Butterfly of Doom: Difference between revisions

 

== Anime & Manga ==

* In an episode of ''[[Penguin Musume]]'', Kujira learns that she confessed her love to Sakura when they were both young girls (Kujira was raised as a boy.) Embarrassed into action, Kujira takes the Time-Penguin-X1 (yeah, you heard me) back to prevent herself from confessing. After older-Kujira realizes she's made a horrid mess, she works to repair the timeline, causing her younger self to instead make a marriage vow. [[Hilarity Ensues]].

* Basically the entire plot of ''[[The Girl Who Leapt Through Time]]''. Though Makoto never tries to change anything particularly big (she uses it for stuff like repeating a karaoke session over and over for several hours), once or twice she changes something small that has massive and unexpected repercussions. After several failed attempts at matching a friend with a girl who who likes him by leaping back in time, she finally gets it right. {{spoiler|He borrows Makoto's bike, the brakes snap and both he and the girl die in a train accident that Makoto herself only narrowly avoided earlier. Fortunately, Chiaki was around to fix things.}}

{{quote|'''Xavin:''' As usual, you're missing the bigger issue. What you should be worried about is the [[Butterfly Effect]].

'''Chase:''' Dude, I'm totally on top of the Butterfly Effect! ''(aside, to Molly)'' What were they, like, bigger? }}

* ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'' (Yes, this ''is'' a comic story instead of a cartoon) once went back in time a few hours to prevent their past selves from opening a savings account at a bank that would be robbed afterwards. (They had a time machine that Brain planned to use to go to the future to get the money plus interest) When they returned to their own time, they found the world being ruled by ostriches. ([[Rule of Funny|No, really]])

 

** Played straight in ''[[Prince of Persia]]: Two Thrones'' where the events of ''Warrior Within'' have undone the events of ''Sands of Time'' {{spoiler|meaning the Vizier from ''Sands of Time'' is still alive and still searching for the eponymous sands, sacking Babylon in the process.}}

* This is pretty much the entire premise for the DS game ''[[Time Hollow]]''. Where the player makes small changes to the past and watches the subsequent results.

* The basis for the ''[[Command and Conquer|Red Alert]]'' series. The whole thing started when Einstein went back in time to kill Hitler, [[Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act|resulting in WWII taking place between the Soviets and the Western Allies]].

** And in ''Red Alert 3'', the Soviets go back in time to erase Einstein in order to save the Soviet Union, weakening both the Aliies and the Soviets(no nukes) and creating the Empire of The Rising Sun, resulting in a three-way world war.