Many fictional and mythological works have dealt with various circumstances that can logically arise from time travel, usually dealing with paradoxes. The predestination paradox is a common literary device. Time travel is a concept that has long fascinated humanity—whether it is Merlin experiencing time backwards, or religious traditions like Mohammeds trip to Jerusalem and ascent to heaven, returning before a glass knocked over had spilt its contents. ... A physical paradox is an apparent contradiction relating to physical descriptions of the universe. ... A predestination paradox, also called either a causal loop, or a causality loop and (less frequently) either a closed loop or closed time loop, is a paradox of time travel that is often used as a convention in science fiction. ...

Mythology/Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

While technically not a predestination paradox, self-fulfilling prophecy is a related variant which predates the use of time travel as a plot device. This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling. ...

Two of the earliest and most famous examples are the ancient Greek legend of Oedipus, and the ancient Indian story of Krishna in the epic Mahabharata. The Temple of Athena, the Parthenon Ancient Butts is a period in Greek history that lasted for around nine hundred years. ... Oedipus with the Sphinx, from an Attic red-figure cylix from the Vatican Museum, ca. ... Ancient India may refer to: the ancient History of India, which generally includes the ancient history of the whole Indian subcontinent the legendary Kingdoms of Ancient India in Sanskrit literature the Iron Age Mahajanapadas the Middle kingdoms of India of Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages Category: ... This article is about the Hindu deity. ... For the film by Peter Brook, see The Mahabharata (1989 film). ...

Oedipus

In the legend of Oedipus, it is prophesied that the baby Oedipus will one day kill his father and marry his mother. His father, Laius, attempts to circumvent the prophecy by abandoning the baby in the wilderness. Years later, Oedipus — unaware that he was adopted — learns of the prophecy and leaves home to avoid it. He kills a man and marries the widow, but does not learn until later that they are, in fact, his biological parents. The attempts to avoid fate result in the fulfilment of the prophecy. Laius abducting Chrysippus, who is reaching out to Pelops, his father (detail). ...

Krishna

In the story of Krishna in the epic Mahabharata, king Kamsa, afraid of a prophecy that predicted his death at the hands of his sister Devaki's son, had her cast into prison where he planned to kill all of her children at birth. After killing her first six children, Krishna took birth. As his life was in danger, he was smuggled out to be raised by his foster parents Yasoda and Nanda in the Gokul village. As a young man, Krishna returned to his kingdom to overthrow his uncle, and Kamsa was eventually killed by his nephew Krishna. It was due to Kamsa's attempts to prevent the prophecy that led to it coming true. A similar but less complex story is found in the Greek myth of Zeus overthrowing Cronos. In Hinduism, Kamsa is the son of a demon and half-brother of Devaki. ... In Hinduism, Devaki is the wife of Vasudeva and mother of Krishna and Balarama. ... In Hinduism, Yasoda is a peasant woman and foster-mother of Krishna, an avatar of Vishnu. ... According to Hindu mythology, Nanda is a peasant and foster-father of Krishna, an avatar of Vishnu. ... Gokul is a village 15 kms south-east of Mathura in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. ... The Statue of Zeus at Olympia Phidias created the 12-m (40-ft) tall statue of Zeus at Olympia about 435 BC. The statue was perhaps the most famous sculpture in Ancient Greece, imagined here in a 16th century engraving Zeus (in Greek: nominative: Zeús, genitive: Diós), is... Rhea tricking Cronus with a wrapped stone. ...

Literature

Numerous pieces of science fiction and fantasy literature involving time travel make use of the predestination paradox. The earliest known example of a predestination paradox in literature is Robert A. Heinlein's By His Bootstraps (1941). Ontological paradoxes, which commonly occur in fiction in conjunction with predestination paradoxes, are commonly referred to as 'bootstrap paradoxes' in honor of this literary precedent.^[1] Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Smaug in his lair: an illustration for the fantasy The Hobbit Fantasy is a genre of art that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. ... Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of hard science fiction. ... By His Bootstraps is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein that plays with some of the inherent paradoxes that would be caused by time travel. ... An ontological paradox is a paradox of time travel that questions the existence and creation of information that travels in time. ... An ontological paradox is a paradox of time travel that is often used as a convention in science fiction. ...

Other notable examples include:

Heinrich Böll

• Outside the field of Science Fiction, in Heinrich Böll's first novel Der Zug war pünktlich (The Train Was on Time, published in 1949) a WWII German soldier gets a premonition of the time of his death; a Polish prostitute who falls in love with him (and vice versa) tries to save him by using her connections with senior German officers to get him to safety - but precisely this attempt gets him (and herself) killed in an ambush set by anti-Nazi partisans (Leśni).

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Isaac Asimov

• Isaac Asimov's The End of Eternity.
• In Asimov’s Robots in Time series, a scientist travels two centuries into the future and is shown an utopian civilization free from illness, war and aging. When he returns and reports this, one of the persons who hears his account is a prototype human-looking robot who realizes that the future "humans" are actually robots and that mankind will succumb to its own decadence. The robot then buries a note for the robots of the future to discover so that they can convince the time traveller that humanity will triumph.

Isaac Asimov (January 2?, 1920?[1] – April 6, 1992), IPA: , originally Исаак Озимов but now transcribed into Russian as Айзек Азимов) was a Russian-born American Jewish author and professor of biochemistry, a highly successful and exceptionally prolific writer best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. ... The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov is a science fiction novel, with mystery and thriller elements, on the subjects of time travel and social engineering. ... Written by William F. Wu, Isaac Asimovs Robots in Time was the first series set in Isaac Asimovs universe after his death. ...

Stephen Baxter, The Time Ships

• In Stephen Baxter's The Time Ships, a sequel to H. G. Wells's The Time Machine, the Time Traveller explains that his researches into time travel began when a mysterious yet vaguely familiar stranger passed him a mineral, the Plattnerite, which he used to construct the machine. Over the course of his subsequent travels which involve the alteration of history, he discovers that the stranger was in fact his future self. Eventually, with the help of humanity's descendants, he restores the timeline and travels into the past to pass the Plattnerite to his younger self.

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Michael Moorcock, Behold the Man

• In Michael Moorcock's Behold the Man, time traveller Karl Glogauer travels back to 28 AD in search of Jesus. The Jesus he finds is a mentally retarded hunchback, but Glogauer himself becomes known by that name, attracts a mass following, and is captured and crucified.

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K.A. Applegate, In the Time of Dinosaurs

• In K.A. Applegate's Animorphs series. The book In the Time of Dinosaurs details the Animorphs on a trip back to the Cretaceous Period caused by a nuclear explosion. They meet an alien race, the Mercora, who want to help them get back to their own time. So they steal a nuclear device from another alien race, the Nesk. The Nesk then leave Earth, but divert a comet to strike the Mercora settlement. The Mercora ask for the nuclear device to help stop the comet. The team agrees and gives them the nuke. However, Ax has rendered it useless because Tobias realizes that this comet is the one that killed the dinosaurs, therefore it must hit or it will alter the timeline.

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

• In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry and Hermione travel back in time three hours to save Harry's godfather, Sirius Black, and Hagrid's hippogriff, Buckbeak, from being executed. Earlier Harry had seen someone he believed to be his father casting a powerful Patronus spell, saving him from the Dementors. Although hoping to see his father during this time journey, he finds no one there. He is therefore forced to cast the Patronus and save his past self, realizing in the process that it had been himself all along. When later asked how he was able to conjure such a powerful Patronus, Harry explains that he knew he could do it because he had already seen himself doing it. The film version of the book adds more examples, revealing that some shells that were mysteriously thrown into Hagrid's hut earlier were actually hurled by Hermione's future-self to warn them that Cornelius Fudge and company were arriving. The film also shows someone howling to distract the werewolf form of Lupin. Later, it is shown to be future Hermione.

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Michael Crichton, Timeline

• In Michael Crichton's novel Timeline, several graduate students who are excavating several medieval castles and towns from 14th century France are given the opportunity to travel back in time to the very place and time period they are studying. On a mission to rescue their Professor, who had left his time machine and gotten lost, the students end up causing some of the historical events they had studied.

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Christopher Pike, The Starlight Crystal

• In Christopher Pike's The Starlight Crystal, the main female character, Paige, is actually most of the characters who appear in the novel due to a causal loop, including living through the end and recreation of the universe, creating a race of aliens from her own genetic material who later invade Earth and stumbling across a corpse who turns out to be her older self.

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Robert A. Heinlein

• Robert A. Heinlein's short story "—All You Zombies—" tells of a young man who is taken back in time and tricked into impregnating his younger, female self (before he underwent a sex change), and who turns out to be the offspring of that very union, with the paradoxical result that he is both his own mother and father. In fact, as it turns out, all the major characters in the story (including the man who tricked him) are the same person, at different stages of her/his life. This also creates an ontological paradox.
• A similar theme is used in "By His Bootstraps", another short story by Robert A. Heinlein, in which a man is visited by himself (although he doesn't recognise him at first), stepping out of a time portal. After a few timetravels, and after meeting and talking (and even arguing) to himself repeatedly (in earlier or later loops), he discovers himself to be "Diktor", the older man from the future who started it all. Noteworthy is also a notebook, containing a vocabulary for Diktor's future, which was never written but rather copied from itself from another time loop.

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Doctor Who, “The Stone Rose”

• In the Doctor Who Tenth Doctor Adventures novel The Stone Rose, an ancient Roman statue that looks exactly like Rose Tyler leads to the Doctor and Rose travelling back to Ancient Rome. When their adventure concludes without the statue that inspired it being made, the Doctor sculpts it himself. The book also includes a vial of curative liquid which the Doctor acquires in mysterious circumstances. After it is used up, it is recreated based on the remains, and subsequently taken to the place and time the Doctor first found it.

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Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman, Dragonlance

• In Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman's Legends Trilogy of the Dragonlance novels, the wizard Raistlin Majere traveled back in time to gain the knowledge needed to cross the threshold between god and man. He encountered the evil wizard Fistandantilus (with whose spirit Raistlin had made a pact in his original timeline) and killed him, but Raistlin merely took Fistandantilus' place in the timeline. A prominent example of the predestination paradox in the story came when, in the past timeline, Raistlin entered the Tower of High Sorcery which he inhabited in the future timeline. When entering his private study, he noted that, though the room should have been untouched during the centuries between the timelines, it was more orderly in the past timeline than when he first entered it in the future timeline. When he could not locate what he sought within the room, he grew extremely angry, and in his fury, he disturbed the items in the room to the degree that he found them in the future timeline.

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Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

• In Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel The Last Continent, the Archchancellor Mustrum Ridcully explains the paradox neatly to Ponder Stibbons, who fears that any small change (such as stepping on an ant) in the past could destroy the future. Riduclly claims that clearly any changes he makes in the past were ones he is meant to make, demonstrating that 'the inherent paradoxes in time travel can be resolved by a sufficiently large ego'.

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Rob Grant, Colony

• In the Rob Grant novel Colony, Eddie O'Hare finds himself, through an improbable series of events, ten generations in the future, reanimated as a cyborg. He is on a spaceship searching for a new home for humanity, which has since become extinct on Earth. Though at first he detests his existence, he realizes that he is the only hope of saving those onboard and preserving the future of humanity. Cooperating with the partially biological ship which has evolved sentience, he travels into the past to initiate the series of events that lead him to be reanimated in the future.

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Robert Silverberg, Absolutely Inflexible

• In the Robert Silverberg story Absolutely Inflexible, the main character, Bureau Chief Mahler, lives in a future where time travel is possible, but only to the future. It is also a society where all diseases have been eradicated and no one has been immunized in decades. Thus it is not safe for these people to be released into the general population and they are quarantined on the moon. All of the time travellers are brought to Mahler and his "absolutely inflexible" attitude towards them means they are always quarantined. However, one day a man is brought to him in the regular decontamination suit, and says he has a two-way time machine which will bring a person to the future and back. The man seems to recognize Mahler and realizes that he is doomed to be sent to the moon. Mahler decides to test the new machine and goes to the past and back to his present. When he arrives, he is immediately put into a decontamination suit and is brought to the bureau office where he talks to Mahler from his past. It is revealed that the time machine is stuck in a causal loop.

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Eric Norden, The Primal Solution

• An especially vicious example is Eric Norden's novella "The Primal Solution". An elderly Jewish scientist - Holocaust survivor, who had lost his entire family - discovers a way of "mental time travel", which enables him to project his mind into the past and take over the body of the young Adolf Hitler in the Vienna of the early 1910s. Resolved to force Hitler into suicide, the vengeful professor can't resist humiliating him first before making him jump into the Danube - but in the moment before drowning, Hitler regains control of his body and returns home shaken. The scientist subsequently learns that until this moment the young Hitler had not at all been an Antisemite and was in fact on good terms with some Jews, but by his actions had driven Hitler to conclude that only by killing all Jews would he be free of the scientist's haunting presence.

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Nagaru Tanigawa, Haruhi Suzumiya series

• In Nagaru Tanigawa's Haruhi Suzumiya light novels, there are many other examples of time paradoxes and peculiarities, including predestination paradoxes, grandfather paradoxes, and a time loop. The character Asahina is in the center of these cases, since she's a time travaler sent back in time to investigate Haruhi Suzumiya. The author tries takes into account how time paradoxes might arise, and in some cases, tries to prevent them from arising.

• There is an extremely convoluted example that is describe in both the Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody chapter of the 3rd volume (The Boredom of Haruhi Suzumiya) and the whole 4th volume (The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya), that involves several predestination paradoxes (amongst others) at once:
  • Kyon travels 3 years back in time give the young Haruhi the idea of meeting him in the present (although she doesn't realize that the 2 Kyon's were the same person), which would eventually lead to Kyon to do the aforementioned time travel.
  • Asahina (so-called "small Asahina") was commanded by a future Asahina (so-called "big Asahina") to send Kyon back in time (although small Asahina doesn't know that her superior is her future self). It's implied that in the future, Asahina is predestined to give that command to her younger self.
  • Nagato hands a message to Kyon. Although Kyon initially doesn't know what to do with it, he is predestined to realize that he needs to give this message to the younger Nagato when Asahina loses her time travel device. This younger Nagato then sends both Asahina and Kyon back to the future (without causing any more paradoxes).
  • Once Kyon and small Asahina arrive in the past, big Asahina also arrives in the past. She steals her younger version's time travel device without small Asahina realizing it (big Asahina makes sure small Asahina never knows about her presence). This leads to Kyon needing to realize what to do with Nagato's message.
  • Later on, another Kyon (from volume 4), several months older than the above Kyon (from volume 3), also arrives in this past (through a complicated series of steps involving a non-supernatural Haruhi). The aforementioned non-supernatural Haruhi told him that after Kyon had helped her and left, another Kyon told her something. Thus, this Kyon was predetermined to do just that.
  • During the time when both the Kyon from volume 4 and the Kyon from volume 3 were in the same place and time, the latter Kyon never saw the former Kyon, and so the latter Kyon is predestined to never be seen by the former Kyon. Likewise for small Asahina vs. big Asahina.
  • There are several more paradoxes, including some grandfather paradoxes, in this set of scenes, but there are too many to enumerate here.

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Diana Gabaldon's Outlander Series

In Outlander and Dragonfly in Amber, the first books of Diana Gabaldon's Outlander Series, protagonist Claire Randall travels back from the 20th Century to the Scottish Highlands of the 18th Century, where she meets and falls in love with clansman Jamie Fraser. She tells Jamie of the impending 1745 Jacobite rebellion of Bonnie Prince Charlie, which would culminate with the disastrous battle of Culloden and with untold destruction and oppression for the Highland clans. The two travel to France where they work secretly to subvert the Jacobite cause and deprive it of French financial and political support, hoping to thus avert the disastrous rebellion. However, the headstrong Prince launches the rebellion anyway, even though without French support it is doomed to failure. Thus, the actions which the couple took in order to avert the disaster of Culloden end up being its direct cause. Outlander (published in the UK as Cross Stitch), is the first in a series of novels by Diana Gabaldon. ... Dragonfly in Amber, the second book in the best-selling Outlander series, is written by Diana Gabaldon. ... Diana Gabaldon (born January 11, 1952) is an American author of Mexican and English ancestry. ... The Scottish Highlands are the mountainous regions of Scotland north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault. ... // Events May 11 - War of Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenoy - At Fontenoy, French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army including the Black Watch June 4 – Frederick the Great destroys Austrian army at Hohenfriedberg August 19 - Beginning of the 45 Jacobite Rising at Glenfinnan September 12 - Francis I is elected... Jacobite refers to: A follower of Jacobitism, the political movement dedicated to the return of the Stuart kings to the thrones of England and Scotland A member of the Jacobite Orthodox Church of Syria. ... For the U.S. politician, see Charles E. Stuart Bonnie Prince Charlie Charles Edward Louis Philip Casimir Stuart (December 31, 1720 – January 31, 1788), was the exiled claimant to the thrones of Ireland, commonly known as Bonnie Prince Charlie. Charles was the son of James Francis Edward Stuart, the... For the famous 18th century battle in Scottish history see Battle of Culloden and Culloden, Scotland. ...

Film

12 Monkeys

• In 12 Monkeys, Bruce Willis' character is sent back in time in order to discover clues about the apocalyptic disease which wiped out most of the Earth's population. Throughout the film, he has a flashback-like dream to a vision of his childhood - he sees a man sprinting through an airport, only to fall and be embraced by a beautiful blonde. We eventually find out that this man is none other than the adult Willis, only disguised. The child is to grow up into the adult, destined to repeat the cycle.

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The Terminator

• Movies in the Terminator series deal with predestination paradoxes. In the first movie, Kyle Reese, the soldier sent back in time to protect Sarah Connor, the future mother of his commander John Connor, ends up fathering John Connor with her. Paralleling this, the Terminator cyborg sent back to kill Sarah is destroyed, but its components are salvaged to form the basis of the artificially intelligent computer network Skynet that will, in the future, send it back in time on its murderous mission. Although this second predestination paradox was established in the movie, the characters managed to destroy the components and prevent it. However, in the third movie, the Terminator reveals that the rise of Skynet is inevitable, and that the events of the second movie only postponed it. He turns out to be correct, as the movie ends with Skynet coming online.

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Donnie Darko

• In the film Donnie Darko, the title character is lured out of bed during the night by a vision of a man in a bunny suit named Frank, right before a jet engine falls through the ceiling of Donnie's room. Frank then informs Donnie that in 28 days, the world will end. Over the next four weeks, Donnie is instructed through a series of visions to perform various acts, starting a chain reaction which ultimately causes the deaths of his girlfriend, sister, mother, and Frank himself. Through a book entitled Philosophy of Time Travel, Donnie realizes that the jet engine is an artifact from the future ripped off by a wormhole and sent back through time to kill him and complete a causal loop that will prevent the world from collapsing into a black hole. On the night of the 28th day, history repeats itself, but instead of leaving his house, Donnie remains in bed and accepts his fate, closing the loop and killing himself.

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The Time Machine

• In The Time Machine, the protagonist Alexander Hartdegen invents a time machine to go back in time to stop the death of the woman he loves, Emma. However, whenever he saves her, she dies in another way. He travels to the future to find out why and eventually meet the Übermorlock, a powerful psychic. He tells Alexander that the reason he can't save Emma is because her death is what caused him to make the time machine in the first place. Because without her death, there can be no time machine, he therefore can't go back in time to save her.

The Time Machine is a 2002 science fiction film directed by Simon Wells as a remake of The Time Machine (1960), and starring Guy Pearce, Jeremy Irons, Orlando Jones, Samantha Mumba, Mark Addy, Sienna Guillory, and Phyllida Law with a cameo by Alan Young from the earlier film. ...

Kate and Leopold

• In the film Kate and Leopold, Kate McKay (Meg Ryan) lives in the present day and falls in love with a time traveller from 1876, Leopold (Hugh Jackman). Leopold was brought into the year 2001 by Stuart (Liev Schreiber), Kate's ex-boyfriend. After Leopold returns to his time, Kate also travels to 1876 to marry Leopold and consequently becomes Stuart's great-great-great-grandmother.

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Back to the Future

• Back to the Future uses several different forms of time travel, and primarily deals with the concept of history being altered, or alternate realities being created. However, several minor details deal with the predestination paradox. For example, in 1955, Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) discovers that he is the one who inspired Goldie Wilson, his town's African American mayor in 1985, to run for office by accidentally informing Wilson of his future in 1955. Also, by playing "Johnny B. Goode" at the 1955 high school dance, Marty becomes responsible for Chuck Berry's rock and roll composing the very song that Marty would learn to play. His friendship with his future parents led his mother-to-be into thinking that Marty is a nice name, implying that Marty inspired his own naming. The two sequels to the movie deal with similar variation, as well as other paradoxes.

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Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure

• In Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, the scene in which Bill and Ted break the "dudes from the past" out of jail relies on a series of actions that they have to remember to perform in the future. Notably, Bill and Ted are able to open the jail cells thanks to their future selves stealing the keys from the past and planting them outside the police station before they get there. Ted's father's missing keys are mentioned at the beginning of the movie, before any of the time travel events occur, and Ted later remarks "So it was me that stole my dad's keys!"
• Additionally, after the dudes from the past have been freed, Ted encounters his father, who attempts to stop him. Ted closes his eyes and tells himself, "Remember the trash can," at which point a booby trap constructed by Ted's future self activates, causing a large trash can to fall on his father.

Bill & Teds Excellent Adventure (1989) is a comedy/science fiction movie in which two slackers travel through time in order to assemble a menagerie of historical figures for their high school history presentation. ...

The Butterfly Effect

• In The Butterfly Effect, when his teacher asks him to draw what he wants to be when he grows up, seven-year-old Evan Treborn (Logan Lerman) draws a murderer standing over two corpses with a bloody knife. He quickly "blacks out" the memory of having drawn the picture and never sees the drawing afterwards. In response to the picture, Evan's mother takes him to a doctor, who suggests he write about the incident in a journal. As an adult, Evan (Ashton Kutcher) uses the journal to return to the past and draw the picture. Also, seven-year-old Evan visits his father Jason in a psychiatric hospital and "blacks out" the few minutes that lead Jason to attack Evan until a guard accidentally deals a lethal blow to Jason's head. Later, in order to speak to his dead father, Evan uses his journals to relive the visit, during which he provokes the attack.

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Timerider

• In Timerider, Lyle Swann (Fred Ward) accidentally gets sent back in time to the old west without him knowing it. There, he meets a beautiful woman in a small town and has sex with her. By the end of the movie, it is evident that the beautiful woman is Lyle's great-great-grandmother and he is his own great-great-grandfather, as he was leaving by helicopter, the woman grabbed and stole from him a medallion that he learned his grandmother had stolen from his grandfather.Chris-marsh-usa 21:01, 8 June 2007 (UTC) This sets up the circumstances for his own birth and, therefore, sets up the circumstances for him to travel through time.

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Happy Accidents

• In Happy Accidents, Sam Deed (Vincent D'Onofrio) in 2470 falls in love with a woman, Ruby, in a photograph he finds. He travels back to 1999 to prevent her death. They fall in love and he eventually convinces her that he comes from the future, but she does not believe his warnings about her death. On the appointed day, Ruby is distracted as she looks at a photograph of herself and Sam at the beach; she is nearly run down by a car, but Sam manages to save her. It transpires that the out-of-focus picture is the one Sam finds in the future that inspired him to return to the past. However, in saving Ruby and breaking the loop, he creates an ontological paradox, as his knowledge of Ruby's accident in the original timeline no longer has an origin.

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Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

• In Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, the main character Anakin Skywalker has a prophecy that his wife Padmé Amidala will die during childbirth. In an attempt to save her, he turns to the Dark Side of the Force, becoming Darth Vader. When his wife discovers he has become evil, she loses the will to live and dies giving birth, fulfulling the prophecy.

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Planet of the Apes series

Main article: Planet of the Apes

1. Planet of the Apes (1968 film)-Three astronauts travel forward in time and find an Earth where the Apes govern and mankind are beasts.
2. Beneath the Planet of the Apes-astronaut going forward in time finds the only survivor of the #1 movie-the Earth is destroyed by a doomsday bomb worshiped by an underground-dwelling humans
3. Escape from the Planet of the Apes-two survivors from Ape Earth go back in time-helped by the shock wave of Earth’s destruction- and give birth to child Milo
4. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes-the Apes overthrow the humans.
5. Battle for the Planet of the Apes-battle between the Apes and humans who are split into two societies-one aboveground and the other belowground.{Although no sequel to # 5, after centuries the humans above degerate into beasts and apes rule them-until three astronauts from the future come and the whole process starts over again...}.

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Television

Star Trek

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“City on the Edge of Forever”

• In the Star Trek episode “The City on the Edge of Forever,” Dr. McCoy accidentally travels back in time to 1930 and in the process saves a women named Edith Keeler from being hit by a car, allowing her to meet FDR and convince him not to enter World War II, thus allowing the Axis to win, and making the Federation cease to exist. Captain Kirk and Spock must travel back in time to prevent the change in the time line, and Kirk unknowingly falls in love with Keeler. He takes her out on a date at a movie, but as they cross the street, Kirk sees McCoy and runs back to him, and then Keeler is hit by a truck while waiting. Kirk must restrain himself and McCoy from helping her, knowing that it had to be done. In addition, the Guardian of Forever introduces itself with a Grandfather Paradox, stating “I am both; and neither. I am my own beginning, my own ending.”

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“Relativity”

• In the Star Trek: Voyager episode “Relativity,” Captain Braxton of the future timeship USS Relativity recruits Seven of Nine to prevent the USS Voyager from being blown up by a temporal intruder. Her first two attempts are unsuccessful, and she ends up recruiting Captain Kathryn Janeway to find the intruder who planted the bomb. The intruder turns out to be a future version of Braxton, seeking revenge against Janeway, whom he blames for interfering with the timeline on numerous occasions and causing him to endure a 30-year exile on 20th century Earth (as seen in the episode “Future’s End”). Relativity’s First Officer, Lieutenant Ducane, arrests the present-day Braxton for “crimes he will commit,” and promises Janeway that he will clean up the timeline. How this is to be done, however, or whether the events of the episode will continue to exist if he does so, is never explained. Here, the paradox was called the Pogo paradox (after the phrase “We have met the enemy and he is us” from the Pogo comic strip).

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“Captain’s Holiday”

• In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Captain’s Holiday,” Jean-Luc Picard is contacted by two Vorgons from 300 years in the future. They claim that he is destined to find a powerful weapon that was stolen and hidden in the past, the Tox Uthat. Compelled by this prophecy, Picard finds it, but on discovering that the Vorgons were the ones who stole it in the first place, chooses to destroy it instead. The Vorgons then admit that this was what history had actually recorded and their attempts to change it for their own gain failed.

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“Time’s Arrow”

• In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Time’s Arrow,” the USS Enterprise-D is recalled to Earth because Data’s severed head has been discovered in an abandoned mine shaft underneath San Francisco from 500 years in the past. While investigating possible causes, Data is sent back to 19th century San Francisco, and after a battle with aliens who are sucking brain energy from humans, his head is severed and the mine shaft collapses.

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“Trials and Tribble-ations”

• In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “Trials and Tribble-ations,” the USS Defiant is sent back through time to the 23rd century, where they become embroiled in a plot to kill Captain James Tiberius Kirk. In so doing, they end up effectively participating in the original series episode “The Trouble with Tribbles.” A humorous reference is made to the predestination paradox when Julian Bashir suggests that he is meant to have sex with a Lieutenant Watley (who he thinks is one of his ancestors) so that he can become his own great-grandfather, lest he cease to exist.

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Star Trek: First Contact

• In the movie Star Trek: First Contact, a Borg ship travels to April 4, 2063 from the 24th century to prevent humans from making contact with aliens. The USS Enterprise-E follows the Borg into the past and destroys the ship. However, debris and some Borg survivors land in the Arctic, where they go into suspended animation. Accidentally revived several decades later in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode “Regeneration,” these Borg escape Earth and send a message to the Collective of that period, then still deep within the Delta Quadrant. It is implied that this signal—which would not be received until the 24th century—may be why the Borg decided to invade the Alpha Quadrant 200 years later.

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Red Dwarf

“Future Echoes”

• In the Red Dwarf episode “Future Echoes,” there are several predestination paradoxes caused by images of the future appearing in the present. The first echo occurs when Lister is shaving, and his reflection shows him cutting himself. This distracts him, causing him to cut himself. Later, Lister has a nonsensical conversation with Rimmer, unaware he is talking to a future echo. When the real Rimmer enters the room, Lister's attempts to work out what's happening lead to Rimmer making the same responses heard in the echo. Lister later sees a future echo of the Cat with a broken tooth, and decides that if he can prevent this happening, he can prevent other events seen in the echoes. Realizing the Cat is trying to eat a robot goldfish, Lister tackles him to the floor before he can bite, breaking the Cat's tooth in the process.

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“Stasis Leak”

• In the Red Dwarf episode “Stasis Leak,” Lister reads in an entry in Rimmer's diary where it is written that Rimmer has seen his future self, who told him about a stasis leak and advised him to go into stasis to survive. At the time, Rimmer dismissed it as a hallucination. Later in the episode, Rimmer, Lister and Cat find the stasis leak and go back in time, where Rimmer tells his past self to go into stasis to avoid being killed. The past Rimmer dismisses it as a hallucination (brought on by eating fungus), although he writes in his diary, completing an unbreakable loop.

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“Ouroboros”

• In the Red Dwarf episode “Ouroboros,” Lister encounters an alternate reality where Kochanski survived instead of him. After adding his contribution to an in-vitro tube, he finds a supplies case labeled “ouroboros” (which was also written on the cardboard box he was abandoned in). He then realizes that he is his own father, and when the child is 9 months old, he goes back in time and places the child where he was left.

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“Cassandra”

• The eponymous clairvoyant computer in the Red Dwarf episode “Cassandra” lies about what she has seen in an attempt to get revenge on Lister, since he will kill her. Her subterfuge leads directly to Lister inadvertently killing her, after declaring his intention not to. Cassandra’s genuine predictions include the concise predestination paradox “You die in about four seconds’ time of a heart attack, after hearing the news that you’re going to die of a heart attack.”

Cassandra was the fourth episode to air in the eighth series of Red Dwarf. ...

The Twilight Zone

“No Time Like the Past”

• In the Twilight Zone episode “No Time Like the Past,” the main character uses a time machine to go back in time to alter past events. After failing to warn a Hiroshima police captain about the impending nuclear attack, assassinate Adolf Hitler, and change the course of the Lusitania to avoid being torpedoed, he accepts that the past cannot be changed. He then uses the time machine to return to the town of Homeville in the year 1881. After reading in a history book that Homeville’s schoolhouse will burn down because of a kerosene lantern thrown from a runaway wagon, he spots the wagon and attempts to prevent the fire, but instead causes the fire he intended to prevent.

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“A Most Unusual Camera”

• In the Twilight Zone episode “A Most Unusual Camera,” three thieves acquire a camera whose pictures foretell the future. After a French waiter translates an inscription on the camera, there is a struggle between them during which a picture is accidentally taken of one of the thieves in which she is screaming. This causes the other two thieves to engage in another struggle, this time resulting in their falling out of the window into the courtyard below. The last remaining thief then takes a picture of the bodies in the courtyard and when the picture develops sees four bodies and not two. Upon seeing this, she rushes to the window, trips, and falls out of it. The waiter also manages to fall out, but is not visible at the time.

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“Cradle of Darkness”

• In an episode of The Twilight Zone entitled “Cradle of Darkness” (2002), a woman named Andrea Collins (Katherine Heigl) travels back in time in order to kill Adolf Hitler as a baby. In order to do that, she commits suicide, jumping from a bridge holding the baby. However, a maid from the Hitler household sees the whole thing and replaces the child with a Gypsy baby who grows up to be the evil Adolf Hitler. But for Andrea’s actions, this would not have happened, and she created the future she was trying to destroy.

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"Memphis"

• In the 2003 The Twilight Zone episode "Memphis", a man (Eriq La Salle) is struck by a car is somehow sent back in time to a few days before Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. He has the opportunity to save King, but instead risks his life to save a kid who is about to get hit by a car while crossing the street. When he comes to, he is in a hospital back in his normal time. The doctor treating him turns out to be the kid that he saved from getting hit.

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Doctor Who

“Day of the Daleks”

• In the 1973 Doctor Who serial “Day of the Daleks,” guerillas from the 22nd century travel back in time to prevent their own future from coming to pass. However, they discover that it is their actions that actually cause that future to happen. In that case, the loop is broken, not by them, but by the Doctor. As his existence is not dependent on the loop, he is not caught in the paradox and can act freely, his actions presumably causing that future to cease to exist.

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"The Parting of the Ways"

• In the 2005 Doctor Who episode "The Parting of the Ways", the Doctor's companion, Rose Tyler, absorbs the energy of the time vortex to save the Earth from the Daleks. She also uses the power to scatter the phrase "Bad Wolf" throughout history as clues, to lead her past self to the position where she will absorb the energy of the vortex to save the world.

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The Curse of Fenric

In the 1989 Doctor Who serial The Curse of Fenric, Fenric brings a Haemovores from a future where years of pollution has caused humans to mutate into Haemovores, and orders him to dump toxins into the sea, which would create a Predestination paradox, but he kills Fenric, and himself, averting it. In the same serial, Fenric causes Ace to save the life of her grandmother and her mother as an infant, creating her own future. Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ... Doctor Who is a long-running award-winning British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The series depicts the adventures of a mysterious time-traveller known as the Doctor who travels in his TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space) time ship, which appears from the exterior... The Curse of Fenric is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from October 25 to November 15, 1989. ... This is a list of villains from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... This is a list of monsters and aliens from the television series Doctor Who. ... Ace (given name Dorothy) is a fictional character played by Sophie Aldred in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

"Blink"

• In the 2007 Doctor Who episode "Blink", the Doctor becomes stranded in 1969 and uses information gleaned from the future in order to communicate with a woman in 2007, Sally Sparrow. Though the Doctor's intervention from the past, knowledge and items come into Sally's possession that are used to defeat his enemies and return the time machine to him (sometimes without Sally realising). At the end of the episode Sally meets the Doctor by chance and, realising that she has encountered him at a point in his personal timeline before the events of the episode have taken place, gives him the information that he will later use to make contact with her past self.
• Also, when Sally and her friend Kathy are in the old house, a man comes to the door. This causes Sally to greet the man at the door and Kathy to be left alone, which sends Kathy back in time to 1920. Kathy lives out her life in the past and, just before her death, she forces her grandson to promise to hand-deliver a letter to Sally at the old house, which he does. This causes Sally to greet the man at the door and Kathy to be left alone, to be sent back to 1920.

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Torchwood

“The Ghost Machine”

• In the episode “Ghost Machine,” Gwen uses the "Ghost Machine", which gives her a vision of herself in the future holding a bloody knife and saying “Owen wanted to kill him.” When the scenario arrived in real life, Owen was threatening a man with a knife. Having seen and heard what her 'future' self said, Gwen takes the knife from Owen, resulting in the old man taking advantage of the way she is holding the knife to commit suicide. The predestination in this case was a misinterpretation of the actual vision.

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Babylon 5

Babylon 4 and Babylon 5

• In Babylon 5, it is established that the titular station's predecessor, Babylon 4, vanished several years before. When it mysteriously reappears in the series' first season (taking place in 2258), it appears to have been dragged through time. The crew of Babylon 5 manage to evacuate those on Babylon 4 before it vanishes again (“Babylon Squared”). Two years later, led by a letter left in the distant past by a Minbari prophet named Valen, the crew of Babylon 5 realized that it was they who “stole” Babylon 4 in the first place to serve as a base of operations for a war a thousand years in the past (“War Without End”). They then travel back in time to accomplish this before Babylon 4 can be destroyed by their enemies, trying to avoid their earlier selves when the station gets shunted to 2258. The former Babylon 5 commander, Jeffrey Sinclair, stays behind and takes Babylon 4 back to 1260, where it fulfils its place in Minbari history. Sinclair is also transformed during the journey into a Minbari, and introduces himself to those he meets in the past as Valen, eventually leaving the prophecies that will guide his future friends and self full circle.

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Londo Mollari and G’Kar

• Also in Babylon 5, Londo Mollari has a recurrent prophetic dream in which he kills, and is killed by G’Kar. To avoid this future, he sparks a genocidal war by his own Centauri people against G’Kar’s Narn, but in the long run, this leads to his own and his race's enslavement by the Drakh. After years, he captures John Sheridan and Delenn, and explains the situation to them. He sets them free, in return for their promise to liberate his people. But the only way this plan can succeed is to keep it from the Drakh, who have implanted him with a Keeper that can read his mind. He realizes that the only way to save his people is for G’Kar to strangle him; the violence awakens the Keeper, forcing him to fight back, and so the prophecy is fulfilled.

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Stargate SG-1

“1969”

• In the Stargate SG-1 episode “1969,” a wormhole transports the SG-1 team to 1969, where they are arrested as Communist spies. One of their guards, Lieutenant George Hammond, who will be their commanding officer in the future, finds a note in Samantha Carter’s equipment. The note, in Hammond’s own handwriting, states, “George, help them.” Because of this, the younger Hammond helps SG-1 escape. In his relative future, General Hammond will remember the incident and write the note, giving it to Carter just prior to SG-1 leaving through the wormhole, thus closing the loop.

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“Prophecy”

• In the Stargate SG-1 episode “Prophecy,” Jonas Quinn begins seeing visions of the future. One of these visions consists of an injured Major Carter being rushed to the infirmary. Jonas convinces General Hammond to pull Carter from the upcoming mission. Later, while working on the Stargate, and while the rest of SG-1 is still offworld, a power spike injures Carter in the same manner as in Jonas’s vision.

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Outer Limits

• In an Outer Limits episode, a woman goes back in time and kills an infant Adolf Hitler. The nurse panics and buys a baby off of a gypsy; that baby grows up to be the "real" Adolf Hitler.

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American Dragon: Jake Long

“Hero of the Hourglass”

• In the episode of American Dragon: Jake Long, “Hero of the Hourglass,” Jake travels back to 1986 and encounters the past version of the Huntsman. Back then, the Huntsman had a goofy sounding voice. Later, Jake causes the past Huntsman to fall into the pit of a monster, which is apparently how the Huntsman got the voice of his present day counterpart.

Futurama

• Futurama explores the predestination paradox in its main story arc. The main character, Philip J. Fry was cryogenically frozen for a millennium in the year 2000, reawakening on December 31, 2999. In the episode “Roswell That Ends Well,” Fry travels back in time. He is instructed by Professor Farnsworth not to do anything to change history, “like killing your own grandfather.” Fry is so determined to protect a reckless Enos (who he believes is his grandfather) from harm that he hides him in an abandoned building. The building turns out to be part of a nuclear weapon test, which kills Enos. Fry then has sex with Enos’ fiancée Mildred, believing that she cannot be his grandmother since he still exists. However, Farnsworth points out that in doing so, Fry has become his own grandfather. This causes him to have a unique brainwave pattern that makes him immune to the greatest threat of the universe, the evil Brainspawn. In a later episode, he is able to trap them in a singularity, but accidentally traps himself with them. The Brainspawn and Fry work together to travel back in time and prevent Fry from ever being frozen, meaning that he could not trap the Brainspawn. However, when he reaches the past, he realizes that to save humanity, and the love of his life, he has no choice but to make sure he does stop the Brainspawn. He pushes himself into the cryogenic freezer, but leaves a message ensuring that he has safe transportation so that he escapes when the Brainspawn are trapped.

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Bionic Six

• In a Bionic Six episode, when Professor Sharp creates a time portal to send a team to pre-history to learn which power killed the dinosaurs, his brother, Scarab, sends henchmen to steal this power. In the end, nobody learns what killed the dinosaurs, but its hinted that they were killed by the radiation that came out from a gun the villains left in the past.

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A Step into the Past

• In the Hong Kong TV series A Step into the Past and the book it was based on, the main character Hong Siu Lung travels back in time to the Warring States Period of China and accidentally changes a few events. He thinks he has altered history, but in the end, he creates history by helping the tyrannical Qin Shihuang rise to power.

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“The Flipside of Dominick Hide”

• In The Flipside of Dominick Hide, Dominick Hide is a time traveller assigned to learn about 20th century transport systems. Learning that his great-great-grandfather lived in the time and place he is studying (London in 1980), he breaks the rules of his job in order to track down his relative. Though he does not find him, he does have an affair with a woman which leads to her giving birth to a son, Dominick's great-grandfather. Thus the great-great-grandfather Dominick was searching for was in fact himself. It is eventually revealed that Hide's superior knew about the loop and deliberately allowed Hide to break the rules in order to fulfill it.

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Transformers/Beast Wars

• The show Beast Wars took place several generations down from the characters of the original Transformers show. Megatron, the leader of the story's villains (the Predacons) desired to travel back in time to prehistoric Earth and destroy the ancient Autobots as they hibernated, thus preventing them from winning the war that took place in the original show. However, as he and his minions crash-landed on Earth, they realized that the planet could not be the Earth they were familiar with because it had two moons. However, the second moon was revealed to be an alien destructo-device which the characters destroyed - thus, they made Earth a single-moon planet by travelling back in time. Also, much later in the series, the Maximals discovered a small shuttle inside the ancient Autobot starship (The Ark) that there was no record of in the history files - because history was still being made at the moment, and they used the shuttle to travel back to their home planet and time.

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The PowerPuff Girls

• In an episode of The PowerPuff Girls, Professor Utonium reveals to the girls that he originally devoted his life to science because he had seen a vision of some kind when he was a child. This drove him towards finding just what the vision was, by committing to science. The girls' nemesis, Mojo Jojo, learns of this and decides to travel back in time to prevent the creation of his enemies. However, the girls follow him into the past. Eventually, the child Utonium is knocked out and comes to as the girls are hovering over him - the aforementioned vision.

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Darkwing Duck

• In Darkwing Duck, the characters are called one day to a science lab where they have recently unearthed a large chunk of amber that appears to have Darkwing Duck preserved in it. The present-Darkwing and the other characters travel back in time to investigate. However, events lead to Darkwing falling in a pit of sap, and is thus preserved for eons. The episode ends with the other characters returning to the lab in the present to break Darkwing out of the amber.

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Gargoyles

• The time travel device of the TV series Gargoyles, the Phoenix Gate, comes with a provision that it cannot be used to alter history. Multibillionaire antagonist David Xanatos manipulates events to bring the Phoenix Gate into his possession, which he uses to travel back in time. There, he instigates a sequence of events that leads to the delivery of a valuable gold coin to his possession as a younger man, which he had used to build his fortune. He also arranged to have the instructions to do what he had just done sent to himself a few weeks before.

In another episode, Goliath finds himself accused of causing the disappearance of another Gargoyle during The Blitz. He uses the Phoenix Gate to travel back in time in order to stop the event from occurring, but eventually causes the disappearance when events force him to bring the Gargoyle back to the present with him. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... David Xanatos David Xanatos is one of the primary antagonists of the animated series Gargoyles. ... Heinkel He 111 German bomber over the Surrey Docks, Southwark, London (German propaganda photomontage). ...

El-Hazard

• In the animé series El-Hazard, the main character Makoto Mizuhara and three other people from Earth are sent by Ifurita to the world of El-Hazard. The actions of these characters while on El-Hazard lead to both the awakening of Ifurita (who had been in suspended animation for a millennium) and to her being sent into Earth's past, allowing her to be present to send the Earthlings to El-Hazard in the first place.

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Danny Phantom

The episode The Ultimate Enemy shows Dark Danny, an evil version of Danny Phantom ensuring his younger self turns into him by going back in time in disguise of his past self and making sure that everything it where it should be. Danny eventually returns and defeats Dark Dan but is too late to save his family. Luckily, Clockwork (Danny Phantom) saves them. The Ultimate Enemy is episode twenty eight and twenty nine as well as the second TV movie of Danny Phantom. ... Dark Danny is a villain in Danny Phantom. ... Danny Phantom the heroic ghostly alter-ego of Daniel Danny Fenton--a superhero, the protagonist and titular character of the Nickelodeon animated television series Danny Phantom. ... Clockwork is the Ghost Master of Time in Danny Phantom, voiced by David Carradine. ...

Kim Possible

In Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time, Duff Killigen, Monkey Fist and Dr. Drakken go back in time to try and stop Kim and Ron from forming “Team Possible.” At preschool, using a “Re-Juvenator,” the three villains infiltrate the school as children to crush Kim's spirit. A young Ron tries to intervene, only for the villains to turn on him - but this drives Kim to save the day for the first time. Which means that by travelling back in time they created the “Team Possible” they were trying to destroy.

Primeval

In an episode of the ITV series Primeval, the Team, along with some soldiers, go back to the Permian Era. While there they find the skeletal remains of a human being. In the last episode of the series they go back to the Permian Era, where one of the soldiers is killed; the dying soldier realises and asks Cutter whether the skeleton was him, and he replies yes. Cast of Primeval: (left to right:) Hannah Spearritt, Andrew-Lee Potts, Douglas Henshall, Lucy Brown, James Murray and Mark Wakeling. ...

Video games

Chrono Trigger

• The console RPG Chrono Trigger is famous for exploring several varieties of time travel ethics, including predestination, mostly when it comes to the creation of the Masamune. After acquiring the two broken halves of the sword from Frog and taking them to Melchior in 1000 AD, he informs you that it needs Dreamstone to be repaired, which no longer exists. Later, before going into the Undersea Palace in 12,000 BC, Melchior's past self gives you a ruby knife with which to destroy the Mammon Machine, both being made from the same material. When the knife stabs into the machine, Lavos' power transforms the knife into the great sword which would become known as the Masamune in the centuries to come.

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TimeSplitters: Future Perfect

• In the first-person shooter TimeSplitters: Future Perfect, the player character Sgt. Cortez often meets a near-future version of himself who helps him progress with the game. Later on, the player must perform that exact role to help his past self. One such example is at one point on the level 'Scotland the Brave', there is a locked door which Cortez cannot get through. This is sorted however when he looks up through a grate to see a future version of himself. After a brief conversation, the future version hands him the key to the door. Later in the level, he travels through a time portal and looks down a grate to see the past version of himself by the locked door. This is when he hands the past version the key to the door.

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Legacy of Kain

• In the Legacy of Kain series, the character Raziel is born a human and lives the life of a religious zealot that, along with his Sarafan brethren, eventually meets his end at the hands of a demonic abomination. Raziel is resurrected as a vampire by Kain, who later sentences him to burn in the Abyss. Rising again, and following a quest for vengeance against Kain that covers the five games and time travel, Raziel discovers that it was he, in his wraith form, who killed himself and the other Sarafan, and that Kain had sentenced him to the Abyss to fuel the chase through time that would bring Raziel full circle for a larger purpose, making Raziel escape the clutches of the otherwise all-dominating wheel of fate that dictates the lives of all living creatures in Nosgoth. Raziel eventually succumbs to his fate of becoming the soul-harvesting spirit within the Soul Reaver blade that was previously merged metaphysically with him.

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Clive Barker's Undying

• In Clive Barker's Undying, the character Patrick Galloway discovers a journal that mentions a powerful mystical weapon, the Scythe of the Celt, which was stolen from a now-ruined monastery hundreds of years in the past, and describes a means of travelling in time via a magical portal. The journal writer intended to use the portal to take the Scythe before it was stolen but was mortally injured before he could do so. Using clues in the journal, Galloway travels back to a time when the monastery was intact and populated and steals the Scythe, becoming the very thief mentioned in the journal. The theft of the Scythe also releases energy that causes the destruction of the monastery whose ruins Galloway finds in the present day.

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Shadow of Destiny

• In Shadow of Destiny, the predestination paradox and many other time travel concepts are explored as the protagonist, Eike Kusch, is murdered by a mystery assailant, and he is empowered to prevent his own demise via time travel. In fact, one of the endings results in an alchemist from the past making a wish to be, forever more, just like someone of Eike's character, having met him previously. The wish comes true, with the alchemist being metamorphosed into an exact duplicate of Eike; speculation is that the Eike the player controls, is the future self of the alchemist, having lived immortally for centuries as Eike, hence why his survival is so important to Homunculus.

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Prince of Persia

• In Prince of Persia (Ubisoft), The Sands of Time and Warrior Within, the Prince is able to manipulate time, and the effects or causes of time travel are explored (with a light air in Sands of Time, and with a more far-reaching philosophical logic in Warrior Within) and the very nature of causality is questioned. However, all manipulations seamlessly integrate themselves into the timeline, such that when one is sure that one has just cheated fate (the main theme in Warrior Within), one finds oneself merely fulfilling one's own destiny. Also seen is a self-fulfilling prophecy by the "Empress of Time" that predicts that the Empress will die at the Prince's hand, prompting the Empress to decide to engage the Prince in battle to try and prevent her own death by killing the Prince first. She underestimates the Prince and is killed, and the same event releases the "Sands of Time" that start the Prince's ordeal in the first place.

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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

• In The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, the main character Link, who is the destined "Hero of Time," goes back and forth between a seven-year time period to save Hyrule from the evil Ganondorf. At one point in the game, as an adult, Link enters a windmill in Kakariko Village where a man teaches him the Song of Storms, which he says "messed up the windmill seven years ago when some kid played it". Then in the past, Link plays the song inside the windmill, causing it to speed up, thus "teaching" the man the same song Link had learned from him in the future.

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Final Fantasy VIII

• In Final Fantasy VIII, it is because of the direct actions of Ultimecia, knowing of her destiny to fall at the hand of Squall, that the events of the game take place. The main character, Squall, ends up briefly in the past in front of the orphanage he grew up in. By telling the matron of his origins, he ensures the creation of Garden and his appointment as commander of the SeeD forces -- the very events that Ultimecia wanted to prevent.

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Escape From Monkey Island

• In the PC game Escape From Monkey Island, the player character Guybrush Threepwood travels through a special time-travel-inducing swamp. There, he meets his future self, who hands him three items and speaks certain phrases to him. The object of this part of the game is to ensure the proper conversation and item-exchanging occur in the same order both when the player is controlling past-Guybrush, and later when the player controls future-Guybrush. Otherwise, a time storm erupts. The three items, of course, are trapped in an endless loop of changing-hands. An interesting side-note is that often one of the items will be a gun. If it is, when the player controls past-Guybrush, he may choose to shoot the future-Guybrush with the gun. However, later when the player controls future-Guybrush, the past-Guybrush inevitably shoots him.

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Breath of Fire

• In Breath of Fire, Ryu and his party encounter an exact duplicate of fellow party member Nina, but dressed in blue rather than pink. The duplicate reacts with confusion to any attempt to speak with her. Later in the game, Nina is pulled into a time stream and separated from the group, and the duplicate is then revealed to be the future version of Nina after she had been pulled through time and become significantly more powerful.

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Ecco the Dolphin

• In Ecco the Dolphin, the eponymous protagonist Ecco meets an ancient creature named the Asterite, who seems to recognize him. The Asterite is willing to help Ecco on his quest, but is unable to, as one of the globes that comprises its body is missing, so it sends Ecco back into a prehistoric era to find it. In the past, Ecco finds a younger version of the Asterite, who attacks him. Ecco fights against the younger Asterite, and in the process takes one of its globes, at which point he is sent back to the present, where he gives the Asterite back the globe that he had stolen millions of years before.

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Futurama (video game)

• In the Futurama video game, the crew is sent back in time, after being chased through the universe by Mom and her sons. They are fleeing Mom because the Professor sold Planet Express to Mom, giving her 50% majority ownership of Earth. Thus, under Earthican law, she owns the world and its population. Back in time, they attempt to stop Mom from completing her plan, resulting in their deaths. Having no crew or ship, Prof. Farnsworth reluctantly sells, at which point gameplay restarts at the first scene. Also, at the beginning of the game, when the crew tries to escape, they discover that their ship has been badly damaged. They fix it, but later in the game, they fly their ship into the sun, which results in it getting damaged. After they travel back in time, Fry remarks that they now know who damaged their ship. They then take the other ship that has not yet been damaged, leaving the destroyed ship to their past selves.

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Shadow Hearts: Covenant

• In Shadow Hearts: Covenant, Karin is given a photograph that depicts her as Yuri's mother. Because of this photo, instead of returning home like the other characters, Karin stays in the past and eventually gives birth to Yuri. Karin also assumes the alias of "Anne" as Yuri told her that was his mother's name. Yuri also added that he was named after his mother's first love — Yuri himself. Yuri also gives Karin his mother's cross which is taken back in time and eventually given back to Yuri so that he can close the loop, creating an ontological paradox in relation to the cross.

Valkyrie Profile

• In Valkyrie Profile, the valkyrie Lenneth visits Dipan, a city that had thrived in centuries past, but in the present is in ruins. Upon arriving, she is attacked by the ghost of the deceased king, who accuses Lenneth of killing him and destroying his kingdom. Lenneth has no recollection of this, as she had never been to Dipan before. After fighting the king's ghost, she explores the ruined palace and is sent back in time to the day of the king's execution. While there, Lenneth discovers that her sister Hrist (who looks very similar to Lenneth, save for the color of her hair and armor) had come to the city under Odin's orders to execute the king for attempting to discover immortality. Lenneth then locates the queen, who gives her the king's crown and explains how the king's three mages had tricked him. Before Lenneth can return the crown to the king, he is executed by Hrist, but it is at that point that Lenneth returns to the present. She returns the crown to the king's ghost, putting him to rest, and then hunts down the three (now immortal) mages that had tricked the king.

Machinima- Red vs. Blue

• In the machinima comedy series Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles, the character Church is sent into the past by a massive explosion. He attempts to prevent the events of the previous seasons, primarily the deaths of himself and his on-again-off-again girlfriend Tex. Most of his efforts backfire, and it turns out that he not only is unable to prevent Tex's death (and becomes responsible for his own), but also becomes responsible for nearly every main event that occurred during the series including the explosion that sent him through time. Some of these included: firing a rocket at the machine he believed was going to fire on Tucker, but ended up missing and hitting Tucker; asking Phyllis the Tank (whom at this point in the series was known to everyone as Sheila) why her name was not Sheila, accidentally overriding the tank's name setting to "Sheila" in the process; giving his captain medicine to stop the heart attack he thought was imminent, but causing a fatal allergic reaction instead; leaving a sniper rifle on the ground that Caboose found and used to fire on the present-day Sarge (at that time possessed by Church), etc. Eventually, Church makes it to the area where the time-travel explosion took place and keeps trying to prevent the bomb from going off, but fails and is sent back in time again and again (one attempt of which results in his armour turning yellow, which is explained in the final episode as being Cabooses' mental image of Church,once again accidentaly sent back by Church). He eventually discusses the best way to stop the bomb with a dozen of his selves from previous loops through time, all of whom failed to stop the bomb from going off. Eventually Church gets onto the other side of the explosion and is sent to join his friends in the distant future instead, ending the loop.

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Tekken 5

• In Xiaoyu's ending in Tekken 5, she uses the prize money she wins to build a time machine, so that she could stop Heihachi Mishima from throwing a young Kazuya down a cliff (which caused Kazuya to vow that he would kill his father, and ultimately starts the story of the Tekken series). Unfortunately, Xiaoyu's time machine malfunctions upon returning to the past, and knocked past Heihachi over, causing him to accidentally drop his son down the cliff, ironically causing the very event that Xiaoyu was trying to prevent. She realises that it is impossible to change the past, and all she could do are only minor improvements.

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Sonic the Hedgehog

• In Sonic the Hedgehog, Shadow rescues of Rouge the Bat, who was sent to retrieve the "Scepter of Darkness" from Eggman's base, and had not been heard from since. Shadow invades the base and finds Rouge in the midst of accomplishing her mission. They escape to the site that was formerly the castle of Soleanna's kings where they are confronted by Dr. Eggman, who attempts to retrieve his stolen property. Eggman's robots swoop down to attack, and in the heat of the battle, the Scepter of Darkness is completely shattered. With the seal crashed, Mephiles is freed. Resurrected in the likeness of Shadow through his shade, Mephiles the Dark introduces himself and hints at past history that the two shared. Later, Shadow goes back in time by 10 years to learn about the Solaris project. He, along with Silver witness the Solaris Project's failure at hand, and watch as Iblis and the original Mephiles, a dark puddle, emerge, opening Silver's eyes to Mephiles' deception. Duke Soleanna tells them that the demons must be sealed, so he gives Shadow the Scepter of Darkness. Shadow goes to capture Mephiles, and Silver goes to capture Iblis. It is here that Shadow finds out why Mephiles knows him; it was Shadow who sealed him in the Scepter of Darkness in the first place. With the demons sealed, Shadow leaves the Scepter in the past since he knew where it would end up in the present day

• Elise gives the blue Chaos Emerald to Sonic, who later loses it in a fight against the Egg Cerberus. Silver finds it and keeps it as a good luck charm. Later, Silver uses it to travel back in time ten years with Shadow. Right before he returns, he leaves the Chaos Emerald with Elise, telling her that it will bring good luck. Elise then gives it to Sonic ten years later.

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Miscellaneous

Black Sabbath song "Iron Man"

• Black Sabbath's song Iron Man tells the story of a man who travels to the future and witnesses the end of the world. He then travels back to his own time to attempt to warn the people, but in his travels, he enters a magnetic field, the likes of which turn his body to iron. His appearance causes those he warns to fear him rather than heed his warning, and so he ends up causing the very apocalypse which he tried to prevent by going on a frustrated rampage and causing mass destruction.

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DC Comics - "Our Worlds At War"

• In the DC Comics crossover storyline Our Worlds At War, an energy being called Imperiex believes there is an imperfection in the universe, and plans to break it down and create a new one. The storyline concludes when the forces allied against him manage to send both Imperiex and Brainiac-13 to moments after the Big Bang, where they merge with the energies already there. Imperiex then realizes that this was the imperfection he detected.

DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company. ... ... Cover to JLA: Our Worlds at War #1. ... Imperiex, also called the Devourer of Galaxies, is a fictional extraterrestrial supervillain featured in the Our Worlds at War crossover published by DC Comics. ... Brainiac is a fictional character, a DC Comics supervillain and frequent opponent of Superman. ...

Kevin and Kell

• In Bill Holbrook's webcomic Kevin and Kell the Dewclaw family get sent back to the stone age by a malfunctioning computer. After causing various alterations to history (Such as the nonexistence of Ray Bradbury caused by Coney eating a butterfly), they realize that they can only return home by turning off the computer in the future. Recognizing a rock as the one lying at the bottom of his garden, Kevin carves a message on it telling a future reader to turn off the computer.