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alternate_history:alternate_history_cliches [2012/04/15 10:51] Petike |
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| * **[[alternate history:Confederate Cuba]]** | * **[[alternate history:Confederate Cuba]]** | ||
| - | * **The Deutsches Reich Imperial European Union**: In a world where the Central Empires have won WWI, it's nigh impossible to not have a German-led Zollverein in Europe, that will - of course - exclude Britain and France. | + | * **The Deutsches Reich Imperial European Union**: In a world where the Central Powers have won WWI, it's nigh impossible to not have a German-led Zollverein in Europe, that will - of course - exclude Britain and France. |
| * **[[alternate history:Disunited Germany]]** | * **[[alternate history:Disunited Germany]]** | ||
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| * **[[alternate history:Nothing ever happens in South America]]** | * **[[alternate history:Nothing ever happens in South America]]** | ||
| - | * **No, it doesn't actually mean Wormwood**: Anything strange or disastrous in the Soviet Union will take place on the Ukraine-Belarus border, sort of north of Pripyat. Project Koschei in Charles Stross's //[[http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/colderwar.htm|A Colder War]]//, the Race's nuclear stockpile in the //[[Worldwar]]// series - [[Citroen DS Incident|they all go off in Chernobyl]]. | + | * **[[No, it doesn't actually mean 'Wormwood']]** |
| * **[[pods:Sealion|Operation Sealion]]** | * **[[pods:Sealion|Operation Sealion]]** | ||
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| * **Pan-anything**: While movements such as Pan-Arabism, Pan-Germanism and Pan-Slavism existed in OTL, that doesn't mean other, sometimes ridiculous varieties would have existed in ATL. | * **Pan-anything**: While movements such as Pan-Arabism, Pan-Germanism and Pan-Slavism existed in OTL, that doesn't mean other, sometimes ridiculous varieties would have existed in ATL. | ||
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| - | * **Pin the Zion on the Eurasia**: A reference to the fact that Israel appears in multitudinous and bizarre places in many timelines. The title here was coined by ninebucks. Despite the name, Patagonia, Alaska and Australia are also popular destinations. | ||
| * **[[alternate history:Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck]]** | * **[[alternate history:Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck]]** | ||
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| + | * **[[alternate history:Pendulum Fallacy]]**: The idea that if a country/religion/ideology etc loses territory it has in OTL, it has to gain territory elsewhere to compensate. | ||
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| + | * **Pin the Zion on the Eurasia**: A reference to the fact that Israel appears in multitudinous and bizarre places in many timelines. The title here was coined by [[offtopic:ninebucks]]. Despite the name, Patagonia, Alaska and Australia are also popular destinations. | ||
| * **[[alternate history:Premodern Japan as a great power]]** | * **[[alternate history:Premodern Japan as a great power]]** | ||
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| + | * **[[alternate history:President Anybody]]** | ||
| * **[[alternate history:President Cliche]]** | * **[[alternate history:President Cliche]]** | ||
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| * **Space programme changes**: Generally, absolutely any TL which involves any change at all to the OTL space programme will result in a vastly more extensive and successful one than OTL. Even if the change consists of Neil Armstrong wearing red socks instead of white on March 14th 1967. | * **Space programme changes**: Generally, absolutely any TL which involves any change at all to the OTL space programme will result in a vastly more extensive and successful one than OTL. Even if the change consists of Neil Armstrong wearing red socks instead of white on March 14th 1967. | ||
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| + | * **[[alternate history:Stupidly-named Italy]]** | ||
| * **[[alternate history:That damned Kazakh border]]** | * **[[alternate history:That damned Kazakh border]]** | ||
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| * **[[alternate history:United State]]** | * **[[alternate history:United State]]** | ||
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| + | * **[[alternate history:Afrikaners#Villainous Afrikaners]]** | ||
| * **[[alternate history:WWI and WWII must always occur]]** | * **[[alternate history:WWI and WWII must always occur]]** | ||
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| **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=150473|Overlooked Clichés]]** | **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=150473|Overlooked Clichés]]** | ||
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| + | **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=254707|What annoys you in TLs ?]]** | ||
| **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=166278|Allohistorical Convergence Pet Peeves]]** - A thread critizing the **[[Citroen DS Incident]]** that often crops up in TLs, commonly leading to a lot of clichés. | **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=166278|Allohistorical Convergence Pet Peeves]]** - A thread critizing the **[[Citroen DS Incident]]** that often crops up in TLs, commonly leading to a lot of clichés. | ||