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!

I’ve always had an idea of a movie about one of the random citizens that’s always in the background of major superhero fights. He’s a normal everyday guy that keeps finding himself having to duck and cover when some crazy fight happens around him. One time he hides in a nearby food truck while Spider-Man fights the green goblin, another time he just plays dead while some bank robbery goes wrong. We only get glimpses of what/who are fighting, it’s more focused on him just trying to stay inconspicuous. He tries moving to different cities, but it always follows him. It could have a comedic side to it too, where he meets some other people who’ve also been one of the background character running for cover and they bond over sharing the story of how they survived. One dude hid in a bathroom the whole time, another guy coulda been super high just chilling in his room thinking all the chaotic noise was just coming from the action movie he was watching. Always seemed like a pretty unique premise that could be interesting.

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.