Trapped in the Past: Difference between revisions

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* ''[[Jin]]'': The title character, a present-day Japanese doctor, is sent back in time to the end of the Tokugawa Era.

* ''[[Jin (manga)]]'': The title character, a present-day Japanese doctor, is sent back in time to the end of the Tokugawa Era.

* ''[[Rave Master]]'': {{spoiler|Sieg Hart}} is trapped fifty years in the past, and makes sure not to interfere with the upcoming history to occur. However, he does end up setting up a [[Stable Time Loop]] and pulling off a gambit to [[Gondor Calls for Aid|call for aid]] in time for the final battle.

* ''[[To a Distant Town]]'': Middle-aged [[Salaryman]] Hiroshi finds himself back in the body of his 14-year-old self, in the early [[The Sixties|1960s]].

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== [[Comic Books]] ==

* The ''[[Marvel 1602]]'' mini-series has a time-displaced [[Captain America]] sent back to Elizabethan times. When asked to return to the future, he insists on staying to try and build a better America from the beginning -- which he does in small ways, such as helping a group of colonists survive a winter that should have wiped them out, or warning the natives against selling their land to unscrupulous capitalists. The final touch comes when, because of his actions, the American colonies declare independence from Britain 174 years early.

* The ''[[Marvel 1602]]'' mini-series has a time-displaced [[Captain America (comics)]] sent back to Elizabethan times. When asked to return to the future, he insists on staying to try and build a better America from the beginning -- which he does in small ways, such as helping a group of colonists survive a winter that should have wiped them out, or warning the natives against selling their land to unscrupulous capitalists. The final touch comes when, because of his actions, the American colonies declare independence from Britain 174 years early.

** And it's got ''[[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs|dinosaurs]]''.

** It also has consequences beyond his control -- his presence causes the [[Marvel Universe]] to impose itself on the past, and period versions of the [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]], [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|Avengers]] and other superheroes start appearing.

* ''[[Sasmira]]'': A young couple from the present day somehow find themselves sent back to the turn of the 20th century.

* [[Fantastic Four|Reed Richards]] was shunted to the distant past by a villain without his gadgets and he wasn't rescued until much later when his teammates found out what happened to him.

* Ultra Boy of the [[Legion of Super-Heroes (comics)|Legion of Super-Heroes]] was once trapped in the distant past. It took him a while to realize, since he started out stranded on an alien world as well.

** There have also been several periods where a subgroup of Legionnaires was trapped in their past/our present for a span of issues.

== [[Fan Works]] ==

* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5270556/1/ This fic in particular] has [[Naruto|Itachi Uchiha]] in his dying moment thrown into the past, back to a few months before the Uchiha Massacre. However, in a bit of a twist, his future self and past self occupy the same body, with the future self trying to get the past self to change the course of history.

== [[Film]] ==

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* ''[[Island in The Sea of Time]]'' by [[S.M. Stirling]]. The island of Nantucket is whisked into 1250 BC, and must contend with Bronze Age cultures and their own crop of power-hungry renegades. This one ''does'' contend with language difficulties, uptime diseases, and so forth; the Nantucketers manage to wipe out huge numbers of Native Americans before they even realize what's going on, because the first party sent to the mainland contains someone with a sniffle. Their language difficulties are moderately eased by the fact that the languages of Europe are, at that point, much closer to still being "Proto-Indo-European"...

* The ''Assiti Shards'' milieu by [[Eric Flint]] and others. Cast-off shards of transdimensional alien "art" bombard Earth and transpose large chunks of it with other times and places. Several alternate histories are planned in this meta-setting, including ''Time Spike'' (several separate Shard events deposit a modern maximum security prison, the Cherokees on the Trail of Tears, a band of conquistadors, and multiple pre-Columbian Indian settlements into the Cretaceous), ''1776'' (the armies of George Washington and Frederick the Great both find themselves in ancient Rome during the Crisis of the Third Century), and ''By Any Other Name'' (the Assiti themselves make unwilling contact with Elizabethan England), but only two has seen any publishing. The first one has, however, seen a lot:

* ''[[1632]]'' and many, ''many'' sequels. The West Virginia coal-mining town of Grantville is translocated to southern Germany in the middle of the [[Thirty Years War]], utterly shattering the power structure and world view of Reformation Europe. Once again, this setting deals with language and diseases fairly well. Although in this case, it's the ''uptime'' people of Grantville who have to worry about the risk that the pandemic plagues of the 1600s will devastate their community. On the bright side, they're at a recent enough point in the past that their English is recognizable in England, and their German-speakers are understandable to the Germans around them.

* ''[[1632]]'' and many, ''many'' sequels. The West Virginia coal-mining town of Grantville is translocated to southern Germany in the middle of the [[Thirty Years' War]], utterly shattering the power structure and world view of Reformation Europe. Once again, this setting deals with language and diseases fairly well. Although in this case, it's the ''uptime'' people of Grantville who have to worry about the risk that the pandemic plagues of the 1600s will devastate their community. On the bright side, they're at a recent enough point in the past that their English is recognizable in England, and their German-speakers are understandable to the Germans around them.

* Parodied repeatedly in this [http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/winter2007/fiction-missives-from-possible-futures-1-alternate-history-search-results-by-john-scalzi/ short story] (scenario 6).

* Jon Scieszka's ''Time Warp Trio'' series.

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== [[Western Animation]] ==

* ''[[Totally Spies]]'': "Stuck in the Middle Ages with You".

* ''[[The Tick]]'' and Arthur were stuck millions of years ago for quite a while and got mixed up with time-travellers from the future who were exploiting the Australiopithecenes as resort help.

* ''[[The Tick (animation)]]'' and Arthur were stuck millions of years ago for quite a while and got mixed up with time-travellers from the future who were exploiting the Australiopithecenes as resort help.

* Inverted with [[Samurai Jack]]. Aku rips open a portal in time and flings the protagonist into the future, where he must find a way to return to the past to undo the temporal damage done by said villain.

* ''[[Young Justice]]'': Bart Allen, the future grandson of Barry Allen, the second Flash, got hit with this at the end of "Bloodlines". {{spoiler|Then it's revealed that he knew it was a one-way trip, and he didn't care, because he didn't consider the [[Bad Future]] he lives in worth coming back to.}}