History Main / TimeIsDangerous

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** In ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}'', the Phase Distorter 3 destroys living things when it travels, requiring the party to have their minds uploaded into robotic bodies before they can use it.
** It also turns out that the original Phase Distorter prototype wasn't exactly safe, either, as ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER 3}}'' shows that [[spoiler: Porky Minch]] was eventually given AgeWithoutYouth from abusing it.

* ''Literature/ThePeaceWar'': The bubbles of stopped time turned out to be dangerous in various ways, from ships from war that managed to stop time while it was exploding, so when it exited bubble it explodes. It could happen to any bubble, as they did not know which bubble. contained what. In another story, one person was trapped outside bubble, so she aged to death while waiting for them to return after making sign at where camera is pointing. (Bubble pops and appears in millisecond each year for them to see what is going on).

* In ''Film/DoctorStrange'', the titular sorcerer happens upon the Eye of Agamoto, which allows its wearer to manipulate time. When he is caught experimenting with the artifact, he's quickly chided by his mentors regarding its dangers, which include preventing one's own birth or getting stuck in a time loop. [[spoiler: Strange weaponizes this by trapping [[BigBad Dormammu]] in one such time loop until he all but begs to be released from it.]]

* In ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}'', TimeTravel is achieved by going through a tunnel-like space on your TimeMachine. Should one get knocked out of the machine and into the tunnel, one will be stranded in time. The problem is, Doraemon's time machine is basically just some futuristic devices bolted to a ''tatami'', so the risk of being thrown overboard is always there. Dorami's is safe, because it's a flower-shaped capsule. Have we mentioned that some bad guys have their own time machine, [[PimpMyRide so you can have a chase in time while you chase in time?]]

However, not all time machines are like that. Some could get downright dangerous to use, because trivial mistakes in any time of time machine operation could get time travelers dead. Worse, the world or more could get destroyed by the time machine itself. There can be many reasons on why the time machine itself is dangerous. What if the time machine overlaps matter on its arrival? What if what powers the time machine itself is dangerous, due to various reasons from radioactivity, instability, or just sheer amounts of power necessary? Or, what if some of the time machine's physics requirements are dangerous? Or what if the time traveler is likely to end up [[TimeAndRelativeDimensionsInSpace someplace unsafe]], like anywhere but the surface of the earth?

* In ''VideoGame/QuantumBreak'', excessive exposure to [[ToxicPhlebotinum chronon particles]] of a TimeMachine can cause a mental and excruciatingly painful physical disorder known as "chronon syndrome", and can even cause sufferers to [[spoiler:become [[HumanoidAbomination Shifters]], who can only act in frozen time and, if they ''can act in normal time like [[GreaterScopeVillain Martin Hatch]], are in constant agony in that situation]].

* In ''VideoGame/QuantumBreak'', excessive exposure to chronon particles of a TimeMachine can cause a mental disorder known as "chronon syndrome", and can even cause sufferers to [[spoiler:become [[HumanoidAbomination Shifters]], who can only act in frozen time and, if they ''can act in normal time like [[GreaterScopeVillain Martin Hatch]], are in constant agony in that situation]].

* In ''Film/{{Primer}}'' excessive time travel causes strange physical problems in the protagonists: mysterious bleeding from their ears and deterioration of their handwriting. WordOfGod is that this is also a case of CloneDegeneration.

* This becomes the whole point from the second book of the saga written by the Spaniard writer JJ Benitez' ''El Caballo de Troya'': Due to an unseen side effect due to time travel, both protagonists will invariably die, since they will start to age quickly than usual as their genes were affected due to time travel.

** Then again {{Merlin}} used time travel to visit a place at five different times in its history, wove magic overlapping from those different point in history to weave a higher-dimensional construct. This was all for [[spoiler: creating the prison under the isle of Demonreach, which is practically inescapable to the deity-level horrors trapped within]].

* The directors cut of ''Film/TheButterflyEffect'' reveals that Evan suffers minor brain damage every time he majorly changes the past, resulting in severe migraines and nosebleeds as he gets the extra memories (often 20 years worth) burnt onto his existing ones. On the other hand, he's GenreSavvy enough to realise that repeated time travel might ultimately kill him, causing him to intentionally think through what he wants to change before each trip.

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* Website/{{Cracked}}.com has a [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18564_6-time-travel-realities-doc-brown-didnt-warn-us-about.html list of reasons why time travel sucks]]. [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-ways-movies-get-time-travel-wrong/ And again.]] [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/you-cant-bring-tampons-girls-guide-to-time-travel/ And again]], for women only this time.

* Website/{{Cracked}}.com has a [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18564_6-time-travel-realities-doc-brown-didnt-warn-us-about.html list of reasons why time travel sucks]].

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