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Synonyms for alternate_timelines or Related words with alternate_timelines
parallel_universes
alternate_universes
alternate_realities
hypertime
multiverse
alternate_earths
universes
fictional_universes
microverse
timestream
wildstorm_universe
retcons
eternals
dc_multiverse
mister_mxyzptlk
multiverses
marvel_zombies_universe
superbeings
wormholes
mr_mxyzptlk
battleworld
sigil_bearers
beyonders
inhumans
heroes_reborn
doppelgangers
superhumans
artificial_intelligences
dominaria
takion
avengers_disassembled
universe
infinity_gauntlet
skartaris
jla_avengers
kryptonians
retcon
eons_ago
siege_perilous
scarlet_witch
threeboot_legion
skrulls
marvel_mangaverse
timestorm
antimatter_universe
fandral
metahumans
worlds
infinite_crisis
gallifrey
Examples of "alternate_timelines"
Several versions of Rico have been shown in
alternate
timelines
or Dredd's idea of
alternate
timelines
.
In one of the
alternate
timelines
, Casanova discovers Newman Xeno's real name: Luther Desmond Diamond.
CeCe reappears in "" #5 among dozens of Legionnaires pulled in from
alternate
timelines
and worlds to fight the Time Trapper.
Having realized that all mutants from
alternate
timelines
- including Bishop, Cable, and Rachel Summers- retained their powers, Hank goes to see Forge, who reveals that he scanned
alternate
timelines
known to have mutants with his equipment and has found that no more mutants exist in any of them, suggesting that those timelines have either been erased or altered.
In the "" storyline Thrust would return in his Vehicon form as one of the many Transformers kidnapped by Unicron from
alternate
timelines
.
Other companions died in
alternate
timelines
or alternate lives. "Brigade Leader" Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart, "Section Leader" Liz Shaw, and "Platoon Leader"
The two-part Theatre play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" contains
alternate
timelines
set within the world of Harry Potter.
"Times Without Number" was originally published in the same year as Keith Laumer's "Worlds of the Imperium". While otherwise very different, the
alternate
timelines
depicted in both books have an Italian inventor in end of the 19th Century make a crucial discovery (time-travel in the one case, travel to
alternate
timelines
in the other) which is taken up by the world's Great Powers and fundamentally shapes later history.
In Michael G. Coney's ""Charisma"" (1975) the protagonist travels among the
alternate
timelines
, again and again meeting the same girl and falling in love with her – only to have her get killed again and again, in all kinds of accidents.
In addition to the mainstream incarnation, the Marvel Comics character Psylocke (Elizabeth "Betsy" Braddock) has had been depicted in other fictional universes and
alternate
timelines
. These alternative representations sometimes differ from the details and events of the main story.
H.G. Wells' "cross-time" or "many universes" variant (see above) was fully developed by Murray Leinster in his 1934 short story "Sidewise in Time", in which sections of the Earth's surface begin changing places with their counterparts in
alternate
timelines
.
"The Kingdom" mini-series in 1999 brought the "Kingdom Come" mini-series into DC continuity as part of a series of
alternate
timelines
known as Hypertime, which included some of the alternate worlds depicted in various "Elseworlds" titles.
The high technology of the Hexamon civilization, with their control over genetic engineering, human augmentation (including post-symbolic communication), the concept of parallel universes,
alternate
timelines
and the manipulation of space-time itself are major themes in the latter half of the novel. The Way itself cuts across space and time: "gates" may be opened through its surface at regular intervals, which lead to space and worlds occupying other timelines, including
alternate
timelines
for the Earth. As a result of commerce through the gates, several alien species have come to be partners of the Hexamon as well.
The Brigade is responsible for the monitoring and control of the pludimensionality of Earth, in a segment of the space-time continuum known as "Sector Rhamno". This spans our galactic quadrant, six billion years from the creation of the Solar System to some unspecified date in the future, about 1,000,000 years AD, and all of its
alternate
timelines
.
Alternate Universe (release: November, 1995) Alternate Universe was a collection of 122 cards that focused on cards from the past, future, and
alternate
timelines
. It also contained the first ultra-rare card, the "Future Enterprise". It sold in 15-card expansion packs.
Holger later appears as a minor character in Anderson's "A Midsummer Tempest", where he is seen in a mysterious "Inn Between the Worlds" - having managed at last to leave the modern 20th Century and wander the various
alternate
timelines
, but still far from locating the one he wants.
A number of alternate universes and
alternate
timelines
in Marvel Comics publications allow writers to introduce variations on the Hulk, in which the character's origins, behavior, and morality differ from the mainstream setting. In some stories, someone other than Bruce Banner is the Hulk.
Sylvester, as Star-Spangled Kid, later returned with the JSA due to an alternate timeline in post-Crisis continuity to assist the Justice Society against Extant, when multiple
alternate
timelines
came together due to Extant's attempt to collapse reality into a timeline of his creation. During this adventure, he teams up with Courtney.
Although not originally labeled as such, "Gotham by Gaslight" is considered to be the first "Elseworlds" story, where DC Comics heroes are taken out of their usual setting and put into
alternate
timelines
or realities. Subsequent printings have included the "Elseworlds" logo.
Like "X-Men: The Hidden Years", some other works of this period involved characters and events in time periods other than the present and, in some cases, considered "skipped over" (""), or
alternate
timelines
(DC’s ""); a feature some of these have in common is to have characters who actually age during the course of the series, which is uncommon for characters in ongoing comics.