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    WI: Dragon Ball more similar to Akira Toriyama's early draft(s) for the series than what we got IRL?

    From TV Tropes: What if the late Akira Toriyama had fleshed out this early draft, rather than changing it into what would've become Dragon Ball? While it's very likely it would've become a hit in East Asia anyway - it'd be Dr. Slump crossed with Journey to the West, after all - would it have...
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    WI: Fantasy as "varied" as science fiction?

    Playing Baldur's Gate 3 and watching Frieren has made me think about how ubiquitous certain fantasy tropes, largely dependent on D&D and Tolkien, are. Moreover, the Anglosphere seems to have a bit of a monopoly, on the fantasy genre, even if said monopoly is limited to influence (for example...
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    AHC: "Boxed-in" United States of America?

    By "boxed-in" I mean this: imagine if the USA's western border coincided, more or less, with the eastern and St. Lawrence continental divides, upon independence; everything beyond that divide would be in the hands of another power. The remaining northern and southern borders of this alternate...
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    WI: Adriano Olivetti survives?

    Italian entrepreneur Adriano Olivetti died in 1960, at the age of 58, under very suspicious circumstances - declassified CIA documents hint at how the US secret services were monitoring him, both due to his business' status as a leader in the early IT sector, and as a clear rival to IBM's...
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    WI: Federal Italy in 1861?

    So, I was reading this, and I happened across this passage: So, what if the proposal of Cattaneo and Garibaldi went through? Italy would've been unified in 1861, but as an 1848-flavoured federation of at least three components: a Kingdom of Upper Italy comprising northern Italy, Sardinia and...
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    WI: Gainax earns/retains the rights to Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water?

    Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water is a Jules Verne-inspired anime by Hideaki Anno and Studio Gainax that aired in the early 1990s. A sequel was in the works, but Gainax could not retain the rights to it - the fact that Gainax could not earn money from it (as Toho had the rights to the story...
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    WI: Right wing East Germany during the Cold War?

    I know, it sounds ASB, and it probably is - but in the anime/manga series Spy x Family, perhaps because the author didn't do his research properly, the series' East Germany equivalent is actually quite right wing in character, and the emblem of its secret services includes both Nazi and Soviet...
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    WI: Real life Eighty-Six?

    In the anime/light novel Eighty-Six, the authoritarian government of the Republic of Saint Magnolia forces the racially impure to fight numerically and technologically superior enemy forces, with the aim of winning their war while eliminating said people, that have been deported to the front to...
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    WI: No Giulio Andreotti?

    Giulio Andreotti, one of the longest serving and most controversial politicians in Italy, was rather frail in his youth, and suffered from chronic headaches as well; what if he'd died at some point in the 1940s, just like his father (Spanish flu) and sister (pneumonia) before him, how would...
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    WI: more yakuza-like crime syndicates in developed countries?

    So, I've been playing Yakuza 0, and I read about how some actual yakuza said the series is actually quite realistic, for a video game, in its portrayal of the crime syndicate, in that it's an organization that operates openly, in a semi-legal manner, according to well-defined rules, at least in...
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    WI: Antigua and Barbuda becomes a haven for a very unique kind of piracy...

    This Cracked article is interesting: What if, after 2007, Antigua and Barbuda had actually found a way to profit from their ability to pirate American intellectual properties legally? That'd be way more ethical than being a tax haven, IMO, and it could turn out to be a major source of profit...
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    WI: Black Death in China and India?

    So, this popped up in my feed... ...and I wonder, what would've happened, had the Black Death hit China and India as hard as Europe and the Middle East? I don't know enough about East and South Asia at the time to take even a guess but, as the video states, when the plague will come back in...
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    WI: Animals bred and domesticated as a living emergency alert system due to their sensitivity to weather changes, would it be plausible?

    Suppose you're in the Paleolithic, in a region that is at the same time prosperous enough to be able to support a relatively high number of hunter-gatherers, perhaps even semi-sedentary ones, but where the local weather is trying to kill you, with earthquakes, eruptions, floods and storms being...
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    WI: Mozarabic "Reconquista"?

    Inspired by the most recent DLC for Crusader Kings III, Fate of Iberia: IRL, the Reconquista was led by those realms in northern Spain that had avoided being annexed by the Caliphate; would it have been possible for the Arabized Christians of the peninsula to take the lead instead, mirroring the...
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    Norwegian Reggaeton: what if the Kingdom of Norway had colonized OTL Hispaniola?

    Just a weird thought I had while listening to Nanowar: This would require the survival of the old Norwegian realm, or a more powerful Denmark-Norway but, since Denmark did hold a few Caribbean islands IRL, it might not be an impossible task. Any takers? :P
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    WI: FISA-FOCA split goes through?

    Inspired by a very recent YouTube video (in Italian) on the FISA-FOCA split, an early 1980s crisis in Formula One during which the constructors' association headed by Bernie Ecclestone and Max Mosley threatened to secede and contest its own championship: IRL, the FOCA teams (most of Formula...
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    WI: Ellen Ripley-inspired Doomguy?

    So, I've been playing a lot of Nightmare Reaper in the last few weeks - a deliberately retro tribute to Doom where you play as a female patient of a psychiatric ward - and I thought, what if the protagonist of the original Doom had been female, too? After all, Doom took quite a few cues from...
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    WI: 1960s Batman television series is more serious in tone?

    Apparently, the Adam West Batman series was originally conceived as an adventure show reminiscent of The Lone Ranger, at least in tone; the shift towards camp happened when the series was given to a director that had never read the comic book before. What if the series had been given to a...
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    WI: No Hays Code?

    So, I was talking with a friend on Discord, who's a fan of old school animated media, and modern tributes to it; since he remarked about how different post-Hays Code Betty Boop was from her pre-Hays Code self, a change that led to the character's eventual disappearance, is there any way the Hays...
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    Plausibility Check: 21st Century nomadic peoples and renewable energy.

    So, I was having a discussion with a friend about the benefits of the Euro/EU (as we're both living in southern Europe, it's kind of a thorny issue, even though we're both opposed to how the issue's been handled by the usual far right populist mob), and I joked about establishing an union of...
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