He should of killed Hitler


He would of saved millions of lives if he had let that guy kill Hitler. Was it really worth stopping him just to stop time changing?

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Think about the Red Alert scenario, killing Hitler could have made everything worse.

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The movie would be a real blast if he killed Hitler and explore a future alternative reality they found himself with another future that they are not happy with. But in the realms of fiction, that alternative reality with Hitler killed set up another worse scenario, such as no United Nations, the rise in power of the Jews controlling the world, or some other neat stuff like the Chinese Ruling the World or Russian Takeover of the World amid United States is no longer in existence but a few Christian Terrorists networks experimenting with time travel. It would be cool. And these guys had to go back again creatively without the otherselves aware that Hitler was not dead just to make sure Hitler was alive!

At least in the world of fiction an alternative future should be explored, but not necessarily a good one. One clear reminder of that is the Butterfly Effect, and Butterfly Effect 2. All alternative seems to be really bad, but unexpected. Cool! Great idea. Too bad, we have to make our own comic books of this idea and give them for free instead of seeing them on celluloid films.

Unfortunately this kind of story line requires big budgets with all these new scenarios, e.g. U.S. speaking Russian, a minority Christian Terrorists and their time travelling experiments, U.S. no longer existed due to hydrogen bomb blown on it, and other mind boggling alternative reality.

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I think it was good the way it was the parallel universe plot is too expensive.

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Yep. That's the first scenario I think of with a "killing Hitler" alternate future. However, it might even run deeper:

- Thanks to Hitler, the world was horrified with Nazism, therefore Facism was seen as "something very bad", killing the movement which before WW2 was gaining momentum in various Western nations (even in the US!)
- Other things like Eugenics were also set back because of Hitler's implementation of this, including the T4 program.
- Mussolini "invented" Facism, Hitler merely copied it; there is a reason its called "Facism" and not "Nazism".

Had Hitler not risen into power, we might have ended up with many Western countries under Facism, against the USSR's "Totalitarian Socialism". Kind of like Orwell's 1984; your side is as bad as the "other's side". Eek.

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"He would of saved millions of lives if he had let that guy kill Hitler. Was it really worth stopping him just to stop time changing?"

I hope you are just playing stupid. Altering anything by just being there so one turn around and see you would change everything, not to mention killing hitler. Maybe alot of innocent people today would not be alive if we killed hitler because of a series of events that would lead to them never being born. Who are you to judge who should live or not. Maybe your grandgrandgrandgrand dad was a freakin monster raping children, should we go back and kill him resulting in you never getting born in the first place (if we could that is).

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He should've killed Hitler because it would've been rad, and just before the final fight with Hitler, Hitler turns into some Nazi zombie dragon. C'mon this is not the kind of movie that makes you think, you watch it to see a martial artist fight Nazis. Citizen Kane it is not.

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the movie with that as title would have been so much better to show what would have happened if hitler never came about.
i was disappointed also that he did not kill hitler.

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Did you note, that when he returned after failing to catch this guy for a firts time, his boss said him that doctor's husband died in a war? That might be a hint, that killing Hitler caused eventually some other war or wars in this new timeline, which were maybe ever more deadly than world war two.

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Here's a thought... What about an alternate reality in which the death of Hitler prior to his rise to power turns out to be a good thing? I don't think I've ever seen anyone explore that possibility. Everyone's always so busy pointing out the irony of how Hitler's death might have actually had a negative affect that no one* even considers the possibility that maybe Hitler's death during, say, WWI would have been for the best after all...

*Or rather, the people who do think that the premature death of Hitler would have been a good thing tend to fall into the same category as the OP and seem to be utterly incapable of considering the indirect trickle down affects of a single event.

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The argument about killing hitler before his rise has been discussed lots of times, for starters the world may end up being overpopulated if 6 million Jews and other minority groups weren't murdered, or if Hitler was wiped out, there may have been someone more evil waiting to take power, a person who may have decided to wipe the British Army out at Dunkirk before we got back to England, then launched a successful invasion of Southern England, the kind of person who would've understood that launching Barbarossa when ol' Adolf did was madness, and may have ended up launching it months later when the weather would benefit the Germans and they may have crushed Stalin, that would have given the Nazis pretty much control in all of europe stretching to the pacific, where they would then help the Japs conquer the rest of Asia, the whole American continent would be alone facing a threat on both coasts with no help at all, no british, no russians just the U.S alone with the Japs and Krauts breathing down there necks, when it comes to the debate of going back to kill hitler, it is not worth the hassle his death in say 1933 would cause, better the devil you know!!!

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Bad scenario. Remember, the reason why you and I think of nazis as bad is because it happend. If the holocaust and the nazis never happend the world might have been a more racist and unfriendlier place.

Even if the holocaust and the nazi crimes where horrible, the world learned from this. Think of it as one hell of wake up call.


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