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{{quote|''"Turn back the clock, and you're history."''|[[Tagline]] of ''[[
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At no point in the movie are there any legitimate reasons for time travel, implying that the only reason for time travel is to prevent other people from using time travel. This is actually a plot point. [[Butterfly of Doom]] means that attempting to [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]] would have disastrous side effects, so about the least dangerous thing you can do with it is either [[This Is My Boomstick|go back and steal things with advanced technology]] or [[Compound Interest Time Travel Gambit|make investments in the past that you can cash in on in the present.]] And even this is risking some bizarre accident that could kill billions. So aside from the highly risky (and unprofitable) archaeological possibilities, the technology has no productive use, resulting in the titular Cops. One guy even suggests that they simply re-invest the program's funding in better present-day regulations on the technology {{spoiler|but he's actually the [[Big Bad]] who wants to stop the program's interference in his own time travel shenanigans.}}
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* [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]]
* [[Temporal Paradox]]: Averted, changing the past makes a new present, but doesn't change you, thus if you went back and time and killed your father, you'd come back to find that you never existed, but you'd be fine.
* [[Terminator Twosome]]: The
* [[Time Machine]]: [[
** The [[Fridge Logic]]: said [[Time Machine]] seemly works by hurtling you in the giant sled towards a wall at high speed, sending you to the past before you hit it. There's a blood stain on the wall, supposedly from this not happening with a previous
*** You won't even get to the fridge before wondering "Where does the sled go when they arrive walking in the past? How did they get back into it when they return?"
*** [[Fridge Brilliance]]: (yes, even something like this has fans.) The sled and wall are all part of the apparatus - think particle accelerator slamming things together meets pinching a beanpod in ''just'' the right way that the bean shoots out of the pod rather than getting crushed in it. The passengers thus pass through the [[Timey-Wimey Ball]] into the past, and when they're ready to return, they trigger their remotes and return to the pod, which does a weird [[Stephen Hawking]] "cup reassembles on the floor and flies back onto the table" thingy.
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