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{{quote|''"Turn back the clock, and you're history."''|[[Tagline]] of ''[[Time Cop]]''}}

[[Time Cop]] is a 1994 movie starting [[Jean Claude Van Damme]] as Max Walker, a (wait for it) [[Time Police|Time Cop]] who has to go back in time to prevent other people from going back in time and messing up history. Mia Sara was cast as his wife Melissa, {{spoiler|[[Death by Origin Story|who dies in the opening act]], resulting in Walker's [[Married to the Job|devotion to the job]]: "If I cannot go back to save her... this scumbag is not going back to steal money!"}}

[[Time Cop]] is a 1994 movie starting [[Jean-Claude Van Damme]] as Max Walker, a (wait for it) [[Time Police|Time Cop]] who has to go back in time to prevent other people from going back in time and messing up history. Mia Sara was cast as his wife Melissa, {{spoiler|[[Death by Origin Story|who dies in the opening act]], resulting in Walker's [[Married to the Job|devotion to the job]]: "If I cannot go back to save her... this scumbag is not going back to steal money!"}}

At no point in the movie are there any legitimate reasons for time travel, implying that the only reason for time travel is to prevent other people from using time travel. This is actually a plot point. [[Butterfly of Doom]] means that attempting to [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]] would have disastrous side effects, so about the least dangerous thing you can do with it is either [[This Is My Boomstick|go back and steal things with advanced technology]] or [[Compound Interest Time Travel Gambit|make investments in the past that you can cash in on in the present.]] And even this is risking some bizarre accident that could kill billions. So aside from the highly risky (and unprofitable) archaeological possibilities, the technology has no productive use, resulting in the titular Cops. One guy even suggests that they simply re-invest the program's funding in better present-day regulations on the technology {{spoiler|but he's actually the [[Big Bad]] who wants to stop the program's interference in his own time travel shenanigans.}}

The film was a modest box office hit, earning $101,646,581 in the worldwide market. With about 45 million earned it the United States market, it was its 30th most successful film that year. It had a short-lived [[Recycled: the Series|spin off show]], ''Timecop: The Series'', which featured a brand new cast and lasted for one season of nine episodes. There was also a direct-to-DVD sequel ''Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision'' (2003), taking place 20 years following the original.

The franchise is apparently based on a comic written by future ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'' scribe Mark Verheiden - who knew?

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* [[Timey-Wimey Ball]]: You can't travel into the future because it hasn't happened yet, but you can return to the present from the past.

** The sequel plays with time travel much more than the first one. In the end, it is implied {{spoiler|that all the preceding events of the movie never happened because the villain accidentally changed his own past}}.

* [[You Fail Biology Forever]] + [[You Fail Nuclear Physics Forever]]: Apparently you can carbon-date gold bars.

** Even if you could, carbon dating isn't as precise as it's depicted in the movie. And even if it was, if the gold was brought through time it wouldn't have measurably aged.

*** Both could theoretically be explained (at least somewhat better) by the simple idea that they didn't bring it back with them, just hid it somewhere and then dug it up in the present. Probably much cheaper re: energy expenditure, and also might leave other trace on or around the gold that could be dated.

** A more valid method of asserting the authenticity of the gold would have been to examine whether the impurities in the metal and the casting marks match the time and place.

* [[You Have Failed Me]]: Apparently, the reason why Atwood was trying to take advantage of the Stock Market Crash was because McComb threatened to kill his ancestors if he didn't or failed to do so.

* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: Apparently, the reason why Atwood was trying to take advantage of the Stock Market Crash was because McComb threatened to kill his ancestors if he didn't or failed to do so.

* [[Zeerust]]: Remember back in 2004, when we all had those self-driving, voice-activated cars that looked [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BffVRhsD5v0/SUVZvPzhvYI/AAAAAAAAA1c/Lliw5nSBfsU/s320/h-tcop-car12s.jpg like this]? Good times, good times.

** [[Fridge Brilliance|Of course you don't remember it, someone screwed up time somewhere and that timeline stopped existing.]]

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