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* 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 on 30|Thirteen Going On Thirty]]''
* ''In His Father's Shoes'' features a pair of magical shoes from a gypsy, which allow Clay Crosby to go back in
* 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....
** This was a Feature Films for Families movie which was published on VHS in 1992,it was based on a short story published by a high school student in 1990 which was later adapted into this film.
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== Literature ==
* ''[[Slaughterhouse-Five]]'', by Kurt Vonnegut
* ''Timequake'', also by Vonnegut, features the ''entire world''
* ''[[Replay]]'', by Ken Grimwood.
* ''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
* [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s ''The Shadow Out of Time'' twists this trope by combining it with [[Grand Theft Me]] in a very [[Fridge Logic]]-appeasing way.
* ''[[Time and Again]]'' by Jack Finney, and its sequel ''Time After Time''. [[Born in the Wrong Century]], the protagonist goes back in time mentally by imagining himself to be in [[The Gay Nineties]] and surrounding himself with items from that period until he becomes temporally dislocated. Partly averted in that he does not travel back into his own memories, but that of an alternate self.
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* Canadian comedy ''[[Being Erica]]'' is about a woman offered the chance by a supposed therapist to go back and change a long list of bad decisions that have led to her life being a dead end.
* Similarly, ''[[Medium]]'''s protagonist will occasionally have this.
* Though ''Series/{{Stargate SG-1
* [[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]]'', [[H. G. Wells]]'s [[Time Machine]] is a pair of armchairs with headbands and some electrical contraption. It works by sending the (up to 2) users' consciousness back in time into specific bodies for no more than 22 hours 10 minutes, during which time the owners of the bodies in the past black out. Helena mentions that the machine makes use of the gestalt phenomenon. Also, since changing the past is virtually impossible, time travel poses no risk to the body owners (unless they were meant to die during this time). The time travelers, however, run the risk of being lost in the ether, never finding their way back. The machine was only used three times. In fact, all uses happened due to [[Stable Time Loop
* Curtis' power in ''[[Misfits]]'' is to mentally travel back to before something he feels guilty about. While this is problematic when he's trying to break up with his girlfriend and keeps feeling guilty about it, it's certainly one of the more useful powers.
* ''[[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]].
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