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Godwin's Law of Time Travel
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As the amount of time-traveling you do increases, the probability of Hitler winning World War II approaches 1. You return home from your jolly time travel adventure in ancient Greece, having saved the world and being careful not to upset history and... hold on a moment? Are those swastikas?! Hanging from the White House?! Looks like you've been hit by Godwin's Law of Time Travel. Talked to the wrong person? Nazi victory! Left technology back in the Roman Empire? Nazi victory! Stepped on a bug? Nazi victory! Left a tap running? Nazi victory! Took part in some historical event? Nazi victory! Prevented a Nazi victory? Nazi victory! Caused a Nazi victory intentionally? Well... you succeeded, dickhead. About the only time travel that doesn't result in a Nazi Victory is traveling to times after WWII (including the future). Unless a neo-Nazi steals your time travel pod to help out Hitler. The strangest thing about Time Travel is probably that a) the Nazis winning WWII is the most common accidental timeline shift and b) that will usually be the only change in the new timeline. It almost seems like Germany was supposed to win, and that history is trying to snap back to its original form. Perhaps Germany originally did win, and then a "neo-Ally" traveled back in time to drive Hitler into depression or convince him to betray the Soviets. In reality, a Nazi victory (depending on how one actually defines "victory") seems to have been quite improbable. The Allies were in reality much more powerful in many ways — including both population and industrial capacity — than the Axis, and Hitler allying with Russia and Japan was always done in the knowledge that sooner or later one would turn on the other (Hitler just wanted to get the first stab in). There was no single, easily changeable factor contributing to the Allied success, and it is likely that many changes to history, perhaps stretching back to the outcome of the previous war or further, would be needed for Germany to have a decent chance of winning. In fact, any possible chance of them winning would have been so precarious that the inverse of the trope would make much more sense — that any time tampering starting with a timeline where the Axis won would lead to a world where they didn't. Even if they won, if you are a Continentalist historian then you'll argue that Hitler never plotted to Take Over the World and 'just' wanted a German superstate dominating Europe, so the United States and many other non-European countries probably wouldn't be flying the Swastika. And even in Europe, chances are Nazi Germany would eventually dissolve itself back into its constituent republics just like the Soviet Union did, though likely not before every Jew and other "undesirable" in Europe was dead. Godwin's Law of Time Travel can also be used in telling similar stories about other past war-losers and faded empires. The Confederacy, the Soviets, the Romans, the Greeks, the Mongols, the Egyptians, the Aztecs, and the colonial-era British are all possibilities. The Nazis are by far the most dominant in this field, however. Other than in steampunk, that is (but steampunk universes usually happen without time-travel). When the time traveler tries to prevent the Third Reich altogether, and inevitably make things worse, it's Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act. For the consequences of "Nazis Win" scenarios and other such stories that don't always involve time travel, see Alternate-History Nazi Victory and Day of the Jackboot. |
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Parodied in Ansem Retort when Xemnas revealed that his manipulations in time moved the Nazi occult experiments from 1940 Germany to 1831 Rio de Janiero. When Red XIII asked why they didn't just go to 1940 Germany in the first place, Xemnas realizes that he made his plan unnecessarily complicated. | |
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The book Making History features the protagonist sending a pill to cause male sterility back to the water supply of the village where Hitler would be born, erasing him from existence. Naturally, his absence during an incident in the trenches of the First World War results in the survival of a German soldier who would normally die, and he goes on to become a fascist, anti-Semitic dictator anyway—except he's smarter than Hitler, so he wins World War Two. The protagonist wakes up the next day and finds that he's in New Jersey rather than England, his grandparents having fled England in the face of a Nazi invasion. Major changes this has on the United States are that the anti-Communist paranoia during the Cold War is shifted against the Nazis, that racism is rife throughout the US to the point where black people are treated as second class citizens, and that homosexuality is still completely banned. This world also has much more advanced computing and electronics, for unknown reasons. There are a variety of other small differences mentioned. Horrible dramatic irony pops up because the poisoned water supply is later used to sterilize Jews and other undesirables, therefore committing genocide indirectly. | |
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In Star Trek: Enterprise, the Temporal Cold War arc was abruptly wrapped up by having the Big Bad travel back in time and ally with the Nazis. Furthermore, due to additional temporal meddling by another party, Russia was taken out of the equation so Germany was free to focus its efforts on the west, allowing them to invade America's eastern coast. Due to the Big Bad's presence there being a Stable Time Loop, killing him reset all of history and ended the Temporal Cold War. | |
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In the first season finale of the Justice League animated series, the immortal villain Vandal Savage sends information, including how the rest of the war was supposed to play out and plans for technology that wouldn't have been developed for another couple decades, to his past self in order to help the Germans win. Subverted in that the first thing he apparently told the Germans to do was to get rid of Hitler and make Savage the Fuhrer. After Savage's defeat by the Justice League, the Germans reveal they've cryogenically frozen Hitler, and decide to revive him to lead them to victory. | |
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has a case involving the wizarding world's Hitler. The protagonists (Harry and Draco's children) time travel to prevent Cedric Diggory's death. It results in two alternate timelines - and in the second, Voldemort wins, leading the duo to give up on messing with the past. But the result is that the cursed child (of Voldemort himself!) from the title learns that there is a Bad Future that she wants to make sure exists... | |
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According to Bug Martini, this is one reason why Time machines make crummy gifts. | |
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In the Half-Life mod trilogy "Timeline", rogue scientists from Black Mesa use the dimensional portal technology to affect time travel, then go back in time to help the Nazis conquer America by helping them complete their atomic bomb and Sanger AmerikaBomber projects. Gordon Freeman is enlisted to stop or revert this. | |
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Warlords of Utopia by Lance Parkin, a novel in the Faction Paradox universe, has all the Alternate Universes where Hitler won declare war on all the Alternate Universes where ancient Rome never fell. | |
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Rick and Morty: "Edge of Tomorty: Rick, Die, Repeat" features an alternate-universes variant; when Rick dies, his memories are transferred to a clone in another universe, which turns out to be a fascist dystopia. He dies again, waking up as a shrimp creature. "At least this time it's shrimps instead of fascists," he says before discovering that they're fascist also. This turns into a running gag. "When did this shit become the default?!?" In "Rattlestar Ricklactica," Rick leaves a book detailing how to create time travel in a planet populated by snakes. This leads to a snake going back in time to avert the assassination of snake Abe Lincoln, which somehow leads to snake Nazis conquering the world. |
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Inverted in a guest comic of The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, where Doc kills Hitler only to find 100-meter-tall Jews terrorizing the city. The comic was later taken down. | |
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Parodied in Freakazoid! when he half-accidentally prevents the Pearl Harbor attack, and thus presumably the United States' entry into World War II. Concerned about how the present may have changed, he returns to find things like Rush Limbaugh collecting money to help the poor, a complete lack of Chevy Chase movies, working cold fusion and Sharon Stone now being a Shakespearean actress. He congratulates himself on having made the world a better place. The part he didn't see? The Brain is now president, but one may debate on whether that's truly a downside. | |
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In The Philadelphia Experiment II, a Teleporter Accident as an experiment Gone Horribly Wrong sends a modern nuclear-armed stealth fighter back to 1943, allowing Stupid Jetpack Hitler to win WWII. | |
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In Misfits, Nazi Britain occurs when an old man went back to try and stop Hitler, accidentally leaving behind his phone after being easily overpowered, which allows the Nazis to reverse engineer advanced technology from it. | |
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The American Dad! episode "The Best Christmas Story Never Told" features a Soviet variant. After traveling back in time to 1970s Hollywood, Stan meets a young Martin Scorsese and ends up convincing him to quit drugs. In effect, Scorsese never makes Taxi Driver. Without Taxi Driver, John Hinckley Jr. never becomes obsessed with Jodie Foster and thus never tries to assassinate Ronald Reagan in order to impress her. Without the sympathy vote that would've occurred as a result of the assassination attempt, Reagan loses re-election to Walter Mondale, who hands over control of the country to the Soviet Union. The back half of the episode has Stan going back again and attempting to Set Right What Once Went Wrong, and as every attempt fails (Stan decides to make Taxi Driver himself, but ends up alienating Robert De Niro and recasts with John Wayne, and John Hinckley Jr. reacts badly when Francine tries to suggest Jodie Foster is attractive enough to become obsessed over) he ends up having to shoot Reagan himself and settles for a Close-Enough Timeline (the Ghost of Christmas Past who let him time travel in the first place is able to buy him a new handgun as a Christmas gift overnight - Stan only shot Reagan and not James Brady, so the Brady Bill imposing background checks and a five-day waiting period on handgun purchases never passed). | |
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In the Big Finish Doctor Who audio "Colditz", a minor character reveals that she's from Britain in the 1960s — controlled by the Nazis due to the Doctor's appearance in Colditz Castle. The line of causality ends up being quite confusing. | |
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The videogame Freedom Force vs. The Third Reich. It wasn't due to any accidental meddling, but a successful attempt of a supervillain to go back in time and provide Nazi Germany with the superpower endowing Energy X, leaving the heroes to set things right. | |
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In The Proteus Operation, it is revealed to the characters (who are working on a time machine to go back in time and prevent Hitler from getting atom bomb technology) that the timeline they live in was a more utopian one, but evil time travelers went back and gave Hitler said technology. Ironically, the evil time travelers did not came to benefit from this the way they probably wanted: the time travel in the novel creates a diverging universe from any changes done to the past and the time travelers get stuck on said universe. When the heroes fix things, they create a third alternate timeline that is "ours". | |
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The adventure game Time Gentlemen Please has this as the central plot. Of course, Hitler has an army of dinosaur clones. And it all started with a simple attempt to watch Magnum PI. | |
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Subverted in Animorphs. In one book the villain goes to several points in time to make humanity easier to conquer in the present. While the Animorphs are following him the villain makes a stop at D-Day to make sure Nazis win. But thanks to previous changes there are NO Nazis at All. What everyone finds is a British force invading a France-Germany alliance, no one can figure out which side has the good guys, and Hitler is just a driver of a jeep. Tobias wants to kill him anyway, but Cassie insists that they can't kill him just because he's Hitler since he hasn't actually done anything in this reality. But Tobias "accidentally" kills him a few minutes later anyway. While it may be true that the actual Nazis didn't win, they also still start off in an alternate-timeline-present that has America (including the Animorphs) in a very Nazi-like state, where everyone's racist and whatnot. | |
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Parodied by The Whitest Kids U' Know. Apparently, just resetting your internet history is enough for Nazi zeppelins and Nazi dinosaurs with laser eyes to appear. | |
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In Command & Conquer: Red Alert, Einstein creates a time machine so he can kill Hitler before he rose to power, but returns to find that World War II still happened, except this time it was the USSR that invaded Europe. It is referred to as the Great World War II in the manual and is said to have been many times more destructive than our World War II. Red Alert 3 takes this even further: just as the USSR is about to lose its second engagement with the European/American Allies, Soviet soldiers go back in time to kill Einstein before he can supply the Allies with all those wonderful toys they used to win. When they come home they find that the USSR is winning! Hurray! Except now because the Allies and USSR were spending all their time bombing each other, neither of them saw the Japanese gaining power... |
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Early issues of Excalibur introduced Hauptmann Englande, a version of Captain Britain from an alternate universe where the Nazis won WWII. | |
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The Star Trek: The Original Series episode "City on the Edge of Forever" has a plot where McCoy saving the life of Kirk's Girl of the Week causes a peace movement that leads to the US losing WWII and the Federation never existing. The episode ends with Kirk letting her die to preserve history. | |
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One Swamp Thing comic during its Vertigo era had Swamp Thing summoned to an Earth ruled by the Nazis by the President of the United States who wishes that he could destroy the Earth (this was because he used plant-based material and not clay). Swamp Thing mulls about the action for a bit, but decides he can't destroy the world if there is still love and happiness and for the man to try to not let the atrocities that happened before happen again. Then, because the President left the gear he strapped Swamp Thing to in the swamp bed, the true Golem was summoned and the world was destroyed. | |
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Sliders: Averted on various alternative Earths. In all their travels, they never went to a world where the Nazis won and conquered the world. The closest ones were the world in the episode "California Reich" (where the United States is run by white supremacists and non-Aryan people are turned into cyborg slaves), and the Cold War World in the two-hour premiere (where the USSR rules the world). Of course, there were several worlds where the Kromaggs were in power, and they were indisputably A Nazi by Any Other Name. |
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In the 1980 series Darkroom, a man finds that he can send morse-code messages to a ship during WWII. He tries to give the United States an edge by telling them information from history-books— and the next day he opens the door to see a Nazi parade, since his changes ended up leading to a Nazi victory. | |
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In the Futurama episode "All the Presidents’ Heads", the team travels back in times of The American Revolution to get rid of Professor Farnsworth's dishonorable ancestor. Fry accidentally screws Paul Revere's ride by borrowing a lamp from a church. When the team returns, they find that the British won the war (complete with Rule, Britannia! revamped in the style of the series' main theme playing in the background). | |
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The The Fairly OddParents! loves to play with this story. In episode "Father Time", Timmy accidentally destroys his dad's prized trophy, one he had won in the past in a school race. Timmy feels the best way to help his dad out is change the past so he never won the trophy. After time traveling back and achieving his goal, he returns to the present only to find that he has changed the course of his dad's life. He never married Timmy's mom and became dictator of the world, and Timmy technically doesn't exist. Timmy decides to go back in time again so he can make his dad win the trophy. In "The Secret Origin of Denzel Crocker" Timmy goes back in time to Mr. Crocker's childhood to find why he has become the insane, miserable, fairy-obsessed person he is. Through a sequence of events, Timmy winds up being the one that caused Crocker to turn into what he is. In "Timmy Turnip", after getting fed up with his maternal grandparents' culture, Timmy makes a wish that they never left their native country of Ustinkistan. Unfortunately, this means that Timmy ends up being born and raised in Ustinkistannote though how his mother met Mr. Turner when he was born in America is unknown. In order to fix this, he goes back in time (in a turnip time machine) to get his grandparents to America. In "The Past & the Furious", Cosmo and Wanda celebrate their birthday by visiting past children of theirs, but Timmy's meddling with each kid causes the course of the present to be changed and Cosmo and Wanda to lose their fairy godparent licenses. Timmy and Sparky both attempt to go back and rewrite the timeline. In "Turner Back Time", Timmy goes back in time to an ancestor of his to teach him the right decision to make him rich. Even though Timmy and his parents are rich and happy in the present, they have rendered the town a dump and Timmy loses Cosmo and Wanda since he is considered happy. |
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Towards the end of The Amazing World of Gumball episode "The Countdown", Gumball and Darwin end up creating Alternate Timeline after Alternate Timeline. One of those timelines has the population of Elmore speaking German while looking very angry, which makes the Watterson brothers immediately go back in time again in a panic. | |
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Saturday Night Live: One skit features George Foreman accidentally traveling back in time, where he's challenged to a boxing match by Hitler. Foreman of course wins, becomes the new Fuhrer, and then conquers the United States. Another skit shows an infomercial for the "Timecrowave," a device that sends TV dinners back in time simply to heat them up. When (Alec Baldwin) accidentally puts in a chicken dinner despite getting a roast beef dinner a minute before, several visual gags show history having been altered. One of those gags has Nazi banners hanging on the houses seen through a window. |
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After 52, Earth-X is reborn as Earth-10. The Superman of Earth-10 is named Overman (literally, Ãœbermensch) and is rather upset that he came into his powers after the Nazis won; there's nothing for it but to turn the Nazi Empire into as much of a Utopia as he can make it. | |
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In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Back to the Past", SpongeBob and Patrick go back to the past with Mermaid Man & Barnacle Boy's time machine. They find the younger versions of the heroes fighting Man Ray for the first time. Just as they are about to entrap him in a giant barrel of tartar sauce, they find that Patrick has eaten the whole barrel, leaving Man Ray able to defeat them. Returning to the present, SpongeBob and Patrick find that Bikini Bottom has now become a dystopian monarchy ruled by Man Ray, so the two must now go back to the past again and stop Patrick from eating the tartar sauce and destroying the future. | |
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Red Alert 3 takes this even further: just as the USSR is about to lose its second engagement with the European/American Allies, Soviet soldiers go back in time to kill Einstein before he can supply the Allies with all those wonderful toys they used to win. When they come home they find that the USSR is winning! Hurray! Except now because the Allies and USSR were spending all their time bombing each other, neither of them saw the Japanese gaining power... | |
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In the Timecop episode "Rocket Science", Jack Logan has to stop a time traveller who's helping Hitler, complete with the hero going back in time to prevent the Nazi Future by stopping the Nazis from getting the atomic bomb. | |
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The novel trilogy The Chaos Engine has the Red Skull using a Cosmic Cube to create this reality...or so he thinks. In reality, the Cube is faulty and works by searching alternate realities and merging elements of them together, or entire alternate universes depending on the scale of the wish. Thanks to the wish, the Nazis not only won World War II and conquered the planet, they rule an expanionsist, tyrannical and genocidal intergalactic empire under the Skull's leadership. | |
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T.U.F.F. Puppy: Pariodied in the episode "Watch Dog", where Dudley gets a time travel watch and every use backfires beyond what's expected. When he uses it the first time to go back a few minutes to get a donut before Kitty, he somehow makes an Alternate Timeline where Snaptrap is now king and not wearing pants is illegal. And after he fixes things, he uses the device again to not miss an ice cream truck, leading to a timeline where he now wears pants. | |
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This trope was also used in one of the early arcs in Galactica 1980. | |
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Inverted in Secret Empire #0. According to it, the Nazis (or HYDRA) did win in WWII, but the Allies used a cosmic cube to change reality and create instead a world where the Allies won and Captain America was a loyal American soldier. The whole story is about Steve Rogers realizing this origin and trying to Set Right What Once Went Wrong (of course, be aware that "right" and "wrong" involve a heavy Deliberate Values Dissonance). | |
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Planet of Hats: In the episode "The City on the Edge of Forever": | |
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The Family Guy episode "Back to the Pilot" has Brian and Stewie travel back in time to the pilot episode of the show which was in 1999. While there, Brian warns his past self about the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks and he prevents them from happening. When they return to the present they find the United States is now a blasted wasteland. In this timeline, without the War on Terror for popular support, George W. Bush loses his reelection, and proceeds to resurrect the Confederacy and trigger a second U.S. Civil War. Brian and Stewie then attempt to fix it but things keep going wrong until there are dozens of Brians and Stewies all gathering in the same spot in time. Stewie finally solves the problem by going back to just before their original selves arrived in the past and the forcing that Brian and Stewie to return at gunpoint before they have a chance to do or say anything. This results in the timeline resetting itself and the Brian and Stewie we've been following to be erased from existence. | |
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In order to make his favorite magazine legal, the Hippy from Hell in Bill the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Ten Thousand Bars winds up changing history so that it's the Third Reich that spreads through the galaxy rather than Bill's own galactic empire. | |
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Averted surprisingly enough in the Legends of Tomorrow episode "Out of Time". A time-traveling Eobard Thawne supplies the Nazis with an atomic bomb which they use to destroy New York City. The Legends check history books and learn the Nazis still lost WWII, but the war lasted another 2 years and claimed an additional 12 million lives. | |
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Before Crisis on Infinite Earths, Earth-X was an alternate earth where the Nazis won. | |
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