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Who needs a [[Steampunk]] [[Time Machine]] or [[Doctor Who|alien police boxes]]? Certainly not someone with a portal to the past. It might be the result of a eddies in the time stream or a magic spell, or it might remain unexplained in a [[Magic Realism]] style. However it happened, the portal is your two-way ticket to time travelling fun.
The portal is usually synched up with the modern day, so that an hour on ''this'' side is equivalent to an hour on ''that'' side, thus allowing relationships to develop and [[Justified Trope|justifying]] the existence of [[San Dimas Time]]. However, if the story is a little more tragic then time might [[Year Inside, Hour Outside|move faster on one side]], making the character on that side age much faster.
If a melancholy ending or moment of tension is required, a [[Portal Slam]] may come into play.
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== Literature ==
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* The Book "The Daughter of the Regiment" had a tiny time portal through which a boy watched a girl in the past grow up.
* The [[Nightside]] books have Timeslips, leading to both the past and possible futures, depending which one you stumble into.
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[Chrono Trigger]]'' has a whole bunch of these portals going to multiple "locations" in time, and always in sync. This doesn't explain, however, why the Epoch itself is on [[San Dimas Time]].
* ''Mario & Luigi: Partners In Time'' had time portals popping up all over the place, leading to different areas in the same time period.
* The Caverns of Time in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' are all about this. It would of course be difficult, incredibly confusing, and quite pointless to do it in any other fashion.
* The protagonist of ''[[Time Hollow]]'' has the ability to open these using his "Hollow Pen". {{spoiler|It turns out that anyone who steps through them will be removed from the flow of time, stopping them from aging from then on.}}
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