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Sometimes, the [[Time Travel
Once the initial excitement has faded, and he has resigned himself to the situation, there's nothing for it but to do the best he can in his new world, or die trying. How much the unwilling traveler can achieve depends on how far back they are swept, and how well prepared they are.
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* The anime and manga ''[[Zipang]]'' sends the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force vessel ''Mirai'', an advanced version of Kongo class destroyer (in turn a modified version of the American Arleigh Burke class destroyer), back to just after the Battle of Midway. Similar to ''[[The Final Countdown]]'', where a Nimitz class aircraft carrier gets sent back to just before the attack on Pearl Harbor, but much better done.
* [[Rumiko Takahashi]] has used this, in ''[[Fire Tripper]]''---a modern Japanese girl finds herself swept back in time to feudal-era Japan. But not all is as it seems at first...
* In [[Amakusa 1637]], seven teenagers from a Catholic school get trapped in the Japan of few before the ''sakoku'' ("isolationism") period. They learn that they're in the Amakusa area, right before the Shimabara Rebellion, and they decide to try averting the bloody massacre of [[Japanese Christian
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* The ''[[Marvel 1602]]'' mini-series has a time-displaced [[Captain America (comics)]] sent back to Elizabethan times. When asked to return to the future, he insists on staying to try and build a better America from the
** And it's got ''[[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs|dinosaurs]]''.
** It also has consequences beyond his
* ''[[Sasmira]]'': A young couple from the present day somehow find themselves sent back to the turn of the 20th century.
* [[Fantastic Four|Reed Richards]] was shunted to the distant past by a villain without his gadgets and he wasn't rescued until much later when his teammates found out what happened to him.
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* Brought later full circle with ''To Bring The Light'' by [[David Drake]], which is bound with ''Lest Darkness Fall'' in some editions. In this story a woman from Justinian Era Rome gets sent back to the founding of Rome and must use the inventions of later Rome to help found it...
* Temporally inverted in Philip Francis Nowlan's ''Armageddon 2419 A.D.'', or as it's better known, ''[[Buck Rogers]] in the 25th Century.'' Rogers, in the various versions of his tale, brings lost knowledge and a certain 20th-century vitality to future America and/or Earth as a whole.
* ''Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen'' by [[H. Beam Piper]]. Pennsylvania cop Calvin Morrison runs afoul of the Paratime Police and is accidentally transported to a medieval alternate Earth where a corrupt theocracy controls the secret of gunpowder. Pretty realistically
** In Piper's story "Time and Time Again", a [[World War III]] soldier suddenly finds himself in the body of his twelve-year-old self. His future knowledge enables him to prevent a murder and convince his father of the truth of his story; the story ends with them beginning a long-range project to acquire enough wealth and power to change history and prevent the war.
* [[Harry Harrison]]'s ''Deathworld 2'' features a non-time travel version of this, in which interstellar adventurer Jason dinAlt is stranded on a [[Lost Colony]] which has regressed to barbarism. Various bits and pieces of more advanced technology, generally regarded more or less as sorcery, are held as closely guarded secrets by the different clans (one group still knows how to make primitive petroleum-fueled engines, another how to make some crude electrical devices, yet another clan practices alchemy-level chemistry). The hero winds up completely revolutionizing the planet's backwater society solely out a desire to get off that primitive dirtball and back to someplace more civilized. The language issue is avoided as everyone on the planet speaks a (somewhat degraded) version of Esperanto.
* ''The Other Time'' (started by Mack Reynolds, completed by Dean Ing after Reynolds' death) features a modern day (1980's) anthropologist doing field work in Mexico who gets thrown back in history to just the right time to run into Cortez and the conquistadors. The language issue is avoided as the hero (being an anthropologist) naturally speaks Nahuatl and Spanish.
* ''The Dechronization of Sam Magruder'' by George Gaylord
* [[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy|Arthur and Ford]] find themselves trapped on prehistoric earth, the only skills between them the ability to live in a crapsack universe. They're unable to communicate with the aborigines, an odd aversion since their [[Universal Translator|babel fish]] allow them to communicate with all the rest of the known universe, including the interplanetary immigrants they are marooned with.
* [[Robert Heinlein]]'s ''The Door Into Summer'' speculates that [[Leonardo da Vinci]] may have been a Leonard Vincent who attempted to time travel 500 years.
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