Listed below are all the differences between the Blueverse (our universe) and the Redverse (the alternate universe) seen throughout Fringe, arranged by episode and with pictures and timestamps wherever appropriate.
S1E20 - There's More Than One of Everything
The Obamas were to move into a new White House. (Image 1)
Former President Kennedy is alive.
Len Bias played for the Celtics and never overdosed.
Image 1: Headlines S1E20 - There's More Than One of Everything Timestamp: 44:52
S2E14 - Jacksonville
Their Manhattan is spelled 'Manhatan'. (Image 1)
Real coffee is hard to come by.
9/11 terrorists struck the Pentagon and the White House. (Image 2)
They had mobile phones like the Motorola Razr in 1985.
S2E18 - The Man from the Other Side
The White House got a new glass roof. (Image 1)
The American flag has 48 stars. (Image 2)
Image 1: White House glass roof S2E18 - The Man from the Other Side Timestamp: 10:20Image 2: American flag S2E18 - The Man from the Other Side Timestamp: 10:22
S2E21 - Over There (Part 1)
They use Show Me cards for identification.
Fringe division has to quarantine dangerous zones in amber. (Image 1)
They don't know who Andrew Jackson is and they have Martin Luther King, Jr. on the $20 bill. (Image 2)
Their Statue of Liberty is still copper-colored (presumably because they have the technology to combat oxidation). (Image 3)
Their Department of Defense is on Liberty Island in New York. (Image 4)
The states in America are somewhat different. Texas is split into North and South, there is just one Dakota, Kansas and Oklahoma are merged, and half of California is gone. There's no indication of Hawaii or Alaska. Click here for more information. (Image 5)
The West Wing is on season 11. (Image 6)
Cabbage Patch Dolls are still popular. (Image 7)
They have the White Pages instead of the Yellow Pages. (Image 8)
They have a U.S. dollar coin depicting Richard Nixon. (Image 9)
Image 1: Quarantine device S2E21 - Over There (Part 1) Timestamp: 04:33Image 2: $20 bill S2E21 - Over There (Part 1) Timestamp: 25:58Image 3: Statue of Liberty S2E21 - Over There (Part 1) Timestamp: 26:22Image 4: Department of Defense S2E21 - Over There (Part 1) Timestamp: 26:22Image 5: United States map S2E21 - Over There (Part 1) Timestamp: 27:08Image 6: The West Wing S2E21 - Over There (Part 1) Timestamp: 29:35Image 7: Cabbage Patch Dolls S2E21 - Over There (Part 1) Timestamp: 35:01Image 8: The White Pages S2E21 - Over There (Part 1) Timestamp: 40:04Image 9: Dollar coin S2E21 - Over There (Part 1) Timestamp: 03:06
S2E22 - Over There (Part 2)
Antoni Gaudi's cancelled 1908 New York hotel project Hotel Attraction has been built in New York City and is called The Grand Hotel. (Image 1)
Madison Square Garden was quarantined in 1999. (Image 2)
Liberty Island, location of the Department of Defense, was appropriated by the revised Eminent Domain provision of the Earth Protection Act in 1989. (Image 3)
John F. Kennedy wasn't assassinated. (Image 4)
Almost all of Boston has been quarantined. (Image 5)
They have Kentucky Grilled Chicken. (Image 6)
William Bell did not open Massive Dynamic in the Redverse.
They have a "Red Lantern/Red Arrow" comic series (instead of "Green Lantern/Green Arrow"), "Superman: The Man of Steel Returns" (instead of "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns"), "Crisis on Infinite Earths" with Superman and Supergirl swapped, "Justice League Vol 1 1" with Jonah Hex (instead of Guy Gardner), and "The Death of Batman" poly bag (instead of The Death of Superman). (Image 7)
Peter's kidnapping was a famous story in the Redverse, and they did not have the Lindbergh kidnapping.
The Transamerica Pyramid is in the New York City skyline instead of in San Francisco. (Image 8)
William Bell in the Redverse was killed in a car accident as a young man. He never worked with Walternate.
A movie theater shows 'Superman Vs. Batman' and 'Indiana Jones & The Hex of the Hydra'. (Image 9)
A movie theater shows 'Star Wars - Legion of the Droids'. (Image 10)
Harvard University has a campus in Medford, MA. (Image 11)
A movie theater shows 'Smokey & the Bandit: The Final Lap' and 'Mask vs. Joker'. (Image 12)
They have huge bees (a nurse asked a patient "How big were the bees? This big? Bigger than a grapefruit?").
Image 1: The Grand Hotel S2E22 - Over There (Part 2) Timestamp: 01:14Image 2: Madison Square Garden S2E22 - Over There (Part 2) Timestamp: 01:33Image 3: Liberty Island S2E22 - Over There (Part 2) Timestamp: 01:53Image 4: John F. Kennedy S2E22 - Over There (Part 2) Timestamp: 02:09Image 5: Quarantine map S2E22 - Over There (Part 2) Timestamp: 07:56Image 6: Kentucky Grilled Chicken S2E22 - Over There (Part 2) Timestamp: 12:00Image 7: Alternate DC comics S2E22 - Over There (Part 2) Timestamp: 14:39Image 8: Transamerica Pyramid S2E22 - Over There (Part 2) Timestamp: 15:58Image 9: Movies S2E22 - Over There (Part 2) Timestamp: 36:19Image 10: Star Wars S2E22 - Over There (Part 2) Timestamp: 34:23Image 11: Medford campus sign S2E22 - Over There (Part 2) Timestamp: 16:55Image 12: Movies S2E22 - Over There (Part 2) Timestamp: 34:49
S3E01 - Olivia
They have the musical DOGS instead of CATS. (Image 1)
Tom Cruise is a TV star, not a film star.
Massive Dynamic does not exist. (Image 2)
Shell and Exxon have merged into Shexxon. (Image 3)
People are playing cricket in the park, implying that cricket is a common sport in Redverse America. (Image 4)
People ride penny-farthings. (Image 5)
The Department of Defense seal has no eagle and has swords instead of arrows. (Image 6)
They don't have U2; Fauxlivia had never heard of Bono. (Image 1)
Image 1: Bono S3E02 - The Box Timestamp: 05:06
S3E03 - The Plateau
They had an Aruba War, presumably instead of a Vietnam War. (Image 1)
Pens are rare.
The 'United States Postal Service' is called 'U.S. Mail Service' and has a slightly different logo. (Image 2)
There are places where the air quality is so bad that people need oxygen masks. (Image 3)
They still have smallpox outbreaks.
Avocados are hard to come by.
A bus has an ad for Rappaport's Toy Bazaar which closed down in the Blueverse in 1981. (Image 4)
Image 1: Aruba War vet S3E03 - The Plateau Timestamp: 00:56Image 2: U.S. Mail Service S3E03 - The Plateau Timestamp: 02:20Image 3: Air quality/oxygen sign S3E03 - The Plateau Timestamp: 35:24Image 4: Rappaport's Toy Bazaar ad S3E03 - The Plateau Timestamp: 16:41
S3E05 - Amber 31422
"The stuff that dreams are made of" was said by Cary Grant rather than Humphrey Bogart.
There's a Nixon Parkway in New York City.
S3E06 - 6955 kHz
They don't have the proverb "All's fair in love and war."
S3E07 - The Abducted
There's a New Yonkers in New York. (Image 1)
The Peter Bishop act of 1991 says that every kidnapping is treated like a possible Fringe event.
Red Vines are a new candy. (Image 2)
Their F.B.I. ceased to exist more than a decade ago.
A voice on the radio in Henry's cab can be heard saying "Leading politicians from two of the three major parties favor the..." suggesting that American politics in the Redverse has three major parties as opposed to just two in the Blueverse.
The movie Casablanca may not exist in the Redverse because Fauxlivia was totally unfamiliar with it.
They have a 'Quarantine Zone' board game ("Can you escape before it's too late?"). (Image 3)
Image 1: New Yonkers S3E07 - The Abducted Timestamp: 02:24Image 2: Red Vines S3E07 - The Abducted Timestamp: 17:11Image 3: 'Quarantine Zone' board game S3E07 - The Abducted Timestamp: 03:38
S3E08 - Entrada
Their Penn Station is called Springsteen Station. (Image 1)
They have an 'Opus the Peahen' comic (rather than 'Opus the Penguin'). (Image 1)
The West Wing is on season 12. (Image 2)
Francis Ford Coppola directed Taxi Driver.
America might use the metric system; a Fringe agent measured speed in kilometers per hour.
Image 1: Opus the Peahen S3E18 - Bloodline Timestamp: 12:28Image 2: The West Wing S3E18 - Bloodline Timestamp: 12:47
S4E02 - One Night in October
Their gas prices (in 2011) were $.99/gallon. (Image 1)
Image 1: Price of gasoline S4E02 - One Night in October Timestamp: 12:12
S4E08 - Back to Where You've Never Been
There were "The Amber Riots of '06".
S4E11 - Making Angels
They don't have Logan International Airport in Boston.
They don't have TSA.
S4E17 - Everything in Its Right Place
Their Batman is called Mantis.
They have moving newspapers like in Harry Potter. (Image 1)
Millard Fillmore appears on some type of currency.
The manhunt for Dawes begins North of Harlem heading up Copenhagen Avenue, towards 146th St. In the Blueverse, the comparable location is Amsterdam Avenue and 146th St. This suggests that Redverse New York City had Danish origins, not Dutch.
The USSR still exists. (Image 2)
Image 1: Moving newspaper S4E17 - Everything in Its Right Place Timestamp: 10:45Image 2: USSR S4E17 - Everything in Its Right Place Timestamp: 04:30
S4E18 - The Consultant
They don't have black boxes on planes.
They have domesticated badgers as pets. (Image 1)
They have a new Ebbets Field. (Image 2)
They don't have Sherlock Holmes.
Image 1: Badger food S4E18 - The Consultant Timestamp: 24:17Image 2: New Ebbets Field S4E18 - The Consultant Timestamp: 30:26
S4E20 - Worlds Apart
They haven't had rainbows in over 20 years.
S5E12 - Liberty
There's a museum in Tribeca called 'Alternative Museum'. (Image 1)
Chelsea Clinton was running for president. (Image 2)
Detroit was voted the safest city in America. (Image 3)
Warner Bros. announced a remake of the Harry Potter series. (Image 4)
Image 1: Alternative Museum S5E12 - Liberty Timestamp: 25:26Image 2: Chelsea Clinton S5E12 - Liberty Timestamp: 25:35Image 3: Detroit S5E12 - Liberty Timestamp: 25:35Image 4: Harry Potter S5E12 - Liberty Timestamp: 25:38
