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* Perhaps the ultimate comic book subversion of this trope is the short story [[http://slaymonstrobot.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/why-time-travel-is-illegal.html "Killing Time"]], written by Gerry Conway, illustrated by Tom Yeates, and published in the DC Comics science fiction anthology series ''ComicBook/MysteryInSpace'' issue #114, December, 1980. An idealistic time traveller assassinates Hitler with a laser rifle at a Nazi rally in 1938, but is then lynched by the enraged crowd. Hitler's generals find the laser rifle, eventually learn how to duplicate it, and conquer the world. Decades in the dystopian, Nazi future, an idealistic time traveller sets off to kill the first time traveller to prevent Nazi victory. In the utopian future of that outcome, a die-hard Nazi time traveller sets off to kill the second time traveller to ensure a Nazi victory, and on and on and on. The story ends with an image of an infinite series of rifle scopes trained upon an infinite number of backs.
* Parodied to the point of self-awareness in [[https://i.redd.it/hdf62viv1zv41.jpg an issue]] of ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'', where Hitler is getting used to beating down time travellers - and then he decides to [[StupidJetpackHitler hijack one's time-travelling device]] and go after ComicBook/NickFury. He ''[[http://www.funnyjunk.com/Deadpool+vs+Hitler/funny-pictures/5072129 is]]'' [[FictionalizedDeathAccount killed outside his timeline]] by Fury, Deadpool and ComicBook/{{Cable}}, but the ([[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill extremely bullet-riddled]]) body is brought back to 1945 to keep history flowing.
* The Hitler thing was mentioned in a time travel arc of a Franchise/{{Godzilla}} comic book. However, [[spoiler:when the villain used his time machine to put Godzilla into the Titanic iceberg, the Big G's escape not only caused the famous collision, but the use of his nuclear breath warmed up the water, ''increasing'' the number of survivors.]]
* ''Comicbook/XMen'':
** Someone makes the mistake of mentioning this idea to Magneto -- who is a Holocaust survivor. Predictably, he explodes. In the movie it was the anxiety of separation from his mother in the camps that first revealed the powers of the Master of Magnetism. Without such violent circumstances, Magneto would be a very different person.
** The mini-series ''True Friends'' has Kitty Pryde and Rachel Summers accidentally travelling to the late 1930s. Kitty, who is Jewish and learned about the Holocaust from her grandfather, himself a camp survivor, decides to assassinate Hitler and most of his staff, until she is forced to choose between changing history and saving Rachel from the Shadow King.
* ''Comicbook/FantasticFour'':
** In a comic book from the John Byrne era, the Invisible Woman, the Torch and She-Hulk find themselves in 1930s New York with Nick Fury. Fury decides to go to Germany and kill Hitler, and the other three try to stop him. They find Fury being interrogated by some goons while Hitler watches; they overpower the goons and free Fury, and Sue Storm gives an impassioned speech about not altering the timeline. Fury nods, starts walking out the door -- and then turns and shoots Hitler. It turns out that [[spoiler:it was AllJustADream.]]
** In a storyline where a future Dr. Doom comes back to kill Reed, it is stated that timelines tend to correct themselves. For example, if you prevent UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln's assassination, people remember the time he was almost killed in the theatre - a couple of days before dying in a bathtub slip. Of course, stuff like that is DependingOnTheWriter - the Marvel multiverse is said to exist partly because time travel almost ''always'' changes things... but simply creates an alternate timeline. So for the above example, there would be a universe where Lincoln was killed in the theatre, and one where he wasn't. And probably at least one where he slipped on the soap, but not because of any universal correction as TheMultiverse.
* In the first story arc of ''Midnighter'''s solo series, he is sent back in time to kill Hitler in the trenches of World War One, only to be stopped by the TimePolice. In the penultimate chapter, Midnighter actually gets his chance to make the hit -- on the night Hitler would commit suicide. Cue epiphany:
* Parodied to the point of self-awareness in [[https://i.redd.it/hdf62viv1zv41.jpg an issue]] of ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'', where Hitler is getting used to beating down time travellers - and then he decides to [[StupidJetpackHitler hijack one's time-travelling device]] and go after ComicBook/NickFury. He ''[[http://www.funnyjunk.com/Deadpool+vs+Hitler/funny-pictures/5072129 is]]'' [[FictionalizedDeathAccount killed outside his timeline]] by Fury, Deadpool and ComicBook/{{Cable}}, but the ([[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill extremely bullet-riddled]]) body is brought back to 1945 to keep history flowing.
* The Hitler thing was mentioned in a time travel arc of a Franchise/{{Godzilla}} comic book. However, [[spoiler:when the villain used his time machine to put Godzilla into the Titanic iceberg, the Big G's escape not only caused the famous collision, but the use of his nuclear breath warmed up the water, ''increasing'' the number of survivors.]]
* ''Comicbook/XMen'':
** Someone makes the mistake of mentioning this idea to Magneto -- who is a Holocaust survivor. Predictably, he explodes. In the movie it was the anxiety of separation from his mother in the camps that first revealed the powers of the Master of Magnetism. Without such violent circumstances, Magneto would be a very different person.
** The mini-series ''True Friends'' has Kitty Pryde and Rachel Summers accidentally travelling to the late 1930s. Kitty, who is Jewish and learned about the Holocaust from her grandfather, himself a camp survivor, decides to assassinate Hitler and most of his staff, until she is forced to choose between changing history and saving Rachel from the Shadow King.
* ''Comicbook/FantasticFour'':
** In a comic book from the John Byrne era, the Invisible Woman, the Torch and She-Hulk find themselves in 1930s New York with Nick Fury. Fury decides to go to Germany and kill Hitler, and the other three try to stop him. They find Fury being interrogated by some goons while Hitler watches; they overpower the goons and free Fury, and Sue Storm gives an impassioned speech about not altering the timeline. Fury nods, starts walking out the door -- and then turns and shoots Hitler. It turns out that [[spoiler:it was AllJustADream.]]
** In a storyline where a future Dr. Doom comes back to kill Reed, it is stated that timelines tend to correct themselves. For example, if you prevent UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln's assassination, people remember the time he was almost killed in the theatre - a couple of days before dying in a bathtub slip. Of course, stuff like that is DependingOnTheWriter - the Marvel multiverse is said to exist partly because time travel almost ''always'' changes things... but simply creates an alternate timeline. So for the above example, there would be a universe where Lincoln was killed in the theatre, and one where he wasn't. And probably at least one where he slipped on the soap, but not because of any universal correction as TheMultiverse.
* In the first story arc of ''Midnighter'''s solo series, he is sent back in time to kill Hitler in the trenches of World War One, only to be stopped by the TimePolice. In the penultimate chapter, Midnighter actually gets his chance to make the hit -- on the night Hitler would commit suicide. Cue epiphany:
to:
* Perhaps the ultimate comic book subversion of this trope is the short story [[http://slaymonstrobot.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/why-time-travel-is-illegal.html "Killing Time"]], written by Gerry Conway, illustrated by Tom Yeates, and published in the DC Comics science fiction anthology series ''ComicBook/MysteryInSpace'' issue #114, December, 1980. An idealistic ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'': One ''Tharg's Time Twisters'' (Basically a ''[[ComicBook/ThargsFutureShocks Future Shock]]'' involving time traveller assassinates Hitler with a laser rifle at a Nazi rally in 1938, but is then lynched by the enraged crowd. travel) had Allied assassins go back to Hitler's generals find the laser rifle, eventually learn how birth to duplicate it, assassinate him. Hitler uses MentalTimeTravel to take control of his own infant self and conquer the world. Decades in the dystopian, Nazi future, an idealistic time traveller sets off to kill the first time traveller assassins, saving his own life in several different alternate realities. However, it comes back to prevent Nazi victory. In bite him in the utopian future of that outcome, a die-hard Nazi time traveller sets off ass when his baby self's personality takes him over, leading him to kill the second time traveller to ensure a Nazi victory, make increasingly idiotic decisions and on and on and on. The story ends with an image of an infinite series of rifle scopes trained upon an infinite number of backs.leads to his eventual suicide.
*Parodied to the point of self-awareness in [[https://i.redd.it/hdf62viv1zv41.jpg an issue]] of ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'', where Hitler is getting used to beating down time travellers - and then ''ComicBook/AllStarSquadron'': In issue #2, Per Degaton noted that he decides to [[StupidJetpackHitler hijack one's time-travelling device]] and go after ComicBook/NickFury. He ''[[http://www.funnyjunk.com/Deadpool+vs+Hitler/funny-pictures/5072129 is]]'' [[FictionalizedDeathAccount killed outside his timeline]] by Fury, Deadpool and ComicBook/{{Cable}}, but the ([[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill extremely bullet-riddled]]) body is brought back to 1945 to keep history flowing.
* The Hitler thing was mentioned in acould not time travel arc of a Franchise/{{Godzilla}} comic book. However, [[spoiler:when the villain used his time machine to put Godzilla into the Titanic iceberg, the Big G's escape not only caused the famous collision, but the use of his nuclear breath warmed up the water, ''increasing'' the number of survivors.]]
* ''Comicbook/XMen'':
** Someone makes the mistake of mentioning this idea to Magneto -- who is a Holocaust survivor. Predictably, he explodes. In the movie it was the anxiety of separation from his mother in the camps that first revealed the powers of the Master of Magnetism. Without such violent circumstances, Magneto would be a very different person.
** The mini-series ''True Friends'' has Kitty Pryde and Rachel Summers accidentally travellingto the late 1930s. Kitty, who is Jewish and learned about the Holocaust from her grandfather, himself a camp survivor, decides date of Pearl Harbor due to assassinate Hitler and most of his staff, until she is forced to choose between changing history and saving Rachel from the Shadow King.
* ''Comicbook/FantasticFour'':
** In a comic book from the John Byrne era, the Invisible Woman, the Torch and She-Hulk find themselves"interference" in 1930s New York with Nick Fury. Fury decides to go to Germany and kill Hitler, and the other three try to stop him. They find Fury being interrogated by some goons while Hitler watches; they overpower the goons and free Fury, and Sue Storm gives an impassioned speech about not altering the timeline. Fury nods, starts walking out the door -- and then turns and shoots Hitler. It turns out that [[spoiler:it was AllJustADream.]]
** In a storyline where a future Dr. Doom comes back to kill Reed, it is stated that timelines tend to correct themselves. For example, if you prevent UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln's assassination, people rememberthe time he was almost killed in stream. (The same writer, Roy Thomas, also had Rama-Tut experience timestream static. Perhaps the theatre - a couple presence of days before dying in a bathtub slip. Of course, stuff like that is DependingOnTheWriter - the Marvel multiverse is said so many people attempting to exist partly because time travel almost ''always'' changes things... but simply to a certain point creates an alternate timeline. So for congestion, similar to many people attempt to use the above example, there would be same exit from a universe where Lincoln was killed in the theatre, and one where he wasn't. And probably at least one where he slipped on the soap, but not because of any universal correction as TheMultiverse.
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* ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'': In the first story arc of''Midnighter'''s ''ComicBook/{{Midnighter}}'''s solo series, he is sent back in time to kill Hitler in the trenches of World War One, only to be stopped by the TimePolice. In the penultimate chapter, Midnighter actually gets his chance to make the hit -- on the night Hitler would commit suicide. Cue epiphany:
*
* The Hitler thing was mentioned in a
* ''Comicbook/XMen'':
** Someone makes the mistake of mentioning this idea to Magneto -- who is a Holocaust survivor. Predictably, he explodes. In the movie it was the anxiety of separation from his mother in the camps that first revealed the powers of the Master of Magnetism. Without such violent circumstances, Magneto would be a very different person.
** The mini-series ''True Friends'' has Kitty Pryde and Rachel Summers accidentally travelling
* ''Comicbook/FantasticFour'':
** In a comic book from the John Byrne era, the Invisible Woman, the Torch and She-Hulk find themselves
** In a storyline where a future Dr. Doom comes back to kill Reed, it is stated that timelines tend to correct themselves. For example, if you prevent UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln's assassination, people remember
* ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'': In the first story arc of
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** In their downtime, ComicBook/TheAuthority likes to go to alternate universes and kill their Hitlers.
* In ''ComicBook/AllStarSquadron'' #2, Per Degaton noted that he could not time travel to the date of Pearl Harbor due to "interference" in the time stream. (The same writer, Roy Thomas, also had Rama-Tut experience timestream static. Perhaps the presence of so many people attempting to time travel to a certain point creates congestion, similar to many people attempt to use the same exit from a road.)
* In one classic ''ComicBook/StrontiumDog'' prog, Johnny Alpha and Wulf travel back in time to arrest Hitler and put him on trial before the Court of Ultimate Retribution. They have to pick him up moments before his suicide however, otherwise there would be nothing to try him for.
* The appropriately named graphic novel ''ComicBook/IKilledAdolfHitler'' both subverts and invokes this trope as the center to its entire plot. A down-on-his-luck hitman is hired to go back in time and kill Adolf, using a time machine that is only good for one round trip. Only he bungles the job, and Hitler steals the time machine and escapes to the present. With no way back home, he's forced to [[TheSlowPath live through the intervening years the normal way]], waiting for the day the time machine arrives so he can stop Hitler.
* In ''ComicBook/AllStarSquadron'' #2, Per Degaton noted that he could not time travel to the date of Pearl Harbor due to "interference" in the time stream. (The same writer, Roy Thomas, also had Rama-Tut experience timestream static. Perhaps the presence of so many people attempting to time travel to a certain point creates congestion, similar to many people attempt to use the same exit from a road.)
* In one classic ''ComicBook/StrontiumDog'' prog, Johnny Alpha and Wulf travel back in time to arrest Hitler and put him on trial before the Court of Ultimate Retribution. They have to pick him up moments before his suicide however, otherwise there would be nothing to try him for.
* The appropriately named graphic novel ''ComicBook/IKilledAdolfHitler'' both subverts and invokes this trope as the center to its entire plot. A down-on-his-luck hitman is hired to go back in time and kill Adolf, using a time machine that is only good for one round trip. Only he bungles the job, and Hitler steals the time machine and escapes to the present. With no way back home, he's forced to [[TheSlowPath live through the intervening years the normal way]], waiting for the day the time machine arrives so he can stop Hitler.
to:
** In their downtime, ComicBook/TheAuthority the Authority likes to go to alternate universes and kill their Hitlers.
* ''ComicBook/BoosterGold'': In''ComicBook/AllStarSquadron'' #2, Per Degaton noted one issue, Booster off-handedly asks if this mission is stopping another time traveling Hitler assassin.
* ''ComicBook/DaysMissing'': Discussed in the comic about a cosmic being called the Steward who averts extinction-level disasters. Over the course of the series he prevents such potential {{Apocalypse How}}s as GreyGoo, a 95% lethal airborne mutant form of Ebola and the Large Hardon Collider creating an UnrealisticBlackHole. We also see him in the past doing such things as ensuring some of the Library of Alexandria survives and early Chinese civilization isn't wiped out by steppes raiders. Real-world catastrophes of the Modern period aren't really mentioned until near the end of the series, where it's revealed that the comic takes place in an AlternateTimeline where World War II never happened, as the Steward foresaw Hitler's rise to power and prevented it by teaching him to paint like the greatest artists in history so hecould never got into politics.
* ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'': Parodied to the point of self-awareness in ''ComicBook/Deadpool2012'' [[https://i.redd.it/hdf62viv1zv41.jpg #26]], where Hitler is getting used to beating down time travellers - and then he decides to [[StupidJetpackHitler hijack one's time-travelling device]] and go after ComicBook/NickFury. He ''[[http://www.funnyjunk.com/Deadpool+vs+Hitler/funny-pictures/5072129 is]]'' [[FictionalizedDeathAccount killed outside his timeline]] by Fury, Deadpool and ComicBook/{{Cable}}, but the ([[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill extremely bullet-riddled]]) body is brought back to 1945 to keep history flowing.
* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'':
** In a comic book from the John Byrne era of ''ComicBook/FantasticFour1961'', the Invisible Woman, the Torch and She-Hulk find themselves in 1930s New York with Nick Fury. Fury decides to go to Germany and kill Hitler, and the other three try to stop him. They find Fury being interrogated by some goons while Hitler watches; they overpower the goons and free Fury, and Sue Storm gives an impassioned speech about not altering the timeline. Fury nods, starts walking out the door -- and then turns and shoots Hitler. It turns out that [[spoiler:it was AllJustADream.]]
** In a storyline where a future Dr. Doom comes back to kill Reed, it is stated that timelines tend to correct themselves. For example, if you prevent UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln's assassination, people remember the time he was almost killed in the theatre - a couple of days before dying in a bathtub slip. Of course, stuff like that is DependingOnTheWriter - the Marvel multiverse is said to exist partly because time travelto the date of Pearl Harbor due to "interference" in the time stream. (The same writer, Roy Thomas, also had Rama-Tut experience timestream static. Perhaps the presence of so many people attempting to time travel to a certain point almost ''always'' changes things... but simply creates congestion, similar to many people attempt to use an alternate timeline. So for the same exit from a road.)
* In one classic ''ComicBook/StrontiumDog'' prog, Johnny Alpha and Wulf travel back in time to arrest Hitler and put him on trial before the Court of Ultimate Retribution. They have to pick him up moments before his suicide however, otherwiseabove example, there would be nothing a universe where Lincoln was killed in the theatre, and one where he wasn't. And probably at least one where he slipped on the soap, but not because of any universal correction as TheMultiverse.
* ''ComicBook/TheFlash'': In ''ComicBook/TheFlashInfiniteFrontier'', Wally West ends up in the body of the Golden Age Flash and discovers that Adolf Hitler is not only in possession of the Spear of Destiny, but also hopped up on Speed Force energy. Wally suggests just shooting Hitler, but Barry Allen and Mr. Terrific shoot that down, noting that doing so would cause an EarthShatteringKaboom. [[spoiler:Hitler ''does'' explode due totry the Speed Force energy being released normally and the Golden Age Flash, now in possession of his body again, and the Golden Age Ray have no idea if he survived that.]]
* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'': The Hitler thing was mentioned in a time travel arc of one comic. However, [[spoiler:when the villain used his time machine to put Godzilla into the Titanic iceberg, the Big G's escape not only caused the famous collision, but the use of his nuclear breath warmed up the water, ''increasing'' the number of survivors.]]
* ''ComicBook/HarleyQuinn'': In ''ComicBook/HarleysLittleBlackBook'', Harley Quinn has lots of fun beating up Hitler to a bloody pulp, all the while giving himfor.
a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, as a result of which his car crashes, and yet somehow he survives. Later, though, this is subverted as Harley is so annoying that she [[DrivenToSuicide drives Hitler to shoot himself]]. This is likely a StableTimeLoop, though.
* ''ComicBook/IKilledAdolfHitler'': The appropriately named graphic novel''ComicBook/IKilledAdolfHitler'' both subverts and invokes this trope as the center to its entire plot. A down-on-his-luck hitman is hired to go back in time and kill Adolf, using a time machine that is only good for one round trip. Only he bungles the job, and Hitler steals the time machine and escapes to the present. With no way back home, he's forced to [[TheSlowPath live through the intervening years the normal way]], waiting for the day the time machine arrives so he can stop Hitler.
* ''ComicBook/BoosterGold'': In
* ''ComicBook/DaysMissing'': Discussed in the comic about a cosmic being called the Steward who averts extinction-level disasters. Over the course of the series he prevents such potential {{Apocalypse How}}s as GreyGoo, a 95% lethal airborne mutant form of Ebola and the Large Hardon Collider creating an UnrealisticBlackHole. We also see him in the past doing such things as ensuring some of the Library of Alexandria survives and early Chinese civilization isn't wiped out by steppes raiders. Real-world catastrophes of the Modern period aren't really mentioned until near the end of the series, where it's revealed that the comic takes place in an AlternateTimeline where World War II never happened, as the Steward foresaw Hitler's rise to power and prevented it by teaching him to paint like the greatest artists in history so he
* ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'': Parodied to the point of self-awareness in ''ComicBook/Deadpool2012'' [[https://i.redd.it/hdf62viv1zv41.jpg #26]], where Hitler is getting used to beating down time travellers - and then he decides to [[StupidJetpackHitler hijack one's time-travelling device]] and go after ComicBook/NickFury. He ''[[http://www.funnyjunk.com/Deadpool+vs+Hitler/funny-pictures/5072129 is]]'' [[FictionalizedDeathAccount killed outside his timeline]] by Fury, Deadpool and ComicBook/{{Cable}}, but the ([[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill extremely bullet-riddled]]) body is brought back to 1945 to keep history flowing.
* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'':
** In a comic book from the John Byrne era of ''ComicBook/FantasticFour1961'', the Invisible Woman, the Torch and She-Hulk find themselves in 1930s New York with Nick Fury. Fury decides to go to Germany and kill Hitler, and the other three try to stop him. They find Fury being interrogated by some goons while Hitler watches; they overpower the goons and free Fury, and Sue Storm gives an impassioned speech about not altering the timeline. Fury nods, starts walking out the door -- and then turns and shoots Hitler. It turns out that [[spoiler:it was AllJustADream.]]
** In a storyline where a future Dr. Doom comes back to kill Reed, it is stated that timelines tend to correct themselves. For example, if you prevent UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln's assassination, people remember the time he was almost killed in the theatre - a couple of days before dying in a bathtub slip. Of course, stuff like that is DependingOnTheWriter - the Marvel multiverse is said to exist partly because time travel
* In one classic ''ComicBook/StrontiumDog'' prog, Johnny Alpha and Wulf travel back in time to arrest Hitler and put him on trial before the Court of Ultimate Retribution. They have to pick him up moments before his suicide however, otherwise
* ''ComicBook/TheFlash'': In ''ComicBook/TheFlashInfiniteFrontier'', Wally West ends up in the body of the Golden Age Flash and discovers that Adolf Hitler is not only in possession of the Spear of Destiny, but also hopped up on Speed Force energy. Wally suggests just shooting Hitler, but Barry Allen and Mr. Terrific shoot that down, noting that doing so would cause an EarthShatteringKaboom. [[spoiler:Hitler ''does'' explode due to
* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'': The Hitler thing was mentioned in a time travel arc of one comic. However, [[spoiler:when the villain used his time machine to put Godzilla into the Titanic iceberg, the Big G's escape not only caused the famous collision, but the use of his nuclear breath warmed up the water, ''increasing'' the number of survivors.]]
* ''ComicBook/HarleyQuinn'': In ''ComicBook/HarleysLittleBlackBook'', Harley Quinn has lots of fun beating up Hitler to a bloody pulp, all the while giving him
* ''ComicBook/IKilledAdolfHitler'': The appropriately named graphic novel
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* In one issue of ''ComicBook/BoosterGold'', Booster off-handedly asks if this mission is stopping another time traveling Hitler assassin.
* The Superman storyline ''ComicBook/TimeAndTimeAgain'' brings this up in a follow-up issue when the time-observing Linear Men talk with Superman about their policy of preventing changes to history by citing Hitler as an example; they could go back and ensure that he died in the First World War, but they can't be sure that the new timeline would be better or worse than the original. Superman concedes to their point, recalling how he avoided changing history during his own recent trip back to the Second World War.
* This trope is inverted but nonetheless explored in the ''Dallas'' arc of ''ComicBook/TheUmbrellaAcademy'', when it is learned that saving JFK from being assassinated would result in [[spoiler:world-wide destruction via nuclear war]].
* Averted in the second issue of ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'': the villain builds a machine that specifically avoids this and the ButterflyOfDoom effect. Though he only gets a single shot at this, and botches it thanks to PK's intervention.
* One ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD Time Twisters'' (Basically a ''[[ComicBook/ThargsFutureShocks Future Shock]]'' involving time travel) had Allied assassins go back to Hitler's birth to assassinate him. Hitler uses MentalTimeTravel to take control of his own infant self and kill the assassins, saving his own life in several different alternate realities. However, it comes back to bite him in the ass when his baby self's personality takes him over, leading him to make increasingly idiotic decisions and leads to his eventual suicide.
* Averted in ''Multiverse'', a graphic novel written by Creator/MichaelMoorcock for Creator/VertigoComics. In one plot thread featuring Seaton Begg, the Meta-Temporal Detective, the time-traveling detective investigates the murder of Hitler's niece, [[VillainousIncest who turned out to be his mistress as well]]. By the end of that arc, Begg did not actually ''kill'' Hitler, but his investigation did result in Hitler being arrested, and the Nazis discredited to the point where they would never rise to power in Begg's timeline. The consequences are never dealt with, as Begg moves on to his next adventure.
* Late in the series ''ComicBook/{{Lilith}}'' the protagonist travels to the [=1930s=] and, given her completely uncaring attitude about changing the timeline as long as she completes her mission and her strong morals the readers just know she'll go after him, the only question being if she'll succeed or not... Except the ''previous'' changes to the timeline have prevented World War I from starting just yet, [[DoubleSubverted so Hitler has done nothing to get Lilith after him and isn't even part of Germany's leadership or mentioned at all]].
* In ''Harley's Little Black Book'', ComicBook/HarleyQuinn has lots of fun beating up Hitler to a bloody pulp, all the while giving him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, as a result of which his car crashes, and yet somehow he survives. Later, though, this is subverted as Harley is so annoying that she [[DrivenToSuicide drives Hitler to shoot himself]]. This is likely a StableTimeLoop, though.
* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye:'' Brainstorm spent several million years building a time-machine so he could go back and stop Megatron being created (partly to save a guy he had a crush on). Once he gets there, he hesitates, not just because preventing the war might stop him being created. Then Rewind kills the not-yet activated Megatron anyway, since the shenanigans have given him a glimpse of an alternate timeline where this played out, and things ''suck'' for Cybertron, which is under the genocidal rule of the Functionist Council, but it's great for everyone else, since the Decepticons never formed, never took their show on the road, and never torched entire planets in the name of expansion. Whirl then implants a Spark Brainstorm had on him in Megatron's body, out of spite for the Functionists. [[spoiler:A later story arc then shows that in the alternate timeline the Functionists also decided to go around killing other species in the name of religious fundamentalism.]]
* In ''ComicBook/TheFlashInfiniteFrontier'', ComicBook/WallyWest ends up in the body of the Golden Age Flash and discovers that Adolf Hitler is not only in possession of the Spear of Destiny, but also hopped up on Speed Force energy. Wally suggests just shooting Hitler, but Barry Allen and Mr. Terrific shoot that down, noting that doing so would cause an EarthShatteringKaboom. [[spoiler:Hitler ''does'' explode due to the Speed Force energy being released normally and the Golden Age Flash, now in possession of his body again, and the Golden Age Ray have no idea if he survived that.]]
* Discussed in ''Days Missing'', a comic about a cosmic being called the Steward who averts extinction-level disasters. Over the course of the series he prevents such potential {{Apocalypse How}}s as GreyGoo, a 95% lethal airborne mutant form of Ebola and the Large Hardon Collider creating an UnrealisticBlackHole. We also see him in the past doing such things as ensuring some of the Library of Alexandria survives and early Chinese civilization isn't wiped out by steppes raiders. Real-world catastrophes of the Modern period aren't really mentioned until near the end of the series, where it's revealed that the comic takes place in an AlternateTimeline where World War II never happened, as the Steward foresaw Hitler's rise to power and prevented it by teaching him to paint like the greatest artists in history so he never got into politics.
* In the Vertigo anthology one-shot ''Time Warp'', the final story "The Principle" focuses on two time-travelers who work to ''prevent'' Hitler being assassinated by other time-travelers, noting that they detest having to keep people from killing Hitler, but know that it's important to prevent history from being mucked up.
* In the 11th issue of ''ComicBook/SquadronSupreme2015'', Spider-Man finds out that the Squadron need Reed Richards' time machine for their goals and asks what they intend to use the time machine to accomplish.
* The Superman storyline ''ComicBook/TimeAndTimeAgain'' brings this up in a follow-up issue when the time-observing Linear Men talk with Superman about their policy of preventing changes to history by citing Hitler as an example; they could go back and ensure that he died in the First World War, but they can't be sure that the new timeline would be better or worse than the original. Superman concedes to their point, recalling how he avoided changing history during his own recent trip back to the Second World War.
* This trope is inverted but nonetheless explored in the ''Dallas'' arc of ''ComicBook/TheUmbrellaAcademy'', when it is learned that saving JFK from being assassinated would result in [[spoiler:world-wide destruction via nuclear war]].
* Averted in the second issue of ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'': the villain builds a machine that specifically avoids this and the ButterflyOfDoom effect. Though he only gets a single shot at this, and botches it thanks to PK's intervention.
* One ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD Time Twisters'' (Basically a ''[[ComicBook/ThargsFutureShocks Future Shock]]'' involving time travel) had Allied assassins go back to Hitler's birth to assassinate him. Hitler uses MentalTimeTravel to take control of his own infant self and kill the assassins, saving his own life in several different alternate realities. However, it comes back to bite him in the ass when his baby self's personality takes him over, leading him to make increasingly idiotic decisions and leads to his eventual suicide.
* Averted in ''Multiverse'', a graphic novel written by Creator/MichaelMoorcock for Creator/VertigoComics. In one plot thread featuring Seaton Begg, the Meta-Temporal Detective, the time-traveling detective investigates the murder of Hitler's niece, [[VillainousIncest who turned out to be his mistress as well]]. By the end of that arc, Begg did not actually ''kill'' Hitler, but his investigation did result in Hitler being arrested, and the Nazis discredited to the point where they would never rise to power in Begg's timeline. The consequences are never dealt with, as Begg moves on to his next adventure.
* Late in the series ''ComicBook/{{Lilith}}'' the protagonist travels to the [=1930s=] and, given her completely uncaring attitude about changing the timeline as long as she completes her mission and her strong morals the readers just know she'll go after him, the only question being if she'll succeed or not... Except the ''previous'' changes to the timeline have prevented World War I from starting just yet, [[DoubleSubverted so Hitler has done nothing to get Lilith after him and isn't even part of Germany's leadership or mentioned at all]].
* In ''Harley's Little Black Book'', ComicBook/HarleyQuinn has lots of fun beating up Hitler to a bloody pulp, all the while giving him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, as a result of which his car crashes, and yet somehow he survives. Later, though, this is subverted as Harley is so annoying that she [[DrivenToSuicide drives Hitler to shoot himself]]. This is likely a StableTimeLoop, though.
* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye:'' Brainstorm spent several million years building a time-machine so he could go back and stop Megatron being created (partly to save a guy he had a crush on). Once he gets there, he hesitates, not just because preventing the war might stop him being created. Then Rewind kills the not-yet activated Megatron anyway, since the shenanigans have given him a glimpse of an alternate timeline where this played out, and things ''suck'' for Cybertron, which is under the genocidal rule of the Functionist Council, but it's great for everyone else, since the Decepticons never formed, never took their show on the road, and never torched entire planets in the name of expansion. Whirl then implants a Spark Brainstorm had on him in Megatron's body, out of spite for the Functionists. [[spoiler:A later story arc then shows that in the alternate timeline the Functionists also decided to go around killing other species in the name of religious fundamentalism.]]
* In ''ComicBook/TheFlashInfiniteFrontier'', ComicBook/WallyWest ends up in the body of the Golden Age Flash and discovers that Adolf Hitler is not only in possession of the Spear of Destiny, but also hopped up on Speed Force energy. Wally suggests just shooting Hitler, but Barry Allen and Mr. Terrific shoot that down, noting that doing so would cause an EarthShatteringKaboom. [[spoiler:Hitler ''does'' explode due to the Speed Force energy being released normally and the Golden Age Flash, now in possession of his body again, and the Golden Age Ray have no idea if he survived that.]]
* Discussed in ''Days Missing'', a comic about a cosmic being called the Steward who averts extinction-level disasters. Over the course of the series he prevents such potential {{Apocalypse How}}s as GreyGoo, a 95% lethal airborne mutant form of Ebola and the Large Hardon Collider creating an UnrealisticBlackHole. We also see him in the past doing such things as ensuring some of the Library of Alexandria survives and early Chinese civilization isn't wiped out by steppes raiders. Real-world catastrophes of the Modern period aren't really mentioned until near the end of the series, where it's revealed that the comic takes place in an AlternateTimeline where World War II never happened, as the Steward foresaw Hitler's rise to power and prevented it by teaching him to paint like the greatest artists in history so he never got into politics.
* In the Vertigo anthology one-shot ''Time Warp'', the final story "The Principle" focuses on two time-travelers who work to ''prevent'' Hitler being assassinated by other time-travelers, noting that they detest having to keep people from killing Hitler, but know that it's important to prevent history from being mucked up.
* In the 11th issue of ''ComicBook/SquadronSupreme2015'', Spider-Man finds out that the Squadron need Reed Richards' time machine for their goals and asks what they intend to use the time machine to accomplish.
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* In one ''[[http://slaymonstrobot.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/why-time-travel-is-illegal.html Killing Time]]'': Perhaps the ultimate comic book subversion of this trope is the short story written by Gerry Conway, illustrated by Tom Yeates, and published in the DC Comics science fiction anthology series ''ComicBook/MysteryInSpace'' issue of ''ComicBook/BoosterGold'', Booster off-handedly asks if this mission is stopping another #114, December, 1980. An idealistic time traveling traveller assassinates Hitler assassin.
* The Superman storyline ''ComicBook/TimeAndTimeAgain'' brings this up in a follow-up issue when the time-observing Linear Men talkwith Superman about their policy of preventing changes a laser rifle at a Nazi rally in 1938, but is then lynched by the enraged crowd. Hitler's generals find the laser rifle, eventually learn how to history by citing Hitler as an example; they could go back duplicate it, and conquer the world. Decades in the dystopian, Nazi future, an idealistic time traveller sets off to kill the first time traveller to prevent Nazi victory. In the utopian future of that outcome, a die-hard Nazi time traveller sets off to kill the second time traveller to ensure that he died in the First World War, but they can't be sure that the new timeline would be better or worse than the original. Superman concedes to their point, recalling how he avoided changing history during his own recent trip back to the Second World War.a Nazi victory, and on and on and on. The story ends with an image of an infinite series of rifle scopes trained upon an infinite number of backs.
*This trope is inverted but nonetheless explored ''ComicBook/{{Lilith}}'': Late in the ''Dallas'' arc of ''ComicBook/TheUmbrellaAcademy'', when it is learned that saving JFK from series, the protagonist travels to the [=1930s=] and, given her completely uncaring attitude about changing the timeline as long as she completes her mission and her strong morals the readers just know she'll go after him, the only question being assassinated would result in [[spoiler:world-wide destruction via nuclear war]].
if she'll succeed or not... Except the ''previous'' changes to the timeline have prevented World War I from starting just yet, [[DoubleSubverted so Hitler has done nothing to get Lilith after him and isn't even part of Germany's leadership or mentioned at all]].
* ''ComicBook/{{Multiverse}}'': Averted in thesecond issue of ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'': the villain builds a machine that specifically avoids this and the ButterflyOfDoom effect. Though he only gets a single shot at this, and botches it thanks to PK's intervention.
* One ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD Time Twisters'' (Basically a ''[[ComicBook/ThargsFutureShocks Future Shock]]'' involving time travel) had Allied assassins go back to Hitler's birth to assassinate him. Hitler uses MentalTimeTravel to take control of his own infant self and kill the assassins, saving his own life in several different alternate realities. However, it comes back to bite him in the ass when his baby self's personality takes him over, leading him to make increasingly idiotic decisions and leads to his eventual suicide.
* Averted in ''Multiverse'', agraphic novel written by Creator/MichaelMoorcock for Creator/VertigoComics. In one plot thread featuring Seaton Begg, the Meta-Temporal Detective, the time-traveling detective investigates the murder of Hitler's niece, [[VillainousIncest who turned out to be his mistress as well]]. By the end of that arc, Begg did not actually ''kill'' Hitler, but his investigation did result in Hitler being arrested, and the Nazis discredited to the point where they would never rise to power in Begg's timeline. The consequences are never dealt with, as Begg moves on to his next adventure.
*Late ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'': Averted in the series ''ComicBook/{{Lilith}}'' second issue, as the protagonist travels to the [=1930s=] and, given her completely uncaring attitude about changing the timeline as long as she completes her mission and her strong morals the readers just know she'll go after him, the only question being if she'll succeed or not... Except the ''previous'' changes to the timeline have prevented World War I from starting just yet, [[DoubleSubverted so Hitler has done nothing to get Lilith after him and isn't even part of Germany's leadership or mentioned at all]].
* In ''Harley's Little Black Book'', ComicBook/HarleyQuinn has lots of fun beating up Hitler tovillain builds a bloody pulp, all the while giving him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, as a result of which his car crashes, and yet somehow he survives. Later, though, machine that specifically avoids this is subverted as Harley is so annoying that she [[DrivenToSuicide drives Hitler to shoot himself]]. This is likely a StableTimeLoop, though.
* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye:'' Brainstorm spent several million years building a time-machine so he could go back and stop Megatron being created (partly to save a guy he had a crush on). Once he gets there, he hesitates, not just because preventing the war might stop him being created. Then Rewind kills the not-yet activated Megatron anyway, since the shenanigans have given him a glimpse of an alternate timeline where this played out, and things ''suck'' for Cybertron, which is under the genocidal rule of the Functionist Council, but it's great for everyone else, since the Decepticons never formed, never took their show on the road, and never torched entire planets in the name of expansion. Whirl then implants a Spark Brainstorm had on him in Megatron's body, out of spite for the Functionists. [[spoiler:A later story arc then shows that in the alternate timeline the Functionists also decided to go around killing other species in the name of religious fundamentalism.]]
* In ''ComicBook/TheFlashInfiniteFrontier'', ComicBook/WallyWest ends up in the body of the Golden Age Flash and discovers that Adolf Hitler is not only in possession of the Spear of Destiny, but also hopped up on Speed Force energy. Wally suggests just shooting Hitler, but Barry Allen and Mr. Terrific shoot that down, noting that doing so would cause an EarthShatteringKaboom. [[spoiler:Hitler ''does'' explode due to the Speed Force energy being released normallyand the Golden Age Flash, now in possession of his body again, ButterflyOfDoom effect. Though he only gets a single shot at this, and the Golden Age Ray have no idea if he survived that.]]
* Discussed in ''Days Missing'', a comic about a cosmic being called the Steward who averts extinction-level disasters. Over the course of the series he prevents such potential {{Apocalypse How}}s as GreyGoo, a 95% lethal airborne mutant form of Ebola and the Large Hardon Collider creating an UnrealisticBlackHole. We also see him in the past doing such things as ensuring some of the Library of Alexandria survives and early Chinese civilization isn't wiped out by steppes raiders. Real-world catastrophes of the Modern period aren't really mentioned until near the end of the series, where it's revealed that the comic takes place in an AlternateTimeline where World War II never happened, as the Steward foresaw Hitler's risebotches it thanks to power and prevented it by teaching him to paint like the greatest artists in history so he never got into politics.
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*In the Vertigo anthology one-shot ''Time Warp'', the final story "The Principle" focuses on two time-travelers who work to ''prevent'' Hitler being assassinated by other time-travelers, noting that they detest having to keep people from killing Hitler, but know that it's important to prevent history from being mucked up.
*''ComicBook/SquadronSupreme'': In the 11th issue of ''ComicBook/SquadronSupreme2015'', Spider-Man finds out that the Squadron need Reed Richards' time machine for their goals and asks what they intend to use the time machine to accomplish.
* The Superman storyline ''ComicBook/TimeAndTimeAgain'' brings this up in a follow-up issue when the time-observing Linear Men talk
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* One ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD Time Twisters'' (Basically a ''[[ComicBook/ThargsFutureShocks Future Shock]]'' involving time travel) had Allied assassins go back to Hitler's birth to assassinate him. Hitler uses MentalTimeTravel to take control of his own infant self and kill the assassins, saving his own life in several different alternate realities. However, it comes back to bite him in the ass when his baby self's personality takes him over, leading him to make increasingly idiotic decisions and leads to his eventual suicide.
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* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye:'' Brainstorm spent several million years building a time-machine so he could go back and stop Megatron being created (partly to save a guy he had a crush on). Once he gets there, he hesitates, not just because preventing the war might stop him being created. Then Rewind kills the not-yet activated Megatron anyway, since the shenanigans have given him a glimpse of an alternate timeline where this played out, and things ''suck'' for Cybertron, which is under the genocidal rule of the Functionist Council, but it's great for everyone else, since the Decepticons never formed, never took their show on the road, and never torched entire planets in the name of expansion. Whirl then implants a Spark Brainstorm had on him in Megatron's body, out of spite for the Functionists. [[spoiler:A later story arc then shows that in the alternate timeline the Functionists also decided to go around killing other species in the name of religious fundamentalism.]]
* In ''ComicBook/TheFlashInfiniteFrontier'', ComicBook/WallyWest ends up in the body of the Golden Age Flash and discovers that Adolf Hitler is not only in possession of the Spear of Destiny, but also hopped up on Speed Force energy. Wally suggests just shooting Hitler, but Barry Allen and Mr. Terrific shoot that down, noting that doing so would cause an EarthShatteringKaboom. [[spoiler:Hitler ''does'' explode due to the Speed Force energy being released normally
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* ''ComicBook/StrontiumDog'': In one classic prog, Johnny Alpha and Wulf travel back in time to arrest Hitler and put him on trial before the Court of Ultimate Retribution. They have to pick him up moments before his suicide however, otherwise there would be nothing to try him for.
* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': The Superman storyline ''ComicBook/TimeAndTimeAgain'' brings this up in a follow-up issue when the time-observing Linear Men talk with Superman about their policy of preventing changes to history by citing Hitler as an example; they could go back and ensure that he died in the First World War, but they can't be sure that the new timeline would be better or worse than the original. Superman concedes to their point, recalling how he avoided changing history during his own recent trip back to the Second World War.
* ''ComicBook/TimeWarp'': In the Vertigo anthology one-shot, the final story "The Principle" focuses on two time-travelers who work to ''prevent'' Hitler being assassinated by other time-travelers, noting that they detest having to keep people from killing Hitler, but know that it's important to prevent history from being mucked up.
* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'': Brainstorm spent several million years building a time-machine so he could go back and stop Megatron being created (partly to save a guy he had a crush on). Once he gets there, he hesitates, not just because preventing the war might stop him being created. Then Rewind kills the not-yet activated Megatron anyway, since the shenanigans have given him a glimpse of an alternate timeline where this played out, and things ''suck'' for Cybertron, which is under the genocidal rule of the Functionist Council, but it's great for everyone else, since the Decepticons never formed, never took their show on the road, and never torched entire planets in the name of expansion. Whirl then implants a Spark Brainstorm had on him in Megatron's body, out of spite for the Functionists. [[spoiler:A later story arc then shows that in the alternate timeline the Functionists also decided to go around killing other species in the name of religious fundamentalism.]]
* ''ComicBook/TheUmbrellaAcademy'': This trope is inverted but nonetheless explored in the ''Dallas'' arc, when it is learned that saving JFK from being assassinated would result in [[spoiler:world-wide destruction via nuclear war]].
* ''ComicBook/XMen'':
** Someone makes the mistake of mentioning this idea to Magneto -- who is a Holocaust survivor. Predictably, he explodes. In the movie it was the anxiety of separation from his mother in the camps that first revealed the powers of the Master of Magnetism. Without such violent circumstances, Magneto would be a very different person.
** The mini-series ''ComicBook/XMenTrueFriends'' has Kitty Pryde and Rachel Summers accidentally travelling to the late 1930s. Kitty, who is Jewish and learned about the Holocaust from her grandfather, himself a camp survivor, decides to assassinate Hitler and most of his staff, until she is forced to choose between changing history and saving Rachel from the Shadow King.
* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': The Superman storyline ''ComicBook/TimeAndTimeAgain'' brings this up in a follow-up issue when the time-observing Linear Men talk with Superman about their policy of preventing changes to history by citing Hitler as an example; they could go back and ensure that he died in the First World War, but they can't be sure that the new timeline would be better or worse than the original. Superman concedes to their point, recalling how he avoided changing history during his own recent trip back to the Second World War.
* ''ComicBook/TimeWarp'': In the Vertigo anthology one-shot, the final story "The Principle" focuses on two time-travelers who work to ''prevent'' Hitler being assassinated by other time-travelers, noting that they detest having to keep people from killing Hitler, but know that it's important to prevent history from being mucked up.
* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'': Brainstorm spent several million years building a time-machine so he could go back and stop Megatron being created (partly to save a guy he had a crush on). Once he gets there, he hesitates, not just because preventing the war might stop him being created. Then Rewind kills the not-yet activated Megatron anyway, since the shenanigans have given him a glimpse of an alternate timeline where this played out, and things ''suck'' for Cybertron, which is under the genocidal rule of the Functionist Council, but it's great for everyone else, since the Decepticons never formed, never took their show on the road, and never torched entire planets in the name of expansion. Whirl then implants a Spark Brainstorm had on him in Megatron's body, out of spite for the Functionists. [[spoiler:A later story arc then shows that in the alternate timeline the Functionists also decided to go around killing other species in the name of religious fundamentalism.]]
* ''ComicBook/TheUmbrellaAcademy'': This trope is inverted but nonetheless explored in the ''Dallas'' arc, when it is learned that saving JFK from being assassinated would result in [[spoiler:world-wide destruction via nuclear war]].
* ''ComicBook/XMen'':
** Someone makes the mistake of mentioning this idea to Magneto -- who is a Holocaust survivor. Predictably, he explodes. In the movie it was the anxiety of separation from his mother in the camps that first revealed the powers of the Master of Magnetism. Without such violent circumstances, Magneto would be a very different person.
** The mini-series ''ComicBook/XMenTrueFriends'' has Kitty Pryde and Rachel Summers accidentally travelling to the late 1930s. Kitty, who is Jewish and learned about the Holocaust from her grandfather, himself a camp survivor, decides to assassinate Hitler and most of his staff, until she is forced to choose between changing history and saving Rachel from the Shadow King.
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* [[Series/WorldPeace Sam Hyde]] has a famous sketch where he's on a date with a Jewish woman who asks him where he would live if he lived in another time period, and Sam goes on to theorize about how he'd end up becoming "[[https://youtu.be/T2AnqEMIYMA Hitler's top guy]]" if he lived in Nazi-occupied France despite disliking Hitler and disapproving of his actions, because Hitler's charisma would have been too difficult to resist. During the same sketch, he says that he wishes someone would time travel back to before Hitler was born to take him out.
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* [[Series/WorldPeace Sam Hyde]] has [[https://youtu.be/T2AnqEMIYMA a famous sketch sketch]] where he's on a date with a Jewish woman who asks him where he would live if he lived in another time period, and Sam goes on to theorize about how he'd end up becoming "[[https://youtu.be/T2AnqEMIYMA "[[MemeticMutation Hitler's top guy]]" if he lived in Nazi-occupied France despite disliking Hitler and disapproving of his actions, because Hitler's charisma would have been too difficult to resist. During the same sketch, he says that he wishes someone would time travel back to before Hitler was born to take him out.
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** ''VideoGame/RedAlert3Corona'', a planned FanSequel GameMod for ''3'', has this as the backstory: When the Empire of the Rising Sun surrendered to the Allies and Emperor Yoshiro consequently died of grief, his son Crown Prince Tatsu ordered a group of loyal Imperial scientists to recreate the Soviet time machine. Tatsu travelled back to TheMiddleAges, saved Möngke Khan (one of Genghis Khan's grandsons) from a cannonball shot that would have killed him, and [[GivingRadioToTheRomans gave the Mongol horde access to Imperial weapons]] that allowed them to sweep across Europe in a CurbStompBattle, in the hope of destroying western civilization and preventing the Allies and Soviets from ever rising to power. Then, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he disposed of Möngke with the classic handshake of historical retconning and left the Mongols to tear themselves apart]], back to the present satisfied of a job well done. On coming back, Tatsu discovers to his horror that [[InSpiteOfANail not only do the Allies and Soviets still exist despite his attempts to wipe out their ancestors]], but a new global superpower has emerged. Known as the [[ImperialChina Celestial Empire]], they are equal or even superior even to the Empire of the Rising Sun and have [[FromBadToWorse designs to conquer Japan]] and [[ChinaTakesOverTheWorld perhaps the entire planet]].
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* In the commentary for [[https://www.nerfnow.com/comic/2792 this]] ''WebComic/NerfNow'' comic Jo specifically says that he would not go try killing Hitler should he gain the ability to time travel because of this trope. Instead, he's going to [[UsefulNotes/FightingGameCommunity EVO 2004]] to see the infamous Daigo parry against Justin live. And maybe buy stock in Google before it took off.
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* In the commentary for [[https://www.nerfnow.com/comic/2792 this]] ''WebComic/NerfNow'' comic Jo specifically says that he would not go try killing Hitler should he gain the ability to time travel because of this trope. Instead, he's going to [[UsefulNotes/FightingGameCommunity [[MediaNotes/FightingGameCommunity EVO 2004]] to see the infamous Daigo parry against Justin live. And maybe buy stock in Google before it took off.
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* [[Series/WorldPeace Sam Hyde]] has a famous sketch where he's on a date with a Jewish woman who asks him where he would live if he lived in another time period, and Sam goes on to theorize about how he'd end up becoming "[[https://youtu.be/T2AnqEMIYMA Hitler's top guy]]" if he lived in Nazi-occupied France despite disliking Hitler and disapproving of his actions, because Hitler's charisma would have been too difficult to resist.
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[[http://superredundant.com/?comic=1233-art-of-debate Referenced]] in ''Webcomic/LeagueOfSuperRedundantHeroes''. "You went back in time to kill Hitler and prevent World War 2. That's like Time Travel 101. It sounds like a good idea, but you have no idea what the consequences would be to a change that massive".
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* Referenced in real life when the Austrian town where Hitler was born was captured by the Allies. Among the residents who spoke up at a meeting where the townsfolk decided to surrender without a fight was the elderly midwife who'd aided in Hitler's birth. She pointed out that their town would ''already'' suffer a black mark throughout history, in part because she ''hadn't'' strangled him as a newborn; as much as she wished she'd done so, the shames of the past couldn't be changed, and putting up a futile resistance now would only reinforce that stain.
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* Referenced in real life when Braunau am Inn, the Austrian town where Hitler was born born, was captured by the Allies. Among the residents who spoke up at a meeting where the townsfolk decided to surrender without a fight was the elderly midwife who'd aided in Hitler's birth. She pointed out that their town would ''already'' suffer a black mark throughout history, in part because she ''hadn't'' strangled him as a newborn; as much as she wished she'd done so, the shames of the past couldn't be changed, and putting up a futile resistance now would only reinforce that stain.
