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2->'''Kryten:''' All the ship's chronometers indicate that this is August the 16th, in the year 1421, just one day out.\
3'''Rimmer:''' Give us visual. Let's see what it's like out there.\
4'''Lister:''' Okay, punching it up. ... We're still where we were!\
5'''Kryten:''' Of course. We're still in deep space, sir, only now we're in deep space in the 15th century. Isn't it wonderful?
6-->-- ''Series/RedDwarf'', "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIOutOfTime Out of Time]]"
7
8When you go [[TimeTravel back or forwards in time]], where (not ''when'', '''where''') do you end up? There are several options:
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10[[foldercontrol]]
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12!!You remain at exactly the same geographic location:
13Basically, you don't go anywhere. More accurately, you arrive on Earth at precisely the same longitude and latitude you left from. This ignores the motion of the planet and its tectonic plates, but the nature of relativity means that there's nothing "incorrect" about not ending up in space or the middle of an ocean. Consider being able to move through time and remain stationary to be reliant on an unidentified {{Required Secondary Power|s}}.
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15[[folder:Examples]]
16[[AC:Anime and Manga]]
17* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' does this, although the device is magically powered, so AWizardDidIt.
18** Although it's averted if the time jump is long enough; it's a little less accurate then. For instance, when they go back a full week, they end up in the same general area, but hundreds of feet in the air. For multi-century jumps, extensive calculations are required for a successful jump.
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20[[AC:Comic Books]]
21* The Chronoscaphe in the ''ComicBook/BlakeAndMortimer'' story "The Time Trap" remains in the same geographical location during its travels.
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23[[AC:Film]]
24* The ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' films (but not the animated series, see below), specifically inspired by ''Literature/TheTimeMachine''.
25* [[Film/HarryPotter The Movie]] of ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'' (but not the book).
26** Also in ''Theatre/HarryPotterAndTheCursedChild'' - the protagonists need to go to the Forbidden Forest and the Lake to change the past by interfering with the First and Second Tasks of the Triwizard Tournament, respectively.
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28[[AC:Literature]]
29* The hero of ''Literature/LestDarknessFall'' is walking through 1930s Rome when he is struck by what can only be described as a speeding Auctorial Fiat and instantly transported to the same city, the same street, but in the sixth century C.E.
30* Played as well as can be expected by Creator/WilliamSleator's ''Literature/StrangeAttractors''. The villains have a base in the ice age, and since the earth was a great deal lower back then, they have actually built a ramp in that age so that they can jump from a specific location in the present and simply drive down it to land level.
31* ''Literature/TheTimeMachine'': The traveller can see the world outside the windows rushing past in a blur, so the time machine is physically remaining in place and just being sped up somehow, not "teleporting" through time (so, like any object resting on the ground, it's carried along with the continental drift). The original text explicitly explains that the forward-moving object exists in a state rarefied by the factor of its time speedup, so to non-travelling observers it is virtually invisible, and collisions are no problem.
32* ''The Last Day of Creation'' by Wolfgang Jeschke. The US government invents time travel and sends an expedition into the past to steal oil from Saudi Arabia, pipe it across the Mediterranean (then a dry lake bed) and ship it to what will become the United States where they can make use of it millions of years later. Naturally working out exactly where it's going to end up is crucial, including the calculation of continental drift. The expedition itself and its supplies has to be conveyed to the Mediterranean; fortunately the US Navy makes this easy, as they can just sail over the intended target area.
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34[[AC:Live-Action TV]]
35* ''Series/DoctorWho'' has an attempted example in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E6TheArk "The Ark"]] when the TARDIS glitches while travelling and ends up landing back in the same place it left off, but centuries in the future. The FridgeLogic is that the TARDIS had landed on a spaceship, which had travelled light-years between their last visit and their second one, meaning the TARDIS must have actually moved. No one acts like this is the case, however.
36* ''Series/TheGirlFromTomorrow''.
37* Used in ''Series/LifeOnMars2006'' and both pilots for [[Series/LifeOnMars2008 the American remake]], with Sam waking up in 1973 at the spot he was hit in 2006. This was somewhat averted in the first episode of {{Spinoff}} ''Series/AshesToAshes2008'', with Alex getting shot in a tunnel near the wharf and waking up on a yacht. She stays in the same vicinity, but not exactly at the same place. Of course, it turns out [[spoiler: it was never really TimeTravel anyway.]]
38* The ''Series/MirrorMirror1995'' series (the TimePortal is only active when both parts are "aligned").
39* ''Series/RedDwarf'', as noted above. It is very boring to note that, the only other time they use the device, it takes them back to Earth for no explained reason.
40** RuleOfFunny. You can hardly turn Lee Harvey Oswald into a street pizza if you're 3 million years from Earth.
41** Apparently a cut scene would have revealed they combined the time drive with the matter paddle from "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIVMeltdown Meltdown]]".
42** Actually, the matter paddle was turned into the triplicator from "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVDemonsAndAngels Demons and Angels]]". The time drive was upgraded due to the TemporalParadox that allowed them to survive getting killed by their future selves in the first place.
43* ''Series/StargateSG1'' had conflicting takes on this. In the very first instance when time travel appears in the series ("[[Recap/StargateSG1S2E211969 1969]]"), SG-1 enters the Stargate and is transported to the 1969 version of Cheyenne Mountain, with the Stargate immediately disappearing behind them. However, in subsequent instances, including the end of "1969" and the end of "[[Recap/StargateSG1S4E162010 2010]]", objects traveling through time via the Stargate are transported to wherever the Stargate is located in that time period. The RPG later explained the initial discrepancy by saying that SG-1 was transported to the same geographical location because both of Earth's Stargates were inaccessible at that time.
44* Pretty much every instance in ''Franchise/StarTrek''. ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]]'''s finale "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS7E24AllGoodThings All Good Things...]]" involves a NegativeSpaceWedgie [[spoiler:formed because they're [[AppliedPhlebotinum applying phlebotinum]] in the same way to the same "spot" in three different time periods -- non-related time periods, at that]].
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46[[AC:Video Games]]
47* Time travel in ''VideoGame/{{Achron}}''.
48* How Gates originally work in ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger''.
49** Justified in that the Gates are basically bidirectional wormholes anchored to specific points in space and time at either end.
50** The Epoch does this too until it gets upgraded whereupon it goes all the way around the world in order to end up right back where it was (spatially) every time it travels through time.
51* In ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'', Max can [[TimeRewindMechanic rewind time]], while (in most of the cases, at least) she remains at the same location. It can be used for teleportation past a barrier, provided that she had a way to reach her destination (in a possibly destructive way) before rewinding. There is no explanation for why others don't notice Max constantly teleporting around ([[SlidingScaleOfGameplayAndStoryIntegration despite arguably doing so in-story, not just as part of gameplay]]).
52* Of a sort in ''VideoGame/QuantumBreak'': time machines depend on a specially-built core, and when you travel through time, you don't travel in space, but only relative to the core. If the core itself has been moved, the traveler will move, too. This is particularly obvious when [[spoiler:Jack uses the Riverport University machine to try to save Will from his death in the opening. He enters the machine at the top of Monarch HQ, but in the time he arrives, the core hasn't yet been moved from Riverport University, so that's where he ends up.]]
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54[[AC:Webcomics]]
55* The consequences of a very similar idea are discussed in ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' in the story "A Very Big Bang", though it doesn't involve time travel as such. The protagonists of the story have entered an alternative reality and are trying to escape it by using a remote controller they have to reopen the portal through which they came, which will open at the same location it originally did. After the planet in question is [[EarthShatteringKaboom blown up]], Riff, the inventor of the device, says that the portal will open at the point in space where that point on the planet's surface would have been if the planet still existed, accounting for all the motion in space it would have made in the meantime. Why? Well, if it were to remain at the same geographical location, that's how it would have to behave. No explanation is actually given.
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57[[AC:Western Animation]]
58* The few times time travel happens in ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'', the travellers stay at the same location. Awkward when the location becomes a no-parking zone in the future... or is in a bridge tower, and you go back before when said bridge was built.
59[[/folder]]
60
61!!You end up in outer space:
62Why? Well, the Earth is moving around the Sun and it pulled away from you when you traveled through time. Pretty clever, but by that same logic you would end up extremely distant from Earth due to the Sun's orbit around the galaxy and the movement of the galaxy itself through space; rarely does a work take these two additional steps into account. In addition, this concept runs into a few issues with special relativity. ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel#Time_travel_or_spacetime_travel See here.]] [[FridgeLogic When you think about it]], it's not clear just what the traveler is staying "still" relative ''to''.)
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64[[folder:Examples]]
65[[AC:Comic Books]]
66* In [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/07/24/free-comic-book-day-2009/ this]] ''ComicBook/AtomicRobo'' comic, Atomic Robo uses this to argue that time travel is impossible, so Dr. Dinosaur couldn't have possibly arrived from the past. Dr. Dinosaur's rebuttal is simply that he's got "vastly superior reptilian intelligence".
67* In the British comic ''ComicBook/StrontiumDog'', this is actually used as a weapon. Time-travel guns, bombs and mines are all available. Time grenades are a favorite of the protagonist's and they are used [[SwissArmyWeapon to deal with enemies, interrogate dead enemies, hold live-bounties in stasis and occasionally as an escape route (it requires rather precise settings and is a bit fiddly).]]
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69[[AC:Film]]
70* The protagonists in the German movie ''Das Jesus-Video'' were shown a recording of a time travel experiment in which an apple was moved a few seconds into the future and reappeared next to the time pod.
71* In Don Hertzfeldt's short film ''World of Tomorrow'', future Emily explains that time travel is still very unpredictable and extremely dangerous in her time.
72-->'''Future Emily:''' If the position of the orbiting Earth is not accurately calculated, a person can be sent off the planet. Many of our brave test clones are also still regularly crushed beneath the ground, or accidentally deposited hundreds of thousands of years into the past.
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74[[AC:Literature]]
75* In Joe Haldeman's novel ''Literature/TheAccidentalTimeMachine'', each use of the time machine also moves you a progressively longer distance (which can be precalculated if you know the formula). The first few times it's used the distance moved is millimeters or less, so no one realizes, but eventually each use involves teleporting to the other side of the continent and then leaving the planet altogether.
76* ''Literature/BruceCovillesBookOf Spine Tinglers II'': The time machine in ''Same Time Next Year'' drops you off exactly where you started... except Earth and the entire solar system has moved on. Which is why the time travelers can't get back -- they're dropped off in space and promptly suffocate to death.
77* In Spider Robinson's ''[[Literature/CallahansCrosstimeSaloon Callahan's Con]]'', a distraught Zoey travels into the future to make sure her daughter is all right, but forgets to take her geographical location into account and accidentally ends up off-Earth. Fortunately her husband Jake, their super-genius daughter Erin and the rest of the Callahans regulars are able to bring her back safely.
78* In the Piers Anthony novel ''Ghosts'' this is taken into account, and the time-ship the cast use to travel into the far, far future is affixed to a point of absolute rest while the rest of the universe continues to move around them.
79* An early example is Creator/ClarkAshtonSmith's tale ''The Letter from Mohaun Los'' wherein the protagonist suffers this fate unexpectedly but continues to keep time traveling believing eventually he will juxtapose with habitable planets, which he does.
80* Time travel is used deliberately for space travel in both Kay Kenyon's "Seeds of Time" and Creator/GordonRDickson's "Time Storm".
81%%* In the micro-fiction story [[http://www.365tomorrows.com/12/18/the-time-traveller/ "The Time Traveller"]].
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83[[AC:Live-Action TV]]
84* In the ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' episode "Before I Sleep", Weir, Sheppard and Zelenka activate a time-traveling spaceship located in the Atlantis jumper bay. After going ten thousand years to the past, they emerge in outer space around Lantea. (This contradicts the episode "Moebius" of ''Series/StargateSG1'' in which another time-traveling puddle-jumper follows the above rules, although it could just be argued that the ''SG-1'' time jumper was a later model in which this "flaw" was corrected.)
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86[[AC:Newspaper Comics]]
87* [[http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-06-25 This]] ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' strip, where Ted tests out a time machine and is promised to "return to this exact spot in one day". Naturally, he ends up marooned in space.
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89[[AC:Webcomics]]
90* ''Webcomic/MSPaintMasterpieces'' has captive scientists [[DiscussedTrope cite]] this as the reason they're okay with developing a time machine for [[Franchise/MegaMan Dr. Wily]]--they'll just conveniently forget to mention that using it will strand him in deep space. Unfortunately, Wily's fully aware of this problem and easily solves it by combining the time machine with [[{{Teleportation}} teleportation technology]].
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92%%[[AC:Tabletop Games]]
93%%* Occurred in ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}''.
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95
96!!You end up somewhere else for no explained reason:
97The real reason is almost always to serve the plot, of course. If you were in California and you went back to the year 1066, you wouldn't want to end up in the pre-Columbian wilderness, would you? Sure, there would be Native Americans around, but if you went to 1066 you would be hoping to check out the Battle of Hastings in TheMiddleAges, right? This can also occur on a smaller scale, e.g. you end up on the other side of town for no reason.
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99[[folder:Examples]]
100[[AC:Film]]
101* At the end of ''Film/EvilDead2'' (and the beginning of ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness''), Ash is transported from 20th century North America to somewhere in medieval Europe.
102* In the film ''Film/TimeAfterTime'', H.G. Wells and Jack the Ripper both end up in San Francisco. This is given a bit of a flimsy {{handwave}} with Wells observing that it's eight hours later (which one guesses is supposed to suggest that the planet has rotated on its axis, but fails to explain why the time machine ended up on Earth at all with all the other planetary movement).
103** Since Wells arrived in a museum where the machine was already on display, it can be presume it just brought them to itself.
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105[[AC:Literature]]
106* Scott Ciencin's ''Literature/{{Dinoverse}}'' novels have the characters sent back in time but landing elsewhere on the planet, and one of them even comments how lucky they are not to be in space.
107* Occured in the book ''Kindred'' by Octavia Butler. When the main character travels back in time, she always lands somewhere near the boy who [presumably] called her there (he seems to do it unconsciously whenever in deadly danger), i.e. Maryland, and when she returns she always lands near where she started, that is, her home in Los Angeles. On her last return trip, however, she materializes with one arm literally in her home's wall.
108* In the ''Literature/SholanAlliance'' book "Fire Margins", when Carrie, Kusac and Kaid do their time travel thing, their destination winds up being a temple, many miles from where they started. Much later, Vartra drags Kaid into the past and returns him to his bedroom in the present.
109* ''Literature/TheTimeTravelersWife''. Of course, for Henry [=DeTamble=] the whole process was involuntary and random. However, when he travels back to his present, he will usually go back to the same spot where he came from.
110** Which is why he avoided flying on planes.
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113* ''Series/{{Journeyman}}'', although Dan almost always remains within San Francisco.
114* On ''Series/{{Lost}}'', [[spoiler:moving the island lands Ben ten months into the future... and in Tunisia. This may be related to the fact that Tunisia is on exactly the opposite side of the Earth from the island.]]
115** However, when a ''person'' travels in time alone, [[spoiler:they [[MentalTimeTravel travel into their past self]] and don't technically move at all]].
116* ''Series/TheMinistryOfTime'' is a combination of this and the next. The time gates connect different points and times (always within Spanish territory or lands that were this at that point). The Ministry knows where and when the gates they control lead to, but they cannot decide where to go. When it comes to new, unknown gates, though, all bets are off.
117* ''Series/QuantumLeap''. Sam hops around time and space, although usually limited to the years of his own lifetime and within the Continental United States. However, the show implies there's an unseen force guiding his leaps so it could actually be a programmed destination.
118* ''Series/SevenDays1998'' is somewhere between this, the previous and next scenarios; the sphere seems to always materialize in space, then ''falls'' back to Earth, landing at a more-or-less random location, usually in the general vicinity of wherever Parker was aiming for. The most we are told is that the spacial component of the guidance system is far less accurate than the temporal part, and the manual controls required are difficult to handle considering how painful the travel is (although Parker seems to grow better at it as the series progress).
119* Pretty much the entirety of ''Series/TheTimeTunnel'' depended on this concept, otherwise our two intrepid American scientists would have spent a lot of time underground.
120* Being stranded millions of years in deep space, some methods of time travel in ''Series/RedDwarf'' will deposit the characters in Earth for no explained reason;
121** The Time Hole in "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIIIBackwards Backwards]]" conveniently has its other end open at Earth albeit billions of years in the future where time is running backwards.
122** The titular leak in "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIIStasisLeak Stasis Leak]]" is entered through a stasis booth and exited through a random shower. At this time the ship is still in Earth's solar system. The gang are sent back to the future by a future Lister who says they'll find another method of time travel in five years that'll get them back to the solar system. Future Lister also tells his past self that a cosmic storm will temporarily transport him to parallel universe version of 1989 Earth.
123** The malfunctioning [[FountainOfYouth Rejuvenation Shower]] in "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonXLemons Lemons]]" conveniently sends them to 23 A.D. England, with the remote letting them teleport to the ship and back.
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125[[AC:Webcomics]]
126* In ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', when Riff's time machine malfunctions, it sends Zoƫ and Torg from the United States to medieval Britain. This is apparently because they're following the time-space-trail of the demon K'Z'K, but that doesn't explain anything since K'Z'K was blasted there randomly too.
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128[[AC:Western Animation]]
129* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In "[[Recap/FuturamaS6E7TheLatePhillipJFry The Late Phillip J. Fry]]", [[spoiler:the time machine, having gone from the present to the future to the end of the universe, then to the past so that they can arrive at the present again. When they finally arrive, they are ten feet above where they started, gravity kicks in and they end up crushing themselves before they ever left in the time machine]].
130** In reality, [[spoiler:they don't travel to the past, they instead keep going forward until a new universe is created, then another, which is identical to the first except "10 feet lower."]] The machine otherwise follows the first option.
131** The Professor does tell Fry to stop the time machine so he can step out and kill Hitler as they travel through the past. Then on their next trip through, he tries to lean out the window to do it again, but [[HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct misses and hits Eleanor Roosevelt instead.]] How a time machine that's supposed to be stationary and located in New York can put them in a position to do this is never explained, [[RuleOfFunny but it's probably better to not think about it too hard.]]
132[[/folder]]
133
134!!You get to program your destination:
135Basically, a {{justified|Trope}} version of the above (and possibly a way of dealing with the above). Very common. Essentially, this means that your TimeMachine is not only capable of time travel, but also teleportation -- it just engages both at the same time. Think about it -- if you input a destination, but keep the time the same, you can instantly travel anywhere! In a sense, this may be the most scientifically accurate scenario, since, according to Einstein's special theory of relativity, time is one of the four spatial dimensions and, consequently, teleportation and time travel are actually equivalent. It is not possible to travel instantaneously from one location to another without appearing to some observers to have traveled backward in time.
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137[[folder:Examples]]
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139[[AC:Comic Books]]
140* ''ComicBook/AvengersBackToBasics'': In the third story, Kamala returns to her time by using Doom's time machine. While using it, she notices that it also moves one in space as well as time and muses that time machines must need to do this to account for the motion of the Earth through space and not leave erstwhile time travelers stranded in space.
141* ''ComicBook/IronMan'': In the ''Fatal Frontier'' digital mini-series, a future version of Doctor Doom explains that due to Earth's constant movement through the universe, any time machine must also be a space machine, having made use of this dual purpose to arrive specifically to the present-day Moon from future-day [[{{Ruritania}} Latveria]] (on Earth).
142* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': Inverted in one story. The supervillain Judge Death escapes from prison and wants to return to the AlternateUniverse he originated from so he steals a teleporter and kidnaps the scientist who invented it. He winds up in the right location, only in a past rendition of his homeworld where he hadn't completed his EvilPlan yet.
143%%* ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'': The Time-Bubbles.
144* ''ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske'': Professor Barabus has the ''Tele''timemachine which, as the name suggests, is also designed to carry you across distances, so that the titular duo and friends can have adventures ranging from the Wild West to Ancient Greece or Medieval Japan.
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147* ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons'': The time machine -- for the most part -- arrives in approximately the same airspace in which it left, except for the trip from the Robinson Manse (circa 2037) to the 6th Street Orphanage (circa 1995), meaning the time machine probably travels through space as well.
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149[[AC:Film -- Live-Action]]
150* ''Film/AvengersEndgame'': The Quantum Realm time travel, allowing warp distances as small as across the state or as large as a distant point in the galaxy. This can be done for individual travelers going to different points in time, allowing one team to go to one time and place while another goes to a completely different one, all within the same jump.
151* ''Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'': The phone booth works like this, allowing the user to dial a single phone number for both location and time.
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153[[AC:Literature]]
154* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': The Time Matrix grants nearly TARDIS-level freedom of movement in time and space. However, if it is given conflicting instructions, it can fall into the next category....
155* ''Literature/DragonridersOfPern'': Dragons have the natural ability to teleport anywhere they (or their rider) can visualize (they can also go places they haven't seen, but they run the risk of appearing inside a mountain or being lost forever). A lesser known side-effect of this is that they can also travel to any when they can visualize. They can also do both at the same time.
156* ''Literature/FutureTimesThree'': While the time traveller can program his destination time, only his thoughts can decide where he will land, so he needs to focus on a specific place as he switches the time machine. This requires some training as his first attempts cause him to appear either in the privy, the pantry, or his LoveInterest's bed. Later on, this has dramatic consequences when he lets his mind wander during a time trip. [[spoiler:His neighbour had just told him about his parents' wedding, causing the time traveller to appear just there. The bride is so frightened by this interference that she cancels the wedding, causing the poor neighbour to be erased from existence.]]
157* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'': Harry and Hermione are transported from the infirmary to the entrance hall when they go back three hours, which means the Time Turner sent them as close to ''where'' they were three hours ago as possible while still observing the NeverTheSelvesShallMeet rule.
158* ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'': The use of the TPDD (Time Plane Destruction Device) apparently works like this. In ''Vanishing'', a time traveler is explicitly given destination time and place coordinates before using it.
159* ''Literature/IncarnationsOfImmortality'': Chronos, the Incarnation of Time, uses an hourglass to time travel. It usually does this automatically, but he can negate certain parts of it, allowing him to do such things as stay in place while the universe continues on its merry way.
160* ''Literature/TheNumberOfTheBeast'' has their device able to travel along ''any'' of the ''six'' dimensional axes; thus, it could travel through time, space, and alternate dimensions.
161%%* ''Literature/TimePatrol'': The Time Scooters (one- or two-person) and Time Transports used by members of the Time Patrol.
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163[[AC:Live-Action TV]]
164* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The TropeNamer herself, the TARDIS. Her ability to travel in space is treated as being nearly as important as her time travel. However, she's also very obstinate, and will often pick a destination by herself while completely ignoring the Doctor's programming (effectively resulting in a case of "you end up somewhere else to suit the needs of the plot").
165** Because of this, she can jump across the entire Universe in an instant. In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E3PyramidsOfMars "Pyramids of Mars"]], the energy beam from Mars that is powering Sutekh's prison on Earth is shut down, but the TARDIS can get back to Earth in time to lay an ambush for Sutekh as the energy beam was moving at light speed, giving them several minutes before the prison will fail ([[FridgeLogic except logically]], they could have gone there the slow way and travelled back in time...).
166** A rare example of the second type occurs in one ExpandedUniverse [[http://www.drwhoguide.com/whobbk56.htm novel]]. The Doctor sets the TARDIS to land in Masada, but a [[PhlebotinumBreakdown glitch]] causes them to land in England. ''However'', the TARDIS is still calibrated to compensate for the Earth's spin at the latitude of Israel, not England, [[HilarityEnsues resulting]] in the out-of-control TARDIS carving a police box-shaped tunnel across the English countryside...
167** Another minor example of the previous type occurs in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E11FearHer "Fear Her"]], when the Doctor lands the TARDIS with her door against a dumpster, and must then turn the TARDIS around before he can leave, though that example might be more of a botched parking job than anything else.
168** The TabletopRPG includes a section explaining how the TARDIS systems can be used to compensate for the rotation of planets. The most common error in travel is appearing in the wrong place.
169** This is also mentioned in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E4TheDoctorsWife "The Doctor's Wife"]]. The TARDIS herself tells the Doctor that she has always taken him to where he needed to be, even if that seldom was where the Doctor wanted to be.
170* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': Hiro has abilities that seem to count time and space as part of a single continuum. His first attempt at actual travel through space landed him several weeks in the future as well.
171* ''Franchise/StarTrek'': Any time when the transporter is involved. Even when the time travel part is [[TeleporterAccident unintentional]], those involved still usually end up at or near their intended location.
172* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': Time travel is accomplished by the angels, with great effort, and they can also and (presumably during time travel) teleport people as well. Dean and/or Sam therefore land exactly where the angels want them to land in time and space.
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175* ''TabletopGame/{{Continuum}}'': Time travellers can also move to arbitrary locations on Earth, but travelling requires extensive augmentation and training as the Earth's constant movement through space makes aiming ''really hard''.
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177[[AC:Video Games]]
178* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlertSeries'': The Chronosphere works this way, warping Albert Einstein from an unknown location to a square near where Hitler was in ''Red Alert''. Cherenkov uses a similar system in ''Red Alert 3'' to delete Einstein from history, warping from the Kremlin to an auditorium where Einstein was just leaving the stage.
179* ''VideoGame/TheJourneymanProject'': The time travel device sends you to a particular time and location (typically, somewhere historically significant). In the third game, you visit all three of the game's past locations (Atlantis, El Dorado, and Shangri-La) on the day of their destruction and then the day before. This is necessary, since the Temporal Security Annex/Agency is located in Caldoria, a [[FloatingContinent flying city]].
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182* ''Webcomic/CaseyAndAndy'' has the [[ThingOMatic Nineteenth Century White House Teleport-O-Mat]], that's pre-programmed to warp from wherever the boys' house is to [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the White House during one of Grover Cleveland's terms]].
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185* ''WesternAnimation/BackToTheFuture: TheAnimatedSeries'' sees the new De Lorean (and the train) apparently after some upgrades. The gang is able to travel ''where'' they wish as well as when, which enables the plot (AncientRome was most decidedly ''not'' in Hill Valley.)
186* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
187** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E20ItsAboutTime It's About Time]]": Twilight casts a spell that lets her go back seven days for a limited time, and also transports her from Canterlot to her house in Ponyville for the duration of the spell.
188** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E25TheCutieRemarkPart1 The Cutie Re-Mark]]": Starlight Glimmer rewrites the spell to be more powerful, and combines it with the [[AmplifierArtifact Map Table]] in Twilight's castle to allow her to go from there in the present to the flight camp in Cloudsdale in the past, when Rainbow Dash performed her first Sonic Rainboom. The spell is later modified to go back to Starlight's childhood village, presumably nowhere near Ponyville or Cloudsdale.
189%%* ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'': Mr. Peabody's [[StealthPun WABAC]] machine.
190%%* ''Series/WhereInTimeIsCarmenSandiego''
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193!!You end up nowhere at all:
194You end up in a different dimension, or otherwise not in the known universe. Usually this means there was some sort of problem.
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196[[folder:Examples]]
197[[AC:Comic Books]]
198* In the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, the time-travelling villain Immortus makes his headquarters in Limbo, a realm "outside of time" from which all time periods are accessible.
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200[[AC:Literature]]
201* In ''[[Literature/{{Animorphs}} The Andalite Chronicles]]'', a struggle between a Human, an Andalite, and a Yeerk to gain control of the Time Matrix confuses the device, which creates a separate small universe combining all three sets of destination data it was given (that is, it was a PatchworkWorld of their three respective home worlds at the last time each of them were home).
202* In Creator/IsaacAsimov's short story "Blank!" the machine gets stuck "between two time-particles".
203* In Creator/StephenKing 's ''Literature/TheLangoliers'', travelers through a time rift end up in a "used-up" version of the past -- all the people are gone, everything is worn out and useless, and [[ClockRoaches monstrous things]] are coming to devour what's left.
204** And King's short story ''The Jaunt'' (in Literature/SkeletonCrew) explores an opposite effect - instantaneous travel through space is not instantaneous travel through time... it's [[ExactWords longer than you think]].
205* In ''Literature/TheRedemptionOfAlthalus'', the heroes live in a house that can open doors to any place they want and, it's hinted, ''any time''. One of the heroes decides, as an intellectual exercise, to open a door to "Nowhere", and nearly dooms everyone. He receives a severe tonguelashing by their local goddess, who remarks that not even ''gods'' would try something like that. He then says his ''next'' experiment was to open a door to ''"Nowhen"''...
206* In Creator/LarryNiven's ''Temporal Research Institute'' stories, Hanville Svetz is sent to explore the remarkably extraordinary past, where he and his superiors marvel at the many strange things they see in each period -- never realizing that they aren't sending him into THE past, but [[AlternateHistory merely A past]] (generally [[ShoutOut cribbed from other fiction and mythology]]). At least he's better off than most: Since there's an infinite number of parallel timelines, it's pretty much impossible to find any particular one twice, but Svetz doesn't know this, because his time machine is a stationary device on the end of a column that's extended through the fourth dimension during each expedition, preventing him from getting marooned like many others.
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208[[AC:Live-Action TV]]
209* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
210** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E3TheEdgeOfDestruction "The Edge of Destruction"]] (the [[OlderThanTheyThink third story in the whole series]]), the TARDIS breaks down, and the doors open and close on a white void of absolute nothingness neither inside nor outside the universe.
211** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E7TheSpaceMuseum "The Space Museum"]], the TARDIS "[[JustOneSecondOutOfSync jumps a time track]]" and the time travellers appear to have skipped into their own future to witness their corpses, while at the same time being incorporeal and unable to interact with anything or anyone. Then the TARDIS itself catches up with them, returning them to corporeality and making their corpses disappear.
212** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E2TheMindRobber "The Mind Robber"]] has a [[MindScrew particularly strange]] example. In order to escape an erupting volcano, the Doctor utilizes the TARDIS's emergency circuit, which takes him and his companions out of time and space, leaving them "nowhere". Later, as they attempt to reenter reality, the TARDIS gets hijacked, explodes, and deposits its passengers in the "Land of Fiction".
213** At the beginning of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E5RiseOfTheCybermen "Rise of the Cybermen"]], the TARDIS console explodes, sending it hurtling into "some sort of no-place, the silent realm", as the Doctor states. It then transpires they've wound up in a parallel universe.
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215[[AC:Video Games]]
216* In ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', if you try to travel through time with [[ArbitraryHeadcountLimit too large a group at once]], you end up at The End of Time. After having wound up here once, this becomes the default result of going through a Gate.
217
218[[AC:Webcomics]]
219* In ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', most temporal accidents put you in "timeless space", which is mostly full of geeks who made their time machines malfunction on purpose to see what would happen.
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221[[AC:Western Animation]]
222* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS1E14SB129KarateChoppers SB-129]]", after visiting the future and the past, Squidward ends up... somewhere big and empty, where he can finally be alone. A few seconds later, he desperately wants out.
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