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Some people can control [[Playing with Fire|Fire]], some control [[An Ice Person|Ice]], and some just get [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|saddled with]] [[The Power of Love|Heart]]. This guy? He controls [[Time Travel|time]] [[Time Stands Still|itself.]] This is called many things, but whether through forbidden magic, [[Imported Alien Phlebotinum]], or just being [[The Chosen One]], he can move through the ages like walking to his kitchen. The powers of the '''Time Masters''' are multiple and varied; he may travel in time, [[Caffeine Bullet Time|slow down]] or speed up time, move between [[All the Myriad Ways|alternate timelines]]...

 

Not to be confused with a [[Time Lord/WMG|Time Lord]]. Or the [[Clock King]] (who might be called a time master in-universe, but isn't). Or the movie ''[[Time Masters]]''.

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* Aoba from ''[[Code Breaker]]''.

* [[Anti-Hero|Homura Akemi]] from ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]''.

* Barragan Louisenbairn from ''[[Bleach]]''. His abilities stem around manipulating the flow of time to slow down his enemies and make them age and crumble into dust.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* Recent X-Men addition Velocidad was first thought to have [[Super Speed]]. This was disproven when [[Crazy Awesome|Doctor Nemesis]] had him run across water... and he fell in, unable to move fast enough to not break the surface tension. Turns out he controls time in a localized pocket, giving him the appearance of super-speed outside but still subjected to the normal laws of physics inside.

 

* In ''[[Keepers of the Elements]]'', [[Deadpan Snarker|Nasira]], one of the [[Immortality|Immortals]] is the resident Time Mistress.

 

* ''[[Discworld]]'':

** [[Old Master|Wen the Eternally Surprised]] and The History Monks he founded.

* Norton becomes Chronos, the incarnation of time in ''Bearing an Hourglass'', the second book in Piers Anthony's ''[[Incarnations of Immortality]]'' Series.

* The Old Ones in ''[[The Dark Is Rising]]'' series seem to be able to do this, to some degree.

 

* In ''[[Doctor Who]]'', the Time Lords ''can't'' do this, at least not without the aid of mechanical devices, with the following exceptions: in ''Invasion of the Dinosaurs'', the Doctor's Time Lord nature provides immunity from time disturbance. In "The End of the World", the Doctor shows that he has a perfect sense of timing, and that he can slow down his perception of time itself.

** In the [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe]], trained Time Lords can do this on a small scale, reaching a few seconds across time, usually for combat purposes, and the Celestial Intelligence Agency has operatives who can stop time, or jump a billion years, by willpower alone.

* Fate from ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]''. She uses this power to cause [[Rube Goldberg Device|overly elaborate]], almost cartoonish deaths.

* Kazu of the Heaven Time Star, the KirinRanger from ''[[Gosei Sentai Dairanger]]'' has time-rewind powers.

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

** Istus, goddess of Fate in the World of [[Greyhawk]].

** Phanes described in the ''[[Epic Level Handbook]]'' supplement. They're unwanted children of deities of time/destiny who look like black clouds of various shapes. They can travel back in time, summon a copy of themselves from the future, summon copies of their opponents from an alternate timeline, and freeze themselves or others in time and devour their future (which basically makes their victims grow old at an accelerated rate.)

 

* The Kanohi Vahi in ''[[Bionicle]]'' gives this power.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* The titular "achrons" in ''[[Achron]]'' are Time Masters. Players can pause time, slow it down or speed it up, jump to alternate moments in time and generally observe the entire timeline ([[Delayed Ripple Effect|timewaves]] and all). This makes them ideal generals for commanding armies in cross-temporal warfare.

* Time Lord in ''[[SaGa Frontier]]''. Due to the game's lack of [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]], there ''isn't'' anything stopping him from [[Time Stands Still|freezing time]] and attacking you.

** Speaking of which, their leader, Nozdormu, was even granted knowledge of the exact place and time of his own death, so fighting him would be completely stupid. As soon as the fight goes poorly for him, he will just restart the fight from its time of origin and try a different tactic.

* Darkterror the Faceless Void in ''[[Defense of the Ancients]]'' has several time related skills, his [[Limit Break]] being the ability to stop time in an area excluding himself

* Dr. Nefarious Tropy, the self-proclaimed "Master of Time" from the ''[[Crash Bandicoot]]'' series.

 

* In ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'', Gary/Gamma's special AI ability is to manipulate time. The Meta steals it between ''Blood Gulch Chronicles'' and ''Revelation''.

* Dan from ''[[Trinton Chronicles]]'' has control over time including accelerating, deaccelerating, and [[Time Stands Still|stopping time]]. As a bonus he gained [[Light'Em Up|light]] and [[Casting a Shadow|dark]] generation and control which gives him the bonus abilites to age/de-age (from light) and restore/degrade (from dark) people and objects.

* [[Word of God]] says there is no time travel in the [[Whateley Universe]], but Stopwatch has the power of temporal warping. He can speed up his own personal time until he's effectively a speedster, or he can slow down someone else's time while he moves at a normal rate.

 

* There are two major groups in ''[[Homestuck]]'' with mastery over time:

** Time is one of the powers available to Sburb players, and one of the two which must occur in every session. [[The Lancer|Dave Strider]] is the Knight of Time in the human session, and [[Emotionless Girl|Aradia Megido]] is the Maid of Time in the troll session. Both are in charge of timeline management - using their powers to establish and take advantage of [[Stable Time Loop|stable time loops]] to ensure things proceed as they must, and to provide [[Trial and Error Gameplay|a way to avert]] [[Bad Future|bad futures]] should things go wrong ([[Harder Than Hard|which they have... often]]). Both use music-themed [[Magic Feather]]s to travel through time - Dave uses turntables, while Aradia uses music boxes; after {{spoiler|[[Came Back Strong|ascending to the God Tiers]], Aradia is strong enough in her time powers to freeze [[Big Bad|Jack]] [[Physical God|Noir]] in time without any assistance, however temporarily it may have been}}. Also, both their Lands house the item necessary to initiate [[Reset Button|the Scratch]], itself a massive burst of time energy.

** {{color|#2ed73a|The Felt}} each have a different power that allows them to manipulate time or perceive things in the past or future. Well, except for [[Dumb Muscle|Biscuits]], whose "power" is hiding in an oven that he thinks lets him time travel into the future. [[The Slow Path|Technically true]], even though he's just traveling at the same rate as everyone else.

* ''[[Wayward Sons]]'': Nysus can speed or slow time in a localized area. He first used it to [[Mundane Utility|rapidly ferment wine]].

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==