Johnsonverse World History

Here is a list of events that have happened in the world, and how they're different in the Johnsonverse to the OTL.

Treaty of San Francisco
The treaty stipulated that the US annex Japan, making all nine regions states, and the prefectures counties. This was a result of Executive Order 9066 never being signed, and a massive campaign by the Japanese people to join the United States out of fear that, should Japan regain its independence, another nationalist leader could rise to power and start a new war in the Pacific.

Much of the country is now English-speaking (though there are still large parts speaking Traditional Japanese; as these make up 15% of the islands' population, they are known as the "Fifteen-Percenters"). Japanese rail services are run by Continental Rail by way of subsidiary Eastern Pacific Railroad, which is responsible for passenger and freight services. The Shinkansen was introduced in 1964 as in OTL, though with much more difficulty due to obstruction by the automobile lobby, interference that CR swept aside when the Blitzkrieg Crew plowed through a crowd of protesters opposing construction, leaving 64 dead; this action was not sanctioned by Johnson Industries (unlike the Alabama branchline incident), and the foreman and many workers were arrested and either given the death penalty or life in prison; since then, Johnson has stipulated that construction crews may only attack protesters if the latter attacks first.

Korean War
The Korean War began at the same time as OTL, but ended on December 9, 1950. The key factor was North Korea driving through South Korea all the way to Busan but being unable to take the western half of the peninsula, which MacArthur (who was never fired in this timeline) exploited by finding a weakness in this salient, cutting these forces off from Pyongyang and removing a large chunk of North Korea's military. From there, the outnumbered North Korean forces were quickly pushed back, and Communist Chinese forces were of no help, as the PLA couldn't commit an adequate force due to continued policing actions in Southern China. Compounding this was the Soviet Union breaking its promise and staying out of Korea, ostensibly to avoid confronting the United States.

And so, on December 9, 1950, the Treaty of Rajin-Sonbong was signed, formally bringing an end to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. In a controversial move, Kim Il-sung was granted amnesty on the grounds that he never get involved in politics again. He went on to become Korea's most-prolific filmmaker, a legacy carried on by his son Kim Jong-il and his grandson Kim Jong-un.

Apollo
The Apollo 1 fire isn't fatal because concerned North American Aviation engineers managed to sneak a blow-hatch function in, allowing Gus Grissom to blow the hatch and for the crew to quickly bail out before the fire really spread. Apollo 1 ends up having a successful 14-day flight (the original plan called for a 6-day flight, but Grissom had vowed to keep it in orbit for 14, and did so; NASA initially derided this, before realizing that such a long test flight would allow them to retool Apollo 2 into an unmanned LM test, as development of the LM was further along than in OTL) in May 1967, using a repaired and modified Command Module with the Block II hatch.

Apollo 2 was identical to OTL Apollo 5, Apollo 3 saw an unmanned Block I CSM with a docking port rendevouzing with an LM launched on another Saturn IB, Apollo 4 was like OTL, Apollo 5 was a manned version of Apollo 3 with the OTL Apollo 9 crew and the first Block II, Apollo 6 ends up stranded in orbit until it is rescued by Apollo 46 in 1976, Skylab is launched in 1968, Apollo 7 is the first flight to Skylab, Apollo 8 happens as in OTL, Apollo 9 is mostly the same (the crew consists of Gordon Cooper, Al Worden, and Bruce McCandless II), but after the final check-out of the LM, the CSM docks to Skylab, Apollos 10-17 are the same as OTL (meaning Apollo 13 still had its mishap), and Apollos 18-20 are flown as they were planned OTL.

Apollo is indefinitely extended after the Soviets manage to land on the moon (they nixed the troubled N-1 and instead opted for an Earth Orbit Rendevouz mode, which also allowed for an enlarged LK lander); as a result, Apollo grew out into a world-class space program.

The first big improvement was the introduction of the Apollo Supply Craft (ASC; based on the AARDV from "Eyes Turned Skyward"), an unmanned version of Apollo meant for space station resupply that first flew to Skylab in 1973. That same year, Skylab began to be occupied on a permanent basis, with 60-day sorties. In 1974, modules began to be added to Skylab, mainly to support planned military operations and interplanetary flights to Mars and Venus.

Apollo received a blow in April 1975 when Apollo 33 suffered a major malfunction. At T+1 minute 20 seconds, the first stage of the Saturn V suddenly exploded. Fortunately, the onboard Emergency Detection System (EDS) detected the abrupt loss of telemetry data coming from the S-IC, and activated Mode 1B (One Bravo), which saw the first in-flight abort of the Apollo program. The crew (Robert Crippin, Ken Mattingly, and William Pogue) survived, as a result, but the Saturn V was grounded, and all lunar flights put in a stand-down state. Apollo wouldn't fly again until July of that year, for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.

In August 1975, a new rocket was introduced: the Saturn INT-20. In a nutshell, the Saturn INT-20 (later renamed the Saturn II in 1980) is a Saturn V without the S-II stage and only three engines on the S-IC. Fears that this S-IC would explode were vanquished when it performed flawlessly on its first launch, Apollo 38, which launched the Docking Module to Skylab to enable five craft (including Soyuz and Progress in an emergency) to dock to the station.

The next April, the Block III CSM was introduced. The key differences lie in the service module, which was more suited for Earth orbital operations than the cumbersome Block II; the Block III SM is smaller, lighter, and has a smaller antenna and deployable solar panels. It was modified to hold a five-man crew in 1987 as part of a joint program with the European Space Agency.

Lunar flights were reintroduced in 1977 with Apollo 50, commanded by Neil Armstrong. Apollo 50 also marked the first use of the Block IV CSM, which is similar to the Block II, only that it has a pair of LM Ascent Stage engines instead of the SPS, and uses batteries instead of fuel cells; the Block IV was designed for lunar orbit operations. Later that year, the Manned Venus Flyby took place, with the crew of Apollo 11 making their final flights.

The final Apollo CSM variant, the Block V, was tested in 1978. This variant replaces one of the fuel cells with two SNAP-27 RTGs, and is intended for interplanetary missions.

1979 marked the beginning of construction of the Phase 1 Lunar Base, later renamed Armstrong Base. New variants of the LM were developed, these being the LM Truck (a cargo hauler), and the LM Shelter (a Frankenstein's spacecraft combining the Apollo CM with the LM Descent Stage, intended for use as the crew quarters).

Apollo 64 marked the final flight of the Block II CSM. NASA had ceased production of the Block II in 1976 after the Block III was introduced, and used the remaining stock aggressively to be rid of them so they could ramp up production of the Block III full-time. The previous flight, Apollo 63, also saw the first flight of the Saturn III, a Saturn V without the S-IC stage, which launched larger solar panels on a truss segment after the Apollo Telescope Mount was removed and deorbited in anticipation of the Hubble Space Telescope.

Apollo 65 was an oddball mission, as it was also known as STS-1, the first flight of the Space Shuttle program. Despite Apollo continuing, the Space Shuttle continued development regardless, in hopes that it would slowly replace Apollo. Ultimately, though, the entire system never played nothing more than a supporting role, always second-to-run to Apollo. Plagued by cost overruns, multiple delays, and two fatal accidents in 1986 and 2004, the Space Shuttle is technically still in operation, but was replaced by the unmanned Shuttle-C in 2011 after STS-135 (Johnson Aerospace's own spaceplanes, Eridanus and Esperia, were considered the final nail in the coffin when they were first launched in 2001). The shuttle system's primary role, when it wasn't launching satellites and probes or carrying out SpaceLab missions, was delivering new modules to Skylab. The last module was delivered in 1986, at which point NASA began winding down Skylab operations in anticipation of Space Station Freedom. Ultimately, though, Skylab remained in orbit until 2004, when it was deorbited over the Pacific by an ASC (amusingly, Johnson Foods ran a contest promising free Big Macs for everyone at McDonald's if a floating target was hit by the Skylab core; Taco Bell had done a similar promotion with Mir, and unlike that, it was a bullseye, meaning everyone got free Big Macs; what made this feat even more amazing was that Johnson Aerospace and Continental Shipping Lines managed to calculate the exact location Skylab would impact).

Apollo was used increasingly for military applications in the 1980s, as the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 never existed. As a result, the United States and USSR launched a bunch of different space-based weapons with different purposes. ITTL, the SDI system was launched, as was a classified manned Air Force space station called the Manned Weapons Platform (which carried 60 MIRV nuclear warheads). Apollo 83 carried a pair of Air Force personnel to the MWP in 1984, but this flight attracted too much attention from the media and conspiracy theorists, leading NASA and the USAF to develop the Crew Transfer Vehicle (CTV), comprised of Big Gemini, an Apollo Block II SM with an Agena engine, a Mercury LES, and the Saturn I. The CTV remained in service until it was replaced by the Personnel Ferry (PF) in 2004. Other activities allegedly carried out by Apollo in the 80s included photo recon using a Block IV with cameras mounted in the SIM Bay, ASC craft used as tugs to move SDI satellites around, a servicing mission of a KH-11 satellite, and installing an anti-satellite autocannon on Skylab. In addition, Skylab B was launched into lunar orbit as LunarLab, with its own crew rotation cycle; LunarLab was launched in response to an announcemet by the Soviet Union that it would be launching Salyut 7 into lunar orbit, and as a result, was a primarily military station, but also did scout out potential landing sites for future lunar flights. After the Cold War ended in 1991, an ASC sent LunarLab into a heliocentric orbit.

But these military operations were overshadowed by an even bigger accomplishment. In 1982, a Titan III rocket launched Apollo 72. The payload: the Martian Excursion Module. Throughout the early 80s, a whole new system for Martian flights was developed, including the Saturn VI (even bigger than the Saturn V, and including solid rocket boosters), the Ares Propulsion Stack (launched by the Saturn V and fueled by the Space Shuttle), and the aforementioned MEM, with the Block V CSM incorporated in. On March 27, 1986, a little over a year after launch, Apollo 90 landed on Mars, with John Young and Robert Crippin being the first humans to set foot on Mars. Two more Martian flights were flown in 1989 and 1993, before the Mars flights were put on the backburner to focus on a new project.

Other changes were to come to the Apollo program. For one, the Saturn IB was retired from manned service in 1988, and LC-34 was decommissioned and turned into a museum. The rocket wasn't retired wholesale, though, and was made available for commercial and military use; despite this, if the need arises, it can and will be used for manned flights, now being launched from LC-39B on a special launch platform using the tower from LC-37 (on two occassions, this platform was unavailable, so an apparatus nicknamed the "Milkstool" was attached to one of the Saturn V MLPs). Otherwise, the Saturn II became the primary rocket for LEO flights. For another, the venerable A7L spacesuit was retired in 1983 and replaced by the Launch Entry Suit (the "pumpkin suit") and the Extravehicular Mobility Unit (originally developed for the Space Shuttle); the LES was replaced by the ACES suit (Advanced Crew Escape Suit, a bit of a misnomer as the suit would only be used for escape on Space Shuttle; the Apollo ACES suits lack the parachute pack) in 1994, and was fully phased out in 1998.

In 1993, the Clinton administration announced that Space Station Freedom would be combined with the Mir-2 and ESA Columbus space station concepts to create the International Space Station. The station would be constructed using the Space Shuttle and Proton-K rocket, with crew rotation provided by multiple nations; initially, the Apollo Block III and Soyuz were to be the only crew transfer craft, before the ESA developed the Hermes shuttle, Russia resumed development of the Buran program, and private aerospace firm Johnson Aerospace developed the Antares spacecraft. Resupply was initially provided by the ASC and Progress, later joined by the Shuttle-C and ESA Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), and commercial spacecraft such as the Johnson Aerospace Verrezzano and SpacePlanes Eridanus and Esperia, SpaceX Dragon, and Orbital ATK Antares; in future, additional commercial manned spacecraft will service the station, these being the SpaceX Dragon 2 and Boeing CST-100 Starliner. Originally, it was planned to incorporate Skylab into the new station, before NASA sent a crew to ascertain Skylab's condition, coming to the conclusion that it would be cheaper to just build a new station, resulting in Skylab's deorbiting in 2004.

Today, Apollo is still going strong, with no sign of stopping. Not even the uncertainty of the Trump administration has affected it, as President Donald J. Trump granted the program a $12 billion boost in the FY2018 budget to return to Mars. Armstrong Base has since been expanded as part of the Phase II Lunar Base, and is now a permanently-manned presence on the Moon.

Apollo is due to undergo a few major changes in the coming years. For one, the aging Lunar Module will be replaced by a new lander called Artemis in 2020, the Saturn IB will be fully phased out by 2024, and NASA is due to launch a new lunar space station known as Lunar Orbital Platform, a spiritual successor to LunarLab, but for civilian purposes such as a staging ground for manned and unmanned lunar expeditions, and a checkpoint for spacecraft bound for Armstrong Base.

Gallery
A gallery showing the spacecraft in Kerbal Space Program is coming soon.

HBO bumpers
HBO keeps the 1982 "HBO in Space" bumper for primetime in all the HBO channels, the 1986 bumper for daytime and HBO Latino, the 1998 bumper for original series (the full version for season premieres), and the 2017 version for HBO Go.

Muppets
Due to the Disney buyout by Johnson and The Muppet Show being revived in 2015, Steve Whitmire never gets fired from the Muppets. In addition, Kermit becomes a regular on Sesame Street again starting in Season 45 due to Johnson licensing the character to Sesame Workshop.

Ray Combs
Due to never being fired from Family Feud, staying on the show until his 2010 retirement, Combs did not commit suicide in 1996. Michael Burger hosted both seasons of Family Challenge on the Family Channel.

Robin Williams
During his participation in the Legend of Zelda anime made by Johnson Television starting in 2013, Tim Johnson was able to convince Robin Williams (who voices Navi in the series) to get help for his depression. As a result, he did not commit suicide, and reprised his role as the Genie in the 2019 live-action remake of Aladdin to universal acclaim.

In addition, he never a falling out with Disney after Aladdin came out, and voiced Genie in all subsequent appearances. The television series, as a result, experienced multiple delays getting to air because the staff had trouble figuring out which of Williams' ad-libs to use.

Tim Curry
Tim Curry never had his stroke in 2012, and as a result, is still very active (and hammy).

Northern Calloway
Calloway was reminded to get a psychologist to help him by Sheldon Johnson, Jr. in 1987. As a result, he’s still alive, and continued playing David on Sesame Street until being let go by Sesame Workshop in 2016 (Mr. Handford and Alan still exist, the former being David's mentor and the latter working for David at Hooper's Store alongside Chris).

John Kricfalusi
The sexual allegations against John K. turned out to be false, and the crowdfunded short Cans Without Labels was released on time in February 2013 and to critical acclaim (and does not have any of the same problems as the actual short; there’s no CGI, no camera shake, less overly over-the-top animation, no Donald Bastard, no padding, and the sound design is much better, just to name a few; CWL is also much longer with more cans), which led to Johnson acquiring the rights to The Ren and Stimpy Show from Nickelodeon and greenlighting three new seasons for Cartoon Network.

Phil Hartman
Phil Hartman walked out on Brynn instead of threatening to do so, which started a very messy, very public divorce. He is still alive, and still voicing his characters on The Simpsons, in addition to voicing Zapp Brannigan on Futurama. Philip J. Fry is instead known as Curtis J. Fry, as the name "Philip" was chosen in Phil's honor.

Carrie Fisher
Carrie never had a heart attack on Christmas Eve 2016, and is still alive. This also meant The Rise of Skywalker didn't require major rewrites (being known as its original title Duel of the Fates), and Fisher reprised her role as Leia in Star Wars: The New Republic. Fisher also still voices Angela on Family Guy.

Peter Hawkins
Hawkins never developed a brain tumor in 1992, and though he still died of a stroke in 2006, he did not retire from voice acting, voicing the Daleks in the EarthBound movie.

Christopher Collins
Christopher Collins (a.k.a. Chris Latta) successfully got help for his alcoholism once The Transformers moved to Johnson, and didn't die of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1994. As a result, he voiced Starscream in the Beast Wars episode "Possession", and also voiced him in Transformers Animated, Transformers: War for Cybertron, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark, Transformers Prime, Transformers Robots in Disguise (2015 version), and Transformers: The Great War; he also voices Wheeljack, Defensor, Laserbeak, Buzzsaw, Reflector, Skullcruncher, Slammer, and Krunk in the latter. He also continues voicing Cobra Commander in all GI Joe cartoons (as well as on Family Guy in the episode "PTV"), and never left The Simpsons, meaning he still voices Mr. Burns instead of Harry Shearer (Hank Azaria still voices Moe).

The Day After
The infamous 1983 telefilm was made by WBC instead of ABC. It still premeired on November 20, 1983, and still had the live debate, albeit moderated by Don George instead of Ted Koppel. Phil Stacker was involved in production of the film, taking the threat of nuclear war very, very seriously. As such, he gave Nicholas Meyer full creative control of the film, and allocated a theatrical budget. Johnson Studios created a large miniature set of Kansas City for the nuclear attack scene, which is completely destroyed; stock footage from past Johnson films such as Hot Cuba was also used during the sequence. The sound effect of the nuclear explosion were actually created by Johnson for Hot Cuba, and has come to be known as the "Johnson Nuke" sound, used in many films before and since.

The original three-hour cut was the one that ended up being broadcast.

Professional Baseball in Japan
All OTL Nippon Professional Baseball teams are Major League Baseball teams. All Central League teams are National League, and likewise all Pacific League teams are American League.

Many teams have different names:


 * Hanshin Tigers are Nishinomiya Farmers
 * Yokohama DeNA BayStars are still the Taiyo Whales
 * Yomiuri Giants and Bunkyo Scholars

Teams frequently play road games on the Mainland United States, and vice-versa. No Japanese States team has ever won the World Series, though quite a few have made World Series appearances.

Professional Basketball in Japan
Likewise, all B.League are NBA teams. Teams are split into the North and South Conferences, each with three leagues: East, Central, and West (the OTL Third Division teams are NBA G League teams). Like in the MLB, no Japanese States basketball team has ever won the NBA Championship.

McDonald’s sign in Biloxi, MS
The sign was moved before Hurricane Katrina to be restored. As a result, it survived.

Power Rangers
Because Japan is part of the United States, the Power Rangers franchise does not exist. Super Sentai still exists, with all series broadcast on both sides of the Pacific the exact same way, in English, uncut. This means that the Japanese cultural differences from the American mainland are still present in mainland airings, as is the violence, the sillier aspects, and the dark storylines compared to the more "hip and radical" Power Rangers of our timeline.

Disney Live-Action Remakes
The live-action remakes are much different from OTL:


 * Cinderella, Maleficent, The Jungle Book, Alice in Wonderland, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Christopher Robin and Lady and the Tramp are the same as in OTL; the failure of Alice Through the Looking Glass saw Tim Johnson take over almost the entire creative process of the remakes.
 * Beauty and the Beast has Belle Armstrong as Belle (said to be her dream role) instead of Emma Watson, Tim Johnson as the Beast/Prince Adam (wearing full makeup instead of motion-capture) instead of Dan Stevens (Tim also directed the film), Belle's iconic ballgown is identical to its animated counterpart, the final battle and Gaston's death are also identical to the animated film, the opening song is much more lively and busy, and instead of singing "Evermore" after Belle leaves to find her father, the Beast instead sings "If I Can't Love Her" from the Broadway adaptation; Tim explained in an interview that "Evermore" had been written by Alan Menkin, but he felt "If I Can't Love Her" was flat-out superior; Tim's performance of the song was critically-acclaimed, as was the entire film in general, cementing his status as a top-class director with an eye for detail and talent. In addition, none of the songs use auto-tune, LeFou doesn't exist, the song "Gaston" is in the original key, and the film has less similarities to the original.
 * Dumbo is mostly the same, except the film takes place in the Spring of 1941, and there are extended scenes with the circus train. These scenes were created by a separate unit headed up by Tim Johnson, and involve Continental Rail's screen locomotive, Baldwin 2-8-0 #1472 (also used in Tales from the Rails and numerous other Johnson productions), and their crew trying to prove that Consolidations are still relevant in the age of duplex and articulated locomotives, which they successfully do when they lug the entire circus train over Pacheco Pass without a helper. The destruction of Dreamland is also done using models.
 * Aladdin is somewhat the same, except Robin Williams reprises his role as the Genie (as he is still alive in the Johnsonverse), and Gilbert Gottfried reprises Iago, with Adam Jacobs reprising his role as Aladdin from the original Broadway cast. Dalia and Prince Anders don't exist, and Iago is still a snarky talking loudmouth. All the songs are from the original, the songs "Proud of Your Boy" and "Why Me?" were reinstated, as were "Somebody's Got Your Back" and "High Adventure" (and by extension the characters of Babkak, Omar, and Kassim, meaning Abu was removed), and there are key differences in the story to distance it from the original.
 * The idea of a remake of The Lion King was shot down by Tim, as he felt it wouldn't count as a live-action remake if 99% of it were computer-animated. Instead, The Lion King III was released, and is centered on Kiara and Kovu years after The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride.
 * Maleficent: Mistress of Evil is directed by Tim Johnson, and the film is made part of the Nirn Anthology (a multimedia franchise created by Johnson in 2013 consisting of The Elder Scrolls, The Legend of Zelda, Moesia, Wakfu, Mount & Blade, Frozen, and Tangled). As a result, the militaries of Hyrule and Moesia show up during the final battle.
 * The Hunchback of Notre Dame will be directed by Tim, who has already lined up Michael Arden to reprise his Broadway and World Masterpiece Theatre role as Quasimodo.
 * Mulan is mostly the same, except that the character Li Shang is not cut due to the #MeToo movement.

Return of the Jedi
As Sheldon Johnson, Jr. wrote and directed Return of the Jedi (in his writing and directing debut, the youngest writer and director for a major motion picture at 19), there are some key differences:
 * Different crawl, going "The Rebellion is doomed. In a defiant last stand, its leader MON MOTHMA is planning an attack on the Imperial capital of CORUSCANT. Sensing ultimate victory, Darth Vader and his cruel EMPEROR have begun construction on two new armored battle stations even more powerful than the first dreaded Death Star. Luke Skywalker has returned to his homeworld to rescue his friend Han Solo from the vile gangster JABBA THE HUTT, unaware of the sinister plots laid out against him...."
 * The crawl title font is News Gothic Condensed Bold, matching A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back. The prequels use this font as well.
 * Different opening shot showing the shuttle coming from the Executor.
 * Two Death Stars (the first, less complete version is used as a trap for the rebels, and is rammed into intentionally by Piett, who gets increasingly disillusioned with the Empire as the film progresses, and the second one is destroyed by Lando as in the original film)
 * The introduction of Force communication, which involves two people communicating through the Force. Luke and Vader do this a few times.
 * The centered/clumped shots have different framing.
 * Better Moff Jerjerrod characterization. He is Palpatine's personal representative, and schemes with him to turn Luke and betray Vader. When Vader finds out, he breaks Jerjerrod's neck.
 * The introduction of super troopers--an elite class of Imperial troops. This was a concept for The Empire Strikes Back, and uses a different design than the original concept (which used the design that would later be used for Boba Fett). Shock troopers were also introduced.
 * Yoda reveals that Obi-Wan would have told Luke the truth that Vader was indeed his father if he'd let him, but that Luke wasn't ready for "the burden" yet.
 * Yoda's death is right before the scene where Luke goes to Tatooine, where he talks to Obi-Wan's Force Ghost in his old hut. Obi-Wan mentions that Anakin was the Chosen One, who would bring balance to the Force and destroy the Sith, but that was not to be. Palpatine also mentions that Anakin would've destroyed the Dark Side if he had the chance. This is expanded upon in the prequels.
 * Obi-Wan Kenobi's account of Luke's parental history is larger; Obi-Wan states that Owen Lars was his brother, and that Luke and Leia's mother, Padmé Amidala, was one of those killed when the Death Star destroyed Alderaan, where she was in hiding (thus, Padmé's death in ROTS is caused by poor communication between Johnson and Lucas). Instead of saying his story in A New Hope (where he claimed that Vader betrayed and murdered Anakin) was true from a certain point of view, he instead says that he lied to Luke for his safety.
 * C-3PO's "captain obvious" lines don't exist.
 * In Jabba's palace, Luke meets Mara Jade (played by Demi Moore). Mara immediately attempts to seduce Luke, who rebuffs.
 * Jabba brags about having killed some Jedi in the past in the subtitles.
 * One of Jabba's henchmen is Heater (played by Declan Mulholland), his personal decoy, who uses the design of the original Jabba in A New Hope, and is killed in the attack on Jabba's barge.
 * Grander Jabba's palace "belching creature" shot. There's also no belching creature.
 * No gonk droid torture scene.
 * Better puppetry for Sy Snootles and the Max Rebo Band.
 * When Han is unfrozen, his restraints from The Empire Strikes Back are seen falling off.
 * Dune Sea shots look more like the Dune Sea.
 * No force kick.
 * Boba Fett is tossed into the Sarlaac by Chewie, though Boba eventually gets out as revealed in later Expanded Universe material.
 * The sandstorm scene is placed in lieu of ship-to-ship conversation.
 * Expanded rebel briefing set with Dodonna and Rieekan, Wookiees and female pilots.
 * There is a second battle at the Imperial capital of Coruscant, led by the Green Squadron. This is where the shield generator for the Death Star III is located.
 * Different B-Wing helmet design.
 * Female pilots at the battle, with the existing pilot having a female voice and a larger role, and the two other female pilots cut in the OTL film are in this version.
 * The Emperor's throne room is on Coruscant.
 * Better matte for the core shaft.
 * The rebel docking bay uses a scale model in lieu of a matte.
 * Evidence of life on the forest moon (idols, carvings, etc.)
 * No Tarzan yell.
 * The Ewoks themselves have a much more fierce-looking design (Johnson had disagreements with Lucas over this decision, with Lucas wanting to make them cute, believing that it would lead to higher toy sales; Johnson had to convince Lucas to make them fierce), with longer legs (this was accomplished by puppetry, go-motion, and live actors).
 * Much more epic space battle, including Rebel pilots kamikazing Y-wings into Imperial ships. More A-wings and B-wings are also in the battle.
 * Gore in the Ewoks attacking the Imperial troops.
 * Different shuttle class for Tydyrium (namely, the cargo shuttle that later appeared in Rogue One).
 * A waterfall behind the area behind the Imperial landing platform for scenery and “that the Empire would use them for power generation and it would provide Vader with an uncomfortable reminder of Naboo when he meets Luke at the platform."
 * More scary 3PO flying chair scene.
 * Leia is shocked at the revelation of being Luke's sister, and doesn't say that somehow she always knew.
 * Evidence in the background of Ewoks worshipping a 3PO-like god.
 * Darth Vader says, "Your mother....once thought as you do" to Luke.
 * Better Force lightning.
 * Vader's unmasking goes just like the 1996 radio drama, with Anakin telling Luke, "I'm proud that you've grown into the man I wanted to be..." as his last words before dying.
 * The planetary celebrations come before the Ewok celebration, using a combination of matte paintings, go-motion, models, and live extras (with Coruscant, Bespin, and Tatooine). They're updated with CGI in 1997, and the change is reverted in 2017 with the release of the Ultimate Edition.
 * Only a small portion of the OTL Ewok celebration is in the film which then leads to the funeral pyre scene. This is where the Force Ghosts appeared and the film ended with Luke giving Leia a lightsaber that he built.
 * Sebastian Shaw's Anakin wears darker robes and younger makeup (he still gets controversially replaced by Hayden Christensen in the 2004 Special Edition, the move also being undone in the 2017 Ultimate Edition).

The Force Awakens
Tim Johnson followed in his father's footsteps, and wrote and directed the entire Sequel Trilogy, also serving as a co-executive producer and a co-writer with George Lucas, with The Force Awakens being his directorial debut. All three movies, and the Stories films, are co-distributed by Johnson Studios and 20th Century Fox (after its acquisition, Fox took sole distribution rights to all future Star Wars movies; the Fox logo used is the 2009 revision introduced in Avatar). There are many, many differences:
 * The Lucasfilm logo is longer, so as to keep the timing with the Fox fanfare.
 * A few of George Lucas' ideas for the sequels were used, such as the main heroes being in their late teens (Rey is 17, Finn is 16, and Poe is also 17, though a few months younger than Rey; because of Poe being younger, he is instead played by Tom Holland, while Oscar Issac plays his father Clint), Luke being introduced earlier (as stated below), Leia being Force-sensitive, and Luke's temple being bell-shaped.
 * The soundtrack for all three movies was performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, instead of a Los Angeles-based freelance orchestra.
 * All three films are done so the viewer wouldn't have to know everything from the Expanded Universe.
 * All three films also have longer runtimes: this film is two hours and 45 minutes long, The Last Jedi runs for two hours and 57 minutes, and Duel of the Fates is the longest in the saga, clocking in at three hours and 39 minutes.
 * The opening crawls in all three films appear at the same music cue as that of A New Hope did before the film was reissued in 1981, though the title and episode number appear slightly earlier so the body itself appears at that cue. Each paragraph of the crawl is timed to appear to a section of the music.
 * The events that happened in the Original Trilogy are not treated as a myth, due to the time skip only being 30 years.
 * The opening crawl is different for all three films. The crawl for The Force Awakens reads: "Years have passed since the fall of the Galactic Empire. After a violent power struggle on Coruscant, the tyrannical FIRST ORDER rose in the Empire's ashes. To counter this, Luke Skywalker is training a new generation of Jedi knights, seeking to restore justice to a galaxy that can no longer remember what peace is. Meanwhile, a spy working for the NEW REPUBLIC is assigned to pose as a Stormtrooper, as part of a mission to discover secrets about the First Order...."
 * Starkiller Base does not exist; the Eclipse-class Star Dreadnought is there in its place.
 * Rey is depicted as having trust issues and social awkwardness, as well as being slightly short-tempered, with none of the "perfect" traits that plagued her characterization in the OTL (getting training from Luke in a subplot, letting Finn fly the Otana, not being fluent in Binary or Shryiiwook, getting training from Finn on how to use a blaster, etc.), and Daisy Ridley fakes an American accent (as both her parents were played by American actors) and notably does a better job playing Rey. In addition, she builds her own yellow lightsaber rather than use Anakin's. It's exactly the same as the one shown in the end of OTL The Rise of Skywalker. Rey also has a goal to move up in the galaxy and fight the First Order, which she eventually accomplishes the moment she and Finn escape Jakku.
 * Finn also uses his own lightsaber, modeled after that Anakin (and later Luke) had.
 * Kylo Ren is not Han and Leia's son. Instead, Jacen (played by Alden Ehrenreich), Jaina (played by Emma Roberts), and Anakin Solo (played by Jordan Fry) are brought over to the new canon, but don't play much of a role until Duel of the Fates. Instead, Kylo Ren is explicitly stated to be Jaden Korr after the dark side ending of Jedi Academy (thus creating a split timeline from the original Expanded Universe), the Knights of Ren being what was left of the Disciples of Ragnos and New Reborn. Kylo Ren is also played by a different actor due to being older (Christian Bale), and Adam Driver instead plays Ben Skywalker, Luke's son.
 * Snoke has a different, more grotesque appearance.
 * The lightsaber Ben uses is green like his uncle's second lightsaber.
 * Rey also has an older sister named Nellith (played by Dianna Agron), who's a member of the Jedi Aces.
 * The plot has much fewer similarities to A New Hope.
 * The Resistance doesn't exist. Instead, the New Republic takes an active role in fighting the First Order.
 * It is made clear that the supposed Yuuzhan Vong War was an audio play that incited mass panic due to the first part sounding like a genuine news broadcast and there being no indication that it was fiction; Leia had to make a public address insisting the Yuuzhan Vong didn't exist, and that extragalactic travel had been attempted once with the Outbound Flight Project and failed. Tim stated in an interview that the throwaway line was meant to fix his least favorite part of the Expanded Universe, as well as to homage Orson Welles' infamous 1938 War of the Worlds radio broadcast. The entire audio play was produced and released as a bonus feature on home video, narrated by Maurice LaMarche impersonating Welles.
 * Leia is Supreme Chancellor of the New Republic, instead of leader of the Resistance.
 * Han and Chewie never go back to smuggling, they still own the Falcon, and Han never immediately takes a shine to Rey. In addition, Han is still with Leia, and is a founding member of the New Republic.
 * Luke's New Jedi Order wasn't destroyed by the Knights of Ren. Instead, Jaden slaughtered many Jedi and Reborn on Korriban, then killed Tavion Axmis for the Scepter of Ragnos and defeated Kyle Katarn, but did not destroy the Jedi due to Snoke realizing that if there were more Jedi than Sith, the Force would create another Chosen One.
 * Since there is no need for a team to take down the shields on the Eclipse, Han Solo lives, and participates in the final battle piloting the Millennium Falcon with Chewbacca.
 * Since Luke never went into exile, BB-8 isn't carrying part of the map to him, but rather, is carrying information on First Order supply lines. And rather than it taking until the third act to get him to the Resistance, the opening scene is followed by Poe delivering him to Airen Cracken (played by Michael Stevens reprising his role from Return of the Jedi) on Coruscant.
 * Finn is not a stormtrooper who defected, but a spy working for the New Republic Intelligence Service. After being found out, he steals a TIE Fighter and crashes on the surface of Jakku, where he meets Rey, and never lies to her. He also has the surname Whitsun, referencing the character Clieg Whitsun in the rough draft of the original film.
 * Captain Phasma has a larger role, and survives. She also appears in the other two films as well.
 * The ship Finn and Rey steal to escape Jakku is the Otana from X-Wing Alliance.
 * The film opens with a battle between the First Order and the Pentastar Alignment, in which Kylo Ren boards the Reaper, confronts and kills Grand Moff Ardus Kaine (played by Paul McGann), and has a brief lightsaber duel with the Dark Jedi Jerec (played by Christopher Neame, reprising his role from Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II) resulting in the latter's death. The Reaper is then destroyed by the Eclipse 's superlaser. Because of this different opening, Lor San Tekka doesn't exist, and Max von Sydow plays a different character in Duel of the Fates.
 * Luke makes his first appearance during the first act, leading New Republic forces against the First Order on Eriadu.
 * Rey and Finn arrive at Maz's Castle without Han and Chewie, since they didn't steal the Millennium Falcon.
 * The lightsaber Rey finds is Mace Windu's, in pieces after being damaged by its fall on Coruscant. Anakin's lightsaber wouldn't be found until Duel of the Fates. Rey is shown reconstructing it.
 * C-3PO doesn't have a red arm.
 * Poe is leader of Rogue Squadron, after Wedge Antilles (played by Denis Lawson) was promoted to admiral and made captain of the Lusankya.
 * The final battle takes place over Coruscant, with the Eclipse aiming its superlaser at the Senate District, while Kylo Ren leads a legion of stormtroopers in an attack on the Jedi Temple. The massive space battle sees Finn fly an X-Wing into battle, ultimately unlocking his Force potential and destroying the Eclipse with a well-placed shot.
 * The battle on Coruscant sees Leia finally take up her lightsaber and carve a swathe of destruction through stormtroopers and AT-STs, coming to a head when she uses the Force to crush an AT-AT.
 * During the space battle, Poe unlocks his Force potential and saves the Home One from a kamikaze attack on its bridge by an out-of-control TIE Fighter.
 * Rey unlocks her Force potential during the battle in the Jedi Temple. When Luke is at Kylo Ren's mercy, Kylo tries to force-pull Luke's lightsaber, only for it to go to Rey's hand, like in the original movie.
 * After Kylo Ren is ordered back to the First Order's homeworld of Exegol by Snoke, Luke reveals to Rey that she is his long-lost daughter. In a nod to the original script for Return of the Jedi, Rey states she somehow always knew. She is then told her mother, Mara Jade, was one of those killed by Kylo Ren when he attacked the now-abandoned Jedi Praxeum on Yavin IV, thus giving her a reason to want another go at him.
 * The movie ends with Rey, Finn, and Poe becoming Jedi Apprentices, with Rey assigned to Kyle Katarn (played by Tom Hardy), Finn assigned to Crispin Hoedaack (played by Burt Reynolds and named after the character that would become Tarkin in the rough draft for the original film), and Poe assigned to Vantos Coll (played by Al Pacino and named after another character from the original film's rough draft).

Rogue One
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was hardly any different from OTL. Gareth Edwards was still director, Michael Giaccino was still composer, and the entire cast was unchanged. The film is co-distributed by Johnson Studios and 20th Century Fox.


 * All ships are models instead of CGI.
 * The CGI used for Tarkin and Leia is better and more realistic-looking.
 * The soundtrack was performed by the London Symphony Orchestra.
 * Screen wipes exist in this film.
 * The film also has an opening crawl to fit with the other movies; it reads, "The Jedi are all but extinct, the REPUBLIC has fallen, and the awesome GALACTIC EMPIRE has risen in its place. A new superweapon is being constructed, and a small band of underground freedom fighters is struggling to hang on to its last visage of hope. To crush this faith, the Empire has sent DIRECTOR KRENNIC to a remote planet to track down his former friend Galen Erso, who holds the key to the completion of this terrifying weapon...."
 * The Wilhelm scream is played during the Battle of Scarif, as it isn't retired in the Johnsonverse, though the "George" scream is still used in the films as well.
 * The graphics used for the Death Star schematics resemble the plans seen in Attack of the Clones. The 2017 Ultimate Edition of A New Hope changes the graphics for the Death Star schematics to maintain consistency.

The Last Jedi

 * Because the rewrites never happened in the Johnsonverse, the film was released on May 26, 2017 (exactly forty years and one day after the release of A New Hope).
 * The title "The Last Jedi" refers to the last surviving member of the old Jedi Council, Mace Windu.
 * The film uses bright colors (much like all the previous films) instead of a gritty, washed-out color palette.
 * The opening crawl reads: "After the destruction of the Eclipse dealt a severe blow to the FIRST ORDER, the Knights of Ren are growing distrustful of Supreme Leader Snoke. REY SKYWALKER and her father Luke have been dispatched by the New Republic to search for the last surviving member of the old Jedi Council, MACE WINDU. Only Windu's return can assist in the valiant effort to bring down this legion of bitter evil, as Snoke lays out a plot to crush the Republic...."
 * The "hyperfuel" and "important golden dice" plot points, as well as the "Leia Poppins" scene, are nonexistent.
 * Plot points from The Force Awakens are not left unresolved.
 * Star Destroyers and AT-ATs are normal-sized rather than massive.
 * No characters go unconscious before the next scene.
 * Much of the plot of the original movie is different. Han is notably involved in the plot due to him not dying in the previous film.
 * The Wilhelm scream is played in the Battle of Crait.
 * The Evacuation of D'Qar is not the Resistance abandoning their base, but the New Republic pulling back from a position that can't defend.
 * The unwieldy MG-110 StarFortresses don't exist; in their place are the K-Wings from the old EU. They are also much more successful in destroying the dreadnaught, and as a result, Poe isn't demoted from commander.
 * The characters of BB-9E, Rose Tico and DJ do not exist. The porgs do, though, and Kelly Marie Tran and Benicio Del Toro have roles in Duel of the Fates as different characters (though Tran plays a different version of Rose Tico). Kyle Katarn also appears in the Jedi Order subplot. Amilyn Holdo exists, but as a New Republic Vice-Admiral who is much less patronizing and doesn't have pink hair or a ballgown, instead having blonde-dyed hair and a standard New Republic uniform, respectively. Holdo also doesn't clash with Poe, and simply tells everyone about the existence of a plan. Temiri Blagg (a.k.a. Broom Boy) also exists, but as a youngling under the care of the New Jedi Order.
 * Admiral Ackbar survives, and appears in Duel of the Fates.
 * Captain Phasma also survives.
 * Rey's plot sees her going to Ahch-To with Luke to find Mace Windu to give him his lightsaber, but Mace has become a somewhat-senile hermit (Luke is written with his proper characterization, though the scene where he talks to R2 aboard the Falcon is kept). He has adapted to using only his left hand since he never got a mechanical hand. Luke and Rey are trying to convince him to come back and help in the fight with the First Order, but Windu lashes out at them for being descendants of Anakin. He remains belligerent until he gets a visit from Yoda's Force Ghost, in a scene that plays similar to his appearance in the original, only it’s about forgiveness instead of the failures of the old order, and Yoda does not use lightning due to Obi-Wan establishing in The Empire Strikes Back that Force Ghosts can't interfere. In addition, Yoda doesn't put on a goofy facade due to Mace having already learned patience.
 * The Canto Bight scenes are absent, as there is no need for a master slicer. In its place is a shorter subplot showing C-3PO and R2-D2 being sent on a mission to steal sensitive First Order data from one of its bases in Coruscant, and of course bumbling their way through it.
 * The other plot, besides Ahch-To, involves Finn and Poe trying to find their place in the Jedi Order. Finn eventually chooses to become a Jedi Guardian, while Poe joins the Jedi Aces.
 * The First Order plot focuses on friction between Kylo Ren and Snoke regarding how to rebuild the Sith Order. Snoke advocates continuing Darth Bane's Rule of Two, while Kylo wants something different from both the First Order and the New Republic.
 * Kylo never destroys his mask, due to it giving him an identity.
 * The Resistance is never referred to as the Rebels.
 * Rey is not shown swimming due to having lived on Jakku her entire life and thus never having seen water.
 * The climax takes place aboard the Supremacy above the planet of Crait, in which Han, Luke, Rey, and Mace Windu confront Kylo Ren and Snoke. Here, Snoke reveals he is actually Darth Plagueis, and Rey loses her right hand in the ensuing lightsaber duel. Just when it seems Snoke is about to strike Luke down, a red lightsaber blade pierces his chest. Snoke's body then drops to reveal Darth Traya (played by Sara Kestelman, reprising her role from Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords), who has returned from the dead in a clone body constructed from her remains by the Sith Triumvirate immediately after her death to finish what she sought to do thousands of years ago: destroy the Force itself. She and Windu have a duel that ultimately ends with Mace sacrificing his life to allow Han, Luke and Rey to escape on the Millennium Falcon. Kylo Ren becomes Traya's new apprentice, after killing the other Knights of Ren to prove his loyalty, and Traya gives him the name Darth Stalker.
 * While the confrontation is going on, the Supremacy and its accompanying fleet is engaged in a battle with a New Republic fleet commanded by Wedge Antilles that ends with the Supremacy destroyed in several lightspeed kamikaze attacks by the Lusankya (Wedge leaves the ship in his X-wing just in time and leads his old squadron mates Hobbie, Janson, and Tycho in mopping up the remaining ships). The ground battle sees the New Republic almost being decimated by the First Order.
 * The Battle of Crait is not turn-based.
 * After the Battle of Crait and right before the ending, Captain Phasma returns to the First Order's base in Exegol, and removes her helmet; her face is revealed to have been horribly scarred from many battles. She communicates with Kylo through the Force, revealing that she's Force-sensitive. Phasma is also played by a different actress in scenes where she doesn't wear her helmet (Tatiana Maslany), with supplemental material explaining that Gwendoline Christie's voice is the product of a voice changer in her helmet.
 * The movie ends with Rey receiving a mechanical hand like her father's on Coruscant, and Luke conferring with the Force Ghosts of Anakin (played by Hayden Christensen, with Sebastian Shaw's face CG'd on), Windu, Obi-Wan (played by Ewan McGregor, with Alec Guinness' face CG'd on), and Yoda. Anakin suddenly disappears, and reappears behind Luke in the flesh, discovering he has been resurrected by the will of the Force to destroy the Sith once and for all.

Solo
Solo was never made in the Johnsonverse, as Tim felt it would be unnecessary due to the character's story being self-explanatory. Instead, a film about Boba Fett's escape from the Sarlaac and subsequent entanglements with the New Republic and Imperial Remnant, titled Fett: A Star Wars Story, was made, directed by Steven Spielberg. Temuera Morrison portrays Boba Fett, and Simon Pegg portrays Dengar. Because of its success in the box office, the Stories series is not put on hold, and Fett will be followed up by Wretched Hive: A Star Wars Story, a James Cameron-directed Stories entry centered around the Mos Eisley spaceport and takes place between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, set for a December 18, 2020 release (it was originally scheduled for May 15 of that year, but was pushed back due to the coronavirus pandemic), and Tony Gilroy's Maul: A Star Wars Story (which is centered on, of course, Maul, and takes place a few years before A New Hope) in 2022, along with upcoming Stories entries about Yoda (titled Yoda: A Star Wars Story), Obi-Wan Kenobi (titled Kenobi: A Star Wars Story), Jabba the Hutt (titled Exalted One: A Star Wars Story), Mace Windu (titled Windu: A Star Wars Story), and Ackmena the bartender (titled Ackmena: A Star Wars Story), with Colin Trevorrow and Stephen Daldry directing Yoda and Kenobi, respectively. They will be released in 2024, 2026, 2028, 2030, and 2032.

The Rise of Skywalker



 * The film is called Duel of the Fates, as that was the title of the film before the rewrites happened in OTL.
 * Because Burt Reynolds died in 2018, this film was dedicated to his memory, stating in the credits, "In Loving Memory of Finn's Master" above his name. Peter Mayhew also got a dedication in the credits, stating "In Loving Memory of our Fuzzball" above his name as well.
 * As stated above, Max Von Sydow, Kelly Marie Tran, and Benicio Del Toro all have roles in the movie. Von Sydow plays a Republic general named Joff Secter, Tran plays a different version of Rose Tico who is a Jedi Sentinel partnered with Finn on a mission to Taris, and Del Toro plays a Final Order enforcer named Burt Kae. Holdo also returns, with her personality from the Johnson TLJ.
 * D-O is voiced by Tim Johnson instead of J.J. Abrams.
 * The time skip between The Last Jedi and this film is ten years instead of one, so that the First Order would have enough time to reclaim its grip on the galaxy. Rey is described as a warm, mature and responsible woman, though still slightly short-tempered, Han has grown a beard, and Hux has streaks of gray in his hair. The New Republic has almost been crushed due to a combination of losing many men and women in battles and the First Order regaining its strength, and the Republic is provoked when Jerr Kova (played by Michael Caine) is executed by the Final Order on Coruscant via a red lightsaber-bladed guillotine.
 * The opening crawl reads: "The galaxy is suffering. With the New Republic almost decimated, the FIRST ORDER is spreading fear and terror across the galaxy under Supreme Chancellor KYLO REN. As part of her plot to destroy the Force itself, the DARK LADY TRAYA has formed the SITH ETERNAL, and is using it to manipulate the Force to her own personal benefit. Ten years after the brutal Battle of Crait, Rey Skywalker, aided by her late grandfather ANAKIN, hopes to bring balance to the Force and save the galaxy once and for all....".
 * Rey has a different, more Jedi-like outfit. She switches to a different outfit before the Naboo battle, inspired by that her father wore in Return of the Jedi starting with the scenes with Luke and Darth Vader.
 * Two new trooper classes (mechtroopers and brutetroopers) are introduced.
 * The film never had major rewrites as Carrie Fisher is still alive in the Johnsonverse. This also means the film has the most differences out of the Sequel Trilogy. In addition, the film has a much darker tone than The Rise of Skywalker.
 * The film opens on Korriban, where, during the ten years that took place, Darth Traya has created a new Sith Order free of the restrictions of the Rule of Two, referred to as the Sith Eternal, which joined forces with the First Order to create the Final Order. It is ruled by a body of resurrected Sith Lords and Sith Ladies of the past known as the Council of Darths, consisting of Traya herself, Darth Malak (played by Rafael Ferrer reprising his role from Knights of the Old Republic), the entire Dark Council from The Old Republic (with most of their respective actors reprising their roles, dubbing over uncredited Johnson employees who physically portrayed them), Darth Maul (played by Ray Park and dubbed by Sam Witwer), and Darth Tyrannus/Count Dooku (played by an uncredited actor with Christopher Lee's face CG'd on, and dubbed by Corey Burton), all of whom are clones constructed from their remains. She also resurrected and reconstructed General Grievous (voiced by Matthew Wood and portrayed using a combination of go-motion and a large, sophisticated puppet) to use as a Jedi hunter, and Jorak Uln (played by an uncredited Johnson employee who just so happened to resemble him and dubbed by Frank Welker) to serve as a Sith Master. Traya also brings in a group of mystical creatures known as the Whills, led by Tor Valum (voiced by John de Lancie; Tim stated in an interview he cast de Lancie to "bring Star Wars and Star Trek together", and portrayed using a combination of puppetry, animatronics, and go-motion), who was also Darth Plagueis' master before Plagueis fell to the dark side, to manipulate the Force to her own benefits, as well as her newest apprentice and second-in-command Darth Talon (played by Birgitte Hjort Sørensen). Talon searches for Rey throughout the story, and is attempting to seduce her, Ben, Nellith, Jacen, Jaina, and Anakin Solo to the Dark Side as her apprentices, even telling Rey that if she turns to the dark side, then she could have power and security, causing Rey's internal conflict. Traya has a third apprentice, Darth Sicarius (played by Keanu Reeves), who uses a so-called "knife lightsaber" (which is a short lightsaber) in addition to his regular lightsaber (the knife lightsaber is used on characters who don't use lightsabers).
 * Aside from his voice appearing as a spirit in the climax, Palpatine only has a posthumous cameo in a scene where Kylo Ren finds a hologram recording of him in Vader's Mustafar castle, instructing him to take Luke to the Remnicore system and find Traya's clone body to learn the power to control life. It is also during this scene that Kylo Ren experiences a vision of Anakin and Obi-Wan's famous lightsaber duel, ending with Obi-Wan successfully using his high ground gambit against Anakin and the latter burning alive. When he gets back to the Exegol base, Kylo destroys Darth Vader's burned helmet with his lightsaber due to him realizing that he could be stronger than any Skywalker combined. He then prays to a statue of Palpatine constructed with pieces salvaged from its destruction during the Coruscant Uprising in 4 ABY. This scene reveals that Kylo's ultimate goal is to form the Second Galactic Empire, claim his position as the next Emperor, strip the New Republic of power, and exterminate every species in the galaxy that isn't human, hewing close to the Empire's Nazi inspiration in the original trilogy, as well as exterminate every Jedi in the galaxy.
 * During their mission to Taris (which is to recruit new members for the fight against the Final Order, which was a success), Finn, Rose and the new members barely escape aboard the Otana when mechtroopers nearly blow it up, but miss. They then go to Coruscant, where Finn and Rose rally underground citizens, former clone troopers, and defective stormtroopers (all collectively known as the Resistance Squadron) to steal Final Order walkers and use them.
 * Rey's subplot sees her training under Luke, Leia, and the resurrected Anakin in the Jedi Temple, and finding Anakin's old lightsaber in the arena of Geonosis (Luke's hand carrying the lightsaber burned up in its surface, leaving the lightsaber intact aside from being charred due to being thrown into the atmosphere of Bespin, and they go to Geonosis to do some Force training). Anakin finds a piece of hair on the ground, and when he and Rey take it to the New Republic, they use it to reconstruct Padmé (played by Natalie Portman) so she could be brought back for the battle against the Final Order (Anakin sensed that the hair belonged to Padmé, as she and Anakin were almost killed on Geonosis by Count Dooku). In addition, Rey also builds a second lightsaber, which is double-bladed and blue, and is constructed from pieces of her old staff. It's used during the second duel with Kylo Ren.
 * The bulk of the action takes place on Coruscant, where a massive Final Order ship serves as a citadel of sorts called the Capitol. A massive revolt takes place on the planet, with Finn at its helm, and late in the story, thousands of riot-suppressing Mandalorian brutetroopers are added to the fight. Meanwhile, Leia and the New Republic aim to destroy a galaxy-wide communications jammer over the planet's orbit.
 * While training under Traya, Kylo duels what appears to be Darth Vader in a cave. Immediately after he’s struck down, Vader disappears, revealing that this was a Force-induced hallucination. In this same scene, he also sees a vision of himself on Vjun as Jaden Korr, igniting his lightsaber through Rosh Penin. For this scene, Christian Bale wore prosthetics and makeup to resemble the default Male Human appearance, and Jason Marsden was brought in to play Rosh, with his face CG'd on.
 * Temiri Blagg (played by Gaten Mazarazzo) is now serving as a Jedi Padawan under Rey. He is best described as kind and sensitive, but somewhat sarcastic and rude.
 * Chancellor Hux is portrayed as a Force wannabe, collecting lightsabers and attempting to conjure Force powers without success, much to everyone else's annoyance.
 * Felcin Tersi (played by Sarah Locke) is an orphan taken in the care of the New Republic. She develops a crush on Temiri, something that eventually materializes in adulthood as revealed in Expanded Universe material taking place after the events of the film. In the climax, Felcin pilots a Y-wing fighter, and takes down several TIE fighters.
 * During the scene where Rey is in Pasaana, she has a nightmare where she kills Kylo Ren with his own lightsaber and all of his most loyal men in a lightsaber duel on the wreckage of the Death Star II, takes control of the Final Order, and slaughters an entire group of Republic ambassadors on the jungle moon of Ajan Kloss (after she does so, Rey has Sith eyes for a brief moment). Rey is given the name Darth Cadeus by Traya, who gives her a red lightsaber, and Rey immediately uses it to strike her down and seize control of the Sith Eternal, falling to the dark side in the process. Ben comforts Rey the next morning and assures her that he won't let her fall to the dark side.
 * The Final Order doesn't use jetpacks, and there's a throwaway line where a stormtrooper states jetpacks are only for people who want to get thrown into a Sarlaac pit, referencing Boba Fett.
 * Phasma appears in the film; after being disillusioned with the Final Order upon seeing her old friend Zorii being tortured, she decides to secretly join the New Republic and help Zorii escape. Once Hux finds out, he sends out a team of bounty hunters to look for her in every star system in the galaxy, and when she's caught, she immediately uses her blaster to kill the bounty hunters. She explains to Leia that she was taken away from her parents when she was ten and tortured into joining the First Order; before becoming Phasma, her name was Elana Aith. She also reveals that she's Force-sensitive. Leia immediately symphasizes with Phasma, and assigns her to Sam Loffett (played by Hugo Weaving).
 * Like in the original film, the New Republic tries to find a wayfinder (though it leads to Traya's stronghold on Korriban). Rey's first duel with Kylo takes place aboard the ruins of the Death Star II on Kef Bir's oceans, like in the original film. It is during this duel that Kylo's first lightsaber is destroyed, and all his fingers on his left hand are sliced off. Kylo also doesn't turn to the light side due to not seeing a vision of Han. When Kylo escapes, he gets a new, more powerful lightsaber and mechanical fingers.
 * A subplot involves Traya manipulating a large faction of the Jedi to split from the New Jedi Order, called the "One Jedi Order".
 * When Kylo gets to Korriban, Traya teaches him how to control life.
 * The Xyston-class Star Destroyer doesn't exist; instead, the Nebula-class Star Destroyer is brought over from the Legends continuity.
 * The final battle takes place on Naboo, with an aged Jar Jar Binks (voiced by Danny DeVito, and portrayed by a costumed performer with an advanced animatronic head), leading a combination of the Grand Gungan Army and reprogrammed B1 battle droids left over from the Trade Federation invasion in 32 BBY against the Final Order and the One Jedi Order. The New Republic also reveals it has amassed a brand-new clone army from Kamino, leading to the sight of clones and battle droids fighting side-by-side to show how desperate the situation is, and Luke calls upon the Force Ghosts of his deceased wife Mara Jade (played by Demi Moore), Mace, Obi-Wan, Yoda, Qui-Gon (played by Liam Neeson), Luminara Unduli (played by Mary Oyaya), Aayla Secura (played by Amy Allen), Adi Gallia (played by Angelique Perrin), and Kanan Jarrus (played by Freddie Prinze, Jr.) for advice, as well as his old friends Deak (played by Jay Benedict), Fixer (played by Anthony Forrest) and his wife Camie (played by Koo Stark), as well as the legendary Jedi Ahsoka Tano (played by Rosario Dawson) for combat. The Final Order also finds Grand Admiral Thrawn (played by Hugo Weaving) to assist them in combat from Exegol (Thrawn reveals that he killed Ezra Bridger years ago). The final lightsaber duel takes place between Anakin and Traya in the same Plasma Refinery Complex Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon dueled Darth Maul all those years ago (said Plasma Refinery Complex also received upgrades since the duel); Traya calls upon Palpatine's spirit (voiced by Ian McDiarmid) through a large shrine for assistance (Palpatine’s first name, Dantius, is also spoken for the first time in the saga when Traya prays to him), and the New Republic calls former Rebel Major Bren Derlin (played by John Ratzenberger) for combat. Meanwhile, Ben takes Rey to a jungle elsewhere in Naboo (near Otoh Gunga) to confront Kylo Ren, who tells her that he killed her adoptive parents, Kel and Zuma Solana. During this battle, Rey gets blinded by a cloud of dust from an explosion, and nearly falls to the dark side avenging Mara Jade, before her brother Ben calms her; Kylo declares that Jaden Korr is dead, and uses his right hand to extract Rey's life force from her until she's severely weakened, before Kyle Katarn appears and has one last duel with his fallen student, ending with Kyle shooting Kylo in the head with his Bryar pistol. Kyle declares that Rosh Penin and every other Jedi who died at Jaden's hands can now rest in peace, and reveals that Jaden also killed his partner and lover, Jan Ors. Ben then uses his hand to restore Rey's life force and give her Kylo's remaining life force. The other members of the Council of Darths and the Sith Eternal meet various fates, such as Darth Maul being killed by Zorii, Darth Baras being killed by Leia, three members of the Dark Council being killed by Temiri, Darth Malak being killed by Jannah, Count Dooku being killed by a group of New Republic soldiers led by Padmé, Darth Talon being killed by Jacen, Jaina and Anakin Solo, Darth Malgus being overwhelmed by clone troopers and shot to death, and General Grievous being killed by Luke in a manner identical to the pre-Johnson version of Revenge of the Sith. Traya meets her end in the biggest Force duel in galactic history, a duel that levels much of Theed from the sheer power and ends with Anakin using his and Traya's lightsabers (which she had dropped) to deflect Traya's Force lightning, reducing her to a writhing skeleton, then to dust in the wind, her soul sent to oblivion, and Anakin fulfilling his destiny as the Chosen One once and for all while also regaining his youth through Traya's life force; the rest of the Sith Eternal fleet are also destroyed by the resulting power as well, and the Whills went back to their world, having realized they've been brainwashed by Traya. The space battle takes place above the planets of Exegol, Kijimi, Yavin, Korriban, Mustafar, Bespin, Jakku, Tatooine, Endor, Kashyyyk, Ahch-To, a different version of Cantonica, Honoghr, Scarif, Taris, Dantooine, D'Qar, Pasaana, Hoth, Utapau, Kamino, Coruscant, Geonosis, and many other planets and moons (ground battles also take place at those planets, which are all either under Final Order control or have Final Order bases), where pilots such as Poe (in his X-Wing), Lando (in the Lady Luck), Han and Chewie (in the Falcon), Nellith (in her Jedi starfighter), and Wedge (also in his X-wing), among others, lead massive New Republic fleets (all of which were gathered throughout the film, some of which being the largest fleets ever seen in the saga) to victory against the Sith Eternal and the Final Order, while Ackbar, Aftab, and Joff communicate with them through the scanners on their helmets. During this battle, as the Final Order is about to win, Holdo sacrifices herself by entering her fighter into a Final Order Starkiller-class Dreadnought with several other New Republic Admirals and Vice-Admirals and hijacking it (they kill several Stormtroopers and Supertroopers in the process to steal their uniforms and disguise themselves), kamikazing it into the First Order's base in Exegol and destroying both it and the Dreadnought, crippling the entire remaining Final Order fleet, and killing Thrawn for the final time in the process. The entire sequence shows how big the battle is and the scope of its fury, to the point of being dubbed the "Battle of the Galaxy" in the medal ceremony at the end.
 * In the Coruscant battle, Finn, Rose and the Resistance Squadron overrun Coruscant on behalf of the New Republic and the Capitol begins to lift off, before it's destroyed in the space battle by a large-scale assault. Notified of this, Hux commits seppuku in his chamber with Palpatine's old lightsaber from his collector's case, with the script's narration noting how he realized the "tragic truth": he "lost the star wars".
 * George Lucas makes a cameo appearance during the battle, playing Jorg Sacul. Sacul is in an X-wing fighter, being seen destroying a TIE fighter, and is part of the Red Squadron. In the credits, his designation is given as Red Leader. Steven Spielberg, Gareth Edwards, James Cameron, Colin Trevorrow, Stephen Daldry, Jon Stewart, and Chloe Johnson also have cameos as X-wing pilots.
 * The Wilhelm scream plays during the Naboo battle.
 * During the battle, R2 is severely damaged by a blast from super troopers. Leia repairs him immediately before the ending, and R2 projects many, many events from throughout the saga as seen from his perspective, such as the day he was built, the first time he met 3PO, him repairing 3PO in the arena on Geonosis, the wedding of Anakin and Padmé, his fight with R3-S6 during the Second Clone Wars, the crash of the Invisible Hand, Padmé fainting on Polis Massa, Leia's message to Obi-Wan, Luke buying C-3PO from the Jawas, Obi-Wan giving Luke his father’s lightsaber, R2 flying through the Death Star trench, Han getting his medal on Yavin, Luke and Leia meeting Halla on Circapous IV, Chewbacca and his family celebrating Life Day, Yoda lifting the X-Wing from the swamp, Luke saluting from the plank on Jabba's barge, Leia and Han outside the bunker on Endor, Luke and Mara Jade getting married, Rey, Finn, and Poe becoming Jedi Apprentices, Anakin's resurrection, Luke training Rey in the Jedi Temple, among many other events, all with narration so the viewer wouldn't have to go outside of the series to understand some of them.
 * After the battle, Finn confesses to Rey that he loves her. They both proceed to kiss.
 * C-3PO has the last line in the saga, saying, "You know, Artoo, I have a feeling this is the end. The end...of the Star Wars", serving as a bookend to his first line in A New Hope, and dropping the title for the entire franchise.
 * The film ends with the surviving members of the One Jedi rejoining the New Jedi Order, and the New Republic celebrating their victory, with Han, Chewie, Lando, Luke, Rey, Ben, Nellith, Finn, Poe, Zorii, Anakin, Padmé, Jacen, Jaina, Anakin, Jannah, Rose, Deak, Fixer, Camie, Bren, Ahsoka, Phasma, Felcin, and Wedge all given medals for their bravery by Leia and several other people as the Force Ghosts all look on tearfully (as the crowd applauds, Anakin and Padmé are kissing), and planetary celebrations across the galaxy, consisting of Korriban, Scarif, Coruscant, Bespin, Endor, Jakku, Kashyyyk, Naboo (compete with shots showing the second reconstruction of Theed), and then Tatooine, going from night to day to represent the end of darkness. Rey, her eyesight restored, finds herself as a Jedi Master training several Force-sensitive children as a new generation of Jedi. It cuts to the Otana landing one year later, and Anakin, Padmé, Luke, Ben, Nellith, Rey, Finn, and their new twins Kadar and Kira (both played by Paul and Nessie Helbert, respectively) all coming out of it and walking to the ruins of the Lars homestead. They see the Force Ghost of Anakin's father Kane (played by Steven Seagal), who immediately embraces his son, as the Force theme plays. The camera then pans up to the twin suns, then back to Naboo, where Han, Leia, Lando, Chewie, C-3PO, and R2-D2 depart aboard the Millennium Falcon along with a Republic fleet to hunt down the last of the Final Order, serving as a bookend to the establishing shot in The Phantom Menace, then the credits play. A post-credits scene shows Tor Valum recording the events that just transpired in a book known as the "Journal of the Whills" (the title is in Aurebesh, but Tim confirmed that this was the actual title), which also has everything that ever happened in the galaxy recorded with accompanying pictures from throughout the saga and a myriad of other works such as the Stories films (including the upcoming Wretched Hive film), the three TV specials, video games, comics, novels, and TV series, all done in live-action, a nod to the original idea for A New Hope (which had the Journal as a framing device). This scene is done without dialogue.

Ed Wood
In 1977, Sheldon Johnson happened to meet Wood, and successfully asked him to get help for his alcoholism. Wood is still alive as a result, going to live screenings of his films (for example, Plan 9 from Outer Space).

My Little Pony: The Movie
The movie is mostly the same, except that Discord, Starlight, Trixie, and the Cutie Mark Crusaders all have speaking parts and contribute to the story (Discord, for example, can't go one scene without causing chaos). They were all added at Tim's behest. He also had the film recut to have a less predictable plot, and Canterlot is portrayed as a city that has well descriptive socioeconomics, with a lot of upper-class cultures, like in the TV show rather than some stereotypical happy pony paradise.

Equestria Girls
At Tim's request, certain changes were made, and the film was pushed back to November 2013. These include having Spike the Dog not being seen until the stinger of Rainbow Rocks, as it would create a plot hole where he would go without a problem but the rest of the Mane Six can't go, Sunset steals all the elements, and not just the crown (Sunset, Snips and Snails, and three others each have one of the Elements; she disposes of the others and takes all six Elements in the climax), Sunset and Flash both have more personality (Sunset is obsessed with getting Twilight to the point of fanaticism, and Flash is a charismatic figure), Sunset's backstory is explained in full detail, Rainbow Dash has more screen time, all pop-culture references are removed, and some of the romance scenes are cut. The characters also don't have anorexic proportions, and Flash Sentry's skin tone is the same as his pony counterpart.

Ralph Breaks the Internet
Because the rewrites never happened in the Johnsonverse, there are several differences:
 * The film has significantly less product placement.
 * The Felix and Calhoun subplot isn't removed.
 * Ralph, Vanellope, and the Sugar Rush racers all retain their original personalities.
 * No attempts at being relevant.
 * Vanellope doesn't go Turbo at the end.
 * It does not use the misunderstanding trope.
 * The third act is much stronger.
 * The scene in which Ralph gets insulted by a bunch of commenters doesn't exist.
 * Ralph's actions towards Vanellope aren't mean-spirited.