Interactive Media
Andrew Hussie constantly demonstrates this in his webcomic "Homestuck", in which he shows many points diverging from a single point based around a certain "class" of characters who can manipulate time. A perfect example of this is when the character Dave Strider travels back in time after playing the game, Sburb, in a doomed timeline for a long time to save his friend John Egbert from dying after listening to a troll, another type of character in the comic.
The webcomic Kevin and Kell refers to Bradbury in the March 10, 1998 strip, which has Coney eating a butterfly while the family is in the Stone Age. A caption reads "When they return to 1998, they'll discover that a writer named Ray Bradbury never existed".
In the videogame Second Sight, main character John Vattic is able to change the present by having flashbacks to six months earlier, where he does things differently, affecting the future; only he remembers the alternate futures.
In the videogame Resident Evil 2, there's an interesting variation of the butterfly effect. Based on whether or not you choose Claire or Leon to start a new game, the story drastically changes. The alternate scenarios are shown to be caused by whether or not Leon's police cruiser crashes head first into a pole (choosing Claire's scenario first) or the car spins around and crashes back end first (choosing Leon's scenario first). This drastically alters the story, including what happens to several of the supporting characters and who faces specific boss enemies.
The company behind the video game Eve Online, CCP used the Butterfly Effect in one of their advertisements.
The sports blog The Dubious Goals Committee run a feature called The Butterfly Effect, which details how sporting landscapes could have changed based on a single moment in history.
The installation El día de la langosta (The day of the locust) by Mexican artist Susana Rodríguez explores the concept of a small human action leading on to large effects, drawing on the concepts of chaos theory and the butterfly effect.
Read more about this topic: Butterfly Effect In Popular Culture
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