History Main / GroundHogDayLoop

* Caused by [[spoiler:Homura Akemi]] in ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' after she [[spoiler:resets the past month countless times, of which we see five, in her attempt to [[ScreeningTheCall prevent Madoka from becoming a magical girl]] and either die or become a witch. However by resetting time she actually layered multiple realities where Madoka was the focal point, causing Madoka's potential as a magical girl to increase exponentially and making her ''the'' [[NiceJobBreakingItHero prime candidate for becoming a magical girl because of all the energy she would release]], and which ultimately allows Madoka to ''become a God and rewrite reality'' so that witches cannot exist in any time or place. Notably, though Homura [[SaveScumming memorized the events of the loop and gained tremendous experience from it]], little details change from time to time. For example, in the first episode, Sayaka blindsides her with a fire extinguisher and then the first witch attacks a bit earlier than normal. Homura claims this never happened before.]]

* In Creator/JoWalton's novel ''Lent'', a Groundhog Day-like form of reincarnation known as metempsychosis is an essential part of the damnation and punishment of demons, although some have more RippleEffectProofMemory than others; see Myths and Religion below for similar theological concepts.

** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Diamond is Unbreakable]]'': Yoshikage Kira gains an ability called "Bites The Dust" into his Killer Queen. It causes a "Groundhog Day" Loop when [[spoiler:someone finds out he's not Kosaku Kawajiri, the man he killed to hide his identity by blowing said person up and resetting time from the start of the day. Unlike other "Groundhog Day" Loops, however, this one has the benefit of making sure the person who found out his identity still explodes at the same time they initially died in even if the events that lead up to that death no longer occur, thus allowing Kira to kill one of his enemies without ever fighting them]]. However, it has several limitations: [[spoiler:"Bites the Dust" has to first bind to a specific target, who is the only person fully aware of the looping time (thus forcing Kira to realize time is looping with each iteration himself). Second, Kira can't use Killer Queen while "Bites the Dust" is activated, meaning he has to recall it and end the loop should he be forced into a situation where he needs it (like being attacked by another Stand User). Third, if Kira ends the current loop before anyone's time is up and they explode, their deaths are canceled and avoided. Fourth and most critically, people ''only'' explode if they learn his identity whether directly or indirectly via the person he attached "Bites the Dust" to, so if he's tricked into revealing his ''own identity'', "Bites the Dust" won't activate.]]

* [[http://www.shiftylook.com/comics/digdug/loop-dee-loop-writer-artist-dean-haspiel This]] ''VideoGame/DigDug'' related PlatformGame/ShiftyLook comic puts this in motion. Dig Dug finds a time machine while digging, and then is sent back to when he found it. [[note]] Which is at the first panel. [[/note]] The comic is ''even named'' "Loop-De-Loop".

* [[http://www.shiftylook.com/comics/digdug/loop-dee-loop-writer-artist-dean-haspiel This]] ''VideoGame/DigDug'' related Website/ShiftyLook comic puts this in motion. Dig Dug finds a time machine while digging, and then is sent back to when he found it. [[note]] Which is at the first panel. [[/note]] The comic is ''even named'' "Loop-De-Loop".

* ''WebAnimation/MagicalGirlsOfAmazingRainbow'': In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvlZb-g16nI "Impossible ! Can I rescue my friends from the infinite loop world"]] [sic]: Ai got stuck in a time loop which resets with Akari's death. When Ai decides to put herself in the truck's way to die in place of Akari, it didn't end the loop, but it targeted Ai instead. Not even an assailant killing both Ai and Akari end the loop, but it turns out the loop was the work of a demon, who trapped the girls in a world of his creation.

** In episode "A Great Day", [[BigBad XANA]] takes control of the time reset device the kids use to fix things after each attack and continues to turn back time to the start of the same day until the heroes can regain control.

** Most episodes have a Groundhog Day reset; this is a show where the heroes have ''control'' over the reset. Ulrich even has the "tired of doing this all over again" feelings when XANA makes an attack every day for a week.

* This was how the Justice League gets rid of [[spoiler:Chronos]] in the end of the ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]'' episode "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS1E13TimeWarped The Once and Future Thing: Time, Warped]]". [[spoiler:The villain tries to turn himself into a god by escaping to the beginning of time, but due to Green Lantern and Batman altering his belt's programming, [[FateWorseThanDeath he's thrown back to his house with his wife yelling at him... over and over again]].]]
* ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' had an example of a willing groundhog day loop in the episode "Melty", in which Lilo kept going back to change the past so she could simultaneously catch the experiment and impress her crush Kioni, but [[ButterflyOfDoom kept on setting off disastrous chains of events]].

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13309803/1/had-we-but-world-enough-and-time had we but world enough and time]]'' is a ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' fanfic in which Fry dies from a brain pathogen and Leela gets caught in a bubble of time repeating the day of his death, trying hard to figure out how to save him.

* 2017 HorrorComedy short film ''Film/GreatChoice'' is framed around a looping 30-second-long Red Lobster commercial, with one of the women in it [[NoFourthWall becoming increasingly aware that she's in a loop]]. She becomes increasingly frightened of not knowing how she got there and why, and things go off the rails ''violently'' once she stops sticking to the script. [[spoiler:She eventually manages to escape by attacking the increasingly hostile restaurant owner, [[NonSequiturEnvironment suddenly finding herself in the space]] of [[TropaholicsAnonymous a support group for recovering addicts]], who all congratulate her on her recovery... [[OrWasItADream all while the restaurant owner is still banging outside the windows]], screaming at her to make a "great choice!"]]

* ''WebAnimation/MagicalGirlOfAmazingRainbow'': In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvlZb-g16nI "Impossible ! Can I rescue my friends from the infinite loop world"]] [sic]: Ai got stuck in a time loop which resets with Akari's death. When Ai decides to put herself in the truck's way to die in place of Akari, it didn't end the loop, but it targeted Ai instead. Not even an assailant killing both Ai and Akari end the loop, but it turns out the loop was the work of a demon, who trapped the girls in a world of his creation.

* 2017 HorrorComedy short film ''Great Choice'' is framed around a looping 30-second-long Red Lobster commercial, with one of the women in it [[NoFourthWall becoming increasingly aware that she's in a loop]]. She becomes increasingly frightened of not knowing how she got there and why, and things go off the rails ''violently'' once she stops sticking to the script. [[spoiler:She eventually manages to escape by attacking the increasingly hostile restaurant owner, [[NonSequiturEnvironment suddenly finding herself in the space]] of [[TropaholicsAnonymous a support group for recovering addicts]], who all congratulate her on her recovery... [[OrWasItADream all while the restaurant owner is still banging outside the windows]], screaming at her to make a "great choice!"]]

* 2017 HorrorComedy short film ''Great Choice'' is framed around a looping 30-second-long Red Lobster commercial, with one of the women in it [[NoFourthWall becoming increasingly aware that she's in a loop]]. She becomes increasingly frightened of not knowing how she got there and why, and things go off the rails ''violently'' once she stops sticking to the script.

* In ''VisualNovel/SlayThePrincess'', regardless of what you do in Chapter I, Chapter II loops back to the beginning and puts you back in the woods where you started. You and the Princess still remember your previous encounter, [[EmpathicEnvironment and both the Princess and her basement evolved in reaction]], along with the Princess treating you accordingly, which unlocks one of the game's MultipleEndings. The Narrator either doesn't remember what happened, [[AmbiguousSituation or pretends not to]]. Either way, this also gets you a new voice in your head, which also remembers the events of Chapter I, along with the Voice of the Hero in all endings, which expresses confusion about how he keeps coming back to the forest.
* [[Franchise/{{Nasuverse}} Type-Moon]] must like this trope:

** ''WebAnimation/SMG4MovieSpaghettiWestern'' has a much darker take on the trope. [[spoiler:To keep Meggy from exposing his LotusEaterMachine, One-Shot Wren constantly shoots Meggy every single day, slowing making her more unnerved to the point that by the time a whole month passes, she's completely broken and constantly traumatized about his constant presence.]]

* In ''VisualNovel/SlayThePrincess'', regardless of what you do in Chapter I, Chapter II loops back to the beginning and puts you back in the woods where ou started. You and the Princess still remember your previous encounter, [[EmpathicEnvironment and both the Princess and her basement evolved in reaction]]. The Narrator either doesn't remember what happened, [[AmbiguousSituation or pretends not to]]. Either way, this also gets you a new voice in your head, which also remembers the events of Chapter I, along with the Voice of the Hero in all endings, which expresses confusion about how he keeps coming back to the forest.

* In ''VisualNovel/SlayThePrincess'', regardless of what you do in Chapter I, Chapter II loops back to the beginning and puts you back in the woods where ou started. You and the Princess still remember your previous encounter, [[EmpatheticEnvironment and both the Princess and her basement evolved in reaction]]. The Narrator either doesn't remember what happened, [[AmbiguousSituation or pretends not to]]. Either way, this also gets you a new voice in your head, which also remembers the events of Chapter I, along with the Voice of the Hero in all endings, which expresses confusion about how he keeps coming back to the forest.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1486986/1/Loop-in-Time Loop in Time]]'' Harry casts a spell on Snape which forces the victim to repeat the same day until they make it perfect for the caster. Harry being the typical horny teenager, this involves having sex.

* ''VideoGame /EternalCity'', also known as ''Forever 7 Days Capital'', is an ActionRPG slash VisualNovel in which after seven days of one part ''VideoGame/{{XCOM}}''-style management, one part ActionRPG, and one part VisualNovel, there will be an ending, and after that, the cycle will be reset, allowing the player to see or achieve different outcomes.

* ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmericaRebirth'': Issue #20. Bonus points for Flash directly invoking the trope.

* ''Fanfic/TheInfiniteLoops'':
** The fic 'verse is a fairly well-developed genre that covers a wide variety of series, with some of the most well-known being centered on the universes of ''Naruto'', ''Harry Potter'', [[Fanfic/TheDisneyLoops Disney]], ''[[Fanfic/TheMLPLoops My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic]]'', and ''[[Fanfic/ThePokemonLoops Pokémon]]''. The backstory of this shared universe is that something happened to the multiverse-controlling supercomputer of Yggdrasil in the ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' universe, causing every universe to begin "skipping" like a record, with the goddesses trying to fix things in the background. Each universe that is looping (and more and more start to loop) will have an "Anchor" to keep them stable, this anchor being a single individual who loops more than anyone else and is always "awake" in the loops, remembering everything. But those they have close connections to will eventually start looping as well. The loopers retain memories (and usually powers and even items via {{Hammerspace}}) from previous loops, with a loop usually stretching from a significant early event within that series to their eventual death. Most of these fics take a comedic route, wherein the characters spend most of the time messing around with canon, especially when they learn that fixing the loop is completely out of their hands. What if we try beating the villain with a surprise party? Or just refuse to save the world and watch movies instead? And some loops are oddly non-standard from the start, with characters switching places, turning into other creatures, or crossing over with a completely different series.
** When it isn't being silly fun, the genre also looks at some of the negative consequences of looping through time. The most prevalent example is what is known as "Sakura Syndrome," named after Sakura from the Naruto universe, where a looper starts abusing the infinite resets the Loops offer to torture or otherwise abuse non-Loopers. There's also its near-inverse, Setsuna Syndrome, where a Looper believes that the canon or "Baseline" timeline is sacrosanct and must be preserved (which is not only pointless, but often completely impossible since many loops go OffTheRails before the Looper ever wakes up). There's also a restriction against having children in the loops, with the Goddesses going out of their way to meddle in the loopers lives to prevent this. The obvious reason being that said child will just cease to be as soon as the loop is done, and that's unneeded psychological stress for the parent.
** In one notable instance, the ''Film/GroundhogDay'' universe itself started looping. Phil would Awaken the day before the infamous day; if he did everything exactly perfect, he got a third day before looping again. This went on for quite a while before anyone noticed the glitch--his universe was never supposed to start looping at all. The Admins patch things so that he'll spend most of his time in variants and other longer loops, unlike most universes, where baseline is by far the most common.
* The ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'' fic "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4988947/1/Born-to-Fight Born to Fight]]" ultimately reveals that Cameron is basically in one; after the events of the series, once John travels to the future to retrieve her chip, he uploads her memories into the version of her that has just been created by Skynet, and ultimately sends her back into the past to meet his younger self as originally happened, aware that she will relive events over and over. [[spoiler:However, the epilogue reveals that Cameron was sent back to 1989 rather than 1999, allowing John to follow her into the past and live with Cameron for ten years of peace until she has to meet his younger self, John speculating that the two will share what moments they can in 2007 while his younger self is asleep until she has to compelte her part of the loop]].

** Also happens in ''Fanfic/TheSweetieChroniclesFragments'', when Sweetie Belle lands in the aforementioned setting and gets caught up in the loops. Rather heartwarming, as Blueblood is happy to have some companionship who doesn't forget everything each morning, and he puts his plans on hold just to help her. [[spoiler:And rather heartbreaking when she eventually moves on, and he realizes that the original Sweetie Belle remembers nothing.]]
* The ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' fanfic ''Fanfic/RewriteCleanLenins'' is a variation on this. Danny is forced to relive his first day of junior year over and over again, though every loop is a little different and he doesn't have RippleEffectProofMemory. Turns out the loops were [[spoiler:rough drafts written in a strange notebook by the [[RealityWarper Ghost Writer]], who didn't realize they were being published as reality until Danny confronted him]].
* ''Fanfic/{{Hard Reset|Eakin}}'' involves Twilight attempting to thwart a changeling invasion, only to get warped back to the same point in time whenever she dies. Which she does. Repeatedly. [[spoiler:She eventually succeeds after having experienced hundreds of loops over the course of a month or so, and having become a battle-hardened warrior and a changeling's worst nightmare, [[DeconstructedTrope as well as a PTSD-psychological wreck from the whole experience]].]]
* In the ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'', [[spoiler:the final confrontation with [[BadFuture Dark World!]]Discord strongly suggests that he's somehow stuck in one that repeatedly ends with the Elements of Harmony defeating him.]]
** It eventually turns out that [[spoiler:[[KnightTemplar Nightmare Paradox]], Twilight's [[FutureMeScaresMe potential Nightmare self]], has been forcing this on Discord in order to [[HeWhoFightsMonsters eternally torment him. ]]. He's long since had a HeelRealization and doesn't even want to be a villain anymore, but she just resets the loop anytime Discord does something he's not "supposed" to do. The loop is finally broken with Paradox's defeat.]]
** Princess Fidelitas [[spoiler:AKA, the Alicorn Rainbow Dash born from Eclipse's purified Nightmare Manacle]] is the literal antithesis of this trope. One of her domains is Breaking Cycles, which effectively translates to being able to instantly end timeloops. She's also able to strip a person aware of the loops of all the gains they obtained via it, reverting them to their original form in terms of power and experience. All this is, according to WordOfGod, a cosmic 'rule patch' for the above event by the [[TopGod Elders]] and she's essentially a custom made [[spoiler:Eclipse]] killer.

* Fan fiction for ''Franchise/{{Naruto}}'':
** The most widely known example is the controversial work ''Fanfic/ChuninExamDay'', in which Naruto repeats the same month over and over again in a time-loop for decades, before learning how to bring others in to the time loop and establishing a harem. It's mainly [[LevelGrinding level grind]] plus humor and action.
** A probably better story that may have been inspired by CED is [[http://allthetropes.wikia.com/wiki/Time_Braid Time Braid]], in which Sakura engages in [[LevelGrinding level grinding]], romance, and investigating who caused time to loop and why they did so. Madness abounds, due to both issues inherent in a time loop and [[MindRape bad actors]].
** ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4475403/1/ All is Relative Except the Stubbornness of a Demon]]'' starts with Naruto having done so many loops that he's the oldest thing on the planet except for the Kyuubi. Unlike most examples, there is no escape condition and Naruto has long since accepted that he'll be repeating his life forever. While exactly how long the loop has been going on is never stated, Naruto notes that he married a particular waitress in seven different loops.
** ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4471627/1/Do-You-Remember-Love Do You Remember Love]]'', a OneShotFic inspired by Ken Grimwood's ''Literature/{{Replay}}''. Naruto's signature [[MesACrowd Shadow Clone jutsu]] duplicates his soul with each use so that every time he dies, he cycles back to being 12 years old. At the start of the story, he's lived the same cycle for at least 3000 years and has taken the time to master various skills such as carpentry, cooking, painting, playing instruments and writing literature. He's also realized there are long-term consequences when he tries to make drastic changes in each loop and is [[YouCantFightFate resigned to letting events run their course.]] After hearing his story, Sakura learns the Shadow Clone jutsu so she can be with him too (until his stockpile of souls finally runs out).
** Parodied in the mockfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4863951/1/What-Could-Possibly-Go-Wrong What Could Possibly Go Wrong?]]'' Each loop only lasts 10 seconds and Naruto quickly finds it boring.
* Fan fiction set in [[Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium Middle-earth]]:
** Some fans of ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' believe that a loop explains all those [[SailorEarth Tenth Walker]] stories. After Frodo and company finish the quest, time loops back, and they must do the quest again, but with a new Tenth Walker in the company. The characters forget about the loop as time resets their memories. This time loop appears in both ''Fanfic/IAmNotAMarySue'' and ''Fanfic/MagnoliaCinderellaCupcake''.
** ''Fanfic/GroundhogGDIME'' takes its name from this trope. Charlize from England falls into Middle-earth, multiple times. After each visit, Middle-earth seems to reset itself. The loop continues as Charlize tries again, but she always fails to seduce Legolas.
** ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/32920228/chapters/81701080 A Thread Unraveled]]'' involves Maedhros reliving the Battle of Unnumbered Tears over and over until they can turn the crushing defeat into a victory.

* ''Fanfic/PurpleDays'' is a ''Series/GameOfThrones'' fanfic where the hated prince/king Joffrey Baratheon is run through a time loop. It begins with BlackComedy at his many deaths, but ultimately leads to CharacterDevelopment slowly leading TheCaligula into becoming TheGoodKing.
* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/6944464 And Somebody Spoke And I Went Into A Dream]]'' is a [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]] fanfic that places Paul in one of these. It's left open-ended in the fic itself, but the author states that they believe that [[spoiler:Paul [[DownerEnding sacrificing himself to save John at the end of the fic]] ends the loop.]]

* Ron Stoppable ends up in one such loop in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13064230/25/And-Now-Yet-Again-Still-Even-More-Fragments Endless]] [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13064230/28/And-Now-Yet-Again-Still-Even-More-Fragments Summer Days]]''. Unlike most such loops, Ron has an easy way to convince others due to GJ being CrazyPrepared and having a code for time travel. On his fifth (or sixth, he's not sure) loop, Betty Director basically orders Ron to do whatever he wants because 1) They don't know what the trigger is to end the loop, so it could very well be something ridiculous like making the President moon Congress, and 2) Such actions will keep Ron from snapping from the stress of his situation.
* ''Fanfic/TheFlashSentryChronicles'': Referred to as a Hedgehog Day in the series. [[spoiler:Springer finds himself trapped in one, where he keeps reliving the exact same hour over and over again, with Ponyville being destroyed by an explosion at the end of the hour and killing everyone, including him. He relives the same hour countless times trying to find out who caused the explosion, then just relaxing and leaning more about everyone in town when he gets stressed after failing to stop the explosion. He and the others eventually stop the loop by destroying a time loop scroll Trixie cast, then stop the town from being destroyed by the explosion with Springer trying to pull a HeroicSacrifice. The experience is slightly downplayed with TheReveal that everything was [[AllJustADream just a dream Springer had on a "Vision Quest"]] and only two hours passed in the real world, but everything he learned about everyone in town was true and he kept the skills he developed while in the loop.]]
* Lelouch in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11087617/1/Screw-You-Fate-I-m-Going-Home Screw You Fate, I'm Going Home]]'' is permanently stuck in a loop where each time he dies, he revives with all his memories at a random point in the original timeline. The first time, he SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong and lived to be over one hundred years old. After two thousand years of loops, Lelouch has given up on ever breaking free.
* In ''Fanfic/ItsAllInTheDetails'', the events of "[[Recap/SupernaturalS03E11MysterySpot Mystery Spot]]" are ended after only a few dozen loops when Castiel senses Dean's contract completing and resetting itself, prompting him to step in and encourage Loki to end the loop early with the threat that he will start using Loki's true name so that his older brother can hear it.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4275025/1/Tomorrow-is-for-Never Tomorrow is for Never]]'', Gadget finds herself stuck in a time loop after a plane crash kills the rest of the team while they're at a hockey game while she was distracted with her inventions. The first time the day repeats itself, [[spoiler:Gadget saves the others from the initial accident, but their attempts to help in the rescue leave Monterey Jack paralysed apart from his head and right arm while Chip [[TookALevelInJerkass becomes a colder individual]] who uses Gadget to psychologically manipulate a depressed Dale in the name of 'the big picture', and the second loop sees Gadget inadvertently leave Chip and Dale the impression that they're holding her back while simultaneously making Gadget perceive herself as a monster for stringing them along for so long. After an unspecified number of 'practice loops', Gadget is eventually able to prevent the original plane crash by leading the other Rangers in a rapid bit of repair-work on the plane's subtly damaged wing, allowing her to move on to the next day. It is suggested at the end that the loop was created by the spirit of her deceased father to give her new insight into her life]].
* Episode Six of ''WebVideo/{{RWBYABRG}}'' (RWBY Abridged) has Weiss getting stuck in one after throwing a fit over having [[WomanChild Ruby]] chosen as her team leader over her, among other grievances, until she makes peace with her.

** Etc.
*** There are also many countless references to ''Film/GroundhogDay''.
* ''Fanfic/HeroesNeverDie'': How Izuku's Quirk works. Every once in a while he gets caught in a loop, and has to figure out what he has to do to escape it. The loops are usually only a few minutes long, and are reset by his brutal death. He puts a suicide pill on his hero uniform so that he can reset at will.
* ''Fanfic/{{Epiphany}}'': Sephiroth finds himself reliving the events of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' over and over again. He's gone through the original game, the [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake Remake]], and now we're somewhere past that. The thrust of the story is him trying to determine why he's ''in'' the loop in the first place.
* ''Fanfic/KazuichiStrangelove'': Kazuichi Souda finds himself in one when he and the other survivors attempt to go through the events of ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'' once more to save their deceased classmates. His attempts to save his classmates usually lead to either unexpected ButterflyOfDoom deaths or Monokuma starting new motives to guarantee a murder.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1486986/1/Loop-in-Time Loop in Time]]'' Harry casts a spell on Snape which forces the victim to repeat the same day until they make it perfect for the caster. Harry being the typical horny teenager, this involves having sex.
* The main premise of the ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' fic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/24501283/chapters/59143876 Here we go Loopty Loo]]'' is that Class 1-A, Eraserhead, and All Might [[spoiler:and later the UA Big Three, Toga, Dabi, and Shigaraki]] have been repeating about three years each loop for upwards of one hundred loops, with the loop typically starting just before the Quirk assessment and inevitably ending just before graduation or with the death of all the loopers. The loops often have differences from the original timeline, ranging from GenderBender shenanigans or mild shuffling of class assignments to full [=AUs=] set in various other series like VideoGame/AmongUs or [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc Danganronpa]]. [[spoiler:The loops are happening because [[FlingALightIntoTheFuture a dying Deku passed One for All onto Eri as a last-minute attempt to save her]] in the original timeline. It combined with her own Rewind quirk to create the loops that will continue until all the loopers survive the loop.]]
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2800554/1/Valentine-s-Day-Repeated Valentine's Day Repeated]]'' Draco repeats the same Valentine's Day until he accepts Harry's feelings for him.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12709174/1/The-Karma-Circle-Chances-On-Top-of-Chances The Karma Circle: Chances on Top of Chances]]'', Gaz is [[VorpalPillow smothered]] while healing from a stomach bug in the hospital by someone with a grudge against her. Fortunately for her, the Entity of Death and Judgement sticks her in a loop with 30 resets, giving her a chance to prevent her death, if she can figure out who's responsible and how to stop them.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11022402/1/Recursion Recursion]]'' Harry repeats the same day until he gets together with Hermione.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12010117/1/Ground-Hog-Day Ground Hog Day]]'' after an accident in Potions, Harry, Hermione and Snape repeat the same day until Snape comes up with an antidote.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12820671/1/All-Our-Yesterdays All Our Yesterdays]]'' Harry repeats the same day due to having a time-turner shard stuck under his shoulderblade. The loop doesn't end until he has it removed and destroys the unstable ward which made the time-turner explode in the first place.
* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/22425025 Time Magic Is For All Intents And Purposes A Useless And Dangerous Magecraft]]'', Waver finds himself repeating the same day over and over again and wonders why, given that no rational magus would do something so reckless as to reverse time, and the only thing that really happens to him that day is a budget meeting. He eventually realizes that there's only one person out there with the magical talent to reverse time and the lack of sense to actually do it -- [[spoiler:Flat, who needed an extra day to complete a homework assignment. But since he isn't the one who remembered the repeated day, he procrastinates again, fails to do the assignment, and then needs to reset the day again. The loop ends when Waver sits on Flat until he does his homework.]]
* The Perry/Doof plot in ''[[Creator/Foobar137 Visions of the Future]]'' involves a Try-It-Again-Inator, which lets Doof retry their encounter until he manages to stop Perry. Thirty-five times later, Perry finds a way out of it before Doof finds a way to stop him; the reflected beam instead hits Phineas and Ferb and their friends, giving Ferb a chance to prevent Isabella (and later Phineas) from using the {{Chronoscope}} to look forward in time.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inJUFqeJehE Velma Meets the Original Velma]] plays this fairly differently; after Velma and the gang started to recognize the more nonsensical elements of her universe, such as Scooby's ability to talk, Scooby went on a rampage and killed Mystery Inc, before rebuilding the entire world and his friends so that they could continue their adventures. However, every time Velma would remember what happened before, and Scooby would have to kill her and everybody else before rebuilding again. He laments that each time is fairly different from the last and veers ever further from the original world, [[WesternAnimation/{{Velma}} the most recent]] being the furthest from capturing the essence of the original. The video ends with Scooby announcing [[ImpliedDeathThreat that he will get it right next time]], before killing Velma.

* In ''Fanfic/EarlyOneMorning'', Rainbow Dash has been stuck in one for some time, [[spoiler:Twilight ends up joining her.]]

* In the Australian indie horror ''Film/LostThings'' Gary, Tracey, Brad and Emily are [[spoiler:doomed to endlessly relive their fateful camping trip to the beach and subsequent murder by Zippo.]]

* ''Film/{{Naked}}'' is Netflix remake of the 2000 Swedish film ''Film/{{Naken}}'' about a man who gets blackout drunk the night before his wedding and is then trapped in an hour-long loop in which he wakes up the next day naked in an elevator in the wrong hotel, already late for the wedding.

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* This is weaponized in ''A World of Wonder''. The maximum penalty in Wonderland is to be "given pause," and forced to live your last hours of freedom over and over until the sentence is up.

* ''Series/RedDwarf'': A ''white'' hole?
** So it's decided then. We should try and explain the trope as it applies to this show before some smart ass turns this example into a circular joke.
** Also used in one of the tie-in books, a themed diary. Kryten suggested quite early on that Lister [[NoteToSelf write himself an explanatory note]] not to touch the equipment causing the loop again, but failed to remember that Lister's handwriting was so bad that he had to go up and touch it just to see what it said.
** "So, what is it?"
** "I've never seen one before -- no one has -- but I'm guessing it's a ''white hole''."

* ''Eternal City'', also known as ''Forever 7 Days Capital'', is an ActionRPG slash VisualNovel in which after seven days of one part ''VideoGame/{{XCOM}}''-style management, one part ActionRPG, and one part VisualNovel, there will be an ending, and after that, the cycle will be reset, allowing the player to see or achieve different outcomes.

* [[http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/mssrs-marshall-and-carter Mssrs Marshall and Carter]], a story from ''Website/TheWanderersLibrary'' shows that [[Website/SCPFoundation Marshall and Carter of Marshall]], Carter, and Dark, are [[spoiler:caught in something similar, where Marshall kills Carter every day, forever.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' ''[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS32E4TreehouseOfHorrorXXXI Treehouse of Horror XXXI]]'' segment "Be Nine, Rewind" has Lisa and Nelson stuck in a time loop on Lisa's birthday.

* ''Anime/UruseiYatsura: Beautiful Dreamer'' (1984) follows one for the early part of the film. This anime film was directed and written by Creator/MamoruOshii, later known for creating ''Anime/GhostInTheShell1995''.
* In a ChristmasEpisode of ''Manga/KimagureOrangeRoad'' (1987), Kyosuke repeats this holiday because he isn't able to decide if he should go to the party with Madoka [[spoiler:and]]/or Hikaru, and his PsychicPowers act up.

* In ''Literature/ReZero'', Subaru Natsuki has the same ability as this, called "Return by Death". However, there are 3 catches: He has to die to activate it, telling the ability to others would cause him or others to die because of dark hands appearing to grasp and crush his heart, and also it attracts magical beasts since he has the Scent of the Jealous Witch, which happens to be the heroine of the series.

* ''ComicBook/TheSandmanEndlessNights'': In "Death and Venice", a nobleman has intentionally created a loop which includes an entire island and all its inhabitants (including the nobleman himself), in which a decadent consequence-free party has repeated every day for hundreds of years. It's warded to be beyond Death's reach, but she eventually persuades a random human passing by to force open the entrance, letting her slip inside, break the loop, and return everyone to their proper timeline.

* In the ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'' story "Again and Again..." (''Donald Duck'' 336, 2006), Donald is forced to relive the same day over and over until he discovers what he did "wrong" on that day. The story spoofs elements of both ''Groundhog Day'' and ''Film/TheHudsuckerProxy''—with mouse-eared "Daddy Time" (i. e. Moses) being wise to the time loop, and a Phil-like character reliving a similar time loop in a movie on Donald's TV.

* One issue of ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' had Sonic stuck in a loop when a party in his honor gets ruined when he breaks a foot trying to avoid the press. He ultimately fixes it by waking up three hours earlier and parking his kiester on a chair and ''waiting''.

* ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmericaRebirth'': Issue #20. Bonus points for Flash directly invoking the trope.
* ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} is able to invoke these at will by trapping the victims of his Omega Beams inside the Omega Sanction, [[AndIMustScream where they're forced to live out countless lives that get progressively worse]], including the manner of death. Both Batman and Superman have experienced this, but nobody had it worse than Mr. Miracle in ''ComicBook/SevenSoldiers'' who was [[FateWorseThanDeath beaten, burned, mutilated, and castrated in just his first life within it]]. Batman simply had to relive his DarkAndTroubledPast over and over.
* ''ComicBook/XMen2019'': In ''House of X'' #2, we learn that [[spoiler:this is essentially Moira [=MacTaggert=]'s mutant power, to be reborn "in utero" after dying, reliving her life all over again. She uses these lives to attempt to give mutantkind a GoldenEnding]]. Her ''ComicBook/HouseofXCII'' counterpart, [[spoiler:Jubilee]], has the same ability.
* In ''ComicBook/ImmortalXMen'', we find out that [[spoiler:Mr. Sinister has cloned a bunch of Morias after the Quiet Council learned of Moria and is essentially doing this to make sure ''his'' plans go right.]]
* At the end of ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'', [[spoiler:Booster Gold imprisons Mister Mind in one of these, sending him back to the start of the year to be captured by Dr. Sivana, who inadvertently lampshades how trapped the worm is.]]

* ''ComicBook/InvaderZimOni'': The final issue of the series sees Zim and Dib trapped in a time loop, reliving the same day over and over, caused by Zim trying to harness the time manipulation energy of an EldritchAbomination's waste matter, only for GIR to inadvertently sabotage it. By the time Dib becomes aware of the loop (implied to be because of some random machinery Gaz [[BodyHorror stuck in the back of his head]]), it has recurred countless times, to the point that Zim (who is aware of the loop thanks to a specially designed hat) has come to the conclusion that it can't be broken and is now using the loop to pursue hobbies he didn't use to have the spare time for. Dib decides that he's been driven insane by the loop and takes over trying to break it. [[spoiler:He ultimately fails, and the issue ends with them still stuck in the loop.]]

* In ''Literature/MushokuTenseiJoblessReincarnation'':

* In ''Literature/SundayWithoutGod'', [[spoiler:the students Class 3-4 trap themselves in one when they wish to reset time to prevent a classmate's death. They repeat the same year fourteen times, and it's only when Alice enlists the help of Ai that the seal over them starts to break.]]

* This trope is the arc connecting both acts of ''Theatre/WaitingForGodot''.
* In ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'', [[spoiler:the entire plot of all seven novels (excepting a few [[FlashBack flash backs]]) is revealed at the very end to be a cycle. Roland finally reaches the Tower he has been trying to reach all this time, but as he enters it and climb the stairs, he notices several strangely familiar signs and sigils on the walls. When he then reaches the top, he sees a door with his name on it and realizes to his horror that he has reached and climbed the Tower countless times before. Roland is then forced through the door by the hands of Gan and transported back in time, he then wakes up in the Mohaine desert, back to where he was at the very beginning with his memory reset. How long the cycle has been repeating, and how long it will continue, is left to the reader's imagination. Notably though, this particular new iteration is implied to at least be somewhat different as [[NewGamePlus Roland this time possesses the Horn of Eld from the very beginning]].]]
* Occurs during the short story "Endless Eight" in ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya''. Haruhi, who has godlike powers, ([[LockedOutOfTheLoop though she is kept forcefully unaware]], due to others fearing what a [[GenkiGirl person]] [[IJustWantToBeSpecial like]] [[LackOfEmpathy her]] would do should she realize she has such abilities) wishes at the end of the summer break that summer would never end. This accidentally causes a continuous loop of the previous two weeks every time she makes the wish. Which she ends up doing ''15,532 times.'' Each time, only Yuki [[RippleEffectProofMemory completely retains total memory of the previous loops]], while the others, except for Haruhi, suffer from déjà vu, eventually all figuring it out the situation, except for (obviously) Haruhi. [[spoiler:Only by forcing everyone to finish their summer homework does Kyon manage to make her not wish for summer to continue, finally ending the loop.]] When this story was adapted for the second season of the anime, Creator/KyotoAnimation, in order to have the audience empathize with the extreme boredom and tediousness the characters had to go through, [[AdaptationExpansion stretched the story out significantly]] by animating the same episode eight times, with only minor differences for each one.
* Two books in the ''[[Literature/HelpImTrapped Help! I'm Trapped in _____'s Body!]]'' series had the character repeating either the first day of school or of summer camp, until he stopped acting like a jerk. The second of the two is more or less a {{deconstruction}} of this trope, and it turns out that the reason he was going through this was... because he didn't brush his teeth.
* The young adult novel ''Literature/HeirApparent'', by Vivian Vande Velde, is about a girl trapped in a [[InsideAComputerSystem full-immersion virtual reality game]]; every time she dies in the game, the game starts over.
* "The Cookie Monster"[[note]]Not [[Series/SesameStreet that]] one, unfortunately.[[/note]] by Creator/VernorVinge is a particularly unusual example -- the protagonists don't have RippleEffectProofMemory, but two of them have figured out how to preserve information -- [[spoiler:they're [[InsideAComputerSystem personality uploads of real people]] that [[DoAndroidsDream retained their human sentience]], and they can store information in the computer and send it out just before their cycle reset]]. This means that every single day they're confronted with the TomatoInTheMirror. Not to worry, though -- [[spoiler:they're not ThreeLawsCompliant, and ''they're'' the [[TitleDrop "cookie monsters"]] of the title (a reference to a "cookie" on the Internet). AIIsACrapshoot, and they're preparing for revenge...]]

%%* Chapter Nine of ''Literature/TheHoleInTheZero'' by M.K. Joseph (a book which plays with and deconstructs SF and fantasy tropes throughout).
* Richard A. Lupoff's 1973 story "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12:01_PM 12:01 PM]]" is a possible candidate for TropeMaker: its protagonist experiences time endlessly resetting from 1:00 PM to 12:01, while everyone else is oblivious. At the end of the story he frantically rushes to meet a scientist with whom he can discuss the phenomenon before 1:00 arrives, but suffers a heart attack and dies. [[spoiler:And then it's 12:01 and he's alive again.]] (The makers of a short film adaptation attempted to sue the makers of ''Film/GroundhogDay'' but were forced to drop the case.)
* Lauren Oliver's first novel ''Literature/BeforeIFall'' is about a teenage girl who repeats February 12 -- the day of her death.
* ''Literature/MartianTimeSlip'' by Creator/PhilipKDick involves the protagonist reliving the same day over and over again, [[MindScrew each time more bizarre than the last.]] After the day is over, he can't even remember it.
* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' Literature/PastDoctorAdventures novel ''Festival of Death'' features a race with this as their [[PlanetOfHats hat]]; after they die, they loop around back to the start and remember exactly how they screwed up. Because everybody has it, they're not limited to fixing the errors of a single day, or a single lifetime: they can adjust the course of their entire history. (If fixing a screw-up requires action more than one lifetime ago, a message can be passed back by a newborn child telling an adult, who waits to be reborn then passes the message on in the same way.) Fortunately for everyone else, they're not interested in using their abilities to conquer other planets, or anything petty like that; the messages that have been passed back from the end of their history have given them something far more important to worry about.
* In ''Literature/{{Pact}}'', a chronomancer uses his abilities to create one of these for his enemies. [[spoiler:Or so it seems. In actuality, Duncan Behaim uses his magic to fake a time loop, forcing Blake, Rose, Evan, and the rest of the people in the Jacob's Bell police station to forget the last few hours and reset themselves to where and what they were doing at the beginning of the affected period [[RuleOfThree three times]]. Our protagonists figure out what is going on when they notice that the sun is in a different position than it should be for how long they'd been at the station. It turns out real time magic takes more power than Duncan has at hand...]]
* In a Sakyo Komatsu short story a businessman who is going bankrupt tomorrow makes a DealWithTheDevil and asks the Devil "to do something with tomorrow". Guess what happens to the businessman.
* Such a loop has apparently occurred at least a few times in Creator/RobertRankin's book ''Literature/TheMostAmazingManWhoEverLived''; by the time the plot begins, Hugo Rune, the self-proclaimed "amazing man", had worked out the secret of ''pre''-incarnation, allowing him to be reborn on his original birth date with all of his memories intact, to the extent that he has now arranged for himself to be born as quintuplets using their advanced knowledge as part of a plan for four of them to take over the world (the fifth, original Rune is focused on more philanthropic matters).
* In ''Tears of a Dragon,'' the final book of Bryan Davis’ ''Literature/DragonsInOurMidst'' series, the protagonists visit an alternate dimension where all the former dragons are trapped in a time loop of a single day with no memories outside their present experience of that single day. They eat the same food, go to the same town meeting, go on the same dates—by the time of the story, they have been doing this for years on end without realizing it. Since they are the only ones who realize what is happening, it is the main characters’ goal to rescue the inhabitants of the somewhat misnamed "Dragons' Rest".
* In the ''Literature/{{Time Machine|Series}}'' gamebook series, there exist "rules of time travel"; supposedly, if you break them you're in danger of being caught in a time loop. You get the opportunity to break such a rule in one of the books, and all it does is to send you back to page one. Also note that since bad choices make you re-read pages you've read already, the protagonist technically falls into a few short loops (with two or three iterations, tops) on his every adventure. (Since some of them involve arduous weeks- or even months-long trips, it's probably not pleasant...)
* In Alex Scarrow's ''Time Riders'', the station from which the heroes monitor time is a railway arch under the Williamsburg Bridge, New York, on a GDL of the 10th and 11th of September, 2001. This was done intentionally; In the wake of 9-11, no-one would pay them any mind, or at least, would forget about them completely. Thus, the heroes' presence would never contaminate the future in any significant way.
* In the book ''11 Birthdays'', the heroine, Amanda, relives her eleventh birthday over and over again, along with her ex-best-friend, Leo (also his eleventh birthday). One of the things about this loop is that they realize Amanda still has blisters from some uncomfortable shoes worn the last cycle, so their bodies and anything they keep on themselves remains. [[OhCrap Then they quickly realize that this means]] ''they will keep aging in the loop.''
* This is weaponized in ''A World of Wonder''. The maximum penalty in Wonderland is to be "given pause," and forced to live your last hours of freedom over and over until the sentence is up.
* In the book ''Ctrl-Z'', the protagonist, Alex, has a computer that resets time a certain amount if you press Ctrl-Z. The protagonist's friend Callum knows about it, but only Alex has RippleEffectProofMemory. So in one story arc, Callum accidentally hits his father in the foot with a dart, so he rushes over to Alex's house to press Ctrl-Z, and finds himself back at his house before he threw the dart...but since he has no memory of what happened he does the same thing, and presses Ctrl-Z over and over, leaving Alex trying to figure out why time is resetting every few minutes.
* F. M. Busby wrote a series of short stories which ran on this; the deuteragonist invented a "backspacer" which reset the world to a previous state, and often used it to rerun days until a variation occurred which didn't include some undesirable event, such as the start of World War 3. The protagonist was once allowed to use the device himself, and thereafter had RippleEffectProofMemory.
* The short story "Absent Thee From Felicity Awhile" by Creator/SomtowSucharitkul has aliens grant humanity the gift of immortality--at a price; everyone must relive the day before the aliens came--for a million years.
* ''Literature/TheDefenceOfDuffersDrift'' uses the dream variant as a framing device--not [[DreamWithinADream dreams within dreams]], but a sequence of dreams all depicting the same scenario where [[EnsignNewbie the protagonist]] must command his platoon of fifty men to defend a strategic riverbed crossing in UsefulNotes/TheSecondBoerWar. To prevent him from "cheating", the protagonist cannot remember the exact circumstances from dream to dream (enemy force composition and direction, et cetera), but he can and does learn general tactical lessons.
* In ''The Tunnel Under the World'', by Creator/FrederikPohl, Guy Burckhardt lives in a town where June 15th is repeated every day, but the inhabitants don't realize. It is later revealed that [[spoiler:everyone in the town is a miniature robot who was imprinted with the mind-pattern of a citizen of the real town, which was destroyed on June 14th. Advertising executives then used them to test various advertising techniques. It makes much more sense than it seems.]]
* Creator/KeithLaumer has written many stories that involve time travel and/or alternate realities, so it's almost inevitable that some time loops would appear. For part of ''Time Trap'' the protagonist is in a "Groundhog Day" Loop that includes a MiddleOfNowhereStreet. Though all the characters remain aware and remember previous loops, physically the world is reset once a day, including the dead returning to life -- except the protagonist, who retains any wear and tear from the day before.
* The premise of ''Neverday'' by Creator/CarltonMellickIII is that not just one or a few people, but a large and ever-growing part of humanity is stuck in one, waking up on the same day whenever they go to sleep or die. A new society has emerged that tries to solve such problems as how to punish criminals and how to provide incentives for people to still perform such jobs as are still necessary. Oh, and there's rumours of what happens if you manage to stay awake for long enough to make it into the Neverday, the next day that most people never see...
* Creator/RLStine's ''It's the First Day of School...Forever!'' centers around a kid who finds himself repeating a disasterous first at school, which only gets worse with each loop. In the end it turns out that [[spoiler:the whole thing was a video game someone is playing, the loops are a result of the game being reset.]]
* In ''Literature/{{Sophie}}'', this is part of TheEndingChangesEverything that is not involved in the fantastical or anything. [[spoiler:Matthew has forced multiple women to re-enact this single night in every detail, pretended to be recovered, and ultimately killed them or left them to die in a locked bunker.]]
* In ''Literature/TheHazelWood'', stories in the Hinterland (a realm of fairy tales) repeat themselves in a continuous loop, even though time moves normally for everyone else. Those who break the loop are called ex-story.
* It's eventually revealed in "Middlegame" by Creator/SeananMcGuire that Rodger and Dodger have the ability to induce this for the entire universe. Everytime they've inevitably gotten things wrong and gotten themselves killed, they reset things. Each loop generally only has a few minor changes to try and push things forward and unlike most examples the starting point for the reset changes each time. It's the endpoint that remains constant. Without RippleEffectProofMemory, the two are bumbling their way through to a golden ending they have no clue even exists let alone how to achieve. By the time the novel ends, [[spoiler:they've been in what amounts to a 30 year loop for 13,000 repetitions, and have unknowingly reset the universe almost half-a-million years.]]
* ''Literature/TalesForTheMidnightHour'' has one story called "The Old Plantation", which tells about a northern real estate agent spending the night in a house, despite being warned of its strangeness. Among other things, he finds a book called ''The Old Plantation'', which echoes his own life. The book ends with the in-story avatar realizing something horrifying and just stopping and waiting. As the protagonist tries to figure it out, he realizes he's waiting for himself to arrive and start the evening all over again.
* "Showdown" by Creator/ShirleyJackson, which was probably written before her death[[note]]this is Shirley Jackson we're talking about[[/note]] in 1965, but not published until the 2015 collection ''Let Me Tell You'', would have been another trope maker. On July 16, 1932, Billy suspects that his town is haunted. He witnesses the in-plain-sight murder of young Tom Harper by brutal Thad Ruskin, whose daughter Susy was engaged to Tom. Tom asks Susy to never forget him, and she and ''all'' the witnesses vow to remember. Billy skips his chores to go fishing, and is sent to bed without supper. The next day and the next he goes through the same set of events and it's still July 16, 1932. He catches on and begins to try to change things; can he get across the street faster, can he stand closer to Tom when Thad pulls out the knife? Then he, and you, finally figure out what he should do, and [[DeadAllAlong what has already happened]].
* In ''Literature/ThisUsedToBeAboutDungeons'' chrononauts have an innate ability to go back a day and reset time, although with a few caveats. While they are only aware of the times they personally reset, the guild communication system can be used to pass short messages between individual timelines. The exact number of times one of them can repeat a day is dependent on the individual, with 12 being noted as extraordinary, and there is a complex order of precedence that governs the order the resets apply when multiple chrononauts are involved. Generally they'll try to stay out of each other's way so they don't have to worry about it, but when they coordinate their efforts and pass messages between lower-priority and higher-priority chrononauts, they can potentially keep the same day playing out for years.
* In ''Literature/PermutationCity'', one character inflicts this on a [[BrainUploading simulated copy]] of himself out of guilt as a kind of SelfInflictedHell, making the copy endlessly relive the worst moment of his life (in which he committed the crime he's punishing himself for).

* The BBC radio play ''Time After Time'' features a man with amnesia who keeps reliving the same moments in a strange hotel and tries to escape. The reliving always begins with him hearing the eponymous Frank Sinatra song on a radio. [[spoiler:It is revealed at the end that he is in fact dying and it was all his mind processing his final moments.]]

* In ''VideoGame/{{IMGCM}}'', every time one or more heroines die and in some cases, are [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie corrupted into demon(s) after they're slain by demons]], the time resets into the moment before the unwinnable battle and all the heroines are alive and intact. [[spoiler:However, it's revealed that Tobio's MentorMascot avatar Omnis' ability isn't rewinding the time. Technically it still has time-loop elements. But actually, Omnis uses his special ability to [[RealityMaker create new realities based on his possibilities he wants]] and then [[MergedReality merges the universes where he]] [[RealityWarper previously screwed-up with new ones]]. All the heroines, both alive and dead, are merged with the copies from universes/realities he recently created, resulting their deaths undone. Unfortunately, the ones who ''are'' subsequently corrupted into demon after they died cannot be merged due to certain immunity or conditions. Instead, they're replaced by new copies from universes he recently created.]]

* Kind of happens in ''The Vicious Cycle of _________'' videos. In ''Ridiculous Loop of Turf War'', loop the video. At the end, the Inkling girl submerges back into the paint. Then, it goes back to the ending picture as she rises up again before getting shot and madness occurs again. Cut back to her shooting someone else and she dives back into the ink, the cycle repeats until you change the video you watch...

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmnq0ZWrlH4 Breath of the Wild: Rage! Die! Repeat?]]'' tells a story of a Bokoblin from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' stuck in one of these due to the game's monster respawn mechanic.

* ''Webcomic/WapsiSquare'' features a plotline where an ancient Mayan calendar is in reality a broken TimeMachine. In 2012, this machine will reset all of time back to when the machine was first activated. Only one immortal character, Jin, retains memories of this event. She has lived about 81,200 years (56 iterations of the loop), living through the same looping time period, trying to fix the machine and end the loop. All the other characters in the comic are known to her, and she has been friends, enemies, maybe even lovers with each of them during the endless cycles of time she has lived through.
* ''Webcomic/LegostarGalactica'' parodies this when the USS ''Muffin'' [[http://legostargalactica.comicgenesis.com/d/20021212.html enters a time loop]], with first officer Marty pointing out that to preserve it they ought to go back, while the Captain just wants to get out, getting sufficiently annoyed by the third repetition to smack Marty in the mouth when he suggests going back in.
* Used hilariously in a series of ''WebComic/SluggyFreelance'' strips, starting [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/19990412 here]].
* ''Webcomic/TheEnds'' is set in a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] wasteland where a massive nuclear explosion has apparently distorted time, forcing the survivors into an endless cycle of death and rebirth.

* Nenshe of ''Webcomic/RumorsOfWar'' experiences something between a "Groundhog Day" Loop and a DreamWithinADream, returning to a particular sequence of thoughts again and again until the voices in his head (in the form of his teammates) help him escape.
* ''Webcomic/WickedPowered'' ends with the villain trapping the main characters in an infinite "Groundhog Day" Loop, [[DownerEnding dooming them to relive the events of the entire comic over and over for eternity]], [[AndIMustScream unable to change any of it]].
* ''Webcomic/{{Xkcd}}'' presents a...shall we say, ''interesting'' theory of [[http://xkcd.com/1076/ what really happened to Phil and Rita at the end of the original movie.]]
* The Maze of Many in ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}''. The characters from several alternate realities race for the MacGuffin. Each time they die, they are reset to the beginning of the dungeon. The maze is also reset when one team reaches the treasure, only without the winning team (who get to go home). They don't remember their previous attempts though, only a counter is shown how many times they failed.
* Neil Gaiman's short story, [[http://matrix.wikia.com/wiki/Goliath "Goliath"]] was written prior to the release of the first Matrix film as a promotional effort, and later made into a comic book and included in one of Gaiman's short story anthologies. It uses varying interpretations of this trope, by depicting a very tall, Robert Wadlow-esque man who keeps reliving moments of his life, having them speed up, rewound, looped with him remembering elements of his past differently, as he made different life choices along the way. Eventually he is met by an Agent, who explains that he's actually in a simulation, and aliens are attacking the Earth (we sent something out, something followed us back) by throwing asteroids into impact orbits. Gaiman's premise for the story (and part of the original Wachowski interpretation) views humans not as energy sources but as living parallel-processing computer nodes, and the protagonist was specially "engineered" to pilot a spaceship to destroy the aliens; the Agents are "reloading" and "overclocking" parts of the Matrix to help calculate a defensive/offensive strategy to destroy the aliens before they take out too many CPU farms. Unfortunately [[spoiler:even though the protagonist succeeds in destroying the aliens, the ship was designed as a one-way trip. The character pleads with the Agent -- in the hour of oxygen he has remaining -- to plug him back into the Matrix so he can write a goodbye note.]], and he again relives his life [[EarnYourHappyEnding in the way he wanted to]].

* The "Choose" plotline of ''Webcomic/SkinHorse'' has a time loop that resets whenever Jonah dies over the course of a very complicated day. Since he falls into the loop while in Anasigma headquarters, where EverythingIsTryingToKillYou, this quickly leads to him [[TakingALevelInBadass taking several levels in badass]]. Also, it doesn't appear to have been ''stopped'' as such, he just stopped dying.
* ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'': Emil having RecurringDreams translates into his dreamscape safe area running on a "groundhog day" loop. When Lalli gets stuck in it, he sees the recurring dream "reset" to its beginning when Emil falls asleep.

* ''Webcomic/SurvivingRomance'': Protagonist Chaerin is trapped in one, waking up on the day of the virus outbreak every time she dies. Some physical marks will persist across loops and she can even take objects with her by placing them in her mouth.

* ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons'': It's increasingly heavily implied that [[spoiler:the whole series is just one more iteration of an EternalRecurrence, with [[GreaterScopeParagon Zoss]] endlessly resetting time to find a worthy successor and get the GoldenEnding where the Seven are defeated and [[CrapsackWorld Throne]] restored to glory. Some characters, such as 6 Juggernaut, have a RippleEffectProofMemory, allowing them to notice this loop... and [[GoMadFromTheRevelation go completely insane from it]].]]
* In the National Novel Writer's Month arc of ''Help Desk'', the character trying to write a story for [=NaNoWriMo=] loses a week of writing time because of a new video game, then gets back on track by adding a time loop to his story, [[{{Padding}} allowing him to copy paste the same chapter into the story multiple times]].
* The Story [[spoiler:"Back To Mornau"]] in ''Webcomic/MelvinasTherapy'' centers around a loop affecting a single town. The protagonist goes to his therapist [[BigBad Melvina]] and talks about leaving his hometown and the lack of closure he feels about as he cannot remember why he left. Melvina convinces him to return home to seek closure and he does. After he arrives the town descends into chaos as residents start becoming trapped repeating the same actions or [[BodyHorror start warping into fractal shapes.]] The protagonist eventually escapes through the abandoned mines where he discovers an EldritchAbomination responsible for the destruction. He realizes that it did all this to lure him here because he accidentally hatched it and because of {{Imprinting}} it thinks he is its parent. Given the choice between confronting it while its guard is down to save the town or escaping, [[DirtyCoward the protagonist chooses to save himself.]] The monster resets the town to how it was before while he [[RepressedMemories represses his memories]] to cope with the guilt of abandoning the town. Which in turn leads to him seeking therapy starting the cycle all over again. Notably the outside world continues on throughout this loop.

* [[http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/mssrs-marshall-and-carter Mssrs Marshall and Carter]], a story from ''Website/TheWanderersLibrary'' shows that [[Website/SCPFoundation Marshall and Carter of Marshall]], Carter, and Dark, are [[spoiler:caught in something similar, where Marshall kills Carter every day, forever.]]

* A few of the Practitioners in ''Literature/{{Pact}}'' specialize in manipulation of time. When Blake Thorburn is close to legally getting himself out of jail after many of the officers have been manipulated to keep him there, Duncan Behaim sends Blake back to the beginning of the day, undoing most of Blake's efforts but leaving him with his memory of the events.
* In ''Literature/{{Curveball}}'', the entire island of [[spoiler:Esperanza]] was magically [[RetGone erased from history]]. However, due to the interaction between two different, very powerful spells, a remnant of the island still exists, acting out the last day of the island's existence over and over again, forever.
* ''Blog/ScarfolkCouncil'': The small English town of Scarfolk is trapped in the 1970s. The clock hits midnight on December 31st 1979 and starts ticking off the seconds of January 1st 1970. [[CrapsackWorld And the '70s were hard enough in Britain, before you add in the totalitarian government and paranormal activity of Scarfolk.]]

* This happens in the '''WebVideo/HitlerRants'' video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H99gn0gwSsE "Hitler's Time Loop Tantrum"]], in which Hitler accidentally pushes a button that traps himself and his generals in a time loop.
* ''WebVideo/DontHugMeImScared'' features one with shocking implications on the series. [[spoiler:The series ends with one, with Red Guy resetting the events of the series by pulling the plug on the machine controlling the teachers, which reverts all of the main characters back to the first episode. The last (and, by extent, first) line of the series is the Notepad saying "What's your favorite idea?"]].
* Doc Brown vs. Doctor Who of ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'' has one -- the battle looping as the announcer yells the title, the famous ending ''TitleDrop'' overlapping into the beginning of the battle. The battle abruptly ends after The Tenth Doctor uses his Sonic Screwdriver to end the time loop and corrects the announcer a second time. [[WhatCouldHaveBeen A scrapped idea]] for the battle has the loop existing long enough for the video to be ten minutes long.

* [[{{UsefulNotes/Mormonism}} The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] has a short movie, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBRqoJEXMhU "Reach Out]] [[https://www.lds.org/youth/video/reaching-out-through-love?lang=eng with Love"]], about a young Mormon named Guillermo who is asked by his bishop (priest) to invite his friend Steve to church and becomes trapped in a time loop until he can accomplish the task.
* [[https://youtu.be/Y47wKeEesV0 One take]] on [[MemeticMutation the "Steamed Hams" scene]] from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "22 Short Films About Springfield" shows time resetting every time Principal Skinner tells a lie with Superintendent Chalmers being aware of it.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' has Francis Grey in the episode "Seconds", who can "rewind" time by a few seconds whenever he wants, without anyone else aware of it. He still can't be in two places at once, of course, which is how he's defeated... [[spoiler:and the end result is that, when it really counts, he finally manages to rewind time all the way back to when he first became a criminal, but he chooses differently and instead becomes an ordinary repairman.]]

* This was how the Justice League got rid of [[spoiler:Chronos]] in the end of the ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]'' episode "The Once and Future Thing, Pt. 2: Time, Warped". [[spoiler:The villain tried to turn himself into a god by escaping to the beginning of time, but due to Green Lantern and Batman altering his belt's programming, [[AndIMustScream he was thrown back to his house with his wife yelling at him... over and over again.]]]]

-->--'''Phil Connors''', ''Film/GroundhogDay''

* ''Film/MeetCute'': Enforced by Sheila, who uses a time machine to return to the same day over and over again to play out the same first date with Gary. She goes through a straight year of that day before she starts to experience TimeLoopFatigue.