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Author: MetaFour

Sep 17th 2017 at 1:19:05 PM

I guess the important part is that a major part of the ''on-screen plot'' is undone by the climax? Because in ''Days of Future Past'', Wolverine's interference does lead to everything after 1973 getting overwritten. But the majority of the on-screen plot concerns Wolverine in 1973, trying to change the past. Only a minority of the film's runtime actually gets erased from the timeline.

Also, I think that ''Futurama'' example is more a spin on ItsAWonderfulPlot than an example of this trope. "What if Fry had never been cryogenically frozen?" is the ''premise'' of the short, not the climax.

Can this overlap with LeaveYourQuestTest?
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': [[Recap/FuturamaS4E10TheWhyOfFry "The Why of Fry"]] teases at this. The brain spawn's last-ditch effort to destroy the universe is to send Fry (the only person capable of stopping them) back to 1999 to prevent himself from getting cryogenically frozen--the event that kicked off the entire series. But Nibbler gives future-Fry a pep talk that convinces him that getting frozen and sent to the year 3000 is necessary. Fry instead makes a minor change that ensures he isn't in a position to be tempted by the brain spawn in the first place.

Also:
* ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}: Be Careful What You Wish For'': Samatha Byrd gets a gift of three wishes from the witch Clarissa. But, [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor as expected]], all these wishes come with terrible side effects. At the end, Samatha's uses her final request to wish that she had never met Clarissa.