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== Live-Action TV ==

* An episode of ''[[The X-Files]]'' had a guy come from the future to [[Grandfather Paradox|kill himself before he can invent his Time Travel technology]], and evokes this reason in a [[Motive Rant]].

* In the ''[[Fringe]]'' episode "The Plateau," a man is shown deliberately setting a pen on a mailbox, which serves as the catalyst for a chain of events resulting in catastrophe. It later turns out the man was {{spoiler|the subject of an experiment that increased his cognitive abilities, allowing him to instantaneously calculate variables at a geometric rate, and resulting in his being able to both predict the future and also control it via chain reaction. Unfortunately, his mental speed eventually surpasses his ability to communicate with anything other than a supercomputer}}.

* In the ''[[Fringe]]'' episode "The Plateau," a man is shown deliberately setting a pen on a mailbox, which serves as the catalyst for a chain of events resulting in catastrophe. It later turns out the man was {{spoiler|the subject of an experiment that increased his cognitive abilities, allowing him to instantaneously calculate variables at a geometric rate, and resulting in his being able to both predict the future and also control it via chain reaction.}} Unfortunately, {{spoiler|his mental speed eventually surpasses his ability to communicate with anything other than a supercomputer}}.

== Radio ==