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** Alternatively, [[DefusingTheTykeBomb you can get young Hitler into art school]], but another German nationalist simply rises in his place and still launches a war. On the other hand, this nationalist isn't genocidally racist against Jews and Slavs, and so him winning isn't ''that'' terrible.
** You could go back in time to the Paris Peace Conference and make a more lenient version of the Treaty of Versailles. But World War II happens ten years later under a communist dictator.
** You could go back in time to the Paris Peace Conference and make a more lenient version of the Treaty of Versailles. But World War II happens ten years later under a communist dictator.
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** Alternatively, [[DefusingTheTykeBomb you can get young Hitler into art school]], but another German nationalist simply rises in his place and still launches a war. On the other hand, this nationalist isn't genocidally racist guy doesn't have genocidal designs against Jews Jewish, black, Roma, and Slavs, Slavic people, and so him winning isn't ''that'' terrible.
** You could go back in time to the Paris Peace Conference andmake draft and implement a more lenient version of the Treaty of Versailles. But World War II happens ten years later under a communist dictator.
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** The TimePolice spells out to the potential time traveler that historically, assassinations have caused more harm than good, citing the assassination of Franz Ferdinand UsefulNotes/FranzFerdinandOfAustria and Abraham Lincoln UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln as examples of why you can never solve the problems of the world by murdering one person isn't a solution to the problems of the world, and the consequences can spiral out of control. control.
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** Hitler's early death, like everything else in history, has both positives and negative consequences. There may never be a World War II or Holocaust, but South Africa and British India could collapse into civil war.
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** Hitler's early death, like everything else in history, has both positives positive and negative consequences. There may never be a World War II or Holocaust, but South Africa and British India could collapse into civil war.
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** Hitler finds out about being unable to be killed without creating something even worse, and believing that he has ProphecyArmor for his grand destiny to TakeOverTheWorld and destroy all lesser humans he becomes emboldened.
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** Whatever other rules of time travel are followed by the tale, it is impossible to do anything to Hitler. You can do literally anything else, prevent Pompeii from going off and dinosaurs from going extinct, turn UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan into a geek so colossal that ''Film/TheConqueror'' could have been filmed with Creator/WoodyAllen, strangle UsefulNotes/JosefStalin in his crib, help UsefulNotes/{{Napoleon|Bonaparte}} win at Waterloo, turn UsefulNotes/RichardNixon into [[RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman a used car salesman]] and UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan a multiple winner of UsefulNotes/TheEGOTs, but time travellers may as well pretend anytime between April 20, 1889 and April 30, 1945 just does not exists.
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** Whatever other rules of time travel are followed by the tale, it is impossible to do anything to Hitler. You can do literally anything else, prevent Pompeii from going off and dinosaurs from going extinct, save Constantinople from [[UsefulNotes/TurksWithTroops the Ottoman Turks]], turn UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan into a geek so colossal that ''Film/TheConqueror'' could have been filmed with Creator/WoodyAllen, strangle UsefulNotes/JosefStalin in his crib, help UsefulNotes/{{Napoleon|Bonaparte}} win at Waterloo, turn UsefulNotes/RichardNixon into [[RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman a used car salesman]] and UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan a multiple winner of UsefulNotes/TheEGOTs, but time travellers may as well pretend anytime between April 20, 1889 and April 30, 1945 just does not exists.
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** Every attempt at killing Hitler causes an AlternateUniverse in which he escalates his atrocities in retaliation, to the point that the time traveller eventually [[DrivenToSuicide blows their brains out]] when they discover that the Nazis wiped out all the inhabitants of France or something similar. [[TemporalMutability Which in turn creates yet another timeline or universe.]]
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* '''Played for Horror''': Every attempt at killing Hitler causes an AlternateUniverse in which he escalates his atrocities in retaliation, to the point that the time traveller eventually [[DrivenToSuicide blows their brains out]] when they discover that the Nazis wiped out all the inhabitants of France or something similar. [[TemporalMutability Which in turn creates yet another timeline or universe.]]
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** Every attempt at killing Hitler causes an AlternateUniverse in which he escalates his atrocities in retaliation, to the point that the time traveller eventually [[DrivenToSuicide blows their brains out]] when they discover that the Nazis wiped out all the inhabitants of France or something similar. [[TemporalMutability Which in turn creates yet another timeline or universe.]]]]
** Hitler finds out about being unabled to be killed without creating something even worse, and becomes emboldened.
** Every attempt at killing Hitler causes an AlternateUniverse in which he escalates his atrocities in retaliation, to the point that the time traveller eventually [[DrivenToSuicide blows their brains out]] when they discover that the Nazis wiped out all the inhabitants of France or something similar. [[TemporalMutability Which in turn creates yet another timeline or universe.
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** Bob tries asking his fellow TimePolice if any of them would go back to kill Hitler, only for Charlie, one of the founding members, to answer that he ''did'' kill Hitler ''without'' time travel, [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld since he was already alive back in World War II]] [[BeenThereShapedHistory II and made it look like the suicide history knows it as]].
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* '''Exploited''': People use the "killing Hitler" gimmick as a way to [[SchmuckBait lure]] [[TheDitz lure dumb people]] onto a time machine and [[UriahGambit dump them somewhere where they would make the least ripples possible.]]
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** A Jewish time traveler keeps trying and fails to kill Hitler before he's done anything wrong, [[FreudianExcuse which fuels his anti-semitism]] [[StableTimeLoop and eventually motivates him to become the genocidal dictator we all know]]. [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom Upon realizing]] [[NiceJobBreakingItHero they inadvertently caused Hitler's rise to power and genocidal biogtry]], [[DrivenToSuicide the Jewish time traveler kills themselves]].
** A Jewish time traveler keeps trying and fails to kill Hitler before he's done anything wrong, [[FreudianExcuse which fuels his anti-semitism]] [[StableTimeLoop and eventually motivates him to become the genocidal dictator we all know]]. [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom Upon realizing]] [[NiceJobBreakingItHero they inadvertently caused Hitler's rise to power and genocidal biogtry]], [[DrivenToSuicide the Jewish time traveler kills themselves]].
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** A Holocaust survivor goes back in time to kill Hitler and thus [[ItsPersonal save his family and friends]] [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong friends among countless others]] -- [[NiceJobBreakingItHero but it only makes matters worse]], [[GodwinsLawOfTimeTravel making the Axis win WWII.]]
** A Jewish time traveler keeps trying and fails to kill Hitler before he's done anything wrong,[[FreudianExcuse which fuels his anti-semitism]] anti-semitism [[StableTimeLoop and eventually motivates him to become the genocidal dictator we all know]]. [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom Upon realizing]] [[NiceJobBreakingItHero realizing they inadvertently caused Hitler's rise to power and genocidal biogtry]], [[DrivenToSuicide the Jewish time traveler kills themselves]].
** A Jewish time traveler keeps trying and fails to kill Hitler before he's done anything wrong,
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* '''Played for Horror''': Every attempt at killing Hitler causes an AlternateUniverse in which he escalates his atrocities in retaliation, to the point that the time traveller eventually [[DrivenToSuicide blows their brains out]] when they discover that the Nazis wiped out all the inhabitants of France or something similar. [[TemporalMutability Which in turn]] [[ShootTheShaggyDog turn creates yet another timeline or universe.]]
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* '''Exploited''': People use the "killing Hitler" gimmick as a way to lure [[SchmuckBait lure]] [[TheDitz dumb people]] onto a time machine and [[UriahGambit dump them somewhere where they would make the least ripples possible.]]
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** Whatever other rules of time travel are followed by the tale, it is impossible to do anything to Hitler. You can do literally anything else, prevent Pompeii from going off and dinosaurs from going extinct, turn UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan into a geek so colossal that ''Film/TheConqueror'' could have been filmed with Creator/WoodyAllen, strangle UsefulNotes/JosefStalin in his crib, help UsefulNotes/{{Napoleon|Bonaparte}} win at Waterloo, turn UsefulNotes/RichardNixon into [[RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman a used car salesman]] and UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan a multiple winner of UsefulNotes/TheEGOTs, but time travellers may as well just avoid going anywhere between April 20, 1889 and April 30, 1945.
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** Whatever other rules of time travel are followed by the tale, it is impossible to do anything to Hitler. You can do literally anything else, prevent Pompeii from going off and dinosaurs from going extinct, turn UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan into a geek so colossal that ''Film/TheConqueror'' could have been filmed with Creator/WoodyAllen, strangle UsefulNotes/JosefStalin in his crib, help UsefulNotes/{{Napoleon|Bonaparte}} win at Waterloo, turn UsefulNotes/RichardNixon into [[RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman a used car salesman]] and UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan a multiple winner of UsefulNotes/TheEGOTs, but time travellers may as well just avoid going anywhere pretend anytime between April 20, 1889 and April 30, 1945.1945 just does not exists.
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** You could go back in time to the Paris Peace Conference and make a more lenient version of the Treaty of Versailles. But World War II happens ten years later under a communist dictator.
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** Related to the above: "You know who killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand? [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy A time traveler just like you,]] trying to create a bright future for Serbia. See now why temporal assassination [[DidntThinkThisThrough is not as good of an idea as it might look at first glance?]]"
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** Alternatively, you can get Hitler into art school, but another German nationalist simply rises in his place and still launches a war, albeit with a different strategy and different motivations. He might conquer Soviet Russia, but he wouldn't pursue genocidal policies against Jews and Slavs.
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** Alternatively, [[DefusingTheTykeBomb you can get young Hitler into art school, school]], but another German nationalist simply rises in his place and still launches a war, albeit with a different strategy and different motivations. He might conquer Soviet Russia, but he wouldn't pursue genocidal policies war. On the other hand, this nationalist isn't genocidally racist against Jews and Slavs.Slavs, and so him winning isn't ''that'' terrible.
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** While Hitler may be deservedly called evil, he certainly didn't live in a vacuum: imperialism, racism, ethnic cleansing, militarism, and totalitarianism [[MirrorCharacter were qualities all of his adversaries shared]]: Britain and France were also imperialist colonizers, Soviet Russia was a totalitarian state that regularly committed acts of ethnic cleansing, and it was America's ideology of eugenics and racial segregation that inspired Nazi race laws. [[DeliberatelyBadExample Hitler certainly took these rotten ideals to a grosteque extremes]], but it doesn't change the fact that his opponents weren't much better. Hitler's actions showed people how horrible racial supremacy was and if he hadn't existed, the world might have remained a less tolerant place with racism and colonialism still rampant.
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** Bob kills Hitler and prevents WWII. He returns to the present time and finds that [[ForWantOfANail his interference]] has caused all sorts of illogical consequences, such as Dvorak becoming the most widely used keyboard layout, the line "BeamMeUpScotty" actually being said in ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', and [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment his friend Alice growing a handlebar mustache.]]
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** Bob kills Hitler and prevents WWII. He returns to the present time and finds that [[ForWantOfANail his interference]] has caused all sorts of [[NonSequiturCausality illogical consequences, consequences]], such as Dvorak becoming the most widely used keyboard layout, the line "BeamMeUpScotty" actually being said in ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', and [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment his friend Alice growing a handlebar mustache.]]
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* '''Conversed''': "I wonder why killing Hitler always ends bad for time travellers on TV." "Perhaps because UsefulNotes/WorldWarII was such a crucial event of the twentieth century? You can't just remove ''that'' and call it a day."
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** Hitler dies in your own hands and once you return to the future, everything returns to being as peaceful as it was before his rule even started...all in the same timeline, thus {{unperson}}ing him.
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** Exaggerated Inversion: Killing UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt early causes the United States to enter the war much sooner and inspires the Manhattan Project to be developed much earlier. When the neo-Nazis return to their present, they find that Berlin has been reduced to an irradiated crater, and [[IronicHell the rest of the German Reich split amongst the French, the Polish, and an Israeli satellite state]].
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** In the absence of Hitler, Stalin/another major dictator of the time is motivated to cause a longer and bloodier war.
** Hitler's historically-accurate suicide is actually a result of time travel. WWII originally was ''worse'', and our timeline is actually an improved version.
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** The series [[YouCantFight has a strict no changing history rule]].
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** A Jewish time traveler keeps trying and fails to kill Hitler before he's done anything wrong, [[FreudianExcuse which fuels his anti-semitism]] [[StableTimeLoop and eventually motivates him to become the genocidal dictator we all know]]. [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom Upon realizing]] [[NiceJobBreakingItHero they inadvertently caused Hitler's rise to power and genocidal biogtry]], [[DrivenToSuicide the Jewish time traveler kills themselves]].
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** A Holocaust survivor goes back in time to kill Hitler and thus [[ItsPersonal save his family and friends]] [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong among countless others]] -- [[NiceJobBreakingItHero but it only makes matters worse]], [[GodwinsLawOfTimeTravel making the Axis win WWII.
** A Jewish time traveler keeps trying and fails to kill Hitler before he's done anything wrong, [[FreudianExcuse which fuels his anti-semitism]] [[StableTimeLoop and eventually motivates him to become the genocidal dictator we all know]]. [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom Upon realizing]] [[NiceJobBreakingItHero they inadvertently caused Hitler's rise to power and genocidal biogtry]], [[DrivenToSuicide the Jewish time traveler kills themselves]].