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* ''[[Code Geass]]'' is like this. While there's a whole alternate history worked out, the show's mythology relies on things like a [[No Conservation of Energy|free-energy]] supplying mineral called [[Applied Phlebotinum|Sakuradite]] (that powers [[Humongous Mecha|giant robots]]) and a society of [[Immortality|immortals]] who give out [[Psychic Powers|mental superpowers]] to people and then pass on their immortality to them, so clearly there's something different going on that isn't just caused by the differing historical events. It could be that whatever is going on is what ''caused'' history to be different in the first place.

** And on top of that, the most common mental superpowers involve some form of memory alteration, so that alternate history is ''[[Unreliable Expositor|itself unreliable]]''.

 

== Comic Books ==

* ''Sunshine'' and ''Dragonhaven'' by [[Robin McKinley]] both do this--''Sunshine'' is set in a world with [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampire]]s, and ''Dragonhaven'' one with [[Our Dragons Are Different|marsupial dragons]].

* Naomi Novik's ''[[Temeraire]]'' series is set in the Napoleonic era in a world where there have always been dragons.

* In [[Diane Duane]]'s [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Next Gen]] novel ''Dark Mirror'', written before the [[Mirror Universe]] made its television return, Captain Picard studies his counterpart's library in an attempt to find a divergence point. After finding some truly horrifying variations on Shakespeare and Homer, he considers taking a look at the Bible... and decides it's better left alone. Turns out the universe has been dark from the beginning.

* ''Second Sons'' fulfills the trope, but inverts the normal working of it. Instead of taking place in our world [[In Space|with magic]], it exists in a perfectly plausible world that has no magic, no species that don't exist in our world, and no supernatural elements of any sort, but happens to not be ours, as is cemented by the existence of [[Alien Sky|two suns]].

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