This does remind me of "Kill Him Faster", an indie RPG where "kill hitler" became a professional sport thanks to time travel. Basically it turned into a speed run and people compete to see who could do it best.
Wait does that mean everybody meets all the previous contenders? Or does different attempts erases the previous? Or do you have to pick and choose a different point in time to off him?
Just out of curiosity, fragmented singular timeline or multiverse? Or if that's not easy to answer: one at a time? simultaneous separate timelines? Or all at once competing in the same timeline?
There was this story online where somebody was talking about how if they invented time travel they would sell time travel trips back to Germany to let people beat up Hitler, cuz they were afraid that it would lead to a paradox if somebody goes back and actually kills him. And the more they thought through the logistics of finding every point where he's alone and somebody could appear out of nowhere and beat him up and then disappear, and then the thought that maybe the reason he was so awful is because he keeps getting beat up randomly, but only when nobody's looking, and nobody believes him
It’s funny sure but it fundamentally fails to comprehend fascism by providing it with any justification to exist. It’s unjustifiable. That’s like one of its defining features.
@Lucifersfursona fascism is unjustifiable in an objective moral sense but saying it's dumb to try and understand why somebody might fall into it is reductive to me tbh. Like the human psyche isn't an objective thing and understanding things helps us better combat them.
Imagine not knowing you're going to be the single most hated man in all of history and an infinite army of futuristic space cowboys decends on you all at once.
This reminds me of an SNL sketch where Abraham Lincoln discovers time travel, finds out John Wilkes Booth is going to kill him, so he travels back in time several times during Booth's life to try to kill Booth first. Then it turns out the entire reason Booth wants to kill Lincoln is because of all the times Lincoln tried to kill him during Booth's life.
The interesting thing about that is that Hitler will probably be no more hated than men like Genghis Khan in a hundred years. Hitler is so hated today because he is still relatively recent history, but eventually the vitriol for him will just turn into “wow, Germany once had this pretty bad dictator, interesting”.
The problem (paradox) with this is, if someone traveled back to kill Hitler, there would be no Hitler in the future, therefore no one would need to go back to kill him. See what I mean?
@@TheThingoftheSky You can solve that with pantslegs. The timeline splits in two. Theoretically the timelines are always splitting in two all the time, anytime a probability thingy collapses. (forgot the word.)
I'm confused how people would "wait 30 or 40 years" for traffic to get better. Waiting time in each prospective traveler's own time wouldn't do anything about how many people were showing up in Hitler's time.
I think that as soon as time travel is theoretically possible, someone will come back in time to kill the inventor of time travel, which is why time travel is impossible.
There is an old sci fi story around that concept. Basically, the universe itself would warp in order to stop time travel. Like a sun suddenly going super nova, or a black hole would pass by in the star system, basically low probability things coming in to wipe out civilizations to stop time travel. The most powerful empire's secret weapon was seeding their enemies with enough knowledge for them to start the research and then just standing back and waiting for their enemies to be wiped out.
@@joshuarichmond2688 I thought I posted this already, but apparently youtube mobile ate my comment. I'm pretty sure it's a short story from Larry Niven called "Rotating Cylinders and the Possibility of Global Causality Violation" which uses the title of a research paper about a theoretical time machine. However, I'm not able to confirm it for sure.
This was literally an episode of “Legends of Tomorrow” on the CW, but instead of hitler it was Franz Ferdinand. There was dead ass sports bar that was set up in a bubble outside the time stream, where people would literally take a number like it was a laser tag arcade and take turns trying to save Ferdinand and stop world war 1, and they kept failing because some historical plot points are so important that reality itself fought back against time travelers fucking with it.
Except that concepts like “time” and “matter” don’t given an F about what humans think is important. Molecule to the left or to the right, brain impulses firing or not, all the same. But yeah it’s fun theorizing what if the universe actually had a plan of some sorts with our molecules in particular, just because they can somewhat perceive outside impulses and reason about their own feeble existence.
@@lucbloom It's less about the universe having a plan and more about the event being so impactful on all of history that it would be too detrimental to allow it to be changed.
@@lucbloom Novikov Self-Consistency Principle: a conjecture in physics, particularly in the context of time travel. It suggests that if time travel to the past is possible, any actions taken by a time traveler must be self-consistent with the timeline they come from, meaning that they cannot create paradoxes or change history in a way that would prevent their own journey into the past.. Under this principle, any attempt to change the past would be futile because the actions you take would have always been part of the timeline, thus preventing any changes to the established sequence of events
@@wiskyr6510 in the grand scheme of things, the soup on earth would contain about the same ingredients, no matter how you mixed it. Humanity perishing for instance isn’t a big thing on a galactic level. “Physics” won’t invent new laws to get stuff in a particular way to realign with human notions of “things that happened”.
I once read a tumblr post were a person had a dream, where there was a prison for unauthorized time travel past a certain date. When they the authorities implemented it, it stopped people from travelling past that date and automatically deposited them in the prison. A lot of people just showed up at once. There was one guy who had thousands of himself I think show up at once, to rescue himself from prison and then rescue that version of himself from prison and so on. I always thought that that would make a great story, either from the prison guards point of view or one of the time travellers.
Honestly dreams have inspired some of the novels I wrote so it's good to take dream inspiration & share it like that tumblr person did and you are now.
Aah yes I read that tumbler post! Was so funny, if I remember rightly the 'time prison' was at full capacity because of that one guy within the first hour/day of opening.
This is very similar to an episode of “Legends of Tomorrow” where to avoid WW1 the protagonists try to kill the assassins of Franz Ferdinand, but there are so many guys waiting to try to kill them that a cafe is built nearby to ensure everyone has a chance to try
I mean given a history teacher taught me the story as "so Franz Ferdinand really wanted a sandwich" and it ended in his death....a cafe should be appropriate
@@colewest7096I think it's only funny because of the absurdity of a Dan Corteze reference by Stefan on SNL in 2019 (or whenever that episode aired). It's so damn funny to knuckleheads of a certain age who watched too much MTV in the early '90s. (Edit: Upon re-reading what I wrote I don't know if it makes much sense, but I hope it does, haha.)
Back in college, my friends and I were enjoying a trip to the Mushroom Kingdom, and we decided that the reason there’s an 18 year gap in Jesus’ story in the Bible is because that’s how long it took him to answer one question for every time traveler who came back to see him.
I like how the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series features a restaurant that time travelers can visit to get a scenic view of the end of the universe over and over
A webcomic I don't think exists anymore did a gag about this. Hitler's door guards starting to think the amount of time travelers they've killed is a might suspicious.
The problem with Time Travelers is that a lot of them don't take stellar drift into account in their math, so you can imagine dozens of time travelling suits and machines floating and exposed in the cold void of space.
Okay but the thing about "stellar drift" is that the earth is spinning, so it's moving that way, but the earth is also orbiting, so it's moving another way, but the sun is orbiting the center of the milky way and the milky way is moving around and- hey wait a minute. Space is relative and there's no coordinate system for the universe. The universe doesn't have an edge and it doesn't have a center, so really how can the time machine stay still? There's nothing to stay still relative to.
This is a cute funny idea but the only reason it’s not considered nonsense is because most Time Machine behavior is also nonsense. The real way you’d make a time machine is with a temporally linked wormhole, meaning your destination at the other side is relative to the preexisting wormhole’s location at that time. A time machine that travels with you through time, and thus is at risk of being unmoored from space, is a total fantasy to begin with.
I saw a similar concept in the most previous season of Legends of Tomorrow, a CW show (this was a few years ago). A bunch of time travelers established a bar at a single moment in time because so many people were attempting to stop the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and prevent World War 1 from happening.
"Ma'am, when are you going with that hammer, you're still on the waiting list for Thatcher." "Don't worry lads, going for 'Doctor' Wakefield, the line there's surprisingly short."
That's showed up as a trope more than once so anyone should be able to put their spin on it. It's a genre with a lot of space for imagination (I have taught people how to write time travel fiction after it being the genre I wrote in.)
Just imagine a time traveler coming back in time, being told to wait fove years returning to his present and then realizing that that's not how time travel works 😂
Omfg...Brennan, dressed as John Rambo, talking about the conundrum of too many people wanting to kill Hitler, is not something I knew I needed jn my life 😂😂
The time police offering multiple alternatives, trying to to get the traffic down. “Look. Hitler, Moosey, Reagan, they’re all locked in. I can give you 2001 Bush? Would you settle for him?”
Sci-fi great Alfred Bester wrote a short story called "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed." It does a wonderful job of preemptively explaining away almost all time travel paradoxes with the way he structures time in the story. Simplified, each moment is like a pearl and time is just a collection of pearl earrings stretching in all dimensions. So "your" past is behind you and time travel to the past has you go down through similar, yet distinct, alternate pasts meaning you never really interact with your own history. Definitely worth a read.
But if *one* person succeeds in killing hitler (as a baby I’m assuming), then no one would’ve gone back in time to kill hitler because the timeline would’ve been changed and he would’ve never done anything to warrant going back in time and killing him. Which means no one would’ve gone back in time to kill him, which means he never died, which means he did stuff to warrant being killed, which means someone would go back in time to kill hitler, which means… That’s called a Grandfather Paradox
Weeeeell no. You see that's where Multiverse Theory kicks in: You CAN'T change the present or future by changing the past. As a matter of fact, the very instant you travel back in time, your very presence in that point in time adds a new variable, leading to a split in the timeline and and the formation of an entirely new universe. So whilst there now exists a universe where a time-traveller killed Hitler, the universe you came from won't be influenced by this at all. All you've done is create an alternative timeline.
@@takealilpill347 no the principal is still the same I believe, you’re Time Travel prevented you from travelling back in time in the first place (by not needing to because you’d fixed whatever it is you fixed) and thus you never went back in time to fix it, which means you would’ve gone back to fix it, and so on and so on It is named Grandfather Paradox by nature of its most famous example
Been seeing these clips all day and he gets more beat up and crazier every time 😂. (Clips from the same campaign I’m guessing) and he’s just talking casually too 🤣
My favorite joke about this is that one future college student came back in time to stop hitler from being an artist JUST SO THAT THEY WOULDN'T HAVE TO TALK ABOUT HIS ART IN CLASS!
There's an amateur horror story by ParallaxNick here on UA-cam about a guy who invents time travel and goes back in time, only to discover that he creates an infinite loop and accidentally overwrites the entire universe with copies of himself. It's pretty chilling, honestly.
I imagine that the reason nobody went back to kill Hitler is because everyone did, and it caused a massive pileup in the time stream that nobody can get passed.
This is kind of like the Fixed Point Bar in Legends of Tomorrow, where time travellers hang out when they go to the past to stop World War 1 from happening
i like the idea that everyone across time and space upon gaining the power to time travel, all have the same idea to go back and kill one specific guy, not any of the arguably worse people working for him. just the one guy at the top.
That would make for a great scp, an sc0 of just the scenario of every time machine at once appearing in one place to kill hitler. Alot like the scp about tine travelers trying to stop kennedys assassination.
This is a very old and well known concept in time travel stories, because as Brennan says it's simply a logical extension of what the consequences of time travel would be.
Why not just go back in time and buy all his paintings when he was trying to get into art school? "Hey, Addy! Love the landscapes, you should keep doing them and NOTHING ELSE."
Kind of reminds me of that one episode of Legends of Tomorrow, where they go back to save Archduke Franz Ferdinand, only to find that a bunch of time travelers are trying to do the same thing, but can’t cause it’s a “fixed point”.
Theoretically if it were true, I would imagine that it would lead to a time-war that would have protectorates of Hitler and other alterations of history. Time travel is all very silly and fun but the human implications of it being true would be a very interesting process.
Does anyone ever talk about going back in time to get him like art training so he then wouldn’t fail the entrance exam to Academy of the Arts in Vienna?
My head cannon is that hitler was what happened when someone stopped something that was bad but not as bad as him. And that's why you can't change anything in time travel, because it will just create a reaction that may be worse than the original action was.
This is exactly why DCs legends of tomorrow is one of my favourite shows because of course as soon as you invent time travel you need people to stop it from getting fucked up. Also the show sometimes feels like crackfic taken seriously which is amazing it goes so hard in the best possible way
I mean to be fair, we found him in his own bunker, with no witnesses, with a gun that’s allegedly his, and he allegedly shot himself. Who’s to say it wasn’t a time traveler who set it up in a way so it wouldn’t affect history?
"Sign here to reserv a stab wound-i now you want the final blow, evryone does!, but not eveyone can-i remember you!, coming back older doesnt give you a secound stab!"
Time cop: “so you can have age 1 on June 18 at 3:14:12 AM Central European Time” Traveler: “aw man baby hitler” Time cop: “ all I got is baby hitler. It’s either that or in the womb, or the slot 3 seconds before he pulls the trigger ending his life” Traveler: “okay okay, I’ll take the baby Hitler”
I remember a joke theory that the real reason the Titanic sank was from the extra weight of all the time travelers showing up to try and save it.
I mean
0ooo0ooOooO. Never heard that 1! Nice. Time paradoxes are fun.
That's some kind of Doraemon time paradox.
Or to steal the giant gem
maybe that's why the towers fell, too
This does remind me of "Kill Him Faster", an indie RPG where "kill hitler" became a professional sport thanks to time travel. Basically it turned into a speed run and people compete to see who could do it best.
that's a very fun concept!
Hitler%
Wait does that mean everybody meets all the previous contenders? Or does different attempts erases the previous? Or do you have to pick and choose a different point in time to off him?
Just out of curiosity, fragmented singular timeline or multiverse? Or if that's not easy to answer: one at a time? simultaneous separate timelines? Or all at once competing in the same timeline?
That would explain the amount of times Hitler was tried to assassinate.
There was this story online where somebody was talking about how if they invented time travel they would sell time travel trips back to Germany to let people beat up Hitler, cuz they were afraid that it would lead to a paradox if somebody goes back and actually kills him. And the more they thought through the logistics of finding every point where he's alone and somebody could appear out of nowhere and beat him up and then disappear, and then the thought that maybe the reason he was so awful is because he keeps getting beat up randomly, but only when nobody's looking, and nobody believes him
idk why this made me laugh my ass off. this is such a funny mental image
It’s funny sure but it fundamentally fails to comprehend fascism by providing it with any justification to exist. It’s unjustifiable. That’s like one of its defining features.
This comment should be classified as an infohazard. I CAnNOT bREATH
What's worse how many people would dress like a "stereo typical jew" or in the garb to do it just to rub it in
@Lucifersfursona fascism is unjustifiable in an objective moral sense but saying it's dumb to try and understand why somebody might fall into it is reductive to me tbh. Like the human psyche isn't an objective thing and understanding things helps us better combat them.
Imagine not knowing you're going to be the single most hated man in all of history and an infinite army of futuristic space cowboys decends on you all at once.
This reminds me of an SNL sketch where Abraham Lincoln discovers time travel, finds out John Wilkes Booth is going to kill him, so he travels back in time several times during Booth's life to try to kill Booth first. Then it turns out the entire reason Booth wants to kill Lincoln is because of all the times Lincoln tried to kill him during Booth's life.
The interesting thing about that is that Hitler will probably be no more hated than men like Genghis Khan in a hundred years.
Hitler is so hated today because he is still relatively recent history, but eventually the vitriol for him will just turn into “wow, Germany once had this pretty bad dictator, interesting”.
The problem (paradox) with this is, if someone traveled back to kill Hitler, there would be no Hitler in the future, therefore no one would need to go back to kill him. See what I mean?
@@TheThingoftheSky You can solve that with pantslegs. The timeline splits in two. Theoretically the timelines are always splitting in two all the time, anytime a probability thingy collapses. (forgot the word.)
God the brevity and clarity with which Brennan half-explained each point of the ‘kill hitler’ problem is incredible
He literally never once finished a point it's brilliant
I'm confused how people would "wait 30 or 40 years" for traffic to get better. Waiting time in each prospective traveler's own time wouldn't do anything about how many people were showing up in Hitler's time.
@@DaimyoD0this was my thought too.
@@kaldreinthere’s a large waitlist. Takes time
@@DaimyoD0All the people showing up? those are the people from 30-40 years in the future.
I think that as soon as time travel is theoretically possible, someone will come back in time to kill the inventor of time travel, which is why time travel is impossible.
There is an old sci fi story around that concept. Basically, the universe itself would warp in order to stop time travel. Like a sun suddenly going super nova, or a black hole would pass by in the star system, basically low probability things coming in to wipe out civilizations to stop time travel.
The most powerful empire's secret weapon was seeding their enemies with enough knowledge for them to start the research and then just standing back and waiting for their enemies to be wiped out.
@@pffffffffffffffffftdo you happen to know that story name or where I can read it
@@joshuarichmond2688I to want to read this.
@@pffffffffffffffffft
So basically this is a possible solution to the Fermi Paradox as well…
@@joshuarichmond2688
I thought I posted this already, but apparently youtube mobile ate my comment. I'm pretty sure it's a short story from Larry Niven called "Rotating Cylinders and the Possibility of Global Causality Violation" which uses the title of a research paper about a theoretical time machine. However, I'm not able to confirm it for sure.
This was literally an episode of “Legends of Tomorrow” on the CW, but instead of hitler it was Franz Ferdinand. There was dead ass sports bar that was set up in a bubble outside the time stream, where people would literally take a number like it was a laser tag arcade and take turns trying to save Ferdinand and stop world war 1, and they kept failing because some historical plot points are so important that reality itself fought back against time travelers fucking with it.
Except that concepts like “time” and “matter” don’t given an F about what humans think is important. Molecule to the left or to the right, brain impulses firing or not, all the same.
But yeah it’s fun theorizing what if the universe actually had a plan of some sorts with our molecules in particular, just because they can somewhat perceive outside impulses and reason about their own feeble existence.
@@lucbloom It's less about the universe having a plan and more about the event being so impactful on all of history that it would be too detrimental to allow it to be changed.
Ah, the Steins;Gate model of causality.
@@lucbloom Novikov Self-Consistency Principle: a conjecture in physics, particularly in the context of time travel. It suggests that if time travel to the past is possible, any actions taken by a time traveler must be self-consistent with the timeline they come from, meaning that they cannot create paradoxes or change history in a way that would prevent their own journey into the past.. Under this principle, any attempt to change the past would be futile because the actions you take would have always been part of the timeline, thus preventing any changes to the established sequence of events
@@wiskyr6510 in the grand scheme of things, the soup on earth would contain about the same ingredients, no matter how you mixed it. Humanity perishing for instance isn’t a big thing on a galactic level. “Physics” won’t invent new laws to get stuff in a particular way to realign with human notions of “things that happened”.
I once read a tumblr post were a person had a dream, where there was a prison for unauthorized time travel past a certain date. When they the authorities implemented it, it stopped people from travelling past that date and automatically deposited them in the prison. A lot of people just showed up at once. There was one guy who had thousands of himself I think show up at once, to rescue himself from prison and then rescue that version of himself from prison and so on. I always thought that that would make a great story, either from the prison guards point of view or one of the time travellers.
Honestly dreams have inspired some of the novels I wrote so it's good to take dream inspiration & share it like that tumblr person did and you are now.
Didn’t someone figure out a way around the time trap? Great post
Aah yes I read that tumbler post! Was so funny, if I remember rightly the 'time prison' was at full capacity because of that one guy within the first hour/day of opening.
I remember that post too!
You think the 405 is bad this time of day, you should see the 1939!
Underrated comment right here.
This is very similar to an episode of “Legends of Tomorrow” where to avoid WW1 the protagonists try to kill the assassins of Franz Ferdinand, but there are so many guys waiting to try to kill them that a cafe is built nearby to ensure everyone has a chance to try
I freakin love that show
I mean given a history teacher taught me the story as "so Franz Ferdinand really wanted a sandwich" and it ended in his death....a cafe should be appropriate
Protected point in time!
God I love Legends of Tomorrow so very much
was actually a good episode lol, that show really got good in its later seasons
"New York's hottest place is NEIN. It has everything. A TARDIS, watches that don't show the correct time, a DeLorean. .....Dan Cortese."
Underrated comment.
The joke flew over so many people, but you just snatched it with a net.
Alright, I'll bite. What's the reference to Dan about? My google-fu is weak.
@@colewest7096 SNL any Stefon skit
@@colewest7096I think it's only funny because of the absurdity of a Dan Corteze reference by Stefan on SNL in 2019 (or whenever that episode aired). It's so damn funny to knuckleheads of a certain age who watched too much MTV in the early '90s.
(Edit: Upon re-reading what I wrote I don't know if it makes much sense, but I hope it does, haha.)
Back in college, my friends and I were enjoying a trip to the Mushroom Kingdom, and we decided that the reason there’s an 18 year gap in Jesus’ story in the Bible is because that’s how long it took him to answer one question for every time traveler who came back to see him.
I mean at least people are polite enough not to bug him when he’s on the clock
How tf did Mario help you reach that conclusion my dude?
@@thefeedbag3203 By "growing" in size via those mushrooms.
Duh.
@@thefeedbag3203 , mushrooms. The tripping kind
Help that’s very good 😂
They did that in rick and morty with the snake planet, no one killed snake hitler because the time traveling snakes kept killing each other
More people need to see that episode
There were also nazi snake time travelers coming back to protect him, if I recall correctly.
Siobahn might have actually been a writer on that episode
@@taylorcline1222 She’s not credited on imdb. The earliest episode she was involved in was S4 E9, but the snake episode was S4 E5
I know Alex wrote for Rick and Morty but it wasn't that season.
Its literally that rick and morty bit with snake hitler lmao
Butterfly effect ends up making it 100x worse.
"Guys, I know how it sounds but our new mission is to go save Hitler."
"I'm down. But who's that?"
@@paksta just a painter.
I like how the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series features a restaurant that time travelers can visit to get a scenic view of the end of the universe over and over
A webcomic I don't think exists anymore did a gag about this. Hitler's door guards starting to think the amount of time travelers they've killed is a might suspicious.
That’s Subnormality, and it still exists.
The problem with Time Travelers is that a lot of them don't take stellar drift into account in their math, so you can imagine dozens of time travelling suits and machines floating and exposed in the cold void of space.
This is why the TARDIS is the best Time Machine, because it would take that into account.
And then there are those that DID account for it but got the math off by .000000001....
Okay but the thing about "stellar drift" is that the earth is spinning, so it's moving that way, but the earth is also orbiting, so it's moving another way, but the sun is orbiting the center of the milky way and the milky way is moving around and- hey wait a minute. Space is relative and there's no coordinate system for the universe. The universe doesn't have an edge and it doesn't have a center, so really how can the time machine stay still? There's nothing to stay still relative to.
@@LadyJuse And there is a Doctor Who episode called "Let's kill Hitler" I think, but they accidentally save him from an assassin.
This is a cute funny idea but the only reason it’s not considered nonsense is because most Time Machine behavior is also nonsense. The real way you’d make a time machine is with a temporally linked wormhole, meaning your destination at the other side is relative to the preexisting wormhole’s location at that time. A time machine that travels with you through time, and thus is at risk of being unmoored from space, is a total fantasy to begin with.
LOVE the SNL Stephon refrence 😂❤
Had to scroll so far for this but the reference made me SO happy 😂
I saw a similar concept in the most previous season of Legends of Tomorrow, a CW show (this was a few years ago). A bunch of time travelers established a bar at a single moment in time because so many people were attempting to stop the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and prevent World War 1 from happening.
Such a good show
If only you had a way to circumvent the 30-40 year wait...
I can imagine Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger playing the background of that club. 😂
Hitler is the Mt. Everest of time travel 😂
"Ma'am, when are you going with that hammer, you're still on the waiting list for Thatcher."
"Don't worry lads, going for 'Doctor' Wakefield, the line there's surprisingly short."
... Where do I sign up? Also, here; hot wax. I'm going to give him history's worst leg shave.
Nice to see that Brennan took notes from Abriya and started dressing up more
TIME RIDERS!!! By Alex Scarrow. A whole series basically about that concept. That was the first series I fell in love with as a kid.
This literally the snake episode in Rick and Morty
"You would need a time police" congrats. This was the thought process foe umbrella academy lol
That's showed up as a trope more than once so anyone should be able to put their spin on it. It's a genre with a lot of space for imagination (I have taught people how to write time travel fiction after it being the genre I wrote in.)
Or Loki. Or Dr. Who. Or...
Oh yeah, wasn't that made by the guy from My Chemical Romance?
Just imagine a time traveler coming back in time, being told to wait fove years returning to his present and then realizing that that's not how time travel works 😂
Harry Potter be like
Omfg...Brennan, dressed as John Rambo, talking about the conundrum of too many people wanting to kill Hitler, is not something I knew I needed jn my life 😂😂
The time police offering multiple alternatives, trying to to get the traffic down. “Look. Hitler, Moosey, Reagan, they’re all locked in. I can give you 2001 Bush? Would you settle for him?”
“Damn it. Uh, is there still Frank Ferdinand Saving left?”
@@gamersgamestorm8291 "sorry, we sold out three weeks from now"
@@genericuser984 “DAMN IT, okay uh are any Lincoln Assassinations available”
@@gamersgamestorm8291 "No, but we have a JF Kennedy Assassination available in two weeks"
You're brain-dead if you think those guys belong on a list together, and ill-read if you can't come up with actual monsters to fill said list.
Brennan, you gotta read the short story “Wikihistory”. You’d love it.
One of my favourite time travel short stories!
Looking this up now.
Everyone's going to kill Hitler, yet I'm taking a bypass to go for either John Wilkes Booth or Woodrow Wilson.
I'd go for baby Rupert Murdoch or Roger Ailes, myself. Maybe Thatcher and Reagan as a treat.
@@stereotreme Bonus for getting Reagan: Jodi Foster is your new gf.
Sci-fi great Alfred Bester wrote a short story called "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed." It does a wonderful job of preemptively explaining away almost all time travel paradoxes with the way he structures time in the story. Simplified, each moment is like a pearl and time is just a collection of pearl earrings stretching in all dimensions. So "your" past is behind you and time travel to the past has you go down through similar, yet distinct, alternate pasts meaning you never really interact with your own history.
Definitely worth a read.
Imagine being a rookie time cop and your first assignment is having to guard baby hitler in order to preserve the timeline…
Eh, considering multiverse theory, it's less about preserving the timeline and more about stopping people from spawning a bunch of new timelines.
I like to believe Brennan didn't need to wear that, he's just decided to
Then you realise that when you go back, it instantly creates a new timeline and inadvertently cause the flooding of Hyrule
Damn it, now I HAVE to sail the Great Sea in my talking boat.
Love how Brennen took some time away from surviving the LA scene to play some d&d I’m extra glad he didn’t change
But if *one* person succeeds in killing hitler (as a baby I’m assuming), then no one would’ve gone back in time to kill hitler because the timeline would’ve been changed and he would’ve never done anything to warrant going back in time and killing him. Which means no one would’ve gone back in time to kill him, which means he never died, which means he did stuff to warrant being killed, which means someone would go back in time to kill hitler, which means…
That’s called a Grandfather Paradox
Weeeeell no. You see that's where Multiverse Theory kicks in: You CAN'T change the present or future by changing the past. As a matter of fact, the very instant you travel back in time, your very presence in that point in time adds a new variable, leading to a split in the timeline and and the formation of an entirely new universe. So whilst there now exists a universe where a time-traveller killed Hitler, the universe you came from won't be influenced by this at all. All you've done is create an alternative timeline.
It's only a Grandfather Paradox if you're descended from him, otherwise it's just a normal Paradox, surely?
@@takealilpill347 no the principal is still the same I believe, you’re Time Travel prevented you from travelling back in time in the first place (by not needing to because you’d fixed whatever it is you fixed) and thus you never went back in time to fix it, which means you would’ve gone back to fix it, and so on and so on
It is named Grandfather Paradox by nature of its most famous example
@@SkyPersonthat most famous example of course being the hypothetical "what if you went back in time and killed your grandfather?"
. Aaaand that's why time travel AND multiverses aren't real. One is as nonsensical as the other.
Been seeing these clips all day and he gets more beat up and crazier every time 😂. (Clips from the same campaign I’m guessing) and he’s just talking casually too 🤣
My favorite joke about this is that one future college student came back in time to stop hitler from being an artist JUST SO THAT THEY WOULDN'T HAVE TO TALK ABOUT HIS ART IN CLASS!
I never thought that killing Hitler would be the equivalent of a Time traveler's tourist attraction
Real ones know that Murph stopped 9/11 😌
Time-genie Mike Trapp of the '90s did him dirty
There's an amateur horror story by ParallaxNick here on UA-cam about a guy who invents time travel and goes back in time, only to discover that he creates an infinite loop and accidentally overwrites the entire universe with copies of himself. It's pretty chilling, honestly.
OMG STEFON 😂😂😂
The Big Bang was actually every time traveler simultaneously arriving to kill baby hitler at the same time
musicians would use a time machine for one thing and one thing only: to prevent that Goddamn bus crash on September 27th
Woodstock would be a nightmare
It's funny because even if you wait 30-40 years you will still arrive at the exact same time as everyone else
Rick and Morty did this joke with Snake Hitler
Snitler
@@jimmy_the_squid9456Does he drink snilk?
The hottest new club bit fucking sent me to space
"I just wanted to play with Pogs!"
Sorry Murph, you gotta stop 9-11.
The last thing you want to do is to go back in time during timespace rush hour, that would ruin your commute
Even better: because everyone assumes that to be the first stop, they just don’t go assuming someone else will do it first
"Look at Jerry, he still hasn't gone back in time to kill Hitler, don't be like Jerry..."
I imagine that the reason nobody went back to kill Hitler is because everyone did, and it caused a massive pileup in the time stream that nobody can get passed.
So that's why we dont have time machines yet. The sheer, instantaneous traffic jam.
"Wait 40 years" that wont matter, cuz its time travel
Bro, the timecops made hitler to catch people traveling back to kill him.
This is kind of like the Fixed Point Bar in Legends of Tomorrow, where time travellers hang out when they go to the past to stop World War 1 from happening
i like the idea that everyone across time and space upon gaining the power to time travel, all have the same idea to go back and kill one specific guy, not any of the arguably worse people working for him. just the one guy at the top.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the timeline we're in never discovers time travel
Nothing bad about those news.
@@I_Am_Kas I would actually agree! I believe It would be incredibly dangerous to make changes to the past
But how could you know that.... Unless...
If you need to go on a list and wait just time travel to when it is your turn.
They did have a skit about killing Hitler. Turns out comedy writers aren’t great at killing
But if time travel BECOMES possible, then it already is!
That would make for a great scp, an sc0 of just the scenario of every time machine at once appearing in one place to kill hitler. Alot like the scp about tine travelers trying to stop kennedys assassination.
Bro just described why the TVA exists
Is this not EXACTLY what rick and morty did with the snakes?
This is a very old and well known concept in time travel stories, because as Brennan says it's simply a logical extension of what the consequences of time travel would be.
That's why in Star Trek we have multiple agencies for things like this.
The moment time travel is invented is the moment it also becomes a problem, policed, banned, and destroyed.
Why not just go back in time and buy all his paintings when he was trying to get into art school? "Hey, Addy! Love the landscapes, you should keep doing them and NOTHING ELSE."
Kind of reminds me of that one episode of Legends of Tomorrow, where they go back to save Archduke Franz Ferdinand, only to find that a bunch of time travelers are trying to do the same thing, but can’t cause it’s a “fixed point”.
Literally describing that Epsiode of Rick and Morty with the time traveling snakes 😂
Rehka (sorry if I forgot the spelling) making a Stephan SNL reference was so freaking good here haha
Holy hell, that is the funniest shit 😂😂
Theoretically if it were true, I would imagine that it would lead to a time-war that would have protectorates of Hitler and other alterations of history. Time travel is all very silly and fun but the human implications of it being true would be a very interesting process.
I’d absolutely watch this sketch.
Love the Stefon shoutout
Rick and morty already did this.
My guy,,,,,,,this literally on Rick and Morty. Except with snakes but it’s that exact deal
This whole conversation is covered in a rick and morty episode.
Rick and morty snake jazz episode right there
So what you're saying... is we need a TIME COP? 😃
Loved that bill hader reference at the end
Does anyone ever talk about going back in time to get him like art training so he then wouldn’t fail the entrance exam to Academy of the Arts in Vienna?
Me, going to the failure of the Beer Hall Putsch to inconvenience the lady who stops him from doing the deed himself: “Beatin’ the traffic~”
I love how this gag is the *inverse* of the Restaurant at the End of the Universe from HHG
Brilliant
I love the Bill Burr reference there with the "New Yorks hottest new club"
My head cannon is that hitler was what happened when someone stopped something that was bad but not as bad as him. And that's why you can't change anything in time travel, because it will just create a reaction that may be worse than the original action was.
I feel bad for the ATC (Anachronic Traffic Controller) assigned to that sector...
This is exactly why DCs legends of tomorrow is one of my favourite shows because of course as soon as you invent time travel you need people to stop it from getting fucked up. Also the show sometimes feels like crackfic taken seriously which is amazing it goes so hard in the best possible way
✨TVA; for all time, always ✨
Plenty of new, fresh ones out there right now.
"In 40 years, you say..."
"NO USING TIME TRAVEL TO SKIP THE TIME TRAVEL QUEUE"
You know what won't cause a lot of time traffic? Becoming your own grandfather.
The last joke brought it home lol
I mean to be fair, we found him in his own bunker, with no witnesses, with a gun that’s allegedly his, and he allegedly shot himself. Who’s to say it wasn’t a time traveler who set it up in a way so it wouldn’t affect history?
"Sign here to reserv a stab wound-i now you want the final blow, evryone does!, but not eveyone can-i remember you!, coming back older doesnt give you a secound stab!"
Seeing Brennan in this full on costume and ecpecting everyone else to match only to see business casual slouching across from him
So I guess drops dropout's back in the steam rotation. 😔🤘
Time cop: “so you can have age 1 on June 18 at 3:14:12 AM Central European Time”
Traveler: “aw man baby hitler”
Time cop: “ all I got is baby hitler. It’s either that or in the womb, or the slot 3 seconds before he pulls the trigger ending his life”
Traveler: “okay okay, I’ll take the baby Hitler”