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* An attempt at this is the driving force behind the [[Myth Arc]] of ''[[Rave Master]]''. The series inverts the trope because changing history back to the way it was is the ''bad guys''' plan, as the original timeline's world was utterly destroyed save one survivor, who was able to change history to create the Rave world. On top of the [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldritch]] [[Clock Roaches|Clock Roach]] out to undo the paradox involved, most of the late-story baddies want to see the "false" world destroyed. |
* An attempt at this is the driving force behind the [[Myth Arc]] of ''[[Rave Master]]''. The series inverts the trope because changing history back to the way it was is the ''bad guys''' plan, as the original timeline's world was utterly destroyed save one survivor, who was able to change history to create the Rave world. On top of the [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldritch]] [[Clock Roaches|Clock Roach]] out to undo the paradox involved, most of the late-story baddies want to see the "false" world destroyed. |
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* The premise of ''[[Flint the Time Detective]]''. The Time Shifters got scattered throughout history, changing the way certain historical events played out, and the Time Detectives have to captured them and put the past back the way it was. |
* The premise of ''[[Flint the Time Detective]]''. The Time Shifters got scattered throughout history, changing the way certain historical events played out, and the Time Detectives have to captured them and put the past back the way it was. |
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* The entire final arc of ''[[Full Metal Panic]]'' is about this, as it's [[Big Bad|Leonard's]] motive behind all the trouble he causes. It's why he kidnaps Kaname, why Kalinin {{spoiler|joins him}}, why {{spoiler|Kaname/Sophia help him (it can be argued that Kaname didn't know what she was doing when she merged with Sophia, but she certainly didn't fight back until Sousuke pissed her off)}}. They intend to go back in time to prevent {{spoiler|Black Technology from being invented}} so that the world would be more peaceful. Only the Whispereds will know that anything has changed. |
* The entire final arc of ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'' is about this, as it's [[Big Bad|Leonard's]] motive behind all the trouble he causes. It's why he kidnaps Kaname, why Kalinin {{spoiler|joins him}}, why {{spoiler|Kaname/Sophia help him (it can be argued that Kaname didn't know what she was doing when she merged with Sophia, but she certainly didn't fight back until Sousuke pissed her off)}}. They intend to go back in time to prevent {{spoiler|Black Technology from being invented}} so that the world would be more peaceful. Only the Whispereds will know that anything has changed. |
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* {{spoiler|[[The Stoic|Homura]]}} from ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' leaps time to save {{spoiler|Madoka}} from becoming a {{spoiler|''[[Magical Girl]]''}}, or more commonly known as a {{spoiler|[[Our Liches Are Different|Lich]]}} that may transform in the future into a {{spoiler|[[The Heartless|wit]][[Eldritch Abomination|ch]]}}. {{spoiler|This being a [[Deconstruction]], each successive attempt only makes things worse. However, each attempt manages to make Madoka stronger until she [[Ascended to A Higher Plane of Existence]] upon making her contract in this timeline}}. |
* {{spoiler|[[The Stoic|Homura]]}} from ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' leaps time to save {{spoiler|Madoka}} from becoming a {{spoiler|''[[Magical Girl]]''}}, or more commonly known as a {{spoiler|[[Our Liches Are Different|Lich]]}} that may transform in the future into a {{spoiler|[[The Heartless|wit]][[Eldritch Abomination|ch]]}}. {{spoiler|This being a [[Deconstruction]], each successive attempt only makes things worse. However, each attempt manages to make Madoka stronger until she [[Ascended to A Higher Plane of Existence]] upon making her contract in this timeline}}. |
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* One of the arcs in ''[[Kurohime]]'' involves two of the titled character's foes (Kurohime considered a bad guy in that world) going back in time to try and kill her, for personal reason (revenge being the main motive, but also to keep the father of one of them being killed by her.) {{spoiler|Its a bit of a twofer subvision. 1) They realize Kurohime not as evil as they figured and learn the reason behind her motives and 2) ''They'' wind up inadvertently causing the events that lead to the father's death. Kurohime wasn't even trying to kill him but took the blame anyway.}} |
* One of the arcs in ''[[Kurohime]]'' involves two of the titled character's foes (Kurohime considered a bad guy in that world) going back in time to try and kill her, for personal reason (revenge being the main motive, but also to keep the father of one of them being killed by her.) {{spoiler|Its a bit of a twofer subvision. 1) They realize Kurohime not as evil as they figured and learn the reason behind her motives and 2) ''They'' wind up inadvertently causing the events that lead to the father's death. Kurohime wasn't even trying to kill him but took the blame anyway.}} |
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** In ''In the Time of the Dinosaurs'', they must sabotage a nuclear device and sacrifice an entire colony of aliens, or else the Cretaceous Era won't end on schedule. |
** In ''In the Time of the Dinosaurs'', they must sabotage a nuclear device and sacrifice an entire colony of aliens, or else the Cretaceous Era won't end on schedule. |
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* In the novel ''[[Soon I Will Be Invincible]]'', Lily gets sent back in time to prevent a blight from wiping out humanity, but after she succeeds she decides she liked the blighted future better and becomes a supervillain to try to bring back her original future. However, this turns out to be an outright lie -- she's a native of the current time period, although the era she claims as her origin really ''is'' a possible future that she has visited -- and she ends up using it to trick another supervillain into saving the world. |
* In the novel ''[[Soon I Will Be Invincible]]'', Lily gets sent back in time to prevent a blight from wiping out humanity, but after she succeeds she decides she liked the blighted future better and becomes a supervillain to try to bring back her original future. However, this turns out to be an outright lie -- she's a native of the current time period, although the era she claims as her origin really ''is'' a possible future that she has visited -- and she ends up using it to trick another supervillain into saving the world. |
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* In the [[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban|third Harry Potter book]], Harry and Hermione have the chance to go back and save two innocent lives. |
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* [[Dean Koontz]]'s ''Lightning'' {{spoiler|features a time-travelling protagonist who goes back to his own time, after having thwarted a Nazi Time Travel plot, and tells Winston Churchill about the Cold War. When he returns to the future, The Cold War never happened, as the Allies kept on pushing eastward after the Nazis surrendered, defeating the communists before the Cold War ever started.}} |
* [[Dean Koontz]]'s ''Lightning'' {{spoiler|features a time-travelling protagonist who goes back to his own time, after having thwarted a Nazi Time Travel plot, and tells Winston Churchill about the Cold War. When he returns to the future, The Cold War never happened, as the Allies kept on pushing eastward after the Nazis surrendered, defeating the communists before the Cold War ever started.}} |
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