what if my life were different theme
A character experiences what it would be like if their life were different in some interesting and significant aspect. Many of these themes involve magic or seemingly magical phenomena.
8 total · 6 major · 2 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| as1985e1x02 | major | Brad's life was turned upside down when a meteor strike left him magnetized. |
| blackmirror6x01 | major | Joan's life was turned upside down by a streaming service's release of a show depicting the the day-to-day events of her life. |
| futurama1x07 | major | The lowly delivery boy Fry became the emperor of the planet Trisol. |
| rd1988e4x05 | major | Meeting his more successful parallel self, Rimmer must ponder what it would have been like. |
| tz1985e1x03b | major | Little Debby traded in her bad parents for better ones at the Children's Zoo. |
| tz1985e2x07 | major | Danny saw how life would have been if he had gone to fight in the Vietnam War instead of dodging the draft. |
| ahh3x19 | minor | In his sketch, Alfred Hitchcock sat slouched on a throne, holding a mock Sovereign's Orb and scepter as he discussed his fleeting reign as a one-day monarch in a nation known for undergoing a political revolution every 24 hours. |
| as1985e2x11 | minor | Jonah posited a number of different counterfactuals regarding his own future but came back to one in particular: what if his parents never came back from their night out? |