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[[I Thought It Meant|Not to be confused with]] [[I Got a Rock|horrible gifts]].
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* Since comic book characters tend to remain publicized for decades, writers ''ADORE'' this trope.
* [[Captain America]] is the freaking [[Trope Codifier|KING]] of this trope. ''Every'' incarnation of Captain America uses this trope to some degree or another, but [[Ultimate Marvel|Ultimate Cap]] is probably the most apparent.
* In one arc in the ''[[
* In his title series, [[Nova (Comic Book)|Nova]] meets his ex-lover Namorita, who is dead in the present, while the two of them are ripped through time. Namorita is blissfully unaware of anything that happens in the future, including the fact that she and Nova were no long a couple long before her death, and that she is one of the parties blamed for the deaths of hundreds of innocents.
* [[X
* In the [[Intercontinuity Crossover]] ''[[JLA-Avengers]]'' when they discover their [[Silver Age|Silver Agey]] joined universe isn't "real" they get a glimpse of the real two universes, and Hal Jordan & Barry Allen are especially disappointed about being dead, and in Jordan's case learning that he destroyed the Corps and Coast City. Both still want to fix things to the way they should be though, becuase that's the right thing to do.
* In ''[[The Twelve]]'', a bunch of [[World War 2]] superheroes get put in statis as they're trying to prevent a Nazi operation. When they wake up (in 2009), they're very disoriented to say the least: one guy can't understand the concept of mixed-race marriages, another tries a career as a humorist relying on offensive stereotypes seventy years out of date, one tries to get to his old job as a journalist (and has never heard of the Internet), one who has [[Super Senses|Super Hearing]] now has to deal with all the wireless broadcasts (phones, TV, radio...), etc.
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'''Marty:''' [[Ronald Reagan]]. <br />
'''Doc Brown:''' Ronald Reagan? The actor? Then who's vice president, Jerry Lewis? I suppose Jane Wyman is the first lady? And Jack Benny is secretary of the treasury! }}
* In ''[[Transformers (
* The movie ''[[Time After Time]]'' has [[
== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
* ''[[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 [[
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* Given the [[Time Travel]] shenanigans that ''[[
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