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Author's note: This scenario assumes that King T'Challa is already dead.

This is a sequel of sorts to my earlier post about the first two films in the Terminator franchise being in the MCU.

This time, let's imagine that Shuri, the sister of King T'Challa, volunteers to go to 1995 to protect John Connor's younger self upon learning that SkyNet sent a T-1000 to 1995 Los Angeles to kill John Connor's younger self.

The only reason why 2029 Johh Connor is okay with this is because his attempt to send a reprogrammed T-800 (as seen in the canon version of Terminator 2) fails somehow. He agrees to let Shuri take the T-800's place out of desperation.

So Shuri goes to 1995 Los Angeles and faces off against the T-1000.

Assumptions:

• According to the lore of the Terminator, In order for time travel to occur, the subject must be a living organism (or must be surrounded by living tissue) in order to generate the bioelectric field needed for the TDE to operate. Nothing else can go through time, not even clothes. However, there is some exception, such as dirt or mimetic poly-alloy. Let's assume Shuri doesn't take risk destroying her Vibranium Black Panther Habit and leaves it behind in 2029 (EDIT: Could Vibranium survive the Time Displacement equipment anyway, according to the lore of the MCU and the Terminator franchise?)
• The T-1000 is aware that Wakanda exists, but has no idea King T'Challa died

Can Shuri beat the T-1000 without her Panther habit?

Win conditions:

• Shuri wins if the T-1000 is destroyed OR if John is successfully protected.
• For Skynet to win, both Shuri and John Connor must die. Skynet is defeated if Shuri dies but John survives.

I'm imagining a scenario where the Constitution is drafted, but at some point either George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson or even James Madison realize, "Wait a minute, this is still giving the federal government too much power? Perhaps we should decentralize." In other words, the above Founding Fathers fear that the Bill of Rights may not be enough to restrict the powers of the federal government.

Cue a second Philadelphia Convention. What we end up with is a revised system that includes (but isn't limited to):

• A stricter version of the OTL's Tenth Amendment
• Congress can only legislate in areas explicitly mentions in the Constitution (This is done to prevent ambiguity)
• A national military is not created, and in its stead is a network of state militias.
• A state nullification mechanism, meaning a supermajority of states can challenge and/or outright nullify federal laws if found unconstitutional.
• The Senate becomes the guardian of state sovereignty.

Eventually, while still winning the War of Independence, the United States becomes a confederated republic, rather than a Constitutional republic like in the OTL.

How does this version of the United States change world history?

In the TV movie Cracka, the African Americans are in charge and it's the white people who are enslaved.

My challenge is inspired by that TV film's premise. What would need to change regarding the course of events in the TV movie that would lead to the premise of the alternate history TV movie happening?

No, this is not saying I'm pro-slavery. This is merely asking, "What would need to happen to make the premise of an alternate history TV movie possible?"

This post concerns both Paul Gallico's original 1969 novel The Poseidon Adventure and its 2006 movie adaptation Poseidon.

Both in Paul Gallico's novel The Poseidon Adventure and the 2006 film adaptation Poseidon, a massive rogue wave is responsible for the capsizing of the Poseidon.

In the 2006 movie, the crew spot the wave and attempt to take the impact bow first but they aren't fast enough, resulting in the capsizing.

What would have happened if the wave had hit the ship from the back or the front instead of slamming into the side?

Would this still cause it to capsize, or would it trigger a disaster of a different nature?

The objective is to create a plausible series of events that leads to the Americas being colonized by a completely different civilization, rather than the Spanish and the English like in the OTL

Alternate title: What if the American War of Independence had a bad ending?

Suppose in a parallel universe, the Founding Fathers still declare independence from England but after winning it, the US government gradually becomes the very government the Founding Fathers were against.

The people who fought for independence and freedom from oppressors became oppressors themselves.

Perhaps Washington, Adams and Jefferson spawned a 1700s version of the OTL’s MAGA movement and they create the very government they believed England had.

How I see this happening is a situation where the Founding Fathers settle on a SUPER RIGID interpretation of the US Constitution and anyone who dissents is arrested on charges of treason and/or executed at worst and fired from their position at best.

The new country, despite winning its independence, essentially becomes a North American clone of the British Empire under King George (Author’s note: Somehow I got the impression that the Founding Fathers really did see the British Empire as a regime in the OTL, which is why I said “Regime” originally).

Does this mean the British re-invade the United States and reabsorb it into the British Empire?

Or does the US simply collapse?

In a parallel universe where the events of the first two Terminator movies occurred in the MCU, several MCU characters volunteer to go back in time to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor after her son John learns that SkyNet sent a T-800 to that year to kill his mother before he can be born.

In this timeline, Kyle Reese decides not to take on the mission to protect Sarah, but multiple MCU characters volunteer to replace him.

Out of all the known MCU characters (as of Avengers: Endgame), which is the weakest MCU character (in your opinion) that still stands a chance at defeating the T-800 Terminator (The Terminator) sent to kill Sarah Connor in 1984?

I’m imagining a parallel universe where the Aztecs practiced ritualistic cannibalism, which leads to an outbreak of prion disease that ultimately destroys the Aztec Empire several years earlier, as opposed to the 1500s like in the OTL.

So, basically, by the time the Spanish arrive in the Americas, the Aztecs are either completely destroyed or are reduced to isolated pockets across the former empire’s territory.

Does this affect the Spanish conquest at all, or does it change nothing?

Inspired by this post made by someone else.

Suppose in a parallel universe, Task Force 141 (from the Reboot Modern Warfare timeline) ended up joining forces with J-SOC to bring down Cordis Die, meaning the reboot iterations of John Price, Kyle "Gaz" Garrick, and John "Soap" MacTavish (Perhaps with help from Alejandro Vargas of Los Vaqueros, Kate Laswell of the CIA) join forces with David Mason and the Navy SEALs to bring down Raul Menendez.

What sort of contributions could Task Force 141 bring to the table?

Is there any established lore as to HOW humanity disappeared? Or are we free to just invent one and there's no actual established canon?

This is my first post and I want to get this question out of the way before I start posting my own contributions to the sub.

The objective is to create a plausible series of events where the UK is in a position to reasonably do something that becomes an alternate catalyst to WW2

Inspired by this post. The objective is to create a plausible scenario where the USSR’s collapse leads to a Communist insurgency/Second Russian Civil War that turns Russia into Iraq

Suppose in a parallel universe, there was some sort of Christian revival in Mandatory Palestine sometime between the 1930s and 1948 (the date the State of Israel was formed) and Palestine ended up becoming a Christian Theocracy?

How would this affect the history of the land of Palestine?

Author's note: The Denomination is irrelevant.

Suppose in a parallel universe, Tom Cruise never went into acting, decided to pursue a political career instead, and then got the idea to run for President in the 2008 US Presidential Election (He runs as a Democrat and replaces Barack Obama).

How does he do against John McCain?

Assumptions:

• Cruise never marries a Scientologist and becomes a Scientologist himself.