A Sister Trope to the For Want of a Nail episode. While For Want of a Nail explores another fork in the road taken by a character, an Elseworld takes a well-known character and plonks them into a potentially wildly different location and situation. This can add some freshness to a character which allows them to act a different way than normal canon might allow but may also become an excuse to write professional Transplanted Character Fic of the Recycled in Space variety. DC's Elseworlds are sometimes grouped into six categories. These categories can be applied outside of DC Comics, of course.