018)​

A Collection of stories set before, during and after the original Gundam series.

Mobile Suit Gundam Twilight Axis is butterflied away due to Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn not existing, which it is a sequel to.

Gundam Build Divers(2018-2019)​

The sequel to the Gundam Build Fighters series, but brings the concept online into the virtual world with the Gundam fights taking place in an MMORPG.

Mobile Suit Gundam(Remake)(2019-2020)​

A remake of the original series with updated animated. Released for the anniversary of the franchise.

Mobile Suit Gundam Epilogue(2020-2021)​

OTL's Narrative, A series which tells the history of the Gundam universe after the original series, including a mix of scenes of important events and the return of characters from the various series.

The Remaining existing Gundam media has been butterflied away, leaving it unclear where the series would go ITTL. For example the SD Gundam entries SD Gundam World Sangoku Soketsuden and World Heroes do not exist due to SD Gundam not existing and the Gundam Build Divers entries do not exist because those were created for the 40th anniversary of the franchise anddue to the shows being moved to not clash with each other ITTL, the original Gundam is remastered instead. This means that currently, the last entry in the Gundam franchise is the remake of the original series and Epilogue serving as just that, an epilogue, as it recreates iconic scenes but also fills in how each series fits together, as well as new scenes with the original voice actors returning, featuring every era and every series. A fitting conclusion to Gundam in 2021, at least for now.​

 

[Mort the Reaper]

If/when you do slasher movies, I have a suggestion. Assuming Jason Takes Manhattan still happens in this timeline, maybe it could have more of what the title promises.

 

[Marco Incognito]

If/when you do slasher movies, I have a suggestion. Assuming Jason Takes Manhattan still happens in this timeline, maybe it could have more of what the title promises.

You know I did have Friday the 13th questions before and I did just finish Gundam. Plus I’m going to be done with My Little Pony in one post and Universal in maybe two more. I can make a post covering Friday the 13th.

 

[nick_crenshaw82]

Unlike OTL the Gundam is fully White ITTL as Tomino wished to homage Stormtroopers

So something closer to this than:

 

[Marco Incognito]

So something closer to this than:

Yes. With a more colorful version being inspired by the film made ITTL as naturally when making the film. The makers would want the Gundam to be as distinct from a stormtrooper as possible.