Alt-History Aftermath Scenarios Implied by Media

BrockSampson

Shiva said:
I always wondered what the aftermath of Mars Attacks! would look like.

All of congress is dead, the executive branch wiped out to the point that the daughter of the last president is handing out medals. A whole bunch of Martian ships have crash landed all over the world, with lots of interesting new technology and toys to study. Oh, and apparently aliens can be killed by bad music.
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What is left of governments struggle to piece themselves back together (you’d probably see some mixture of military and remaining civilian governments on state/province level having to take over). Years of hardship and rebuilding would take place but with the existential threat of Mars looming, the world may be a bit more unified once the dust settles and rubble cleared. At that point, a fleet of either commandeered or reverse engineered ships would attempt to be assembled to get revenge, bad music in tow.
 

Shiva

BrockSampson said:
What is left of governments struggle to piece themselves back together (you’d probably see some mixture of military and remaining civilian governments on state/province level having to take over). Years of hardship and rebuilding would take place but with the existential threat of Mars looming, the world may be a bit more unified once the dust settles and rubble cleared. At that point, a fleet of either commandeered or reverse engineered ships would attempt to be assembled to get revenge, bad music in tow.
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So all hail Tom Jones, Emperor of Earth? :D
 

Shiva

B_Munro said:
Mine was based more on the original cards series than the Tim Burton movie. The Martians were defeated for more mundane reasons than bad country music making their heads explode, no atomic explosions were converted to bong filler, and no "ack ack ack" jokes.
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Do you have a link to it? I'd love to see it. :D
 
Mr_ Bondoc

Mr_ Bondoc

The film New Order (2021) features a civil war in Mexico, caused by class divisions, with a corrupt military using the conflict to torture people and commit atrocities:

 

GeorgeUK

The Alex Rider book "Skeleton Key" features a Yeltsin expy as president of Russia and a hardline general who attempts to engineer a nuclear accident in Murmansk to seize power and restore the Soviet Union by force. Once his plan fails it’s not hard to imagine the hardliners being completely discredited as a result, and someone like Yavlinsky winning the next election.
 
Mr_ Bondoc

Mr_ Bondoc

In the film No Men Beyond This Point (2016), starting in 1953 a series of virgin births, without sexual intercourse start taking place across the globe. It is only by c. 2031 that it is noticed that 91% of births are female:

 
WotanArgead

WotanArgead

GeorgeUK said:
The Alex Rider book "Skeleton Key" features a Yeltsin expy as president of Russia and a hardline general who attempts to engineer a nuclear accident in Murmansk to seize power and restore the Soviet Union by force. Once his plan fails it’s not hard to imagine the hardliners being completely discredited as a result, and someone like Yavlinsky winning the next election.
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You underestimate the Weimar Syndrome. Read at least "Russian isekai" - there, in every second book, an atomic bomb is dropped on Washington.
 
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Xenophonte

Xenophonte

LelouchOfTheBarBrawl said:
I recall one where Beria time travels and "fixes" Russia by killing the libs. Then there was one which had a soviet SI team up with the Nazis against the "Anglos".
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BrockSampson

So how about any media where Santa is seen/proven to exist? Some of the movies go on to say that actually seeing Santa takes away from the magic for some reason (apparently he’s powered by blind faith?). Others, such as Nightmare Before Christmas, show the world going on relatively as normal even with the knowledge that Santa exists (and perhaps other entities such as the Easter Bunny).
 
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