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* In [[Grant Morrison]]'s ''[[The Invisibles]]'', the protagonists send "psychic projections" of themselves to eighteenth-century France and bring a "projection" of the Marquis de Sade back with them. King Mob explains: "You'll be like a ghost [in the twentieth century] but when you reach the end of your life here you'll unite with your future projection. I know [[Lampshade Hanging|it sounds ridiculous]], but [[Hand Wave|trust me.]]"
* During James Robinson's run on ''[[Starman (comics)|Starman]]'', Jack Knight finds out his brother, David (who was shot and killed at the start of the run), got sent back in time to serve as the Starman of the '50s (who no one knew the identity of) until it's time for his death to come around. Heartbreakingly, this happens right when Jack and David are reminiscing on old times.
* In the [[Marvel Universe]] it looked like this happened, but it didn't. A man believing himself to be Captain Mar-Vell appears. Everyone thinks that he's avoided his death from cancer by jumping forward in time. It turns out that time travel wasn't involved in the first place; the guy's really a Skrull sleeper agent brainwashed into thinking he's the real deal.
** The same sort of plot happened some time after [[The Flash|BarryAllen's]] death when Barry appears at the current Flash, Wally West's doorstep. Wally is confused but glad to see his mentor come back, but things start to get weird when Barry acts more and more like a [[Jerkass]] [[Knight Templar]], making Wally afraid that he [[Came Back Wrong]]. {{spoiler|In reality, the man who appeared was not Barry Allen, but a deluded fan of Barry Allen from the future who went so far as to give himself Barry's face and powers. After his defeat, he returned to the future where he would go on to become Professor Zoom, the Reverse Flash, one of Barry Allen's arch-enemies.}}
* In ''[[Runaways]]'', when the Runaways go to return to the present from the early 1900s, they bring along Klara Prast, who can control plants and is in danger of a bad fate via her abusive (and much older) husband. {{spoiler|They also try plan along a street urchin who Victor fell in love with, but she is too afraid and stays behind.}}
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== Live Action TV ==
* Subverted in the ''[[Star Trek: The
* Something similar happens in "Profiles In Silver", a 1985 episode of the ''[[Twilight Zone]]''. A time traveller from 2172 goes back to observe the assassination of John F. Kennedy, but inadvertantly prevents it. This creates a new timeline that ends in the human race being destroyed by nuclear war. The time line is ultimately restored by the traveller taking Kennedy's place in the motorcade while the president is safely returned to 2172.
* ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'' pulls Sarah from a time before she died of cancer. Partially subverted, in that Sarah begins developing cancerlike symptoms about a year later, exactly as she did before Cameron pulled them ahead.
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** In "The Girl in the Fireplace", the Doctor tries to do this to Reinette but she dies before he can.
*** Sort of done when the Doctor also {{spoiler|rescues Rose, her mother, and later his clone by taking them to an alternate dimension}}. Also, Donna convinces the Doctor to rescue a single family off of Pompeii when the volcano erupts.
**** Which then comes back to bite Earth in the butt. Peter Capaldi played both Caecillius in the Fires of Pompeii and John Frobisher in Torchwood: Children of Earth. The Word of God (or at least his personal theory) is that Frobisher was Caecillius' descendant, and his involvement was a result of the Doctor's meddling.
** There's also an entire organisation, the Tesselecta, which use this trope to overcome [[Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act]], not to save them, but to punish them. They know that horrible evil dictators have to die at certain times- they just remove them from their time-line shortly before, and punish them for all the horrible things they've done.
* In the ''[[Outer Limits]]'' episode "Tribunal", history professor and Holocaust scholar Aaron Zgierski is taken back to Auschwitz by time-traveller Nicholas Prentice (who turns out to be Zgierski's own great-grandson). While there, they rescue Aaron's "older" sister (who is only eight at the time), who history records as being executed in a gas chamber, into the future to live out her life free of Nazi oppression.
** They also do the reverse with the man Aaron is trying to expose in the present as a former Nazi camp guard. Future history records that right before his arrest he fled the country and was never seen again. He disappeared because Aaron and Prentice kidnapped him and left him in the past dressed as a Auschwitz prisoner where his past self executes him.
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* Averted in ''[[Shadow of Memories]]'', where you're explicitly told that you can't solve the problem of being targeted for assassination by time traveling out the way of an attack.
* In ''[[Time Hollow]]'', Ethan saves his parents from a burning restaurant 15 years in the past by opening a Time Hole linking that time to the present. Ethan's father carries his unconscious mother through the hole and to safety in the present day. This has some side effects though.
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