History Literature / TheISOTdHouseOneWomanGoesFrom2012To1952

* ADateWithRosiePalms: At one point during the 1960s, Janet Clifton inadvertently interrupts her son, Michael being the "Master of his domain".

* BigBad: [[spoiler: The LABARO Fascists and Chinese Communists in the WW3 arc, and in an upcoming arc set in the Middle East and Africa, it is shaping up to be an Arab nationalist and Islamic Fundamentalist coalition led by [[UsefulNotes/GamalAbdelNasser Nasser]] along with various authoritarian regimes in Africa]]. The corporate bodies and ultraconservative right in America can be seen as this trope as a whole overall.

* EnemyMine: [=WW3=] is made up of alliances consisting of this--we have the LABARO Fascists and UsefulNotes/MaoZedong vs the US and USSR in WWIII, the victory of the US and USSR leads to an era of cooperation between the two powers and an informal end to the UsefulNotes/ColdWar

* ADateWithRosiePalms: At one point during the 1960s, Janet Clifton inadvertently interrupts her son, Michael being the "Master of his domain".
* AFatherToHisMen:
** Colonel Michael Clifton Jr [[spoiler:(he's literally a father to a whole bunch of soldiers under Project Spartan, see EvilutionaryBiologist below)]].
** Also, Colonel David Hackworth in the more usual metaphorical sense.

* ANaziByAnyOtherName: [[spoiler: The LABARO Fascists in Brazil and South America, who actually have Nazi War criminals like Eichmann and Bormann serving in their governments. The Illinois Nazi party also try to assassinate Michael Clifton during his presidency.]]

* BalkaniseMe:
** [[spoiler: This happens to China after the Third World War.]]
** Averted (somewhat ironically) with the trope-namer, Yugoslavia.

* CompetenceZone: Subverted, as people in this work tend to be talented, capbable ans skilled to varying degrees based on circumstances much more than arbitrary ages.

* TheDragon: Jenny Nowhere is this to Morgana van Pelt.

* FaceHeelTurn:
** The Kennedy family become fixtures and icons for the conservative and corporate right. Bobby even runs against Michael Clifton Sr. with ''Jerry Falwell'' as his running mate!
** Averted with JFK leaving the Senate to become a news reporter and opinion-piece writer.

* [[HideYourLesbians Hide Your Queers]]: Averted quite hard. The more liberal American and Canadian societies of the 1970s and 1980s create more conducive environments for gays, lesbians and bisexuals to at least be quietly "out" at school or at work. By the 1980s and 1990s it's legal for them to marry and adopt children.

* MightyWhitey: Subverted in several ways. As one example, General Benu Panaka was educated in the U.K. and trained and served in the S.A.S. but was born and raised in southern Africa and is a native Bantu tribesman. He leads his own people in a Pan-African nationalist movement.

* RedScare: Averted, with [[spoiler: Joseph [=McCarthy=] thoroughly discredited early on.]]

* WeHaveReserves: Averted! General Tyn Daley is heartsick at the loss of live during the Christmas Offensive in 1998 and the Battle of Galtville and blames herself for the number of U.S. troops killed. She resigns due to seeing herself as unfit to command as a direct result.

This polarization makes one wonder what if this could all be changed? What if America was a nation where all are fundamentally equal under the law, corporations are punished for malfeasance and everyone enjoys the benefits of freedom and prosperity? What if the US was a force that stands, not for its own hegemonic gain, but for genuine belief in freedom and the fight against tyranny of all forms? And most importantly, what if one woman proved to be the key that put America on this better and more just path? This alternate scenario is explored by one ''Sergeant Heretic'' of Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom in her timeline in the "{{alien space bats}}" section ''The {{ISOT}}'d House: One Woman Goes from 2012 to 1952''.

In this timeline, Janet Forrester, an average American woman, went to bed on December the 21st 2012. She was positive that the next morning she would be able to laugh and jeer and poke fun at all the Mayan calendar Chicken Littles as she wallowed in smug satisfaction at the world not coming to an end. However, the next day she wakes up in 1952. She is quickly introduced to Skippy, everyone's favourite [[AlienSpaceBats Alien Space Bat]], who tells her she has a divine purpose to change the world for the better. What follows are a series of events that will change the history of the United States forever.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: At one point during the 1960s Janet Clifton inadvertently interrupts her son, Michael being the "Master of his domain".

* ShoutOut: Quite a few super-soldiers have names of OTL movie badasses, such as [[Film/DieHard John McClane]] and [[Film/{{Rambo}} Joanne Rambo]].

* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: Averted and deconstructed. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics experiences a liberalisation and reformation similar to OTL's China and is still alive and well and a major player in 1998.

* BlackBestFriend: Michael's old war buddy, best man and business partner in the 1950s, Lester Lawson.

* PsychoticManChild: The so-called "Nightsider" personalities created by the CRIME virus Mk II.

* BiggerBad: Morgana Van Pelt, who intends to disrupt the stability of alt-US society.

* {{Crossover}}: In the 2000s, Jenny Everywhere and Jenny Nowhere make appearances - for a time, Jenny Nowhere was the primary villain. It was soon revealed that Jenny Nowhere was merely TheDragon to [[TheDraka Morgana van Pelt]].

** Even more brutally deconstructed with the Charlie Foxtrot in Central Africa showing the U.S. making a world-class mess of things via well intentioned blundering.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After Michael Clifton's presidency, Lester Lawson seemingly dissapears and we never see or hear from him again.

* ChristmasCake: In the early 1950's Janet Forrester is viewed as this being over 25 and still unmarried. Not everyone views her thus but many remark upon it, causing Michael Clifton to be viewed as a CakeEater. Later in the timeline as Gender righs and Gender equality zoon ahead this concept falls very much out of favor as women are no more expected to marry young than men are leading to the turn of the millenium.

* EnemyMine: [=WW3=] is made up of alliances consisting of this--we have the LABARO Fascists and MaoZedong vs the US and USSR in WWIII, the victory of the US and USSR leads to an era of cooperation between the two powers and an informal end to the UsefulNotes/ColdWar

* TheKidnapper: "Colonel" Franklin Graham's forces kidnap Leigh Oswald (having renamed herself upon regeneration as a young woman), but instead of being treated like a prisoner she is feted and guested and eventually becomes almost an homored guest as Graham falls in love with her, with a hefty dose of rationalizations as to why that is acceptable given his rather hardline conservative religious beliefs.

This polarization makes one wonder what if this could all be changed? What if America was a nation where all are fundamentally equal under the law, corporations are punished for malfeasance and everyone enjoys the benefits of freedom and prosperity? What if the US was a force that stands, not for its own hegemonic gain, but for genuine belief in freedom and the fight against tyranny of all forms? And most importantly, what if one woman proved to be the key that put America on this better and more just path? This alternate scenario is explored by one ''Sergeant Heretic'' of AlternateHistoryDotCom in her timeline in the "{{alien space bats}}" section ''The {{ISOT}}'d House: One Woman Goes from 2012 to 1952''.

The thread is members-only on AlternateHistoryDotCom. Memberships are easily available. This is for the [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=262349 main thread]] and this is for the [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=275267 story only version.]]

* AynRand: Her views are thoroughly rebuked in this timeline, through it does become a rallying point for the corporate elite.

* UsefulNotes/ColdWar: Due to Janet's efforts, it ends much, much earlier with the US and USSR ushering in a new era of cooperation. With the USSR's hardline approach in the 1980s and their invasion of Pakistan, a bit of MakeTheBearAngryAgain develops, but things seem to have settled down again through the 1990s and 2000s, as the Soviet Premier and US President continue to hold summit meetings and "officially" deny close cooperation in covert activities to suss out new threats to the world.

* UsefulNotes/VietnamWar: One of Janet's main goals is to prevent this from occurring. [[spoiler:She succeeds and Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh becomes a key US ally. However, the Central African War becomes like this.]]

* TheBechdelTest: This TL passes the test as when two female characters are together talking, they rarely, if ever, talk about men.

* UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar: Thanks to Janet's intervention, the UN forces win this and Korea is unified.

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: President Eisenhower and RichardNixon respectively.

** KanyeWest and AngelinaJolie both appear as US soldiers, while the woman who would've been Beyonce in OTL is instead a worker for [=TechTel=] systems, a partner corporation of Nova Robotics.

* MightyWhitey: Subverted in several ways. As one example, General Benu Panaka was educated in the U.K. and trained and served in the S.A.S. but was born and raised in southern Africa and is a native Bantu tribesman. He leads his own people in a Pan-Afircan nationalist movement.

* TheFundamentalist: Despite Janet's efforts, die-hard far right Fundamentalists still exist in places across America and eventually the [[spoiler: Moral Majority]] forms in the 1980s on schedule, but thankfully dosen't have as much influence as they do OTL. [[spoiler Unfortunately, the Fundamentalist radical right wing loses so much face and influence that in the 1980s they resort to domestic terrorism.]]

* WorldWarIII: [[spoiler Happens with an alliance of US and Soviet Union vs. Fascist Brazil and Argentina with Maoist China. It runs from 1964 to about 1968 with the US and USSR winning.]]

* FromBadToWorse: [[spoiler: US action in Africa - at first we have some quick victories against fascist regimes, but then get stuck fighting against both fascist soldiers and militias who want MightyWhitey out. More recently, a few US soldiers are out there slaughtering entire villages just on suspicion of enemy forces.]]
* FunWithAcronyms: H.A.T.E Pods, which the USMC drop from space out of, and Practical Inquiry and Moral Philosophy, or P.I.M.P class.

* GoodRepublicEvilEmpire: The United States and her Allies Versus the Labaro Regime in Brazil during World War Three.

** [[spoiler: Eventually Michael and Janet]]
** [[spoiler: In the Venus arc, two women consider themselves all but actually married; they will be once it becomes legal.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Nixon is much less corrupt than in real life, with some help from Janet and Michael]]

* [[spoiler: HumanAliens: Martians and Venerians are genetically and physically similar to humans, Venerians are even being able to interbreed. Martians are Asexual reptilians that no longer breed as humans know it.]]

* InsistentTerminology: The personalities that have taken over the bodies of various CRIME virus MK II's bodies aren't Spit personallities, they're "Nightsiders".
* InSpiteOfANail

* ItsRainingMen: The USMC [[spoiler:Save the Army's collective ass in Galtville]] by dropping from the edge of space in [[FunwithAcronyms HATE]] [[DropPod pods]]. The name of the chapter is the trope image from SemperFi.
* JerkAss: [[spoiler: Charles De Gaulle]]
* JerkJock: George Jenkisn Jr. and his Fraternity brothers at Theta Alpha Rho. They literally targeted 5 total strangers and raped them as a Fraternity initiation and did so specifically because their victims were M to F transmen.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: The Nazis that served under LABARO, they flee to Apartheid South Africa and live comfortably for the rest of their days.]]
* TheKindnapper: "Colonel"Franklin Graham's forces kidnap Leigh Oswald, but instead of being treated like a prisoner she is feted and guested and eventually becomes almost an homored guest as Graham falls in love with her.
* LadyLand : Most of the primitive tribes retroactivly placed on Venus are heavily matriarchal Female Chauvinism is the rule, not the exception on Venus.
* LongRunners: The story has been going strong since the middle of 2012.
** An in-universe example is star Trek and the franchise whitch has be a television standard for forty years continuous from 1966 to 2006.

* MeaningfulName: "Cassandra Verivocas". Her last name is dog Latin for "truth-speaker".
* MiddleEasternCoalition: [[spoiler: Two in fact, a pro-American one consisting of a democratic Iran (since Janet talked Eisenhower out of Operation AJAX, Iran remains democratic) along with Turkey and Israel, as well as a anti-American Arab Nationalist/Radical Islamist one led by Nasser consisting of Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia. Pakistan and Libya]]
* MightyWhitey: Subverted General Benu Panaka was educated in the U.K. and trained and served in the S.A.S. but was born and raised in southern Africa and is a native Bantu tribesman. These are his own anscestral people he is leading to conquer the continent.
* MoralMyopia/RevengeMyopia: Grand Cardinal Nikkos Tautapalous and the National Orthodoxists in Greece in 2011 have no problem overthrowing the duuly elected government, attack the U.S. Embassy and holding AMerican military and diplomatic personnel hostage, but how DARE America wage war on them, oh noez, OMG.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Janet tried to prevent the carnage and death of the Vietnam war, only to result in the bombing of Tampa Florida at the start of World War Three, Janet's paratime maternal analogue becomes a paraplegic veteran of the war (who goes on to become Speaker of the House via a grassroots election and nomination.). Of course, this only delays the problem, as in the 90s the USA gets in way over their head in Africa.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: In July of 1998 the Union of Islamic Nations terror bombs the United Principalities capitol city of Freeville. This ends the African war and focusses world attention on the U.I.N. and how much no one likes them.

* TheFundamentalist: Despite Janet's efforts, die-hard far right Fundamentalists still exist in places across America and eventually the [[spoiler: Moral Majority]] forms in the 1980s on schedule, but thankfully dosen't have as much influence as they do OTL.[[spoiler: Unfortunately, the Fundamentalist radical right wing loses so much face and influence that in the 1980's they resort to domestic terrorism.]]
* UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar: [[spoiler: Thanks to Janet's intervention, the UN forces win this and Korea is unified]]
* LoveInterest: Michael Clifton for Janet. [[spoiler: [[HappilyMarried They get married, later in Janet's second life she will have a same-sex relationship with Beatrice Knowles.]]]].

* PsychoticManChild: The so-called "Nightsider" personalities created by the CRIME virus MK II
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: When M to F transman Buddy Schackter is raped considerable detail is devoted to the effect it has on him and how traumatic the event was for him
* RedScare: Averted, with [[spoiler: Joseph [=McCarthy=] thoroughly discredited early on]]
* RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman: Happens to UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush, who becomes an important anti-corporate lawyer in recent updates. He is the Attorney General for the Colin Powell Administration in 1995. Tyn Daley is in this time line a U.S. Army four Star general. John F.Kennedy became an Expy of Hunter S. Thomson, with Lee Harvey Oswald as his Great Lazlo.
** And of course, Nixon's volte-face compared to OTL would qualify. He becomes a respected elder statesman, remaining true to the values of his working-class background.

* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: The whole premise.

* TheSquad: Third squad, Second platoon, Bravo Company First U.S. Air Cavalry Division

** TheMedic: Private Frank Chaplin, the exchange soldier from Canada

* ShellShockedVeteran: People returning from Korea, World War 3 and now the Central African front sometimes come back with psychological traumas from what they've experienced.
** [[spoiler:In fact, in the mid 1950s, a patronizing rear echelon colonel questioning Janet inadvertently triggers her with his insensitive remarks, and she experiences a flashback to the Afghanistan War.]]
** [[spoiler:More recently, in the 1990s, some of the soldiers returning from the Central African Intervention develop drug addiction issues.]]
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Pretty far on the idealistic side [[spoiler: with the UsefulNotes/VietnamWar averted and the UsefulNotes/ColdWar over earlier and WWIII even ending without much tragic loss of life]] [[spoiler: through according to WordOfGod and recent updates, it has become more cynical with the re-emergrence of a hardline USSR and when the US eventually intervenes in Africa.]]

* TakeThatMe: The author pokes fun at her own writing style and flaws via a negative review for an in-universe series of stories by the main charecter.
* UsefulNotes/VietnamWar: One of Janet's main goals is to prevent this from occurring [[spoiler: she succeeds and Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh becomes a key US ally. However, the Central African War becomes like this.]].

* WeHaveReserves: Averted! General Tyn Daley is heartsick at the loss of live during the Christmas Offensive and the Battle of Galtville and blames herself for the number of U.S. troops killed. She resigns due to seeing herself as unfit to command as a direct result.

* WhiteMansBurden: When the U.S. intervenes militarily in Somalia and Angola, they are very much percieved as this by many natives and profoundly resented because of it.

* [[spoiler:WorldWarIII]]: [[spoiler: Happens with an alliance of US and Soviet Union vs. Fascist Brazil and Argentina with Maoist China, it ends quickly with US and USSR winning.]]

* ADateWithRosiePalms: At one point during the 1960's Janet Clifton inadvertently interrupts her son, Michael being the "Master of his domain".
* AFatherToHisMen: Colonel Michael Clifton Jr [[spoiler:(he's literally a Father to a whole bunch of soldiers under Project Spartan, see EvilutionaryBiologist below)]]. Also, Colonel David Hackworth.
* AfterTheEnd: On Mars present dday Vinithi society took shape after a global thermonuclear and chemichal and biological war devastated Martian society of millions of years ago.

* AlwaysABiggerFish: Invoked by Janet toward her son when warning him not to be a bully in the late 1960's.
* AmazonBrigade: The Green Angels in [[spoiler: WorldWarIII]]
** BigDamnHeroes: When they rescue the American ambassador.
** TookALevelInBadass: The first command group of G.A.'s in 1964, they initially started as support and logistics personnel NOT front line Soldiers.
** SquadNickname: Originally, they were called by their enemy "The Green Witches", then by the civilians and occasionally military personnel they rescued "The Green Angels."
* AmericaSavesTheDay: Averted with World War III starting with an attack on America and the U.S. needeing her allies big time just to stay even in the first months of the war. Also the Charlie Foxtrot in Central Africa shows the U.S. making a world class mess of things via well intentioned blundering.

* ANaziByAnyOtherName: [[spoiler: The LABARO Fascists in Brazil and South America, who actually have Nazi War criminals like Eichmann and Bormann serving in their governments. The Illinois Nazi party also try to assassinate Michael Clifton during his presidency]]
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Scott Roeder is kicked out of West Point, The Army, and serves five years in military prison for sexual assault, rape and violation of gender quarrantine.

* AsYouKnow: In 2009 Lt. Colonel Angelina Jolie encounters Morgana Van Pelt and tells her about Regen therapy using this style of exposition.
* AttractiveBentGender: Men regenerated as women by the Biological regeneration/repairative chambers are ALWAYS regenerated as a more attractive version of their 18-to-20 year old selves in female form. Example: When Lee Oswald regenerates, he closely resembles a young Winona Ryder.
* TheAtoner The Martians are helping and teaching humans to make up for fighting a nuclear war that destroyed Mars' ecosystem.
* AuthorAppeal: The Martians give humanity a GenderBender technology that totally regenerates a human being but only as the opposite gender (e.g. male to female). Take note of [=SergeantHeretic=]'s account on [=FictionMania.tv=].
** That said, reasonable reverse engineering extends this tech to the healing of injuries, since it rebuilds the human body from basic building blocks of proteins, amino acids and the like.
* AuthorTract: Right Wing Authoritarianism and far-left authoritarian Stalinism are equally bad, Corporate neo-feudalism is bad, Objectivism is bad and Economic lawlessness is bad.

* BalkaniseMe: [[spoiler: This happens to China after the Third World War.]]

* BiggerBad: Morgana Van Pelt
* BigGood: By 1998, the United States of America as a nation and culture is seen as this overall.

* ChristmasCake: In the early 1950's Janet Forrester is viewed as this being over 25 and still unmarried. Not everyone views her thus but many remark upon it, causing Michael Clifton to be viewed as a CakeEater. Later i nthe timeline as Gender righs and Gender equality zoon ahead this concept falls very much out of favor as women are no more expected to marry young than men are leading to the turn of the milleium.
* ColonelBadass: Colonel Michael Clifton Jr. again. and oh yeah, the inestmable Colonel David Hackworth.
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* CompetenceZone :Subverted, People in this work tend to be talented capbable ans skilled to varying degrees based on circumstances much more than arbitrary ages.
* [[spoiler: {{Crossover}}: In the 2000s, Jenny Everywhere and Jenny Nowhere make appearances - for a time, Jenny Nowhere was the primary villain. It was soon revealed that Jenny Nowhere was merely TheDragon to [[TheDraka Morgana van Pelt]].]]
* CultureClash: Between the [[PunyEarthlings Earthlings]], [[LadyLand Venereans]] (as opposed to venerian), and [[DyingRace Martians]] In addition, in the late 1990's Janine Frasier experiences culture clash in a society that is far more liberal, tolerant and accepting than she personally find comfortable.)

* [[spoiler: TheDragon: Jenny Nowhere is this to Morgana van Pelt.]]
* DeadPanSnarker: Janet Forrester early and often especially with Michael.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Several occasions: Janet attracts the attention of a cop for jogging, and the bookstore she worked in is torched because she let black people in and treated them decently.

* EnemyMine: [[spoiler: [=WW3=] is made up of alliances consisting of this--we have the LABARO Fascists and MaoZedong vs the US and USSR in WWIII, the victory of the US and USSR leads to an era of cooperation between the two powers and an informal end to the UsefulNotes/ColdWar]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: the SyntheticPlague [=CRIME=] virus Mark Two creates the Nightsiders, who are criminal masterminds who shun rape, brutality, and other crimes of assault and violation in favor or racketeering, black market trades and other [[XanatosGambit Xanatos Gambits]] to gain power.
* EvilutionaryBiologist: In this TL Michelle Bachmann is an unscupulous Dr. in charge of a project to turn the bastard children of Michael Clifton Jr. and over a hundred volunteer "mothers' into super soldiers that are potentially disposable.
* EvilVersusEvil: The various factions in Africa in a nutshell, on one hand you have the Lord's Resistance army and Joseph Kony, along with the various warlords in Somalia and Africa as a whole, and on the other hand you have a corrupt corporatist regime in the Congo run by greedy businessmen that is a thinly veiled expy of the Draka along with the Apartheid system in South Africa, which has lasted a bit longer than OTL. All of them fight for land and resources while expoliting and enslaving millions and committing horrendous atrocities and human rights violation against innocent civilians. The US declares war on these factions in the 1990s to set things right in Africa. However, as we soon find out, the aftershocks of the armed intervention there makes the problems get worse instead of solving them.

* ForWantOfANail
* FourStarBadass: General Tyn Daley, U.S.Army.
* FixFic: The fanfic ultimately fixes every single foreign policy mistake in US history, such as the UsefulNotes/VietnamWar and every single covert operation they did resulting in the overthrow of democratic leftist governments as well as hardens it's attitudes torwards corporations, fundamentalism and political extremism, allowing for a more socially liberal and tolerant USA that is respected worldwide to the point where the USSR [[spoiler: believes the US are better socialists than they are]].

* RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman: Happens to GeorgeWBush, who becomes an important anti-corporate lawyer in recent updates. He is the Attorney General for the Colin Powell Administration in 1995. Tyn Daley is in this time line a U.S. Army four Star general. John F.Kennedy became an Expy of Hunter S. Thomson, with Lee Harvey Oswald as his Great Lazlo.

** That said, reasonable reverse engineering extends this tech to the healing of injuries, since it rebuilds the human body from basic building blocks of proteins and amino acids and the like.

* BecomingTheMask:Vice President Richard Nixon starts out as something of a craven self interested political operator and a bit of a jerk. When he meets and gets to know Janet he decides to play the role of the hero statesman to get what he wants. In time, it stops being a pretense and he actually ''becomes'' a good, selfless caring leader and statesman who cares more about the people he governs than he does about himself.

* ChristmasCake: In the early 1950's Janet Forrester is viewed as this being over 25 and still unmarried. Not everyone views her thus but many remark upon it, causing MIchael Clifton to be viewed as a CakeEater. Later i nthe timeline as Gender righs and Gender equality zoon ahead this concept falls very much out of favor as women are no more expected to marry young than men are leading to the turn of the milleium.

* SassyBlackWoman: Fully averted and deconstructed with every female African-American character shown in the work, but in particular, President Oprah Winfrey and Beatrice Knowles-Forrester are shown to be competent, cool, adult profesionals and three-dimensional people, not racist caricatures.

* GirlsBehindBars: Lampshaded, then again deconstructed and played for realism and believability. [[spoiler:Allison Mack, as of 2012/13 in the TL, is serving time in maximum security and it is decided unlike many OTL exploitation movies involving women in prison.]]