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[[I Thought It Meant|Not to be confused with]] [[I Got a Rock|horrible gifts]].
 
'''[[No Real Life Examples, Please|No real life examples, please]]. [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgement|There is no need]] to start a [[Flame War|flame]] or [[Edit War|edit]] war over an example.'''
 
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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[CallahansCallahan's Crosstime Saloon (Literature)|Callahans Crosstime Saloon]]'' short story "The Time Traveler" (1973): An American is imprisoned by a South American dictatorship in 1963 and released in 1973. When he gets back to the United States, he finds society radically changed due to events in the 1960s and suffers from "transplant shock" so severe that he tries to commit suicide.
* ''[[Soon I Will Be Invincible]]'' has a throw-away reference to a group of villains from the 1950s who traveled forward in time to the present to learn from their future selves or successors how they conquered the world. Instead, they found a ''good'' present where superheroes still prevailed, and became so demoralized they returned to their own time and gave up trying.
* In [[Time Scout (Literature)|Time Scout]], The Accident has devastated the present. The past is available for tourism, but the present is [[Author Appeal|eating itself]] with gun control and political correctness and organized crime all running rampant.
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[The Twilight Zone (TV)|The Twilight Zone]]'' TOS episode "[http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_:Once Upon a Time (The_Twilight_Zone)The Twilight Zone)|Once Upon a Time]]" (1960). A janitor from 1890 is sent to 1960 via a time helmet. He finds it much noisier and hectic (including having to dodge cars in the street), finds the prices much higher, is almost arrested by a policeman, etc. He eventually escapes back to the past, which he finds much better.
 
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