Time travel/alternate dimension stories that don’t just use infinite dimensions as a cheap way of avoiding complexity. Once you have infinite timelines, it’s all meaningless, because whatever story you’re trying to tell loses all sense of importance, because whatever didn’t happen in one version still happens in another. Who cares if the character saves their family, when there are an infinite variety of worlds where they’re not saved.

It’s possible to tell stories about infinite timelines, where the weirdness of having infinite duplicates is an important part of the story (Dark Matter).

It’s possible to tell stories where there are alternate timelines, but only a finite number (The Peripheral/Counterpart/Alice)

And it’s possible to tell stories where there is only one timeline, and gracefully navigate the paradox (The Pern Series/All You Zombies/11.22.63)

I can’t get enough of stories that handle it well!

Have you seen Frequency? Awesome time travel ish movie thats not super popular…

Also, life is strange (first one) has sweet time travel mechanics. Worth a play

I really liked the Fear Itself comic from Marvel about 10-15ish years ago. It’s just a big dumb blockbuster event that’s fun to read with all the craziness that happens.

Odin has a long lost brother who’s evil, and creates magic hammers which he distributes around the world to a bunch of villains (and a couple heroes like Hulk and Thing) to bring chaos and destruction to herald his coming to take over the world. Iron Man and Captain America put up a “last stand” for Asgard, which crash-landed outside of a small town in Kansas. Iron Man goes to Odin’s dwarves and makes weapons and armor to give to a group of heroes to counteract the villains with their hammers.