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== Western Animation == |
== Western Animation == |
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* The trope name comes from ''Peabody's Improbable History'', a [[Three Shorts|segment]] on ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]''. In every episode, Peabody and Sherman would visit a historical personage with some problem that kept them from doing what they were supposed to do historically, and help them with it. |
* The trope name comes from ''Peabody's Improbable History'', a [[Three Shorts|segment]] on ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]''. In every episode, Peabody and Sherman would visit a historical personage with some problem that kept them from doing what they were supposed to do historically, and help them with it. |
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** In the first appearance of this segment, it is explained that a straight-up [[Time Machine]] is actually rather boring since [[In the Past Everyone Will Be Famous|not everyone in the past is famous.]] So, Mr. Peabody invented a "Should-Have-Been" machine to ensure that his trips will be interesting rather than historically accurate. |
** In the first appearance of this segment, it is explained that a straight-up [[Time Machine]] is actually rather boring since [[In the Past Everyone Will Be Famous|not everyone in the past is famous.]] So, Mr. Peabody invented a "Should-Have-Been" machine to ensure that his trips will be interesting rather than historically accurate. (Which leads to [[Unfortunate Implications]] when they meet Native Americans and convince them to [[Values Dissonance|let the European colonizers win]].) |
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* ''[[Time Squad]]'' had a similar gimmick; they lampshaded it through [[It Runs on Nonsensoleum|Nonsenseoleum]] by saying that, in the future, time has gotten old and worn-out, so somebody has to patch it up. |
* ''[[Time Squad]]'' had a similar gimmick; they lampshaded it through [[It Runs on Nonsensoleum|Nonsenseoleum]] by saying that, in the future, time has gotten old and worn-out, so somebody has to patch it up. |
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* Time travel in ''[[Gargoyles]]'' works like this. In the first episode to feature it (Vows) Demona shows her younger self the future destruction of the clan. Young Demona rebels and Goliath takes the time travelers back to the present, where nothing has changed. The older Demona confesses that she remembers the night very well and it was that fear that motivated her to do what she did. In another episode (Future Tense) Goliath is able to realize that it is [[All Just a Dream]] because everyone else is trying to convince him that time travel will fix the horrible future they have landed in. |
* Time travel in ''[[Gargoyles]]'' works like this. In the first episode to feature it (Vows) Demona shows her younger self the future destruction of the clan. Young Demona rebels and Goliath takes the time travelers back to the present, where nothing has changed. The older Demona confesses that she remembers the night very well and it was that fear that motivated her to do what she did. In another episode (Future Tense) Goliath is able to realize that it is [[All Just a Dream]] because everyone else is trying to convince him that time travel will fix the horrible future they have landed in. |
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[[Category:Speculative Fiction Tropes]] |
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[[Category:Plots]] |
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