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Infamously implausible scenarios like Operation Sealion [[note]]UsefulNotes/NaziGermany's plan to invade Britain during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, which has been shown by the members of Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom (where it's become a MemeticMutation because of this) to be one of the worst military plans ever conceived -- it would have been a catastrophic defeat for Germany that would have effectively destroyed the Wehrmacht and allowed the Allies to win up to a year earlier.[[/note]] are often placed here, as are utterly implausible technology jumps, such as Aztecs developing breech loading rifles in 1420.
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Infamously implausible scenarios like Operation Sealion [[note]]UsefulNotes/NaziGermany's plan to invade Britain during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, which has been shown by the members of Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom Platform/AlternateHistoryDotCom (where it's become a MemeticMutation because of this) to be one of the worst military plans ever conceived -- it would have been a catastrophic defeat for Germany that would have effectively destroyed the Wehrmacht and allowed the Allies to win up to a year earlier.[[/note]] are often placed here, as are utterly implausible technology jumps, such as Aztecs developing breech loading rifles in 1420.
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* Drew's ''Rumsfeldia'' timeline on Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom is definitely at least an upper-end Type III overall.
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* Drew's ''Rumsfeldia'' timeline on Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom Platform/AlternateHistoryDotCom is definitely at least an upper-end Type III overall.
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* The ''Strangerverse'' on Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom is a loosely-tied saga, whose common tie being a time traveler returning to some point (and figure) in the past. To stop his crapsack-apocalyptic future from happening, the Stranger leaves behind tools to aid his "chosen." This generally results in epic nation-wanks. The stories themselves become Type II or III after the "event," depending on the author. One notable example is ''[[Literature/UnitedStatesOfAmeriwank The United States of Ameriwank]]''.
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* The ''Strangerverse'' on Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom Platform/AlternateHistoryDotCom is a loosely-tied saga, whose common tie being a time traveler returning to some point (and figure) in the past. To stop his crapsack-apocalyptic future from happening, the Stranger leaves behind tools to aid his "chosen." This generally results in epic nation-wanks. The stories themselves become Type II or III after the "event," depending on the author. One notable example is ''[[Literature/UnitedStatesOfAmeriwank The United States of Ameriwank]]''.
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* The ''Lion's Blood'' duology by Steven Barnes. An [[TakeThat inversion of historical European dominance and enslavement of Africans]] creating a world where African Masters keep European slaves on North American plantations. Every culture that "Cryptohistory" assumes could have colonized America does (note: in reality most of them couldn't or wouldn't have even with the novels' Butterflies), but does show some Hard allohistorical trends and Butterflies. Also both Christianity and Islam exist even though the POD is well before the birth of Jesus.
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* The ''Lion's Blood'' duology by Steven Barnes. An [[TakeThat [[PersecutionFlip inversion of historical European dominance and enslavement of Africans]] creating a world where African Masters keep European slaves on North American plantations. Every culture that "Cryptohistory" assumes could have colonized America does (note: in reality most of them couldn't or wouldn't have even with the novels' Butterflies), but does show some Hard allohistorical trends and Butterflies. Also both Christianity and Islam exist even though the POD is well before the birth of Jesus.
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* Robert Graves' historical fiction fit firmly into this category. They are extremely well researched but he willfully changes or distorts events and personalities to tell the story he wishes to tell. Fact and Fiction are often so well blended that you have to be an expert in the subject matter to tell the two apart or to know that events that went a, b, c, d in real life go b, d, a, c in the novel.
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* Robert Graves' Creator/RobertGraves' historical fiction fit firmly into this category. They are extremely well researched but he willfully changes or distorts events and personalities to tell the story he wishes to tell. Fact and Fiction are often so well blended that you have to be an expert in the subject matter to tell the two apart or to know that events that went a, b, c, d in real life go b, d, a, c in the novel.
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* The 2006 mockumentary ''Film/CSATheConfederateStatesOfAmerica'', where the South not only wins but takes over the whole of the Union! Few take the history seriously, including the creator himself, since it was designed as a {{satire}} of race relations in the US rather than an accurate counter-factual representation of a southern victory world.
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* The 2006 mockumentary ''Film/CSATheConfederateStatesOfAmerica'', where the South not only wins but takes over the whole of the Union! Union (and all of the Americas south of Canada)! Few take the history seriously, including the creator himself, since it was designed as a {{satire}} of race relations in the US rather than an accurate counter-factual representation of a southern victory world.
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* ''Fanfic/AThingOfVikings'': Dragons exist, but world history is essentially the same up until 1040, when the Hooligans of Berk learn to ride them and suddenly become the most powerful country in Europe. There's no magic, just the existence of intelligent flying reptiles.
* ''Fanfic/AThingOfVikings'': Dragons exist, but world history is essentially the same up until 1040, when the Hooligans of Berk learn to ride them and suddenly become the most powerful country in Europe. There's no magic, just the existence of intelligent flying reptiles.
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* ''Unsong'' is a very good example of a type X, the point of divergence is December 24, 1968 when Apollo 8 crashed into the crystal sphere that surrounds the earth, breaking both it and the celestial machinery engineered by Uriel that ran physics as we know it. After that it's surprisingly hard with careful thought and philosophy put into it.
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* ''Unsong'' ''Literature/{{Unsong}}'' is a very good example of a type X, the point of divergence is December 24, 1968 when Apollo 8 crashed into the crystal sphere that surrounds the earth, breaking both it and the celestial machinery engineered by Uriel that ran physics as we know it. After that it's surprisingly hard with careful thought and philosophy put into it.
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* ''The Day After Ragnarok'' splits from our own in World War II, when [[{{Ghostapo}} the Nazis perform a ritual to summon]] [[Myth/NorseMythology Jourmungandr and initiate Ragnarok]]. The world serpent- whose head is ''350 miles wide''- wreaks havoc and breathes poison into the atmosphere, which renders entire countries uninhabitable...[[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu until an American B-29 flies into its eye and sets off an atomic bomb, killing it]]. Following the event, known as Serpentfall, Jormungandr's corpse comes to rest across Europe and North Africa, functionally becoming a new mountain range. Most of the UK, Germany, and Italy are crushed and the Suez Canal is unusable. The resulting mess of poison and blood has left most of Eastern North America a wasteland, forcing America and Canada to retreat behind the Rocky Mountains, while Texas and Alaska have become independent in all but name. The resulting poison is also mutagenic and has created monsters across the the contaminated lands. The Soviets have managed to take control of much of Eurasia, and have also allied themselves with [[OurGiantsAreDifferent Giants]].
