Alternate Timeline Creation

"What did you do to the world?"
"Oh Barry, that's the beauty of all this. I didn't do any of it. You did. Think, Barry. Isn't there some little thing, some little good deed you might've done?"
"I saved someone."
"Yes."
"I saved her. I saved mom."
"That’s right."
"No. No. It wouldn’t have changed all this. It wouldn't have changed what happened before her murder. Bruce's parents, Clark's landing."
"Oh, but it did. Break the sound barrier and there's a sonic boom. You broke the time barrier, Flash; "time boom". Ripples of distortion radiated out through that point of impact, shifting everything just a tiny bit, but enough. Enough for events to happen slightly differently."

― Barry Allen/The Flash and Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash/Professor Zoom (Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox)

"Whatever our lives might have been, if the time continuum was disrupted, our destinies have changed."

― Spock (Star Trek, 2009 film)

"Obviously, the time continuum has been disrupted creating this new temporal event sequence resulting in this alternate reality."
"English, Doc."
"Here, let me illustrate. (Drawing the timeline on a chalkboard.) Imagine that this line represents time. Here’s the present, 1985, the future, the past. Prior to this point in time, somewhere in the past the timeline skewed into this tangent, creating an alternate 1985. Alternate to you, me, and Einstein but reality for everyone else. (Showing a "Blast from the Past" store bag.) Recognize this? It’s the bag the sports book came in, (Pulls out the receipt.) I know because the receipt was still inside. I found them in the time machine, along with this." (Showing 2015 Biff's cane top.)
"It’s the top of Biff’s cane, I mean old Biff from the future."
"Correct. It was in the time machine, because Biff was in the time machine with the sports almanac."
"Holy sh*t!"
"You see? While we were in the future, Biff got the sports book, stole the time machine, went back in time, and gave the book to himself at some point in the past."

― Dr. Emmett Brown and Marty McFly about the "1985A" timeline (Back to the Future, Part 2)

The power to create an alternate timeline. Sub-power of Alternate Timeline Manipulation and Timeline Creation. Technique of Space-Time and Event Manipulation. Not to be confused with Alternate Reality Creation.

Also Called[]

Parallel Timeline Creation

Capabilities[]

The user can create alternate timelines that are drastically different to the original timeline, such as someone's death or someone's birth. The user can change the future as a result of changing a past event to create the alternate timeline. The very differences may be subtle or very big depending on what the user changes.

Applications[]

Variations[]

Timeline Splitting

Associations[]

Alternate Timeline Manipulation
Alternate Timeline Traveling
Butterfly Effect
Event Manipulation
Space-Time Manipulation
Speedster
Superior Human Physiology
Temporal Speed
Temporal Teleportation
Time Travel may have to physically travel to the point in time to change what the user desires.
Timeline Manipulation

Limitations[]

May be hard or even impossible to restore the original timeline.
Users of Temporal Powers may perceive/resist the new timeline.
Useless against Temporal Awareness/Protection.
May have unpredictable results as the user may not know what has change or how events may be affected.
Excessive usage of creating more than one timeline may affect the user's state of mind or their existence.
Possibly without knowing, the alternate timeline may bring undesirable results, such as existence, social life, or their health.

Known Users[]

Prismo (Adventure Time)
Francine Smith (American Dad)
Celestialsapiens (Ben 10: Omniverse)
Elizabeth/Anna DeWitt (BioShock Infinite)
Anya Jenkins (Buffy the Vampire Slayer); via Wish Manifestation
Cole Turner (Charmed); as an Avatar
Tenka (Date A Live); after absorbing Mio's Sephira Crystal
Barry Allen/Flash (DC Comics)
Time Lords (Doctor Who)
Future Trunks (Dragon Ball franchise)
Cell (Dragon Ball franchise)
Homura Akemi (Puella Magi Madoka Magica); via Time Magic
Yotsuga (Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure); via picking up the Artifact
Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII Remake); from the Edge of Creation
Observers (Fringe)
Peter Bishop (Fringe); with the Machine
Hiro Nakamura/Future Hiro Nakamura (Heroes)
Peter Petrelli/Future Peter Petrelli (Heroes)
John Egbert (Homestuck)
Terrako (Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity)
Enrico Pucci (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean); after the new moon.
Maxine Caulfield (Life is Strange)
Tempus (Lois and Clark)
White Phoenix of the Crown (Marvel Comics)
Alix Kubdel/Bunnyx (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir)
Luka Couffaine/Viperion (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir)
Timebreaker (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir)
Gasai Yuno (Mirai Nikki)
Madeleine Sailer/SCP-4010 - Attempt to look at what we accomplished (SCP Foundation)
SCP-6140 - The True Empire (SCP Foundation)
Doctor Ivo Robotnik (Sonic the Comic); when harnessing sufficient chaos energy

Known Powers[]

Primordial Soup (Cow and Chicken)
"Copy" Button (Deltarune)
"Save" Button (Deltarune); when overwriting an already-existing Save with a current one
Time Machine (Dragon Ball series)
Star Swirl the Bearded's time spell scroll (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)
Chromatus/Corpse Shell (Tales of Xilia II)