Alternate History has numerous associated tropes, answering questions of how history could have happened differently.
See also Alternate Universe, This Index Is Anachronistic, and Time Travel Tropes.
Tropes:
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Sub-categories:
- Advanced Ancient Humans
- Airstrip One
- Alien Space Bats
- Allohistorical Allusion
- Alternate History – Nazi Victory
- Alternate History Wank
- Alternate Landmark History
- Alternate Self
- Alternate Techline
- Alternate Timeline
- Ancient Astronauts
- Artistic License – History
- Balkanize Me
- Been There, Shaped History
- Beethoven Was an Alien Spy
- Bizarro Universe
- Black Vikings
- Butterfly of Doom
- Close-Enough Timeline
- Conspiracy Theories
- Day of the Jackboot
- Dead Alternate Counterpart
- Demon King Nobunaga
- Dewey Defeats Truman
- Different States of America
- Different World, Different Movies
- Double-Blind What-If
- Famously Mundane, Fictionally Magical
- Fictional Political Party
- Flash Sideways
- For Want of a Nail
- Ghostapo
- Giving Radio to the Romans
- Historical-Domain Character
- Historical Fantasy
- Interdimensional Travel Device
- Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
- Love Transcends Spacetime
- Mass Teleportation
- Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
- Middle Eastern Coalition
- Mirror Self
- Mirror Universe
- Modern Mayincatec Empire
- Never Was This Universe
- No Historical Figures Were Harmed
- Non Sequitur Causality
- One-Man Industrial Revolution
- Point of Divergence
- Politically Correct History
- Putting on the Reich
- Real Event, Fictional Cause
- Richard Nixon the Used Car Salesman
- Rubber-Band History
- Schizo Tech
- Sliding Scale of Alternate History Plausibility
- Soviet Superscience
- Space-Filling Empire
- Stock Unsolved Mysteries
- Suppressed History
- Take Over the World
- Tesla Tech Timeline
- Those Magnificent Flying Machines
- United Europe
- Weird Historical War
- Weird West
- What If?
- World War III
- Zeppelins from Another World
