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** However, a much more explicit case is with the Elder Tree Jurak and the Sage Crest. The former starts out as some tree saplings, and becomes a monumental tree. Crest is actually {{spoiler|a very young girl}} that Max and Monica meet during the present, but which becomes the greatest Sage in the world (and, although 100 years passed for Crest, the Sage still remembers Max and Monica, for whom there was a difference of only a few minutes).
* In ''[[Sam and Max|Sam & Max]] Episode 204: Chariots of the Dogs'', the eponymous duo are left stranded back in ''Episode 102: Situation: Comedy'' by their own past selves and are forced to re-live the past year-and-a-half off-camera.
* In ''[[Wild ArmsARMs 3]]'', the protagonists manage to use a very powerful magic to send Asgard, the [[Implacable Man|persistent robot]] hundreds of years into the past. All's right? Well, there's a [[Chekhov's Gun|curiously humanoid shaped rock formation in one of the first dungeons in the game]], and sure enough Asgard bursts out of it when the party has to re-visit it later. It turns out that {{spoiler|Asgard knew that the only way to go back to present is to take the slow path, imprisoning himself in a rock formation where he will emerge during the right time.}}
** Interestingly, he goes back talking in [[Hulk Speak]] but comes back as eloquent and intelligent.
** This is because Asgard is programmed with a learning AI. The more he experiences (fighting experience in particular), the more intelligent he becomes.
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* {{spoiler|Dr Diggins}} takes this route in ''[[Fossil Fighters]]'' after [[spoiler: being sent back to the Jurassic era. Fortunately, he finds a crashed dinaurian starship and uses the stone sleep process to wait out the 150 million years until he gets revived.
* In ''Portal 2'', Wheatley is active for the 99999 (or some other undefined, large number) days that Chell is in stasis and [[GLaDOS]] is dead.
* In ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (2006 (video game)||Sonic the Hedgehog 2006]]'', E-123 Omega takes a Chaos Emerald and enters standby mode [[Big Damn Heroes|to help Shadow]] when he was trapped in the future.
 
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* ''[[Futurama]]'': "Roswell That Ends Well" . In a direct parody of the ''TNG'' episode, Bender's head is dropped in the New Mexico desert in the 1940s, and has to be recovered ''a thousand years later''. Not only does Bender not mind being buried in the dirt for a millennium, he actually complains upon being rescued that his peace and quiet are being disturbed.
** In ''Bender's Big Score'', the titular robot ''repeatedly'' and happily volunteers to go back in time, steal precious historical treasures, and then wait in a cavern under Planet Express headquarters until a few seconds after leaving. And then {{spoiler|at the end of the film, Bender "wakes up" all of the bender duplicates and has them exit the basement when they were not logically supposed to, thus creating a hole in the universe, and setting the stage for the next film.}}
*** Yet another episode that was [[A Day Atat the Bizarro]] "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular", Bender actually waits ''500 million years'' after the crew has died for their fossils to be turned into oil that he could use for Robanukah. This turned out to be pointless as the oil he already had ended up lasting for 500 million years.
* Omi from ''[[Xiaolin Showdown]]'' had to freeze himself for 1500 years with the Orb of Tornami, because Jack Spicer forgot to mention that his time machine didn't have a means to return him from the past.
** He does this again to recover the Sands of Time from his future self. Spot the flaw in this plan. {{spoiler|If Omi spends all of his time frozen, he can't give himself the Sands of Time because his old self wouldn't exist. [[Lampshade Hanging|The show does point this out.]]}}
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