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Author: reversePsychologist

Jan 1st 2013 at 6:59:31 PM

TV:
*Inverted in [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Fringe?from=Main.Fringe Fringe]] and arguably its most important plot point: it is in fact the "main" universe's Peter who dies as a kid. This sets the plot in motion as his father, Walter, goes on a journey to the alternate universe to steal back his sick yet not dead son from his alternate self and cure him like he should have done.

Webcomics:
*[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/Homestuck?from=Main.Homestuck Homestuck ]] features a ridiculous amount of dead alternate selves for nearly every character that has been introduced so far. 
**This is due to the rules that characterise SBURB: the only successful way to beat the game is, supposedly, following the socalled "alpha timeline", and the game (or rather, the possibly sentient entity called Paradox Space) will eventually punish whoever makes a choice that is different from what's predetermined in the alpha timeline, thus generating a "doomed" timeline in which [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FailureIsTheOnlyOption failure is the only option]]. Dead alternate selves are also an important part of the plot, as players have access to where they reside in the afterlife, the "dream bubbles", through various means and they usually aid the players and at times even influence the plot in a significant way.
**Other than doomed selves, one could also consider guardians to be actually alternate selves, since they are literally the same characters but with their roles switched (for instance, grandfather and grandson, or ancestor and descendant, or even older and younger bro). And guess what, "alternate me is dead" is true for each and every one of them. Of every instance of every universe.
**Being a Time player, Dave has the power to go back and forth in time. When the Draconian Dignitary steals his copies of Rose's Journals from his room, he considers the idea to go back in time and stop the thief, only to discard the idea after noticing the corpse of his doomed timeline self lying on the floor of his very room, proof that he has actually already tried that.