“The Butterfly Effect” (2004): Ashton Kutcher plays a college student who finds he can revisit his past and change things, and each time he does so a different reality is born. He starts singing the songs as if he wrote them. “Yesterday” (2019): Jack Malik, aspiring musician, finds himself stranded in a near-identical universe where no one has ever heard of the Beatles (or Coca-Cola, for that matter). The two splinter realities unfold very differently, producing versions of her character that must be reconciled. “Sliding Doors” (1998): Gwyneth Paltrow misses a train - and doesn't. “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” (2022): After years of hints and slivers, including an emerging plotline in “Spider-Man: No Way Home” (2021), Marvel goes full-on multiverse in this exploration of how realities can collide and start bleeding into each other. “It's a Wonderful Life” (1946): In this Christmas classic, family man George Bailey grows increasingly frustrated as opportunities pass him by, and it takes an angel-in-training - on Christmas Eve - to dump him into a universe where he never existed and show him how important his life is. It's a great starter kit if your media tastes run to asking: What if? We've compiled a non-exhaustive sampler of fiction about alternate universes and multiverses - from movies to TV to comics to books. Loved “Everything Everywhere All at Once?” Can't get enough of “The Flash” and “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” this month? Then this list is for you.
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