History AlternateHistory / WesternAnimation

* In ''WesternAnimation/KoalaMan'': a young Maxwell used Australia's state of being 15 hours in the future from America to send a telegram to the Titanic in the past to warn them of their impending doom, allowing them to avert it. This allows the ship to reach America safely, and a cursed Egyptian mummy Queen to escape her sarcophagus and lead America to victory in both World Wars, eventually becoming President. However, while signing a peace treaty with the U.S.S.R., she and Leonid Brezhnev fell in love and the two abandoned their people for the moon. As a result, America fell into a lawless, war-torn, chaotic wasteland, with the exception of Hollywood, which broke off and drifted out to see as an island.

*** Stewie's ultra bred pig came from a universe where Christianity never existed, causing the world not to experience the Dark Ages and technology being more advanced.

** The episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS8E1RoadToTheMultiverse Road to the Multiverse]]" had Stewie and Brian travel through multiple universes, some that fall under this. Stewie's ultra bred pig came from a universe where Christianity never existed, causing the world not to experience the Dark Ages and technology being more advanced. The duo also travel to a universe where the U.S. never dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, causing the [[JapanTakesOverTheWorld Japanese to take over America and possibly other countries]].

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*** Alarmingly, an enormous crater sea — with a Gem facility right at its center — has replaced about half of Russia's landmass.

* In ''WesternAnimation/EvilConCarne'', the League of Nations never disbanded, UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln is still alive and President and the world is fairly peaceful, save for the VillainProtagonist leading a terrorist group trying to TakeOverTheWorld. Since it pretty much shares canon with ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', it seems that the Soviet Union [[TheGreatPoliticsMessUp never fell]] either.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' has one of the screwed-up wishes of Timmy Turner result in England winning the Revolutionary War; the biggest changes in the present day are things like people drinking tea instead of coffee, flying the Union Jack, saying things like "Pip pip and cheerio," and society tending to Victorian dress, clothing, etc. The usual mayhem results as Timmy tries to set things right; naturally his parents don't notice any difference at all.

* The ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Road to the Multiverse" had Stewie and Brian travel through multiple universes, some that fall under this. Stewie's ultra bred pig came from a universe where Christianity never existed, causing the world not to experience the Dark Ages and technology being more advanced.
** In the episode "Back to the Pilot" Brian and Stewie went back in time to January 31, 1999, the date that the series began. While they are there, Brian (against Stewie's wishes) warns his past self about 9/11, which allows Brian to prevent the Twin Towers from falling. As a result, however, UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush doesn't get re-elected because he was unable to use terrorist propaganda in his favor. Bush recreates the Confederacy in Texas and spreads it through eight states , which triggers the Second Civil War. In the future, because of the Second Civil War the world has been turned into a post-apocalyptic warzone due to nuclear war.
** In another episode, Peter asks Death to go back in time to the day he first asked Lois out. He ends up partying the entire day and messes up his chance. Peter and Brian go back to the present and find that things have radically changed for the better. Al Gore became president and turned American into a green paradise. Crime is virtually nonexistent, and technology has, apparently, reached the level of ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons''. However, Lois is married to Quagmire. Brian begs Peter not to go back in time again, but Peter is determined to get Lois back. He ends up fixing things... [[CloseEnoughTimeline almost]]. [[WesternAnimation/AmericanDad Roger]] lives with them now.

** When Jorgen banned Timmy and his fairies from ever returning to March of 1972, he said they'd still be allowed to visit other months of that year on the proviso they don't interfere with the election of ''President'' [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeMcGovern McGovern]]. However, nothing in the series has been described as being a consequence of UsefulNotes/RichardNixon losing that year's presidential election.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'' found himself flung back in time a little before [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII 07 December 1941]], and saw a few Japanese planes coming towards Hawaii. The end result after he interferes? [[spoiler: The Cubs win the World Series, world peace breaks out, cold fusion works, Rush Limbaugh is a bleeding-heart liberal, Euro Disney is a success, Sharon Stone becomes a good actress, no moreChevy Chase movies, and [[WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain President Brain]] rules over the US.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'' found himself flung back in time a little before [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII 07 December 1941]], and saw a few Japanese planes coming towards Hawaii. The end result after he interferes? [[spoiler: The Cubs win the World Series, world peace breaks out, cold fusion works, Euro Disney is a success, Sharon Stone becomes a good actress and [[WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain President Brain]] rules over the US.]]

** In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E7LoveLetters "Love Letters"]], it's revealed that the equivalent of UsefulNotes/{{Hollywood}} in the ''Steven Universe''... [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment universe]] is in Kansas. [[https://twitter.com/ianjq/status/733448482917212161 Specifically, their version of Kansas City, rather than the state]] ("Kansas" is apparently not used as a state name, so the city never changed its name).

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' episode "[[Recap/TheBoondocksS1E9ReturnOfTheKing Return of the King]]" involves a (non-canon) alternate history scenario, in which Huey Freeman imagines what would happen if UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr had been put into a 32-year-long coma instead of dying from his attempted assassination in 1968. He wakes up in the year 2000 and experiences the social changes of [[TheWarOnTerror a post-9/11 America]], and is [[StopBeingStereotypical deeply mortified by the modern state of African-American culture]]. He finally snaps and launches into a huge [[NWordPrivileges N-word-laden]] [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech tirade]] about how all his sacrifices are being wasted by today's generation of black people, and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere then goes into self-imposed exile in Canada]], where he dies of old age in 2020. But King's rant triggers a massive new social movement, Creator/OprahWinfrey being elected President of the USA, and the founders of {{Creator/BET}} [[TakeThat apologizing for its existence]].

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' featured a relatively conventional version of this in the three-part story "''The Savage Time''". The immortal Vandal Savage sending back a laptop computer with detailed notes on the history of the Second World War, the German Reich and on advanced 21st century technology. Past!Savage then uses this knowledge to invent powerful weapons that the Nazis use to repel the Allies on D-day, and presumably the oncoming Russian armies (though there's [[ArtisticLicenseHistory zero mention]] [[AmericaWonWorldWarII of that]]). He then proceeds to... get this: sent warplanes with an invading army ''to America'', probably because the situation at home was just that ''good''. In the end, it resulted in a world where at least America (but most likely all of it) is ruled by Savage with an iron fist.
** In that same episode, two high-ranking German officers groan that while UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler himself was a pain to deal with, he at least listened to his generals, unlike Savage. Anyone who knows anything about Hitler knows that he was famous for ignoring his strategists' advice and making impossible demands of them. This may have just been a [[ArtisticLicenseHistory flub]] on the writers' part, though.
** In another episode ("A Better World"), we're introduced to an alternate universe where ComicBook/LexLuthor became President of the United States; this, Franchise/TheFlash dying before the episode starts, and a speech from Luthor on how he and Superman need each other to be of any importance to the world, end up leading the remaining members of the Justice League to [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope become]] the [[KnightTemplar Justice Lords]].
* Much more lighthearted: ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'' found himself flung back in time a little before [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII 07 December 1941]], and saw a few Japanese planes coming towards Hawaii. The end result after he interferes? [[spoiler: The Cubs win the World Series, world peace breaks out, cold fusion works, Euro Disney is a success, Sharon Stone becomes a good actress and [[WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain President Brain]] rules over the US.]]

* There was a similar variation in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' as Fry, Leela, Bender, etc try to restore things after scrambling the American Revolution in a vain attempt to "improve" the Fry family history.
** For some reason changing the Revolution often tends to be played for laughs, with the alternate outcome largely cosmetic.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', though this wasn't made explicitly clear within the show itself until the latter half of the first season. Various differences include gem imagery on American currency, the existence of the state of "Delmarva"[[note]]located on the real-life [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delmarva_Peninsula Delmarva Peninsula]][[/note]], and the fact that the Gems (Crystal or otherwise) and their artifacts have been on Earth for around 6,000 years.
** In the episode "Love Letters", it's revealed that the equivalent of UsefulNotes/{{Hollywood}} in the ''Steven Universe''...[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment universe]] is in Kansas. [[https://twitter.com/ianjq/status/733448482917212161 Specifically, their version of Kansas City, rather than the state]] ("Kansas" is apparently not used as a state name, so the city never changed its name).
** It's revealed in "Keystone Motel" that Pennsylvania is instead called Keystone[[note]]one of the real-life state's actual nicknames[[/note]] in their world.
** It's been [[https://www.twitter.com/mcburnett/status/637119719703576576 confirmed]] that World War II never actually occurred, at least not in the way that we know it.
** There are also several geographic differences, implied by their general appearance as new channels of water on the map to be wounds on the landscape from the war 6000 years ago, which might also serve by the butterfly effect to explain some of the more unusual bits of alternate history.
*** The show consistently portrays Florida as being an island off the coast of Georgia rather than an attached peninsula.
*** Alarmingly, an enormous crater sea -- with a Gem facility right at its center -- has replaced about half of Russia's landmass.
*** A [[AllThereInTheManual made-with-creator-input graphic novel]] has a globe in the background reveal the fact that there's a massive channel between the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean where the Nile Delta, Sinai, and Israel/Palestine should be, which has far more [[FridgeLogic alternate history implications]] than the show could ever possibly address (or be allowed to address).
*** And that's not even getting into the ''continents''! To start, Africa is missing a big chunk and South America has it, and that's ignoring the islands between the two. Iceland doesn't exist and the western part of Australia is further south and separated by a narrow sea. So, unless the Gems were responsible, the PointOfDivergence was probably sometime during the ''Triassic Period''.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' episode "[[Recap/TheBoondocksS1E9ReturnOfTheKing Return of the King]]" involves a (non-canon) alternate history scenario, in which Huey Freeman imagines what would happen if UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr had been put into a 32-year-long coma instead of dying from his attempted assassination in 1968. He wakes up in the year 2000 and experiences the social changes of [[TheWarOnTerror a post-9/11 America]], and is [[StopBeingStereotypical deeply mortified by the modern state of African-American culture]]. He finally snaps and launches into a huge [[NWordPrivileges N-word-laden]] [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech tirade]] about how all his sacrifices are being wasted by today's generation of black people, and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere then goes into self-imposed exile in Canada]], where he dies of old age in 2020. But King's rant triggers a massive new social movement, Creator/OprahWinfrey being elected President of the USA, and the founders of {{Creator/BET}} [[TakeThat apologizing for its existence]].
-->'''Huey:''' "It's fun to dream."
* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' is set in an alternate version of Earth that has been conquered by [[BigBad Aku]], a [[EldritchAbomination shapeshifting alien demon god]], since the ancient past up to the [[BadFuture far future]]. Under his tyrannical rule, the world has developed into an {{anachronis|mStew}}tic [[CrapsackWorld dystopia]] where [[MedievalStasis primitive, ancient societies]] somehow [[SchizoTech still coexist]] with [[{{Cyberpunk}} advanced, futuristic civilizations]]. After taking over all of Earth, Aku has been expanding his empire across countless other planets in space, which has introduced all kinds of extraterrestrial species to Earth.

*** Cackalacka is another way of saying Carolina, so she could be saying she's from North Carolina.