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** The time machine only causes a local state reversal instead of actual sending the traveler to the past.
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** Overuse of time travel [[RapidAging has]] [[CastFromLifespam harmful]] [[TemporalSickness effects]] on the time traveler.

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** Overuse of time travel [[RapidAging has]] [[CastFromLifespam [[CastFromLifespan harmful]] [[TemporalSickness effects]] on the time traveler.
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** The time machine has a limited amount of fuel and Todd doesn't want to risk getting stuck in the past.
** Overuse of time travel [[RapidAging has]] [[CastFromLifespam harmful]] [[TemporalSickness effects]] on the time traveler.
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** The time machine has a "safety catch" that pulls the user back into the present the exact same amount of time they went backwards or fowards.

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* '''Implied''': After Todd travels back in time, his absence is noted.



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** The time machine is a PortalToThePast.
** Simply being able to travel any time Todd wants could result in [[TimeIsDangerous premature aging.]] SanDimasTime is a safety precaution against this.

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** The time machine is a PortalToThePast.
PortalToThePast that has a set jump time.
** Simply being able to travel any time Todd wants could result in [[TimeIsDangerous premature aging.]] SanDimasTime is a safety precaution against this.built into Todd's time machine to prevent complications from spending a decade in the past, returning two minutes after he left, and people noticing how much he's aged.
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** Simply being able to travel any time Todd wants could result in [[TimeIsDangerous premature aging.]] SandDimasTime is a safety precaution against this.

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** Simply being able to travel any time Todd wants could result in [[TimeIsDangerous premature aging.]] SandDimasTime SanDimasTime is a safety precaution against this.
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** Simply being able to travel any time Todd wants could result in [[TimeIsDangerous premature aging.]] SandDimasTime is a safety precaution against this.
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'''Basic Trope''': The past and the future each have their own separate clocks.

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'''Basic Trope''': The past and Despite having a time machine, the future each have their own separate clocks.{{time travel}}er still has to RaceAgainstTheClock.
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* '''Justified''': The time machine can only make jumps of exactly ten years, forward or back.

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The time machine can only make jumps of exactly ten years, forward or back.back.
** The time machine is a PortalToThePast.
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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???The clock is running back home, but instead of returning to the present, he decides to return the duration of his trip earlier, so the time difference will cancel out and he'll arrive back right after he left. But he's still 'time traveling' and begins to suffer from time displacement sickness and has to come back or his condition will continue to deteriorate.



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* '''Invoked''': ???The inventor of a time machine wants to prevent people from escaping into the past without consequence, so he makes the machine keep track of its own passage of time while traveling, and makes it so that after every excursion it has to return to SanDimasTime before it can set out again.
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* '''Justified''': ???

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* '''Justified''': ???The time machine can only make jumps of exactly ten years, forward or back.
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* '''Justified''': There is an open time portal that is the only method of time travel, and so the destination time is the time difference not the time

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* '''Justified''': There is an open time portal that is the only method of time travel, and so the destination time is the time difference not the time???
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* '''Justified''': ???There is an open time portal that is the only method of time travel, and so the destination time is the time difference not the time
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* '''Straight''': Time-traveler Tod takes trips through time, and when he comes home it is always as much later than when he left as the time he spent in the era he visited, forcing him to be aware of how long he spends away.
* '''Exaggerated''': Tod interrupts a bomber planting a time-bomb with a 5-minute fuse, but the bomber escapes and only the bomber knows how to disarm the bomb. So Tod travels back in time two minutes so he can catch the bomber in the act. Tod catches the bomber with a struggle, but when the bomber reveals the secret, Tod gives up. It's too late, the bomb has already exploded two minutes in the future.
* '''Downplayed''': The clock is running back home, but it doesn't matter because Tod has as much time as he could want to finish his adventure in the past.

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* '''Straight''': Time-traveler Tod Todd takes trips through time, and when he comes home it is always as much later than when he left as the time he spent in the era he visited, forcing him to be aware of how long he spends away.
* '''Exaggerated''': Tod Todd interrupts a bomber planting a time-bomb with a 5-minute fuse, but the bomber escapes and only the bomber knows how to disarm the bomb. So Tod Todd travels back in time two minutes so he can catch the bomber in the act. Tod Todd catches the bomber with a struggle, but when the bomber reveals the secret, Tod Todd gives up. It's too late, the bomb has already exploded two minutes in the future.
* '''Downplayed''': The clock is running back home, but it doesn't matter because Tod Todd has as much time as he could want to finish his adventure in the past.



* '''Inverted''': For each hour Tod spends in the past, he is forced to arrive home an hour earlier.
* '''Subverted''': Tod has an adventure in the past where he races against the clock, but at the end realizes that he has a time machine and the clock never really mattered.

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* '''Inverted''': For each hour Tod Todd spends in the past, he is forced to arrive home an hour earlier.
* '''Subverted''': Tod Todd has an adventure in the past where he races against the clock, but at the end realizes that he has a time machine and the clock never really mattered.



* '''Parodied''': Tod comes back to the present early, only to be scolded by his mentor for breaking the rules.

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* '''Parodied''': Tod Todd comes back to the present early, only to be scolded by his mentor for breaking the rules.



* '''Averted''': Tod casually uses time travel to avoid being late for the things he has scheduled.
* '''Enforced''': The writer feels that the plot would get too confusing if Tod was allowed to go anywhere and everywhere in time.

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* '''Averted''': Tod Todd casually uses time travel to avoid being late for the things he has scheduled.
* '''Enforced''': The writer feels that the plot would get too confusing if Tod Todd was allowed to go anywhere and everywhere in time.



* '''Exploited''': Bob sends Tod on a quest in history hoping it will get Tod out of the way for a few days.
* '''Defied''': Bob reminds Tod that if they return home at the same time that they left, they will have plenty of time to foil the villain's scheme.

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* '''Exploited''': Bob sends Tod Todd on a quest in history hoping it will get Tod Todd out of the way for a few days.
* '''Defied''': Bob reminds Tod Todd that if they return home at the same time that they left, they will have plenty of time to foil the villain's scheme.
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* '''Inverted''': For each hour Tod spends in the past, he is forced to arrive an hour before he left.

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* '''Inverted''': For each hour Tod spends in the past, he is forced to arrive home an hour before he left.earlier.
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* '''Averted''': Tom casually uses time travel to avoid being late for the things he has scheduled.

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* '''Averted''': Tom Tod casually uses time travel to avoid being late for the things he has scheduled.



* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': ???

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* '''Exploited''': ???
Bob sends Tod on a quest in history hoping it will get Tod out of the way for a few days.
* '''Defied''': ???Bob reminds Tod that if they return home at the same time that they left, they will have plenty of time to foil the villain's scheme.
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* '''Averted''': ???
* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': ???

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* '''Averted''': ???
Tom casually uses time travel to avoid being late for the things he has scheduled.
* '''Enforced''': ???
The writer feels that the plot would get too confusing if Tod was allowed to go anywhere and everywhere in time.
* '''Lampshaded''': ???"Why do you care how long this takes? You have a time machine."



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