Temporal Mutability questions

I was reading the Temporal Mutability page and have some questions regarding it.

My questions are:

• Is branching timelines synonymous with Alternate Timeline, or different from it?

• Although the trope page for Alternate Timeline says:

can they also be independent as well as mutually exclusive? (using probability here; I've read somewhere that sometimes things can be both independent and mutually exclusive). Independent in that what happens in one timeline has no effect on the others, but mutually exclusive in that the characters can only visit one at once?

• Although a Multiverse can contain Alternate Universes, could it contain Alternate Timelines as well alongside Alternate Universe?

• Is a branched timeline closer to an Alternate Universe or an Alternate Timeline, or elements of both?

• Would Narnia Time be relevant to the Temporal Mutability page?

• What's the major difference between Narnia Time and the Timey-Wimey Ball? Could a work theoretically be both tropes at once, and both tropes aren't mutually exclusive tropes?

• Is Rubber-Band History basically "whatever changes are made in an Alternate History (even if you take history in Broad Strokes about what's canon and what isn't, if we're using the fixed reference points from Doctor Who as a guideline), it always snaps back to something resembling Real Life" or am I wrong?

• Is there actually a trope for timestreams themselves, like in Doctor Who and the Timestream of Ben 10 which first appeared in Ben 10: Omniverse in the Series Finale (it covers 12 Alternate Timelines in Canon according to the Ben 10 wiki), or am I wrong to think there is such a trope about timestreams?

• Would meeting your Alternate Self be a Temporal Paradox depending on the Genre of the work?

• What sort of time trope would it be for someone erasing the existence of all versions of a person across multiple timelines, like in Ben 10: Omniverse?

If anyone could answer, I'd appreciate it.

These mass questions are hypotheticals, right? Or do you have some context for them? It gets very tiresome having these discussions if they don't relate to actual examples that you're considering.

edited 19th May '18 7:01:27 PM by Fighteer

These actually do relate to examples, in any case, the Ben 10: Omniverse, and also Doctor Who, before I make any major edits to them.

I've actually made an edit to Ben 10 Omniverse, trying to ensure that wordiness is removed in parts of the article.

I was trying to ensure I didn't have the wrong trope.

edited 20th May '18 2:10:04 AM by Merseyuser1