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Can be <s>[[Justified Trope|justified]]</s> [[Handwaved]] by having a [[Delayed Ripple Effect]].
 
See also [[Meanwhile in Thethe Future]]. Compare to [[Excellent Adventure]].
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* In [[Chrono Trigger (Video Game)|Chrono Trigger]] if you visit the pre-historic time period, and then beat the game without causing the humans to defeat the Reptites, will give you an ending where the Reptites became the dominant species on the planet. However, beating the game before landing in that time period, that future doesn't come to pass, implying that simply landing in the past causes the Reptites to win.
** In fact, the "World of Reptites" ending isn't caused by the landing in the past, but by the fact that to beat Lavos at this moment, you'll have to take Ayla with you; and, since she's the most skilled human fighter and the only one who would attack the Reptite headquarters...
** Also, it is implied that the Gate Key incident may have motivated the Reptites to attack Laruba village and get very serious. If Crono and co. never arrived in 65 million BC, that never would have happened.
* The main plotline of ''[[Mario and Luigi Partners In Time (Video Game)|Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time]]''. Aliens invade the past Mushroom Kingdom, causing mass destruction and taking over the castle... but the only effect this has on the present Mushroom Kingdom is the time portals that suddenly appear in the otherwise-intact castle.
** Technically, the time holes appeared due to an unrelated event that was nonetheless destined to happen so that the bros could travel back in time in the first place. Specifically, from [[Layman's Terms|timey machine go boom.]]
* In the various Caverns Of Time instances in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', the players' goal is preserving some event in Azeroth's history the way it should be, by defeating The Infinite.
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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.
** 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.
* ''[[Time Squad]]'' had a similar gimmick; they lampshaded it through [[It Runs Onon Nonsensoleum|Nonsenseoleum]] by saying that, in the future, time has gotten old and worn-out, so somebody has to patch it up.
* Time travel in ''[[Gargoyles (Animation)|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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