What-If Scenarios Writing Prompts

Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile, only to learn that no one else went into isolation.

Mr. Bean is the lesser known fifth horseman of the apocalypse, ignorance. Unintentionally Mr. Bean arrives too early for the apocalypse and is stuck living an ordinary human life leaving destruction in his wake. The four horsemen finally arrive...

In an alternate reality JK Rowling died writing The Deathly Hallows and requested George RR Martin finish the book. He accepted and takes over at the Battle of Hogwarts with no instruction on how it's supposed to end.

After North Korea declares that they will start a nuclear war if a single bullet is fired The Us military goes medieval

You are Kim Jong Un. You want nothing more than to reunite with the South, but your advisors will overthrow you if they find out. You keep trying to troll global powers to the point where they invade, and you can surrender. This has been going on for years now...

World War III breaks out. As each nation prepares to press the big red button, the earth trembles. Switzerland has literally broken off from earth and takes off into space to avoid the nuclear holocaust.

You just died, but now you’re awake and everyone claims you survived. Turns out when someone dies in one timeline, their consciousness transfers to an alternate where they lived. You are the first person to remember dying, and the first to discover that this makes us effectively immortal.

It turns out humanity was the first, and only spacefaring species to master the atom. After a horrific galactic war, humanity had to bring out its nuclear weapons, to the shock and horror of the rest of the galaxy.

There’s a city divided into 4 districts, govern by factions: knights on the north, pirates on the south, samurais on the east and cowboys on the west. And on the middle stands the only being that keeps the balance: the strongest and the wisest, the peacekeeper, and it’s you, The Bartender.

America has fallen to invaders. But somewhere in occupied San Francisco lurks a dangerous resistance cell, equipped with firearms, ingenuity, and a seemingly limitless supply of C4: the Mythbusters.

The end of the world is at hand. Everyone starts to tick off their bucket list, doing crazy things because they know it won't matter in the long run. In an odd twist of fate, the crisis is averted. Now everyone has to live with the repercussions of what they did.

The year is 2050, Queen Elizabeth is still on the throne. The public is growing suspicious, wondering why she is immortal.

Music is a dangerous weapon, if not careful entire species can fall to madness upon discovering it. It has been theorised that any race with more than a thousand songs could wipe out all intelligent life, which is why Humanity is so feared in the galaxy despite no human really ever knowing why

When Earth discovers FTL travel, the world never unifies into one government. When new species make contact, they are surprised to learn that the twenty strongest empires in the galaxy have their capitals on the same planet.

Humans have always been the friendliest and the most peaceful species in the galaxy. When one of the most ruthless empires decides to wipe out the pathetic humans and their diplomacy, they discover that humans have something that no one in the galaxy has ever seen. Nuclear weapons.

The only reason the world hasn't ended yet is because the Gods are locked in a war to determine who's version of Apocalypse will take place. Unbeknownst to them, a minor God has been slowly working towards his version for millennia, and the rest are finally starting to catch on.

"What iteration of civilization are you on? It always takes, like, a hundred just to get to farming, then civilization falls back and resets, and it takes a thousand to trade, ten thousand to get to government... What do you mean 'One?' Your species has never been reset to hunter-gatherers?"

Humans are 1000x more sensitive to the smell of petrichor (that smell you get with rain) than sharks are to blood, to no apparent evolutionary advantage. You're privileged to be a part of the first welcoming committee to meet our new Non-Human arrivals in person. They smell like petrichor.

A human ship activated its self destruct sequence when boarded by an enemy, when humanity was asked why would we do such a thing by the galactic community, we simply responded "We don't give up the ship, such as the crews of old. We never give up the ship."

We “knew” humans were weak as they avoided every war with diplomacy. We never imagined they’d be this ruthless & how seemingly overnight they went from peaceful beings to a state they call “TOTAL WAR”. War is in their blood & soul. They thrive on it, mostly when the odds are against them

The galaxy is on the brink of war between two major factions. In order to prevent it, the two sides secretly chose modern day Earth to become a scapegoat as an imminent threat to the galaxy. However, they underestimated Earth, which is now a rising third power in the galaxy.

Nuclear weapons have been banned for so long in the a galactic community that most aliens think they’re just fairytales. Imagine their surprise when they see humans using them in a war.

You're a dimension-hopper, who can walk through parallel worlds like turning a corner. The increasing number of apocalyptic Earths is really starting to bother you, though

Aliens first observed our planet long before the Industrial Revolution, a perfectly habitable world ripe for conquest. However, it takes hundreds of years for the invasion fleet to arrive and they are in for one hell of a suprise.

It’s 1000 years in the future and the USA no longer exists. What country(ies) now exist in place of it? What type of governments do they have? What is their culture like?

Instead of causing intoxication, alcohol causes arousal. It is not possible to orgasm from drinking alone, so bars and house parties turn into huge, desperate public edging sessions.

In a alternate 1950's world where men are born far less frequently and seen as too valuable to waste in dangerous jobs, men tend to become househusbands as soon as possible, generally right after high school. You, the only man in your high school not currently dating someone, just turned 18.

In this world the birth ratio is about 15% male to 85% female. Due to this harems are completly normal. Whats a day in the life for a married set.

"What would you change about the world if you here in the beginning?" Your porn addled, ever horny mind gave the curious old man an entirely inappropriate answer. "Why didn't I think of that? Oh well, not too late to add it in." He vanishes and you go on your way. But things seem... different.

Somehow, seemingly overnight, the entire world became a porno. Stuff still gets done, people go to work, students of all ages still go to school, kinks exist so on and so forth. You are the only one that remembers "Old Earth." What is your new day like?