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From [[AlternateHistory.com]] comes a series that is sure to tantalize. The story begins in 1918:  World War I is in its endgame and the German Empire is desperately grasping at straws for anything that might turn the tide.  Enter Oliver Haddo, a mysterious occultist who offers his skills to the German military command.  From there, well, let's just say all hell breaks loose. It can be found at [https://web.archive.org/web/20121212152856/http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=132883 here] and also [http://fenrirangerboda.deviantart.com/ here].

The story itself follows the World from the End of [[World War I]], as Humans adapt to the new world around them.

Updates typically come in one of Three styles:

1: Story. continues the main storyline from 1918. it leaps around the world, and slowly crawls along, while providing build up.

2: World Building. Comes in the style of "Famous people", "the Supernatural Encyclopedia", "Files from [[Marvel Comics|S.H.I.E.L.D.]]", and others. They usually flesh out the world more, revealing background events, and events to come.

3: Sub-chapters: Taking place in the Modern day, they follow various different stories, that paint a picture of the current world.

The Series ended in March 2012.

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* [[All Myths Are True]]: as well as Fiction.
* [[Alternate History]]: It's from www.alternatehistory.com, nuff said.
* [[Casting Gag]] / [[Comic Book Fantasy Casting]]: used when it involves pictures. highlights include [[Raul Julia]] as M. Bison and [[Aya Hirano]] as [[Haruhi Suzumiya]].
* [[Celebrity Paradox]]: Apparently. how else do you explain [[Blackadder|George]], [[House (TV series)|House]], and [[Jeeves and Wooster (TV series)|Bernie Wooster]] all existing at once?
* [[Composite Character]]: Too many to name.
* [[Cut Short]]: The series ended just at the Beginning of the Occult war. The Author has stated he lost interest, but left a final Chapter to close the series.
* [[Deconstruction Crossover]]: This is probably the most concise way to describe this series.
* [[Dieselpunk]]
*  {{spoiler|[[Intercontinuity Crossover]]: Fenrir_Angerboda from ''[[The Creepy Teen Years]]'' is from this universe.}}
* [[Mega Crossover]]: My god, the author has thrown so many in here, that between he chapters he put's up links to the TheOtherWiki, just so everyone can keep up.
* [[Multiverse]]: Hinted at.
* [[Our Monsters Are Different]]:
* [[Richard Nixon the Used Car Salesman]]: Pretty much every character in this series.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Let's just say that there are a lot.
** A number of  {{spoiler|''Hetalia'' characters}} in particular become state leaders by 2009.
* [[Up to Eleven]]:  {{context}}

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* [[Absurdly Sharp Blade]]: {{spoiler|Lucifer wields the Vorpal blade}}.
* [[Ace Pilot]]: [[Biggles]], [[Enemy Ace|Hans von Hammer]], Herman Goring, Oswald Mosley, [[Timeline-191|Johnathan Moss]], G-8 and [[Blackadder|Flashheart]].
* [[Adolf Hitler]]: Shows up, and is quickly overshadowed by {{spoiler|[[The Great Dictator|Adenoid Hynkel]]}}
* [[Allohistorical Allusion]]: Several. In one instance, a newspaper proclaims "Peace in our Time!" after the Russian Civil War ends.
* [[Alternate History Wank]]: Lithuania. Justified sense they have a Goddess on their side.
* [[Arbitrary Skepticism]]: There're giant robots, supernatural monsters, the undead and people with superhuman powers running around, but the idea of aliens is laughed at.
* [[Badass Abnormal]]: Shinji Kusanagi, Audie Murphy as {{spoiler|[[Captain America (comics)]]}}.
* [[Badass Normal]]: [[James Bond]], Otto Skorzeny.
* [[Balkanize Me]]: Done to Russia, of all places.
* [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy]]: Haddo claims Paracelus died sealing the supernatural world off from the normal world.
* [[Benito Mussolini]]: Never becomes a fascist, and becomes a newsman.
* [[Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti]]: Exist and are employed by the US army.
* [[Biological Mashup]]: Some of the supernatural creatures, as well as Germany's army of [[Batman|Man-Bats]].
* [[Body Horror]]: numerous. the Hulk, Shinji Kusanagi, and others.
* [[Bond One-Liner]]: Said by the man himself.
{{quote|'''James Bond''' (after shooting Zombie Lawrence of Arabia with an RPG) "Looks like you couldn't Keep it together.''}}
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]:  {{spoiler|An installment late in the story suggests that someone inside the story is aware of the readers, and is acting on that knowledge}}.
* [[Bumbling Sidekick]]: Baldrick from ''[[Blackadder]]'' turns up, as do his descendants...
* [[Call a Rabbit a Smeerp|Call a Goth a Byron]]: a few here and there. For "Byron" it's derived from [[Byronic Hero]].
** also, two characters refer to [[Mecha]] as "Potente-Automa", Italian.
* [[Came Back Wrong]]: Zombie Zulus, [[Lawrence of Arabia]] and {{spoiler|Shaka Zulu}}.
* [[Chainsaw Good]]: BPRD Agent [[Evil Dead|Ash Williams]]
* [[Chinese Vampire]]:  {{spoiler|Wong Fei-Hung}}
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: BPRD Agent [[House of the Dead|Isaac Washington]].
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Austria-Hungary and the Ottomans overrun Bulgaria, Romania and Greece with little trouble.
* [[Cute Monster Girl]]: [[wikipedia:Fifinella|Fifinella]]. The writer later states all female gremlins look like her, while the males looks like the ones from ''[[The Twilight Zone|Nightmare at 20,000 Feet]]''.
* [[Cute Shotaro Boy]]:  {{spoiler|Loki}}
**  {{spoiler|[[Archangel Michael]] as well}}
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: [[Sandman|Death]] is on the opposite side of  {{spoiler|Lucifer and Loki}}.
* [[Death From Above]]: General von Lettow-Vorbeck is killed in the German-Lithuanian war after a bomb is dropped on him.
** The Lamassu can kill people....by divebombing them. that's right, people can be killed by Divebombing Winged Cows.
* [[Dirty Communist]]: some of the Russias. Yes, multiple Russias.
* [[Dragon with an Agenda]]: Every member of Japan's super team seems to be plotting behind the Japanese Government's back.
* [[Enemy Mine]]: Current events and the betrayal of their "normal" allies has forced France and Germany into this.
* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas|Even Bad Men Love their Grandmas]]: Featherston doesn't like Blacks, but he hates Napis more.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Featherston is a racist sunnuvabitch, but he hates the Napi ideology more.
* [[Everything's Better with Cows]]: [[wikipedia:Lamassu|Lamassu]], [[wikipedia:Ushi-oni|Ushi-oni]] and [[wikipedia:Camahueto|Camahueto]] have appeared.
* [[Evil Versus Evil]]: Arguably [[Adolf Hitler]] arguing with {{spoiler|[[The Great Dictator|Adenoid Hynkel]]}}.
* [[Evil Redhead]]:  {{spoiler|Lucifer}} is a female one of these.
* [[Expy]]: Various characters running around.
* [[Extranormal Institute]]: the [[BPRD]].
* [[Film Noir]]: Detective McDougal.
* [[Four-Star Badass]]: [[The Shadow|Kent Allard]].
* [[Good Ol' Boy]]: [[Timeline-191|Jake Featherston]] of all people.
* [[Headless Horseman|Headless Apparitions]]: A number of headless apparitions appear, ranging from an Indian, to a G-man, to a soldier. The two present-day versions are expies of [[The Punisher]] and [[Ghost Rider]].
* [[Hot as Hell]]:  {{spoiler|Lucifer, of course}}.
** Pele takes this quite literally, {{spoiler|burning a murderer with a mere kiss}}.
* [[Humongous Mecha]]: Germany has one of these running around in the 1930s.
** {{spoiler|The [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|Gurren Lagan]] [[Megas XLR|XLR]]}}
* [[I Love Nuclear Power]]: Responsible for Espers, [[The Beast of Yucca Flats|The Beast of]] [[The Incredible Hulk|Yucca Flats]] and a few other things.
* [[Imperial Germany]]: Held together after World War I and hinted to be one of the more powerful nations after WWII.
* [[It Got Worse]]:  {{spoiler|The [[Mind Screw]] update seems to imply [[The Slender Man Mythos|Slenderman exists.]]}}
** {{spoiler|the [[Alien|Space Jockeys]] are mentioned and a [[The Monolith|Monolith]] makes an appearance}}
* [[Land Down Under]]: Gets its independence from the UK. Also, a Baldrick and a [[Blackadder]] become President at two different times.
** Unsurprisingly, [[Monty Python's Flying Circus|Four Bruces]] and [[Team Fortress 2|Saxton Hale]] are mentioned to be part of the Australian Defense Force.
* [[Light Is Not Good]]: perhaps.
* [[Louis Cypher]]: {{spoiler|[[Cthulhu|Clarance Thulu]]}}
* [[Magical Native American]]: Literally, also [[Magical Negro]]
* [[Mad Scientist]]: Germany employs several.
* [[Mind Screw]]: A late update seemed to imply that {{spoiler|someone in the story is aware of the audience, and breaks the Fourth Wall.}}
* [[Nikola Tesla]]: Flees the USA to get away from President Kane, and is employed by the Germans to build superweapons, including [[Atomic Robo]].
* [[Older Than They Look]]: Various fods, foddesses and other supernatural entities.
* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: So far [[Angel]], {{spoiler|[[Twilight (novel)|Edward Cullen]]}}, and a Filipino vampire have showed up.
* [[Our Zombies Are Different]]: Type M, combining traits of type P and F. Type Rs also show up.
* [[People's Republic of Tyranny]]: Implied with Japan.
** Madripoor, Run by [[Street Fighter|M. Bison]] is this, with gangs running around unchecked.
* [[Powered Armor]]: [[The Rocketeer]] and the Rocket Red Brigade.
* [[President Evil]]: Charles Foster Kane and {{spoiler|[[Axis Powers Hetalia|Ivan Braginski]]}}
* [[Our Presidents Are Different|President Personable]]: {{spoiler|Alfred F. Jones}}
* [[Psychopomp]]: Hermes and Izanami.
**  {{spoiler|Cthulu and friends play this role for [[H.P. Lovecraft]]}}
* [[Red Baron]]: [[Enemy Ace|Hans Von Hammer]] appears. So far, he has not been called "The Hammer of Hell", but has been called [[I Am Not Shazam|"Enemy Ace"]] by a British pilot.
* [[Ruritania]]:  The Trope Namer, appears, alongside [[Fantastic Four|Latveria]] and [[Tintin|Syldavia]]. Tomalia is also mentioned as part of Austria-Hungary.
* [[Schizo-Tech]]: Mostly in the modern-day stories.
* [[Serial Escalation]]: Oh yes, yes, yes.
* [[Serial Killer]]: [[Death Note|Kira]]
* [[Afterlife Express|Soul Ship]]: Funa Yurei wanders the Pacific Ocean during and after World War II.
* [[Molotov Cocktail|Smetona Cocktail]]: Named after Lithuanian president [[wikipedia:Antanas Smetona|Antanas Smetona]] and used during the Petrograd-Lithuanian war.
* [[The Emperor]]: [[wikipedia:Kaiser Wilhelm II|Kaiser Wilhelm II]], [[wikipedia:Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia|Tzar Mikhail II]], [[wikipedia:Hirohito|Hirohito]], and various others appear.
* [[The Mafia]]: Led by [[Axis Powers Hetalia|Romano Vargas]].
* [[The Mafiya]]: {{spoiler|[[Black Lagoon|Hotel Quazaqstan]]}}
* [[The Man Behind the Man]]:  {{spoiler|It appears Loki and various otherworldly figures are responsible for what's going on.}}
* [[The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized]]: Poland and Zululand's Wars of Independence.
* [[Three Faces of Eve]]: Mater Lachrymarum shifts between the three, as well as [[The Hecate Sisters|Crone]].
* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]: Known as the [[The Great Dictator|Napis]].
** Though in this timeline, it's {{spoiler|Austria-Hungary}} of all places that goes Napi.
* [[Two-Fisted Tales]]:
* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]: Brought up with Sasquatch.
* [[Where the Hell Is Springfield?]]: Largely averted. While Springfield is not mentioned, [[Batman|Gotham]] is in New Jersey, [[Archie Comics|Rivendale]] and [[Superman|Metropolis]] are in New York, and Raccoon City is in North Dakota.
* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]: {{spoiler|[[Blade of the Immortal|Manji]]}} seems to be weary of life.
* [[Winston Churchill]]: Dies from an infected appendix before he can truly achieve greatness.
* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: Espers are hinted at being less than stable.....
* [[World War II]]: The alternate version streches from 1942-1952, with France, Germany, Poland, and Italy vs Britain, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire in Europe and Africa, and the USA, China, and Australia vs [[Imperial Japan|Japan]].
* [[Yakuza]]: The major Yakuza group is led by [[Cromartie High School|Kamiyama Takeshi]].
** [[Speed Racer|Mifune Go]] later shows up as one as well.
* [[Youkai]]
* [[Zombie Apocalypse]]: {{spoiler|How WWI ends.}}
** and again in [[Resident Evil|Raccoon City]].

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[[Category:World War I]]
[[Category:AlternateHistory.com]]
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