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  1. Comic Book WI: Jack Kirby stays at Marvel

    For those who don't know, Jack Kirby is widely regarded as one of the greatest comic book creators to ever live. His career started in the 1930s, but took off in 1940 when he, alongside writer-editor Joe Simon, co-created Captain America. During the 40s, he and Simon would collaborate several...

  2. WI: A world without HIV?

    In this world, due to some twist of fate, the conditions we know as the human immunodeficiency viruses never manages to leave a small corner of West Africa before dying out. What are the results of this? What is the impact on LGBT rights, on culture in general, of this massively damaging disease...

  3. AHC: Disney/Nintendo team-up

    Disney and Nintendo, titans of family friendly entertainment with legions of adoring fans, but, ever since the disastrous live action Mario movie, the two have been on the outs. How would one foster a closer relationship between the two companies, and what may result?

  4. WI: Nixon loses 1968, but wins 1972

    Let's say that, in this timeline, due to whatever reason, perhaps earlier wins in Vietnam, perhaps the Southern Strategy failing to yield as much, or maybe just a less decisive Democrat primary, Nixon loses the 1968 Presidential election to Hubert H. Humphrey. He vows that he will leave politics...

  5. Pop Culture Sans Vietnam

    For the sake of a concrete POD, let's say around March 1965. Operation Rolling Thunder still commences, but LBJ decides against putting boots on the ground, instead sticking to the current policy of military "advisors" and slowly winding down the amount of US troops in the region over the next...

  6. Video Game WI: The Dreamcast with a DVD Drive

    The year is 1997, and things are not great for Sega. The Saturn, despite dominating in Sega's native Japan, due to a series of bad decisions, sunk harder then the Titanic in America, falling like all others against the Playstation behemoth. Sega is making a new console, the Dreamcast. Based...

  7. WI: Pop Culture in a world without 9/11?

    For a solid POD, let's say Clinton kills Bin Laden sometime around 1998. What does pop culture look like without the massive cultural shock of 9/11? Your thoughts?

  8. WI: Armed Forces Integration in WWII?

    IOTL, Executive Order 9981, abolishing discrimination on the basis on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin in the United States Armed Forces and leading the official end of segregation in same, was issued in 1948 by President Truman. What if, in a seemingly small change, FDR...

  9. WI: The US de-escalates Vietnam

    Now, granted, the question is when, because Vietnam was a long conflict, when was the US finally in too deep? Personally, i'd place that point in March 1965, when Operation Rolling Thunder started and the first US ground troops (as opposed to "advisors" were sent in). Let's say, ITTL, LBJ...

  10. WI: Bigger Revolution?

    Let's say that, ITTL, Britain does a bit worse in the 7 Years War. They still win, but they're left with less money and, so, decide to levy many of the same taxes and reforms upon the other North American colonies as they did upon the US IOTL. The Continental Congress includes representatives...

  11. WI: Atomic bombs demonstrated?

    IOTL, such documents as the Franck Report and the Szilárd petition advocated for the position of not dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but, rather, inviting diplomats and journalists to witness a demonstration of the bomb, say, on an empty field in the desert or the like,like...

  12. AHC/WI: Marijuana is treated like Alcohol, and vice-versa

    Basically what the title implies: What series of events/POD would lead to a world where Alcohol is treated as taboo and criminalized, while Marijuana is legal and seen as socially acceptable, if unhealthy. There can still be, and almost-certainly will be, laws on the latter (no usage under age...

  13. WI: Nintendo/Disney team-up

    OK, this one requires some backstory: See, remember the Super Mario Brothers move? Apparently, when Jeffery Katzenberg pitched the idea of getting Mario's movie rights to Disney, he meant to parlay that into integrating Mario, and other Nintendo properties, into Disney theme parks, the way...

  14. DBWI: Bush 2000?

    Wait, wait, let me clarify. Now, as anyone who's spent even a little time of this site knows, there's many a thread about a scenario where Al Gore won the 2000 Presidential Election instead of John McCain. However, this scenario is different. George W. Bush, a name i'd honestly be surprised if...

  15. DBWI: Martin Luther King died in 1968?

    This is the 9th anniversary of MLK's death, and so, I came up with this WI: In 1968, James Earl Ray was arrested on April 4, after attempting to assassinate Martin Luther King, with a shot that thankfully went wide. Let's say he hit, and killed, MLK. What would have happened? MLK remained one of...

  16. DBWI: Mao and Zhou Live?

    Now, IOTL, Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai were both among the many upper CCP officials killed during the Battle of Yan'an. This is often said to have been the point when the CCP was doomed, as their leadership, decapitated, fell to Chiang's forces within a decade, but what if Mao and Zhao hadn't been...

  17. DBWI: Abraham Lincoln had been killed

    IOTL, famously, President Lincoln was almost killed by actor John Wilkes Booth in 1865, had it not been for one guard who spotted Booth at the door to the box, and managed to disarm him. What would have happened if, for whatever reason, Wilkes had successfully shot Lincoln? How would...

  18. DBWI: Jefferson's measure fails to pass?

    Now, IOTL 1784, Jefferson passed federal legislation banning Slavery in the Territories after 1800. However, the law, famously, only passed by a single vote, due to a representative from New Jersey. What if that representative had been out that day, and slavery had been allowed to expand...

  19. WI: McClellan takes Richmond, 1862

    IOTL, George McClellan failed to take Richmond in 1862 Let's say that, ITTL, McClellan manages to win at the Battle of Gaines's Mill, after Lee gets thrown from his horse, and dies as three of his vertebrae shatter instantly upon impact, leaving his forces in chaos. Shortly after, the Union Army...

  20. WI: Stalin dies, just before the Yalta Conference

    Let's take as our POD that, on February, 4, 1945, just as the Yalta Conference is soon to begin, Joseph Stalin passes away, of what are apparently natural causes. What next? Victory is pretty much assured by this point, but who is Stalin's successor? How is the end of the war, and the start of...
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