History StableTimeLoop / WebComics

* In the ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan, Oracle For Hire'' arc "The Storm of Souls", Dominic researches the creation and death of the first Acibek at the advice of Klo Tark, who met Dominic for the first time when he saw him several thousand years ago watching the death of Acibek.

* In [[http://xkcd.com/1063/ this]] hilarious ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' comic, Hitler is actually killed. However, [[spoiler: the man who kills him only goes back to 1945, and murders him in his bunker at the end of the war.]]
* This ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=939 guest strip]]. VERY SPOILERIFFIC!
* In the ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan, Oracle For Hire'' arc "The Storm of Souls", Dominic researches the creation and death of the first Acibek at the advice of Klo Tark, who met Dominic for the first time when he saw him several thousand years ago watching the death of Acibek.

* In ''Wicked Powered'', time travel incidents result in the protagonist being his own father AND his own mother.
* In ''Webcomic/StickmanAndCube'', Cube purchases a time machine on eBay. The time machine then travels to the future by itself, and when it returns, Cube sends it back. Through time. To before they bought it. The guy who sold them the time machine finds it, and, having no other use for it, puts it on eBay...

* In probably one of the shortest and most succinct versions of the trope, Fuzzy of ''Webcomic/SamAndFuzzy'' engages in a Stable Time Loop in [[http://www.samandfuzzy.com/202 this strip.]]
* Equally as short is [[http://faultylogic.comicgenesis.com/d/20071006.html this]] Faulty Logic page, on why you shouldn't rob your future self.
* Webcomic/NuklearPower is fond of this trope.
** [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2005/03/24/episode-531-time-for-a-new-space/ This one]] from ''WebComic/EightBitTheater'' where Black Mage witnesses himself saying something in the future, wonders out loud why he will say it, and then says it in response to Red Mage's explanation in the space of three "panels". In the following strip, Red Mage raises the question of where these words are actually coming from. "Information cannot erupt into being from nothingness! It's a paradox!"
---> Red Mage: I try not to think about it.
*** [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/09/19/episode-1174-oh-thats-what/ Here's another]] ''WebComic/EightBitTheater'' example. In a previous comic, [[spoiler: Thief stole his class change from his future self]]. In the linked strip, the other three Light Warriors [[spoiler:get their class changes reversed while fighting Sarda.]] Thief remarks on how that "worked out okay." Cue [[spoiler:his class change getting stolen by his past self.]]
----> '''Thief''': Well. I ''deserve'' this.
---->'''Sarda''': What you deserve is ''so much worse''.
*** ''WebComic/EightBitTheater'' is revealed to be one ''giant'' time loop. Here's how it goes; [[spoiler: A child named Sarda loses his family and is traumatized- several times- by Black Mage and the Light Warriors. Sarda grows up to be the most powerful wizard in existence, and uses his power to go back to the beginning of the universe to become its master and prevent the Light Warriors from existing. When he gets there, a White Mage beat him to it and now the universe obeys her commands, with Sarda stuck in the past. As the world forms around him, Sarda vows to keep White Mage from going back by putting her into a pocket dimension- which turns out to be the universe's birth. Meanwhile, Sarda decides to send the Light Warriors on quests so that they become [[BlatantLies heroes of legend]], and when they're at their strongest, destroy them for added humiliation, and in doing so they cause many of the trauma kid Sarda experienced.]] As Red Mage points out, Sarda is just as responsible for his suffering as they are, as he could have stopped them beforehand. He retorts with;
---->'''Sarda:''' No one can unmake the past. It's already happened, there's no "undo". Similarly, the future already happened. we just haven't '''reached it''' yet.
---->'''Black Mage:''' Okay, I have a theory. It's called: '''I never knew it possible to care less about time travel.'''
*** [[spoiler: The party is so baffled by the logic of the situation, that Black Mage just tries to blast him into oblivion and no one tries to argue further with the logic.]]
*** [[spoiler:Sarda]] assumes that changing history is impossible out of sheer ego: he tried it once and failed, so that has to be just because ''nobody could possibly do it'', rather than because he personally made a mistake. It's implied that time can sometimes be changed, but the probability is really low even with god-like intelligence.
*** In the final act of the comic, [[spoiler:Sarda's body is taken over by the BigBad Chaos, and the Light Warriors [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/10/17/episode-1185-paradox/ reason that Chaos can't possibly win]] because if he did, Sarda would never have grown up to have become his host in the first place. [[EldritchAbomination Chaos]] then casually reveals that it's perfectly possible to break the time loop, only doing so would create a temporal paradox that would destroy the universe... [[OmnicidalManiac which is exactly what he wants to happen]]]].
** ''Webcomic/TheDreaded'': The Shu Stone is an epic artifact that gives its wielder the power to see the future exactly as it happened or will happen. Turns out that ninjas have taken steps to subvert this power, like obscuring context and "f***-tons of amnesia powder". And of course, sending messages through the Shu Stone by listening to them and then declaring the message to open air about two minutes into the future.
* ''ComicBook/AtomicRobo'': Creator/HPLovecraft's literal worst nightmare eats his head and materializes as a giant monster. Robo attempts to drive a bomb into the monster, only to realize that since it lives in multiple dimensions, the other future-robos are there as well and ready to explain to him that he needs to learn electrodynamics and multi-dimensional quantum physics in the future in order to upgrade the bomb to "Eldritch Exploder" status. Lovecraft's partner agrees with the explanation.
* The Space theme of ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'' was stuck in a complex one in which the characters constantly revenge their own actions to themselves. It ended taking up most of the other themes, and (as expected) ended in a RocksFallEveryoneDies [[http://irregularwebcomic.net/2166.html at the end of that year]].
** Of course, parts of the time loop were unstable, as Iki Piki's Splanch is now, theoretically, infinitely old.
* [[http://starslip.com/2008/08/07/starslip-number-843/ This]] ''[[Webcomic/StarSlip Starslip Crisis]]'' strip is utterly shameless and straight-faced about this trope. When strips had individual names it thanked Heinlein

* Occurs in ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' during the [[spoiler:"[[http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/050124 Oceans Unmoving]]"]] StoryArc, thanks to a godlike who decides "[[http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/060201 Life's SO much funner with the paradox rules turned off!]][[note]]And apparently they turned off the grammar rules, too....[[/note]]"
* The ultimate fate of [[spoiler: Unicornmotorcycle Sparkelord]] in ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'', [[spoiler:as he is thrown into a portal that strips him of his memories and sends him into a pyramid, where he is discovered by the antiques dealer who first rode him at the beginning of the comic, takes up with Dr. [=McNinja=] again, is thrown back in the portal, and repeat.]]
** [[spoiler: Sparklelord is unique in that he's half-unicorn exiled from another dimension, half-motorcycle stuck in a time loop. Something like that, anyway.]]
* Every instance of time travel in Webcomic/UmlautHouse.

* Meimu, the BigBad of the "Rethinking the Natural Law" arc in ''Webcomic/TouhouNekokayou'', creates one by accident when trying to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong Set Right What Once]] [[ItsAllAboutMe Wasn't All About Me]].
* A major one in ''Webcomic/TwoEvilScientists'' occurs when Tails attempts to [[spoiler:bring Sonic and Mega Man back from the time periods Quint sent them to, only to accidentally rescue the titular scientists from their former self-destructing fortress, after which they suddenly became dangerous -- which was the primary reason Tails was trying to bring Sonic and Mega Man back.]]
* Shelly of ''Webcomic/WapsiSquare'' managed to take advantage of time loops and places where time flows in different directions to arrange the VisionQuest gone wrong in her childhood that had a huge influence on her character.

* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'':
** This probably happens in [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040126 this]] strip. The time window that Bang sees the first time happens after the second one from the point of view of the characters in the window. Gil calls Bang a maniac in the first one, probably because she pointed a gun on them in the second one, which she did because "earlier" he insulted her.
** In the sidestory ''The homecoming king" (from [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20140813 here]] to [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20140825 here]]) some students summon the Ht'rok'dyn (the first Heterodyne) from the past. He learns that he has descendants who created a big empire, so he goes back in time to make sure it happens.
** This trope also happens in a much larger scale. At the very beginning of the comic, a mysterious creature appears, causing some kind of electric anomaly. This leads to chaos on the streets, which results in Agatha having her locket stolen, which results in her spark coming up, starting the whole story. Much later, after several adventures, she is exploring the old workshop of Van Rijn, hudden under Paris. There she sets loose the Muse of Time, who looks just like the mysterious creature that appeared at the beginning.
* ''Webcomic/FaultyLogic'': Fox travels to the future to steal a comic idea from his future self. When he gets back, his past self snatches the page out of hand and disappears.
-->'''Fox:''' That's like the '''eighth''' time that's happened!
** Then there was the time he built a time machine for the sole purpose of going back in time to stop himself from building a time machine, because [[LogicBomb he knows he'll end up building a time machine and misuse it]].

* ''Webcomic/{{Subnormality}}'' has "[[http://www.viruscomix.com/page564.html The Mission]]".
* In ''Webcomic/FrankieAndStein'', it appears as if the arc for Chapter 4 is this. Stein and Shelly go the future where the [[MyFutureSelfAndMe teenage versions of themselves]] are waiting. Future Shelly comments that this experience has happened to them in their past.

* Narya and Miji of ''Webcomic/DarkLegacyComics'' invented a time machine. {{Hilarity Ensue|s}}d. The time machine has been used several times, first resulting in a [[http://darklegacycomics.com/278.html meta joke where they meet their past (poorly drawn) selves]]. More recently, Narya happens upon Miji, apparently crushed and dying, so he takes the time machine, and, [[http://darklegacycomics.com/395.html well...]] This actually begins a story arc that results in an even more bizarre example.
* ''Webcomic/BugMartini'' combines this with BreakingTheFourthWall [[http://www.bugmartini.com/comic/dead-last-son-of-krypton/ here.]]
-->"Is he still back in panel one?!"
* Once in ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'' Peanut [[http://www.housepetscomic.com/2012/08/20/two-of-a-kind/ ended up]] in one thanks to a booth at a Psychic's Convention.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'' Minmax has the sword Oblivious which he can exchange between his future/past self. While this is happening, he can actually talk with said self, causing this trope.
* In ''Webcomic/SailorMoonCosmosArc'': [[spoiler: Usagi, now reincarnated as Sailor Chibi Chibi, goes back in time to convince her past self to destroy the Galaxy Cauldron instead of merging with it like in canon. This ends up leading to the canon events anyway, as Sailor Moon causes Chibi Chibi to see the error of her ways.]]
* ''Webcomic/ScoobAndShag:'' [[Characters/SpongeBobSquarePantsPatrickStar Pat's]] Ballyhoo superpower, Rerun, allows him to travel backwards to any point in time. However, he also keeps track of everything he changes - or ''has'' changed - to prevent paradoxes, so, from his perspective, it's just "jumping back and forth between the past and present to do things I already did." [[spoiler:Even Pat's death is a loop: Commander One shoots him in front of a version of himself from twenty-two years beforehand, and coldly advises the past Pat to "make the most of it" before he leaves.]]
* Time travel in the Webcomic/{{Bobbinsverse}} -- mostly seen in Webcomic/ScaryGoRound -- tends to create stable loops, though not always. Notably, the "Hard Yards" storyline in 2017 involves a {{retcon}} that implies that much of the history of these comics was generated by a really bad case of YouCantFightFate.
* In ''Webcomic/ManlyGuysDoingManlyThings'' a future Commander Badass travels back in time to beat up his past self and steal his coffee. After getting beat up the present Commander immediately begins to travel through time. The best part: they're doing it to impress Jonesy. Note the title of the comic: "We all peacock in our own way".
* ''Webcomic/HeIsAGoodBoy'' ends with [[spoiler:Crange being sent to a new timeline at the beginning of the strip and [[MyOwnGrampa growing into the tree that served as his parent and first home]], then he {{defie|dTrope}}s this by killing the next Crange, breaking the cycle as he's killed by the lumberjack who chopped him down the first time around.]]

* Lampshaded in [[http://omega_key.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=100 The Omega Key]] when the characters discover that they themselves, via time travel, were (accidentally) responsible for the destruction that they thought they were wrongly accused of.

** [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2005/03/24/episode-531-time-for-a-new-space/ this one]] from ''WebComic/EightBitTheater'' where Black Mage witnesses himself saying something in the future, wonders out loud why he will say it, and then says it in response to Red Mage's explanation in the space of three "panels". In the following strip, Red Mage raises the question of where these words are actually coming from. "Information cannot erupt into being from nothingness! It's a paradox!"

* NuklearPower is fond of this trope.

* Narya and Miji of ''Webcomic/DarkLegacyComics'' invented a time machine. HilarityEnsued. The time machine has been used several times, first resulting in a [[http://darklegacycomics.com/278.html meta joke where they meet their past (poorly drawn) selves]]. More recently, Narya happens upon Miji, apparently crushed and dying, so he takes the time machine, and, [[http://darklegacycomics.com/395.html well...]] This actually begins a story arc that results in an even more bizarre example.

* Time travel in the Webcomic/{{Bobbinsverse}} -- mostly seen in Webcomic/ScaryGoRound -- tends to create stable loops, though not always. Notably, the "Hard Yards" storyline in 2017 involves a {{Retcon}} that implies that much of the history of these comics was generated by a really bad case of YouCantFightFate.
* In ''WebComic/ManlyGuysDoingManlyThings'' a future Commmander Badass travels back in time to beat up his past self and steal his coffee. After getting beat up the present Commander immediately begins to travel through time. The best part: they're doing it to impress Jonesy. Note the title of the comic: "We all peacock in our own way".

* In ''WebComic/ManlyGuysDoingManlyThings'' a future Commmander Badass travels back in time to beat up his past self and steal his coffee. After getting beat up the present Commander immediately begins to travel through time. The best part: they're doing it to impress Jonesy. Note the title of the comic: "We all peacock in our own way".

*** Best of all, the latter actually leads to the former. After [[spoiler:Dave gives John the first bunny, John gives it to baby Rose, who fixes it with her sewing needles thirteen years into the future and gives it back to John, who then gives it to baby Jade. Jade has it taken from her accidentally by an AlternateUniverse version of ''her grandfather'', named Jake. He then fixes it up again, and tunes it up to be incredibly dangerous, before sending it back to her. It gets waylaid on the way, allowing [[PunchClockVillain Jack Noir]] to take it and use the Black Queen's [[RingOfPower Ring of Orbs Fourfold]] to horribly mess up John's session. The bunny eventually gets back to John a third time, [[BigDamnHeroes just in time to]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome save him from]] [[BigBad Jack Noir]], but not before things become so irreparably damaged that they need to ''restart their universe'', through an [[ApocalypseHow apocalypse of at ''least'' Class X-4]] to fix it.]] And best of all? The [[spoiler:restarted time line is ''the one Jake comes from''.]]