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* SlashedThroat: How [[spoiler:Leonid Brezhnev]] dies.
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* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: Seemingly a never ending parade of these occur whenever the narrative puts focus on China after the Sino-Soviet nuclear exchange. Impalement of civilians and prisoners of war are only one of many gruesome atrocities carried out by the remnants of the communist government.
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** Suspicious activity, possibly espionage-related, centered around an abandoned Belarusian factory → [[spoiler: a Neo-Nazi terrorist plot approved by President Rhodes to destroy the Soviet Union through bio-terrorism.]]

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** Suspicious activity, possibly espionage-related, centered around an abandoned Belarusian factory → [[spoiler: a Neo-Nazi terrorist plot approved by President Rhodes to destroy the Soviet Union through bio-terrorism.]]
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* DickDastardlyStopsToCheat: [[spoiler:Bush rigging the 1972 election]] was completely unnecessary; he had already won and was just paranoid that a recount might see him lose his lead. His decision to [[spoiler:send G. Gordon Liddy to destroy Humphrey ballots in New Mexico]] is what causes all his problems down the line.


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* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot:
** One of George Wallace's staffers gets into a scuffle with the police → President Johnson directed the FBI to spy on his opponents.
** An FBI agent is forcibly painted black by the Black Panther Party → the FBI have murdered thousands of mostly black "subversives" and President Reagan knew about it and covered it up.
** Suspicious activity, possibly espionage-related, centered around an abandoned Belarusian factory → [[spoiler: a Neo-Nazi terrorist plot approved by President Rhodes to destroy the Soviet Union through bio-terrorism.]]
** [[spoiler:A single burnt ballot in New Mexico → A conspiracy by President Bush to assassinate Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Cesar Chavez, the Democratic and Republican party leadership and Vice President Brooke. Also, the 1972 election was rigged, the CIA committed war crimes in South America, the coup in Italy that wiped out most of the government had American backing, the CIA sold weapons to the IRA and nukes to Neo-Nazi terrorists and the bio-terrorism attack on the Soviet Union was ordered by CIA director Helms and approved by the White House.]]
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* SanitySlippage: Happens, in rather tragic fashion, to President Bush. The increasing stress of managing a world that's on the brink 24/7 causes him to lose entire days of sleep and begin to abuse his power, constantly afraid that he's the only person capable of leading the nation.

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* SanitySlippage: Happens, in rather tragic fashion, to President Bush. The increasing stress of managing a world that's on the brink 24/7 causes him to lose entire days of sleep and begin to abuse his power, constantly afraid that he's the only person capable of leading the nation.nation will collapse without him.



** President Bush slowly turns into this under the strain of trying to clean up the mess left by his predecessors. [[spoiler:He eventually rigging the 1972 election and killing several people to cover it up.]]

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** President Bush slowly turns into this under the strain of trying to clean up the mess left by his predecessors. [[spoiler:He eventually rigging rigs the 1972 election and killing several people to cover it up.]]
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** ''Icarus Rising'' and ''Icarus: 2000'' being LeftHanging means that we never find out [[spoiler:if Ted Bundy was ever caught, or if Sanjay Gandhi was overthrown]].
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Icarus Falls, as of May 2014, is complete, having chronicled its world's events from late 1967 until the aftermath of the 1972 presidential elections. The author indicated that a sequel was forthcoming. Said sequel, Icarus Rising, has since begun, and is currently in early 1973, with the author intending to take it up to at least 1976. Another sequel, Icarus: 2000, was created due to the author suffering from WritersBlock. Icarus: 2000 takes place in 2000 and consists of interviews from people in a style similar to ''Literature/WorldWarZ''.

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Icarus Falls, as of May 2014, is complete, having chronicled its world's events from late 1967 until the aftermath of the 1972 presidential elections. The author indicated that a sequel was forthcoming. Said sequel, Icarus Rising, has since begun, and is currently in early 1973, with the author intending to take it up to at least 1976. Another sequel, Icarus: 2000, was created due to the author suffering from WritersBlock. Icarus: 2000 takes place in 2000 and consists of interviews from people in a style similar to ''Literature/WorldWarZ''.
''Literature/WorldWarZ''. It is currently a DeadFic.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Does Dwight Eisenhower really meet death in his final moments, or is it just a hallucination? Similarly, does [[spoiler:Richard Helms]] hear the sounds of {{Hell}} while in a coma, or is it a product of brain damage?
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* DrivenToSuicide: Both [[spoiler:Henry Kissinger]] and [[spoiler:Kurt Waldheim]] commit suicide within a day of each other.
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As it turns out he kills himself.


** [[spoiler:Henry Kissinger]] escapes [[spoiler:Rumsfeld's coup attempt]] with an injured arm and is given a new identity and a one-way ticket to Canada. However, a man who is probably him soon commits suicide out of remorse.
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** [[spoiler:Henry Kissinger]] escapes [[spoiler:Rumsfeld's coup attempt]] with an injured arm and is given a new identity and a one-way ticket to Canada.

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** [[spoiler:Henry Kissinger]] escapes [[spoiler:Rumsfeld's coup attempt]] with an injured arm and is given a new identity and a one-way ticket to Canada. However, a man who is probably him soon commits suicide out of remorse.
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** President Bush gets away with [[spoiler:rigging the 1972 election and abducting Lyndon Johnson]] in ''Icarus Falls''. His web of lies begins to unravel in ''Icarus Rising'' and he becomes increasingly unstable as he is forced to have more and more people killed to cover it up. Eventually [[spoiler:Vice President Brookes survives an attempt on his life and exposes Bush's actions, leading to the collapse of Bush's administration and a coup attempt by Rumsfeld that leaves both him and Bush dead]].

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** President Bush gets away with [[spoiler:rigging the 1972 election and abducting Lyndon Johnson]] in ''Icarus Falls''. His web of lies begins to unravel in ''Icarus Rising'' and he becomes increasingly unstable as he is forced to have more and more people killed to cover it up. Eventually [[spoiler:Vice President Brookes Brooke survives an attempt on his life and exposes Bush's actions, leading to the collapse of Bush's administration and a coup attempt by Rumsfeld that leaves both him and Bush dead]].
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** Leonid Brezhnev wins the Sino-Soviet War and the International Court of Justice indictment comes to nothing because he isn't present to be tried. Then [[spoiler:the Russian Civil War]] happens...

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** George H.W. Bush [[spoiler:rigs the 1972 election and has several people assassinated for various reasons]].

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** George H.W. Bush [[spoiler:rigs the 1972 election and has several people assassinated for various reasons]].to cover it up]].


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** President Bush gets away with [[spoiler:rigging the 1972 election and abducting Lyndon Johnson]] in ''Icarus Falls''. His web of lies begins to unravel in ''Icarus Rising'' and he becomes increasingly unstable as he is forced to have more and more people killed to cover it up. Eventually [[spoiler:Vice President Brookes survives an attempt on his life and exposes Bush's actions, leading to the collapse of Bush's administration and a coup attempt by Rumsfeld that leaves both him and Bush dead]].
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* ManipulativeBastard: UsefulNotes/TedBundy is the same manipulator he was OTL, only [[spoiler:manipulating Arthur Bremer into shooting UsefulNotes/GeorgeWallace]] this time around.

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* ManipulativeBastard: UsefulNotes/TedBundy is the same manipulator he was OTL, only [[spoiler:manipulating Arthur Bremer into shooting UsefulNotes/GeorgeWallace]] George Wallace]] this time around.
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* ManipulativeBastard: UsefulNotes/TedBundy is the same manipulator he was OTL, only [[spoiler:manipulating Arthur Bremer into shooting UsefulNotes/GeorgeWallace]] this time around.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Reagan is horrified when he finds out that President Rhodes authorized Operation Scourge.


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** [[spoiler:Henry Kissinger]] escapes [[spoiler:Rumsfeld's coup attempt]] with an injured arm and is given a new identity and a one-way ticket to Canada.
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** One character rigs a car to explode only to be taken hostage in said car, which explodes as planned.

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** One character [[spoiler:George Bush]] rigs a [[spoiler:Donald Rumsfeld]]'s car to explode only to be taken hostage in said car, which explodes as planned.

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** Indira Gandhi is threatened with indictment at the International Court of Justice for a nuclear attack on Pakistan.



** George H.W. Bush [[spoiler:rigs the 1972 election and has several people assassinated for various reasons]].
** Anwar Sadat and several other Arab leaders use [[spoiler:the attack on Mecca]] as an excuse to [[spoiler:invade Israel with the intention of completely destroying it]]. Zig-zagged in the same war with Golda Meir. While she ''does'' [[spoiler:use her nuclear arsenal to wipe out the population of Egypt and destroy Jordan, Lebanon and Syria]] she was backed into a corner and had no other meaningful options.



** Clyde Tolson dies of a stroke at his desk without his involvement in the deaths of thousands of "subversives" being revealed until afterwards.

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** Clyde Tolson dies of a stroke at his desk without his involvement in the deaths of thousands of "subversives" being revealed until afterwards.revealed.

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