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== Anime & Manga ==
* {{spoiler|Rika and Hanyuu}} in ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro
** Most of the cast, actually, they just drop more memories.
* {{spoiler|Tomoya}} from ''[[
* Combined with standard [[Time Travel]] in ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]''. {{spoiler|After the Vongola return to the past, the Arcobaleno send the memories of the future versions of the non-time travelling characters to their present versions.}}
* In Konpeki no Kantai, when Isoroku Yamamoto's plan is shot down in 1943 he wakes up in 1905 in on the cruiser Nisshin just after the Battle of Tsushima and he uses his knowledge to prevent Japan making the mistakes it made.
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** {{spoiler|Though the fact that she wakes up with her Soul Gem in her hand shows us that her time travel isn't wholly mental, since she didn't have any such thing in the original timeline.}}
*** {{spoiler|Hard to imagine it could work without her soul coming with her.}}
* The {{spoiler|Time Leap machine}} in [[Steins
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== Films ==
* ''[[
* ''[[The Butterfly Effect]]''
* ''[[Click]]'', traveling into the future instead of the past.
* ''[[
* ''Retroactive'' has a machine that reverses time for a set period up to an hour while allowing one or more people to keep their memories. It also preserves the video on a VHS tape at one point.
* ''[[Peggy Sue Got Married]]''
* The ending of ''[[Jumanji]]''. Also done at the end of its [[Spiritual Successor]] ''[[Zathura]]'', though less notable because in the latter case the game was finished on the same day it began.
* ''[[13 Going
* ''In His Father's Shoes'' features a pair of magical shoes from a gypsy, which allow Clay Crosby to go back in time -- and briefly experience life as his father, Frank, when he was Clay's age.
* Similar to ''Quantum Leap'', the girl in the film ''Split Infinity'' doesn't go back to a younger or older version of herself, but to a different person, her late great aunt. A.J. Knowlton's time travel method? {{spoiler|She fell out of a hayloft to go back to 1929, and rode a homemade amusement park to get back to 1992. One that a bunch of kids had ridden earlier.}} One may assume that Sam prefers the technological route....
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* ''Somewhere in Time''
* ''[[La Jetee]]'' employs a form of this, with the time travellers going to periods on their memories (but they don't go to their past bodies).
* The titular ''[[
* In the movie ''[[Next]]'', Nicholas Cage's character has a power somewhat like this. He has two minute long precognition, but what he sees are merely possible futures. It's difficult to explain but a few examples should do a trick. He 'tried out' different approaches when hitting on a girl. He saw that casually beating up the girl's stalker ex boyfriend (who was present at the time) would prompt the girl to just walk away, but letting the guy punch him in the face would win the girl's sympathy, so he let this happen. He can also dodge bullets or search a huge area in almost no time using his ability.
* In the movie ''[[Source Code]]'', Jake Gyllenhaal's character performs a virtual version of this, taking over the body of an anonymous, doomed man in a simulation of the minutes before his death in an attempt to find out who planted the bomb that doomed him.
* ''[[Santo
* In "Trancers" both the bad guy and the cop chasing him go back in time, but must inhabit the bodies of distant ancestors. This movie also has people killed in the past with their "present day" descendants vanishing - but are still remembered.
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* ''[[Slaughterhouse-Five]]'', by Kurt Vonnegut
* ''Timequake'', also by Vonnegut, features the ''entire world'' -- and, it's implied, the ''entire '''universe''''' -- being mentally sent back 10 years and completely unable to change anything until that period is over.
* ''[[
* ''The Time of Achamoth'' by M.K. Joseph.
* ''The Power of Un'': A boy meets a mysterious stranger who hands him a giant calculator-like thing and says it's for going back in time and making sure that -- wait, dang it, the guy disappeared before he quite finished the instructions. And the boy isn't impressed by the odd machine. But his flippant attitude turns serious when {{spoiler|his little sister ends up getting hit by a truck, and he figures out how to use the device to replay the day so he can save her}}. Of course, it's not that easy...
* [[
* ''[[Time and Again]]'' by Jack Finney, and its sequel ''Time After Time''. [[Born in
* The plot of R.L. Stine's ''[[Goosebumps]]'' novel ''The Cuckoo Clock of Doom'' is based around a cuckoo clock which causes this to happen to the protagonist.
* in Eric Nylund's ''[[A Game of Universe]]'', Germain possesses a powerful bit of magic that can rewind time, but only for seven seconds (and it can only be used once).
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* "Unsound Variations", a short story by [[A Song of Ice and Fire|George R.R. Martin]] has an antagonist who utilises this repeatedly and obsessively to wreck/steal the successes of his former college buddies.
* Used by Tolkien in ''The Notion Club Papers'', combined with mental space travel (astral projection). The effects of time passing at a much more rapid rate means that the traveller in question looks down on what he initially thinks to be some sort of fetid anthill, but turns out to be his home city of Oxford through the ages...
* The book ''[[
* [[H. Beam Piper]]'s first published story (1947), "Time and Time Again" (no relation to Jack Finney's book): The main character, dying in [[World War III]] in 1975, awoke in his thirteen-year-old body in 1945. Being a trained chemist with the scientific knowledge of 1975, he'd have an advantage going into the chemical industry; he also had quite a good memory for horse-race winners. He planned to build a fortune and use it to prevent the war he'd died in by, among other things, getting his father elected president in 1960. Two of Piper's later stories, set in the '60s, imply that he was successful in that part, at least.
{{quote| "All right, son, I'll do just what you tell me, and when you grow up, I'll be president...."}}
* In the ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]'' novels, this is true for Yuki Nagato and ''only'' for Yuki Nagato. In the [[Groundhog Day Loop]] short story ''Endless Eight'', everyone's {{spoiler|memories get reset, although they start experiencing déjà vu. Apparently, Yuki is not affected by this because time is not an obstacle for her}}.
* ''For King And Country'', by Robert Asprin and Linda Evans, features {{spoiler|what seems to be}} a [[Terminator Twosome]] of an IRA agent traveling back to Arthurian times to change history in Ireland's favor or simply punish England, and a British soldier trying to stop it. They go all the way back to around 500 AD or so and share the bodies of people close to King Arthur. It seems like a [[Stable Time Loop]] and/or [[Tricked-Out Time]], but the ending is a little ambiguous. [[Meanwhile in
* In ''Cube with Faceted Edges'', this is the only possible method of [[Time Travel]]. Originally used exclusively by the special forces-like Harders with brain implants called Iscapes, which throw their consciousness back a few seconds at the moment of death (how death is determined is not clear). To an outsider, it looks like a Harder is impossible to kill, as they look like they can dodge bullets and have a sixth sense. In reality, the Harders are just using the foreknowledge to avoid the same deadly outcome. Later on, a rival organization obtains an Iscape and builds a similar-functioning device that works by thinking of the time you want to go back to. This is one-way, however, as the timeline is changed by this action. They then start selling the devices to the general public and eliminating anyone who tries to investigate them (easy when you can always go back to fix a mistake). The knowledge of the original timeline quickly fades if any changes are made.
** The protagonist (a Harder) starts suspecting the existence of these bootleg devices when a space liner explodes. While it looks like a typical malfunction (and it is), he does find it strange that a full third of the passengers have cancelled their tickets several days before boarding. It turns out they all have these devices.
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* The ''[[Eureka]]'' season 1 finale, and the first half of the [[Groundhog Day Loop]] episode "I Do Again."
** Later one, they introduce physical time travel.
* ''[[Star Trek:
** Also "Tapestry".
* ''[[Lost]]'' has a few characters that become [[Unstuck in Time]]. The most notable example is Desmond, whose consciousness keeps jumping back and forth between 1996 and 2004.
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*** Except for Charlotte before {{spoiler|she dies. Her last words to Daniel are her first words to him when she met him as a little girl. [[Mind Screw|Yeah, I know]]}}.
{{quote| Charlotte: I'm not allowed to have chocolate before dinner.}}
* Canadian comedy ''[[
* Similarly, ''[[Medium]]'''s protagonist will occasionally have this.
* Though ''Series/{{Stargate SG-1))'' usually goes the physical route, they had the obligatory [[Groundhog Day Loop]] episode with O'Neill and Teal'c which was entirely mental.
* [[Star Trek: Voyager]] has an episode where Kes starts at the end of her life with no memories and progressively hops backwards through her life. The only consequence of this is to help the then present day Voyager avoid a deadly enemy. Other than that, its a giant [[Snap Back]] and [[Reset Button]].
** It also foreshadowed the upcoming "Year of Hell" storyline (which, at the time, was planned to last a full season.) Of course, Kes wasn't around when that storyline actually arrived in 2-parter form.
* In ''[[Warehouse 13]]'', [[
* Curtis' power in ''[[
* ''[[Kamen Rider Double]]'' gives an interesting twist on this with the Yesterday [[Monster of the Week|Dopant]], whose power causes people to do whatever they were doing exactly 24 hours ago because they think they're doing it right now. This is demonstrated first when it causes a man to leap to his death by making him think he's diving into his swimming pool; later on, it [[Evil Plan|sets up a fight with the hero so that his actions can be used to attack someone the Dopant wants to murder]].
* An episode of ''[[
** An earlier episode had Phoebe switching places with her past self, an evil witch in the 1920s.
== Tabletop Games ==
* Most time-travel abilities in ''[[Dungeons and Dragons
* A LARP game called ''Nepenthe'' featured time-travellers with the "jump into someone else's body" variant. They came from a [[After the End|post-apocalyptic future]] destroyed by the mysterious Nepenthe, and jumped back to early in its creation, ending up in the bodies of [[Self Referential Humour|a bunch of D&D players]] at [[Mind Screw|the gaming convention at which the LARP was sent]]. Nepenthe turned out to be a highly-addictive [[Virtual Reality]] game.
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** Ten seconds? Right before the end, the Prince {{spoiler|rewinds time all the way to prior the start of the game}}.
** ''Warrior Within'' also has physical time travel.
* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
** It's also pretty much the whole point of ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
* In ''[[
* When the party goes to Shion's ruined home planet Miltia in the third episode of ''[[
* Many modern racing games have a Rewind feature that similar to the Dagger of Time in the ''[[Prince of Persia]]'' series, allows you to rewind time for a few seconds to correct a crash or bad turn and thus be less punishing on the player.
* In ''[[Second Sight]]'', there are moments where the psychic player character, John Vattic has flashbacks that allow him to change events in the past which in turn alter the present (for example, saving the life of someone who had died). {{spoiler|Brilliantly subverted when it is revealed that you're not traveling to the past at all. The "past" is actually the ''present'' and the "present" is actually Vattic seeing into the future.}}
* ''[[
* ''[[
* One ending of ''[[Shadow Hearts]]: Covenant'' sends Yuri back to the beginning of the first game looking exactly like he did in the original's opening cinematic, but apparently with all his memories of the future, while the other heroes are shuffled through time the regular way.
* In the Visual Novel ''[[Yo-Jin-Bo]]'', the protagonist ended up traveling through time via a magical pendant and put her in a body of a princess.
* In ''[[Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors
* The astral projection ability in ''[[The Adventures of Sam
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Narbonic]]'' has "Dave Davenport Is Unstuck on Time" (a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Slaughterhouse
* ''[[Bob and George]]'', "All Good Things" (a [[Shout-Out]] to the ''Star Trek'' episode).
* The "rewind device" in ''[[City of Reality]]'' uses this method to allow characters, in the story, to retry their actions until they get them right.
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== Web Original ==
* In [[
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** This is also how the "Go God Go!" two-parter ended, with Cartman (having been stuck in the far future) being transferred back in time to "fuse with his past self."
{{quote| '''[[It Makes Sense in Context|Blavius the Talking Sea Otter]]:''' Don't worry, my son. When you return to your time you will merge with your other self. It's all very Zen.}}
* ''[[
* Inverted in ''[[Rugrats]]'', during the [[Poorly-Disguised Pilot]] for the spinoff, ''[[All Grown Up]]''. Granted, there is no logical reason why what they did should have worked, suggesting that it may have been [[All Just a Dream]], but it was way too consistent with the actual plot to discount. At the end, the babies emerge from the closet they fled into at the beginning of the episode (apparently only moments later), and Tommy says, "Well guys, only ten more years until Angelica is nice to us."
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