Stable Time Loop: Difference between revisions

* In the ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' story ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6575772/1/Yabba_Dabba_Joes Yabba Dabba Joes]'', Destro went through almost three dozen agents trying to kill members of the Joe team in their cribs before finally accepting that time travel in the Joe-verse doesn't allow changing the past.

* The ''[[Ranma ½]]'' fic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/261328/1/Paradox Paradox]'' has a stable time loop despite the name. {{spoiler|Shampoo strands Ukyou and Ryouga in the past, where they become the real parents of Ranma who is stolen at birth by Genma.}}

* In the ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' fic ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120423185747/http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6904903/1/Chasing_An_Empty_Dream Chasing an Empty Dream]'', {{spoiler|after a few characters end up centuries in the past curtsey of [[Black Magic|England's magic]], Germany ends up saving Holy Roman Empire's life. Moments later, he's shocked to find out he had just saved himself}}.

* In another ''[[Harry Potter]]'' comedy slashfic (possibly ''Harry Potter and the Sword of Gryffindor''?{{verify}}), Hermione steals a time turner for the purposes of [[It Makes Sense in Context|"kinky sex" that will also hurt Death Eaters.]] This is explained by Hermione at the time saying that she sort-of got it through a time paradox, but not to worry about it. Later, Harry is sent to put it back in the Department of Mysteries at the same time as stealing it in the first place. On the way, he runs into Mad-Eye Moody, who says that the DoM is being guarded after the events of [[Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix]] and that he should probably not venture in there. Upon exiting in failure, Hermione suggests that he just give her the one that he had to put back. This leads to Harry having a [[Logic Bomb]] moment along the lines of "But you gave this to me after traveling through time... and I just gave it to you... where did it come from?!"

** The episode "M.I.A." hints at what could be a possible out within a Stable Time Loop: {{spoiler|Goliath travels back to [[World War Two]] London to investigate an accusation that he caused the death of a gargoyle back then. When it seems that the Gargoyle in question really is marked for death by fate, Goliath takes him to the present day with him, saving his life, but still preserving the effects of his death}}. Or fate could just have been screwing with him to achieve the predestined result.

* The ''[[Star Trek: The Animated Series]]'' episode "Yesteryear" has Kirk and Spock return from a trip to the past to find that the ship suddenly has a different science officer, and no one else knows who Spock is. Spock relates a memory from his childhood when his life was saved by an adult Vulcan, who he realizes looked exactly like he does now. So he has to take one more trip to the past to save himself and set things right.

** ...which actually proves to be only a semi-stable time loop. If it were a ''true'' stable time loop, Crocker would have had AJ's tracker the entire time. Either that, or he 'forgot' that he had it until immediately after Timmy gets back from his time-travel.

* ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]'' featured a truly epic multi-layer time loop revealed over the course of several episodes. 11 million years ago, A3 led a [[Turned Against Their Masters|revolt against the Quintessons]]; however, in 2006, the Quintessons yanked A3 into their own time to prevent themselves from losing Cybertron. Blaster, Perceptor, Blurr, and Wreck-Gar go back in time to help the rebellion, while the Aerialbots save A3 from the Quintessons. A3 returns to his own time to lead the rebellion. Two million years later, A3, now known as Alpha Trion, meets the Aerialbots, who have travelled back in time from 1986. The Aerialbots persuade him to save the life of a young dock worker named Orion Pax, who he rebuilds into Optimus Prime (and also rebuilds Orion's girlfriend Ariel into [[FemBot|Elita One]]), leading to the formation of the Autobots as a whole and their role as enemies of the Decepticons. The Aerialbots return to their own time and then, in 1984, Optimus Prime and Alpha Trion build the Aerialbots from a group of shuttles. You may wish to draw a diagram.

** This also counts as [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]], because the reason the Aerialbots were in the past was due to Megatron's [[Time Machine]]; he was trying to use it to set a trap for them and send them back to the literal Beginning of Time, but the other Autobots intervened, causing the device to malfunction and "only" send them two million years into Cybertron's past.