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'''The Doctor:''' Then, don't step on any butterflies. [[Comically Missing the Point|What have butterflies ever done to you?]]|''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'', "The Shakespeare Code"}}
A key element in a lot of stories with [[Time Travel]] is the character's knowledge, or lack thereof, of [[Temporal Mutability|how time travel works]]. Is the world [[You Already Changed the Past|deterministic]]? Is time [[
This trope occurs when the plot hinges on the fact that the characters ''think'' they know how time travel works in their world, but they are mistaken.
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[[You Already Changed the Past]] can be an instance of this, if the characters in question are mistakenly confident that they could [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]] (as opposed to just uncertain).
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== Comic Books ==
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Wakfu (Animation)|Wakfu]]'' gives us {{spoiler|Nox}}, whose goal is to [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]]. {{spoiler|[[Alas, Poor Villain|Unfortunately for him]], time travel within the World of Twelve not only consumes ridiculous amounts of power, it quite possibly tears holes in the universe as well.}}
* Dinobot in ''[[Beast Wars (Animation)|Beast Wars]]'' fears that [[You Already Changed the Past]] is in effect, rendering all of his choices meaningless. Then Megatron proves that you ''can'' change the past and watch the future change with it, which drives the plot from that point on.
* In the episode "Paraducks", Gosalyn advises [[Darkwing Duck]] to not interfere when they get sent back in time to his childhood. Back to the present, and the city's held in the grip of a crime lord. Turns out they were in the middle of a [[Stable Time Loop]] instead..
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