/r/MagicalWhatIf
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Threads should be based mostly in reality with at least one "fantasy" element. Such as "100 US Marines find themselves in the Roman Empire" or "In 2020 Vladimir Putin gains superpowers".
Comments should accept the premise of the thread as true but answer the question realistically. Meaning, don't question how or why 100 Marines were sent back in time. Just give your thoughts on what would happen.
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Use the [Geography] tag to indicate points of divergence based on different landscapes. Use the [DBWI] tag to signify double blind what-ifs. Use the [Challenge] tag for posts where you're asking how something could have happened different rather than what if it happened differently. Use [HWI] for historical based questions and [FWI] for future based questions.
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She suddenly says "I'm sorry for what I have done" and sort of reverts to how people viewed her circa 2011 but with more modern social views. What changes now that she has renounced her transphobia?
What changes if Yellowstone erupts on 9/11??
Startin 1500 anyone within 5 steps of inheriting a royal or noble title conceives only daughters. How much does this mess up primogeniture?
What changes if he basically has the same career but is a Mormon instead?
You are an alien that somehow knows Russian and you convince Yeltsin, before he comes to power, to quit alcohol. What changes in the 1990s if he governs while sober?
Saddam Hussein is, in 1979, replaced by his South Park counterpart. Other than speaking Arabic, he has the same obnoxious personality of his South Park counterpart. How do the generals handle the fact this guy is even more of an a-hole than he already was(his sons were spoiled little princelings).
Can Claire Dunphy win this Senate race in California in 2016?? She would almost certainly be a Democrat.
How does Australian history change if these carnivorous koalas that are capable of eating humans are real?? How does white settlement go? How does the war with the Japanese go?
He decides to make Juche a capitalist idea. That means you can buy stuffed Kim dolls build a bear style and he opens a Disneyworld-like park in Pyongyang.
Despite being a devout Christian in real life, Rasputin is depicted in the Don Bluth movie(who had in earlier drafts survived an assassination attempt) as an evil sorcerer. Can he save Russia from communism and keep the Orthodox Church and the Crown intact if he has the powers he had in the Meg Ryan movie?
It doesn't fall from a group of former Al Qaeda people, but it falls to a bunch of demons from a Hollywood depiction of hell. The demons replace the Kims with Satan-worship. How does the world react now that there is a Satanist country in eastern Asia?? Of course the demons know Korean, they are demons and can easily learn human languages.
Could Claire Dunphy(D-California) from Modern Family beat Trump in 2016 if she was a real person??
1886 presumably August - early October Localised within London
The dead come back to life this includes fossils
Mutant infectious pumpkins monsters prowl Kew Gardens
The nearby freak show have produced robot Elefants to conquer London
Mutant limb creatures and merlocs turtle things roam the sewers
Jack the ripper can now jump buildings
And a large cathedral (presumably St Paul's) blows up
Ignoring the times arrow comic produced what realistically occurs in normal history?
Despite being improbable, Pyongyang magically is now sitting on top of an oil field. What changes politically?
What changes if this guy is in the same primary field as Trump with his main platform being against healthy foods based on the fact he's promoting a sugary cereal?
How does he do in the GOP primary, with his only policy being EXTREMELY lax on guns and the right for people to use dynamite?
How would a dog do as president of the United States? (Handwaving the whole age thing.) Think of a male pug for reference and they have to do this job. Their running mate is a regular human(who is a gay woman).
How do zombies change the outcome if stereotypical Romero type zombies are added?? Do they help the North win faster?
For instance, every Miami Dolphins player is literally a dolphin.
Yeah, it is of course in Mandarin for obvious reasons, but he decides to make himself INTO "Little Bear Winnie".
Can Captain Crunch beat Mitt Romney in 2012?? He is a businessman with military service, which are two things going for him.
A Romero-type zombie outbreak starts around 1634 near Prague around the time the French intervene. What changes?
How would the 2024 election go if Trump was running against his 2016 self?
Alf lands in our universe, not the sitcom universe. How does President Reagan and his administration respond finding out that there is a cat-eating alien living in someone's house?
Saddam Hussein becomes a huge fan of Anime and Japanese culture and pop music. He wants to make Iraq "Kawaii" and throws Japanese words into random Arabic sentences. How do his generals respond now that he has posters of Sailor Moon in all of his palaces?
The Second Coming of Jesus occurs during the Crusade that Richard I was on. How do the wars between Christian invaders and the Islamic resistance go?
What happens if, after his first invasion of Ukraine, he is randomly killed by a bear in 2014?? The bear is a magical bear that no Russian security service can protect him from.
As soon as he takes power, Hitler randomly decided to convert to Judaism. Of course, him being Hitler, he calls it something like "Aryan Judaism", and it does not resemble any known form of Judaism(He is trying to appeal to mischling and people of the Association of German National Jews). What happens to him?
The tech though is only at Archer's level, not Kirk's, Picard's, or Burnham's, meaning it is primitive by Trek standards. Does humanity try to build the Terran Empire?