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AlmightyTallestSmall Waluigi from Waiting to be in Smash Since: Sep, 2023 Relationship Status: Gone fishin'
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#1: Feb 12th 2025 at 5:52:13 PM

Alien Space Bats (AS Bs) are a neologism for implausible events happening in alternative history.

In this game, we are a group of alien space bats who travel back in time, and make crazy events happen in any year we please.

Zombie Apocalypse? Why not?

Alien invasion? Go ahead!

Make it rain Shrek DV Ds in 1979? You got it!

Make an ASB event, and I'll document how it changes history.

We'll be making these events on the same timeline, and once it's changed the world enough, we move to a new one.

Example:

Poster 1: In 1993, A giant hand appears across America that crushes a random person with its finger every day.

Poster 2 (me): Some people believe it to be God's hand. Others believe it to be an alien. In any case, people do their best to stop the hand, eventually killing it in 1996.

Got it? Good!

Have fun!

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Yamanekko Esnupi from atop the red doghouse Since: Sep, 2024 Relationship Status: Whoa, they're bisexual! I didn't know that!
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#2: Feb 12th 2025 at 5:58:34 PM

71,000,000 BCE: Two eldritch monstrosities, Lavos and Dagon, take a particular interest in Earth. Lavos circles around the earth, speeding up the evolution of humans and Reptites (a race of anthropomorphic dinosaurs), while Dagon takes to the deepest point of the sea to give birth to the Deep Ones.

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Superjohn Muscle witch from Tokyo Empire Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
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#3: Feb 12th 2025 at 5:58:46 PM

A T-Rex appears in Billings, Montana in 1968.

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WhoaBundy Since: Dec, 2013
#4: Feb 12th 2025 at 6:00:26 PM

1986: The crossover game Super Mario vs. Custer’s Revenge is released.

AlmightyTallestSmall Waluigi from Waiting to be in Smash Since: Sep, 2023 Relationship Status: Gone fishin'
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#5: Feb 12th 2025 at 6:03:26 PM

[up][up][up] While the humans would fare the same as in OTL, the Reptites would be wiped out with the rest of the dinosaurs.

[up][up] It rampages through town until it is shot dead and taken to the U.S. Government for study. People are confused as to how this happened. The T-Rex's body now lays in the Smithsonian.

[up] In Super Mario vs. Custer's Revenge for the Atari 2600, Custer finds himself in the Mushroom Kingdom, where Mario must stop him from raping Princess Peach. Panned upon release, it has gained a cult following.

Edited by AlmightyTallestSmall on Feb 12th 2025 at 2:05:59 PM

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Yamanekko Esnupi from atop the red doghouse Since: Sep, 2024 Relationship Status: Whoa, they're bisexual! I didn't know that!
Esnupi
#6: Feb 12th 2025 at 6:05:32 PM

[up][up][up] Obviously, it must have fallen through a Time Gate! We'll come back to those later.

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AlmightyTallestSmall Waluigi from Waiting to be in Smash Since: Sep, 2023 Relationship Status: Gone fishin'
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#7: Feb 12th 2025 at 6:09:42 PM

ITTL: Joel Vinesauce would actually do a play through of Super Mario vs. Custer's Revenge in a stream.

Anyone got another event?

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#8: Feb 12th 2025 at 6:09:45 PM

2006: It rains millions of Yoshi eggs and they all hatch!

[down] Like 1 Million, and Mostly in the U.S, but also other countries around it. Oh, for like 1 hour.

Edited by cornyfield256 on Feb 12th 2025 at 9:21:51 AM

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AlmightyTallestSmall Waluigi from Waiting to be in Smash Since: Sep, 2023 Relationship Status: Gone fishin'
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#9: Feb 12th 2025 at 6:12:40 PM

[up]

1. How many eggs rain exactly?

2. Where does this rain occur?

3. How long does it last?

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Superjohn Muscle witch from Tokyo Empire Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
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#10: Feb 12th 2025 at 6:14:01 PM

On January 1st 1970, The Soviet Union and The People's Republic of China decided to become one country.

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AlmightyTallestSmall Waluigi from Waiting to be in Smash Since: Sep, 2023 Relationship Status: Gone fishin'
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#11: Feb 12th 2025 at 6:15:56 PM

1970: The Soviet Union and China merge.

1991: In the fall of the Soviet Union, the Republic of China is born.

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WhoaBundy Since: Dec, 2013
#12: Feb 12th 2025 at 6:20:43 PM

1972: A tearful Stan Lee admits that he’s taken far too much credit for his role in the creation of Marvel characters and cedes control of Marvel Comics to Jack Kirby.

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#14: Feb 12th 2025 at 6:25:10 PM

[up][up]Not much changes, actually. Well, aside from the Fourth World becoming a Thor storyline.

Darkseid replaces Thanos as the new Big Bad of the MCU, becoming the villain of Infinity War and Endgame.

[up] His name is John Egbert, but we'll get back to him later.

Got another?

Edited by AlmightyTallestSmall on Feb 12th 2025 at 2:26:07 PM

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WhoaBundy Since: Dec, 2013
#15: Feb 12th 2025 at 6:29:06 PM

1999: Sales of the Sega Dreamcast dwarf those of the Nintendo Gamecube and Sony Playstation.

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#16: Feb 12th 2025 at 6:30:50 PM

On June 10th, 1992, The entire country of Italy is replaced with 1892 Italy.

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AlmightyTallestSmall Waluigi from Waiting to be in Smash Since: Sep, 2023 Relationship Status: Gone fishin'
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#17: Feb 12th 2025 at 6:37:42 PM

[up][up] The sales of the Sega Dreamcast motivates them to keep making consoles.

[up] Although 1892 Italy is shocked to find the world as changed, they still work on making alliances. Umberto I is never assassinated, and the Kingdom remains stable.

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Yamanekko Esnupi from atop the red doghouse Since: Sep, 2024 Relationship Status: Whoa, they're bisexual! I didn't know that!
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#18: Feb 12th 2025 at 6:40:21 PM

Also conversely in 1999:

Lavos stirs, bearing a prophetic vision that the world will fall to ruin in the next century. In order to prevent this from happening, it stops the calamity the only way it can: destroying the world sooner. The timeline splits into two from here.

ATL 5T6U8I: The world as we know it is destroyed. The remnants of humanity try to survive in the ruin.

ATL 642JF0: Crono, a time traveler from the year 1000, along with his ragtag band of friends, defeat Lavos, leaving humanity to destroy itself. Two years later, the World Trade Center is attacked by Middle Eastern terrorists, beginning the downward spiral.

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Superjohn Muscle witch from Tokyo Empire Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
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#19: Feb 12th 2025 at 6:57:20 PM

On July 4th 1979, The City of Chicago is replaced by Chicago on July 4th, 2019

On March 13th 2000, the entire population of Oregon becomes Sasquatches.

On January 22nd, 2005, Giant Krakens start attacking ships in the Caribbean.

Edited by Superjohn on Feb 15th 2025 at 4:49:15 AM

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AlmightyTallestSmall Waluigi from Waiting to be in Smash Since: Sep, 2023 Relationship Status: Gone fishin'
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#20: Feb 12th 2025 at 7:21:23 PM

[up][up] While I like this, I sadly won't allow it.

New rule: no events that lead to Earth's destruction. I deem this non-canon.

[up]

1. Due to reverse engineering, the Midwest becomes the new technological center of America, apart from Silicon Valley.

2. The Sasquatches cause mayhem in Oregon. Oregon becomes a protected park to keep these bigfeet safe.

3. People begin hunting these kraken, often failing.

Got another?

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AlmightyTallestSmall Waluigi from Waiting to be in Smash Since: Sep, 2023 Relationship Status: Gone fishin'
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#21: Feb 12th 2025 at 7:36:33 PM

Anyone?

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#22: Feb 12th 2025 at 7:46:34 PM

In 1976, US copyright length is set permanently at 30 years for works made after January 1st, 1977.

On August 1st, 1998, It's rains cats and dogs in Washington DC for 8 hours.

On May 10th 2010, All German soldiers who died in World War 1 come back to life.

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AlmightyTallestSmall Waluigi from Waiting to be in Smash Since: Sep, 2023 Relationship Status: Gone fishin'
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#23: Feb 12th 2025 at 7:51:51 PM

Although some properties option for renewals, Star Wars, the works of Stephen King, and other exceptions end up in the public domain.

The capital collects as many cats and dogs as it can and gives them away to families. The rest become wild dogs & cats.

In 2010, over 2 million Germans find themselves in a future unlike their own. While some kill themselves, most of them adapt to their new environment.

For these upper two events, investigations into these phenomena prove inconclusive.

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AlmightyTallestSmall Waluigi from Waiting to be in Smash Since: Sep, 2023 Relationship Status: Gone fishin'
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#24: Feb 12th 2025 at 8:29:29 PM

As of 2025, works of 1995 like:

  • Se7en
  • Jumanji
  • Clueless
  • Michael Crichton's The Lost World
  • The Island of the Day Before

Are in the public domain.

Anyone got another?

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Lymantria Tyrannoraptoran Reptiliomorph from Toronto Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Historians will say we were good friends.
Tyrannoraptoran Reptiliomorph
#25: Feb 12th 2025 at 9:16:54 PM

Toy Story is in the public domain, and we’re only one year away from the same being true of the first Pokémon games.

The feral cats and dogs start adapting to the wild, although obviously it may take some time.

Anyway, I decide to introduce fruits from our planet to the world in 2004. They’re poisonous, but not if you don’t eat their cores. The rest of them tastes quite good, so they soon flood the food market.

[down] I’m a he (it says so on my troper page).

Edited by Lymantria on Feb 12th 2025 at 1:27:09 PM

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