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See also [[Alien Non-Interference Clause]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
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* Henry in ''[[The Time Travelers Wife]]'', who has a disease that causes him to spontaneously time travel. He cannot bring anything that is not part of him, like clothes, money or even dental implants.
* In ''[[The Pendragon Adventure]]'', the Travelers never bring anything from one territory to another, in fear of destabilizing the territories. {{spoiler|Later subverted by Saint Dane, who gleefully mixes the territories and increases the technological level of the Earth territories as part of his increasingly complex [[Gambit Roulette]]. Bobby eventually gets fed up and brings in technology from different territories in order to defeat Saint Dane's schemes. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|This does not end well.]]}}
* ''[[Doomsday Book]]'' and ''[[To Say Nothing of the Dog]]'', by [[Connie Willis]] use the reversed version: time travelers can bring things from the future to the past, but not the other way round. {{spoiler|...except for things that would have been destroyed shortly anyway.}}
** And, of course, a cat, because {{spoiler|the cat was going to drown anyway. Except it wasn't, and the net allowing it to go through was a [[Batman Gambit]] by time itself to cause a cathedral to be rebuilt in a certain spot hundreds of years later, apparently.}}
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* Vandal Savage's time machine in ''[[Justice League]]'' works with a sort of inversion: You can't go back to a time where you already exist, but you can send any objects through that you want. Being an immortal caveman, Savage can't go back himself, so he sends a laptop to himself during [[World War II]] in order to win the war for Germany.
** In a later episode, Superman gets blasted into the future. It turns out Vandal Savage had some grand master scheme that went awry, killing everyone except himself (Immortal [[Magnificent Bastard]] caveman Nazi, remember). Savage regretted ruining the world, and he and Superman got another time machine he had working; since Superman was gone, he could travel back in time long enough to foil Savage's plot.
* In [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fast Forward]], the turtles and Master Splinter are abruptly zapped to the future. Their weapons and cloth-- er, ''[[Accessory
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