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* ''[[Cthulhu Mythos]]'': The Hounds of Tindalos chase down time travellers; the only way to hold them off is to eliminate all angles in the immediate area, since they can only travel through these. Note that they're not portrayed as necessary or helpful; they just '''[[Eldritch Abomination|are]]'''.
* ''Singularity Sky'' by [[Charles Stross]]: the invention of faster-than-light travel brings with it the ability to travel through time. This in turn leads to the potential for whole new strategies of warfare and unpleasant weapons taking advantage of the ability to meddle with the past... but it is all prevented by a particularly powerful AI which uses its own (particularly effective) causality violation devices to smite any would-be temporal saboteurs with godlike amounts of overkill.
** It is also hinted that the reason the universe is habitable at all is that supremely powerful intelligences meddled with the first moments of the big bang via time travel, [[Stable Time Loop|enabling themselves to exist]].▼
▲It is also hinted that the reason the universe is habitable at all is that supremely powerful intelligences meddled with the first moments of the big bang via time travel, [[Stable Time Loop|enabling themselves to exist]].
* ''Sisters Grimm'': The pink eraser things in book ten, since the book they are in was magically linked to the time of fairy tales, and any changes change history, so Mr. Editor guy has his pink erasers eat everything and he resets the story. No, the one in the Book, not the Editor of the book (Bad Pun Not Intended).
* In the [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffyverse]] collection of short stories, ''Tales of the Slayer, Volume 2'', the short story ''Again'' by Jane Espenson has these after Buffy, Willow, and Xander are returned to their high-school selves. The roaches in this case manifest as mobile shadows that attach themselves to things they find in the wrong time, causing excruciating pain as they (presumably) eat them. They appear to be somewhat physical, as Buffy manages to cut one off of her arm, cutting her arm in the process.
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