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* ''Film/TheSantaClause3ThEscapeClause'': JackFrost tricks [[SantaClaus Scott/Santa]] into wishing he was never Santa, thus triggering the "Escape Clause" and sending them back in time to [[Film/TheSantaClause1 the first film]] when the original Santa fell off Scott's roof. Jack makes Santa fall off before Past Scott can, and steals the coat and wears it, igniting a BadFuture where Jack Frost is Santa.

* ''Film/TheSantaClause 3: The Escape Clause'': Jack Frost tricks Scott/Santa into wishing he was never Santa, thus triggering the "Escape Clause" and sending them back in time to the first film when the original Santa fell off Scott's roof. Jack makes Santa fall off before Past Scott can, and steals the coat and wears it, igniting a BadFuture where Jack Frost is Santa.

* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'': in "And Then There Was Ben". No watch Ben and Professor Paradox go back in time to the pilot to get the Omnitrix to 10 year old Ben. It's revealed that the reason the Omnitrix suddenly curved to go straight for past Ben in the original was because [[CosmicRetcon no watch Ben had to hit it as Cannonbolt to change its direction to be closer towards ben.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E25TheCutieRemarkPart1 The Cutie Re-Mark]]", Starlight Glimmer travels back to the past to prevent the main six from becoming friends in the first place. She winds up in one of the flashbacks from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E23TheCutieMarkChronicles The Cutie Mark Chronicles]]", where she prevents young Rainbow Dash from performing her first Sonic Rainboom. Since the ripples of this change don't just prevent the main six from befriending each other, [[ForWantOfANail but also result in various villains conquering Equestria]], Twilight Sparkle has to time-travel back to prevent Starlight's meddling.

* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'': The episode "Bad Kiss" revolves around Mordecai and Rigby using a time machine to travel back to prevent Mordecai from eating a chili dog that makes his breath stink when trying to kiss Margaret. The plan goes haywire when the past Mordecai steals the time machine and the duo chase him through the events of past episodes.

* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'': The episode "Bad Kiss" revolves around Mordecai and Rigby using a time machine to travel back to prevent Mordecai from eating smelly foods that makes his breath stink when trying to kiss Margaret. The plan goes haywire when the past Mordecai steals the time machine and the duo chase him through the events of past episodes.

** In the Season 2 episode, "[[Recap/NinjagoS2E19WrongPlaceWrongTime Wrong Place, Wrong Time]]", the ninja follow Garmadon back to the pilot episodes when Garmadon travels back in time using the Mega Weapon in an attempt to prevent [[spoiler:his son from becoming the Green Ninja]].

** In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfgrVjxru6g Golden Hour]]", Wu has been struck by reversal time energy, and as a result, he and the Time Twins battle it out while teleporting through various moments in the show's history. These include Kai's saving Lloyd in a [[Recap/NinjagoS1E10TheGreenNinja Season 1 episode]], the lead-up to an iconic NextTierPowerUp sequence from a [[Recap/NinjagoS2E23IslandOfDarkness Season 2 episode]], and a flashback from a [[Recap/NinjagoS1E7TickTock Season 1 episode]] depicting young Garmadon's StartOfDarkness.

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': "Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo" sees Future-Candace go back in time to assist her past self in showing her mother that the boys were creating a roller-coaster, which was their first-ever invention seen in the series proper. Future-Candace eventually has to stop herself from doing that because it led to a BadFuture.

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': One episode sees Future-Candace go back in time to assist her past self in showing her mother that the boys were creating a roller-coaster, which was their first-ever invention seen in the series proper. Future-Candace eventually has to stop herself from doing that because it led to a BadFuture.

* ''ComicBook/BoosterGold'': Many of Booster's solo adventures feature him traveling to various historic stories in the DC Universe, including [[Franchise/TeenTitans the death of Ravager I]], [[ComicBook/TheKillingJoke Barbara Gordon's paralysis]], and more personally [[ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis the death of Ted Kord]]. He tried to stop the latter two, but [[TemporalMutability Barbara's future as Oracle]] was already set in stone, and [[BadFuture letting Ted live didn't go very well in the long run]].
* In the first arc of the ''ComicBook/DoctorWhoTitan'' Thirteenth Doctor Year Two series, Thirteen and her companions go to London in the 1960s and get caught up in the events of the hugely popular Tenth Doctor TV episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink Blink]]", which introduced the Weeping Angels.

* ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestIV'' has Roger steal an alien time-machine. The first place he visits is Ulence Flats, from ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestITheSarienEncounter'', the very first game of the series, [[ArtShift complete with the original graphics,]] while he and the time machine remain in the then-modern graphics of the current game.
** This occurs after trips to [[InvertedTrope Space Quest XII and X,]] [[CaptainObvious which did not exist when SQ4 was published]]. (Sadly, the Space Quest series ended at VI, so we never encounter a past version of Roger.)