Since the 1950s, this type of fiction has to a large extent merged with science fictional tropes involving cross-time travel between alternate histories or psychic awareness of the existence of " our " universe by the people in another ; or ordinary voyaging uptime ( into the past ) or downtime ( into the future ) that results in history splitting into two or more time-lines.

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 ".

Set in an alternate universe similar to that of the original EverQuest, this sequel takes place 500 years after the awakening of The Sleeper.

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, known in Japan as, is an anime series in the mecha genre, and is one of the alternate universe Gundam series, taking place in the After Colony timeline.

It is the second alternate universe in the Gundam media franchise, following Mobile Fighter G Gundam.

In an alternate universe, Dave Lister is hugely successful, including being married to a gorgeous, titled wife, Lady Sabrina Mulholland-Jjones, played by Stark.

As Luthor II, he inherits control of LexCorp and seduces Supergirl ( a protoplasmic clone of an alternate universe Lana Lang ), due to his resemblance to her creator ( the alternate universe's Luthor ).

A different Shang-Chi appears in Marvel Zombies Return in an alternate universe where he is unaffected by the zombie outbreak.

The theme song, as well as the opening credits, were altered for two back-to-back episodes in season 4 entitled " In a Mirror, Darkly ", which take place in an alternate mirror universe.

In an alternate universe, Worf leads the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance as regent.

The jianghu is an alternate universe.

Westwood Pacific developed or co-developed games like Nox and Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, which takes place in an alternate universe to that of the original title Command & Conquer.

In the alternate universe, they are attendants to Fifi in Rumpelstiltskin's castle.

Each trip is in an alternate universe, and therefore no one can effectively change their own past or future.

In the film's opening act, Nero's ship emerges in the year 2233, and through its interaction with the inhabitants, inadvertently creates an " alternate, parallel ' Star Trek ' universe ".

Engaged in frequent time-travel, the Time Corps has been responsible for changing various events in the past, creating an alternate universe with every time-line they disrupt.

The phenomena associated with measurement are claimed to be explained by decoherence, which occurs when states interact with the environment producing entanglement, repeatedly splitting the universe into mutually unobservable alternate histories — distinct universes within a greater multiverse.

An alternate reality game based in the SiN universe was launched in 2005 to promote the announcement of SiN Episodes.

* Amon Tomaz, an alternate name of Osiris, a character in the DC Comics universe

Volume II has an extensive appendix, most of which is filled with an imaginary travelers ' account of the alternate universe the League is set in, called The New Traveler's Almanac.

By combining their powers and knowledge, they intended to unleash an army of brainwashed, alternate universe Darkwing Ducks on St. Canard, as it would be of benefit to both their agendas – her hope is to force Darkwing's ally Launchpad McQuack to lead her to Scrooge's Number One Dime.

The show further featured " alternate " versions of DC Comics in the episode " Over There, Part 2 ", specifically an inversion of the famous cover of Superman carrying the body of Supergirl suggesting in Fringe's " alternate " universe that it was Superman who was killed as part of the crisis, while Supergirl survived.

For last-ditch emergencies SAC has alternate command posts on KC-135 jet tankers.

* finger-nose testing-This test has several variations including finger-to-therapist's finger, finger-to-finger, and alternate nose-to-finger.

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.

* Uchronia has an introduction to the topic, and lists over 2000 works of alternate history.

An alternate explanation of the red fox's gains involves the gray wolf: Historically, it has kept red fox numbers down, but as the wolf has been hunted to near extinction in much of its former range, the red fox population has grown larger, and it has taken over the niche of top predator.

The term originally signified a chant by alternate choirs, but has quite lost this meaning in the Breviary.

* In the manga / anime Gintama, the main character, Gintoki Sakata, wields a bokken as opposed to a katana, as the story takes place in an Edo period of an alternate timeline where a weapons ban has been imposed by imperialistic aliens.

Though much attention has been focused on the security and military aspects of Colombia's situation, the administration also is spending significant time on issues such as expanding international trade, supporting alternate means of development, and reforming Colombia's judicial system.

The alternate jersey has been worn twice a season beginning in 2003.

Although his name and history were taken from his early life with his adoptive Earth parents, everything about Clark was staged for the benefit of his alternate identity: as a reporter for the Daily Planet, he receives late-breaking news before the general public, has a plausible reason to be present at crime scenes, and need not strictly account for his whereabouts as long as he makes his story deadlines.

" It has also been implied, especially in the ' alternate future ' story Kingdom Come, that the Clark Kent persona is symbolic of the values taught to him by his wholesome Midwestern parents, the values he holds most dear: his instinctive knowledge of right and wrong that allows him to adopt his Superman persona, without being consumed by the moral implications of his actions ; Superman is the means through which he can bring this example to the world.

It also has a selection of five high resolution modes, named PMODEs 0-4, which alternate monochrome and four-colour in successively higher resolutions, culminating in the black and white 256 × 192 PMODE 4.

However, a pattern has emerged in which administrations from the center-left alternate with those from the center-right.

This has created new interest in alternate power sources and internal-combustion engine refinements.

However, the view that there is no causal instantaneous effect has also been proposed within the Copenhagen interpretation: in this alternate view, measurement affects our ability to define ( and measure ) quantities in the physical system, not the system itself.

This assumes, of course, that the decedent has enough of an estate to make the heirs pause before doing something that will invoke the alternate bequest.

An alternate description of this distortion is to consider the length c along the unique trigonal axis ( after the distortion has begun ) and a as the distance in the plane perpendicular to c. In the cubic phase this reduces to

It has been proposed that newborn brains are able to use alternate fuels when glucose levels are low more readily than adults.

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.

An alternate form of the cross-strung, the 6-plus-6 or isomorphic cross-strung, has 6 strings on each side of the cross instead of 5 on one and 7 on the other.