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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"Staleek, he can wrap time 'round his little finger; the [[Psychic Powers|hoodoo-voodoo]] [[
|'''John Crichton''' on [[Sufficiently Advanced|Einstein]], '''''[[Farscape]]'''''}}
Some people can control [[Playing
▲{{quote|''"Staleek, he can wrap time 'round his little finger; the [[Psychic Powers|hoodoo-voodoo]] [[No Sell|is not gonna work]]!"''|'''John Crichton''' on [[Sufficiently Advanced|Einstein]], '''''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]'''''}}
He may be a member of the [[Time Police]], or the one winding up the [[Timey-Wimey Ball|Timey Wimey Balls,]] but as far as he's concerned, no-when is safe.
▲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 Master|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]]...
If he's an antagonist, killing him may be difficult, impossible, or force [[Fridge Logic]] upon the viewer. After all, if he can move through time, can't he go back to before you attack him and kill you?
▲He may be a member of the [[Time Police]], or the one winding up the [[Timey-Wimey Ball|Timey Wimey Balls,]] but as far as he's concerned, no-when is safe.
▲If he's an antagonist, killing him may be difficult, impossible, or force [[Fridge Logic]] upon the viewer. After all, if he can move through time, can't he go back to before you attack him and kill you?
Maybe, as a consequence of, or as a necessary condition for his power, he's a [[Time Abyss]].
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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]] ==▼
▲== [[Anime and Manga]] ==
* Aoba from ''[[Code Breaker]]''.
* Kyoko from ''[[Time Stranger Kyoko]]''.
* The Time Card in ''[[
* Sailor Pluto of ''[[Sailor Moon]]''.
* Guldo from ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' has the ability to stop time for as long as he can hold his breath.
** Actually [[Fridge Brilliance]], even if he himself is unaffected, [[Required Secondary Powers|the flow of air is not]].
* {{spoiler|Chao Lingshen}} from ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', who possesses special bullets that can displace a target through time and has a fighting style that involves a lot of time travel abuse to evade attacks.
* ''[[
** Dio Brando's Stand ''The World'' as well as a number of other character could qualify. Dio's ability to stop time was kept a secret from his enemies, and he used it to perform all sorts of seemingly-impossible stunts. In the anime version, he made it look like things around him were exploding or tearing themselves apart ''because he willed it.'' Being able to stop time, if only for a few moments, made him virtually invincible.
** In fact, for quite a while the major villains of each arc had powers relating to time. Dio's ''The World'' could stop time, Kira's tertiary ''Another One Bites the Dust'' can invoke time loops, Diavolo's ''King Crimson'' can erase small spaces of time, and Pucci's ''Stairway to Heaven'' could accelerate the flow of time to unbelievable levels. Even Funny Valentine in ''Steel Ball Run'', while not able to affect the ''flow'' of time, weaponizes the ability to travel between [[Alternate Universe|parallel timelines]].
* Nagato Yuki in ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]'' is a [[Sufficiently Advanced]] alien with [[Reality Warper]] powers similar in nature to the Agents of ''[[The Matrix]]''. Though incapable of physical [[Time Travel]] (she instead "downloads" her future mind into her past body in one instance, effectively making her the same person), she is capable of manipulating time and space, and helps a couple of time traveling friends who lost their time machine get back to the future by [[The Slow Path|having them lie down in her guest bedroom and freezing time within said room while the outside world continues to move]].
* This is [[Never Mess
* Ultear Milkovich from ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' has the ability age or restore inanimate objects.
* In ''[[Rave Master]]'', Captain Hardner has an interesting way of using time related powers. Namely, restoring old wounds to people, and retgone'ing his own injuries.
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* [[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.
* ''[[Magic the Gathering]]'' has a select few cards that can, in fact, skip or repeat a player's turn. Some are guaranteed (being very powerful) and other are conditional ([[Twenty Bear Asses|doing something X number of times, for example]]) or left to straight-up chance, like flipping a coin.▼
** An example of one such card would be [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=96928&type=card Stitch In Time], from the Ravnica Block.▼
** For a specific character example, the Blue Planeswalker, [http://wiki.mtgsalvation.com/article/Teferi Teferi], specializes in Time magic. ▼
* The Time Wizard from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh]]''. The anime typically portrays the card effects as the Wizard using its powers to rapidly age monsters to dust, although certain monsters can actually become stronger after a millenium or so.▼
** The D-Heroes also have traces of this as many of their abilities are connected with time (like sending enemy monsters into the future).▼
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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** Rip Hunter is The Time Master. He uses his time machine to, in addition to fighting evil and learning martial arts, get the best soda of all time.
** The android [[Hourman]], who was built with precognition and chronal manipulation powers on top of possessing a map of all space and time.
* Parodied with the D-list supervillain Killing Time in ''[[
* ''[[Zero Hour]]'' villain Extant had loosely defined time control powers. He killed several members of the [[Justice Society]] by accelerating their aging to the point of death, and later he defeated Jay Garrick by regressing him back to an age before he acquired super-speed and became the Flash.
* The second [[The Flash|Reverse-Flash]]/Zoom (Hunter Zolomon) does not have [[Super Speed]], as he uses his temporal powers to fake having [[Super Speed]] to battle Wally with.
* 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.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* In ''[[
==
▲* In ''[[Keepers of the Elements (Fanfic)|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.
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* While technically any of the Travelers in ''[[The Pendragon Adventure]]'' can travel through time using the flumes, Saint Dane and {{spoiler|Nevva Winter}} can control their exact destination in time with them.
* In the ''[[Fighting Fantasy|Sorcery!]]'' gamebook series, each of the Seven Serpents has power over one aspect of the universe. Their leader is the one with power over time.
* 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.
* Yog-Sothoth, from the ''[[Cthulhu Mythos]]'', isn't just a master of time - it
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* 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.
** But of course, when they have their technology with them, they will prove ''exactly'' why they are called the Time Lords.
* Bilis Manger from ''[[
* [[Sapphire and Steel|Sapphire]] can wind back time. Apart from that, Sapphire and Steel's enemies (which includes, arguably, ''Time itself''), commonly can distort and manipulate time.
* Hiro Nakamura from ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]''.
** Also from ''Heroes'', Peter Petrelli, who copied it from Hiro, and Arthur Petrelli, who stole it from Peter. Besides being
* Dr. Tom, the psychiatrist in ''[[
* The demon [[Meaningful Name|Tempus]] on ''[[
* Illyria from ''[[
* Einstein in ''[[
* 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]] ==
* ''Every player character'' in ''[[Continuum]]''.
* Both ''[[
* ''[[Dungeons
** The Time Lord [[NPC]] class in Dragon magazine #65.
** The Time Elemental in the 1st Edition Monster Manual II.
** 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.)
▲* ''[[Magic:
▲** An example of one such card would be [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=96928&type=card Stitch In Time], from the Ravnica Block.
▲** For a specific character example, the Blue Planeswalker, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130723053102/http://wiki.mtgsalvation.com/article/Teferi Teferi], specializes in Time magic.
▲* The Time Wizard from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''. The anime typically portrays the card effects as the Wizard using its powers to rapidly age monsters to dust, although certain monsters can actually become stronger after a
▲** The D-Heroes also have traces of this as many of their abilities are connected with time (like sending enemy monsters into the future).
== [[Toys]] ==▼
▲== Toys ==
▲* The Kanohi Vahi in ''[[Bionicle]]'' gives this power.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda
* 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 ''[[
* ''[[World of Warcraft
** 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
* ''[[Pokémon]]'' has two mons with Time powers: Celebi who can travel through time, and Dialga who is essentially the deity of time.
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** There is another character with (more subtle) mastery over time: Kaguya Houraisan. Her power control the rate of flow of time, dubbed "power over eternity and temporality" (think [[Bullet Time]]). [[Fridge Brilliance|Which saves her from boredom]], since she has [[Immortality]]. There are WMGs about how she and Sakuya are connected.
* Richard Wong of ''[[Psychic Force]]''.
* Emiya Kiritsugu of ''[[Fate
* Luxord from ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' has this as his element. [[Informed Ability|He never seems to do anything useful with it.]]
** It sounds a lot [[Rule of Cool|cooler]] than the element of Compulsive Gambling.
** On the other hand, the [[Bonus Boss|Mysterious Figure]] from [[Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep
* Kamui of ''[[
* The Time Mage class from the ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series.
* [[Viewtiful Joe]] can speed up or slow down time, though it's explained in-game as 'visual effects', as the game takes place within a movie film.
* Flash Man, Bright Man and Time Man from the ''[[Mega Man (
* This is the only power the protagonist from ''[[
* [[The Chessmaster|Moebius]] and his predecessors in ''[[Legacy of Kain]]'', the [[Fisher King|guardians]] of time, who are among nine sorcerers chosen at birth to guard different aspects of the world.
* Time technology shows up a lot in ''[[Command
* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', the Bronze Dragonflight are a benign example, trying to maintain and preserve the timeline of Azeroth; their enemies the Infinite Dragonflight are more malevolent, attempting to [[Make Wrong What Once Went Right]] for [[Hidden Agenda Villain/Laconic| some unknown reason.]]
* [[Blinx]] and his fellow Time Sweepers.
* ''[[Tales of Monkey Island]]'': {{spoiler|1=LeChuck near the end of Chapter 5. When he sees the Vaycaylian warriors throwing their [[Prongs of Poseidon|javelins]] at him at Winslow's order, the villain uses his voodoo power to make [[Time Stands Still|Time Stand Still]] for those outside of LeChuck's ship, making the entirety of the ship seem more like a parody of [[Year Inside, Hour Outside]]. Strangely enough, the Crossroads (and Morgan LeFlay for that matter) don't seem to be affected by the voodoo time freeze.}}
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* Zilean from ''[[League of Legends]]'' holds the title of Chronokeeper, and he lives up to it. He places time bombs (literal ones) on targets that detonate a while later, can rewind time to reduce his cooldowns, and can speed up or slow down time around champions to increasing the movement speed of his allies or decreasing his enemies'. His ultimate ability puts a protective sigil on an ally that will rewind time around them if they die, essentially resurrecting them if they die while the sigil is active. Early-game, his time bombs make him a great nuker, but as the game goes on, he tends to do better in a support role.
* ''[[City of Heroes]]'' has this as a Buff/Debuff set. It's considered one of the best in terms of performance.
* In ''[[Space Channel 5]] Part 2'', the Japanese version mentions that [[Big Bad|Purge]] has the ability to bend spacetime.
* ''[[
* Dr. Nefarious Tropy, the self-proclaimed "Master of Time" from the ''[[Crash Bandicoot]]'' series.
== [[Web Original]] ==▼
▲== Web Original ==
* 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.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* 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
** {{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.
* ''[[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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** And Vector Prime from ''[[Transformers Cybertron]]''.
* Clockwork in ''[[Danny Phantom]]''.
* Paradox from ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force
* The [[Sdrawkcab Name|Xelor]] class in ''[[
* Parodied on ''[[Johnny Bravo]]'' with Chronos, '''Master of All Time!''' *[[Dramatic Thunder]]*: A [[Funny Animal|talking Grizzly bear]] who had dubbed himself '''Master of All Time!''' *[[Dramatic Thunder]]* due to having stuffed his cave full of watches that he all meticulously kept precise time on. Well, except the VCR clock. That one was beyond even ''his'' vast and immaterial powers.
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