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This would actually make a great story idea... basically the self-fulfilling prophecy time travel trope combined with the no matter what you do you cant change history time travel trope.
Hitler in the story would start out as a "good guy", kind, compassionate, loves people of all races, just wants to pain. But time and time again time travelers keep going back trying to kill him, always targeting him before he has body guards or power. Hitler doesn't know their time travelers of course. But every murder attempt inevitably fails (because it cant change history) and slowly changes Hitler into an evil person who hates humanity as an emotional response to each attempt on his life. So that the very act of time travelers trying to kill him is eventually what creates the monster Hitler turned out to be after all.
I fear though it might piss off way too many people, especially if it paints Hitler as a good guy in his youth as any representation of him as anything other than evil might be seen as being a pro-Hitler thing (even though I wouldn't see it that way since the novel would still portray him as evil int he end).
@freemo I'm seeing a paradox there. If he was so good and compassionate to begin with, why would there even be any time travelers trying to kill him?
@trinsec Because he turned evil later in life and killed millions. The time travelers arent trying to kill him for who he was or what he did in his early life, only for who he was or what he did later in life. It just so happens the time travelers are the ones who caused the very thing they were trying to stop.
@freemo But if he turned evil later in life and killed millions, then the time travellers won't even matter. He will still turn evil later and kill millions, time travellers or no.
If the time travellers were the ones who caused the very thing, then he couldn't have turned evil later before the time travellers came into effect, so the time travellers wouldn't even had a reason to go kill him and...
Ye gods, am I seeing the end of the galaxy unfolding? Wow! It's a pretty sight!
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@trinsec There is no "before the time travelers came into effect". You are trying to evaluate cause and effect from a perspective that is outside of time in the first place, which doesnt work. The cause and effect here is circular: Hitler becomes evil because of time traveling hitman, time traveling hitman exist because hitler turns evil. There is no reality where hitler doesn't turn evil.
@freemo But isn't this called a paradox? What's the big bang for this one?
Kind of reminds me of 12 Monkeys. I should watch that movie again, that one was so confusing.
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