As anyone who pays attention to temporal affairs knows, the Axis was clearly supposed to win World War 2.
Why, if not for the almost constant influx of travelers from the future offering direct, or covert, aid to the Allies Europe would forever be dominated by Fascism. Or at least that's the only logical conclusion.
Curiously, the time travelers always seem to help America/Britain. And almost always in the fight against Germany, but rarely involving themselves with the battle against other Axis nations.
Amusingly, even aliens who only outwardly appear human seem to feel the need to help the Allies. Even if they'd never heard of Earth before.
And yet we don't see very many time travelers helping the Soviets. (I actually can't recall any pro-Soviet travels.)
Even the Axis gets the occasional bone thrown it's way by those intent on restoring the timeline to it's natural state.
Clearly we need to put a stop to these travels lest there be nothing left of the Axis nations but scorched earth. Or perhaps we should even be so bold as to correct the timeline and give the Axis back their hard fought victory?
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Goofy ass intro aside. I just felt like tossing out a little discussion on how often sci-fi setting love to throw the "Oh my god! We're in WW2! Let's fight some Nazis!" trope at people.
Do the members of this forum think it's still fun? Have they gotten sick of it? Are they filled with bile and forced to unleash disgusted moans as yet another fictional society does this?
Taking the trope at face value, it's like the Allies never had a chance without these time travelers.
There's also room for people to bring up their favorite attempts to pull this trope off and not be groan inducing.
Room for people to tell me if there's ever been a setting where the time traveler's help the Soviets.
Any setting that have people try to help the Axis. Bonus points if they help Italy or Japan, since they only seem to care about Germany.
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The most recent instance, albeit pro-Germany, was for anyone who watches Justice League.
Dude sends back in time information and technology to his past self (helped by the fact he's immortal) and Germany has intercontinental bombers I think loaded with nukes. Giant crazy monowheel death tank things. Other advanced doomsday weapons. They conquer the world.
By complete and total fluke, a few heroes aren't affected. Heroes gotta go back and kick the ass of this immortal's past self to set right what went wrong.
Only problem is, they literally just destroy a few monowheels. Stop the attempted nuking of America. Temporarily remove immortal from play.
Then they immediately go home. And somehow, despite Germany still having all these crazy doomsday weapons that utterly dominate anything the Allies can throw at them . . . When the heroes return to the present history is "back to normal."
What? Seriously? I'd love to have gotten an explanation for that half assed attempt to save the past.
Why, if not for the almost constant influx of travelers from the future offering direct, or covert, aid to the Allies Europe would forever be dominated by Fascism. Or at least that's the only logical conclusion.
Curiously, the time travelers always seem to help America/Britain. And almost always in the fight against Germany, but rarely involving themselves with the battle against other Axis nations.
Amusingly, even aliens who only outwardly appear human seem to feel the need to help the Allies. Even if they'd never heard of Earth before.
And yet we don't see very many time travelers helping the Soviets. (I actually can't recall any pro-Soviet travels.)
Even the Axis gets the occasional bone thrown it's way by those intent on restoring the timeline to it's natural state.
Clearly we need to put a stop to these travels lest there be nothing left of the Axis nations but scorched earth. Or perhaps we should even be so bold as to correct the timeline and give the Axis back their hard fought victory?
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Goofy ass intro aside. I just felt like tossing out a little discussion on how often sci-fi setting love to throw the "Oh my god! We're in WW2! Let's fight some Nazis!" trope at people.
Do the members of this forum think it's still fun? Have they gotten sick of it? Are they filled with bile and forced to unleash disgusted moans as yet another fictional society does this?
Taking the trope at face value, it's like the Allies never had a chance without these time travelers.
There's also room for people to bring up their favorite attempts to pull this trope off and not be groan inducing.
Room for people to tell me if there's ever been a setting where the time traveler's help the Soviets.
Any setting that have people try to help the Axis. Bonus points if they help Italy or Japan, since they only seem to care about Germany.
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The most recent instance, albeit pro-Germany, was for anyone who watches Justice League.
Dude sends back in time information and technology to his past self (helped by the fact he's immortal) and Germany has intercontinental bombers I think loaded with nukes. Giant crazy monowheel death tank things. Other advanced doomsday weapons. They conquer the world.
By complete and total fluke, a few heroes aren't affected. Heroes gotta go back and kick the ass of this immortal's past self to set right what went wrong.
Only problem is, they literally just destroy a few monowheels. Stop the attempted nuking of America. Temporarily remove immortal from play.
Then they immediately go home. And somehow, despite Germany still having all these crazy doomsday weapons that utterly dominate anything the Allies can throw at them . . . When the heroes return to the present history is "back to normal."
What? Seriously? I'd love to have gotten an explanation for that half assed attempt to save the past.
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