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Why this article was created

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This new article was created to expand the info. available on time travel in science fiction. Tables were created to organize the incredibly long lists available in Time travel in fiction. Info. from Time travel in fiction (specifically in the Science Fiction subtopics) has been reviewed, editied, and copied to this page. We have also updated the lists of media to include more current works, added information about the significance of time travel in the science fiction genre, and expanded the explanation of how time travel in science fiction differs from time travel in fantasy. Time Flyer 24:24, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Proposed name change

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You might want to consider renamining this article to remove the emphasis on science fiction. For instance references to the likes of Donny Darko, Austin Powers in Goldmember and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban fit quite well into this article, but none of those is science fiction. --Tony Sidaway 14:51, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

This article was created because the original article, Time travel in fiction, was getting too inclusive, so I think it would be counter-productive to change the title of this article so as to include the entries you suggest. And even beyond that, I think that this article, and the Time travel in fiction article, are both misguided and need to be seriously re-thought, i.e. we need better definitions of what we're trying to accomplish in these articles. --Buckley (talk) 05:45, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Disagree about '12 Monkeys' entry

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I don't agree with the description of the plot of Twelve Monkeys - James Cole DOES succeed in changing the past : the plot of the film was trying to discover who started an epidemic that killed billions of people - Cole finds the perpetrator as he is getting on a plane to start spreading the virus. In the last scene we see the woman from the future who kept sending Cole back sitting next to him on the plane, he asks her what she does ands she smiles viciously and says "I'm in insurance" - the implication being that she's there to insure he fails, and the world is saved. Eliot (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 11:47, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

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Time travel in non-SF?

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why is this a seperate article from Time travel in fiction? Doesn't time-travel automatically make a story SF, in the broad definition? As it is mostly a list, perhaps it should be called "list of xxx", with any other info merged into the broader article? Anyway, i tagged it for now.Yobmod (talk) 12:03, 14 May 2008 (UTC)


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  • Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau's El Anacronópete (1887) is the first to introduce a machine for time travel.
  • The Chronic Argonauts (1888) by H. G. Wells is a very close second, and the precursor to Wells' The Time Machine (1895), considered the defining literary masterpiece of the genre. As in Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward (1888), in which the protagonist falls into a slumber and wakes up in the future, the time travelers here are observers whose interactions at different points of time have no impact on altering history.
  • The short stories "By His Bootstraps" (1941) and “All You Zombies—” (1959) by Robert A. Heinlein include elaborate demonstrations of causal loops, sometimes referred to as predestination paradoxes. Heinlein also uses time travel in some of his other books, such as Time Enough for Love and To Sail Beyond the Sunset.
  • The short story "A Sound of Thunder" (1952) by Ray Bradbury deals with tiny changes in the distant past producing larger cumulative effects in the present (a.k.a. the Butterfly effect).
  • "Up the Line" (1969), a novella by Robert Silverberg, centers on time tourists, their guides, and the resultant paradoxes. Time police are charged with preventing travelers from tampering with history as well as with punishing those who do. The time travel devices are powered by phlogiston.
  • Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), a novel by Kurt Vonnegut, tells the story of a man who has become "unstuck in time", shifting between various points in his life, including the present living with his family, the past during the bombing of Dresden in World War II, and the future living on the planet Tralfamadore as a zoo specimen studied by aliens. The aliens exist in all times simultaneously, and are capable of perceiving all events in the past, present, and future.
  • Chronocules (1970) by David G. Compton tells the story of Penheniot Experimental Research Village, established to develop time travel to escape the crumbling of society into a "better" future.
  • In Time and Again (1970), From Time to Time (1995), and The Third Level by Jack Finney, the characters use hypnosis as a means of time travel.
  • A highly detailed treatment of time travel is to be found in The Man Who Folded Himself (1973) by David Gerrold.
  • 12:01 PM (1973) is a short story based on the concept of a "time loop", with its central character being the only one aware of it.
  • "The Very Slow Time Machine" (1978) is a short story by Ian Watson advancing the notion of quantized time. To be transported into the future you must travel backward through time by an equal amount to 'accumulate hindward potential'.
  • Timescape, a 1980 novel by Gregory Benford, tells the story of a group of scientists in the future who use tachyons to try to warn scientists in the past about an ecological disaster.
  • In Thrice Upon a Time (1980) by James P. Hogan, messages can be sent backward in time causing the timeline from which the message was sent to cease to exist.
  • In A Rebel In Time (1983) by Harry Harrison, a US government installation based time machine is misused with the intention of enabling the Confederacy to manufacture Sten submachine guns.
  • In Caballo de Troya a U.S. Military man reports to the narrator how he was sent back in time to observe the life of Jesus Christ.
  • In TimeWars (1984) by Simon Hawke the story involves the adventures of an organization tasked with protecting history from being changed by time travelers.
  • In "Lightning" (1988) by Dean Koontz Nazi researchers experiment with time travel. After performing a good deed in the future, one of the time agents finds himself waging a private battle against his own SS squad using the weapons of the future and the help of an unlikely ally.
  • In "Ripples in the Dirac Sea" (1988) by Geoffrey A. Landis (Nebula Award, 1989), a physicist creates a means of time travel using concepts from Dirac's theory of the quantum field. In this version of the time travel paradox, all changes made by the time traveler are erased when the time traveler returns to the present.
  • In the novella "The Langoliers" — from the collection Four Past Midnight by Stephen King — a group of people travels back in time aboard an airplane.
  • In The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers, a 20th century millionaire has discovered the existence of gates that allow people to travel through time, but are only open at certain places and times. The protagonist accompanies him on an expedition to 17th century London to meet Coleridge, but becomes enmeshed in a wildly tangled and comical plot.
  • Beauty (1991) by Sheri Tepper retells the classic fairytales of Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella, with the involvement of a time-traveling documentary crew who brings Beauty back with them to a dystopian future.
  • Connie Willis won Hugo and Nebula Awards for Doomsday Book (1992). The plot features a time traveler from 2048 who travels back to the 14th century. Time travel in the novel is limited by a law of physics that prevents the traveler from landing in a place or time in which they could encounter a "grandfather" paradox and so travelers often find themselves quite far from the place or time they aimed for. The same universe of time travelling historians is featured in To Say Nothing of the Dog (1997).
  • The Guns of the South (1992) by Harry Turtledove takes place in an alternate history of North America during and after the American Civil War, caused by South African white supremacists who travel back in time to supply the Confederacy with AK-47 assault rifles.
  • The Time Ships (1995), by Stephen Baxter is considered to be the sequel to The Time Machine (1895) by H. G. Wells and is officially authorized by the Wells estate to mark the centenary of the original publication. In its wide-ranging narrative, the Traveler's desire to return and rescue Weena is thwarted by the fact that he has changed history (by telling his tale to his friends, one of whom published the account). With a Morlock (in the new history, the Morlocks are intelligent and cultured) he travels through the multiverse as increasingly complicated timelines unravel around him, eventually meeting mankind's far future descendants, whose ambition is to travel into the multiverse of multiverses. Like much of Baxter's work, this is definitely hard science fiction; it also includes many nods to the prehistory of Wells' story in the names of characters and chapters.
  • Timequake (1996) by Kurt Vonnegut contains a theme of free will versus determinism.
  • Paratime by H. Beam Piper. A series of short stories dealing with the concept of lateral time travel and alternate realities.
  • Timeline (1999) by Michael Crichton describes time travel in great detail. The book was made into a movie in 2004, with much of the science explanation missing.
  • The Counting Up, Counting Down (2002) collection by Harry Turtledove includes "Counting Up" and "Counting Down" which are paired short stories of time travel from the twin perspectives of a man who travels back in time to make sure his relationship with his girlfriend at the time lasts, and his younger self.
  • John Birmingham's Axis of Time trilogy (2004-present) begins when a futuristic military task-force is accidentally transported from 2021 to 1942. The novels deal with a rapidly altered version of World War II, and to a lesser extent the social changes that result amongst the Allied powers.
  • Romain Sardou's novel The Spark of God (2004 - Original French title: L'Eclat de Dieu) describes the First crusade and the beginning of the Knights Templar set in the future. The book is also a compelling analysis of the concept of time through ages and civilizations. It includes Uchronie, and time travel with Knights Templar legends.
  • "Pen Pal" (2004) by Lou Antonelli demonstrates causal loops within one man's life in a narrative told in reverse chronological order from the future to the past. Published by Revolution Science Fiction in July 2004, the short story was recognized with an honorable mention in The Year's Best Science Fiction (2005) published by St. Martin's Press, New York, N.Y.
  • The Didymus Contingency (2006) by Jeremy Robinson tells the tale of an atheist who travels back in time in order to prove Jesus a fraud. The book also discusses whether or not the past can truly be changed.
  • The Plot To Save Socrates (2006) by Paul Levinson tells of an attempt by time travelers from 2042 to prevent the philosopher from consuming the hemlock.
  • In The Dechronization of Sam Magruder by George Gaylord Simpson, the eminent paleontologist, a 22nd-century scientist is accidentally sent back in time to the Cretaceous Period, where he must spend the rest of his life alone.
  • "End of an Era," by Robert J. Sawyer, sends two scientists back to study the extinction of the dinosaurs." —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yobmod (talk • contribs) 12:19, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Humor

The number of novels that fall into the category of time-travel/humor is limited.

Romance

Time-travel romances focus on the relationship between two people, one of whom is usually "lost in time".

  • Outlander by Diana Gabaldon is considered to have popularized the time-travel romance genre.
  • In The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, the hero suffers from a genetic condition called "Chrono-impairment", which causes him to travel involuntarily through time.
  • Bid Time Return (1975) by Richard Matheson is the novel on which the film Somewhere in Time is based. The novel was subsequently re-released under the film's title.
  • In The Last Cavalier by Heather Graham, a Confederate cavalry officer is mysteriously transported to the present, where he meets a young widow at a Civil War reenactment.
  • In Son of the Morning by Linda Howard, Grace St. John, an expert in ancient languages, travels to 14th century Scotland.

Children's fiction

Time travel is an occasional theme in children's fiction. Stories tend to fall into four types:

  • Magical time travel through a device such as a door or a window which tends to overlap with the ghost story to feature spooky and/or poignant elements. These stories tend to feature the past or present, rarely the future, and only two time periods. Examples include The Time Warp Trio.
  • The time-displaced person, often, again, tending to involve the past or the present.
  • Straight forward adventures in history-style books intended to teach children about history and provide diversion. Examples include The Magic Tree House.
  • The time travel adventure story which tends to involve the same elements as adult's time where some time travel adds extra spice and, generally, fiction involving many of the same concerns as adult science fiction such as time loops and time paradoxes. Examples include Danny Dunn, Time Traveler.


Supernatural time travel

Time-displaced person

Adventures in history

Time travel adventure

And List of Films from fiction article

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  • There have been three adaptations of The Time Machine (1960, 1978 and 2002).
  • In Beyond the Time Barrier (1960), a United States Air Force experimental aircraft reaches 5000 mph (8000 km/h) and breaks a "time barrier", sending the pilot into a plague-ridden future
  • In La Jetée (1962), the hero is haunted by a memory from his childhood, which turns out to be himself as an adult. (La Jetée — a movie short — was the basis of the full-length feature 12 Monkeys, 1995, described below.)
  • In Superman (1978), the Man of Steel, in an attempt to effectively resurrect the deceased Lois Lane, flies into outer space and circles the Earth at the speed of light, transporting himself backwards in time to a point just before an earthquake caused by Lex Luthor. He then arrived in time to save Lois from death.
  • In the Richard Donner cut of Superman II (1978/1980/2006), the Man of Steel again traveled backwards in time using the same method, but this time to prevent both the destruction of the USA by the three Kryptonian villains (Zod, Ursa, and Non), and Lois Lane from discovering Superman's identity (Note: This was per the original shooting script before it was revised by director Richard Lester for the film's eventual theatrical release.).
  • Time After Time (1979) includes a fictionalized H.G. Wells as the time traveler.
  • In The Final Countdown (1980), a storm (evidently a form of time displacement) transports a nuclear warship from the 1980s to the 1940s.
  • In Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swan (1982), the hero travels by means of "time cannons".
  • In The Philadelphia Experiment (1984) — based on urban legends and conspiracy theories surrounding what is known as The Philadelphia Experiment — sailors in a 1943 experiment travel 41 years forward in time.
  • In Back to the Future trilogy
    • Back to the Future (1985), time travel is achieved by means of a De Lorean time machine. Marty McFly intervenes in his parents' first meeting and prevents them from falling in love, placing his own existence in danger. Thus, the film presents a version of the grandfather paradox. In another instance of the grandfather paradox, when Marty tries to "go back early and warn [Doc Brown]," the De Lorean loses power, keeping the returning Marty from interfering in his original trip back to 1955. Luckily, Doc Brown had retaped the warning note that he had previously torn up, allowing him to survive the terrorist assault.
    • Back to the Future Part II (1989), Marty has to undo a mistake that was made by retrieving an object from the future.
    • Back to the Future Part III (1990)), Marty has to prevent the untimely death of Doc Brown.
  • In The Terminator (1984), John Connor sends Kyle Reese back in time to protect John's mother, Sarah from a deadly robot (the Terminator). This type of time travel technology can only send organic beings or things that mimic organics. However, Kyle falls in love with Sarah and ends up fathering John, the man who sent him back. Thus, the film provides an example of a causal loop, as well as a perfect example of violating the grandfather paradox. In the sequels Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), the future can be changed and this causes a number of potential paradoxes.
  • Masters of the Universe (1987), a villain used a camcorder-like gadget which could show what actually happened in the past hour or so, and an inventor used harmonics to open up wormholes not only between dimensions but within the timestream of the same dimension, allowing the heroine (a young Courteney Cox) to save her parents from dying in a plane accident.
  • The short story 12:01 PM was adapted into a short film in 1990 and into a feature-length television movie in 1993.
  • Doctor Who: The Movie (1996) involves the Doctor in his eighth incarnation in his second-to-final known showdown with the Master.
  • Star Trek films including time travel:
  • Timecop (1994) also includes a prohibition against changing the past. The Time Enforcement Agency is specifically formed to prevent such alterations. This causes a dilemma for the hero, Max Walker (Jean-Claude van Damme), who is charged with preventing time-traveler's from altering time, but is tempted to do so himself to prevent his wife's death. He later learns her death is the result of another's meddling with past events, allowing him to save her and their unborn child.
  • In 12 Monkeys (1995), James Cole (Bruce Willis) tries to change the past but cannot, suggesting it runs on the principle of a fixed timeline (the Novikov self-consistency principle).[citation needed]
  • The complex plot of Donnie Darko (2001) invites multiple interpretations for its model of time travel.
  • In Timequest (2002), a group of time travelers use a time machine to travel back in time to 1963 to prevent the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas, Texas.
  • In A Sound of Thunder, a person that goes on a dinosaur hunt ends up altering the future by stepping on a butterfly.
  • In The Butterfly Effect (2004), small changes to the past affect the character's life in unexpected ways, an illustration of chaos theory.
  • The time machine in Primer (2004) is a rather limited one, since the user must spend as much time in the machine as they want to go back, and it can only go back to the time it was originally turned on.
  • Timeline (2004) is an adaptation of the book by Michael Crichton, although it omits much of the scientific detail. The plot has an example of a causal loop.
  • Deja Vu (2006) shows a detective who goes back to save lives from a terrorist explosion.
  • In Click (2006) Michael Newman is given a Universal Remote Control that allows him to rewind & fast forward the universe.
  • Next (2007) is a film where the main character can see two minutes into the future.

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and list of SF in televistsion

Television

[[:Image:Doctorwhotitles2007.jpg|thumb|Doctor Who (1963–1989, 2005–).]] Several television series use time travel as integral to their central theme:

  • Doctor Who (1963–1989, 2005–) Adventures of The Doctor, a Time Lord, as he travels through time and space randomly in his TARDIS, ending up having to solve a problem, from fixing a slight malfunction in something, to saving the universe.
  • The Time Tunnel (1966–1967)
  • Catweazle by Richard Carpenter (1970)
  • Voyagers! (1982–1983)
  • Quantum Leap (1989–1993)
  • Time Trax (1993–1994)
  • Goodnight Sweetheart (1993–1999) was a series in which the show's main character was having an affair with someone from the 1940s, whilst being happily married to someone in the present.
  • Beast Wars (1996–1999) The disgruntled descendants of the beaten Decepticons, the Predacons, go back in time in an attempt to destroy the Maximals (resulting automatically in the deaths of their descendants, the Autobots) and thus change history in their favor.
  • Gargoyles (1994-1997) The mystic artifact, The Phoenix Gate, a medallion crafted on the Isle of Avalon, allowed the bearer to will themselves to any place and point in time by reciting an incantation in Latin. However in the Gargoyles universe "time is like a river, correcting its course against any change", meaning that what has happened has happened and you may take part but no time-line alterations before the present are possible. Only travel into the past occurred. 'Future Tense' not withstanding.
  • Crime Traveller (1997)
  • Timecop (TV series) (1997)
  • Sailor Moon R (1993) Usagi's future daughter Chibi-Usa travels to the past to try to save her mother by finding the silver crystal. She also forms a friendship bond with her mother's past self.
  • Seven Days (1998-2001) The characters could only travel backwards, one week at a time.
  • Mirai Sentai Timeranger (2001)
  • Time Squad (2001-2003) A trio travels back in time to correct historical anomalies.
  • That Was Then (2002)
  • Xiaolin Showdown (2003) - Time After Time (Parts 1 and 2) In this two-part episode, Omi decides to go back in time to stop Hannibal Roy Bean from turning Chase Young to the Heylin side.
  • Popotan (2003) Three sisters, a ferret and their robot maid/bodyguard Mea living in a mansion that dematerializes and reappears in different locations five years into the future. The three sisters were unaware of the time travel, assuming they were just moving in space not time. It's only after one of the sisters and their robot maid got left behind once that they become aware of it. (Anime)
  • Strange Days at Blake Holsey High (2002–2006)
  • Odyssey 5 (2002–2004)
  • Time Warp Trio (2005–)
  • Etheria (2005)
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! Dawn of the Duel (2005–2006)
  • Life on Mars (2006–2007)
  • Kamen Rider Den-O (2007–2008)
  • Sapphire & Steel
  • Samurai Jack
  • Phil of the Future A time-travelling family from the future gets stuck in the present when their time machine breaks down.
  • Tru Calling
  • American Dragon Jake Long: Hero of the Hourglass - In this episode of the popular Disney Channel cartoon, Jake Long uses an ancient amulet to travel back in time and reveal the truth about his family to his father, the truth being that Jake, his sister, his mother, and all his mother's relatives are a family of dragons and their descendants.
  • Primeval (TV series), a 2007 miniseries on ITV which involves a team of palaeontologists attempting to fight prehistoric creatures (e.g. Gorgonops) or in one case animals from the future (the Predator) that enter through time portals to the present day.
  • Prehistoric Park, an ITV program which involves zoologist Nigel Marven travelling back in time into the Cretaceous, Pleistocene, Pliocene, and Carboniferous periods to obtain samples of living prehistoric animals for a Jurassic Park-style animal park.
  • Journeyman (2007-), an NBC drama which involves a man from the present day randomly travelling back to the past in order to help others during key points in their own lives; early in the series the protagonist discovers he is not the only one who is time-travelling.
  • The 4400 (2004-2007) features time travel as an integral aspect of the series' plot. Exactly four thousand four hundred people are mysteriously abducted at various points in time during the 20th century and are all spontaneously returned instantly in 2004 without having aged a day and each displaying strange new powers. Several factions within the series suggest that these 4400 individuals are meant to stop a great catastrophe in the near future, yet others suggest that they are the cause of this catastrophe.
  • Histeria! (1998)

In addition, time travel can be used as an occasional device in an ongoing series, such as the following:

  • In Lost, it is eventually revealed that exposure to high levels of radiation or electromagnetism can cause someone to become "unstuck" in time, resulting in the person's consciousness travelling back and forth within their own lifetime. After the events of "Live Together, Die Alone", the character of Desmond Hume begins having glimpses of the future and at one point seems to travel back to his own past. In the episode "The Constant" Desmond begins travelling back and forth between 1996 and 2004, and relying on the help of physicist Daniel Faraday in both the present and the future. It is in that episode that Faraday reveals to the other characters (and to the audience) the definite existence of time travel and how is works.
  • In the French Animated series Code Lyoko, a return in time is used after a tower has been deactivated, Jeremy enters a code into the supercomputer and says "Return to The Past Now"; a jet of white light then erupts from the supercomputer and engulfs the planet causing it to return in time. This process can take people back to about a day in the past, only people who have used the scanners can recall any events before the time reversion. This is used repeatedly through the series. Injuries and scars are healed - however, the dead cannot return to life.
  • The five-year story arc of the TV series Babylon 5 (1993–1998) contained a long-term time-travel story, surrounding the disappearance of the titular station's immediate predecessor, Babylon 4. The effects of this time-travel story are important cornerstones of the series, but cannot be fully understood for a number of seasons. While the disappearance of Babylon 4 is mentioned in the pilot episode Babylon 5: The Gathering and the station reappears later in the first season ("Babylon Squared"), it is not until near the end of year three ("War Without End") that the plot is resolved.
  • Doraemon is about a robotic cat named Doraemon who travels to Nobita's era via a time machine accessible only in the drawer of Nobita's desk. He and Nobita often use the time machine to travel to other eras (for example, to unsuccessfully attempt to capture a dinosaur or to see the latter's future wife and child).
  • Philip J. Fry of Futurama (1999-2003) is a 20th century man cryogenized into the 31st century. While the initial incident does not actually involve time travel, further along the series, he travels back in time to the Roswell Incident ("Roswell That Ends Well"). He also must later ensure his cryogenisis by recreating the incident ("The Why Of Fry"). In the movie Futurama: Bender's Big Score, Bender is able to travel in time using the binary code 001100 010010 011110 100001 101101 110011.
  • In the Justice League episodes "The Savage Time" and Hereafter, the first episode moves backward in time to the 1940s and the second forward 30,000 years. In the Justice League Unlimited episodes 'The Once And Future Thing (parts 1 & 2)' and 'Far From Home', part 1 of the first episode goes backward to 'the old west' and part 2 forward to when the Batman Beyond series is set; whilst the second goes forward to a very distant future to a time when the 'Legion Of Superheroes' exist. It should note that Green Lantern John Stewart has been in all episodes except 'Hereafter', and has shown a dislike of time travel.
  • Red vs. Blue (2001 - 2007). In the season 3 episode "Make Your Time" a bomb explosion causes a temporal rift in time (and "destroys the present", according to characters later on) that sends the Reds, the Blues and their enemies forward in time to the far future (where "things are very shiny") while sending the character Church to the past. Church discovers that he is part of a predestination paradox that caused most of the events of the first two seasons, gets caught in a time loop (while trying to stop the bomb from detonating) where he interacts with dozens of future selves who have failed to stop the bomb and been blown back in time along with the original Church, and eventually ends the loop by standing with the Reds and Blues when the bomb goes off and being blown into the future along with them. After this storyline concludes the characters remain in the future, though the do return to the future version of Blood Gulch, and resume much of their old behaviors despite the differences between their old time and new. In season 5, a character from the Reds and Blues' original time joins the series (which was explained using Minkowski space theory).
  • Rocky & Bullwinkle's (1959–1964) "Wayback machine"
  • Red Dwarf (1988-1999)
  • Space:1999 (1975-1976) In the season one episode "Another Time, Another Place", the crew of Moonbase Alpha encounter their future selves on a near desolate planet earth.
  • The Simpsons (1989-present) In "Treehouse of Horror V", Homer J. Simpson travels back in time using a broken toaster and comically demonstrates the butterfly effect.
  • The Girl from Tomorrow (1990) and The Girl from Tomorrow Part II: Tomorrow's End (1993)
  • Power Rangers (1993-Present)
  • Star Trek
  • The Tomorrow People (1973–1979)
    • The Medusa Strain Peter the Time Guardian is rescued from captivity in the 26th century when the corrupt robot Jedikiah is brought about the ship where he is imprisoned, causing the Tomorrow People in the 20th century to become involved.
    • A Rift in Time Peter returns to enlist the Tomorrow People's aid in preventing British Roman history from being subverted by giving the secret of the steam engine to ancient Roman soldiers 13 hundred years too early.
  • Dragon Ball Z (1996-2003US) The Character Trunks travels back in time to change the past and make sure a future dictator does not rise to power, it is later discovered, that though the past was changed, the change caused a timeline split, meaning that nothing had changed in the future he came from. See types of time travel section 1.3.
  • Sabrina The Teenage Witch (1996-2003)
  • South Park (1997-present)
  • Stargate SG-1 (1997-present)
    • 1969 - SG-1 travels back to 1969 as well as briefly to the future.
    • Moebius (parts 1 & 2) - The SG-1 travels back to Ancient Egypt, 3000 B.C.
  • Charmed (1998-2006)
  • Family Guy (1999-2002, 2005-present)
  • Farscape (1999-2003). In the episode "Kansas", John Crichton and the crew of Moya travel through a wormhole to Earth in the year 1985 — 14 years before the events of the series. Crichton discovers that history has somehow been altered and his father Jack (alive in the regular timeline) is now the captain of the doomed Challenger space shuttle mission. The previous episode ("Unrealized Reality") stated that in the Farscape universe the timeline is flexible, and minor changes can occur without disrupting the timeline as long as nothing major or paradoxical happens. To that end, Crichton manufactures an incident where the young version of himself is trapped in a burning building and Jack rescues him, missing the Challenger mission to stay by his son's side and thereby fixing the timeline. Also in the episode Chiana seduces the young Crichton and has sex with him, but uses Noranti's memory-altering powder to remove the memory of the event from young Crichton and replace it with the one that adult Crichton remembers, preventing adult Crichton from even discovering what happened.
  • SpongeBob SquarePants (1999-present)
  • Inuyasha (2000-2004). In this series, Kagome continuously travels to feudal Japan to aid the title character. Sometimes, it may be the other way around.
  • Invader Zim (2001) In the episode "Bad, Bad Rubber Piggy", Zim uses a time travel replacement device to try and kill his human arch enemy so he could take over the Earth without any inteferance from Dib.
  • The Fairly OddParents (2001)
  • The Powerpuff Girls (2001) Two episodes involve time travel. First, in the episode "Speed Demon", the Girls move so fast on a race home that they travel 50 years into the future, a time long enough for the satanic figure "Him" to conquer the city of Townsville, where the Girls live. In another, "Get Back Jojo", arch-enemy Mojo Jojo uses one of Professor Utonium's machines to travel back in time to the point where the Professor got interested in science in order to stop the creation of the Powerpuff Girls. Ironically, he ends up responsible for their creation in the first place.
  • Star Trek: Enterprise (2001-2005) Besides the usual assortment of time-travel stories, the first three seasons reference a Temporal Cold War where extraterrestrials from the far future involved the starship in various manipulations of "past" (current to the regular characters) events.
  • Stargate Atlantis (2004-present)
  • Catscratch (2005)
  • The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (2006) Though no actual time travel is done in the anime series, Mikuru, one of the main characters, is a time traveler; her future self also appears in an episode. In the Light Novels, she and the narrator, Kyon return to and alter one date multiple times.
  • Heroes (2006-) One of the central metapowered characters, Hiro Nakamura, is able to manipulate time and space, using it to travel to New York City of several weeks in the future, to travel back in time six months (albeit accidentally) in an attempt to save a woman's life, and to travel back from five years in his own future to warn another character. In the first season finale, Hiro accidentally travels to 17th century Japan, and spends several months with his childhood hero, Takezo Kensei before returning to the present.
  • In Cardcaptor Sakura, the protagonist, Sakura, is able to manipulate time with the use of two clow cards, the Time and the Return. Before being captured, Time caused Sakura to repeat the same day over and over. Return allows her to return to a certain point in the past.
  • The X-Files. In quite a few episodes, specifically "Monday" and "Redrum."
  • Zipang. An anime series about a modern day Japanese naval vessel that gets sent back to World War II Japan.
  • "The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius" (2002-2006) Jimmy has invented three types of time machines. He and his friends have been to the prehistoric era, the 1970s, and the future
  • "Danny Phantom" (2004-2007) Two episodes have used time travel as a theme, both involving "Clockwork". The first, The Ultimate Enemy, has Danny and his friends thrust into a future where Danny has turned evil and laid waste to the world. His older self then goes back to the present to assure that the events leading to his future take place. The second, Masters of All Time, has Danny go back in time to prevent his arch-enemy Vlad from getting his powers. Unfortunately, Jack ends up in Vlad's position, with Vlad instead Maddie's husband, which prompts Danny to attempt to fix it, only to realize he cannot, as there is apparently no ghost portal.
  • Supernatural (2005-) In the episode "Mystery Spot" Sam gets trapped in a time loop where Dean continually dies. After failing many times to save his brother, Sam finds out that the person who put them in the time loop was a Trickster they had faced before. When Sam threatens to kill him, the Trickster ends the loop and allows the brothers to leave, only for Dean to be killed the next day. Distraught, Sam tracks down the Trickster and gets him to fix things by sending him back to before Dean was last killed.

It has also been used for mockumentaries, such as Prehistoric Park.

What about Eugène Mouton?

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The internet says that Eugène Mouton wrote a short story about time travel in 1886, called L’historioscope. The problem is that nowhere is there any information about the plot. Anyone who knows? 80.202.38.38 (talk) 19:16, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

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This novel has more to do with time travel than the other two Douglas Adams books cited here. (It is also, IMO, Adams's finest work ever). I would add it to the list, but I think I'd have a very hard time summarizing it. I had to read it about four times just to be sure of what was going on! Anyone else want to take a shot at it?
--63.25.14.66 (talk) 21:06, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Life on mars and Ashes to ashes

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Do these actually belong in the list of time travel telivision series since they dont actually travel to the past everything that happens is happening in the central characters mind —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.66.131.20 (talk) 13:05, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Anthologies

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How can an a one off outer imits episode fall into 'television series, time travel creates the premise and direction for the plot and/or setting of the show' when this is clearly meant to be about series that have a premise of time travel not (as the categery two designition states) 'other television programs that incorporate time travel in only one, or some of their episodes'. Which clearly is a very good description of the above episode. It seems to me thaqt this has no place in the list, unless we restucture the kist to include anthology show episodes that feature time travel (and that would make for a very long list ).[[Slatersteven (talk) 19:48, 2 May 2009 (UTC)]]

Conflict of interest

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Star Trek film and Time Travel

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Time Travel is integral to the plot of the 2009 Star Trek film, and in fact, without it, there is no alternate timeline plot at all. Before reverting this entry again (it wasn't mine, but it was a good addition) please discuss your reasoning here. - Nhprman 01:44, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Comics

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Would anyone object to the addition of comic book titles that primarily feature time travel as the premise, such as Zero Hour, Chronos, Booster Gold, and earlier Rip Hunter titles? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.225.168.28 (talk) 11:13, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

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Should this film be included? 202.190.153.69 (talk) 23:20, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

Does it involve time travel? Slatersteven (talk) 11:38, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
It does. Well, did you not watch the film? If you did not, you should, then you will know. If you did, you should not have asked whether it involves time travelling or not. Try asking those who have already seen it. :-) Prove: List of games containing time travel#Time travel as a gameplay element, since it is a movie adapted or based from a game. 202.190.153.69 (talk) 09:28, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

Rod Serling and Dan Curtis' Memories Are Pissed

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In the article and discussion section, nothing is mentioned of the DARK SHADOWS TV series. This television show survived on gimmicks exploration into time travel(the time-honored industry "kid trick",) to fix Barnabas Collins' various family curses throughout the centuries. The gimmicks included using the "I Ching" to send Barney back to 1692 to prevent Vicky Winters from being executed as a witch. The next was the "room-to-parallel-time" Collinswood. Finally, to prevent the future destruction of Collinswood, Barney and Julia Hoffman discover Quentin Collins' forgotten Staircase through Time.

Another missing entry to the above roster is, of course SLIDERS, starring JERRY O'CONNEL.(Time travel, parallel and alternate time bands. All are presented here. Lest I forget, Billy Wilder's "IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE", starring James Stewart. Lastly, the "Dean of Sci-Fi Television", RODMAN SERLING and his legendary TWILIGHT ZONE and NIGHT GALLERY series of which one third of the episodes dealt with time travel or alternate realities, a few culled by Serling from feature Sci-Fi movies of the 50's and early 60s. Lastly there is THE OUTER LIMITS (original series). A post-script consideration would be the 60s comedy "It's About Time", about two 60s astromnauts who land in a ridiculous vaudville-like dipiction of prehistoric times. 75.193.63.130 (talk) 04:31, 11 September 2010 (UTC)Veryverser

If you look at the criterai for inclusion you will se that the time travel has to be amjor plot device of the series, not just a feature of some episodes. Aslo alterate reality stories mare not in and of themselves time travel stories, the story would have to actualy feature time travel (such as the second Philly fims).Slatersteven (talk) 13:36, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
Archive 1

Time travel flicks that aren't sci fi ... should the category change to reflect?

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The following films are listed as "time travel" (true) and "science fiction" (arguable):

That's just to name a few. Question: Should the category be changed to include "fantasy" films? 70.15.11.44 (talk) 08:41, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

Let me put it this way, if Dicken's A Christmas Carol is included ANYWHERE on this list, we must include ALL time travel fiction. ... the "science" part in the page title becomes a misnomer, unnecessary, or redundant. 70.15.11.44 (talk) 08:53, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
Agree, but with a comment - we don't include all films, only notable ones. Pedantic, but otherwise we'd just end up with a massive list. I assume you're suggesting a name change to something like "List of time travel fiction"? It's pretty obvious, but you don't actually say so. a_man_alone (talk) 09:22, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
Yes, that title would be fitting. I didn't suggest a particular title alternative because I was merely positing the problem. Solutions come after the parameters of the problem are agreed upon, then a solution can be formulated. But if it's "pretty obvious" then I'll go with what you suggest ... "List of time travel fiction" works.
The other method would be to eliminate all 'non-science' fiction from the list, and given the fuzziness of that particular line, I predict more problems (i.e. edit wars) down that road, rather than if we simply make the list more inclusive. Consider this: What is the purpose of the list? To make a list of exclusively sci-fi time travel, or simply list time travel stories in general? What's more important; covering more time travel fiction or adhering to the sci-fi genre? 70.15.11.44 (talk) 10:46, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
I agree, it wld make life easier to just make this more inclusive.Slatersteven (talk) 13:00, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

InFamous should be in the Time Travel section —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.157.117.2 (talk) 14:16, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Alert: lists of publications in Articles for deletion

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Some lists of books have been added to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. You can find the discussions here. RockMagnetist (talk) 23:06, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Children of the Stones

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Should we include this, thre is no actual time travel, rather a time loop?Slatersteven (talk) 17:38, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

Questions

1/ Mary Shelley's "The Last Man"  ??

2/ It is said : "Missing One's Coach: An Anachronism" is anonymous BUT it looks like 1824 William Austin's Peter Rugg, no ? -- Spiessens 19:53, 5 January 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Spiessens (talk • contribs)

Galaxy Quest 1999

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Omega 13 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.72.219.58 (talk) 06:23, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

Men in Black 3

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Should not this film be included too? 118.107.246.31 (talk) 19:48, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

Not to mention Looper too. 175.137.202.184 (talk) 07:06, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

That Hideous Strength

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Suggest that we remove _That Hideous Strength_ from this list. Merlin does not time travel; rather, he's put in suspended animation and awakes in modern day. His sleeping body is hidden beneath Bragdon Wood and advances through time at the normal rate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.38.252.241 (talk) 06:04, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

WildStar

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Great Page!!!

I noticed that there are a few comics in the list and I was curious if WildStar would qualify?

http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/WildStar

Just for Transparency's sake - I'm the Writer.

I also wrote a Legion Of Super-Heroes spin-off about member Timber Wolf (that was a time travel story) that started in an LOSH Annual and became a Mini Series.

albabe - The Writer/Artist Formally Known as Al Gordon 23:32, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Anyone want to add the rest of the Saga of Pliocene Exile?

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The first book is in the article, but there are at least 6 others to be added. Dougweller (talk) 13:50, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

I'm inclined to think that one book from a series is enough. Robina Fox (talk) 02:03, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

Merge "List of films featuring time loops"

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The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.
No discussion. Going ahead with BOLD merge. BrightRoundCircle (talk) 19:07, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

Proposal to merge list of films featuring time loops into list of time travel science fiction. Reason: overlap. The "time loops" list includes films with no apparent time loop. Efforts to clean up the list (1, 2, 3, 4) were unsuccessful, and entries removed for not being a causal loop / time loop are frequently added back. As such the distinction between those films and general time travel films became blurred, and it would be equally informative to simply merge that list into this list - logically, every time travel film that isn't about travel to a distant galaxy or alternate universe involves a causal loop. Since this list already strays heavily from science fiction (A Christmas Carol, Groundhog Day, several more) the non-science-fiction time travel films from the other list would not be out of place. BrightRoundCircle (talk) 14:09, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Description length & criteria

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This is a list and all entries should be linked. Descriptions should be short, a sentence or two - readers who want more detail should click on the links. And IMHO time travel should be an essential, basic part of any entry, not just something that happens. Dougweller (talk) 09:10, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

I would further add that unless we want to pursue clear other criteria, entries should also be sourced to demonstrate their significance within this genre. DonIago (talk) 15:35, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

About Time

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The film About Time appears in the list, with different write-ups, twice. 31.48.190.42 (talk) 03:35, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

Additions to the list of Time travel in science fiction films

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Another time travel movie: The Yesterday Man (1963) RaynesParkGuy (talk) 08:19, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

The 2008 Thai movie Siyama (aka Siyama: Village of Warriors) could be added to this list. RaynesParkGuy (talk) 20:45, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Flight 1942 (a.k.a. Flight World War II) is a time-travel film that involves crew and passengers of a modern day jet airliner temporarily moving to a parallel universe set in June 1940. RaynesParkGuy (talk) 15:39, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

Heroes Reborn

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The tv series Heroes Reborn feature "Time Travel"

example list of time travel on heroes reborn [1]

example of episode with timetravel [2]

--WiZaRd SaiLoR (talk) 09:44, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

Have any third-party sources discussed this in any detail? DonIago (talk) 15:38, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

Getting unwieldy?

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Should we consider either breaking out the individual lists or rethinking the inclusion criteria for this article? I think it's getting a bit unwieldy myself. DonIago (talk) 19:16, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

Given the lack of response and based on my reading of WP:IPCV, I'll be removing entries with no third-party sourcing on the grounds that they haven't been established as significant works of time travel fiction. Cheers. DonIago (talk) 22:01, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
I'd advise against doing that, Doniago. It's probably smarter to break the sections into their own articles. As many of the articles are transwikied from their own articles, there is a basis that they are already referenced (unless BLP or challenged, but that's another story). If you think the article is growing too cumbersome, split it up, with a a categorical umbrella link. - Jack Sebastian (talk) 23:18, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
Well, I guess that's the question...is this list supposed to contain every instance of time travel in fiction (IMO a violation of WP:IINFO), or should we apply some additional level of inclusion criterion? I'm in favor of the latter, but open to suggestions other than third-party sourcing. DonIago (talk) 03:16, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
I agree that unless the driver of the work of fiction is time travel (eg. the main plot device), it shouldn't be here. Scooby-Doo redo's in Wayne's World doesn't count. Somewhere in Time, or It's About Time, or Time Tunnel does. - Jack Sebastian (talk) 05:05, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

Comic books

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Should this page include comic books that use time travel? Mateussf (talk) 12:05, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

If they're bluelinked or a reliable source can be provided that discusses the time travel aspect of them in some detail, I don't see why not. DonIago (talk) 21:02, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Add

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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams, 1987. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.76.116.104 (talk) 22:11, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

Also add to the Literature section: Enrique Gaspar's El Anacronopete (1887) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.81.209.61 (talk) 00:35, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

L'An 2440, rêve s'il en fût jamais

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L'An 2440, rêve s'il en fût jamais (1770) by Louis-Sébastien Mercier is the oldest work cited on the main time travel page under fiction, and would be the second oldest on our list. Am surprise to see it absent. Renard Migrant (talk) 22:30, 30 June 2018 (UTC)

So add it? DonIago (talk) 16:42, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen

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There is no actual time travel in this book. The closest you come is a brief stay on a floating island where time runs differently (similar to time spent in a fairy hill). Greer Watson (talk) 08:32, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

Jean Ingelow's "Nineteen Hundred and Seventy Two"

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This is notable for its early date, since it appeared in The Little Wonder Horn (1877), a collection of stories for children. On a dark rainy night, the Victorian narrator accidentally boards a railway train from a century in the future, and sees the London of the late twentieth century. Greer Watson (talk) 09:03, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

Do any RS think it is notable?Slatersteven (talk) 12:57, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

Some early examples were eliminated

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In otherwise arguably needed purges of non-notable examples, some of the earliest examples of the genre were eliminated as well:

These include titles mentioned in Time travel § History of the time travel concept -- the 1838 Missing One's Coach: An Anachronism and the 1861 book Paris avant les hommes (Paris before Men) by the French botanist and geologist Pierre Boitard. If the notability is sufficiently established for inclusion in that article (see the references provided there), then surely they should be included in this list as well? —Undomelin (talk) 20:42, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

We just need some RS.Slatersteven (talk) 20:44, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

John Wyndham - Chronoclasm

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John Wyndham's 1956 book of short stories "The Seeds of Time" begins with a tale of the paradoxical consequences of time travel called "Chronoclasm". Features of this story seem very close to plot devices used in the "Back to the Future" film series, in particular the idea of writing a letter to someone to be opened on a particular significant date far in the future to allow a circular time plot to continue. Surely worthy of inclusion? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.64.103.237 (talk) 09:38, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Of course.Slatersteven (talk) 10:34, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
With a bluelink or a RS, sure. DonIago (talk) 21:49, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Inclusion criteria redux...

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This list continues to be problematic. Multiple entries lack sourcing in violation of WP:LISTVERIFY; just recently multiple entries were added, several of which appeared to have little to nothing to do with time travel. I'm open to suggestions for cleaning this list up other than requiring sources, but I don't think it's reasonable or supported by policy to require readers to go to each article to confirm that the work listed does in fact belong on this list. Cheers. DonIago (talk) 16:36, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

I don't suppose anyone would at least care to weigh in on whether films where the form of "time travel" is suspended animation or temporal dilation really constitute time travel works? DonIago (talk) 13:02, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
Well travelling 13 Seconds back in time is neither. I suggest you remove one film at a time. As a few of the films you removed in your mass removal clearly are about people travelling from (for exemple) the past to the present.Slatersteven (talk) 15:10, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

Now to kick of proper discussion, I agree Roman Scandals should be removed, but not Superman "allowing him to travel back in time".Slatersteven (talk) 16:12, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

But is Superman really considered to be a film primarily about time travel, or rather is it a film where time travel is an incidental element? This is one reason why I feel sources should be a requirement. DonIago (talk) 19:26, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
"Works where it plays a prominent role are listed below.", it does not say "primarily about time travel".Slatersteven (talk) 11:58, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
Semantics. Why does time travel play a "prominent role" in Superman when it occurs basically at the end of the film? More broadly, it should not be us declaring when it plays a prominent role, but rather sources. DonIago (talk) 12:57, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
Because plot wise it is highly significant, both because it is foreshadowed earlier with the Waring and because it shows the depths of his feelings for lois. He is willing to risk all to save her life.Slatersteven (talk) 13:00, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
That's you making a judgment call though. I don't think we want to open the door to any editor being allowed to add an entry to this list simply because they feel that time travel plays a "prominent role". I think we should require a source that discusses the time travel element to some degree. DonIago (talk) 13:07, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
like this [[3]]?Slatersteven (talk) 13:18, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
Yes. But I think that needs to be the case for all of the entries in this article. An inclusion criterion of "works where time travel plays a prominent role" should be backed up by sourcing for each entry discussing the prominence that time travel plays in it. That would be consistent with WP:LISTV. If the best argument for including an entry is an editor claiming, without verifiable backup, that time travel is a prominent aspect of the work, then I don't believe that's sufficient. DonIago (talk) 15:21, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
WP:LISTV is an essay, not a policy.Slatersteven (talk) 15:24, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
Agreed. WP:LISTVERIFY is a guideline that I see no reason why we shouldn't be applying here. DonIago (talk) 15:48, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
"It is generally presumed that obviously appropriate material, such as the inclusion of Apple in the List of fruits, does not require an inline citation.", well its hard to see how altering the history of the earth to save the woman you love is not a prominent part of the film. This is why I said its best to ask one film at a time. Some make it clear that without time travel the story would not even exist.Slatersteven (talk) 15:51, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
Yes, and others are less clear, and I've tried to make it obvious that while Superman was a sample item, the concerns are more broad. How many of the entries on the list would you inarguably defend as including time travel as a prominent element? I have neither the interest nor the bandwidth in nitpicking away at single entries. If you're unwilling to agree to my recommendation that sources be required, I invite you to propose your own inclusion criteria. Otherwise, I am happy to reach out to related projects and take other steps to establish a broader consensus as needed. DonIago (talk) 16:25, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
I have already mentioned one other. And that was only in the first 4 of your deletions, do you not see why that is a problem? I am not going to wade through a mass of deletions when in the first 4 50% are questionable.Slatersteven (talk) 16:30, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

I'm not asking you to go through any deletions. I'm asking you: What do you feel are reasonable and enforceable inclusion criteria for this list? You don't appear interested in stipulating that sources be required, so what are you willing to propose instead? DonIago (talk) 16:52, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

According to policy "It is generally presumed that obviously appropriate material, such as the inclusion of Apple in the List of fruits, does not require an inline citation." so where a film features time travel as a significant plot element (I.E. without it the film would be wholly different).Slatersteven (talk) 08:16, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
Firstly, this isn't just a list of films. Secondly, without a source making the claim, how do we establish that time travel is considered to be a significant plot element? Considering we don't even entirely agree on Superman (thankfully we have a source in that case), how would you address this? We should not be leaving it to editorial judgment; that's the very definition of original research. Once we discard "time travel is a significant plot element in this work because I say it is", what's our next best option for ensuring entries on this list in fact belong on it? DonIago (talk) 16:38, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
Well I would say "any film in which time travel drives the plot or has a major impact on the characters". But I think its time for other to chime in, maybe an RFC.Slatersteven (talk) 16:55, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
I still believe that criterion is overly-subjective. In any case, I've requested additional opinions at Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists. DonIago (talk) 17:17, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

  3O Response: Regardless of anything else, if material in an article is actually challenged as potentially inaccurate, it must then be sourced to a reliable reference. The burden of providing that source falls upon the editor who wishes to add or retain the material. Since some of this material has indeed now been challenged, a reliable source for each challenged entry is required, else they must be removed. Sourcing is a requirement, not a nice-to-have. Seraphimblade Talk to me 03:10, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

Thank you Seraphim. As a courtesy, I will wait some time to give editors time to provide sources before I remove any entries on the basis of any belief that they are inappropriate for inclusion on this list. DonIago (talk) 05:15, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

The Shadow Out of Time by H.P. Lovecraft

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The Shadow Out of Time by H.P. Lovecraft is notable enough to be added to the list. Someone please add it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.177.252.20 (talk) 21:11, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

Cashback time travel?

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I don't know how to add movies but the movie Cashback the main character can stop time while he continues to move, age, and be aware of what is going on while the rest of the world is frozen. Would this fit? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.223.107.12 (talk) 16:40, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

TV Additions

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Two television shows probably should be added:

CFLeon (talk) 19:51, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

The first item on your list has an extremely poor article with, I believe, the only citation being to IMDb. I'd like to see some evidence that it's considered notable, the time travel aspect in particular. #2 also has a pretty poor article, but at least it's a series rather than an episode. Still, sources that discuss these would be very helpful. DonIago (talk) 20:06, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
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