History Quotes / SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong

->''"I can go back. I can go back and give them the device before they die. They can still use it. They can still go back and be with him. Or I could go back. Go back even further. With enough time... maybe I could save him. Or even... I could save them all. Do it all over again. All my mistakes -- so many mistakes. I could do it right this time. I would know everything. I would be perfect.

->''"One more ship will make no difference in the here and now. But twenty-two years ago, [[ForWantOfANail one ship could have stopped this war]] before it started."''

-->--'''OpeningScroll''', ''Film/TheTerminator''

-->--'''Sarah Connor''', ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''[[note]]From the alternate ending.[[/note]]

-->--'''''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''''' prologue ([[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]])

->''"We travel through time to help history along - give it a push where it's needed. When the Omni's red, it means history's wrong. Our job is to get everything back on track."''
-->-- ''Series/{{Voyagers}}'' Opening

->''"One more ship will make no difference in the here and now. But twenty-two years ago, [[ForWantOfANail one ship could have stopped this war]] before it started."''
-->-- ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', "Yesterday's Enterprise"

->''"Is it just the chance to get off the dreary ''Voyager'' sets for somewhere that looks a bit more dynamic, or is just the little boy in me that wants to go exploring? If I were going to request any assignment on a Starship I wouldn’t want to be stuck somewhere dull like under Picard’s care or in Janeway’s Starfleet hell, I wouldn’t even want to shack up with Annorax ("Year of Hell") and blast away entire civilisations. Nope, the ''Dauntless'' would be my ideal assignment, travelling backwards and forwards in time dealing temporal incursions. Frankly it’s a notion that has so much potential I’m surprised they didn’t pick it up as a possible candidate as the next Star Trek series rather than ''[[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Enterprise]]''. Just think of the possibilities, the cameos that could be had, the imaginative stories you could explore – [[Series/DoctorWho a series with time travel built into its core]] can be quite malleable I hear (or at least a 50 year old British SF show tells me)."''
-->-- '''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/voyager-season-five.html Doc Oho]]''' on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "Relativity"

->'''Past Charles Xavier''': [[BadFuture So this is what becomes of us?]] [[TheExtremistWasRight Eric was right.]] [[HumansAreBastards Humanity does this to us...]]\\
'''Future Charles Xavier''': Not if we show them a better path.\\
'''Past Charles Xavier''': You still believe?\\
'''Future Charles Xavier''': Just because someone stumbles, loses their way, it doesn't mean they're lost forever. Sometimes we all need a little help.

->Long ago in a distant land, I, Aku, the shapeshifting master of darkness, unleashed an unspeakable evil! But a foolish samurai warrior wielding a magic sword stepped forth to oppose me. Before the final blow was struck, I tore open a portal in time and flung him into the future, where my evil is law! Now the fool seeks to return to the past and undo the future that is Aku!
-->--'''[[BigBad Aku]]''', ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'', Season 1-4 opening narration

->(''Richtofen just [[spoiler:headshotted his future self]]'')\\
'''Dempsey:''' Dammit Richtofen! I thought we were done with this!\\
'''Richtofen:''' What can I say Dempsey? Things change.\\
'''Nikolaï:''' Only a fool would dare to change history.\\
'''Richtofen:''' I am no fool, for what I do, I do only to secure a better tomorrow.\\
'''Dempsey:''' Well let's hope we get to see it.
-->--''VideoGame/CallOfDutyZombies'', '''The Giant'''

->"If all I have to do to survive is tweak the future a bit, what's stopping me? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The ripple effect. Maybe it will mean that the universe will be ruled by cats or something, in the future. But the way I see it, even a ghastly future is better than no future at all."
-->-- '''The Doctor''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', "Before the Flood"

->"Remix, rewind, go for another try. Run it back again. Replay, hit rewind; this time you'll do it right. Run it back again."
-->-- Corbin Bloom singing "Run it Back Again" for ''Minute Men''

->''"This tragedy, greater than the Seventh Umbral Calamity, must be undone. If history must be unwritten, let it '''be''' unwritten."''
-->-- '''The Crystal Exarch''', ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV''

->''(in Alternate!1985, Doc and Marty discover that Biff became rich from betting with the Gray's Sports Almanac that Marty left behind in 2015 and that his older self gave him after taking the [=DeLorean=])''
->'''Marty:''' ''The Almanac!'' Son of a bitch stole my idea! [[ExplainExplainOhCrap He must have been listening when I...]] ''(realization)'' [[ItsAllMyFault It's my fault. The whole thing is my fault.]] If I hadn't brought that damn book, none of this would have happened!
->'''Doc:''' It's all in the past.
->'''Marty:''' You mean the future!
->'''Doc:''' Whatever! It demonstrates precisely how time travel can be misused, and why the time machine must be destroyed... after we straighten all of this out.
->'''Marty:''' Right. So, we go [[TitleDrop back to the future]] and we stop Biff from stealing the time machine.
->'''Doc:''' [[SimpleSolutionWontWork We can't]]! Because, if we travel into the future from this point in time, it will be the future of ''this'' reality, in which Biff is corrupt and powerful, and married to your mother, and in which ''this'' has happened to me! ''(holds up a newspaper headline about him getting committed)'' No! Our only chance to repair the present is in the past, at the point where the timeline skewed into this tangent! In order to put the universe back as we remember it and get back to our reality, we have to find out the exact date and the specific circumstances of how, where and ''when'' young Biff got his hands on that Sports Almanac!
->'''Marty:''' ''(beat)'' I'll ask him.
-->--''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII''

->''"We only have a few years to stop [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror 9/11]]."''
-->-- '''Website/CollegeHumor''', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TGj227OVKY What Going Back to the 90s Would Actually Be Like]]''

->I can go back. I can go back and give them the device before they die. They can still use it. They can still go back and be with him. Or I could go back. Go back even further. With enough time...maybe I could save him. Or even...I could save them all. Do it all over again. All my mistakes— So many mistakes. I could do it right this time. I would know everything. I would be perfect.
-->-- '''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}''', ''ComicBook/WayOfTheWorld''

->''"If I don't come back in time to stop you, how bad an idea can it really be?"''
-->-- '''Bunnyx''', ''Fanfic/HeroChat''

->'''Doc:''' We can't! Because, if we travel into the future from this point in time, it will be the future of ''this'' reality, in which Biff is corrupt and powerful, and married to your mother, and in which ''this'' has happened to me! ''(holds up a newspaper headline about him getting committed)'' No! Our only chance to repair the present is in the past, at the point where the timeline skewed into this tangent! In order to put the universe back as we remember it and get back to our reality, we have to find out the exact date and the specific circumstances of how, where and ''when'' young Biff got his hands on that Sports Almanac!

-->--'''Sarah Connor''', ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''[[note]]From the AlternateEnding.[[/note]]

->[[AC:The battle for tomorrow begins today.]]

->''"If history must be unwritten, let it '''be''' unwritten."''