ArgosyMTM World History

Here is a list of events that have happened in the world, and how they're different in the ArgosyMTM AU to OTL. Note some similarities to “Johnsonverse”.

Stars
Green and purple stars are possible ITTL.

The System as a whole
There are two more stars that the planets orbit: the Sun has a small red companion known as Mal, and a purple ”twin” known as Eclipsa.

Planets in general
(TBA, but there are 30 planets here, instead of just 8)

Dwarf planets
Eris was discovered much earlier, meaning that Pluto was “demoted” in 1951 instead of 2006.

Venus
Venus’s moon Neith turned out to be real and not an illusion.

Earth
Earth is Super-Earth-sized ITTL, which means several more countries and continents to explore. More specifically, several countries from Dream Fiction, Mihsign, Jonaspedia, and Fic5689 wikis exist on Earth ITTL, as well as all of Geography Now’s April Fools countries, and several obscure Wikia and Miraheze sites’ countries (such as Sintopia).

Earth also has a second, slightly smaller moon known as “Lilith”, or the “Black Moon”, whose near side has far more craters than either side of Luna, giving it a “dzrk” look. This means that the name “Luna” for the IOTL moon is more common. There are also three more moons, known as Lucifer, Selene, and Arta. Lucifer is the core of a dead star that ended up in Earth’s orbit, and has a “rainbow glow” effect; Selene is habitable and has human colonies on it; and Arta is a larger version of OTL’s Cruithne, much like Mars’ moons IOTL.

Species
Due to Earth being bigger, there are more species of animals, such as dylanuses, a group of extremely-humanoid big cats. Also, several species that are purely mythological IOTL exist ITTL.

Countries
As mentioned above, there are several more countries in existence, due to the Earth being bigger. Some notable countries include El Kadsre, Netralia, Jonas, Zakavia, Herkatia, Magisteria, Kyantuly, Eruowood, Ludussia, Neltody, and the Republic of Wilson.

British Isles
The British Isles contain more islands, and therefore, more countries, such as Jonas, Brian, Jinja, Evieline, Rycotte, Cyverdemyan, and the Euro Republics.

Japan and Japanese language
ITTL, like in Johnsonverse, Japan was annexed into the United States following a failed coup. However, this is offset by more Japanese-speaking countries existing, such as Neon District, Kozankyo, and El Kadsre.

United States
The United States has 14 more states, making a grand total of 64. 8 of these are the OTL 8 regions of Japan, and Puerto Rico and Superior (the OTL Upper Peninsula) are also made states. Altamasstachia, Mallettbarr, Zeconnemeleth, and Sintopia are landmasses that do not exist IOTL; Sintopia is notable as being mostly reclaimed land (what was once an archipelago when the British “discovered” it, is now one big island).

Interstate Highways and US Routes
ITTL, the AASHTO and state DOTs refused to get rid of Routes 66 and 99 to make way for the new Interstates. As a result, Eisenhower did the “nuclear option” of transferring all highway maintenance and planning to a QUANGO known as the Interstate Foundation.

MTM Enterprises
International Family Entertainment would be bought out by Canadian cable company Shaw Communications in 1996, and spun off (along with Nelvana and the Canadian YTV-related channels) into Corus Entertainment in 1999. This means that MTM Enterprises would still exist today, instead of being folded into Fox. (Corus would have spun off its US assets, including MTM and Argosy Media, as Argosy Communications (now ArgosyMTM Group) in 2006.) “In spite of a nail”, the US Family Channel would still be sold to Fox (and later Disney/ABC), meaning that Fox Family, ABC Family, and Freeform still exist. However, ITTL, MTM would hold on to the Family Channel library.

ArgosyMTM libraries
Through several corporate acquisitions and mergers, the Embassy/TAT and Gramercy libraries, as well as most MGM films starring Judy Garland, would be owned by ArgosyMTM Group today.

Chuck E. Cheese and ShowBiz Pizza
Creative Engineering would have been acquired by Argosy Media in 1995. Aaron Fechter would also become a nicer person after meeting Ellen Peck, and wouldn’t be as hostile towards fans. Later on, in 2015, ArgosyMTM Group would acquire CEC Entertainment, and make several changes, including a new “retraux” design for the CEC characters known as “Redux”, and reviving the ShowBiz brand and characters (as they already owned CEI). This process was known as “Concept Division”.

Judy Garland
Judy Garland would form her own production company, which would later be sold to TVS (and now owned by ArgosyMTM Group). The Judy Garland Show would be co-produced by Garland’s own company, under the television unit, Judy Garland Television. She also would have had another daughter named Judy Garland Jr., who would take over the company after her mother died. In 1973, Judy Garland Jr. and Judy Garland Productions would have won a lawsuit against MGM over personality rights, meaning most MGM films starring Judy Garland (except for The Wizard of Oz) would become owned by Judy Garland Productions (and later ArgosyMTM Group).

Embassy Pictures/Television
Coca-Cola would also acquire Embassy Pictures around the same time as Embassy Television, and would have continued to own Embassy after selling off Columbia and TriStar, until 1989 when it was sold back to Norman Lear. This means that the Embassy name would survive until today. Shaw Communications would have acquired Embassy in 1997, and it would now be part of ArgosyMTM Group. This means that the TAT and Embassy libraries would be owned by ArgosyMTM Group instead of Sony. ”In spite of a nail”, older Embassy and TAT logos would still be plastered, but with MTM logos instead of ColTri or Sony logos. This means that the complete TAT logo would still be lost media.

NASCAR
NASCAR would have been acquired by Argosy Communications (now ArgosyMTM Group) in 2011. It would have been allowed to remain mostly autonomous at first, but after a series of poor decisions, Ellen Peck herself would take personal control in 2014, introducing a new car called the “Strictly Stock Car” which is as close as possible to showroom models (while still retaining safety features), and also allowing much more auto companies to enter their car brands into NASCAR.

YTMND
YTMND would be acquired by Argosy in 2007, which would make changes to keep it relevant against YouTube (and later on, Vine and TikTok), including expanding the features to allow more advanced subdomain sites. As a result, it would still be a popular site today, instead of becoming a minor niche community.

Arena football
The Arena Football League would have been acquired by NASCAR/WWE Entertainment in 2009, which was in turn acquired by ArgosyMTM in 2011. This means that the AFL wouldn’t have had its decline, and the IFL would have merged with AFL in 2012, with all of its teams (as well as af2 teams) becoming AFL teams. FCF also wouldn’t exist, with all of its teams being AFL teams instead, as part of a publicity stunt called “Fan-Controlled Arena Football”. Other indoor football leagues such as AIF, CIF, NAL, and AAL would still exist, but wouldn’t be as popular as AFL.

Due to WWE being owned by AMTM, Ellen Peck would have convinced Vince McMahon not to bring back the XFL, instead allowing him to take control of the AFL and implement his plans for the XFL revival into arena football.

Hasbro and Nintendo
Due to Japan being part of the United States, Hasbro would have bought out Takara in 1984. However, in 1996, something even bigger happened: Hasbro merged with Nintendo, forming the HasbroNintendo Group, which would go on to acquire IDW (in 2002), Bandai-Namco (in 2007), and Valve (in 2009). This resulted in many changes.

Super Mario franchise
There is a clearly-defined “Marioverse”, consisting of the Mario (and all spin-offs), Donkey Kong, Yoshi, Wario Land, WarioWare, Rhythm Heaven, Conker, Banjo-Kazooie, Pac-Man, R.O.B., and Game & Watch series. Characters originating from the RPGs and Wario games make appearances in the “main” Mario series, as well as some characters from acquired companies. The Mario and Sonic Olympics series is instead “HasbroNintendo Olympics”, also featuring characters from Legend of Zelda, Kirby, Pokémon, Pac-Man, My Little Pony, Transformers, and several other characters.

Games
As Japan would be part of the US, SMB2J (The Lost Levels) would be released worldwide; our SMB2U would be titled Super Mario Bros. 3 on both sides of the Pacific; and our SMB3 would likewise be Super Mario Bros. 4. Also, SMW would use the “Super Mario Bros. 5” subtitle worldwide, and the “Super Mario World 2” subtitle would’ve been applied to Yoshi’s Safari instead of Yoshi’s Island.

Bowser would also get his own spinoff series starting in 1993, BowserQuest, a combination platformer/RPG series where Bowser gets to be the good guy for once, defending his Koopa Kingdom from an attack by the evil Tabuu. This would have some similarities to OTL’s Smash Bros story modes (with the Smash games being primarily fighting games with no real plot ITTL, and the closest thing to a villain being Master Hand).

Adaptations
The Mario franchise would have better adaptations into other media, with the DiC cartoons from OTL being co-produced by Argosy, and being followed by a French/Canadian/US-co-produced Super Mario 64 cartoon using the same motion-captured early CGI as the Donkey Kong Country cartoon from the same era. The Touchstone Mario movie didn’t exist ITTL, which means adaptations into other media continued. The SM64 cartoon was however followed by a hiatus of Mario cartoons, until 2010 with the launch of The Hub, when The New Super Mario Super Show was launched, using a similar “thick black line” art style to OTL’s 2D Nintendo promotional art. This series was extremely successful, and continues until today. As a result, the upcoming Mario movie is EXTREMELY different, being a film spinoff of the cartoon show, with the voice actors from the games reprising their roles, and is a MTM Films production instead of Universal/Illumination.

The Mario-Kun manga series would have concluded in 2002 ITTL.

G4
G4 would be extremely different, being co-created by Lauren Faust, Michael Mikulak (a controversial fanfic author IOTL, aka “Mykan”; ITTL, is much saner, and was hired by Hasbro in 2006 to write for Transformers), and Tiger Lee Clarke (the last one being an executive who has two things in mind: worldbuilding, and selling as much toys as possible). The most obvious difference is that there is a Mane 12 instead of a Mane 6, as Clarke believed that twice the mane cast would sell twice the toys. Also, like in G1, Megan Williams exists as a human sidekick to the ponies, going with her sister Molly through an Equestria portal with no way out.

There would be much more complex worldbuilding. Tiger Lee Clarke would have to convince the execs in charge of the project (mostly Nintendo alumni) that certain decisions (like Twilight becoming an Alicorn Princess and the whole Royal Wedding plotline; both of which were planned by Tiger from the formative era of the series) would sell more toys.

The initial Elements of Harmony in this AU (4 more are added later):
 * Twilight Sparkle (initially Unicorn, later Alicorn, Element of Magic): Is mostly the same as IOTL, but she has both a library AND a castle.
 * Potion Nova (Unicorn, Element of Leadership): Influenced by OTL’s Zecora (who was rejected by Tiger for being a potential racial stereotype ITTL), and based on an IOTL G4.5 character. Also has OTL Twilight’s role as a leader for the Mane 12 (but Twilight still gets the Alicorn promotion, because reasons).
 * Rainbow Dash (Pegasus, Element of Loyalty): Is “decomposited”, with her athletic traits from OTL going to her sister Rainbow Flash. As a result, her talent is controlling weather.
 * Rainbow Flash (Pegasus, Element of Devotion): A “decomposite” of the athletic traits from OTL’s Rainbow Dash, combined with the name of an Unicorn from the OTL G4 merchandise.
 * Rarity (Unicorn, Element of Generosity): Same as IOTL.
 * Pinkie Pie (Earth Pony, Element of Laughter): Mostly same as IOTL, except that her secondary talent of baking is “decomposited” to Minty, to emphasize Pinkie’s theme as a “party animal”. As a result, she lives in a giant bouncy castle instead of the Cakes’ bakery.
 * Minty (Earth Pony, Element of Courage): Combination of an OTL G3 character, with OTL Pinkie’s talents in baked goods, including living in the Cakes’ bakery.
 * Fluttershy (Pegasus, Element of Kindness): Same as IOTL.
 * Applejack (Earth Pony, Element of Honesty): Same as IOTL.
 * Toola Roola (Earth Pony, Element of Creativity): Loosely based on an OTL G3.5 character (the same way Pinkie and RD were), and has a special talent for painting.
 * StarSong (Unicorn, Element of Hope): Loosely based on an OTL G3.5 character, and has a special talent for singing.
 * Snowdrop (Pegasus, Element of Guidance): Based directly on an OTL fan character associated with Luna.

Later through the course of the series, 4 more elements join:
 * Sunset Shimmer (Unicorn, Element of Empathy): Same as OTL, but with more major roles.
 * Starlight Glimmer (Unicorn, Element of Freedom): Same as OTL, but gets her own Element.
 * Waterfire (Earth Pony, Element of Safety): Based on a G3 character.
 * Mirage the Illusionist (Pegasus, Element of Balance): A genderbend of a character from some Pooh-Adventures-adjacent wiki. Is talented at stage/performance magic.

There would also be twice the Cutie Mark Crusaders as well:
 * Apple Bloom (Earth Pony, Applejack’s younger sister): Same as IOTL.
 * Sweetie Belle (Unicorn, Rarity’s younger sister): Same as IOTL.
 * Scootaloo (Pegasus, Rainbow Dash and Rainbow Flash’s adopted younger sister): Only change is her parents died, so she was adopted by RD’s parents.
 * Babs Seed (Earth Pony, Apple Bloom’s twin sister): Main difference is that she was in the group from the start, and she’s Apple Bloom’s twin instead of cousin.
 * Star Dreams (Unicorn, StarSong’s younger sister): Based on an OTL toy character.
 * Skyla (Pegasus, Fluttershy’s younger sister): A “de-alicorned” version of an old fandom OC based on some merchandise.

The School of Friendship plotline was suggested, but Tiger rejected it on sight, saying that it was better fit for the comics (where it ultimately ended up).

Equestria Girls
Equestria Girls was suggested by a low-ranking exec, but was shot down by Tiger Lee Clarke, who said that “we have Megan and Molly, and also, My Little Ponies that aren’t ponies are just as much of a dumb idea as Transformers that don’t transform; we tried that, and if not for the Kenner acquisition bringing in new blood who came up with Beast Wars, the Action Masters would have killed the Transformers brand for good”. Some EQG elements instead end up in the main G4 series.

G5
G5 would have been delayed indefinitely until G4 was no longer making HasNin enough money. G4 is still on air today, and some G5 elements from IOTL, are instead in IDW spin-off comic books about the future of Equestria. This means that Pony Life never existed, and some of its own elements are in FiM instead.

Microsoft
Microsoft started as a film production company associated with Argosy, and continued as an Argosy subsidiary until 2002, when it was broken up in an antitrust lawsuit, with Office and related software being spun off into an independent company (later acquired by Google to form Google Docs), and Windows and MSN online services remaining with Argosy as Windows Corporation (later shortened to Wincorp). This means the Xbox consoles never happen, which means Sega is still making its own consoles today, though they also operate as a “second-party” developer for Nintendo as well.

Windows
Bill Gates left Microsoft after the antitrust lawsuit, with Wincorp headed by Steve Ballmer releasing three widely-panned Windows versions: Windows XP Second Edition (2002), Windows Longhorn (2004), and Windows Vista (2006). Due to Ballmer’s poor performance, Wincorp acquires Macromedia (see below) to get Bill Gates back. Bill Gates scraps a planned “Metro” redesign, and starts a “Golden Age” of Windows that continues until today, with the aim to make every release a new 95 or XP. This leads to Windows 7 (2009), Windows 8 (2012), Windows 9 (2014), Windows X (2016), Windows Blue (2019), and Windows ‘21 (2021), all of which are widely praised.

Newer Windows versions don’t try to force a Microsoft online account on you.

Bill Gates
Bill Gates never goes into the medical field; after initially leaving Microsoft, he briefly goes into philanthropy, but is later picked as the CEO of Macromedia. After Wincorp acquires Macromedia, Gates decides to “stick to software”. This means that the Bill Gates vaccine microchip conspiracy theory is much less commonplace, and the WEF/Klaus Schwab Great Reset conspiracy theory is slightly more commonplace.

Macromedia
Macromedia never merges with Adobe, instead hiring Bill Gates to run the company. Due to Ballmer failing with XPSE, Longhorn, and Vista, Wincorp acquires Macromedia solely to get Gates back (like how Apple acquired NextStep to get Steve Jobs back). One thing to note is that this version of Macromedia lobbies heavily for Canvas and WebAssembly to be included in HTML5 earlier (meaning Flash is phased out earlier), and Procreate is a Macromedia product ITTL. While Adobe goes with the controversial Creative Cloud model, Macromedia decides to sell software in the traditional version method to retain brand loyalty.