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Line 4: {{quote\|''Time travel is theoretically impossible, but I wouldn't want to give it up as a plot gimmick.''\|'''[[Isaac Asimov]]'''}} {{quote\|''(For related tropes, see [[Time Travel Tropes]])''\|TV Tropes}} A time travel story can simply use time travel as a vehicle to get the hero to the [[Adventure Towns]], or the [[Phlebotinum]] involved can be a key plot driver. No matter what story type the hero is going to need a [[Time Machine]] or [[Time Master]] to get around. Time Travel stories seem to fall into several categories: Line 36: See also [[Temporal Mutability]] for the very tricky problem of how (or even if) you can change the future or the past. See also [[Meanwhile in the Future]], [[What Year Is This?]], the other [[Time Travel Tropes]], and this [[wikipedia:Time travel\|Wikipedia entry]]. ---- Line 45: === [[~~Comics~~Comic Books]] === * In ''[[Universal War One]]'', scientists build a space station that accidentally opens a wormhole, allowing limited time travel. {{spoiler\|Then Kalish solves the equations that allow anybody to travel through time and space without limitation.}} === Film === Line 114 ⟶ 113: === [[~~Comics~~Comic Books]] === * ''[[PS238]]'', especially the later issues. Includes several confusing [[Stable Time Loop\|stable time loops]] * ''[[Booster Gold]]'' is the current Time Travel comic at DC, exploring the difficulties of [[You Can't Fight Fate\|solidified time]] and the effects of the various crises on the time line, making it like [[Screw Destiny\|"Wet Cement".]] Line 120 ⟶ 119: * Prior to [[Post-Crisis\|1985]] [[Superman]] could time travel under his own power but would arrive in the past completely invisible and intangible, unable to interact with the past in any way, avoiding the problems with this trope. After 1985, he was no longer powerful enough to time travel at all. ** Not quite. He would be invisible and intangible only if he travelled to a period where he already existed, since he couldn't be in two places at the same, er, time. If he travelled to a time prior to his own birth, he was solid. However he still couldn't change the past. === [[Film]] === Line 302 ⟶ 300: Mentioned in the end, since this series uses (and spoofs) ''every single trope'' listed above: * [[Larry Niven]]'s ''Hanville Svetz'' series of time travel short stories, collected in ''[[The Flight of ~~The~~the Horse]]'' - where time travel is impossible in the real world, and every excursion that the protagonist makes is into a parallel, ''fantasy'' world that then directly affects his own. The reason for the jaunts? Well, the Secretary General of the UN in the series is a ''little'' mentally retarded, and the protagonist is sent back in time to recover animals that the SG has seen in recovered children's books. You see, they don't exist in the heavily polluted future... to the extent that, in one story where the proliferation of cars did not take place due to time meddling, one of the supporting characters has to breathe ''exhaust fumes'' from a internal-combustion car to stay alive. As is the case with most of Niven's work -, it's all scientifically justifiable using the science known at the time of authorship. {{reflist}} [[Category:~~Narrative Devices~~{{PAGENAME}}]]▼ ~~{{related\|Meanwhile in the Future}}~~ ~~{{related\|Temporal Mutability}}~~ ~~{{related\|What Year Is This?}}~~ ~~{{related\|Time Travel Tropes}}~~ ▲[[Category:Narrative Devices]] ~~[[Category:Time Travel Tropes]]~~ [[Category:Applied Phlebotinum]] [[Category:Narrative Devices]] [[Category:Speculative Fiction Tropes]] [[Category:~~{{PAGENAME}}~~Time Travel Tropes]]