History Film / TimeCop

* SickbedSlaying: [[spoiler:The protagonist's partner]] is recruited by the bad guys as TheMole, but becomes a loose end after they alter history to secure their rise to power. When the hero goes back in time where he left her in a hospital, he finds that she's already been murdered by an assassin and it ends up looking like he did it.

%% * OfficerOHara: Patrolling 1929 Wall Street.

%% * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Matusak is the polar opposite of DaChief.

''Timecop'' is a 1994 movie starring Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme as Max Walker, a (wait for it) [[TimePolice Timecop]] who has to go back in time to prevent other people from going back in time and messing up history. Creator/MiaSara was cast as his wife Melissa, [[TheLostLenore who dies in the opening act]], resulting in Walker's zealotry in his job:

* TimeMachine: Timecop Type, a [[TechnicolorScience giant sled]] shoots you back into the past, but you arrive with out said machine, you have a remote control that will get you back to the sled.

[[caption-width-right:300:Go ahead, make his day...''he's got all the time in the world.'']]

[[caption-width-right:300:They killed his wife ten years ago... ''there's still time to save her''.]]

* OfficerOHara: Patrolling 1929 Wall Street.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Matusak is the polar opposite of DaChief.

* TimePolice: Well, ''duh''.
* TimeTravel: ...Well, duh.

** Also, if you ''tried'' touching yourself from five ''minutes'' ago, you'd have a hard time making any one ''atom'' touch itself as atoms are [[CaptainObvious on the small side]]. There are ''millions'' in the width of a ''hair,'' their size is measured in ''fractions of nanometers.'' If you touched fingertips, the same atom wouldn't likely end up touching itself; being a ''literal'' hair off would put any atom and its past self pretty far apart. This means the ''same'' matter still isn't touching itself. And if you were pushed into yourself from behind, forget it - that's the atoms from the front of your shirt touching the atoms from the back of your shirt. The same specific atoms' counterparts are ''feet'' away, which may as well be light-years. ''Also'' also, if you ''could'' make the same atom touch itself, they are still not "occupying the same space," just, well, touching.

* HeelFaceDoorSlam: After Fielding is betrayed by [=McComb=], she agrees to testify his crimes to Walker, only to be immediately murdered in her hospital bed.

* JobTitle

* ArtisticLicenseBiology + ArtisticLicensePhysics: another egregious scientific error has to do with the claim that "the same matter cannot occupy the same space at the same time". Technically, of course, this is true, they physically ''can't''. If you touch yourself in the past, like if you touch any object, the atoms in your body and your other body will actually occupy the space next to each other. And also there's Pauli's exclusion principle which states that two identical fermions (what matter is made up of) cannot occupy the same quantum state simultaneously. But in the film, what this apparently means is "if you touch yourself in the past, your body will melt into a revolting mass". But this can't happen in reality, since the same matter is always going to occupy a different space anyway. And, of course, the body replaces much of the matter that it contains, such that two versions of someone from ten years apart will not have much of the same matter in their body anyway.

* CompoundInterestTimeTravelGambit: temporal criminals try to buy Wall Street stock on the day of the crash, and Hollywood land when it's worth only a few cents.
* CorruptPolitician: [=McComb=].

* EightiesHair: Hilariously enough, it's the 2004 Max Walker the one who wears a mullet.

* AmnesiacLover
* AnachronismStew: Played for full effect in the opening scene where five Confederate cavalrymen guarding a gold wagon [[spoiler:are massacred by a single man, when he suddenly produces two laser-sighted M91S submachine guns from under his coat.]]

* KissMeImVirtual: The tech guy at the time agency is caught by his boss just as he's using the resident VR machine for a porn scenario.

-->'''Atwood''': I can't tell you anything. He'll send somebody back to wipe out my grandparents. It'll be like I'll never existed. My mother, my father, my wife, my kids, my fucking cat.

* RetGone: How do you make sure your mooks aren't tempted to testify against you? By threatening to go back and murder your grandparents, thus erasing a few generations of your family.

* ReasonableAuthorithyFigure: Matusak is the polar opposite of DaChief.

%%* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong

* {{Zeerust}}: Remember back in 2004, when we all had those self-driving, voice-activated cars that looked like this spaceships? Good times, good times. We also evidently had some sort of cartridge music player instead of tapes or [=CDs=]. Widescreen [=TVs=] a few years early, too! Mullets came back into style, too.

** Also, if you ''tried'' touching yourself from five ''minutes'' ago, you'd have a hard time making any one ''atom'' touch itself as atoms are [[CaptainObvious on the small side]]. There are ''millions'' in the width of a ''hair,'' their size is measured in ''fractions of nanometers.'' If you touched fingertips, the same atom wouldn't likely end up touching itself; if you were pushed into yourself from behind, that's the atoms from the front of your shirt touching the atoms from the back of your shirt - the same atoms are ''feet'' away, which may as well be light-years. ''Also'' also, if you ''could'' make the same atom touch itself, they are still not "occupying the same space," just, well, touching.

%%* TimeTravel

* RippleEffectProofMemory: It's implied that this is a constant phenomenon; The TEC has the technology to detect "ripples" well before they impact the present, but unless an agent is sent to investigate, they'll never know precisely what changed - though their intelligence branches will often offer theories such as the Iranians trying to assassinate a President, someone trying to buy up pre-development Beverly Hills, etc. Agents returning the past often need to be reminded about current events. When Walker returns after [[spoiler:failing to prevent [=McComb=] from killing one of his business partners]], Matuzak isn't at all bothered when he tells Walker that [=McComb=] has come to power [[spoiler:and has no idea who Walker is talking about when he asks about Fielding, his turncoat partner]]. On the other hand, after Walker returns from [[spoiler:killing [=McComb=]]], Matuzak is rather baffled that his star agent is asking about a public figure who's been missing for a ''decade.''

%%* RippleEffectProofMemory

* SpiritualSuccessor: The 2012 sci-fi film ''Film/{{Looper}}'' is basically a remake of this film.

* InSpiteOfANail: Future Walker stops the purse snatcher from doing so like he did in the original timeline.

* {{Zeerust}}: Remember back in 2004, when we all had those self-driving, voice-activated cars that looked like this spaceships? Good times, good times. We also evidently had some sort of cartridge music player instead of tapes or [=CDs=]. Widescreen [=TVs=] a few years early, too!

* ArtisticLicenseLaw: The TEC has its own in-house courtroom with an always-on-call judge, but no attorneys arguing for the defense or even the ''prosecution'', let alone a jury. And they conduct their own executions by sending convicts into the past at great heights. It's inferred that they [[AllCrimesAreEqual execute every suspect they catch]] within minutes of their return, as they don't have holding cells on-site. They probably only haul suspects back to headquarters as a manner of paperwork. One could HandWave this as a top-secret agency working above the GodzillaThreshold to police time, but their inability to offer leniency means that they can't really investigate crimes occurring in the past, just execute everyone they can prove isn't indigenous to the timeline.