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== Film ==
* Both used and averted in [[The Time Travellers Wife]]. Henry is well aware that Clare is meeting him for the first time when he goes back and she's six, and behaves accordingly. Ditto for anyone else he meets on his time travels. The "oh, we haven't met yet" scenario tends to arrive when he meets people he will time-travel to, but hasn't
** Also, the first time Henry meets Clare, she seems to know him, but he has no idea why.
* In ''Millennium'', time-traveler Louise Baltimore tries to keep Bill Smith from unknowingly changing the future by meeting, seducing, and sleeping with him. Unfortunately, the next time Bill encounters Louise, its actually the first time ''she's'' ever met him, so she rebuffs his affectionate approach. The fact that during their (to Bill, anyway) ''second'' meeting she treats him like a complete stranger confuses Bill just enough to cause the disruption in the time stream Louise was trying to prevent in the first place.
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'''Doctor''': How should I know? Haven't even met her yet! That's time travel for you! Still, can't wait to find out! }}
*** Answered by an off-hand remark in ''The End of Time'': he marries her (and, it is implied, removes her of the right to go by the title of 'Virgin Queen', wink wink nudge nudge.)
** In the old-series story ''Battlefield'', the combatants on both sides of the eponymous battle immediately recognise the Doctor from an earlier visit to their
* ''[[Star Trek]]: TNG,'' "Time's Arrow", Captain Picard goes back to 1893 and meets Guinan for her first time. He, of course, will known her for a long time in her future and his past.
* ''[[Lois and Clark]]'': In "Tempus Fugitive", Clark Kent time travels back to the 60s to help his parents (who don't recognize him) discover and subsequently adopt his infant self.
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