That would be fascinating to see a world diverge at such a critical juncture in time.
prime directive is now freeing the proletariat of every planet
You can salvage many of the prime directive plots if the policy is actually "Gather enough info for the first contact ship, but don't start it yourself unless it's an emergency, because you will fuck it up."
The prime directive plots that this cannot salvage should be binned.
basically halfway between star trek and the culture series. would be dope.
“I have never subscribed to the theory that political power grows from the barrel of a gun”
Any anime that says it's okay to lust after the 10 year old girl because she's actually a 10,000 year old dragon => she's actually drawn as and acts like a 10,000 year old dragon in every scene
Voldemort stands over the crib of a newborn baby and casts a spell. The child dies.
The end.
Gun. Sniper long distance would take out the entire wizarding world
"Avada Kedavra" vs. Chris Kyle
Ok, this has been driving me crazy for seven movies now, and I know you're going to roll your eyes, but hear me out: Harry Potter should have carried a 1911.
Here's why:
Think about how quickly the entire WWWIII (Wizarding-World War III) would have ended if all of the good guys had simply armed up with good ol' American hot lead.
Basilisk? Let's see how tough it is when you shoot it with a .470 Nitro Express. Worried about its Medusa-gaze? Wear night vision goggles. The image is light-amplified and re-transmitted to your eyes. You aren't looking at it--you're looking at a picture of it.
Imagine how epic the first movie would be if Harry had put a breeching charge on the bathroom wall, flash-banged the hole, and then went in wearing NVGs and a Kevlar-weave stab-vest, carrying a SPAS-12.
And have you noticed that only Europe seems to a problem with Deatheaters? Maybe it's because Americans have spent the last 200 years shooting deer, playing GTA: Vice City, and keeping an eye out for black helicopters over their compounds. Meanwhile, Brits have been cutting their steaks with spoons. Remember: gun-control means that Voldemort wins. God made wizards and God made muggles, but Samuel Colt made them equal.
Now I know what you're going to say: "But a wizard could just disarm someone with a gun!" Yeah, well they can also disarm someone with a wand (as they do many times throughout the books/movies). But which is faster: saying a spell or pulling a trigger?
Avada Kedavra, meet Avtomat Kalashnikova.
Imagine Harry out in the woods, wearing his invisibility cloak, carrying a .50bmg Barrett, turning Deatheaters into pink mist, scratching a lightning bolt into his rifle stock for each kill. I don't think Madam Pomfrey has any spells that can scrape your brains off of the trees and put you back together after something like that. Voldemort's wand may be 13.5 inches with a Phoenix-feather core, but Harry's would be 0.50 inches with a tungsten core. Let's see Voldy wave his at 3,000 feet per second. Better hope you have some Essence of Dittany for that sucking chest wound.
I can see it now...Voldemort roaring with evil laughter and boasting to Harry that he can't be killed, since he is protected by seven Horcruxes, only to have Harry give a crooked grin, flick his cigarette butt away, and deliver what would easily be the best one-liner in the entire series:
"Well then I guess it's a good thing my 1911 holds 7+1."
And that is why Harry Potter should have carried a 1911.
lmao one of the "guns" harry gets handed is a pump action pellet pistol
Good wizard killing evil wizard with a gun has already been done.
Jowling Kowling Rowling once said that in a fight between a wizard and a guy with a shotgun the guy with a shotgun will usually win which kinda makes me question why you even need offensive magic in the first place.
In which case Nevile Longbottom (or smtjing) would've been the cursed child. The prophecy (or smthing) could've been about either. Read HP 9 or so years ago :shrug-outta-hecks:
Yeah the whole monkey’s paw self-fulfilling prophecy thing was that Voldemort actually chose which child it was about and would have been correct no matter who he tried to kill
Count Dooku is erased from the star wars prequels and is replaced by Liam neesons qui-gon jinn (who doesn't die in ep1).
Episode 1: plays out.....well...I'd do a couple things differently but given the nature of the question let's assume it stays mostly the same. Qui-gon at the end of the movie, in an act of defiance, abdicates his title of Jedi master and says the Jedi can either take Anakin in....or he'll train him as an apostate.
The council begrudgingly concedes his victory and obiwan takes him under his tutelage throwing a wedge between them.
Episode 2: ex Jedi qui-gon is leading the separatists against the Republic. We now have an established relationship between obi and jinn that changes the interrogation scene and it hits a bit different when qui gon tells obi the Republic is under the control of the sith (which btw is actually true in either version of this story).
Episode 3: unlike dooku Qui-gon lives until almost the end of the movie. Similar to how it plays out in Canon palpatine reveals himself to Anakin who relays this to the council. The council, playing catch-up, finally realizes they've been had and that qui-gon has been right all along. The sith are in control, and the Republic is already the empire in all but name...and they switch sides.
Caught in between all this is Anakin, who like a true lib decides to side with what is by all rights the legitimately elected government of the Republic snd as his major transition to Darth Vader kills the leader of what at this point now realize is the precursor to the rebel alliance.
The Matrix Revolutions: Neo figures out that the "real world" is just another layer of the Matrix
:shrug-outta-hecks: It was my first thought at the end of The Matrix Reloaded when he's able to affect the machines in the real world. You can't tell me it would be worse than the actual story of Revolutions.
Someone did a full re-edit of the film in accordance with that one video essay that suggested the change (Nerdwriter?)
Let the Quirky Best Friend from media about teenage girls actually be queer instead of just heavily queer-coded
Geralt of Rivia has no romantic interest in any woman and instead is submissive to Dijkstra.
Ok mine is gonna be canonizing Geralt the Gwentcel, a man who doesn’t care about women and doesn’t even know what sex is. Only Gwent.
If I ever do another playthrough of The Witcher 3 I'm 100% going for a volcel run because apparently then it ends with Geralt, Dandelion, Zoltan and Ciri chilling at a vineyard which is unironically way better than him settling down with Triss or Yennefer.
more pedaling generators in squats, less holographic strippers
I would replace the Harry Potter series with Chuck Tingle's erotic parody version where trans wizard Harriet Porber has a love interest who's a trans bad boy dinosaur named Snabe, and then I'd make Harry Potter be an obscure fanfiction of that.
Just add 5 years to every character and set it in college. Easy.
I'm gonna need OP to specify. Do you actually need to execute the change yourself like in rewriting scripts or can you just will the change into existence? Because if it's the former than your suggestion sounds like an insurmountable amount of work.
