History Main / NeverTheSelvesShallMeet

** The "legend rule" applies to legendary creatures (or legendary permanents of any type). Legendary permanents represent unique, named characters, places, or objects rather than generic ones. Originally, starting in Legends, the legend rule stated that if a legendary permanent is on the battlefield and a new one enters the battlefield shares a name with it, the newest version would be sent to the graveyard. However, two legendary permanent cards could represent the same character without sharing a name. For example, [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=106398 Kamahl, Pit Fighter]] and [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=220490 Kamahl, Fist of Krosa]] represent the same character but have different names, so they could coexist on the battlefield. In Champions of Kamigawa, the rule was later amended so that both are sent to the graveyard. Finally, in Magic 2014, it was amended to be a softer version of this, with multiple copies of a legendary permanent being allowed to exist as long as they are on different sides of the battlefield; If one player ends up with two or more copies of the same legendary card in play, they must sacrifice all but one as soon as they enter the battlefield, and they are allowed to choose which one stays. (For example, you could cast a new copy to get the "enters the battlefield" effect again, but save the old copy because it has beneficial buffs on it already. On the other hand, if your opponent has put a negative effect on your creature, you could remove the old one and keep the new one.)

** The "legend rule" applies to legendary creatures (or legendary permanents of any type). Legendary permanents represent unique, named characters, places, or objects rather than generic ones; originally, the legend rule stated that if a legendary permanent entering the battlefield shares a name with one already on the battlefield, both are sent to the graveyard. However, two legendary permanent cards could represent the same character without sharing a name. For example, [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=106398 Kamahl, Pit Fighter]] and [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=220490 Kamahl, Fist of Krosa]] represent the same character but have different names, so they could coexist on the battlefield. The rule was later amended to be a softer version of this, with multiple copies of a legendary permanent being allowed to exist as long as they are on different sides of the battlefield; If one player ends up with two or more copies of the same legendary card in play, they must sacrifice all but one as soon as they enter the battlefield.

* Mostly averted in ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', except that Schlock's BizarreAlienBiology causes him to involuntarily merge with his doppelganger.[[labelnote: Specifically...]]Due to time travel there was now a "young" Schlock, and a "2-month-older" Schlock. The biology is: Schlock can reassemble himself if he's ever splattered (grenades, water hoses, hitting the ground hard enough...) Since the primary difference between them is memories and the Schlocks were in the middle of sharing some of those different memories, which requires ''touching''....[[/labelnote]]

** Other instances of time travel are often explained away as being alternate realities. WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}} Vanilla featured a future Gwen bringing child Ben and Gwen back to her time to convince [[FutureBadass Ben's future self]] [[HelpYourSelfInTheFuture to slow down with his hero gig]]. He clearly didn't recall the encounter. Later, in ''[[WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien Ultimate Alien]]'', another version of [[MyFutureSelfAndMe Ben from the future appears]], remembering the previous time travel adventure, but not of meeting himself as a teenager. One could argue the very act of meeting [[AlternateSelf another version of yourself]] causes [[ForWantOfANail your own future to change]] (while leaving his present/past intact, as for him, it already happened).

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E4Inferno "Inferno"]]: The Doctor, while visiting a fascist MirrorUniverse of Earth, claims that if that universe's evil version of the Brigadier were to meet the original it would destroy both universes. [[spoiler:The evil Brigadier wants to force the Doctor to save him from his Earth, which volcanic eruptions would destroy in a matter of minutes.]]

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E3MawdrynUndead "Mawdryn Undead"]] shows that when the Brigadier met his younger self, the resulting "Blinovitch Limitation Effect" had the effect [[spoiler:of giving the younger Brigadier a nervous breakdown, as well as enough PureEnergy to kill a half-dozen previously immortal aliens]]. In terms of the Brigadier, this created a neat StableTimeLoop.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E8FathersDay "Father's Day"]], travelling to the same place twice allows Rose to create a TemporalParadox by watching herself save her father from getting killed in car accident while she was still a baby. Later in the same episode, she gives more power to that story's ClockRoaches [[spoiler:by touching her own infant self]]. It's revealed that cleaning up paradoxes without such things happening is part of what the Time Lords did, but now that (for the most part) there ''aren't'' any Time Lords any more, there's no one to prevent such things from happening. This may explain why no flying killer time monkeys appeared during any serial with a title of the form "The [number] Doctors".
** The 2007 special [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CiNSTimeCrash "Time Crash"]] blamed Creator/PeterDavison's Doctor ageing 30 years on temporal weirdness resulting from being in the same room with himself. (This same explanation may be used to justify the relatively minor differences in appearance occurring in multi-Doctor stories in the original series- the biggest of which (besides TheOtherDarrin example of the new First Doctor) was the obviously-older Second Doctor in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E4TheTwoDoctors "The Two Doctors"]]. But then the Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse explains the latter, anyway.)
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E8TheHungryEarth "The Hungry Earth"]]: At the beginning, Amy and Rory see their future selves waving to them from a distant hilltop. Amy wants to go over and meet herself, but the Doctor tells her it's a bad idea, and it doesn't happen.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang "The Big Bang"]], Amy meets her seven-year-old self ("Amelia"), and touches her a couple of times in sizing her up. Possible FanWank[=s=] include a) Amelia is from an alternate timeline, so they're not technically the same person (apart from anything else, she [[spoiler:vanishes minutes later, so she obviously doesn't grow up to become Amy]]), and b) with the whole Universe toast, save for the Earth and [[spoiler:the TARDIS explosion acting as a substitute Sun]], there are probably no ClockRoaches, and really more pressing matters at hand than a couple of silly old paradoxes. It's also lampshaded later when Amy mentions that she met herself, and Rory responds "To be fair, [[spoiler:the universe did blow up]]."

** [[Recap/DoctorWho2011RNDSSpaceAndTime "Space"/"Time"]] is a Comic Relief special where Amy meets herself from a few minutes down the line. The only danger is to Rory ([[GirlOnGirlIsHot risk of hormone-based overload from watching Amy flirt with herself]]).
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E10TheGirlWhoWaited "The Girl Who Waited"]], two Amys (Amies?) meet and the problem is being able to save only one. The TARDIS can't handle the paradox of two Amys in one time and place.
** [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor "The Day of the Doctor"]] starts with three incarnations of the Doctor meeting up thanks to [[spoiler:the Moment]] opening rips in space-time. The Tenth and Eleventh Doctors meet the War Doctor, a previously-unmentioned incarnation that existed between the Eighth and Ninth Doctors who renounced his name during the Time War. [[spoiler:In the end, ''all'' thirteen incarnations meet at a single point in time to put Gallifrey into another dimension, including the as-yet-nonexistent Twelfth Doctor]]. However, it's specifically mentioned that only the Eleventh Doctor [[spoiler:and the Twelfth]] will remember this happening, as the events are asynchronous with the timelines of the earlier Doctors.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E4Listen "Listen"]], the Doctor tries to get Clara to travel to her childhood, but Clara (who is at the time psychically linked with the TARDIS) gets distracted and travels to her LoveInterest's childhood. The Doctor doesn't yet know that and tells Clara to stay in the TARDIS in order to avoid meeting her past self. Later, [[spoiler:Clara finds out she accidentally traveled to the Doctor's own childhood (as the First Doctor) and created a StableTimeLoop. She demands that the Doctor leave this time and not try to find out where and when they ended up.]]
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E5FugitiveOfTheJudoon "Fugitive of the Judoon"]]: Gat is outraged when she realizes that [[spoiler:Ruth and Thirteen are both incarnations of the Doctor, fearing the damage having two of the same Time Lord so close to each other could do to the timeline.]] Later, when [[spoiler:Ruth drops Thirteen back in Gloucester, she cites the same reason for not letting her TARDIS get too close to Thirteen's. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS39E3FluxChapterThreeOnceUponTime "Once, Upon Time"]] establishes that Gat and Ruth are from Gallifrey's past, suggesting their era hasn't got safe multi-incarnation meetings sorted out yet.]]

* ''Series/TheFlash2014'': Averted in [[Recap/TheFlash2014S1E23FastEnough "Fast Enough"]]. [[spoiler:At the scene of his mom's murder, ''three'' versions of Barry Allen were actually present -- his present self, his future self, and his child self. While Kid!Barry was whisked away too quickly to recognize either of them as himself, Present!Barry and Future!Barry make eye contact and recognize each other.]] Somehow, this doesn't break reality. Also happens later, when Barry deliberately travels back in time to [[spoiler:get help with the speed equation from Eobard Thawne. At the end of the episode, Past!Flash ends up helping Present!Flash get back home. The season 2 finale ends with Barry traveling back to his mother's murder ''again'', but this time, he stops it, causing the Barry from the season 1 finale to dissolve into thin air]]. In Season 3, Barry travels to the future in order to discover [[spoiler:Savitar's identity and meets his gloomy future self]]. Then there's TheReveal that [[spoiler:Savitar has been Barry's future time remnant all this time]].

* On another Franchise/{{Whoniverse}} series, ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'':
** The never-aging Captain Jack, [[spoiler:while trapped in 1901, orders himself [[HumanPopsicle cryogenically frozen]] to avoid meeting in the intervening decades before the present,]] and to prevent himself from meeting his [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E9TheEmptyChild "The Empty Child"]] self in 1941 and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E11BoomTown "Boom Town"]] self in 2006, as well as the version of him that has lived through all this already.
** At the end of "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang", the whole team, having gone back to earlier that day, are told that they must avoid themselves.
** It seems, though, that they're more worried about changing their own history than a TimeCrash resulting from simply being in the same place, since the same person being in the same place has happened so many times safely. If you interfere where you've ''already'' interfered, though, the ClockRoaches will getcha, as seen in the aforementioned DW episode, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E8FathersDay "Father's Day"]].
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': {{Discussed|Trope}} in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E1ShatterdayALittlePeaceAndQuiet Shatterday]]". When Peter Jay Novins threatens to go to his apartment and fight his alter ego, the alter ego speculates that this would be a very bad idea as each of them could be destroyed in the process. He cites the theory that only one of each thing can exist in the same place at the same time. This proves not to be the case when the two of them come face to face in the final scene. [[spoiler:It is implied that the alter ego knew this already.]]
* ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy'': Downplayed. [[{{TimePolice}} The Commission]] explicitly advises against two versions of a person existing in close proximity within the same timeline. While the universe doesn't collapse, both versions would go through "The Seven Stages of Paradox Psychosis," which start at denial before devolving into homicidal rage. [[spoiler:In an act of desperation, Five meets his "older" (technically younger) self [[{{ItMakesSenseInContext}}in order to steal the latter's briefcase so the rest of the Academy can return to 2019]]. HilarityEnsues when they both descend into madness and attempt to kill each other (thankfully they don't, as it would cause a GrandfatherParadox)]].

** Through the mixed-up and convoluted story of ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'', this essentially takes place. There probably isn't a time where there aren't at least two Sonics/Silvers/Shadows running around at the same time, just in different locations. For example, late in the game, Sonic, Silver, and (strangely) [[VideoGame/SonicRushSeries Blaze]] find themselves on a cliff, while Doctor Eggman's Egg Carrier crashes into the side of a mountain, leaving Sonic to believe Elise is dead. Silver then suggests Sonic goes back in time to rescue her. While this happening, [[spoiler:Sonic has already done so. He and Elise had already escaped the crash just as the carrier exploded.]] Then again, while there are multiples running around, they don't end up meeting each other, hence this trope being played straight, if unintentionally.
** Averted in ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations''. The entire gimmick of the game revolves around both Classic and Modern Sonics (and they meet up rather quickly.) In addition, there is also a meeting up of Classic and Modern Tails [[spoiler:and Classic and Modern Eggman - who both pilot the final boss.]]
** ''VideoGame/SonicForces'' sees Modern Sonic team up with Classic Sonic (now retconned to be AlternateUniverse counterparts to each other, rather than the present and past versions of one Sonic). Again, an aversion as nothing bad in terms of space-time seems to happen.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': An old [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] story involves Comicbook/WonderGirl (ComicBook/WonderWoman as a girl, before she became a separate character) attempting to meet her adult self but failing; this is the reason given for the failure. Later, it's why there needs to be a HandWave ("Amazon magic") for why Wonder Girl and Wonder Tot (Wonder Woman as a toddler) are able to team up with the adult Wonder Woman.
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':

* In ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', it becomes Never the Earths Shall Meet, as when the universes of Earths-1 and 2 are shunted into the Netherverse, they start slowly merging with each other, with the Monitor explaining that if they should occupy the same space together, they will annihilate each other. The result of this merging is that all time becomes one, creating a "warp zone" between the Earths where all of Earth's history is mixed together in a strange hodgepodge. The universes of Earths-4, S, and X also share the same problem, although the heroes realize that it is the Anti-Monitor that is causing the universes to merge together toward the end of mutual annihilation. It isn't until after the battle with the Anti-Monitor at the dawn of time that the multiple universes are safely merged together and rebooted as a single universe.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Timecop}}'', you can meet yourself and even talk to yourself, as long as you do not ''touch'', because "the same matter can't occupy the same space at the same time". When the BigBad does (with the hero's "help"), both selves melt and are erased from time.
* Subverted in an issue of ''ComicBook/IronMan'' when Doctor Doom travels to the future to meet himself. When Doom notes the theory, his elder self snorts that whoever came up with it never actually time-traveled.
* Major Victory of the Franchise/MarvelUniverse (specifically the 31st Century's ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy), after he travels back to the present, has to be careful about this with his ''shield'', since it's ComicBook/CaptainAmerica's from the future; it's established that if the present and future shields ever make contact, Bad Things will happen. Oddly, this is not a problem when ''he'' meets his younger self.
** Major Vance Astro, in fact, sought out the younger Vance Astrovik to explicitly tell his younger self not to become an astronaut, thus avoiding the BadFuture of the Major's AlternateTimeline. As a result of the meeting, the younger Astrovik's powers developed early, and he went on to become Justice of the ComicBook/NewWarriors.
* One ''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'' comic involves ComicBook/{{Jubilee|MarvelComics}} going back in time. Her past self temporarily disappears.
* [[ContinuitySnarl One version]] of the death of ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'' villain Per Degaton (who was split into two versions -- one taking TheSlowPath, the other gaining access to a TimeMachine -- in 1947) has him being disintegrated when he and his "chronal duplicate" finally meet up in the 1980s. This happened in an ''ComicBook/InfinityInc'' annual in 1988 that retells the fate of Professor Malachi Zee due to the events of ''ComicBook/AmericaVsTheJusticeSociety'' not happening in the ComicBook/PostCrisis DC Universe.
* In one anniversary edition of Franchise/SpiderMan involving ComicBook/DoctorStrange, Spidey was successfully able to see his past self (right before being bitten by the spider) and listen to advice from his future self on what seemed to be the end of his career (right before his future self is gunned down by the police for some unknown crime). Of course, seeing as the reason he was seeing this was because the fabric of reality was ''already'' in jeopardy because of Dormammu's plot to bring about the apocalypse, it's likely these two encounters couldn't have done any further damage.

* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'':
** Sue Richards actually asks this when Franklin and a version of himself from the future are talking. The older Franklin, and his father Reed, stare at Sue like she asked the dumbest question ever. This is after young and old Franklin have interacted for a good long while, by the way.
--->'''Future Franklin:''' "However, if I stay any longer, there are going to be repercussions."\\
(...)\\
'''Sue:''' "Okay... is this a paradox thing? Like two of the same object can't occupy the same space-time or the entire universe will implode... or something?"\\
'''Both Reed and Future Franklin:''' (Deadpan) "That's not how it works."
** Though Franklin explains that the danger does have to do with both Franklins being in the same time, but it has to do with the universe being sentient and potentially freaking out if it became aware of two Franklins coexisting.
* ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW'' has an entire arc exploring the risks of this. Having too many counterparts in one universe throws off the balance between them, disrupting both and causing a RealityBleed.
* Invoked in ''ComicBook/AdventuresOfTheSuperSons''. When Jon is split into a red and blue version of himself by red kryptonite, Damian knocks their heads into each other in an attempt to make them whole again. All it does is get both Jons to complain.
-->'''Damian:''' And can't you guys just... I don't know... absorb each other or something?\\
'''Red and Blue Jon:''' ''[[[SpeakInUnison simultaneously]]]'' Ow! Stop it! That's not how it works!
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' story "Better Luck Next Time" has Billy and Mandy sucked into Grim's cosmic cuckoo clock and sent hurtling through time where they run into a mysterious cloaked figure who warns them to never meet themselves as they effort to journey back to their own time and place. Not because of any disruptive anomaly, but because the cloaked figure couldn't stand being around more than one of them to start with (giving away that the cloaked figure was actually Grim way into the future).
* In ''ComicBook/StarTrekTheNextGenerationDoctorWhoAssimilation2'', the Doctor has to go back to when Picard had been assimilated by the Borg. He tells Picard he has to stay as two versions of himself can't exist in the same timeline. As soon as the TARDIS leaves, Amy points out how she and Rory have met past/future versions of themselves already. The Doctor admits he was lying because he doesn't want Picard to go through the experience of seeing himself as a Borg again.

* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'': One episode has Wander and Sylvia accidentally get time orbble juice which sends them running through time; they first end up in the episode "The Picnic" from Season 1. Although he's eager, Sylvia tells Wander to stay away from his past self to avoid creating a time paradox.

* The infamous ''VideoGame/DrJekyllAndMrHyde'' game for the NES had a mechanic where if you reach the same spot where you got too stressed as Jekyll as Hyde, lightning strikes and kills both.

** And before that, when he realizes he's accidentally ended up talking to his ''past'' self on the phone, he hangs up instantly, exclaiming "[[Film/BackToTheFuture Great Scott!]]"

** Like ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', this winds up less of a cosmic rule and more of a guideline to prevent paradoxes, since the timeline is ''very'' malleable (case in point, the time he [[spoiler:left a digital camera in the 1980s, which subsequently retconned his own son out of existance]]). But the protagonist is very GenreSavvy from the get-go.

* One ''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'' comic involves ComicBook/JubileeMarvelComics going back in time. Her past self temporarily disappears.

* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'': ''[[Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy The Last Command]]'' by Creator/TimothyZahn has a variant of this trope, involving [[CloningBlues clones]] instead of time travel. Clones grown near others set up "resonance effects" in the Force, which can drive them insane, and when Luke encounters his clone, he finds the experience incredibly off-putting: there's a buzzing hum in the Force that makes it hard to concentrate or think, making it difficult to fight the clone. This only seems to affect clones whose growth has been accelerated to an extreme degree -- having them grow up in under a year, for instance -- and Force-sensitive clones, since the clone army in the prequels (who take about 10 years to grow up) doesn't have any problems with this. Thrawn figures out a way around it in the same novel, using lizards that can push away the Force to protect against the clone madness ''and'' dramatically decrease the time to grow them even further.

* In ''Fanfic/JojoNewUniverse'', [[spoiler: [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Enrico Pucci]] meets his end after [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Funny Valentine]] uses D4C to transport Pucci's canon counterpart into the New Universe, triggering a collision between the two Puccis that erases them from existence.]]

* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'':

* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'': The reason RATH pursues Project Alicization (an attempt to create a human-equivalent mind entirely from scratch) is because artificial Fluctlights (minds[=/=]souls) are inherently more fragile than the natural variety, and can literally break down when confronted with [[AlternateSelf a mind too similar to themselves]]. This is addressed a few times over the course of the Alicization arc:

* ''Series/TwelveMonkeys'': {{Invoked}} by Cole in the pilot, and played with when he brings both the 2015 and 2043 versions of Cassandra's wristwatch together. [[spoiler:The result is a 'paradox', depicted here as a slowing down of time in the immediate vicinity that affects everyone present except Cole]].

* In ''Series/SevenDays'', whenever Parker travels back in time, his younger self, the sphere, and one trip's worth of their alien fuel source vanishes.

* Alluded to in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaJudgment'' by [[TimeMaster Aeon]] in his MirrorMatch. He says that two of the same person cannot be allowed to exist at once, lest time be destroyed.

* In the first ''Literature/ApprenticeAdept'' trilogy, only those who do no have an other self are capable of perceiving or crossing through The Curtain (an energy field denoting the barrier between the worlds of science-based Proton and magical Phaze. So meeting your other self was literally impossible. Stile and his Phaze self, the Blue Adept are able to interact, but that was a temporary SharingABody situation.

* The ''WesternAnimation/SecretSaturdays'' once encountered their evil counterparts from a MirrorUniverse, apparently made of {{Antimatter}}, that caused [[RealityIsOutToLunch physics to get weird]] whenever they were in close proximity to their doubles.

** The big exception to this is villains and heroes who are alternate versions of the same person. (The Dreamer and the Visionary, Legacy and Iron Legacy, all the hero decks coming in OblivAeon, etc.)
** Omnitron offers another aversion. You can play a game against Omnitron (the villain deck) using Omnitron-X (the hero deck) inside Omnitron-IV (the environment deck).
** One of the last mini-expansions is for the Void Guard, 4 powerful heroes that draw their powers from a similar source. Why are they all packed together? Because Void Guard are the same characters as The Sentinels, who were already in the game as a quirky deck with 4 character cards for one player. There's now nothing to stop one player from playing as The Sentinels, while the rest play as the individual members of Void Guard, resulting in each character being on the table twice.

** Played with in the Future arc. It's revealed that [[spoiler: Shouichi Irie trapped the future Vongola in the White Round Time Machine to keep them from switching out with their past selves, meaning they're still in the same time preiod for the duration of the arc. However, because of the same machine, they don't directly interact.]]

** An attempt to {{Defi|edTrope}}y this trope by [[BigBad Byakuran]] resulted in the creation of [[spoiler:Ghost, who was an AlternateSelf that was brought over to the main timeline with the Millefiore's tech. In the process, Ghost's own [[AlternateUniverse parallel world]] was destroyed, and Ghost himself was left as a [[EnergyAbsorption Flame-absorbing]] HumanoidAbomination with hardly anything resembling a [[AndIMustScream human consciousness]]. When the flames that compose him were finally absorbed, they went directly to Byakuran.]]

* In ''Manga/Reborn2004'' the past and future versions of the Vongola are not able to coexist in the same timeline.

** Actually, at the end of the [[spoiler:TYL!]] arc, we find out that [[spoiler:the TYL! Vongola guardians are being kept in some weird capsule thingy but do see/talk to their past selves.]] Although they were admittedly in what could have been a [[spoiler:separate pocket dimension created by the current BigBad 's men]].
** An attempt to [[DefiedTrope defy]] this trope [[GoneHorriblyWrong gone horribly wrong]] resulted in [[spoiler:Ghost, who was a version of [[BigBad Byakuran]] from an alternate timeline that was brought over to the main timeline. In the process, Ghost's own [[AlternateUniverse parallel world]] was destroyed, and Ghost himself was left as a [[EnergyAbsorption Flame-absorbing]] EldritchAbomination with hardly anything resembling a [[AndIMustScream human consciousness]].]]

* This may happen to you in "Dimension of Doom", one of the ''Star Challenge'' books. You can end in a planet crammed with [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs dinosaurs]] and a {{Cyborg}} half-human and half-robot [[spoiler:asking about him, he replies he's you in a future after being combined with your robotic companion. Accept your destiny and he'll [[RetGone disappear]]. Attempt to change your fate and you'll become that Cyborg (bad ending)]]