History FanFic / TheInfiniteLoops

* AlternateSelf: "Looping Twins" usually fall into one or another. They're the same character, but from [[AlternateContinuity different continuities]] that have ''both'' started looping. Usually, this setup is used to prevent [[MultipleChoicePast Dissassociative Loop Identity Disorder]] from happening, especially if the alternate continuities are are vastly different. Some notable cases are [[Franchise/SpyroTheDragon Classic]], [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyro Legends]], and [[WesternAnimation/SkylandersAcademy Skylanders Spyro]], [[Manga/DigimonVTamer01 Taichi Yagami]] and [[Anime/DigimonAdventure Taichi 'Tai' Kamiya]], and [[WesternAnimation/ThunderCats the Thunder Cats]], which have mirror twins of nearly ''all'' their looping classic and [[WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011 advanced]] counterparts.

* The Series/CodeGeass Loops thread can be found [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/code-geass-loops.287095/ here]].

* The Animation/LooneyTunes Loops thread can be found [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/infinite-loops-looney-toon-style.313493/ here]].

* The VideoGame/ProjectXZone Loops thread can be found [[here https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/sega-x-namco-x-capcom-vs-yggdrasil-project-x-zone-infinite-loops.365217/]]

* BittersweetEnding: How the Crisis was resolved falls here. To counter a virus that threatened to activate any villains who lived to the end of the Loop already active Loopers had to go around killing them so they couldn't activate. This did not just include outright villains but also those who didn't necessarily qualify as villains but would have been threats regardless. The Loopers who went through this got put through an emotional wringer to wind up with a mixed blessing. On one hand not every villain could be found and killed before the Loop ended, meaning those universes now have Looping threats active in them. On the other hand the universes that did deal with threats successfully got a new friendly Looper activation.

* NeverLiveItDown: Several InUniverse examples
** [[TabletopGame/SentinelsOfTheMultiverse Absolute Zero]] seems to have one of these moments. During said loop he installed an [=MP3=] player and spekaers in his armor, then started to ilberly play [[Disney/{{Frozen}} Let it Go]] when he felt like it. He however failed to check to see who else was Awake, so Argent Adept recorded the whole thing and uses it to annoy Absolute Zero.
** [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Applejack]] will never live down the time she tried to make an alcoholic beverage out of potatoes (explanation: their name in French means 'apples of the earth', so she tried to make cider out of them) and ended up creating what has since been dubbed "potato acid", which blinded Twilight (who had to ascend to alicorn form to fix it), and set Discord on fire. This has been brought up several times since, with Applejack complaining about not being allowed to live it down.

* AlternateSelf: "Looping Twins" usually fall into one or another. They're the same character, but from [[AlternateContinuity different continuities]] that have ''both'' started looping. Usually, this setup is used to prevent [[MultipleChoicePast Dissassociative Loop Identity Disorder]] from happening, especially if the alternate continuities are are vastly different. Some notable cases are [[Franchise/SpyroTheDragon Classic]] and [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyro Legend Spyro]], [[Manga/DigimonVTamer01 Taichi Yagami]] and [[Anime/DigimonAdventure Taichi 'Tai' Kamiya]], and [[WesternAnimation/ThunderCats the Thunder Cats]], which have mirror twins of nearly ''all'' their looping classic and [[WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011 advanced]] counterparts.

* The Franchise/StarWars loops thread can be found [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/star-wars-infinite-loops-a-phantom-menace.306086/ here]].

*** The second complication for the loops (focusing on ''[[Anime/YuGiOhARCV ARC-V]]'') can be found [[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/13290602/1/ here]].

-->'''Sleipnir:''' You do realize that the Lovecraft Mythos is basically comprised of a branch of rogue hackers and viruses? They're the 4chan of Yggdrasil!
-->'''Twilight Sparkle:''' That actually explains a lot.

* The (now dead) Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei and Franchise/ShinMegamiTenseiPersona Loops thread can be found [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-infinite-loops-shin-megami-teisei-person-infinite-loops.310709/ here.]]

* The Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei and Franchise/ShinMegamiTenseiPersona Loops thread can be found [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-infinite-loops-shin-megami-teisei-person-infinite-loops.310709/ here.]]

*** The second complication for the loops (focusing on ''[[Anime/YuGiOhARCV ARC-V]]'' can be found [[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/13290602/1/ here]].

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: All [=MLEs=] (Malicious Looping Entities) and many malicious non-loopers such as Umbridge. [[spoiler:Hence, when Gendo Ikari starts looping when it was thought he never would, he finds himself at the mercy of an entire ''multiverse'' that hates his guts. Most of the loopers have met his baseline self (due to ''Evangelion'' being one of the seven oldest looping universes), and most (if not all) of them are '''not''' happy to seem him looping.]]

** The Machinima/{{RedVsBlue}} can be found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10880417/1/ here]].

** The time loop itself can end up becoming this for a few loop compilations. While they usually start out following the 'screwing around with canon events' plotlines, depending on how much source material there is (and sometimes even if there is a lot to go on), the snips slowly start to go from 'messing around with canon events' to 'watching near god like characters play around and mess with each other', or 'watch them deal with odd variants', or 'watch them interact with characters not from their canon'. Of course, [[TropesAreTools this is by no means a inherently bad thing.]] A lot of the more well known and liked snips tend to fall into those three categories.

** The Warrior Cats Loops can be found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13059001/1/Warrior-Cats-Loops]] here.

* The ''WebAnimation/CampCamp'' Loops can be found [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/15367947 here]].

** The [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic MLP]] thread is so long it’s been broken into parts: [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/mlp-time-loops.257060/ 1]] [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/mlp-time-loops-thread-2.268673/ 2]] [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/mlp-time-loops-thread-3.274575/ 3]] [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/mlp-loops-thread-4.280859/ 4]] [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/mlp-time-loops-thread-5.284904/ 5]] [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/mlp-loops-thread-6.290209/ 6]] [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/mlp-loops-thread-7.295919/ 7]] [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/mlp-time-loops-thread-8.300235/ 8]] [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/mlp-loops-thread-9.306018/ 9]].

* ObstructiveBureaucrat: This is the main reason the StarTrek Anchors never ''really'' act on their foreknowledge (to the point where visitors don't know ''who'' the Anchors are), as they'd have to explain themselves to the Department of Temporal Investigations in ''every'' Loop.

* TheDreaded: Malicious Looping Entities ([=MLEs=]) by and large, but while Kyubey, the Tick, and even Dio Brando are considered horrifying, even they pale compared to the black hole of idiocy known simply as ''[[WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy Billy]]''. Mandy, who was ''aiming'' to become TheDreaded, was slightly less than thrilled.

* MythologyGag: Each of the Admins for each universe tends to have a job suited for their skills and talents
** Artemis, who was among other things a goddess of wild animals, is in charge of the ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' and Series/PrehistoricPark Loops

** Persephone, Hades' wife, who is also a goddess of flowers (and daughter of the goddess of the harvest), is the admin for [[spoiler: ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'']].
** Janus, a god of passageways, manages the Portal Loops. [[spoiler: Also, he became Admin for Disney/Kingdom Hearts loops, but eventually needed to have other Minor Gods help out to lift some of the burden.]]
** Thor, who had a chariot pulled by two goats, is (partially) responsible for the Goat Simulator Loops.
** Sleipnir, who is a horse, happens to be in charge of the My Little Pony Loops.
** Nut, a god of the heavens (i.e. space) is in charge of the Star Wars and Star Trek Loops

** Zurvan, the one who got the Doctor Who universe Loops going, was a god of what else but time and space.

** Aphrodite, goddess of Beauty, gets roped into administrating the Eiken loops, mostly to keep up appearances. (Considering [[BrainlessBeauty what she's like]], most admins consider this to be a win/win: she's one of the very few who ''likes'' that branch.)
** Baron Samedi, ''loa'' in charge of death (and certain aspects of life), gets ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy''.

** [[Anime/DeathNote Death Notes]] have been altered to where they can't work outside of pure baseline runs or their fused loop of origin, since even non-loopers or [=MLE=]s would be able to kill even the most powerful of loopers and anchors due to it being an even bigger StoryBreakerPower than what even the most powerful of loopers can posses. (And unlike the [[DepopulationBomb deplorable word]], Death Notes can be activated from ''anywhere'' in the universe they're currently in before the nerf was applied, are divine in nature instead of magical, making countering them difficult, can be used before the looper is even aware they're in they're in the same loop as one and could reasonably react to counter it, and allows the user to pick and choose who they want to kill. This would allow [=MLEs=] to remove any problematic loopers to their goal while keeping certain characters they need alive for whatever their goal may be.)
** While outside loopers ''can'' gain an element from [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic the Elements of Harmony]], only the mane casts' canon elements work outside of the initial loop an outside looper gets theirs.

** [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Applejack]] will never live down the time she tried to make an alcoholic beverage out of potatoes (explanation: their name in French means 'apples of the earth', so she tried to make cider out of them) and ended up creating what was dubbed "potato acid", which blinded Twilight (who had to ascend to alicorn form to fix it), and set Discord on fire. This has been brought up several times since, with Applejack complaining about not being allowed to live it down.

** We never really ''see'' the Eiken loops, only hear them referred to, probably because Eiken is actually quite dull once the novelty of the physiological implausibilities and incessant fanservice wear off (Which is the point- for Loopers, boredom is actually the worst punishment of all).

* ObfuscatingStupidity: Stealth looping, when someone who is looping hides the fact that they are looping from other loopers.

** Essentially Picard's reaction on learning the Doctor's started Looping.
** Picard is good for these, since his desire for a nice and quiet Loop is usually ruined by a visitor doing something incredibly bizarre, like Rainbow Dash going past the Enterprise at warp-speed, carrying a massive Poptart.

* PhysicalGod: Most of the oldest Loopers are powerful enough to fit the trope, and are actively preventing themselves from ascending to full-on godhood. Ranma in particular is so powerful that he is able to create a subspace pocket that at the very least contains multiple solar systems, and is referred to as a universe.

** Technically, all the fics made after Innortals. Though they all have their own unique plots in between the episodic shenanigans, they're still set in the same overall Multiverse as his. (Though, exactly ''what'' and ''which'' of Innortals snips are treated as canon by the community as a whole thanks to his... [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale err]], unique brand of humor is still heavily debated to this day.)

--> '''Sleipner:''' It effectively never existed. Any fused Loops you had with that universe have now never happened. Aside from the forced system–wide reset of the Loops the collapse triggered, even the divine operators of Yggdrasil have no memory of it beyond an almost completely corrupted file of the 'jumpstart' attempt with a fused Loop that ended in its destruction.

** Part of the reason [[Manga/DeathNote Death Notes]] were near flat out ''banned'' was because of this trope, as they managed to be a StoryBreakerPower ''[[UpToEleven even by looper standards!]]''
* StrawNihilist: The chief symptom of Sakura Syndrome. A Looper throws morality, care and restraints out the window because in their eyes, Looping renders all choices meaningless since everything always resets.

** The fact that FanFic/TheConversionBureau variants are often treated with by disdain from the [=FiM=] loopers, and the multiverse at large, can be see as a take that to it's setting.
** While not treated as AFateWorseThanDeath territory, they're often not particularly fond of pre-gen IV MLP loops either.
** Literature/{{Twilight}} is often treated as a FateWorseThanDeath loop for a good portion of the Multiverse, its anchor (Leah) included!

** And of course, a lot of authors are not above sporking [[FandomSpecificPlot common fandom plots]] or clichés, be them {{Mary Sue}}s, {{Copy Cat Sue}}s, TrappedInTVLand variants, or common RonTheDeathEater targets. Pretty much if it's a common fandom plot element, it's been parodied or picked at in the loops at ''some'' point.
* TimeAbyss: All Loopers eventually become this in the subjective sense because the loops make them "older than Merlin."

** Another one happens later on, this time because of a human-obsessed [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Lyra Heartstrings]], [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls a magical portal]] and a poorly thought-out plan, which according to Twilight Sparkle prematurely ended at least three separate loops, and set the loops back by a few thousand years.

* TomatoInTheMirror: Those suffering from Chrysalis Syndrome (AKA: First awaking after a non-baseline run where they have a different role, and thus keeping their memories from that instead of their usual baseline) go through a brief bout of this. Thankfully, it's not as bad [[MultipleChoicePast Dissassociative Loop Identity Disorder]] because after the first initial loop, they have a solid baseline to get use to, but they do have a hard time accepting it depending on what their role was. (''Especially'' if they're normally a villain, which usually results in MyGodWhatHaveIDone.)

* YouCantFightFate: Sufferers of Setsuna Syndrome can be firm believers in this, which is why they developed it in the first place. They often get rather annoyed with usual looper antics that cause their loop to go OffTheRails, believing something bad will happen if they diverge from the baseline, [[SkepticismFailure despite evidence to the contrary.]]
* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: All [=MLEs=] (Malicious Looping Entities) and many malicious non-loopers such as Umbridge. [[spoiler:Hence, when Gendo Ikari starts looping when it was thought he never would, he finds himself at the mercy of an entire ''multiverse'' that hates his guts. Most of the loopers have met his baseline self (due to ''Evangelion'' being one of the seven oldest looping universes), and most (if not all) of them are '''not''' happy to seem him looping]].

** [[spoiler: Anti-Villain Paradox from the Yu-Gi-Oh loops seems to have managed to avert this rule]]