With the advent of the World Wide Web and other multimedia technologies, bands such as The Smashing Pumpkins ( with the album Machina / The Machines of God ), Coheed And Cambria ( with the Amory Wars as a backing story for every one of their albums ), and Nine Inch Nails ( with the album Year Zero ) exploited emergent cultural phenomena such as the alternate reality game to provide additional web-based content beyond that on the album itself.

In the Season One episode, " The Road Not Taken ", Olivia described the experience of déjà vu to Walter after she briefly experienced an alternate reality as the result of being a Cortexiphan subject.

It was in fact an alternate reality game.

A more recent development, the alternate reality game, is intrinsically tied to the concept ; an ARG may exist solely as a collection of false documents that build a fictional storyline and puzzles connected to it.

The New York Times reviewed the play saying " Mr. Davalos has molded a daft campus comedy out of this unlikely convergence ," and nytheatres review said the playwright " has imagined a fascinating alternate reality, and quite possibly, given the fictional Hamlet a back story that will inform the role for the future.

New Excalibur battles an evil counterpart of Iceman, who is a member of the Shadow-X, the X-Men of an alternate reality in which Professor X was possessed by the Shadow King.

It is set in an Earthlike world ( perhaps in an alternate reality ), deals with metaphysics, and refers heavily to Ancient Greek philosophy, while at the same time being a complex commentary on the insubstantiality of today's contemporary society.

** In a 2011 episode of Misfits, an alternate reality where Germany won the Second World War, depicts Britain and the gang under the rule of the Nazi occupation force.

Layouts are physical props intended to simulate a sort of alternate reality where life is easier than either the grim existence of the colonist in their marginal off-world colonies, or even Earth, where global warming has progressed to the point that Antarctica is prime vacation resort territory.

Eldritch offers to help Mayerson “ become ” whatever he wants, but in fact is so manipulative and controlling of the CHEW-Z alternate reality that Mayerson ultimately decides he'd rather be dead than continue to be manipulated by Eldritch.

A biologist by training, UK science fiction author McAuley writes mostly hard science fiction, dealing with themes such as biotechnology, alternate history / alternate reality, and space travel.

Voyager was not attacked in the restored timeline ; so the alternate reality when Kes got the warning wouldn't have taken place.

In the 2009 Star Trek film, which takes place in an " alternate, parallel " reality, McCoy and Kirk become friends at Starfleet Academy, which McCoy joins after a divorce that he says " left nothing but bones.

The defeated combatants were either transported to an alternate reality where medical technology was advanced enough that they could be revived from any wound or transported to the alternate reality that was Valhalla.

In the alternate reality of X-Men: Ronin, the story is played out in Japan.

The princess is saved from a second death when the alternate reality Mort created is reduced to a pearl-like state.

* Steven Lisberger's 1982 film Tron explored the idea of virtual reality ; transporting real-life characters into an alternate, computer-generated world.

* Marvel 1602 – Mutants are known as the " Witchbreed " in this alternate reality set during the time of The Inquisition.

* In the Nephilim role-playing game, an Akasha is some kind of alternate reality bubble, whose existence and content are based on the thoughts and dreams of the humans.

In this alternate reality, Willow is an aggressively bisexual vampire.

His Age of Apocalypse appearance ( referred to as Spikey ), classic costume ( his standard look ), original costume ( his first comic appearances, with his face completely frosted over ), and Bobby Drake ( the look he adopts in the New X-Men series and his subsequent solo series: he appears in his human form, wearing a leather trenchcoat, with only his hands appearing frozen ) are alternate costumes for Iceman.

* X-Men Forever – An alternate continuity diverging from X-Men vol.

In the second volume of New X-Men, an alternate future is shown where Prodigy retains the knowledge he telepathically absorbs, Sage is shown to be Prodigy's secretary.

In the alternate future presented in the X-Men: The End series of books.

On the world of the Sons of Iron and Daughters of the Dragon, the New Exiles face a squad of alternate " core X-Men " who are loyal to Lilandra.

These X-Men include an alternate version of Warren who is codenamed " Krait " and has many similarities to his Archangel Earth-616 appearance.

New Excalibur battles an evil counterpart of Angel, who is a member of the Shadow-X, the X-Men of an alternate reality in which Professor X is possessed by the Shadow King.

With the apparent death of the X-Men, Moira and Banshee formed an alternate team based from Muir, and carried on as the leader of the team without him when his duties with the X-Men called him away.

On the world of the Sons of Iron and Daughters of the Dragon, the New Exiles face a squad of alternate ' core X-Men ' who are loyal to Lilandra.

These X-Men include an alternate version of Moira MacTaggert who is not married on this world or is going by her maiden name, Kinross.

* An alternate final scene with Moira is featured in the novelized version of the X-Men: The Last Stand movie, where she appears to Magneto in the park as he plays chess ( presumably offering to reverse the " cure ").

Although an X-Men character for years, Nightcrawler did not get his own comic book title ( written and drawn by Cockrum ) until November 1985, when Nightcrawler, along with Lockheed, accidentally traveled to several alternate dimensions, meeting strange beings such as the Bamfs ( the Bamfs originally appeared in a story fellow X-Man Kitty Pryde told Illyana as a bedtime story in X-Men # 153 ).

* Rachel Summers, a. k. a. Phoenix, member of the X-Men, Excalibur, and Starjammers ; alternate timeline daughter of Cyclops ( Scott Summers ) and Jean Grey

In the alternate reality known as the Mutant X universe, young Scott Summers was abducted into space along with his father Christopher and mother Kate, leaving his brother Alex to become one of the founders of the X-Men as Havok.

Madelyne Pryor appears in an important role late in X-Men: The End, Chris Claremont's limited series about an alternate future.

In the X-Men / Star Trek crossover Second Contact, an alternate universe version of Kang disrupts a number of timelines, and is defeated by the combined effort of the mutant X-Men and the crew of the Enterprise-E. His timehooks-the means the two teams used to travel in time-later draw the X-Men into the Enterprises timeline when the hook the Enterprise used becomes exposed to verteron particles, creating a link to the other hook due to Nightcrawler being similarly infused with verteron particles when he teleports.

On the world of the Sons of Iron and Daughters of the Dragon, the New Exiles face a squad of alternate ' core X-Men ' who are loyal to Lilandra.

* The Ronin suit appears as an alternate costume for Hawkeye in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3.

Two of her alternate costumes are Ronin ( Masked, Unmasked ).

As you can see, in this Push-Pull Super Set the entire chest-back-shoulder area is vigorously exercised in alternate sectors by alternate exercises so the complete torso remains pumped-up all the time!!

The term Building design professional ( or Design professional ), by contrast, is a much broader term including professionals who practice independently under an alternate profession, such as engineering professionals, or those who assist in the practice architecture under the supervision of a licensed architect, such as architectural technologists and intern architects.

Cross-time, time-splitting and alternate history themes have become so closely interwoven that it is impossible to discuss them fully apart from one another.

According to Steven H Silver, alternate history requires three things: 1 ) the story must have a point of divergence from the history of our world prior to the time at which the author is writing, 2 ) a change that would alter history as it is known, and 3 ) an examination of the ramifications of that change.

Science fiction set in what was the future but is now the past, like Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey or Nineteen Eighty-Four, are not alternate history because the author has not made the conscious choice to change the past.

Secret history, works that document things that are not known to have happened historically but would not have changed history had they happened, is also not to be confused with alternate history.

* Changing The Times, is an Alternate History Electronic Magazine written and maintained by alternate historians.

Vowels and their corresponding semivowels alternate in many languages depending on the phonological environment, or for grammatical reasons, as is the case with Indo-European ablaut.

Because the WD1770 is capable of single density mode and uses the same IBM360 derived floppy disc format as the Intel 8271 found in the BBC Micro, it was also possible to run a DFS filing system with an alternate ROM, such as the P. R. E. S AP4 interface.

The series is set on an alternate 18th-century Earth.

The standard tuning for an acoustic guitar is E-A-D-G-B-E ( low to high ), although many players, particularly fingerpickers, use alternate tunings ( scordatura ), such as " open G " ( D-G-D-G-B-D ), " open D " ( D-A-D-F-A-D ), or " drop D " ( D-A-D-G-B-E ).

An alternate viewpoint is that limiting praise to the unaccompanied chant of the early church is not commanded in scripture, and that the churches in any age are free to offer their songs with or without musical instruments.

Raimi recalls, " Actually, I kind of like the fact that there are two endings, that in one alternate universe Bruce is screwed, and in another universe he's some cheesy hero ".

If the individual is seeking death an alternate method is often suicide by cop.

Last Bronx, a 1996 Sega game played on the bad reputation of the Bronx to lend its name to an alternate version of post-Japanese bubble Tokyo, where crime and gang warfare is rampant.

A connection between Bragi and the bragarfull ' promise cup ' is sometimes suggested, as bragafull, an alternate form of the word, might be translated as ' Bragi's cup '.

A common alternate ruleset is to require all available boxes be claimed on your turn.

An alternate uniform is black with the word " Orioles " written across the chest.

The Orioles wear their black alternate jerseys for Friday night games with the alternate " O's " cap, whether at home or on the road ; the cartoon bird batting helmet is still used with this uniform ( see description on home and road design below ).

Additionally, in the alternate history novel Ruled Britannia by Harry Turtledove, Boudicca is the subject of a play written by William Shakespeare to incite the people of Britain to revolt against Spanish conquerors.