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* In ''{{Millennia: Altered Destinies}}'', the player is given a timeship by a hooded alien to guide four races in the Echelon Galaxy in order to stop the expansion of the evil Microids. One of the major obstacles is an [[EvilCounerpart alternate version of the player]] recruited by the Microids to sabotage the player's work. Like the player, he cannot be killed.

** The ''Androids'' and Trunks. Trunks only learns about Cell when he meets him in the past.

* Series two of AshesToAshes becomes this, with [[BigBad Martin Summers]] trying to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong from his perspective, but is actually SetWrongWhatOnceWentRight for everyone else. Alex decides that acting as the TimePolice will enable her to [[TrappedInThePast get home.]]

* In ''The Apocalypse Troll'' by David Weber (of HonorHarrington fame), an alien-created cyborg-modified human is sent back in time to destroy humanity before they develop FTL space travel. A human space-naval officer also goes back in time to stop it.

* ''{{Earthbound}}'' displays this right at the beginning of the game. Giygas chose to stop Ness while he was still weak by sending a Starman Jr. back in time to [[WhyDontYaJustShootHim kill him directly]]. Luckily for Ness, a time-travelling alien named Buzz Buzz found him first to protect him. Unfortunately, both Buzz Buzz and the Starman Jr. are destroyed in the process.
** Incorrect. Buzz Buzz perfectly survives the fight, and is killed by someone else after the fight, due to being mistaken for being a bee.

* This is what happens in a [[UpToEleven standard two-player game]] In ''{{Achron}}''.

* In ''{{Achron}}'' you may end up in this situation. And even [[UpToEleven go "fix" the "fixing"]]

* ''DemolitionMan'' inverts the trope, sending two people from the present into the future. One is a criminal "mistakenly" unfrozen from [[HumanPopsicle Cryogenic Sleep]], the other is a present-day cop also in cryogenic sleep for a crime he didn't commit, unfrozen to deal with someone simply too evil and dangerous for the wimpified future cops to handle.

Two warriors are sent [[TimeTravel back in time]]. One to change history, one to ensure it takes its established course. Or, at least, to prevent the first one from changing things. A game of cat and mouse ensues. Usually, one of the twosome is a KillerRobot, and the other a BadassNormal (although, in the second and third films, the BadassNormal was a robot).

Related to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong, except that the going wrong and the setting right are happening simultaneously. Or, if you prefer, one is going back to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong, while the other is trying to keep it going wrong after all. Can also be thought of as EvilCounterpart [[RecycledINSPACE IN TIME!]] If it does not overlap with SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong, it will instead overlap with MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight: In this case, the historical event in question goes as it originally did in the "good" timeline, and is averted in the "bad" timeline.

Named, of course, for the {{Terminator}} movies, wherein a [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot robotic superassassin that looks like a normal human being]] is sent back in time to pre-emptively kill the future leader of the human resistance in a RobotWar. [[TimeParadox Paradox schmaradox!]] Compare ScryVsScry, where it's oracles doing this with clairvoyance.

** No one ever bothers to explain why giving someone a prison sentence in which they sleep without aging is a good idea.
*** So they can become useful members of society thanks to the nifty subliminal programming. Rehabilitation rather than punishment is the goal. Since it's a StrawPolitical movie though of course it doesn't work.
*** It would have worked if the BigBad hadn't deliberately programmed Simon Phoenix to be even more dangerous and psychotic than he was before. If it's political message was supposed to concern failure to reform criminals, it fails this message thoroughly.
*** The message stands... Stallone is portrayed as changed little due to his originally "noble" character... Phoenix wasn't fixed during the reprogramming because he was expressly programmed to become MORE of a criminal. Stallone would have easily been funneled into being the wisecracking, bodybuilding tailor.
*** The punishment aspect of freezing is ''And I Must Scream''. The frozen cop's wife was very emotional during her visits.
**** According to [[MeaningfulName Spartan]], he was aware the whole time, despite Cocteau claiming it impossible.

* Inversted like ''crazy'' by ''BrutalLegend''. [[spoiler: The evil "Emperor" (actually Empress, but demons don't differentiate apparently) Succoria is sent forwards in time, along with humanity's greatest warrior Riggnarok, who has sworn to slay her and is effectively her time-travel stowaway. When she reaches the future, she suffers a VillanousBSOD when she realises that humanity wins. Instead of slaying her, Riggnarok begins to feel the inklings of pity, and, well, the road gets lonely...]]

* In ''Timeshift'', the BigBad is a disgruntled scientist who uses a time-traveling suit to travel to the past and use his [[OmnidisciplinaryScientist vast scientific knowledge]] to TakeOverTheWorld and establish a fascist dystopia. The player is a second scientist, also equipped with a time-traveling suit, who follows the first scientist through time in order to stop him.

* In {{Achron}} you may end up in this situation. And even [[UpToEleven go "fix" the "fixing"]]

* {{Earthbound}} displays this right at the beginning of the game. Giygas chose to stop Ness while he was still weak by sending a Starman Jr. back in time to [[WhyDontYaJustShootHim kill him directly]]. Luckily for Ness, a time-travelling alien named Buzz Buzz found him first to protect him. Unfortunately, both Buzz Buzz and the Starman Jr. are destroyed in the process.
* The central premise of TheJourneymanProject.

* In a variant on ''TeenTitans'', Warp from the far future is followed through a time-gate by Starfire from the present, and she winds up hunting for him TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture.