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Godwin's Law of Time Travel - Television Tropes & Idioms - 0 views

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  • the Nazis winning WWII is the most common accidental timeline shift
  • When the time traveler deliberately tries to avoid Nazi victory and inevitably fails, it's Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act.
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Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act - Television Tropes & Idioms - 0 views

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  • If you time-travel into the past and then try to kill Hitler, it won't work as intended. It may even backfire.
  • it often proves near-impossible to kill the man in the first place
  • the guy survived about 42 real life assassination attempts
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  • targeting him before his rise to power begins will usually turn out to be ludicrously difficult as well. Locating a lone, disillusioned war veteran wandering around post-WWI Europe is perhaps the ultimate needle-in-a-haystack search.
  • even if you do manage to kill him, something even worse will appear in his place
  • you get a Temporal Paradox, where you will have no reason to go back in time
  • if you manage to kill Hitler with no backfire
  • you may screw up so badly you will wish you had never been born
  • If you are lucky, you escape to the future
  • you realize that all these events would never have happened if a you had never traveled through time
  • To imagine a world without it is to change everything
  • killing one man who did evil doesn't get rid of the circumstances and structure that put him in the position to do evil in the first place
  • Preventing World War Two by one guy playing James Bond or Superman arguably denigrates the efforts of the Real Life soldiers who died to win it
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  • “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
  • “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
  • “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.” ― Terry Pratchett, Diggers
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  • “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  • “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” ― Stephen King, On Writing
  • “We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
  • “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.” ― Philip K. Dick, VALIS
  • “There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.” ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
  • “Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  • “People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.” ― Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto
  • “It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
  • “Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.” ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections
  • “I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  • “Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.” ― Neil Gaiman
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