7,832
edits
The Constant: Difference between revisions
no edit summary
No edit summary |
HLIAA14YOG (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
||
| (One intermediate revision by one other user not shown) | |||
Line 2:
{{quote|''"It's called a [[Trope Namer|constant]]. Desmond, you have no constant. When you go to the future, nothing there is familiar. So if you want to stop this, then you need to find something there...something that you really, really care about...that also exists back here, in 1996."''|'''Daniel Faraday''', ''[[Lost]]''}}
When you [[Time Travel]], or you spend some time as a [[Human Popsicle]], or even just leave a place for a long time, things tend to change a lot. But even when almost everything has changed, there's some character or thing that exists in both time periods, not because of time travel, but because they [[The Slow Path|remained there the whole time]]. They are '''The Constant''', and they connect two different-looking settings together and prove they're the same place.
Frequently the work will go out of its way to make a point of The Constant, and in our examples we focus on these intentional, obvious Constants. If the time-traveling character didn't realize they were in the same place until discovering The Constant, then you have [[Earth All Along]].
Line 105:
** Applied Cryogenics somehow manages to survive for 1000 years without a power failure (or apocalyptic destruction), despite the "No Power Failures Since 1997" sign on the wall in the pilot episode, and that we see the world reduced to medieval levels twice during that time.
*** That was probably {{spoiler|Nibbler's}} doing.
* In the ''[[Justice League (animation)|Justice League]]'' episode "Hereafter", Superman is hurled forward some 30,000 years. He soon finds the immortal Vandal Savage as the sole survivor of the human race...who also happens to be responsible for the extinction of the rest of it. Savage feels understandably guilty about the whole thing, and sends Supes back to stop his past self.
** There is also the Watchtower which, in a subtle [[Chekhov's Gun]], has [[Colony Drop|survived reentry]] to crashland in the jungle.
* Demona in ''[[Gargoyles]]''.
| |||