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''Protect and Survive: A Timeline'' is an [[Alternate History]] timeline written by "Macragge1" on [[
Due to the style and concept, the original thread was immensely well-received by the [[
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* [[After the End]]: Very much so.
* [[Allohistorical Allusion]]: Although not mentioned by name, it's clear that the guitar playing rebel soldier who "doesn't want to change the world" is meant to be [[Billy Bragg]]. Also {{spoiler|Operation Prospero finds that the US is being run from [[
* [[Atomic Hate]] : Virtually every larger urban or industrial centre on the face of the world is showered by nukes. Even some of the smaller cities recieve at least one.
* [[Cold War]]: The setting, specifically [[The Eighties]] version. Needless to say, in this alternate universe, it went hot.
* [[Cozy Catastrophe]]: Averted. [[It Got Worse|Big time.]]
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: After the War, Britain sends a expedition to the Falkland Islands {{spoiler|which is attacked by the Argentine Navy, killing three sailors. Britain's response: nuking Buenos Aires.}}
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: {{spoiler|The Queen, no less.}}
* [[The End of the World
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: During Operation Prospero, the American "cowboy" guy when he mouths to the pilot to shoot the Commando through him, also averting [[Bulletproof Human Shield]] in the process. {{spoiler|It turns out that the Commando is [[Not Quite Dead]] though.}}
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* [[Hope Spot]]: The nuke meant for Portsmouth misses and detonates in the channel, which at least gives the UK a de facto capital.
* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]: How The Controller rationalises {{spoiler|not feeding babies because they can't work}}. Later, he reevaluates his decision.
* [[Infant Immortality]]: Brutally averted. Possibly even inverted, given how many babies and children die in this story.
* [[Literary Allusion Title]] : To the 1970s-1980s British nuclear war survival program.
* [[No Name Given]]: Most of the main fictional characters are referred to only by their occupations.
* [[Stream of Consciousness]] : The inner monologue of the characters is usualy presented like this.
* [[Spin-Off]]: Has already received at least ''ten'' spinoff series, which is unusual even for great [[
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: To ''[[Threads]]'', one of its sources of inspiration.
* [[Tank Goodness]]: One Chieftain tank is more than enough, at the Battle of Felton.
* [[Taking You
* [[The Eighties]]: The War begins in early 1984. [[Shout-Out|Which is the same year that]] ''[[Threads]]'' [[Shout-Out|was broadcast, and presumably set in.]] Unsurprisingly, the timeline references a lot of 1980s popculture.
* [[The Last DJ]]: John Peel, rather more literally than he was in real life.
* [[Undefeatable Little Village]]: Subverted by Felton, which tries to be this, but fails massively and is implied to have been basically levelled.
* [[Wham! Line]]: At the end of part 4 there is a single solitary line that seems insignificant but is the most important line up to this point:
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