History Main / AlternateHistory

* ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'', and according to some fans by extension the entire universe of Creator/QuentinTarantino movies, [[spoiler: takes places in an alternate WWII era in which Hitler and his three biggest men. Goering, Goebbels and Borrmann are killed by the Basterds in June 1944.]] May have already been alternate history because Goebbels is referred to as Hitler's NumberTwo and his real right hand Himmler is never mentioned. If ''Film/TheHatefulEight'' is part of the same universe, then the divergence is much earlier.

* ''WebComic/TwiceBlessed'' is set in an alternate version of our world, where history was changed drastically at some point when magic was discovered by "Archmage Plato".

* ''WebComic/TemplarArizona'' takes place in, to quote the author, "a slightly irregular Arizona that fell off the back of a truck somewhere, and now all the power outlets are a weird shape and a couple of wars never happened." Specifically the titular town exists on what in our world is the Navaho Reservation, there is or was a guerilla war going on in Australia between the government and the natives and both [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greco-Roman]] and Myth/EgyptianMythology have a bigger cultural background presence.
* ''WebComic/RumorsOfWar'' takes place in a Bronze Age world [[NamesTheSame similar to our own]] where the Trojan War was not one, but three, separate known-world-spanning affairs the left a ScavengerWorld in its wake. AWizardDidIt.
* ''WebComic/{{Collar 6}}'' was revealed to be this. The point of divergence was when [[spoiler: the Roman Empire discovered the ruins of Atlantis.]]

* ''WebComic/{{Westward}}'' takes place in a universe where UsefulNotes/WorldWarII ended with the destruction of Berlin (and, incidentally, much of Europe) by a (''presumed'') Soviet superweapon. The UsefulNotes/ColdWar continues into the 21st century, a manned mission to Mars happened in 1974 with attempts to colonize it made by the 1980s, and FasterThanLightTravel is possible in 1999 (though [[BlackBox no-one entirely understands how it works]]). Because the webcomic's plot ultimately spreads to [[TheMultiverse other universes]], other Alternate Histories may be encountered as well.
* ''WebComic/ElGoonishShive'' presents us with a glimpse into one, in which the Uryuoms made public contact with Earth as far back as the American Revolution. One character, who has memories of that timeline, remarks that she's utterly screwed in this world's history class because of it.
* WordOfGod in author notes for ''WebComic/AndShineHeavenNow'' reveal that the [[Manga/{{Hellsing}} Millenium invasion]] caused this to happen, though she never worked out many of the details beyond UsefulNotes/BillClinton dying in office during the invasion, Gore taking office and winning in re-election, and increased security measures meant that 9/11 never happened. Oh, and vampires and zombies never became 'trends' cause so many people were affected by the invasion. So, on the bright side, no Literature/{{Twilight}}.

* ''WebComic/DreamingOfUtopia'' takes place in an alternate version of TheNineties where [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom Furries]] are a Religion instead of a Fandom. They first appeared partly as a reaction to the First World War.

* ''Fanfic/PacificWorldWarIIUsNavyShipgirls'' has TheKoreanWar begin and end differently, namely the US Seventh Fleet being wiped out at the beginning thanks to an AlienInvasion. Additionally, it has France secede from NATO in the 1960s, as well as a more militaristic (and less economically successful) Japan, and finally a less influential United States.

* In Film/CaptainBerlin Hitlers brain was saved by his personal physician Dr. Ilse Von Blitzen
* ''Film/XMen'':

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* Roland Emmerich has suggested that while the two upcoming ''Film/IndependenceDay'' sequels take place in present day, they will have a more futuristic feel, most likely due to 20 years of reverse engineering alien technology. Plus, the destruction of Earth's major cities marks a significant point of divergence that dramatically changes the past 20 years of history; up until that, their 1996 looked to be essentially the same as RealLife's.

** It's been [[https://mobile.twitter.com/mcburnett/status/637119719703576576 confirmed]] that World War II never actually occurred.

* ''FanWorks/NeverAgain'' revolves around a future in which World War II and the Holocaust never happened... and succeeds in NOT using HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct. How do they do this? [[spoiler: By redeeming all the Nazis, AND HITLER, in one ''heck'' of a HeelFaceTurn.]]

* In the original fiction[[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3206139]] version of ''WebOriginal/KeitAi'', the girl's strange area code isn't the only thing that's different compared to the boy's universe. In the boy's timeline, the [[JapanTakesOverTheWorld Lost Decade of Japan]] never happened, the Creator/{{Nintendo}} Ultra CD exists, the {{Sony}} {{PlayStation}} and the VirtualBoy don't, and the Wrestling/{{WWE}} is still the [[AttitudeEra WWF]].

* The Website/YouTube channel ''WebVideo/AlternateHistoryHub'' is entirely dedicated to coming up with realistic, highly detailed and oftentimes amusing answers to questions like "what if Germany won UsefulNotes/WW1" or "what if [[UsefulNotes/LeonTrotsky Trotsky]] rose to power instead of [[UsefulNotes/JosefStalin Stalin]]". The channel will also commonly use a similar formula to analyze fictional settings of popular works and try to figure out how such a scenario would play in real life. Think of it like a video version of ''Blog/WhatIf'', except it's for history instead of physics.

* The YouTube channel ''WebVideo/AlternateHistoryHub'' is entirely dedicated to coming up with realistic, highly detailed and oftentimes amusing answers to questions like "what if Germany won UsefulNotes/WW1" or "what if [[UsefulNotes/LeonTrotsky Trotsky]] rose to power instead of [[UsefulNotes/JosefStalin Stalin]]". The channel will also commonly use a similar formula to analyze fictional settings of popular works and try to figure out how such a scenario would play in real life. Think of it like a video version of ''Blog/WhatIf'', except it's for history instead of physics.

* The YouTube channel ''WebVideo/AlternateHistoryHub'' is entirely dedicated to coming up with realistic, highly detailed and oftentimes amusing answers to questions like "what if Germany won /UssfulNotes/WW1" or "what if [[UsefulNotes/LeonTrotsky Trotsky]] rose to power instead of [[UsefulNotes/JosefStalin Stalin]]". The channel will also commonly use a similar formula to analyze fictional settings of popular works and try to figure out how such a scenario would play in real life. Think of it like a video version of ''Blog/WhatIf'', except it's for history instead of physics.

* The YouTube channel ''WebVideo/AlternateHistoryHub'' is entirely dedicated to coming up with realistic, highly detailed and oftentimes amusing answers to questions like "what if Germany won WW1" or "what if Trotsky rose to power instead of Stalin". The channel will also commonly use a similar formula to analyze fictional settings of popular works and try to figure out how such a scenario would play in real life. Think of it like a video version of ''Blog/WhatIf'', except it's for history instead of physics.

* Most films in the ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' franchise, including the AlternateContinuity happy Millennium series. The second film in the Millennium series, ''Film/GodzillaVsMegaguirus'', not only changed the events of ''Film/Godzilla1954'' so Godzilla wasn't destroyed by the Oxygen Destroyer--but that Japan's capital was moved to Osaka as a result of the rampage.

* Most films in the ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' franchise, including the AlternateContinuity happy Millennium series. The second film in the Millennium series, ''Film/GodzillaVsMegaguirus'', not only changed the events of ''Film/Godzilla1945'' so Godzilla wasn't destroyed by the Oxygen Destroyer--but that Japan's capital was moved to Osaka as a result of the rampage.

* ''Film/BramStokersDracula'' fuses the titular vampire character from ''Literature/Dracula'' with the historical Vlad III, where the infamous [[RoyalBlood voivode]] is condemned to vampirism after blaming God for the suicide of his wife, Elisabeta.

* YouTube series "What If" by WebVideo/AlternateHistoryHub, hypothesizes various historical situations with a few possibilities. Keeping in mind, of course, what happens is the result of numerous factors and cautioning that their scenario is just one of many. A few examples include "What if the Black Death Never Happened," "What if Napolean Never Rose to Power?" and "What If The South Won The Civil War?"

* [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist The 2003 anime version]] of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' is set in a version of our world where alchemy worked.
* ''Anime/ReadOrDie'' takes place in a British-dominant world, complete with hidden superpowers.
** By the sequel, however, the Empire had completely collapsed, leaving the world at the mercy of various secret organizations and the United States.

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Have in mind that, other than the point of divergence and the consequences of it, the setting must still be close to the real world. A real time period filled with unrealistic stuff at all corners is not alternate history, it's something else. For example, the middle ages filled with elves, dwarves, orcs and magic is a MedievalEuropeanFantasy, and a more modern setting with them is an UrbanFantasy. If the point of divergence is an unrealistic event (for example, "what if an advanced alien ship crashed in Germany during WWII and the nazis got all sorts of alien techs from it?"), then see WeirdHistoricalWar.

* What if an important [[HistoricalDomainCharacter historical figure]] didn't die early?
* What if an important [[HistoricalDomainCharacter historical figure]] ''did'' die early?

* What if a certain tools or weapons (firearms, radio, space travel) had been [[GivingRadioToTheRomans cost-effective and widespread earlier]], or later, or [[AliensNeverInventedTheWheel not at all]]?