Needs Help: You Already Changed The Past

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First and last panel would work fine for me.

On the crowner I suggested panels 4+5. If lack of context is the concern, how about 1+4+5?

Panels 1+4 are redundant if you cut the panels where they argue.

The xkcd example is a bit too much of playing with this trope to be a good picture for me; I'd prefer somebody who is honestly trying to change history in a specific way, but whose actions set up the future he is trying to avoid. In the xkcd example, Black Hat simply does not care about the results of his change to the past, and makes a change that is functionally irrelevant.

edited 12th Nov '16 3:57:46 PM by thok

Since it's a known fact that Hitler poisoned himself and was burned afterwards, I don't see the trope in question is in play at all. To me it looks like the character came in to murder Hitler at a pointless time (right before he did it himself) and thus actually changed history, if only on a small detail.

There's nothing in the comic about how black hat killed Hitler. He just says he did it in a bunker in 1945, which jives with real life.

edited 15th Nov '16 8:16:01 AM by shigmiya64

Still it's dubious whether he was the cause of Hitler's death to begin with or not which makes it a questionable example.

Not really dubious at all in the full comic.

As far as redundant panels go, you could pretty easily lose #2 and still have a completely cogent comic - #3 turns from a rebuttal against Black Hat in #2 to expanding the reasoning for the assertion put at the end of #1.

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