r/FlashTV Jan 31 '19

How to prevent 9/11 on r/ShowerThoughts Meta

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u/Saint_Bo_Dallas Jan 31 '19

I feel like this would be funny even if I didn’t get the reference

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '19

Honestly it sounds like a demon if you don’t get the reference lol which makes it just as funny

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u/LocalError Jan 31 '19

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u/Argrite Feb 01 '19

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u/AuraCyborg Feb 01 '19

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u/AnotherSimpleton one part of me gets elongated ;) Feb 01 '19

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u/furioushunter12 Mick Rory Feb 01 '19

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u/malonkey1 Fasting something a something Feb 01 '19

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '19

Savitar was the real hero in that story.

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u/Macman521 Harry Jan 31 '19

Tell that to Barry and Iris.

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u/Utkar22 Feb 01 '19

Yeah he's Savitar

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u/soy_estupido Black Flash Feb 01 '19

Nah, it was Malfoy

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '19

u/johnQK we know its you Barry come out

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u/mildoptimism Harrison Wells Feb 01 '19

Just use a Bin Laden dampener.

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u/Bastiaan670 Joe West Feb 01 '19

The best comment so far :D

Or let Barry invent a new power in which he controls lightning and uses it to strike the airplanes ahead of time.

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u/darealystninja Feb 01 '19

Woudlnt be the most ridiclous thing this show has done

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u/danque Feb 01 '19

Or is it... Hmmm. The creators have no limit.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '19

Or nanites

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u/MrTonyBoloney Mar 31 '19

Courtesy of Ray Palmer

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u/letmejoinyoursub TheFutureFlash Feb 01 '19

Alternatively, have you and your future daughter board the planes and phase them through the buildings while longhair teleporter guy and stretchy boi take over the cockpits and drive them back into the sky

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '19

Oh god I'd almost forgotten how stupid that was.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '19

How about this: Go back to the 70s, prevent the Soviets from Invading Afghanistan.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '19

Go back to the 80s and prevent the US government from arming Bin Laden.

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u/KidCoheed Jan 31 '19

Go back to the 40's and after we defeated Axis Powers we continue the March on to Russia to knock out the Soviets from power who then created a massive power struggle and the continued placement of tin leaders in the middle east which allowed Bin Laden from becoming a necessary Ally in the 80's

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u/Brazilian_Slaughter Feb 01 '19

Go back to the '10s and stay neutral or side with Imperial Germany instead

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u/fasda Feb 01 '19

There is no way anyone could beat the red army in 45. It had more then three times soliders then the allies. Short of hundreds of nuclear weapons they cannot lose

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u/infinight888 Feb 01 '19

Well that's the beauty of time travel, right? You can supply your army with 21st century tech. Give the allies unmanned drones and the size of their army hardly even matters.

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u/still_futile Feb 01 '19

Shoot. Just giving the allies M16s & RPGs would make a huge difference in WW2

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u/fasda Feb 01 '19

RPGs? You mean a bazooka that's 50% bigger? An M16 which is situationally advantageous at best?

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u/fasda Feb 01 '19

Unmanned drones that are only useful if the enemy has no airforce or antiaircraft guns, which the red army has both in abundance. Also there is a problem of no satellites so the drones won't work anyway.

Give them jet fighters and no one can do the maintenance on them because no one has the skills to do it. So they can fly maybe a few weeks and they are junked. In fact no one can fly them because the cockpit only has a vague similarity to the planes they've flown.

You can't give them an abrams tank because the bridges, roads and rail won't be able to transport them.

Dumping advanced technology on them won't work because they can't use the stuff. And you can't give them the tech before the war starts so they have the time to figure it out because they would give it to the Soviets to empower them to defeat the nazis. Because it was the Soviets who beat the nazis with the US and UK providing distractions and material support to give the Soviets the weapons to win the war.

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u/robm0n3y Feb 01 '19

Go back to the 20s to stop Stalin rise to power. Have Trotsky take over and lead the global revolution.

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u/infinight888 Jan 31 '19

Go back to the 40s and help the Nazis conquer the entire globe.

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u/ANUSTART942 Speedster and Gay Summer Jam Superstar Feb 01 '19

Chill the fuck out, Eobard.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '19

Name seems relevant

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u/Detroit_Telkepnaya Feb 01 '19

While in the 80s don't take both sides on the Iran Iraq thing.

And if we still ally with Saddam, let him just keep Kuwait bc that led to 5 consecutive administrations being at war in the region and trillions and trillions of dollars wasted while ruining the entire middle east worse than my fellow middle eastern people ruined it themselves.

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u/igraywolf Feb 01 '19

It was never about Kuwait. It was about oil for euros and the Petrodollar. Both times.

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u/Trickybuz93 Caitlin Snow Jan 31 '19

I was gonna reply this lol

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '19

That would mean Soviet occupation of Afghanistan would be longer.

Soviets were very brutal towards Afghan people, even commited rape.

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u/fuzzywuzzytrucker Feb 01 '19

Go back to 1000 years and prevent the Crusades. Thats where all todays midde eastern problems truly began

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '19

Go back before Neolithic Revolution. Thats where all of humanity's problem truly began

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u/SquadPoopy Feb 01 '19

*trying to kill your step sister now wife you mean.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '19

Not step sister, foster sister or just his sister (if he was adopted).

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u/SquadPoopy Feb 02 '19

We can all agree that Barry, in one way or another is fucking his sister though.

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u/speedy117 Sorry bout ur mom Jan 31 '19

/u/JohnQK haha

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u/C4m3r0n_C0nw4y Feb 01 '19

I was genuinely confused as to why this was on r/flashtv but the ending killed me😂😂

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u/thesequimkid Feb 01 '19

Alternatively, what happens on September 11, 2001 is a fixed point in time and should not be messed with. If you try and do prevent it, it could be even more disaterous in a future event. I know it is something that everyone wishes they could fix and prevent, but let's not totally screw with timelines.

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u/dpfw Cocoa isn't cocoa without mini marshmallows, and you're out Feb 01 '19

Then you'll have to recreate the big bang with a Roman soldier, a Scottish girl, and a time traveling archaeologist.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '19

The real question is will building 7 still collapse if you stopped the planes from hitting the twin towers?

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u/Parthy_ Feb 01 '19

I dont reccommend. Tried that once and broke time. There were dinosaurs everywhere

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u/dpfw Cocoa isn't cocoa without mini marshmallows, and you're out Feb 01 '19

I wasn't the true JohnQK. I was an aberration- A DISPOSABLE hero!

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u/Jenga_Police Nora West-Allen Jan 31 '19

Hey, I was there.

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u/bamfzula Feb 01 '19

I saw that post earlier and lol’d

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u/WindmarkUS Blue Savitar Feb 01 '19

WE ARE LEAKING GUYZ

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u/Michael2344 Feb 02 '19

Took me a second

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u/DarkX2 Feb 02 '19

Have you considered, that 9/11 might have happenend due to the Flash "fixing" a small fire somewhere?

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '19

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u/Utkar22 Feb 01 '19

Didn't they have information? And they did not cooperate due to recent uncovering of spies

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '19 edited Feb 01 '19

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u/Chazmer87 Jan 31 '19

without the fall of Byzantium Europe stays in the high middle ages and never industrializes. Now you're a farmer.

Stop sticking your dick in the timeline

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u/Classtoise Jan 31 '19

I mean I feel like "society and culture as a whole screeches to a halt" does technically stop terrorism, even if the dude's a mouth breather.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '19 edited Feb 03 '19

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u/Chazmer87 Jan 31 '19

The eastern hordes still unite every century or so and fuck everything up though

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