# Youtube humorous cartoon on time travel killing Hitler **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 8, 2025, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-humorous-cartoon-on-time-travel-killing-hitler/1016802 "2025-04-08T19:49:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-humorous-cartoon-on-time-travel-killing-hitler/1016802/1 "2025-04-08T19:49:15Z")
I recall watching a Youtube video a few years ago (maybe I even got the link from here), but can’t find it anymore. So I hope you guys (or whatever is the term for women and men) may help me. It was a humorous cartoon/animation style video about why it is not a good idea to go back in time to kill Adolf Hitler. It had something to do with how there were repercussions, other people would also time travel to try to undo your effort and so on. The animation style was more in the vein of videos like In A Nutshell/Kurzgesagt. Does this ring a bell? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-humorous-cartoon-on-time-travel-killing-hitler/1016802/2 "2025-04-08T20:16:46Z")
I can’t help on your vid, but there is this famous comic on-point: [![](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/kill_hitler.png) ](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/kill_hitler.png) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-humorous-cartoon-on-time-travel-killing-hitler/1016802/3 "2025-04-08T20:20:04Z")
Any chance you are misremembering this short story as an animation? > **[Wikihistory - Reactor](https://reactormag.com/wikihistory/)** > > Wikihistory by Desmond Warzel ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-humorous-cartoon-on-time-travel-killing-hitler/1016802/4 "2025-04-08T20:55:17Z")
> [@Tusculan](#): > > So I hope you guys (or whatever is the term for women and men) I use “folks”. That’s a pretty common choice. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-humorous-cartoon-on-time-travel-killing-hitler/1016802/5 "2025-04-08T21:10:59Z")
This is a very common trope but you may be remembering [Alternate Histories](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8xfvos) from Love, Death, and Robots. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-humorous-cartoon-on-time-travel-killing-hitler/1016802/6 "2025-04-08T22:10:31Z")
But if you go back and kill Hitler, people will forget fascists are bad… Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-humorous-cartoon-on-time-travel-killing-hitler/1016802/7 "2025-04-08T22:47:22Z")
You wamna kill him late enough, but not too late. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-humorous-cartoon-on-time-travel-killing-hitler/1016802/8 "2025-04-08T23:25:40Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > You wamna kill him late enough, but not too late Yep, timing is everything. The timing of the xkcd cartoon you linked to upthread is obviously far too late. You kill baby Hitler? Then everybody’s all like “you _monster_, you just killed a _ **baby** _!” His struggling artist days are probably the best window of opportunity. Nobody likes or will miss another broke, mediocre yet pretentious art student. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-humorous-cartoon-on-time-travel-killing-hitler/1016802/9 "2025-04-09T00:20:25Z")
Side bar: > « BRB, killing Hitler. » What’s « BRB », please? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-humorous-cartoon-on-time-travel-killing-hitler/1016802/10 "2025-04-09T00:20:40Z")
ETA: @solost 2 posts up. One bullet or random artillery shell into a German trench in 1917 and a lot of trouble is happily and uncontroversially avoided. What’s one more faceless dead German Imperial infantryman among the hundreds of thousands of others? > [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > What’s « BRB », please? In this context, “be right back”. As in “wait a minute; I will return promptly.” ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-humorous-cartoon-on-time-travel-killing-hitler/1016802/11 "2025-04-09T00:22:33Z")
BRB = Be Right Back ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-humorous-cartoon-on-time-travel-killing-hitler/1016802/12 "2025-04-09T00:24:47Z")
Thank you both. There is so much popular culture that has passed me by. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-humorous-cartoon-on-time-travel-killing-hitler/1016802/13 "2025-04-09T00:25:57Z")
Fear not, oh learned one; you are _not_ alone. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-humorous-cartoon-on-time-travel-killing-hitler/1016802/14 "2025-04-09T02:49:31Z")
Was it something to go with that “Wikihistory” short story? The original story did not have an illustration to go with it, or did it? The earliest documented (in the Wikipedia page) assassination attempt was in 1932, but who knows. Popular fellow. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-humorous-cartoon-on-time-travel-killing-hitler/1016802/15 "2025-04-09T03:13:40Z")
I used this question in a quiz in my beginning computer programming classes, just to see how nerdy my students were: _Complete this quote: “You’ve got a time machine, I’ve got a gun. What the hell – let’s \_\_\_\_\_ \_\_\_\_\_\_!”_ Of course the answer was _“kill Hitler”_. Not too many of my students knew the quote was from Doctor Who. > **[“You’ve got a time machine, I’ve got a gun. What the hell – let’s kill Hitler.”](https://botisrpg.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/youve-got-a-time-machine-ive-got-a-gun-what-the-hell-lets-kill-hitler/)** > > ‘Let’s Kill Hitler’ introduced us to Mels, Amy and Rory’s unlikely wild child friend. No sooner has she caught up with them and the Doctor she pulls a gun and hijacks the TARDIS. In my review of th… ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-humorous-cartoon-on-time-travel-killing-hitler/1016802/16 "2025-04-09T03:20:30Z")
Drop into Vienna 112 years ago and make a busy night of it: [Hitler, Stalin, Trotsky](https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21859771.amp) and to (maybe) pull the fuse out of the powder keg, Franz Ferdinand ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-humorous-cartoon-on-time-travel-killing-hitler/1016802/17 "2025-04-11T18:30:15Z")
As far as I know, the BRB came from text messages on phones and in video games. Brevity tends to be valued in those short informal messages. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-humorous-cartoon-on-time-travel-killing-hitler/1016802/18 "2025-04-11T19:54:38Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > As far as I know, the BRB came from text messages on phones and in video games. Older than that. The OED’s first print reference to BRB is from PC MAG in 1988. > **[Oxford English Dictionary](https://www.oed.com/?tl=true)** > > The OED is the definitive record of the English language, featuring 600,000 words, 3 million quotations, and over 1,000 years of English. But apparently BRB is fading away because people now are rarely AFK. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/10/13/no-one-says-brb-anymore-because-we-never-sign-offline/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/10/13/no-one-says-brb-anymore-because-we-never-sign-offline/) ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2025, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-humorous-cartoon-on-time-travel-killing-hitler/1016802/19 "2025-04-12T05:47:13Z")
As always, there’s a TVTropes page for it. > **[Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act - TV Tropes](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct)** > > If you were given the power to travel through time and Set Right What Once Went Wrong, how would you improve the world? For many, the answer is obvious: kill Adolf Hitler. This would prevent the atrocities of World War II, The Holocaust, and …