The most common subversion, the "Better if Not Born" Plot, is that everybody's life is better. Usually the character learns that everyone they know would be worse off without them. If a show hasn't done a Yet Another Christmas Carol episode yet (or if they have already done so), they'll be doing this one. Episodes with this plot usually take place around Christmas time, because It's a Wonderful Life takes place around Christmas. May occur as part of a Near-Death Experience, or following Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter. Most often, the change is that the character in question had never been born. After the movie It's a Wonderful Life, a device whereby an external force (usually supernatural) intervenes in a time of crisis to show the character facing said crisis a Flash Sideways of how things would have been had one key part of the past gone down differently.
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