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* In ''[[Soul Chess]]'', a ''[[Bleach]]/[[Code Geass]]'' crossover, {{spoiler|Lelouch}} finds himself going back 134 years BEFORE Britannia invades Japan.

* In the ''[[Halo (series)|Halo]]''/''[[Mass Effect]]'' crossover ''[[The Last Spartan]]'', Master Chief is finally found on the ''Forward Unto Dawn'' and is promptly thawed out...131 years after the events of Halo3. Being [[The Determinator]], he gets over the prospect of never seeing anyone from the 26th century again fairly quickly. Not without his reservations of humanity joining [[The Federation|The Citadel]] or being nominated to become a Spectre though.

 

 

** Interestingly enough, the movies focus almost entirely on the social changes, with the technology changes barely being mentioned at all. Then again, considering he's a James Bond-style spy, the technology change probably isn't as great for him, but he does try to play a CD on a record player, and there is the scene in ''Goldmember'' where Austin introduces the internet to Foxxy. [[Hilarity Ensues]].

* ''[[Demolition Man]]'' sees [[Sylvester Stallone]]'s usual character end up in the future through [[Suspended Animation]]. He's suitably confused by technological advances (such as the "three seashells" that have replaced toilet paper), and horrified by the fact that the world (or at least the city) has been entirely [[Disneyfication|Disneyfied]].

** Not only does he not have a hard time adapting to the future, but he revels in his ability to make inside jokes that only he (and the audience) understands. Additionally, his training as a pilot and an astronaut make him the perfect person to fight intergalactic crime in the future.

** The movie was released in 1979, but the plot has Buck leaving Earth in 1987, which makes it seem a little odd when Buck gets everyone in the future to dance to disco music.

* ''[[Phil of the Future]]'' is from [[The Future]] to the Present.

* A few ''[[Star Trek]]'' episodes had this:

** In "City On the Edge of Forever" an overdosed McCoy raves on about the terrible surgical methods of the period he's in, with "bodies stitched up like clothes".

** ''TOS'' also had some [[Human Popsicle|Klingons-on-Ice.]]

*** As did ''TNG.'' The ''Enterprise'' dealt with those by letting Worf and K'eylar pretend to run the ship.

*** A similar occurrence in [[Deep Space Nine|DS9]] where Vic (from the 50's/70's) was comfortable knowing he was a hologram in the 24th century.

*** Both of the above are justified in that these are Holograms and were programmed with the knowledge of what they are and when they were. Moriarty took some extra time to adapt because he was programmed with the knowledge to defeat Data, but was trying to make sense of it.

*** Done again in an episode of Voyager when the Hologram of [[Leonardo da Vinci]] gets accidentally loaded onto the Doctor's Mobile Emitter and taken by [[Space Pirates|pirates]] to a nearby planet.

** Another ''TNG'' episode involved some defrosted [[Human Popsicle]]s. Perhaps too much, since they were there mostly for exposition of "the present" in the Federation and to get in the way while Picard tried to deal with Romulans.

*** ''Voyager's'' finale also had an interesting case of [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]] combined with this trope. Admiral Janeway arrived from 16 years in the future relative to the series' time scale. The [[Values Dissonance]] comes from her own clashing views with her younger self, Captain Janeway.

** Don't forget {{spoiler|Scotty}} in the ''Next Generation'' episode "Relics".

** In Voyager's 'Natural Law' Seven and Chakotay are stranded on a planet with primitive humanoids (similar to our own ancestors.) This also happened in the Enterprise episode 'Civilisation' (but this species were equivalent to our Renaissance period.)

** There is also the crew of the USS ''Bozeman'', being sent forward in time from TOS to TNG by a [[Negative Space Wedgie]] while trying to fight off a Klingon battlecruiser (this part was added by the book ''Ship of the Line'').

* ''[[Lost]]'' season 5: after many merry adventures on the time travelling island, {{spoiler|Sawyer, Juliet, Miles, Jin, and Daniel}} end up stuck in 1974. Unlike the usual progression of this trope, the five characters assimilate with the DHARMA Initiative and live happily among them for ''three years'' until {{spoiler|Jack, Kate, Hurley, and Sayid}} show up, also sent back in time, and violent [[Hilarity Ensues]].

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' revolves around traveling through time and space in a blue box, so every companion, especially the ones from Earth, are subject to this. Generally, they don't stay around for long.

* King Malinus from ''[[Adventure Quest]]'' returns to life after being dead for centuries only to find his once beautiful kingdom gone. He goes berserk and tries to find someone to blame for its destruction. He refuses to accept [[Player Character|your]] explanation that no one is to blame; that time takes all things. He even attacks you thinking you are responsible. He calms down after you defeat him and then wonders what he should do now. Fortunately, his Moglin assistant (who survived all this time thanks to his healing magic) comforts him by telling Malinus that he has many descendants still alive and that his vanished kingdom acted as the foundation for the present civilization. You throw in your two cents by suggesting that Malinus could be a hero again since Lore will always need more heroes. Malinus takes your words to heart and offers as a reward a spell to summon him in battle.

* Silas and Verna in ''[[The Trail of Anguish]]'' can't say exactly where they're from, from the museum exhibit suggests they're from a lost era.

* {{spoiler|[[Downloadable Content|Javik]]}} in ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'', {{spoiler|has [[Human Popsicle|been frozen for 50.000 years]]. As a result, all his memories regarding the races who now rule the galaxy are from when they were little more than cavemen.}}

** Which he is constantly pointing out... even when he's praising them. What does he say about the Salarians, the smartest people in the galaxy? "They used to lick their own eyeballs".

* In ''[[We Are Our Avatars (Roleplay)|We Are Our Avatars]]'', [[Lamento-BEYONDTHEVOID|Konoe]] is dazzled by the modern world and its advances- especially by the fact that [[Distracted By the Shiny|everything's so shiny]].

* Lord Valentai and Bianca Holloway from ''[[The Gungan Council]]'' were both from the ancient past. Dominique England came from the future, however.