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{{quote|''This is an imaginary story. Aren't they all?''|'''[[Alan Moore]]''', ''[[Whatever Happened to The Man of Tomorrow?]]?''}}
A [[Sister Trope]] to the [[For Want of a Nail]] episode. While [[For Want of a Nail]] explores another fork in the road taken by a character, an Elseworld takes a well-known character and plonks them into a potentially wildly different location and situation. This can add some freshness to a character which allows them to act a different way than normal canon might allow but may also become an excuse to write professional [[Transplanted Character Fic]] of the [[Recycled in Space]] variety.
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** Elseworlds itself had been gone for years (as it didn't jive with the then-current canon of there being-no-multiverse-at-all-really). The first hint that the Multiverse might be back actually occurred when one of the Infinite <s>Christmas</s> Holiday stories ended with Superman punching Batman in the face for being Santa Claus (It's a fun story) with the last panel having an "Elseworlds" logo on it. It wasn't until months later they confirmed the 52.
**** A new "Elseworlds" showed up in autumn 2010, "The Last Family of Krypton".
** ''[[JLA: Act of God (Comic Book)|JLA Act of God]]'' was a notorious one that involved all the people with inherent superpowers losing them.
* Early on, Marvel Comics's distinctive "What If?" series were stand-alone [[For Want of a Nail]] stories based on key events in the Marvel universe. They later ran more Elseworld style stories; these are not usually specifically labeled as either (''[[Marvel Zombies]]'', ''[[Marvel 1602]]'', ''X-Men Fairy Tales'')
** Don't forget Marvel Apes.
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