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== [[Comic Books]] |
== [[Comic Books]] == |
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* Self-parody [[Marvel Comics]] ''Wha... huh...?'' features worlds where [[Stan Lee]] sells hot-dogs and [[Mark Millar]] is homeless, as they never got into comics. |
* Self-parody [[Marvel Comics]] ''Wha... huh...?'' features worlds where [[Stan Lee]] sells hot-dogs and [[Mark Millar]] is homeless, as they never got into comics. |
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* Sometimes Marvel series ''[[What If]]'' dwellt into it, mostly in humoristic backups, which featured things like [[Wolverine]] working at restaurant or [[The Incredible Hulk]] becoming school hall monitor (he later become a principal and hired [[The Punisher]] to do his old job). |
* Sometimes Marvel series ''[[What If]]'' dwellt into it, mostly in humoristic backups, which featured things like [[Wolverine]] working at restaurant or [[The Incredible Hulk]] becoming school hall monitor (he later become a principal and hired [[The Punisher]] to do his old job). |
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** Not to mention [[Aleister Crowley]] as American Rasputin! |
** Not to mention [[Aleister Crowley]] as American Rasputin! |
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* In the short story ''Southern Strategy'' Nixon ends up leading a guerilla war in the US south, together with Martin Luther King. [[It Makes Sense in Context]]. |
* In the short story ''Southern Strategy'' Nixon ends up leading a guerilla war in the US south, together with Martin Luther King. [[It Makes Sense in Context]]. |
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** Interestingly, the card game ''[[Chrononauts]]'' also features Nixon and MLK teaming up in an alternate |
** Interestingly, the card game ''[[Chrononauts]]'' also features Nixon and MLK teaming up in an alternate reality—as President and Vice-President. |
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* [[Howard Waldrop]] does this a lot. In one of his stories Elvis Presley is a senator, and Dwight Eisenhower and George S. Patton are jazz musicians. |
* [[Howard Waldrop]] does this a lot. In one of his stories Elvis Presley is a senator, and Dwight Eisenhower and George S. Patton are jazz musicians. |
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* In the ''[[Wild Cards]]'' universe, Fidel Castro is pitching coach for the Brooklyn Dodgers. (In the real world, a long-debunked rumor has Castro trying out for the Washington Senators but ending up going to law school instead.) |
* In the ''[[Wild Cards]]'' universe, Fidel Castro is pitching coach for the Brooklyn Dodgers. (In the real world, a long-debunked rumor has Castro trying out for the Washington Senators but ending up going to law school instead.) |
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