pop culture

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...

Inspired by these three threads: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/the-best-movies-never-made.11413/ https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/top-tv-shows-never-made.51488/ https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/best-tv-episodes-never-made.538711/ Ever watch an anime...

This is a spinoff of my timeline The Fire Never Dies (check my sig) focused on the pop culture of the TFND-verse, particularly American comic books (although I'd love to see film and eventually TV get a look in). Since I'm not quite ready to share control with others, I'll be making the final...

Now this one is an interesting one and I just thought of this one. In this post, what if The Owl House never aired on Disney; and by that, I mean what if the show aired on Cartoon Network (I would have said "…or Nickelodeon", but I feel like Cartoon Network would have been more caring to the...

............ Greetings. Welcome to my first timeline of two-thousand and twenty-three...... The theme and focus of this TL should be obvious given the title and tags. Now, without further ado. I introduce you to my newest TL: WELCOME TO FOX KIDS' SECOND CHANCE! So, how about we get...

Tom Cat Films was a film company founded in 2007, that eventually became popular for producing and distributing hit superhero films such as “Captain Battle”, “Rise of the Black Bat”, “Avenging Force: The Scarab”, “Metal Man”, and “Agent Beetle”, which all became recognized for being clever mock...

Capcom Fighting Evolution (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capcom_Fighting_Evolution) was a crossover fighting game released in October of 2004 during the twilight of the arcade and was so poorly received critically and in sales numbers that it breifly killed Capcom's fighting games and 2D...

This is from my own personal alternate timeline called "Timeline-93". In this first post – from a segment involving "Western Animation", Toonami was founded in 1996 – one year earlier than in OTL – but instead of becoming an animation block, it became its own network; think "Boomerang 'from...

Welcome to Just Like Starting Over! A new pop culture timeline that asks, “What if John and Paul just couldn’t resist $3,000?” I joke, but I truly hope I can bring a great pop culture timeline to you all, starting right here, right now. Some information before we begin: If you have an idea...

The Way Life’s Meant To Be: Redux An AJM8888 story Nishi-Shinjuku Tokyo early 1980s Times Square, Facing South, 1981 Main Building of Moscow State University, Moscow 1981 Piccadilly Circus, London 1981. Gwangju May 1980 (Getty Pictures) Part I: Preamble I John and the man who...

Disney, Nintendo, and Apple are some of the most influential companies on the planet, having changed the worlds of media, entertainment, and popular culture in so many ways that it’s hard to imagine a word without any of them, from animation, to video games, to technology. But what if these...

In 1988, German producer Frank Farian founded Milli Vanilli, a dance-pop duo consisting of Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus. Their debut album, All or Nothing, was an instant international success. However, the duo's success began to unravel in 1989, when a hard drive malfunction caused one of their...

In 1939 Detective comics #27 and Black Book Detective magazine #3 introduced two similar characters with The Batman and The Black Bat. Both National Periodicals and Thrilling publications agreed not to sue each other as long as Batman Stays in COMICS and and The Black Bat stays in Pulps. In 1943...

Hi and I have a question that I thought would be interesting, as it's about The Flash(one of my favorite comic book superheroes). What if instead of revamping or replacing Jay Garrick with Barry Allen as The Flash for the silver age DC Comics just brought back Jay Garrick? How might this affect...

August 18th, 1991 FLASH MOSCOW, USSR - SEVERAL SOVIET OFFICIALS MISSING, PRESUMED DEAD AFTER PLANE CRASH IN UKRAINE [1] New York Times - August 21st, 1991 NEW SOVIET UNION TREATY SIGNED "Yesterday, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev attended the signing of a new Union Treaty, designed to...

So, on 11 December 1984, the British pop group Bucks Fizz‘s tour coach crashed into a lorry on the way to a concert. No one died but all of the band members were injured, most significantly Mike Nolan, who still suffers from the effects of the crash to this day. For those wondering, Bucks Fizz...

Sterling New Silver on the Silver Screen An Alternate Hollywood and Pop Culture Timeline 1922’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, directed by the German filmmaker F.W. Murnau was long thought to have been lost for quite some time, and lost on purpose, with it having been banned not just in...

The Mouse Who Sold The World The Incredible Story of Walt Disney, America's Showman __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Part I: America's...

"You know, we nearly didn't get another series. We came so close to being axed. I don't know what saved us in the end, a split decision. But to think, we wouldn't be standing here today" - Andrew Cartmel speaking at convention in 2013. The Mcoy Years...

In 1999, two years after the disaster that was Batman and Robin, Warner Bros. and Joel Schumacher had decided to "go back to basics" for the Caped Crusader's next try on the big screen. Wanting to get something closer to Tim Burton's first two films in tone, Schumacher optioned to adapt Frank...