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So you want to visit the future? See how things turn out in 20 years? Maybe [[My Future Self and Me|hang out with your future self]]? Will you be rich and successful? Will you be happily married with a large family? Or maybe you'll have to [[Help Your Self in Thethe Future]]? Of course, there are the warnings about [[Never the Selves Shall Meet|causing a paradox]]. But you're cool with that. So here you are in the future. Where's the future you?

And if you had [[Compound Interest Time Travel Gambit|a savings account]], it's gone. And the fact that "The [[Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated]]" doesn't matter.

== Comics[[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

== [[Film]] ==

== [[Literature]] ==

* ''[[The Time Machine]]'' does this. The protagonist whisks away into the future never to be heard from again. This is probably the [[Ur Example]].

* In Leo Frankowski's ''Conrad Stargard'' novels, something like this happening is a ''very bad sign indeed'', because the easy availability and utility of time travel means that no one is ever late for anything, because they can always go back in time in order to arrive when they are supposed to be. When a time travellertraveler "disappears", it means something disastrous has happened to them.

* In the ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' episode "Don't Look Back", when Hiro breaks space-time to travel to a future New York, it is revealed that he has been a missing person in Japan.

** And yet, the rule was forgotten when Hiro went to the future again and saw his future self apparently betrayed by Ando.

* In ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'', this was the last cliffhanger ending before it got [[Screwed Byby the Network]]. John Connor traveled to the future, only to discover that this version of the future didn't even hear about him (since he wasn't there to become his legendary self).

* In the ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' episode "The Last Man", Col. Sheppard ends up stuck 48,000 years in the future during his search for a missing team member. A [[Fling a Light Into Thethe Future|hologram of one of his teammates, Dr. McKay]], briefs him on [[It Got Worse|what went wrong since he went missing]] and explains what he needs to do to return to the past to [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong|set right what once went]] [[Time Travel Tense Trouble|(will go?)]] [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong|wrong]].

* In the ''[[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation]]'' episode "Yesterday's Enterprise" a ship from the past did this, changing the present into a war with the Klingons. They sent it back and restored the timeline at the urging of Guinan, who could tell that things had changed. (Which kind of [[Fridge Logic|doesn't make sense]] when you realize the war timeline would be the original and the peaceful "original" timeline would be the altered timeline, but whatever.)

== [[Video Games]] ==

* Happened in ''[[Blaz BlueBlazBlue]]'' to both Hakumen and {{spoiler|Relius}}, but in different forms. Hakumen was sealed away for 90 years {{spoiler|but due to confusing time, his former self, Jin, was still born and so on}} and wasn't apart of the story until Kokonoe took him out of the Void. {{spoiler|Relius, on the other hand, fell into a Cauldron during the Dark War and reappeared decades later, but eventually just went back to his original, science-filled ways.}}

== Webcomics[[Web Comics]] ==

* The ''[[Mega Man (Animationanimation)|Mega Man]]'' cartoon also had this happen when Mega Man thought he'd accidentally trapped Dr. Light 30 years in the future and went to find him. Naturally, without Mega Man around to stop him all the time, Dr. Wily eventually managed to conquer the world and imprisoned Mega Man's family.

* This trope is the inciting incident for the ''[[Darkwing Duck (Animationanimation)|Darkwing Duck]]'' episode "Time and Punishment". Gosalyn accidentally travels into the future, in which her father has become a [[Knight Templar]] out of grief over her mysterious disappearance so many years ago. To correct the timeline, she must travel back and simply exist in the present.

* In the ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003 (Animation)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' (2003) episode "Same as it Never Was", Donatello travels to a wrecked future. The other turtles are surprised to see him, having assumed he was long dead. (It could be that an [[Another Dimension]] Donatello actually ''was'' killed in the past, but this possibility is never explored.)

* ''[[DuckDuckTales Tales(1987)]]'': "Duck To The Future". Scrooge is trying to see his own future, resulting instead in this and a [[Bad Future]]. He succeeds in returning to his own time and thus sets things right.

* In the ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]'' episode "How Long Is Forever?", Starfire accidentally travels twenty years into the future while fighting a villain. Due to her absence, the Teen Titans have all but split up--Beastup—Beast Boy's become a circus freak, Cyborg's batteries have run out, Raven's been put in an asylum, having gone insane from loneliness, and Robin's gone solo, becoming Nightwing.

* Omi from ''[[Xiaolin Showdown (Animation)|Xiaolin Showdown]]'' wants to go to the future to meet himself to borrow a time-traveling [[MacGuffin]] his future self holds, to accomplish this he decides to [[Human Popsicle|freeze himself]] and set an alarm to wake him up 80 years later. [[The Slow Path|He doesn't find out the flaw in that plan until it's too late.]]

* In the ''[[Captain N: theThe Game Master]]'' part of an issue of the ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' comic, Kevin is knocked into a garbage chute. Samus takes a second-or-more-hand time gadget and tries to go forward just a little bit so she can catch him and take him back. But the device is defective and sends her 20 years forward, where due to the absence of Kevin and Samus, Garbageworld is the last place that [[Metroid|Mother Brain]] hasn't taken over, and it's under attack as well, defended only by Kevin and [[Kid Icarus]] (Pit in the game, but Kid Icarus here). She eventually warps back in time and prevents the incident, so he can defend Videoland again.

* Happens in ''[[Lilo and& Stitch: The Series]]'' when Lilo, tired of being just a kid, uses an experiment to jump forward ten years, becoming a teenager. She soon discovers that she had gone missing during those years, and later, when she uses the experiment to jump another ten years into the future and become a young adult, she discovers that during the time she and Stitch were absent, Dr. Hamsterveil managed to take over the world. Luckily, Jumba's future self manages to inform her of how to reverse the experiment's power and return to her own time and become a kid again.