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*** The reason why [[spoiler: Hannah was sent back to 2009 in the first place is another loop in itself. Cole had told the others about his mother 'Marion Woods', who'd abandoned him as a child and who'd left him the story of the "serpent and the demon", which proved to be crucial to their current mission. As a result, Jones sent Hannah back to learn more about Marion Woods and her secrets. This set off a chain of events that culminated in Hannah assuming the identity of 'Marion Woods', who only knew to leave the story behind for James, because James would go on to relate it to her younger self.]]
*** The reason why [[spoiler: Hannah was sent back to 2009 in the first place is another loop in itself. Cole had told the others about his mother 'Marion Woods', who'd abandoned him as a child and who'd left him the story of the "serpent and the demon", which proved to be crucial to their current mission. As a result, Jones sent Hannah back to learn more about Marion Woods and her secrets. This set off a chain of events that culminated in Hannah assuming the identity of 'Marion Woods', who only knew to leave the story behind for James, because James would go on to relate it to her younger self.]]
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* LukeIAmYourFather: The Season 2 finale "Memory of Tomorrow [[spoiler: ends with TheReveal that the Witness is Cole and Cassie's son - who is later named Athan Cole. However, by the end of Season 3, it is revealed that Athan wasn't really the Witness, but only believed to be so by the Army of the 12 Monkeys.]]
** A much more straight example occurs in the Season 4 episode "One Minute More". [[spoiler: It is revealed that Cole's mother, Marion Woods, is in fact Hannah, Katarina Jones' daughter! Hannah traveled back in time to the late 2000's on a mission to find Marion Woods, encountered Cole's future father Matthew Cole, fell in love with him, and thus ended up becoming 'Marion Woods' and conceiving Cole via a StableTimeLoop. She reveals the whole story to Cole in a letter she writes to him that he picks up in the future.]]
** A much more straight example occurs in the Season 4 episode "One Minute More". [[spoiler: It is revealed that Cole's mother, Marion Woods, is in fact Hannah, Katarina Jones' daughter! Hannah traveled back in time to the late 2000's on a mission to find Marion Woods, encountered Cole's future father Matthew Cole, fell in love with him, and thus ended up becoming 'Marion Woods' and conceiving Cole via a StableTimeLoop. She reveals the whole story to Cole in a letter she writes to him that he picks up in the future.]]
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** "After" is one big StableTimeLoop. [[spoiler: Jennifer finds a photograph of a motel room with dead KGB agents in 1966 who were trying to buy 'a weapon' and the words "Climb the steps, ring the bell" written on the wall in their blood. Believing that the KGB men were buying the weapon built by the Primaries, Cole and Cassie jump back to 1966. But Zalmon Shaw and his men show up and Cole is poisoned by the Pallid Man's younger self. Cassie and Jennifer then travel back a little earlier in a bid to save Cole, and enlist the aide of their old ally FBI agent Gale. In the end, it turns out that Gale is the one who killed the KGB agents and Jennifer scrawled the words on the wall in their blood, so that it would catch her younger self's attention. Also, Cassie manages to get her hands on a cure for Cole's poisoning but must wait for her younger self to see him dying and splinter out before giving it to him.]]
*** To make things more complicated [[spoiler: the loop in "After" is part of a larger loop involving the events of the following episode, "Die Glocke". Based on information received from the German seller of the 'weapon' (a bell recovered by the Nazis) in 1966, the team heads to France, 1940 to steal it at an earlier point of time. They manage to steal the bell, but it is only due to their intervention that the younger version of the German seller was able to steal another artifact and claim that it was the 'weapon' while attempting to sell it in 1966...which in turn led him to give the team the information that started off the 1940 mission in the first place.]]
*** To make things more complicated [[spoiler: the loop in "After" is part of a larger loop involving the events of the following episode, "Die Glocke". Based on information received from the German seller of the 'weapon' (a bell recovered by the Nazis) in 1966, the team heads to France, 1940 to steal it at an earlier point of time. They manage to steal the bell, but it is only due to their intervention that the younger version of the German seller was able to steal another artifact and claim that it was the 'weapon' while attempting to sell it in 1966...which in turn led him to give the team the information that started off the 1940 mission in the first place.]]
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** In "One Minute More" [[spoiler: Cole and Cassie travel to JFK airport in 2018 to prevent the release of the virus where they hear someone getting shot - in a sequence very reminiscent of the ending of the film. However, unlike the film, Cole isn't shot dead but is saved at the last moment by Hannah, and Cassie is the one to release the virus, rather than Oliver Peters.]]
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** After the events of "Die Glocke" [[spoiler: a new AlternateTimeline is created due to Jennifer Goines killing Hitler in 1940, in which Himmler takes over and history is seemingly unaffected beyond that. The whole thing is however PlayedForLaughs and has no real impact on the series' plot.]]
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** By Season 4 [[spoiler: the characters have come to realize that they are doomed to failure because all their actions simply lead to a StableTimeLoop, and are now aiming to find a weapon that will help them break free of the cycles. However, it seems that their attempts to find that weapon are causing quiet a few causality loops as well...]]
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* HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct: [[spoiler: Played straight, for the most part. Due to YouAlreadyChangedThePast being in effect, attempts to assassinate people in the past to prevent the future apocalypse are doomed to fail. The very first episode of the series has Cole killing Leland Goines, only to discover that Goines death does not change anything. Later in the series, repeated efforts are made to assassinate the Witness (the leader and messiah of the Army of the 12 Monkeys) before he/she rose to power, but all those efforts simply contribute to convoluted StableTimeLoop that ensures the Witness' rise.]]
** [[spoiler: And then, hilariously averted in Season 4 with the ''real'' Hitler. In "Die Glocke", during a mission in 1940 France, Jennifer detonates a bomb that kills Hitler with Deacon casually stating that they simply "had to". It turns out that killing Hitler seemingly had no real impact on the timeline, with Himmler simply taking over. Needless to say, the whole thing is simply PlayedForLaughs.]]
** [[spoiler: And then, hilariously averted in Season 4 with the ''real'' Hitler. In "Die Glocke", during a mission in 1940 France, Jennifer detonates a bomb that kills Hitler with Deacon casually stating that they simply "had to". It turns out that killing Hitler seemingly had no real impact on the timeline, with Himmler simply taking over. Needless to say, the whole thing is simply PlayedForLaughs.]]
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** This becomes a very real concern for Cole and Cassie in Season 4. [[spoiler: They are painfully aware that, if they succeed in breaking the various loops and cycles and resetting the timeline, the current versions of themselves will likely be erased from existence, along with their relationship. As Cassie puts it - "We can either save the world, or we can save ourselves."]]
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** The Season 4 episode "After" is an interesting case of the protagonists trying to make this trope work for them. [[spoiler: Cole, having encountered a future version of himself back in Season 3, knows that he will survive at least long enough to become that future self - which makes him believe that he can take risks during missions without worrying about getting killed. Ironically, he ends up almost dying due to the episodes events, but ultimately survives - thus arguably being proven right in his approach.]]
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** The Season 4 episode "Ouroboros" reveals a StableTimeLoop that [[spoiler: ties back to the events of Season 1. In order to escape an attack from Titan in 2046, Jones splinters the entire facility out of the Raritarn Labs site to the Emerson Hotel. While the plan succeeds, they end up back in time to 2043, right before Cole's very first splinter. Season 4!Cole, Cassie and Jones venture into the facility, seeking to use the earlier version of the machine. In the process, Season 4!Jones ends up meeting Season 1!Jones and revealing to her how to make the tether injections work. Also, Season 4!Jones decides to steal one of the energy cores from the Season 1 version of the machine to power the Season 4 version of the machine - realizing that it was her theft of the core which caused the power problems and range issues the machine suffered from way back in Season 1!]]
** In "45 RPM" [[spoiler: Cassie's plan to travel back to 1971 and assassinate a young Olivia to erase the Witness from existence fails because of another causality loop. Turns out, in 1971, Olivia was pregnant with a child (on the Witness' orders), but wasn't completely sure of her loyalty to the Witness. Cassie ends up telling young Olivia that her child should have purpose, in a bid to convince her to free herself of the 12 Monkeys' control. Instead, Cassie's advice convinces Olivia to dedicate herself and her child fully to the Witness - setting her down the path that eventually leads to her becoming the Witness! The Witness/Future Olivia's recollection of these events is also what enables her to intervene in them and ensure that her younger self fulfills her destiny.]]
*** The same episode highlights the fact that [[spoiler: the Witness' entire existence, and all his orders are ultimately a StableTimeLoop. Olivia, having served the Witness and received orders from him for decades, knows exactly what orders to give to herself and other followers in the past in order to maintain causality. This includes the orders to her 'father' Dr. Kirshner to genetically engineer the child that ends up becoming her.]]
** In "45 RPM" [[spoiler: Cassie's plan to travel back to 1971 and assassinate a young Olivia to erase the Witness from existence fails because of another causality loop. Turns out, in 1971, Olivia was pregnant with a child (on the Witness' orders), but wasn't completely sure of her loyalty to the Witness. Cassie ends up telling young Olivia that her child should have purpose, in a bid to convince her to free herself of the 12 Monkeys' control. Instead, Cassie's advice convinces Olivia to dedicate herself and her child fully to the Witness - setting her down the path that eventually leads to her becoming the Witness! The Witness/Future Olivia's recollection of these events is also what enables her to intervene in them and ensure that her younger self fulfills her destiny.]]
*** The same episode highlights the fact that [[spoiler: the Witness' entire existence, and all his orders are ultimately a StableTimeLoop. Olivia, having served the Witness and received orders from him for decades, knows exactly what orders to give to herself and other followers in the past in order to maintain causality. This includes the orders to her 'father' Dr. Kirshner to genetically engineer the child that ends up becoming her.]]
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** In "Atari", the West 7 assault the Project Splinter facility to take its resources for themselves and take revenge on Cole and Ramse for quitting the group.
** In "Arms of Mine", the West 7 return, now allied with the Messengers, and attack the facility again.
** In "The End", the 12 Monkeys launch a full-scale invasion of the facility, parking Titan right outside and unleashing an army of minions.
** In "Atari", the West 7 assault the Project Splinter facility to take its resources for themselves and take revenge on Cole and Ramse for quitting the group.
** In "Arms of Mine", the West 7 return, now allied with the Messengers, and attack the facility again.
** In "The End", the 12 Monkeys launch a full-scale invasion of the facility, parking Titan right outside and unleashing an army of minions.
* ApocalypseCult: The Army of the 12 Monkeys, who unleash the plague that devastates the world, and who are planning to [[spoiler: collapse time entirely]], because the Witness tells them it will lead them to paradise.
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* FakeDefector: In Season 4, [[spoiler: Deacon seemingly sells out to the Army of the 12 Monkeys after being left behind when Project Splinter relocates. But it turns out he's still loyal to the team and is trying to sabotage the Monkeys from within.]]
* NotHisSled: [[spoiler: Played with. Oliver Peters may have developed the virus, but unlike the movie, he is not the one who released it and caused the plague. Peters did provide the Army of the Twelve Monkeys with the virus, but only because his husband's life was threatened by them.]]
* NebulousCriminalConspiracy: The Army of Twelve Monkeys. [[spoiler: At this point, they appear to be a terrorist organization that has influences in the government as well as corporations. People who get too close to finding out who they are often dead.]]
* NebulousCriminalConspiracy: The Army of Twelve Monkeys. [[spoiler: At this point, they appear to be a terrorist organization that has influences in the government as well as corporations. People who get too close to finding out who they are often dead.]]
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** In the Season 4 episode "After" [[spoiler: it is revealed that this is how FBI Agent Gale survived his 'death' in 1961 while crossing the Berlin Wall, as shown in the Season 2 episode "Fatherland". Having been warned off his fate, he made sure to wear a bulletproof vest while at the Berlin Wall so that he would survive.]]
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** Moving into Season 4, this actually becomes a central focus of the plot. [[spoiler: The protagonists are painfully aware of the fact that YouCantFightFate, and that all their actions are merely part of StableTimeLoop. Which is why they are focused on 'ending the cycle' by finding a weapon that will help them break out of the loops and defeat the Army of the Twelve Monkeys once and for all.]]
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*** "Memory of Tomorrow" also stars Madeline Stowe, who played Railly in the original film. In a CastingAllusion, Stowe plays a character called Lillian who's an inmate in an asylum, as opposed to playing a psychiatrist treating patients in an asylum as was her role in the film.
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*** "Memory of Tomorrow" also stars Madeline Stowe, who played Railly in the original film. In a CastingAllusion, ActorAllusion, Stowe plays a character called Lillian who's an inmate in an asylum, as opposed to playing a psychiatrist treating patients in an asylum as was her role in the film.
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''12 Monekys'' is a television series adaption of the 1995 film [[Film/TwelveMonkeys of the same name]]. It produced by Creator/{{Syfy}} and premiered in January 2015. The story, which loosely follows the plot of the film, has been updated to the present day.
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''12 Monekys'' Monkeys'' is a television series adaption of the 1995 film [[Film/TwelveMonkeys of the same name]]. It produced by Creator/{{Syfy}} and premiered in January 2015. The story, which loosely follows the plot of the film, has been updated to the present day.
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* TheCameo: Q from ''Series/ImpracticalJokers'' makes a small appearance in "Year of the Monkey".
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** The name "Morrison" seems to have taken on special significance as well, as "Morris Morrison" becomes Cole's go-to alias during Season 2 (even though he's used other aliases before, and he is first identified as Morris Morrison by ''Jennifer''), and Cassie calls herself "Amelia Morrison" when [[spoiler: she goes back to 1990 to consult with her mother on the Word of the Witness.]]
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* ArcNumber: The number "607" has popped up in a few different contexts over the course of the series so far. [[spoiler: It's part of present-day Jones' phone number, it's the room number for Cole's permanent residence at the Emerson Hotel, and it's the number of times Athan tried to save Eliza.]]
* ArcNumber: The number "607" has popped up in a few different contexts over the course of the series so far. [[spoiler: It's part of present-day Jones' phone number, it's the room number for Cole's permanent residence at the Emerson Hotel, and it's the number of times Athan tried to save Eliza.]]
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*** [[spoiler: It's implied by various statements and events (various assertions that Time is conscious, statements that Cole and Athan are the only men existing "outside of time," and Olivia seeing the "1957-1959. This was home" message while communicating with the Witness in a vision of the house of cedar and pine, even though Cole wrote the message right before erasing that timeline, for starters) that even if something is undone, Time is still aware of it and stores the information in the timestream, which is what the Machine accesses to do its thing; taking that to the logical conclusion, it might be better to think of alternate versions of time travelers not as being "erased" but as ''merging''. In short, after your body has been prepped and splintered, if it happens to one version of you, regardless of the time travel method or whether or not the AlternateTimeline it happens in is erased, [[FridgeHorror it happens to every version of you]]. An exception to this seems to be death, but that's more PlotArmor (or lack thereof) than anything else.]]
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