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If you go back and fix the thing, but your memories are intact, you definitely have the scars to show for it, you did all the growing and overcoming - and you prevent the thing from happening. Is it still the same as "not having happened at all"?

(not talking about Marvel, that just sucked in general)

would be an interesting bunny, to deal with depression by jumping a short time into the future, "maybe in a few months I'll feel better. Maybe in a year or two". I haven't seen that done.

I think I did see done, but can't remember where, the idea that people can be "stolen" into the future if you arrive just a few seconds before they die, thus preventing the problem of changing your own future - they would not have been a part of the timeline. Where was it?... Grr, I have such a clear concept

Hm, here's an idea: if you change the time stream... Okay, let's try this way: someone runs to you and says they're from now, but went back in time and now everything's different! And they think the other world was better! but you don't want to undo all the kids born in the meantime, you don't want to undo everything and everyone. Is there a way to... re-merge somehow in the near future, so that both "worlds", both alternates, will regroup somehow? like those trees that have their trunk split and kept apart but meet again at a higher point for decorative purposes. You know the ones? Like that, but time.