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* The entire plot of ''[[Mortal Kombat 9]]'' centers around an attempt to do this. Shao Kahn ends up winning the events of Armageddon, leading Raiden to send a message back to his past self to try and fix this. {{spoiler|He ends up nearly bungling the whole thing. In the end, every single one of the Forces of Light save for Johnny Cage, Sonya, and himself are dead, their souls taken by Quan Chi. Shao Kahn is defeated, averting THAT particular Armageddon event, but Quan Chi has an army of powerful souls at his command now, and the ending implies that Shinnok and the Netherrealm are preparing to attack next...}}

* Deconstructed in Episode 4 of the ''[[Back to the Future (film)|Back to The Future]]'' games, where {{spoiler|Citizen Brown doesn't like the idea that setting right what once went wrong means that the prudish Edna Strickland goes on to be a miserable old [[Crazy Cat Lady]] in the proper timeline, choosing instead to find a way to make sure that Young Emmett Brown ends up with Edna without her becoming a [[Knight Templar]] by making sure that he never develops his passion for science}}.

* [[Myst (series)|Riven]] has a non-time-travel variant as the framing device. The linking books the series relies on can be used to modify worlds they link to using quantum uncertainty; if it ''could'' have been there but was never noticed before, writing in that it ''is'' there will make it happen. Unfortunately, Gehn, who wrote quite a number of linking books, was not actually very good at writing them, so the same quantum-uncertainty mechanics are causing the Ages he wrote to deteriorate of their own accord. His son, Atrus, is much better at writing them, and thinks he can save some of them using these same quantum-uncertainty mechanics, but some are beyond salvaging. Your task is to go into one of the doomed ones to rescue Atrus' wife while he stays and tries to stall its destruction for as long as possible.

* ''[[Myst (series)|Riven]]'' has a non-time-travel variant as the framing device. The linking books the series relies on can be used to modify worlds they link to using quantum uncertainty; if it ''could'' have been there but was never noticed before, writing in that it ''is'' there will make it happen. Unfortunately, Gehn, who wrote quite a number of linking books, was not actually very good at writing them, so the same quantum-uncertainty mechanics are causing the Ages he wrote to deteriorate of their own accord. His son, Atrus, is much better at writing them, and thinks he can save some of them using these same quantum-uncertainty mechanics, but some are beyond salvaging. Your task is to go into one of the doomed ones to rescue Atrus' wife while he stays and tries to stall its destruction for as long as possible.

* This is the reason for (most of) the Caverns of Time in ''[[World of Warcraft]]''. The Infinite Dragonflight are screwing with history and the [[Time Police|Bronze Dragonflight]] are recruiting mortals to help them out, since they're too preoccupied searching for their missing leader Nozdormu.

* This is part of the theme around {{Quote|Asriel Dreemurr a.k.a Flowey}} in ''[[Undertale]]'' {{Quote|When revived as a flower, Asriel at first tries to use his RESETting powers to bring some amount of happiness to the Underground to compensate for his failure at liberating the monsters, but because he lacked a soul he didn't get any pleasure when he finally succeeded. Eventually he became so bored he began to ruin other people lives for fun, and soon the sociopathing, murderous Flowey was born. When Asriel finally recovers his former form and aquires incomensurable power, he basically plans to use these powers for doing the ultimate reset, to erase everything and begin anew, in the hopes that it brings back his decesed sibling too.}}

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