Split(ting) Time(lines): Changing Time
Fics in which characters deliberately change the timeline (& thereby their or other people’s lives)
i.e.: Mostly time travel - Occasionally fics in which character(s) deliberately make changes to their lives following a significant event.
Significant canon divergence.
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14,000,606 by Herrin26
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
11 Jul 2021
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There were 14,000,605 outcomes of the Infinity War with only one where the good guys won.
But what if there was one more just after Strange stopped?
With the fate of the universe at stake Peter held true to the words he lived by.
"With great power comes great responsibility."
AU where Peter takes the stones, dust Thanos, and Tony has to live with someone else sacrificing themselves for him.
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- Part 1 of 14,000,606
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Snap Back to the Past AKA the Infinity Stones Decide to Adopt Tony Stark by jesmalestiel
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Iron Man (Movies), Thor (Movies), Captain Marvel (2019), Doctor Strange (Movies), Guardians of the Galaxy (Movies), The Marvels (Movie 2023), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
13 Aug 2025
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The Infinity Stones decide that they don't appreciate being snapped to destruction and that it isn't time for their favorite human to rest quite yet. An unlikely group of six is sent back in time to fix the universe before Thanos gets a chance to break it.
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In October 2023 Tony Stark says “I am Iron Man” and snaps his fingers before he dies. A few seconds later cameras are flashing in his face and people want him to elaborate on the statement. It’s November 2009 after all, and the people have questions.
All violence is typical of canon, also this is gonna have a happy ending so no major character deaths of MY protagonists, just some people who are protagonists in canon. 😘
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- Part 4 of Snap Back to the Past
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for a hundred visions and revisions by aventria, iluxia
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Iron Man (Movies), Doctor Strange (2016), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Thor (Movies)
05 Aug 2023
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Dr. Strange looks at the world after Thanos and, faced with its seemingly irreparable brokenness, breaks his own oath. Tony, Stephen, and Loki go back in time for one more chance - an intentional choice, because they are each other's insurance against repeating the same mistakes. Tony wakes up shortly before the Stark Expo with the reactor's palladium core still poisoning him. Stephen wakes up with undamaged hands and a flourishing medical career. Loki wakes up in Asgard one day before Thor's coronation.
"Do I dare disturb the universe? / In a minute there is time / for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse."
[ Yet another take on that time travel fic with lots of worldbuilding, hand-wavey comic book science, political intrigue, inventing, nerding out, and a broken Tony trying to fix a broken world - but this time he's not alone. ]
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05 Mar 2025
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(S/T/M: scattered one-word refs, surgery & (offscreen) death)
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In This or Any Other Universe by wildsofmarch for blueyeti
Fandoms: The Batman (Movie 2022), DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
11 Mar 2023
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There was a new vigilante in his city: a man who smiled too much and talked too loud and knew his way around a fight a little too well. Bruce wasn't bothered by his antics. Except the man also seemed to know a little too much about him.
Who was this Nightwing, anyway?
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OR: Dick Grayson (DCU) accidentally lands himself in Battinson’s Gotham. -
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The Avengers won but the universe lost the moment Thanos destroyed the Infinity Stones native to their dimension. The borrowed Stones could tell that this universe was already unravelling, falling apart and doomed to destruction.
So when given the opportunity to fix it before they returned to their timelines?
They grabbed it.
Tony was in for one hell of a ride. He couldn't even die without something weird happening, could he?