Omnicidal Neutral: Difference between revisions

* [[Keith Laumer]]'s ''Dinosaur Beach'' demonstrates an extreme, but [[I Did What I Had to Do|ultimately heroic]], version of this trope. The setting has been deeply screwed up by the invention of time travel, with each faction trying to prevent any time travel in its "future," but at the same time trying to prevent the prevention of time travel in its "past," since all of them are the futures of factions that were unable to prevent time travel, and none of them wish to be [[Ret -Gone|erased from the timestream]]. Meanwhile, each time trip is making the fabric of reality less and less stable. {{spoiler|The main character's solution is to travel back and prevent the invention of time travel, preventing the collapse of the universe at the cost of the lives and existences of every member of every faction in the book. He's one of only two characters, named or unnamed, who comes from a future timeline but still exists at the story's close.}}