History WMG / TalesFromTheDarkMultiverse

* Jossed; it's actually a ''ComicBook/LastDaysOfTheJusticeSociety'' what-if with the [[ForWantOfANail nail]] being an altered ''COIE''.

* VideoGame/SonicHeroes: Metal Sonic's [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters rebellion against Eggman]] ends with him murdering the doctor instead of imprisoning him in the Final Fortress. [[ForWantOfANail As a result]], Team Chaotix never get involved as there is no Eggman alive to hire them, and as such they are not present at the final battle in the Last Story and don't collect the Chaos Emeralds they normally would in the main timeline. Without all seven Chaos Emeralds to allow Team Sonic to access their SuperMode, the three teams underestimate Metal Sonic and overexert themselves against his Metal Madness form, allowing him to [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown brutally kill them when they are too exhausted to fight]], [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal annihilating Amy, crushing Cream, butchering Big, skewering Shadow, rending Rouge]], and reducing Omega to shrapnel. Saving Team Sonic for last, Metal [[KillItWithFire incinerates them with the flamethrower on his left arm]], [[{{Sadist}} observing their slow and painful deaths with great relish]]. Now free from his obsession with surpassing Sonic, Metal finishes transforming and flies off with the Chaos Emeralds, using them to further augment his powers. He eventually collects the remaining Emeralds and leads the Eggman Empire to [[OmnicidalManiac wipe out nearly all organic life on the planet]], [[FisherKing rendering it a]] TechnoDystopia and ruling it as the world's most supreme being.

* VideoGame/SonicHeroes: Metal Sonic's [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters rebellion against Eggman]] ends with him murdering the doctor instead of imprisoning him in the Final Fortress. [[ForWantOfANail As a result]], Team Chaotix never get involved as there is no Eggman alive to hire them, and as such they are not present at the final battle in the Last Story and don't collect the Chaos Emeralds they normally would in the main timeline. Without all seven Chaos Emeralds to allow Team Sonic to access their SuperMode, the three teams underestimate Metal Sonic and overexert themselves against his Metal Madness form, allowing him to [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown brutally kill them when they are too exhausted to fight]], [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal annihilating Amy, crushing Cream, butchering Big, skewering Shadow, rending Rouge]], [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and reducing Omega to shrapnel]]. Saving Team Sonic for last, Metal [[KillItWithFire incinerates them with the flamethrower on his left arm]], [[{{Sadist}} observing their slow and painful deaths with great relish]]. Now free from his obsession with surpassing Sonic, Metal finishes transforming and flies off with the Chaos Emeralds, using them to further augment his powers. He eventually collects the remaining Emeralds and leads the Eggman Empire to [[OmnicidalManiac wipe out nearly all organic life on the planet]], [[FisherKing rendering it a]] TechnoDystopia and ruling it as the world's most supreme being.

* Literature/HarryPotter:

** Batman Beyond:

* Series/{{Castle}}:

* WesternAnimation/DespicableMe:

** Battle for Bludhaven: Major Force is the one who gains the Monarch armor...then kills and absorbs Captain Atom...then blows up Bludhaven without any survivors...now instead of the ComicBook/TeenTitans or ComicBook/{{Freedom Fighters|DC}}, we get teams like the Force of July or First Strike.

** Dark Crisis of Infinite Earths: Actually a [[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths COIE]] what-if that ends with the events of Dark Crisis [[ShootTheShaggyDog going tragically]]. [[note]] making that a scenario with NonIndicativeName, similar to Dark Multiverse's [=COIE=] scenario (which is a ''ComicBook/LastDaysOfTheJusticeSociety'' what-if with [=COIE=] being the nail[[/note]] Pariah went insane back on the end of the Crisis and [[spoiler:thus used]] the Great Darkness [[FaceHeelTurn corrupted]] earlier than in the original. Which leads to a more powerful and more prepared Pariah, avoiding the pitfalls by the latter half of the real Dark Crisis while still being horribly [[spoiler:insane and]] corrupted. This saves him on his ass as he survives and successfully restores the pre-Crisis multiverse once and for all, while '''the entire Franchise/JusticeLeague''' all got KilledOffForReal because of his actions. But it came with a cost: [[spoiler:Pariah [[SanitySlippage going even more insane]] and taps into more and more of the Great Darkness, leading to [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity him becoming even more powerful but more unhinged]] [[DrunkOnTheDarkSide and more evil]]]], culminating in Pariah becoming a CompleteMonster, expanding the Dark Army by reviving [[Characters/TheMultiversity Perpetua]], the [[ComicBook/BlackestNight Black Lanterns Corps.]] and ''every single'' [[ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal Dark Knights of]] [[ComicBook/DarkNightsDeathMetal the Dark Multiverse]], and with all that, [[HeroKiller kills]] '''[[TotalPartyKill every single sidekicks, Black Adam, the Watchmen and most of the villains from every DC multiverses]] [[spoiler:(even Deathstroke, who never got the power of the Great Darkness in this scenario)]]''', and dooming all of Hypertime with the [[spoiler:massively-corrupted]] Great Darkness plaguing all {{Elseworld}}s [[spoiler:[[ApocalypseHow/ClassZ and eventually, the rest of the omniverse and all its Hypertime]]]].

** Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths: Actually one to [[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths COIE]] that ends with the events of Dark Crisis [[ShootTheShaggyDog going tragically]]. [[note]] making that a scenario with NonIndicativeName, similar to Dark Multiverse's [=COIE=] scenario[[/note]] Pariah went insane back on the end of the Crisis and [[spoiler:thus used]] the Great Darkness [[FaceHeelTurn corrupted]] earlier than in the original. Which leads to a more powerful and more prepared Pariah, avoiding the pitfalls by the latter half of the real Dark Crisis while still being horribly [[spoiler:insane and]] corrupted. This saves him on his ass as he survives and successfully restores the pre-Crisis multiverse once and for all, while the Justice League all got KilledOffForReal because of his actions. But it came as a cost: [[spoiler:Pariah [[SanitySlippage going even more insane]] and taps into more and more of the Great Darkness, leading to [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity him becoming even more powerful but more unhinged]] [[DrunkOnTheDarkSide and more evil]]]], culminating in Pariah becoming a CompleteMonster, expanding the Dark Army by reviving Perpetua, the Black Lanterns Corp. and ''every single'' Dark Knights of the Dark Multiverse, and with all that, [[HeroKiller kills]] '''[[TotalPartyKill every single sidekicks, Black Adam, the Watchmen and most of the villains from every DC multiverses]] [[spoiler:(even Deathstroke, who never got the power of the Great Darkness in this scenario)]]''', and dooming all of Hypertime with the [[spoiler:massively-corrupted]] Great Darkness plaguing all {{Elseworld}}s [[spoiler:and eventually, the rest of the omniverse and all its Hypertime]].

** Cry for Justice: The same case...except Roy was the one who killed Prometheus, but now he's more paranoid, deranged, and addicted to more exotic drugs due to various hallucinations of Prometheus and his daughter, which caused him to go off the loose end
** Armageddon 2001: All the bad futures merged into one major and terrible future...due to the very surreal nature of each future...thus who knows who Monarach really is? [[spoiler:By the time the Waverider found out the true identity (Monarch is still Hawkman), it's already too late: [[ComicBook/ZeroHourCrisisInTime]] has started, way earlier than expected.]]

** Amazons Attack: War of the Gods...only more MemeticMutation
** Heroes in Crisis: It turns out that instead of Wally West being the sole culprit, he was actually brainwashed by Psycho-Pirate using the masks, and he was working with the Sanctuary AI, aka Brother Eye, who plotted everything to prove to the world how [[IdiotBall idiotic]] and [[JerkassBall toxic]] the heroes really are. Brother Eye and Psycho-Pirate also use the presence of Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy as an example of the super community's stupidity as they're allowed into Sanctuary and later set free despite their villainous pasts.
** Dark Nights: Death Metal: Wonder Woman falters to the Darkest Knight's statement that The Hands will destroy the multiverse and hesitates in shoving him to his death, giving him all the time he needs to kill her, take her power, kill The Hands, and win in the DC Multiverse. He and his Last 52 then begin carving a bloody swathe through the Omniverse. {{Lawyer Friendly Cameo}}s of non-DC properties abound for extra [[OhCrap "Oh, shit"]] oomph.

** Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths:

* ComicBook/KickAss: During the final battle in vol 2, instead of surviving the fall, Chris Genovese(MotherF**ker) didn't survive his fall from Dave/Kick-ass, succumbing to his injuries, however, instead of guilt, Dave was overcome with a taste for more violence, and much to [[Main/DirtyCop Vic Gigante]]'s shock, Justice Forever manages to overcome the S.W.A.T, with Hit-girl and a more battle-crazed Kick-ass leading the charge, finally ending his corruption...[[SarcasmMode everything would be fine, right?]], Not really...Dave succumbed to some major brain damage from his fight, thus in a horrible turn of events, he and Hit-girl placed martial law in the form of vigilante justice across the city, leading to the police being second-hand enforcement while vigilantes roamed the streets, but due to what happened to Dave, he enforces lethal force and to authorize to torture and kill suspected villians, with Hit-girl being his second-in-command assassin, sparking a power struggle between crazed vigilantes for "true justice" or any justification to put on the mask, whenever it's DisproportionateRetribution for a online opinion or FreudianExcuse, regardless of who gets hurt. Angie Genovese is still a social outcast from what Chris did(even to the point she's even attacked in board daylight from suffocation or gunpoint like a bounty target), since Chris is already dead....she's driven mad from the constant threats and assaults without help, she becomes the second red mist(akin to ComicBook/FlashPoint's Joker) and proceeds to "redeem" herself through acts of cruelty to the people that she thinks "wronged" her or had attacked her before(there are implications that she might have whacked Rocco genevese despite his help) Things get bad to worst when Dave and Angie go in one "final" battle in the same Times square he fought Chris years ago...only for Dave and Angie die in a MutualKill from the injuries they gotten from each other and from other vigilantes, as well through years of violence on their missions...leaving New York a massive wasteland...the worst thing is Hit-girl, who lost her mind by then, leaves the city in a crusade to "Burn all the motherf**kers around the world, nice and slowly." (Oops...When we stop and think about it, this is something Creator/MarkMillar would write now would it?)

* VideoGame/FireEmblemFates: Instead of choosing a side at all, due to the trauma of his/her mother dying in front of them (and possibly combined with the weight of the SadisticChoice), Corrin went nuts and crazy and proceed to run away, leaving Azura and their two families behind...leading to a 400 day war that lead to many deaths, especially of Ryouma, Xander, Leo, Takumi, Camilla, Hinoka, Elise and Sakura...turning the whole fields red much to Azura's horror. It only got worst as Corrin accidently fell into Valla, where their deranged state led them to be infected by Anankos, who used the royal dragon to attack and conquer both Nohr and Hoshido...with a army of undead royals and retainers...sparking a ZombieApocalypse...and Azura only has so much power before she passed away by fading into water... damn, [[BrokenBird Corrin and Azura]] can't catch a break (I really want to give them a hug.)
* ComicBook/JustAPilgrim:

* WebVideo/FoodBattle(Wait...what?): Instead of quitting food battle in 2016, Anthony and Ian still remained in Smosh and proceed to maintain their ManChild ways to battle each other with food... which will only get worst as their challenges began more and more stale compared to Website/YouTube's standards as time goes on... but it only made the two more AxCrazy as their challenges suddenly became more Main/DarkerAndEdgier with their repeated attempts at demon summoning or mutilation of random people... in the far future, it seeps into their real lives and even ''their viewers'' as they become apostles for food, sparking a Main/ForeverWar with mutated food... jeez.

* WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls:

* Literature/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero: Oh....boy, Naofumi really goes off the deep end when he thinks the entire world is against him....With Raphtalia too late to save him, Naofumi becomes full-on MONSTER and proceeds to smash everyone around him into paste...including Raphtalia...however, the rage shield has a way to torment him, as it makes him delusional and halluncinating, and even [[CameBackWrong revived Raphtalia as a undead guide that attacks]]... what's more... to due his loss in trust, he forgoes all traces of humanity to become a raging monster, ripping and tearing across the lands while raising a army of rabid Filos (including the Filolial ''Queen herself'') to stomp on anyone who oppose him...god only knows how long it will last until he finally finds peace... (Oh nevermind, because Dark Multiverse always ShootTheShaggyDog in the end!)

* WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom: Danny fails to return to the present, allowing [[EnemyWithout Dark Danny]] to conqurer all life on earth, use them to overpower [[TimeMaster Clockwork]], and using his powers, erase Danny away without it affecting him. Then, the entire universe takes the shape of Dark Danny, where the ghost proceeds to rule supreme.
* WesternAnimation/{{Paranorman}}:

* WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic: Twilight and her friends failed to unleash the powers of the elements of harmony, allowing Discord to treat Equestria as his plaything[[note]]If anything, the Season Five finale actually showed this and all those other bad futures when Starlight Glimmer messed with the past. So therefore, a fear from this is that Twilight failing to grasp the true reason for friendship could lead to the dark multiverse for the [=MLP=] universe.[[/note]].

* WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil: Rather than destroy all magic, Star decides to [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender energybend]] Mina's magic instead. However, the result quickly drives Star insane and she kills Moon before becoming the KnightTemplar ruler of the multiverse.

[[WMG:Alternate/Rejected Tales of the Multiverse that no one really wants to see...at all, either of being infamous or just not enough.]]

** Armageddon 2001: All the bad futures merged into one major and terrible future...due to the very surreal nature of each future...thus who knows who Monarach really is?
** Doomsday Clock: Superman DID punch Dr. Manhattan, which results in a nuclear fallout, killing tons of heroes battling across the city...the only survivor was Manhattan, and being the [[Main/AllPowerfulBystander Naked blue man he is]] erases all existence and starts anew.

** Dark Nights: Death Metal: Wonder Woman falters to the Darkest Knight's statement that The Hands will destroy the multiverse and hesitates in shoving him to his death, giving him all the time he needs to kill her, take her power, kill The Hands, and win in the DC Multiverse. He and his Last 52 then begin carving a bloody swathe through the Omniverse. [[LawyerFriendlyCameo Lawyer-Friendly Cameos]] of non-DC properties abound for extra "Oh, shit" oomph.

** Final Crisis:

** Brightest Day:

** JLApe:Gorilla Warfare:

** DC VS Marvel:

* Secret War:

* House of M:

** Or for that matter: any game of the entire VideoGame/SuperRobotWars. For example: The BadEnding of ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsZ'', where [[spoilers: Supreme God Z erases the entire multiverse (again).]]

* Jossed; it's actually a ''ComicBook/LastDaysOfTheJusticeSociety'' what-if with the [[ForWantOfANail nail]] being an altered COIE.

* ''Knightfall''

** Dark Avenging Angel of the Multiverse: Letting grief and despair overtake you and the fear of losing Superman again.

* ''War of the Gods:''

* ''Flashpoint:'' Barry Allen's legacy being stolen by Eobard Thawne and being turned into evil.
* ''Crisis on Infinite Earths:''
* ''Dark Nights: Metal:''

* [[Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet Romeo & Juliet:]] Tybalt kills Romeo, resulting in the Monague's waging all-out war on the Capulets and [[DrivenToSuicide Juliet killing herself.]] Prince Escalus has no choice but to execute the heads of both families and exile their relatives, but it does not end there. The scattered remnants of the two great houses ingratiate themselves with other early renaissance families while spreading anti-government rhetoric. Eventually, their descendants, obsessed with power and individuality and feeling as if the governments have done them some wrong, become proto-supervillains, battling states and each other with the inventions of the Renaissance, culiminating in a plague titled "Romeo" being created and released, wiping out almost all of Europe.
* [[WesternAnimation/KimPossible Kim Possible:]] Kim Goes to Camp Wannaweep instead of Ron, and because she isn't as scared of the camp as Ron would've, doesn't trade the swim time with Gil, resulting in her being the one to mutate into a fish monster.
* [[VideoGame/HonkaiImpact3rd Honkai Impact 3rd:]] During battle between Herrsher of Void and Himeko,Herrsher of Void kill Himeko permamently after crush her body in spacetime cube and then she is began to destroy all human on earth.Later she is become ruler of earth with Anna Shariac and Owl as one of ruler until The Resistance that composed of Valkyrie from Shicksal and Anti-Entropy which disband after Herrsher of Void win and Raiden Mei,Durandal,Rita Rossweisse,Bronya Zaychick,Olenenya Sisters and Theresa Apocalypse come to batttle with Herrsher of Void and her allies in Babylon HQ of Shicksal which is support by World Serpent who sent their against to save the world but everyone is died including Kevin Kaslana and left only Raiden Mei who is slowly become Herrsher of Thunder form and killed every herrsher including Kiana and then she deciding to ruled the world in iron fist because she is broken after she see everyone she love died
* WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse: Steven's SanitySlippage starts early and he starts doing more morally questionable things that would make the regular Steven puke, all culminating in "Change your Mind" where Steven shatters the Diamonds one by one. Afterwards, he, Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl essentially become the Justice Lords as they take the Diamonds' place as rulers of all Gemkind.
* VideoGame/Persona5: Takes place after the BadEnding where Joker takes Yaldabaoth's deal and expands the Phantom Thieves of Heart into a worldwide organization. But after an incident where they accidentally murdered most of the United Nations, the surviving representatives decided to declare WorldWarIII against the Thieves.

** Universe 1: The original BadEnding, Instead of saving Hughie from the fall, Billy chooses his Master Plan and lets Hughie fall to his death, and with a smile on his face, Billy Butcher completes his plan...leaving millions of peoples(and "future" supes)to get their heads blown up, much to his amusement...while I may not know what will happen after the end, other than million of people scarred for life of their loved ones...there's the implications of losing a child...especially Starlight and a supposed unborn child (Let that sink in people, it's a case of WhatCouldHaveBeen if Garth Ennis went for more dark ideas).
** Universe 2(speculative case)- After the death of Black Noir, Billy Butcher has a change of plans, instead out of nowhere, Billy Butcher decides to expose the entire SECRET of the Boys itself and it's battle against Vought, this SOMEHOW(just roll with it) makes him President of both America AND Great Britain(Hey, Butcher IS a ControlFreak) and thus, clears authority over the two countries and outright BANNING not only "supes", declaring them as absolute dangers, but banning the printing of superheroes comics and manga as well(Sounds familiar, mates?), what's more, it still didn't stop him from rewriting parts of the Constitution, but now builds goddamn gladiator arenas to force supes into killing each other for his and every supe-hater's amusement, much to Hughie and the other's dismay or disgust...which in turn Billy still went ahead to kill them all(including Hughie through other means)...however, there is still resistance in the form of Starlight, along with her and Hughie's son(Hughie Jr), and managed to fight back...but when it seems Annie and Hughie Jr are ready to bring Butcher to justice...Billy gives the final middle finger before using the explosive compound V before dying himself in the same place where it started...the White House....Ouch.
* VideoGame/FireEmblemFates: Instead of choosing a side at all, due to the trauma of his/her mother dying in front of them, Corrin went nuts and crazy and proceed to run away, leaving Azura and their two families behind...leading to a 400 day war that lead to many deaths, especially of Ryouma, Xander, Leo, Takumi, Camilla, Hinoka, Elise and Sakura...turning the whole fields red much to Azura's horror. It only got worst as Corrin accidently fell into Valla, where their deranged state led them to be infected by Anankos, who used the royal dragon to attack and conquer both Nohr and Hoshido...with a army of undead royals and retainers...sparking a ZombieApocalypse...and Azura has so much power before fading into water...damn, [[BrokenBird Corrin and Azura]] can't catch a break(I really want to give them a hug.)

** Scenario 1: In the first vol, Billy Shepherd(The kid whose diary Pilgrim got) didn't managed to press the button in time as Castenado slew the boy, and managed to captured the Pilgrim, and [[ForcedToWatch forced him to watch]] as the rest of the survivors are killed or captured...oh and too [[ShootTheShaggyDog to drive in his failure to god]], Castenado [[EyeScream slashes out his remaining eye]]...and oh boy does it come to bite him hard, as the Pilgrim adapts to his condition and manages to turn the tides on the blind pirate with a bullet to the stomach and [[BoomHeadshot head]], and thus turns the raiders into his proxy of zealots, with the exact same rule except it's either accept god or take a bullet.
** Scenario 2: In the Garden of Eden(aftermath): Chris(a lady who wanted to attack Pilgrim for tricking her and other survivors to eating one of her friends) misinterprets the Pilgrim's action to give her the gun...and shoots him right in the [[BoomHeadshot head]]...if the only man who knew how to survive as bad enough...the [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Sliders]] then manages to trick all of the survivors into getting infected...and it will be a while before they reach for the stars.

* WebVideo/FoodBattle(Wait...what?): Instead of quitting food battle in 2016, Anthony and Ian still proceed to maintain their ManChild ways to battle each other with food...which will only get worst as their challenges began more and more stale compared to Website/YouTube's standards as time goes on...but it only made the two more crazy as their challenges suddenly became more Main/DarkerAndEdgier with demon summoning or mutilation of random people....in the far future, it seeps into their real lives as they become apostles for food, sparking a Main/ForeverWar with mutated food...jeez.

** Alternately, Salem goes to the god of darkness first after Ozma dies (maybe she heard stories of his brother refusing to raise the dead before) and when the god of light intervenes the confrontation between the gods shown in cannon escalates into a fight that destroys the world.

* Literature/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero: Oh....boy, Naofumi really goes off the deep end when he thinks the entire world is against him....With Raphtalia too late to save him, Naofumi becomes full-on MONSTER and proceeds to smash everyone around him into paste...including Raphtalia...however, the rage shield has a way to torment him, as it makes him delusional and halluncinating Raphtalia as a undead guide...what's more...to due his loss in trust, he forgoes all traces of humanity to become a raging monster, ripping and tearing across the lands while raising a army of rabid Filos to stomp on anyone who oppose him...god only knows how long it will last until he finally finds peace...

** Batman's No Man Land:

** Lazarus Planet