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

StoryLevelMotivation
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?