This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Working Title: Changing Time Is Illegal: From YKTTW
Servbot: On the Nanoha example, was that when Chrono was talking to Precia? I'm very sure he meant that in the sense of "You can't bring back the dead, learn to let go".
Anyway, removing the Nanoha example. The series never showed any indication of the Time-Space Administration Bureau protecting the Time Stream. And before you cite the Time part of their name as a reason, that refers to the entire Spacetime continuum dohickey related to Dimensions, which is what they protect.
Cutting this: "and The Original Series had Gary Seven, mysterious human agent raised by alien timecops. He carries what is Definitely Not A Sonic Screwdriver." because his alien bosses were not concerned with time travel so far as he indicated. They were from the 20th century.
- What about situations where the Time Police are monsters that seem to be enforcing some sort of cosmic principle, rather than a government organization? Prince of Persia's Dahaka and the hounds of tindalos come to mind. I'm not sure if there's enough for another section, or if something similar already exists.
Daibhid C: That would be Clock Roaches.
Daniel LC: I'm just going to take this section out: "Note how often it pops up despite the idea having no sense whatsoever. (What's to stop a malicious time traveler from erasing them from existence? And how do they get reports about temporal accidents happening "while" they're in another time period entirely, unless they have San Dimas Time? As soon as someone changes the past, they should treat the changed version as the one that "really" happened and the one that they heard of from all history books, unless there's a Delayed Ripple Effect or they all have Ripple Effect Proof Memory, etc.)" The time police is presumably a necessary organization that would be as hard to erase as government itself. If that's referring to individual time police, the government would just have hired different police. They're not going to just let the organization end because all the people who they would have hired never existed. Everything else in there isn't a necessary part of having time police, and is just commonly done.
Korodzik: Cutting this:
- Gaspar from Chrono Trigger is a much less neutral version of most Time Police: he's explicitly seen pointing the main characters in the right direction and provides the MacGuffin used to resurrect Crono.
