Current Events > How do you prefer multiverses and alternate timelines to interact in media?

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Mortal Kombat timeline is so fucked up now that nothing makes sense.

'Time = Multiverse: Each alternate universe IS an alternate timeline.'

All I know is I really don't like the middle option, and seems like a flowchart to keep up with.

Third Option, both others are too complicated to bother to keep track of.

Each timeline having its own muitverse makes no sense to me.

I prefer media to not have multiple universes or timelines at all.

TheDurinator posted...

I prefer media to not have multiple universes or timelines at all.

Mortal Kombat has shown how to do timelines wrong.

Family Guy has shown how to do multiverses right.

Maybe Starfield too since I did spoil myself on what that game has planned. Surprisingly, my favorite multiverse is the one where the single Constellation member you could never bring along, is the only one.

Whichever the one Back to the Future is, including the parts that don't make sense.

Violently and seductively

superbot400 posted...

Each timeline having its own muitverse makes no sense to me.

It sort of does, it creates situations where hefty situations can branch off based on cascading effects. Ie, what if Peter Parker didn't get bit by the spider? Because it was just random chance and the spider could have bitten anyone.

There is not time travel, you cannot go backwards, you can't go forwards, but you can possibly jump to different universes. It's a way where you can have some sort of smaller cascading effect but not have to rewrite the entire world, and it's a way to showcase how little any of our personal decisions truly matter overall.

The other ones just get kinda confusing.

3rd option. The others are confusing

pazzy posted...

It sort of does, it creates situations where hefty situations can branch off based on cascading effects. Ie, what if Peter Parker didn't get bit by the spider? Because it was just random chance and the spider could have bitten anyone.

There is not time travel, you cannot go backwards, you can't go forwards, but you can possibly jump to different universes. It's a way where you can have some sort of smaller cascading effect but not have to rewrite the entire world, and it's a way to showcase how little any of our personal decisions truly matter overall.

The other ones just get kinda confusing.

Doesn't the third option cover that? You could just say that multiple timelines are identical up to a certain point where they differ because an event turned out differently.

I don't understand how the first two options are meaningful different to one another.

Second one. If you miss the bus and have to walk to work it's not going to create a branched universe where everything is made of spaghetti,. However, in the Marinaraverse, a new timeline can branch off where spaghetti-you missed the bus.

JE19426 posted...

I don't understand how the first two options are meaningful different to one another.

First option have the entire multiverse share a single timeline, and other timelines have their own multiverses in which they share that one timeline.

The second one has each individual universe have its own possibly-infinite set of timelines specific to it, and going to another universe will plop you into a completely different timeline that's specific to the universe that you went to.

DaxNovalis posted...

Doesn't the third option cover that? You could just say that multiple timelines are identical up to a certain point where they differ because an event turned out differently.

Yeah, it does. That's why I was saying it can make sense.

Terminator.