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[[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 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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** In the sequel this does not cause the person in question to melt out of existence, but results in them fusing into straight-up [[Body Horror]].

* [[Not So Different]]: McComb attempts to invoke this on Walker in the climax, but Walker points out that unlike [[Mc Comb]], he was trying to set the timeline right.

* [[Recycled: ~~The~~ Series]]

* [[Recycled: the Series]]

* [[Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory]]

* [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]]