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* How [[Time Travel]] works in [[Umlaut House]], as Volair explained to his future son [http://maskedretriever.com/uh/d/20030624.html here]:

{{quote|Volair: "You can't change the future, Pierce. Past, future, it all fits together like a big, freaky jigsaw."

Volair: "No, but I will if you tell me the date you're from." }}

* A borderline example in ''[[Nodwick]]''. Zorion [http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/gamespyarchive/index.php?date=2006-12-20 visited] the future and was upset to see there's only [[Dung Ages]] and [http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/gamespyarchive/index.php?date=2007-01-10 a crater] instead of his hometown now. [http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/gamespyarchive/index.php?date=2007-04-04 How] this could happen, indeed?

** Xanatos uses this to his advantage. He gives two period coins to the Illuminati, along [[Write Back to the Future|with a letter]]. The coins are like pennies in the past, but by the present they're very valuable and are the coins that started his fortune. The letter of course, is to tell him to do just that.

** Later, Goliath attempts to use the time-travelling Phoenix Gate to save Griff from being killed during the Blitz in WWII London, after being accused of abandoning or murdering Griff by his companions. With incident after increasingly improbable incident occurring that indicates the universe has decided Griff is its new [[Chew Toy]], Goliath ultimately concludes that fate will not allow Griff to get home and uses the Phoenix Gate to bring Griff back with him to the present, thus causing his original disappearance.

** Goliath winds up in a [[Bad Future]] (really [[All Just a Dream]]), and Elisa keeps egging Goliath on to use the Phoenix Gate to fix things. This is a hint that Elisa isn't what she seems, as by now, she should know how the Gate works.

* Used on an episode of ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]''. Brainiac 5 imports heroes from the past because history mentioned an incident where heroes traveled to the future. He tries to avoid mentioning how it turned out, of course, just to be sure things go the way they're supposed to, with only two of the three returning.

** {{spoiler|Nobody dies. Supergirl just decided to stay in the future.}}

* In the ''[[Darkwing Duck]]'' episode "Paraducks", Gosalyn warns Darkwing not to interfere into the past when they went back in time to his childhood. At first he doesn't and returns to the present, only to find that S.H.U.S.H. doesn't exist, the King, a two bit thug from Darkwing's childhood has taken over St. Canard and he serves as the King's cowardly lackey, never became Darkwing Duck. They go back and time and shut down the King for good and give little Drakey Mallard (Darkwing) the courage he needed.

* Somewhat subverted in the ''[[Invader Zim]]'' episode "Bad, Bad Rubber Piggy" had Zim send a robot rubber piggy into Dib's past at crucial points to kill him, only he survives by an inch each time (though everytime he comes close to death he's given robotic body parts from his father due to losing his own) and after many mishaps, he sends a piggy to the past to warn him not to send any piggies to the past in the first place. Unfortunately the premise of the piggies was they replaced something in the timeline they're sent to and one replaces Zim's brain at the end.

* In ''[[Powerpuff Girls]]'' Mojo Jojo goes to the past to kill the adolescent Professor Utonium before he can create the Girls. The Girls pursue him. It turns out that in the past Professor was a lazy ass and a bully with no interest in becoming a scientist and creating the Girls, if it wasn't for Mojo's interference and the consequent encounter with and rescue by the Girls that gave him inspiration.

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