favorite dystopia/utopia alternate and future

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this is about almost clich? of seeing the bad guy winning or the good guys turning evil episodes that we see either by a dream, time machine, etc.it can also be utopia(with or without).

so this thread is about your favorite episode in animation involving this scenario.

my favorite I can recall from my youth is darkwing duck with negaverse, godzilla the series with the monsters create by that scientist and ghostbuster extreme when the ghost in the container will be released in future.

that all for me now.
 
G.I. Joe Worlds Without End,,a future where Cobra won the war and all the joes died (bear in mind this was 1985 when death was still taboo for most kids cartoons).
 
Don't know if this counts, but I love Homer constantly changing the future (er... the present) with his mishaps in the prehistoric past during "Time and Punishment" (THOH V). It's still one of my favorite THOH shorts.

The "Ned rules the world" is arguably my favorite alternate existence, especially the lobotomy scene.
Ned: If all that smiling didn't cheer you up, there's one thing that never fails: A glass of warm milk, a nice nap, and a total frontal lobotomy!
Moe: It's not so bad, Homer, they... they go in through your nose and... they let you keep the piece of brain they take out. OH! Hello, hello there! Who's that big man over there? Who's that?
Lisa/Bart: Join us, father.
Marge: It's..... bliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiisssssssssss. :D
 
Arrgh.. there are great examples of one on the tip of my tounge. One where the hero went to the future and found that he was the evil ruler of a dystopia. Superman, maybe?
I think there was another one like that where a wacky side character became the evil ruler...
And wasn't there a Fairly Odd Parents ep like that?
 
I'm not positive, I think there was a Kim Possible episode where Kim and Ron were sent to the future. Sheego was the overlord dictator, and they made fun of the idea that people in the future always look like they're lifting weights :)
 
No "The Ultimate Enemy" mention? This is what MADE Danny Phantom for me. If more episodes were like this, the show would be much better to me.
 
Dark Warrior Duck (Darkwing Duck) was the first of those kind of episodes I remember seeing, and its still probably my favorite. The Hero becoming the evil overlord, in direct response to the villains? The time travel itself being the incident that causes the hero's change? The heroine needing the help of said villains to set things right? To a kid, that was some pretty deep stuff. And mind-blowingly awesome.

Future Tense (Gargoyles) is also awesome in so many ways...

A Stitch in Time (Kim Possible) was hilarious, but did quite rise to level of awesome.

X-Men, the animated series had a couple episodes like this. Starting, of course, with Days of Our Future's Past. But the episode I really remember liking was a later two-parter. It started with Bishop going back in time to stop Apocalpse, for the sake of the far future. Then, for the sake of the even farther future, Cable had to go back in time to stop Bishop. Aside from the actual episodes (which had some really good parts), it was a fun twist on the concept.
 
I really like the Kids Next Door alternate future where girls dominated the planet. :D The Ultimate Enemy future from Danny Phantom was also cool. But I definitely love the JLU's A Better World alternate timeline. Also the alternate timeline which Jack Spicer ruled the world from Xiaolin Showdown was neat too.
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I agree. DP definately should have played with the idea that Danny could still gone over to the dark side.

Future Tense from Gargoyles, and the dysutopian TMNT episode were also great.
 
Honestly, to me, I felt "TUE" was the conclusion of Danny's struggle with darkness, something hinted as early as "Parental Bonding" (him using his overshadowing abilities for his own selfish ends) and downright exposed in "Splitting Images", and then gaining leg from then on till "TUE".

After "TUE", Danny's general characterization comes in the form of his growing maturity and having to deal with his newfound fame, something that which makes him weary and cynical over it (well, the way I see it). It's pretty much over and done with, why drag it on any further? If anything, Tucker is the one who needed closure on his terrible vice and leanings to the dark side, both of which he easily exhibited in the two episodes starring him.
 
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