Audio Plays
- In The Firesign Theatre's The Further Adventures of Nick Danger, the presidential interruption at the end of the piece makes it clear that the show itself is taking place in an alternate universe where the US surrendered to Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
- Below Board is set in an alternate 1930s where there's a social-democratic (sort of) US government, and the Civil Rights movement is already in full swing.
- The Cartographer's Handbook is set in an alternate 1880s where the world was ravaged by a zombie plague shortly after the American Civil War.
- The Princess Thieves is set in the same alternate history, with this story focusing on Victorian Britain.
- Twilight Histories is an anthology show that features a different alternate universe in each episode. Amoung other things, you explore a Carthaginian colony on Mars, an Ancient Egypt that never fell facing a new ice age, and even a technological advanced Aztec Empire.
- Bizarro: Parodied in this strip
◊, which depicts the Greeks using a Trojan Piñata instead of a Trojan Horse, leading to the soldiers inside being discovered when the Trojans try to break it. - Scary Gary takes place in one where monsters are a part of everyday life. At one point Leopold taunts Gary with the letter he keeps from when he was dumped by Joan of Arc.
Music
- !Hero: The Rock Opera tells the story of Jesus in an Alternate History where Jesus wasn't born until the modern age, where the world is ruled by a One World Order named I.C.O.N. which has banned all religions except for Judaism.
- "The Night Chicago Died" tells of an event that never happened, a full scale, city wide battle between the Chicago police force and Al Capone's mob.
- The band Zeal & Ardor, essentially a fusion of Black Metal with African-American music forms such as soul, blues, and Gospel Music, is formed on the observation that both Scandinavia (the birthplace of black metal) and American slaves were forcibly converted to Christianity. The band's music essentially transposes the Scandinavian black metal scene to antebellum America, asking what would have happened if the slaves had turned to Satanism rather than embracing Christianity. On paper, this concept sounds like a mess. It isn't.
Miscellaneous
- Historical wargaming is the Trope Maker for this trope. Both amongst the professionals (read: military) and hobbyists.
- In the 1970s, the Royal Military Academy of Sandhurst initiated a wargames reeanactment of WW2, if Operation Seelöwe (Sea Lion), the invasion of Britain by Nazi Germany, had taken place. The result was a complete disaster for the Germans. Although they would have managed to land and gain a foothold, they would have been bogged down first by the Home Guard, then bombed to submission by the RAF, and finally have their means of escape cut off by the Royal Navy. Their supply lines would have been cut, and on third day they already were starving and suffering for lack of ammunition and fuel. There simply was not enough harbour capacity in Southern England to supply the invading force. With that done, Germany would have lost quite a chunk of its army to the enemy, and would probably have never been able to initiate another such action against Britain for the rest of the entire war, provided the USSR would have still been in their way. One of the planners remarked that it was a pity they had never tried, as it could have shortened the war quite considerably.
- The commanders of the both sides were the actual generals who would have commanded the participating troops also in the Real Life.
- The Nazis never tried because their generals had had come to the essentially same conclusion: Operation Seelöwe hadn't even a snowball chance in Hell to succeed, especially after they've lost the aerial Battle of Britain, so the plan was quietly swept under the rug.
- Similar to the above, it's a common practice amongst military academies to wargame or speculate about what would have happened if General X had done Y instead of Z, partly because it helps show why Y was a better or worse choice than Z.
- The roadside attraction "Professor Cline's Dinosaur Kingdom" features an alternate version of the The American Civil War where the Union army was armed with dinosaurs.
- There are several usenet groups to discuss various alternate histories, like soc.history.what-if, though they don't get much traffic nowadays, with the decline of interest in newsgroups in general. Particularly, soc.history.what-if became swamped with spam and was blocked by most newsgroup repeaters and the Google Groups portal.
- This promotional video by the Anti-Defamation League imagines how history might have changed had the likes of Martin Luther King or Anne Frank escaped their untimely demise, before challenging the viewers to stand up against the hatred that ultimately killed them.
