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Which isn't correct. If you're using a static time theory (things can not be changed and all of time is already written) then there is no room for anything alternate. That is why every future is a possibility (100% if you're using the static theory) but not necessarily alternate (depending on who is doing the theorizing).



All variables (possibilities) are alternative until they're mainsteam--Which doesn't necessarily mean that it will eventually be mainstream mind you. A variable, a "could have happened" situation, is a possibility. But the fact that it's one of many variables, means that it's alternate reality just like all the others until one is your definite future and present, then, later on, your past. Because the Bruce Wayne of that future didn't actually go on the mission with Diana and John, but Batman of the past did, that makes it an alternate reality because that future was never actually legitimately reached, and after the "Once and Future Thing" incident, it never will be.

True, this does not necessarily mean that the Batman Beyond future in general will never be reached by the JLU continuum--However, the fact that the JLU laws of time travel are the way they are means that no time travel episode to the future will mean that it can't be said with any certainty that the portrayed future will be reached either. (I can't word that any better. Sorry.)


You're running under the presumption that all time is variable. Again, that is simply one theory and not definitive. If time is considered static (another more viable theory) then there is never an alternate future, only the static, or "mainstream," one.

Or, to put it another way, the idea that the future is broken up into alternate possibilities is not definitive, only speculative.