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# [[Alternate Timeline]]: The characters time-travel has split their universe in twain. There's the universe they're in (that's they've "changed") and the universe they're not in. (the "old" universe that wasn't changed.)
No matter what the variation, if there's a scientist or scholar in the group, he'll be [[
Time travel is also a very large source of [[Mind Screw]]s. This is because the human mind is used to one-way time; cause and effect requires it. In two-way time, the entire human logic system has to be thrown out.
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=== [[Tabletop Games]] ===
* In the [[Role
* In the card game ''[[Chrononauts]]'', the players are time travelers from various alternate futures, and are trying to change the timeline to match their own timeline's version of the "past" so that they can finally go home. Since all the alternate futures have conflicting versions of "history," and many of those conflicting versions require a specific outcome to World War II (Hitler was assassinated early and [[WW 2]] was Japan vs. America, Hitler lived and D-Day failed so that Germany won [[WW 2]], and a couple other variants), [[Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act]] gets a real workout. There's an alternate victory condition in which players have to collect certain combinations of [[MacGuffin|Mac Guffins]] of questionable historical importance, but that's for material gain, not timeline shenanigans. A third victory condition is to get hired by the local [[Time Police]] after fixing enough of other people's paradoxes.
* [[Continuum]] is a [[Tabletop RPG]] '''entirely''' about Time Travel. Read its page for the details; further information is not available here.
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** [[Oswald Bastable]] is also subject to this kind of involuntary shifting between alternate histories.
* [[Thursday Next]] features multiple versions of history within a single book, but only the reader and the (off-screen) timetravelers are aware of this fact.
* In the novel ''[[Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey]]'', {{spoiler|Rant uses a form of time travel to become his own stepfather.}}
* The ''[[Time Scout]]'' series is built around an Accident that caused [[Portal to the Past|time portals]] to open up between random times and places. The stories cluster around people who happen to go places for various reasons.
* [[Doomsday Book]], among other books by [[Connie Willis]], features time-travelling historians who visit the past via a "net".
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* ''[[Radiant Historia]]'' not only deals with time travel, but parallel universes caused by making different choices at certain points in time.
* Time Travel is used several times in the ''[[Command & Conquer: Red Alert]]'' series by various factions, trying to improve their fortunes (generally by removing key enemy figures, such as Hitler or Einstein). [[Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act|It never goes well]]; the first game kicks off when Hitler gets cut from history, leading to a WWII between the Allies and ''Stalin'', while in the third, the various time-travel shenanigans throughout the series have accidentally turned tiny backwater Japan into the Empire of the Rising Sun, a(nother) superpower bent on world domination. Hilariously, the Emperor believes in the "[[You Can't Fight Fate|inevitability of destiny]]", and has a serious [[Villainous Breakdown]] when he discovers the truth behind the Empire's existence.
* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
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