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== Comic Books ==
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* ''[[Booster Gold]]'' does this quite a bit as the secret protector of the time line. It's when he has to set wrong what once went right or keep wrong what once went wrong that things get really morally complicated for him.
* In one issue of ''[[Paperinik New Adventures]]'', the incident to be stopped in question is a major disaster in present-day Duckburg that would destroy a large part of the city and everyone there, while the one trying to stop it is a time traveller from OUR future. Obviously, when [[Donald Duck]]'s superhero alter ego learns of this, he [[Screw Destiny|does everything in his power to stop it]], thus getting in trouble with the [[Time Police]].
* In Marvel's ''[[Civil War (Comic Book)|Civil War]]'' storyline, the entire event was kicked off when Namorita, a member of the [[New Warriors]], fought a villain named Nitro whose ability was to explode. Said explosion killed hundreds, including Namorita herself. Because of this, Namorita's name was posthumously slandered with the rest of the [[New Warriors]], much to the chagrin of her ex-lover, Richard Ryder aka [[
* In an issue of ''Marvel Two-in-One'', the Thing goes back in time to cure his past self of being an orange-skinned monster and change his own life, but only succeeds in creating an alternate timeline where a now-human Ben Grimm quits the [[Fantastic Four]] and is replaced by Spider-Man. This becomes [[Make Wrong What Once Went Right]] in a follow-up story, when it is revealed that the absence of the Thing on the FF results in [[Planet Eater|Galactus]] succeeding in his initial attempt to feed on the Earth, leaving the remnants of humanity with a [[Crapsack World]] low in vital resources.
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* In the "Camelot Falls" storyline in the ''[[Superman]]'' comics, a prophetic sorcerer tells him what he needs to do to avert the extinction of humanity years down the line. In a subversion of this trope, Superman refuses to comply, namely because "what he needs to do" involves not preventing the deaths of countless innocents.
* The mission of Samaritan in ''[[Astro City]]''. He actually did set things right before the series started, but now his own time period has [[Stranger in a Familiar Land|changed beyond recognition]].
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* Archie's ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (comics)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' series:
** Silver's personal [[Story Arc]] is much the same as in ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 (video game)|Sonic the Hedgehog 2006]]'' -- he comes from a [[Bad Future]] where the world is all but destroyed, and is constantly traveling through time trying to find a way to undo it, with his only clue being that the betrayal of a member of the Freedom Fighters was somehow key to this disaster. Of course, like his game counterpart he's being advised by a -- supposedly reformed --- villain, so we'll have to wait and see how that turns out.
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