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''Now take that tree you've just drawn. Put it on a desk. And empty your inkwell onto it. That's what happens when a time machine blows up.''|'''Tycho Green''', ''[http://adamcadre.ac/if.html#Shrapnel Shrapnel]''}}

 

* This was the goal of [[Big Bad]] {{spoiler|Time Master}} from ''[[Freedom Force]]'' when he tried to break the Celestial Clock. At the end of the game, {{spoiler|Man-Bot makes a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] and locks himself inside the clock to allow the rest of the heroes to escape. Wraiths of Chaos begin attacking the clock because of his presence there, locking Man-Bot in an [[Endless Struggle]] to keep the Celestial Clock going and prevent another time crash from happening.}}

* In a particular test chamber in ''[[Portal 2]]'', Cave Johnson claims:

* In the original ''[[Command and Conquer Red Alert|Red Alert]]'', using the [[Teleporters and Transporters|Chronosphere]] [[Critical Failure|too much]] could trigger a mild form of these - a swirling distortion in the map that fried any nearby units or buildings with lightning or tore them apart as it roved around at random. Which naturally led to some players using as many Chrono-based abilities as possible in hopes of triggering one near their opponent's base.

* It is implied that this was supposed to be the true objective of {{spoiler|Rasputin}}'s masters in ''[[Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army]]'', as the entire timeline has been clearly warped in a ''big'' way by way of devil summoners and alternate dimensions. Said fellow decides to blow the mission off.

** In the main ''Futurama'' universe: at the end of ''Bender's Big Score'' Bender creates so many time paradox duplicates that he makes a tear in the fabric of reality. This becomes a major plot point in the sequel ''The Beast With A Billion Backs''.

** The most apt ''Futurama'' example has to be "Time Keeps On Slipping", in which the removal of [[Unobtanium|chronotons]] causes time to skip randomly. Professor Farnsworth explains the ramifications thusly:

* Chronos did this in the "Once and Future Thing" episode of ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]''. Time started to crack and fall apart, and killed several people before it was stopped.

* In ''[[Transformers]]'', this is known as a time storm, and happens whenever someone makes a massive change to history. Cases include the Quintessons bringing Alpha Trion forward in time to cause the original Transformers Rebellion to fail, Megatron killing Cyclonus, and [[Beast Wars]] {{spoiler|Megatron attempting to destroy Optimus Prime what the latter was in stasis, before the events of [[Transformers Generation 1]]}}.