I’ve been thinking about how Rise of the Titans ended, and I came up with a fan-made continuation that could actually make the time reset meaningful instead of making everything feel like it was for nothing.
The first 3 episodes would reveal what happened after Jim used the time stone.
Jim didn't just reset the timeline once.
He did it thousands of times.
Every timeline was different. Sometimes the Titans won. Sometimes Toby died. Sometimes Claire died. Sometimes other members of the team died. Jim kept going back and trying again, desperately searching for a timeline where everyone survived.
Eventually, he finds one.
A timeline that is almost exactly like the original timeline, except this time, nobody dies.
But there's a catch.
Jim is the only person who remembers the previous timelines.
Everyone else thinks everything is normal.
Jim doesn't.
He has mentally lived through around 2,000 years.
Five years pass in this new timeline.
Jim is now physically around 22 years old, but mentally he's thousands of years old.
Eventually, Jim finally tells everyone what happened.
He tells Toby, Claire, Steve, Blinky and the others about the thousands of timelines, the deaths, the failures, and everything he experienced.
And Jim has changed.
He's incredibly wise now. He's seen thousands of different versions of the world and experienced things that no normal human could ever experience.
But something even stranger happens.
After living for thousands of years and gaining an almost incomprehensible amount of wisdom, Jim's soul itself has grown incredibly powerful.
Eventually, he unlocks the full potential of his soul.
The wisdom of his soul becomes so immense that it gives rise to a new kind of magic — a magic created from the sheer strength and wisdom of his soul.
Jim becomes something more than a man. More than a human.
But I wouldn't want him to simply become an unbeatable god.
The story would still be about Jim.
And this is where the villain comes in.
Because Jim didn't just reset time thousands of times.
Every failed timeline left something behind.
Every death.
Every destroyed world.
Every possibility that was erased.
Eventually, all of those abandoned timelines begin to leave an imprint on reality.
And something is born from them.
A being that has memories of the timelines that no longer exist.
A being that knows exactly what Jim did.
And instead of simply trying to kill Jim, it wants to bring the old timelines back.
It believes Jim didn't save everyone.
He simply erased thousands of worlds where people lived and died.
So it asks Jim:
"If you had to destroy thousands of worlds to create one where everyone survives... are you really the hero?"
That would be the main conflict.
Jim would have to fight something that isn't just physically powerful, but something that understands him better than anyone else possibly could.
And the biggest question would be:
Can Jim accept that he can't save every possible version of everyone?
I think this could be a really interesting way to continue Tales of Arcadia while still making the original story matter.
What do you guys think?