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| 7 | ->''Mastery is achieved when 'telling time' becomes 'telling time what to do.[='=]'' |
| 8 | -->-- ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'', [[http://www.magiccards.info/10e/en/114.html Telling Time]] |
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| 14 | Some people can control {{reality|Warper}}. Others can control [[PlayingWithFire fire]], some control [[AnIcePerson ice]], and some just get [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway saddled with]] {{Heart|BeatDown}}. This guy? He scored the silver medal in the SuperpowerLottery: he controls time itself. This is called many things, but whether through forbidden magic, ImportedAlienPhlebotinum, or just being TheChosenOne, he can move through the ages like walking to his kitchen. The powers of the Time Masters are multiple and varied; he may [[TimeTravel travel in time]], cause the flow of time to slow down or speed up or [[TimeStandsStill stop altogether]], move between {{Alternate Timeline}}s... |
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| 16 | He may be a member of the TimePolice, a ConquerorFromTheFuture, or the one winding up the {{Timey Wimey Ball}}s, but as far as he's concerned, no-when is safe. |
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| 18 | If he's an antagonist, killing him may be difficult, impossible, or force FridgeLogic upon the viewer. After all, if he can move through time, can't he go back to before you attack him and kill you? |
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| 20 | Maybe, as a consequence of, or as a necessary condition for his power, he's a TimeAbyss. |
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| 22 | Note that TimeTravel itself is not a necessary power, and there are many characters with time powers who explicitly cannot travel through time. [[TheMaster Especially that one.]] The BadassNormal version would be the ClockKing (who might be called a time master in-universe, but isn't). |
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| 24 | Not to be confused with a JustForFun/TimeLord, or the movie ''WesternAnimation/TimeMasters'', or the tabletop RPG ''TabletopGame/{{Timemaster}}''. Compare with SpaceMaster and GravityMaster. See also ClockKing, who may not be able to control time, but is a master of planning around it. |
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| 26 | !!Example subpages: |
| 27 | [[index]] |
| 28 | * TimeMaster/VideoGames |
| 29 | [[/index]] |
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| 31 | !!Examples: |
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| 35 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 36 | * In ''Manga/AirGear'', there is an offshoot branch of the Flame Road that focuses exclusively on time based attacks and movements. Any rider of the Flame Road can in theory learn how to use time tricks, but it requires an in-depth knowledge of the Flame Road in order to master. Thus, only king-level riders have been shown using it: Spitfire, Aeon Clock (who specializes in this almost exclusively), and [[spoiler:Kazu]]. Later, a fusion of the roads was made called the [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Apollon Road]], in which time and flame tricks are combined and used at once. |
| 37 | * This is the main magic of the Wizard King, Julius Novachrono, in ''Manga/BlackClover''. With this magic he can accelerate, freeze, and slow the passage of time both around him and for other people. He also gains a bit of precognition with it allowing him to anticipate incoming attacks. The thing that takes more effort is reversing time, which he needs to build up and store before it can be used. If he has to use too much of it up all at once because he had to say [[spoiler: protect every citizen in the kingdom from a magic style StormOfBlades]] then he's utterly defenseless afterwards. [[spoiler:It later transpires that this Time Magic isn't actually Julius' own, but rather [[PowersViaPossession the magic of the devil he's hosting]], that being Astaroth, the supreme devil of time and one of the former rulers of the Underworld.]] |
| 38 | * ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': |
| 39 | ** Barragan Louisenbairn's abilities stem around manipulating the flow of time to slow down his enemies and make them age and crumble into dust. [[spoiler:As it turns out, even ''he's'' not immune to this power and needs [[RequiredSecondaryPowers to use a special personal field to protect himself]]. The moment someone managed to get a piece of that power past said shield, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard it was over in a matter of seconds]]]]. |
| 40 | ** In a way Orihime's ability could be viewed as this. She is able to "reject" or retgone virtually anything, from damage/injuries to an object's existence. |
| 41 | * ''Manga/BungoStrayDogs'': [[spoiler:Louisa May Alcott]]. Initially, the audience is led to believe that her ability is to predict and plan for any event, but it's actually to slow time in any given room to 1/8000th of its normal speed, provided she's the only one in that room. |
| 42 | * ''Manga/BrynhildrInTheDarkness'': Saori has a secondary power to rewind time up to one minute, and can use this to reverse her own death. However, using this ability drains her energy so much that she is rendered helpless, so she only uses it as a last resort. |
| 43 | %%* The Time Card in ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura''. |
| 44 | * [=RyuZU=] in ''Literature/ClockworkPlanet'' gains the ability to control time upon activating her [[SuperMode Dual Time Mode]]. One of her techniques in this mode is called "The Relative Maneuver: Mute Scream", where she freezes time all over and uses it to her advantage to take out dangerous enemies. From a human observer, this would happen in a blink of an eye, while from [=RyuZU=]'s relative perspective called Imaginary Time, [[YearInsideHourOutside lasts for hours and even days]]. The drawback however is that once activated, [=RyuZU=] cannot turn it off herself and has to wait it out until her spring is fully unwound, after which, she would have to be rewound manually by her master to wake up again. |
| 45 | * [[spoiler:Aoba]] from ''Manga/CodeBreaker'' has the ability to control the time of any object/person she touches. She can even "pause" death, but can't stop it. |
| 46 | * Sumire in ''Manga/TheDarkQueenAndIStrikeBack'' has Time Axis, which lets her shoot arrows that explode to create zones of altered time. She can stop, accelerate or rewind time within these zones. |
| 47 | * [[TheChessmaster Amber]] from ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' can [[OracularUrchin predict the future]], [[TimeStandsStill freeze time]], or even [[SaveScumming turn back time a little]] if she doesn't like the way things turned out on the first try. And she's the BigBad, [[NecessarilyEvil sort of]]. The [[PowerAtAPrice "cost"]] she pays for this [[SuperpowerLottery fantastic ability]] is that she actually grows younger when she uses her power, so she could basically [[CursedWithAwesome live forever]] under the right circumstances. [[spoiler:Instead, she pulls a HeroicSacrifice, using her power until she de-ages right out of existence, in order to give the hero a chance to TakeAThirdOption, where the first two options were basically different kinds of genocide.]] |
| 48 | * Kurumi Tokisaki from ''Literature/DateALive''. She has twelve different time-related powers (based on the twelve numbers of a clock) which include summoning temporal duplicates of herself, freezing time, speeding herself up, rewinding time to heal her injuries, etc. Each use is a CastFromLifespan, but she can drain the lifespan of others. |
| 49 | * ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'': |
| 50 | ** [[OlympusMons Alphamon]] can use its Alpha Inforce ability to manipulate time in a way that lets it perform a SpamAttack. ''Anime/DigimonXrosWarsTheYoungHuntersWhoLeaptThroughTime'' also has the old watchmaker's partner Clockmon who can freeze time. |
| 51 | ** In ''Anime/DigimonGhostGame'', a different Clockmon appears as a StarterVillain and would inflict RapidAging on unsuspecting humans, [[VampiricDraining draining their "time" to strengthen itself]]. |
| 52 | ** Also in ''Ghost Game'' there was [[TheFairFolk Piximon]], who tried to "entertain" humans by ambushing them and sending them [[FishOutOfTemporalWater back in time]]. When the heroes confront him he tries to RetGone Gammamon, but thanks to [[SuperpoweredEvilSide GulusGammamon]] it doesn't pan out. |
| 53 | * ''Franchise/DragonBall'': |
| 54 | ** Guldo has the ability to stop time for as long as he can hold his breath. |
| 55 | ** Whis, Beerus' Angel attendant, is not only a RealityWarper, but he can rewind time by three minutes for the entire universe. It does have limits however, as he can't do it twice in a row. |
| 56 | ** Hit from ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' has a somewhat similar ability as Guldo, being able to skip time. He can only do it for 0.1 seconds, but since Hit has SuperSpeed on top of this ability, he can mortally wound an opponent before they even have the chance to move. Also, unlike Guldo, he can repeatedly use his ability as many times as he wants since it seems to take no stamina...and then he reveals he can extend it even longer, boosting it up to 0.5 seconds while in the middle of the match with Goku. |
| 57 | * ''Manga/FairyTail'': |
| 58 | ** Ultear Milkovich has the ability to age or restore inanimate objects. She later reveals that [[spoiler:[[DangerousForbiddenTechnique she can travel the entire world back a minute back in time in exchange for making her age to near death]]]] and gains the ability to sense disturbances in the time flow caused by other time mages [[spoiler:which also allows her to send an AstralProjection that can unfreeze the frozen time for certain objects or people, though not directly fight]]. She can also unlock a person's hidden magical potential with the Second Origin [[spoiler:and give them access to all the power they will ever obtain with the Third Origin, though it leaves them magic-less for the rest of their lives]]. |
| 59 | ** This is the true power of [[PraetorianGuard Spriggan Twelve]] [[spoiler:[[MasterSwordsman DiMaria Yesta]]]]. She can freeze time all around her for a seemingly unlimited period and it gives her all the openings she needs to finish her opponents. To them, she hasn't even moved as [[PowerPerversionPotential their clothes suddenly explode into shreds]] and it has one hell of a psychological edge. [[ShoutOut She even shares Dio Brando's arrogance in calling the frozen time "her world"]]. The source of said powers is no joke either: [[spoiler:she's literally the [[WillingChanneler vessel]] of the [[PhysicalGod God of Time, Chronos]] due to being descended from the tribe that worshipped him]]. She only loses because [[spoiler:Ultear unfroze time around Wendy and Sherria to fight her, and Sherria [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique used Ultear's Third Origin]] to enhance her [[AchillesHeel God Slayer Magic]] to the point she actually could hurt her. Meanwhile, [[SuperPoweredEvilSide E.N.D.]] just flat-out [[AntiMagic burns his way through the frozen time]] to attack her]]. |
| 60 | ** [[spoiler:Acnologia the Black Dragon of the Apocalypse]] gains the power of Time Magic after [[spoiler:literally eating his way out of [[TimeParadox the Time Lapse]].]] On top of the incredible boost to his already vast power (he was the strongest thing in existence even before this), it gives him the ability to draw those of his choosing into a "Time Rift" where he can imprison them at his leisure and, if they're tough enough to try and fight back, [[spoiler:confront them with a projection of his very soul that possesses all of his magic power]]. |
| 61 | * Moritani Misuzu, the main character of the [[YuriGenre yuri]] love story ''Manga/{{Fragtime}}'', has the ability to freeze time for three minutes a day. |
| 62 | * This is [[NeverMessWithGranny Subaru's]] Seishi power in ''Manga/FushigiYuugi''. [[spoiler: Which she uses on [[BattleCouple her husband Tokaki and herself]], reverting them to their younger selves for a while. She also casts a similar spell on her friend nd fellow Byakko Senshi Tatara, allowing him to keep his youth and live indefinitely [[{{geas}} as long as he stays in a determined place]] -- which suits him fine because he wants to live as long as possible to protect [[MacGuffin the Shinzaho]].]] |
| 63 | * Nagato Yuki in ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'' is a SufficientlyAdvanced alien with RealityWarper powers similar in nature to the Agents of ''Film/TheMatrix''. Though incapable of physical TimeTravel (she instead "downloads" her future mind into her past body in one instance, effectively making her the same person), she is capable of manipulating time and space, and helps a couple of time traveling friends who lost their time machine get back to the future by [[TheSlowPath having them lie down in her guest bedroom and freezing time within said room while the outside world continues to move]]. |
| 64 | * In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', almost all of the {{Big Bad}}s have some form of time-related power: |
| 65 | ** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'': DIO's The World can [[TimeStandsStill stop time]] for several seconds. During this time, he's free to move and act as normal, and uses this to pull tricks like creating a FlechetteStorm of throwing knives. [[spoiler: Jotaro realizes that he has the same power during their fight, albeit on a weaker level, and uses it to defeat DIO.]] |
| 66 | ** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Diamond is Unbreakable]]'': Yoshikage Kira's Killer Queen evolves a third power dubbed Bites the Dust, which allows him to create time loops that operate on very specific rules. |
| 67 | ** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Golden Wind]]'': Diavolo has King Crimson, which can skip a section of time from anywhere between .5 to 10 seconds, as well as seeing 10 seconds into the future with Epitaph. During skipped time, he is the only one able to deviate from Epitaph's predictions, as well as remember what happened. |
| 68 | ** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]'': Pucci's evolved Stand, C-Moon has the uncontrolled power to accelerate time in a localized area, such as making a woman's fingernails grow. [[spoiler:In its final evolution, Made in Heaven, it gains full control over this power, which gives Pucci the ability to "reset" the universe by accelerating it to the point where it ends and begins again.]] |
| 69 | ** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'': While not the BigBad, Ringo Roadagain's Mandom has the ability to rewind time by six seconds while he retains full knowledge of what happened in the altered time. [[spoiler:[[FinalBoss The Alternate Universe Diego "DIO" Brando]] has THE WORLD, which is almost identical to DIO's The World, both in appearance and abilities.]] |
| 70 | * Lucoa from ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' can rewind time, something she casually offers to do for Ilulu. The exact mechanics aren't specified since Ilulu turned down her offer. |
| 71 | * From ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'', Kurono's Quirk, Chronostasis, allows a limited application of time manipulation. He has three arrow-shaped locks of hair (an hour hand, a minute hand, and a second hand) that he can shoot out like tentacles to attack people. This will slow down their movements, with the duration of the slowdown effect being determined by whichever hand he used to attack. However, Kurono cannot extend his hair unless he stays still. |
| 72 | * [[spoiler: Chao Lingshen]] from ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', who possesses special bullets that can displace a target through time and has a fighting style that involves a lot of time travel abuse to evade attacks. |
| 73 | * ''Manga/OnePiece'': |
| 74 | ** Foxy's Slow-Slow Beams allow him to slow anything they touch for thirty seconds. Besides the obvious use in enemies, he adds very different (and deadly) uses to them. |
| 75 | ** Kozuki Toki's Time-Time Fruit allow herself and people she's selected to travel through time, but only going forward, going ''back'' in time is impossible. |
| 76 | ** Jewelry Bonney's power provides a variation, in that [[spoiler:she cannot control time per se, but she can change herself and other people into different future variations, by invoking MultipleChoiceFuture]]. |
| 77 | * [[spoiler: [[AntiHero Homura Akemi]]]] from ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' can [[TimeStandsStill pause time]] (which from an outsider's perspective looks like {{Teleportation}}) and perform MentalTimeTravel, though seemingly only to one specific time. |
| 78 | ** ''Manga/PuellaMagiOrikoMagica'' gives us [[CuteAndPsycho Kirika Kure]], who can slow down and speed up time for other people, effectively allowing her to shut down [[spoiler:Homura's]] [[TimeStandsStill time freezing]] power, and herself, which often gives her the appearance of SuperSpeed. [[spoiler:This even allows her to slow down her own death or [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie Witchification]].]] |
| 79 | * In ''Manga/RaveMaster'', Captain Hardner has an interesting way of using time related powers. Namely, restoring old wounds to people, and retgone'ing his own injuries. Sieghart and [[spoiler: Niebel]], however, as Time Guardians, count as more straight examples. Sieg can make objects and living beings travel through time, while [[spoiler: Niebel can manipulate his own time, giving him a massive power boost in exchange for aging in an incredible speed non-stop.]] |
| 80 | * Ruri from ''Manga/RisingXRydeen'' has an ability called "chain of lost memory". This lets her revert anything or anyone back to the it was five minutes ago. So as long as the item or person was injured within five minutes she can fix or heal them. |
| 81 | * Misora Haruki from ''Literature/SagradaReset'' can reset time back to three days. This means that all events and any memory of the past three days that "could have" happened, never happened, even Misora herself loses memory of actually using her ability. |
| 82 | * Sailor Pluto of ''Anime/SailorMoon''. She largely has only one real time-related power (her ties to time are mostly due to her guarding the time gate) in that she can stop time for everyone but those she chooses. Doing this costs her life, however. |
| 83 | * ''Anime/{{Shinzo}}'': Queen Rusephine, one of the last villains of the first season, has power over the spacetime continuum. She uses this to reveal several unpleasant truths from the past to the three main heroes, as well as summon a past version of the BigBad to the present. The first was an effective way to rub salt in the wound, but the latter backfires when he just kills her and absorbs her powers. |
| 84 | * Midori Okamoto from ''Anime/StarDriver'' has various powers relating to time, including the ability to [[FountainOfYouth turn back time on her own body to become a teenager]] and [[{{Seers}} see a few seconds into the future]] (just enough for her to dodge enemy attacks). |
| 85 | * Creator/OsamuTezuka's "The Execution Ended at Three O'Clock" features a Nazi VillainProtagonist who is to be executed for war crimes, but unbeknownst to his captors he's uncovered a formula that slows down time when consumed, which he plans to use to escape with his life.... [[spoiler: Unfortunately for him, it slows down everything, including his own actions, so he's left waiting for eternity for the bullets to finally reach him and kill him, as he can't move quickly enough to untie himself and escape]] |
| 86 | * ''Literature/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'': This is part of the powerset of [[spoiler:Chloe Aubert after she unlocks the full potential of her [[RealityWarper Ultimate Skill]] [Space-Time God Yog-Sothoth Hortz]. With it, she can [[TimeStandsStill stop time]] and [[MoveInTheFrozenTime move through it]], reverse time for herself to "turn back" injuries and implicitly render herself chronologically immortal, TimeTravel, and most sinisterly reverse and fast-forward ''other people's time'', allowing her to, for example, devolve someone to a previous state of being.]] |
| 87 | %%* Kyoko from ''Manga/TimeStrangerKyoko''. |
| 88 | * Lux in ''Literature/UndefeatedBahamutChronicle'' can do this using his Drag-Ride. He initially uses it to slow down his own time for five seconds, then speed it up to give himself five seconds of SuperSpeed. To make this viable in combat, [[RequiredSecondaryPowers he needs to first analyse the enemy's attacks so he can dodge them while slowed-down]]. He later learns how to apply this to other people (slowing them down so he can attack them multiple times, then speeding them up so that they feel all the effects of the attacks at once) and to his surroundings (to slow down incoming projectiles so he can intercept them). |
| 89 | * Basilisk in ''Literature/UnlimitedFafnir'' can shoot a beam from its eyes that ages anything it hits by two thousand years every second. [[spoiler:It can shoot an even more powerful beam from a third eye on its back, which ages the target by hundreds of millions of years. It also has the ability to see into the future to some extent.]] |
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| 92 | [[folder:Asian Animation]] |
| 93 | * ''Animation/BoBoiBoy'': Ying has the power to manipulate time, but it was initially mistaken for SuperSpeed, as she was running normally while time slowed down around her. However, it takes a lot of energy, so she's limited to [[HourOfPower a specified interval of use before it deactivates]]. In the climax of ''Animation/BoBoiBoyTheMovie'', [[spoiler:she temporarily gains an upgrade to reverse time as well]]. |
| 94 | * ''Animation/KungFuWa'': When Tee Yang brings Kung-Fu Sock Master to her school, time is not working properly, is eventually revealed that a [[MonsterOfTheWeek Kwei]] possesed the star-shaped school clock and is capable of stopping time and rewind it by moving its clock hands. |
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| 97 | [[folder:Audio Plays]] |
| 98 | * ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'': |
| 99 | ** The Eighth Doctor claims to have time senses, to the point that being in a timeless universe feels to him like he's lost a limb. |
| 100 | ** The Creevix from [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoDOTD11TheTimeMachine "The Time Machine"]], InsectoidAliens from the next Universe along, are better examples of this, manipulating a time loop to give them entry to our Universe. They can also [[SpacetimeEater consume potential]] and almost destroy this Universe. |
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| 103 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 104 | * Done in ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'', of all places, with ''Santa Claus''. When one of his elves asks HowCanSantaDeliverAllThoseToys, Santa says that he uses a "special time warp technique" to do it. |
| 105 | * In the ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' story "The Nearness of You," the Time-Keeper is a villain who uses stopwatches of his own design that can stop time. He ends up tearing a dimension in time and confronts Eterneon, the Lord and Watcher of the Timestream; their battle results in a TimeCrash CrisisCrossover. |
| 106 | * ''Franchise/TheDCU'': |
| 107 | ** ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'': |
| 108 | *** The Time Trapper is able to age anyone he chooses (even to bones or ashes). He's capable of creating an "Iron Curtain of Time", a barrier which prevents time travel. He's also able to create a temporal force barrier which he uses to seal a time-traveling Superman off from the 20th century. On [[AlternateUniverse Earth-18]], he keeps available technology and culture 'stuck' as they were in the Wild West era, forcing the inhabitants to work around it, emulating modern-day developments with late 19th-century tech. At one point he effective defeats Superman, who only survives due ''two'' {{deus ex machina}}s. First three admirers from the future The Time Trapper has trapped Superman in grant Superman funcitonal immortality as a reward for all of his services, and later a radom comet acts as a ResetButton. |
| 109 | *** The ''ComicBook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew'' counterpart of the Time Trapper is a bear with a watch for a belt and an hourglass round his neck, called the Time Keeper. He can alter the ages of the heroes and send them back in time to fight FunnyAnimal historical characters. |
| 110 | *** Both the first and [[LegacyCharacter second]] Kid Quantums can freeze time in a limited area. |
| 111 | ** ''ComicBook/TheFlash'': |
| 112 | *** The second Reverse-Flash/Zoom (Hunter Zolomon) does not have SuperSpeed. Rather, he uses his temporal powers to fake having SuperSpeed to battle Wally West with. |
| 113 | *** Inertia, Impulse's evil clone, has the ability to alter time relative to himself. |
| 114 | ** The android ComicBook/{{Hourman}}, who was built with precognition and chronal manipulation powers on top of possessing a map of all space and time. |
| 115 | ** Classic ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' villain Epoch, the Lord of Time. |
| 116 | ** ''ComicBook/RipHunter... Time Master''. He uses his time machine to, in addition to fighting evil and learning martial arts, get the best soda of all time. |
| 117 | ** At one point, an entirely supervillain ''group'' consisting of characters of this type existed, the appropriately-named Time Stealers. Consisting of Black Beetle, Despero, Mr. Mind, Per Degaton and the Ultra-Humanite, the group positioned themselves as enemies to Rip Hunter above, as well as his allies Booster Gold and Blue Beetle III. Though defeated, the group was able to escape, and technically are still at large to this day, doing who-knows-what in the timestream. |
| 118 | ** The first incarnation of ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' villain Gog had this as a cornerstone of his powerset. He was empowered by the Quintessence (a now-defunct group that consisted of the strongest and most godlike beings in the DCU) to be able to jump up or down the timestream entirely at will. Unfortunately for the Quintessence, Gog was driven AxCrazy by the experience of beings empowered and fixated on Superman as TheAntichrist. So he began jumping backwards through time in 24-hour increments, killing each Superman he encountered as he went. The second incarnation of Gog was also one of these, but inverted the way in which he used his powers, summoning an army of versions of himself from different points in time to do battle with Superman and Doomsday. |
| 119 | ** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'': |
| 120 | *** [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: Dr. Lana Kurree, Holliday College graduate and chemist, is normally rather levelheaded which is good since when she gets into a true panic the winds of time sweep her and those in close proximity to her into the past, generally by decades but sometimes thousands of years, and she has [[PowerIncontinence no control over it]] beyond controlling her emotions. This becomes a problem when her boyfriend frames her for murder. |
| 121 | *** Wonder Woman literallly had a villain named "Time Master" in the silver age, who tried to kill her by repeatedly sending Wonder Woman to different points in the timeline. She only defeats him by displaying the [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands never before seen and rarely displayed after ability]] to [[IntangibleMan pass through solid objects by vibrating her molecules]], which [[MagicAIsMagicA shouldn't have worked]] due to her lacking a [[RequiredSecondaryPowers speed force connection]] like The Flash. |
| 122 | *** [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Vol 2]]: Trinity is the woman with three faces, Time, War, and Chaos. Each face has its own power: Time can slow the timesteam. |
| 123 | ** ''ComicBook/ZeroHourCrisisInTime'' villain Extant had loosely defined time control powers. He killed several members of the ComicBook/{{Justice Society|OfAmerica}} by accelerating their aging to the point of death, and later he defeated Jay Garrick by regressing him back to an age before he acquired super-speed and became the Flash. |
| 124 | * Parodied with the D-list supervillain Killing Time in ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'': he ''doesn't'' have any time powers, but really, really wishes he had. So he uses clock-themed gadgets instead -- clock hands thrown as darts, a bolo made by joining the chains of two pocket watches, etc. Emp responds with her "mighty power over plant life" -- that is, she beats him with a branch until he stops moving. Same was the case for the DC villain Chronos until he made a deal with Neron and gained actual time powers. |
| 125 | * ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'': |
| 126 | ** Immortus, the future (and later, alternate) self of the ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'''s villain, Kang the Conqueror. He has an extensive knowledge of travel through and manipulation of time. He uses a wide variety of instrumentation for manipulation of and travel through time, most of which he designed. It is known that he was tutored by the Time-Keepers. |
| 127 | ** Any wielder of the Time Gem. |
| 128 | ** ''ComicBook/XMen'': |
| 129 | *** Suzanne Chan aka Sway from ''ComicBook/XMenDeadlyGenesis''. She can stop or slow down time in her immediate vicinity. She can also replay past events as ghostly images. This allowed her to track down the people who killed her parents and have them arrested by the police. |
| 130 | *** Velocidad was first thought to have SuperSpeed. This was disproven when Doctor Nemesis had him run across water... and he fell in, unable to move fast enough to not break the surface tension. Turns out he controls time in a localized pocket, giving him the appearance of super-speed outside but still subjected to the normal laws of physics inside. |
| 131 | *** Kiden Nixon of ''ComicBook/{{NYX}}''. Time appears to slow down for everyone around her, while still passing normally for her (at one point, she spends ''months'' in this accelerated state, while only a few days pass outside it). However, unlike Velocidad, the effect is more than simply SuperSpeed: She just ''pokes'' someone who had been harassing her, and it snaps his arm like a twig. In at least one future, Kiden's powers were developed to the point that Stryfe was able to use her to create a field that ''jammed all time travel and teleportation across the entire planet''. Whether Kiden would be capable of doing so naturally or not was unclear. |
| 132 | *** Eva Bell aka Tempus has similar powers to Kiden, being able to create temporal spheres where time slows to a crawl for everyone but her. [[TimeTravel She can also displace time within those same spheres for about a minute]]. Eva eventually developed the ability to travel through time altogether, including [[spoiler: bringing Charles Xavier from the past to deal with a incredibly powerful mutant with out-of-control powers]]. Notably, her time travel abilities break one of the fundamental laws of time travel in the Marvel Universe, that one is unable to alter their ''own'' time stream.[[note]]For example, the famed ''ComicBook/DaysOfFuturePast'' led to the creation of two alternate earths: The mainstream Earth-616 and Earth-811, in which the BadFuture occurs. Both timelines explicitly continue to exist side-by-side after Kitty changes the past, their point of divergence being the assassination of Senator Kelly.[[/note]] Tempus is shown being able to travel ''at will'' through her own universe's past and future, which she has done without consideration for the [[ButterflyEffect massive consequences even a small change might have]]. |
| 133 | *** Originally a low-level time traveler who was limited to jumping backwards through time, Trevor Fitzroy TookALevelInBadass in the 1999 mini-series ''Bishop: The Last X-Man'', in which he appropriately redubbed himself the Chronomancer. Like Tempus above, he learned he was able to travel either backwards or forwards through time entirely at will, as well as creating temporal spheres in which he could affect conditions far beyond Tempus's abilities, aging or deaging others at will and even restoring the EnergyBeing Shard back to her flesh-and-blood state. His ultimate plan was to absorb enough energy with his LifeDrinker powers to open a portal that would [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence allow him to merge with time itself]], and he came so close to it that Uatu TheWatcher himself showed up to observe his endgame. |
| 134 | * ''ComicBook/{{Vampirella}}'': Hopper is a time traveler wearing a bunny mask who keeps track of all events so he can guide events along their proper path. For one thing, acting as TheMole against Quatermass' plot to conquer all of time. |
| 135 | [[/folder]] |
| 136 | |
| 137 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 138 | * ''Fanfic/TheBridge'': Sci-Twi's telekinesis and portal magic gets altered into warping space and time as a result of her particular training. [[spoiler: Once Zephyrus takes full control of her body, he's able to freeze time for a short span and becomes almost impossible to actually hit in a fight. The only limit is the presence of Harmony's magic halts the time-freezes and they can only move 10 meters per stop.]] |
| 139 | * ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'': |
| 140 | ** Doctor Strange a.k.a. [[spoiler:Taliesin]] is, in-story, the unrivalled master of this, thanks to [[spoiler:the Time Stone]], which magnified pre-existing gifts for time magic and [[{{Seers}} seeing the future]]. He primarily uses the knowledge and ability to alter events that this gives him to play the entire GambitPileUp and everyone in it like a fiddle. He's also got some more overt and very dangerous techniques to call on; [[TimeStandsStill freezing]] Bizarro [[spoiler: a warped clone of Jor-El]] in mid-step with zero effort is one of the milder ones. On a grander scale, he repairs literally geography shaping damage around Hogwarts following the First Task of the Triwizard Tournament by performing the basic repair work, placing seeds for the regrowth of the partially damaged Forbidden Forest... and then accelerating time inside a defined dome so that a millennium will pass in twelve hours. |
| 141 | ** Harry picks up a trick or two from him later in the sequel, [[spoiler: as his apprentice]], using a spell that puts his opponent's legs and arms a split second out of sync with the rest of him. [[AnArmAndALeg The inevitable happens]]. Thanks to said opponent's monstrously powerful HealingFactor, it's not a finishing move, but it does help weaken them. |
| 142 | * ''Fanfic/{{Equestrylvania}}'' has [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaJudgment Aeon]] and [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaAriaOfSorrow the Chronomage]], who happen to be {{Arch Enem|y}}ies. |
| 143 | * ''Fanfic/KeepersOfTheElements'': [[DeadpanSnarker Nasira]], one of the {{Immortal|ity}}s is the resident Time Mistress. |
| 144 | * ''Fanfic/{{Marionettes}}'': Minuette has this power primarily based off Tracer from ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}''. She's also able to create small bubbles of 'paused' time, which can freeze the imagine of a camera. |
| 145 | * ''VideoGame/PokemonWack'': The Time type is another new type that has been added. Celebi's type has changed from Grass/Psychic to Grass/Time, and moves such as Speed Swap and Trick Room have been assigned this type. |
| 146 | * ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'': |
| 147 | ** [[spoiler: [[KnightTemplar Nightmare Eclipse/Paradox]]]], the true BigBad of [[BadFuture Dark World]] can manipulate time, usually as a short term ResetButton to reverse any damage done in battle [[spoiler: (not to mention her GroundhogDayLoop plan)]]. This ultimately turns into a classic HoistByHisOwnPetard scenario, as Twilight figures out how to [[BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame use that same magic to defeat them]]: [[spoiler: Twilight [[BatmanGambit tricks her into using the reset trick]], so that Twilight can {{Power Copy|ing}} the time magic, and use it to take advantage of how much Paradox has screwed up time to [[GondorCallsForAid summon]] the [[CrisisCrossover G1, G2, G3, and pre-Reign of Chaos G4 Mane Casts]] in order to use all their Elements of Harmony to defeat Paradox and her {{Psycho Ranger|s}} CoDragons.]] |
| 148 | ** Minuette has time magic, though far less powerful than the above. She can [[TimeStandsStill stop time for a short period]]... [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble of time]]. |
| 149 | * ''Fanfic/StormOnTheHorizon'': Max Caulfield's "suicide" not only rendered her effectively immortal, but made her TimeTravel powers far more potent in a manner that she compares to ''Literature/SlaughterhouseFive'', able to travel to any point in time just by picturing it in her head as opposed to needing a picture. What's more, she's gained the ability to teleport by picturing herself at not just a specific time, but also a place. She learns to {{weaponize|dTeleportation}} both of these abilities. |
| 150 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14213158/1/Mobile-Suit-Gundam-SEED-Paradox Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Paradox]]'': Anyone who wears a time medallion and/or a time ring gives its wearers to manipulate time. These powers vary based on the artifacts used: |
| 151 | ** Akiza's Obsidian Pendant allows her to [[TimeStandsStill stop time]], and when augmented into the Paradox Gundam's [[spoiler:Paradigm Shift System]] and in her SEED mode, she can stop time even in the ''fabric of space''. This is how she singlehandedly beaten [[spoiler:Rau Le Creuset]], thus rendering his [=DRAGOONs=] obsolete before killing him. |
| 152 | ** Ian's Emerald Ring allows him to erase time in the same fashion as [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind King Crimson]] and [[Series/KamenRiderSaber Kamen Rider Durendal's Jikokuken Kaiji]], he even lampshades it in chapter 6. |
| 153 | ** The Ruby Magatama accelerates the user's time, giving the impression of SuperSpeed. It originally belonged to the [[Manga/MobileSuitGundamSEEDAstray Sahaku family]] [[spoiler:meant as a birthday present for Cagalli]], Rio takes the Magatama for herself. |
| 154 | ** Kiryu's Topaz Ring allows him to enter a slow-motion {{bullet time}} effect that can be useful in certain situations but should be used sparingly. This allows him to land his shots in pinpoint accuracy without fail and maneuver a vehicle through tight corners. |
| 155 | ** The Sapphire Butterfly is a strange case. It only gives the user to see into the future, and also acts as a means of CombatClairvoyance. Unlike the above four time medallions, it acts as an extension of [[spoiler:Flay Allster's]] existence, it is created through a StableTimeLoop, by repeating the divergence that prevented her death at the start of the story. |
| 156 | [[/folder]] |
| 157 | |
| 158 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 159 | * [[Film/DoctorStrange2016 Doctor Stephen Strange]] from the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse is able to master the Eye of Agamotto, the most powerful relic within the Masters of the Mystic Arts's possession that houses the Time Stone and allows the user to manipulate the fabric of time. Being the [[PhotographicMemory fast-learner]] that he is, Doctor Strange is not only able to learn the proper methods of activating it despite not being a fully-trained sorcerer at the time, but he is quickly able to use it to [[spoiler:reverse the destruction of the Hong Kong Sanctum]] and [[spoiler:essentially annoy Dormammu into forfeiting his war with Earth's universe by trapping him in a GroundhogDayLoop]]. In ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' he is able to speed up the time he takes to find the right tracking spell to find Odin, and in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' he uses it to peer into over fourteen million possible futures within a minute's time to properly plan their fight with Thanos. |
| 160 | * This turns out to be [[spoiler:Chloe's dad Henry's]] power in ''Film/Freaks2018'', although rather than controlling the universe's timestream, he creates a bubble around himself that he can manipulate the passage of time within. By speeding up his own personal time (and that of anyone else within the bubble's expanse), he can essentially freeze the outside world relative to his perspective, allowing him to attack or evade while his opponents are standing still, slow bullets and missiles, and to [[spoiler:raise his daughter to age seven]] in only a few months. |
| 161 | * In ''Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy'', Chronos (based on NBA superstar Damian Lillard) is capable of this, playing off the real-life Lillard's nickname of "Dame Time". [[spoiler:His ability gets used against him by Granny, who subjects him to {{rapid aging}}.]] |
| 162 | [[/folder]] |
| 163 | |
| 164 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 165 | * The ''shieldwatch'' in ''Literature/AeonLegionLabyrinth'' grants a number of time based abilities to its user in addition to TimeTravel. It can [[DeflectorShields freeze projectiles]] in stasis, roll back time to when its user [[HealingFactor was not injured]], easily [[InfiniteSupplies create copies]] of most objects by moving areas around in time, speed up the user's [[SuperReflexes reflexes]] until they can dodge bullets, [[TimeStandsStill slow down falling objects or the user's fall]], or even restore the user's [[TheAgeless youth]]. It does have limited range and power though. |
| 166 | * In the ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' series, the Time Matrix is a device that can warp time and reality and is controlled by the user's mind, turning a wielder who really knows what it can do into basically a god. In the hands of those who didn't understand its full abilities, it has been used to simply travel through time, a power dangerous enough on its own. Its origin is unclear by way of RetCon. (It was known to be created by the godlike Ellimists at a time in the story when they were described as being a species or group. Then, years later, we get a book telling the tale of the Ellimist we know, and he's revealed as having once been a normal member of the very ''non''-godlike Ketran race until the plot happened to him, and "Ellimist" was his originally screen-name as a gamer. The idea of ''him'' deciding to create something like the Time Matrix and then leave it [[NeglectfulPrecursors for others to stumble onto and screw up space-time with]] never comes up, and is something that would be very out of character.) |
| 167 | * Yog-Sothoth, from the ''Franchise/CthulhuMythos'', isn't just a master of time — it IS space-time. |
| 168 | * Downplayed with Clockpunk of ''Literature/ClockpunkAndTheVitalizer''. Her powers work in increments of seven seconds, meaning she can [[TimeStandsStill slow time for seven seconds]] and [[CombatClairvoyance see seven seconds into the future]]. |
| 169 | * ''Literature/CradleSeries'': This is the SignatureMove of Suriel the Phoenix. While she is perfectly capable of resurrecting the dead and healing wounds outright, she prefers to simply rewind time and then remove the criminal that caused the damage, as this is easier and has much less chance of going wrong. Normally everyone forgets what she reversed and it's like it never happened at all, but she allows Lindon to remember so that he has a chance ([[MillionToOneChance no matter how small]]) to save his home from a coming catastrophe. |
| 170 | * Several characters in ''Literature/CreaturesOfLightAndDarkness'' by Roger Zelazny practice the martial art of "Temporal Fugue", which lets them jump a short distance back in time. It's almost impossible for anyone without this technique to beat someone who has it. When two people who have it fight ... things get ''interesting''. |
| 171 | * The Old Ones in ''Literature/TheDarkIsRising'' series seem to be able to do this, to some degree. |
| 172 | * ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': |
| 173 | ** [[OldMaster Wen the Eternally Surprised]] and the History Monks he founded. |
| 174 | ** [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Time]], Goddess of Time. |
| 175 | ** [[spoiler:Lobsang Ludd, Time and Wen's son and heir.]] |
| 176 | ** Susan sto Helit, granddaughter of Death, can move through time and stop other people's time. |
| 177 | * ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': |
| 178 | ** Kringle, aka Santa Claus, is a able to detect when he and his party are hit with a temporal wave which pushes them into the future faster, so as to avoid a deadline when something bad is about to happen. He then uses his own temporal powers to push the rest of the group out of the trap. It is also how he delivers all the goods in one night. |
| 179 | ** The original Merlin, founder of the White Council, used time magic and other geometic magic so advanced a spirit of knowledge compares what Harry knows and understands like the internal combustion engine to simple wheels on axles. Merlin worked at five different points in time at the same time to create [[spoiler:a prison to bind together beings who could exist outside of linear time as humans perceive it]]. |
| 180 | * ''Literature/TheEmpiriumTrilogy'': Marques have the unique power of creating portals that can transport someone into the past or future. This, as well as their mastery over distance, is one of the reasons they were hunted down by both angels and humans. |
| 181 | * In the ''Literature/FightingFantasy Literature/{{Sorcery}}'' gamebook series, each of the Seven Serpents has power over one aspect of the universe. Their leader is the one with power over time. |
| 182 | * The Shrike from the ''Literature/HyperionCantos'' can slow down time and travel freely in time and space. |
| 183 | * ''Literature/IncarnationsOfImmortality'': Norton becomes Chronos, the incarnation of time in ''Literature/BearingAnHourglass''. |
| 184 | * In ''Literature/{{Neogicia}}'', one of the types of magic is time and Kavan Obérion uses it to accelerate his movement speed when he fights. |
| 185 | * While technically any of the Travelers in ''Literature/ThePendragonAdventure'' can travel through time using the flumes, Saint Dane and [[spoiler:Nevva Winter]] can control their exact destination in time with them. |
| 186 | * In ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'', the BigBad Kronos is the Lord of Time. Even without his full power, as he is through the series, he can distort time to slow down his enemies. The companion books make clear that his powers stop at slowing down or speeding up time for others (he used to entertain himself by speeding up time for hapless plants, animals or humans and watching them wither and die back when he was king), and fortunately do not, in fact, include TimeTravel. |
| 187 | * Mother in ''Literature/TheSalvagers'' series uses a unique time manipulation magic powered by [[spoiler:the stolen magic of the Winnowing Fleet]]. To anyone outside the spell it only seems to last an instant, but within the spell she can adjust how fast or slow anything experiences time. This allows her to freeze her targets at a slow rate of time passing so they can't resist when she kills them or cross large distances in the literal blink of an eye. |
| 188 | * The [=ChronoGuard=] and Colonel Next (a renegade former member of that organisation) in the ''Literature/ThursdayNext'' books. Being raised by a time traveller has proven to be an odd experience for Thursday, a sort of cross between a familial TimeTravelRomance and a mundane [[DisappearedDad absentee father]]. |
| 189 | * ''Literature/TheTimeMasterTrilogy'': |
| 190 | ** Main character Tarod, a powerful sorceror and acolyte of the Gods of Order, is literally [[spoiler:the Chaos God of Time, incarnated as a human]]. He is not real happy when he finds this out. His fellow Acolytes are even less happy. |
| 191 | * In ''Literature/WaxAndWayne'', Sliders are mistings who can create a bubble of accelerated time around them while Pulsers can do the same but with ''slowed'' time. Wayne is the former, and Marasi is the latter. Marasi thinks her power is useless compared to Wayne's (who uses his ability to force people into one-on-one duel that seem to finish in a heartbeat to outside observers), but [[spoiler:Marasi's ability proves very useful in the climax of the first book. They take out all of the villain's henchmen and get him in a pulser bubble for a few minutes (since he's impossible to kill), while outside the cops spend a few hours getting all their ducks in a row and come in force to arrest him]]. |
| 192 | * ''Literature/{{Worm}}'': |
| 193 | ** A somewhat limited example, Clockblocker can put objects or people in temporal stasis with a single touch. They are completely frozen and unaware during this time, but they're also invincible. |
| 194 | ** Dispatch can make a bubble of sped-up time around himself and a few other people. He uses it for combat, as a battlefield medic and as a force-multiplier for heroes whose powers need a ramp-up period. |
| 195 | ** Epoch can rewind time, travel forward in time or stop time, operating by a ten-second rule. He moves things to where they were ten seconds ago, moves things to where they're slated to be ten seconds from now, or pauses for up to ten seconds, releasing at a whim. |
| 196 | ** Cody aka Perdition aka [[spoiler:Yangban No. Thirty-Six]] can for all intents and purposes 'rewind' an object or person back a few seconds in time. |
| 197 | ** Phir Sē can create portals that deliver their contents forwards or backwards in time [[spoiler:which he exploits to create an infinite loop, allowing for an attack with effectively unlimited energy.]] |
| 198 | ** [[spoiler:The fourth Endbringer, Khonsu,]] can create inescapable bubbles of sped up time that cause anyone trapped within to starve to death or die of old age. |
| 199 | ** [[spoiler: Gray Boy]] [[AndIMustScream can trap people in seemingly infinite time loops]], as well as revert himself automatically to a previous state to prevent injuries. |
| 200 | * ''Literature/APieceInTheGameOfGods'': Mentioned in Part 41: |
| 201 | --> “If you could provide us with more time to plan and prepare, that would be great,” Matt commented.\ |
| 202 | [[spoiler:The Cleaner]] chuckled. “Sorry, but temporal manipulation is beyond my abilities.” |
| 203 | [[/folder]] |
| 204 | |
| 205 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 206 | * Illyria from ''Series/{{Angel}}'' can slow down time, effectively giving her SuperSpeed. She doesn't appear to be capable of time travel, until [[PowerIncontinence her powers start to malfunction]] and she starts jumping through time uncontrollably. |
| 207 | * Dr. Tom, the psychiatrist in ''Series/BeingErica'', seems to have this ability. He not only sends the protagonist Erica back through [[MentalTimeTravel time]] but then appears in her history, be it as a hot dog vendor, repairman, street performer, etc. so she can continue to consult with him. |
| 208 | * ''Series/Charmed1998'': |
| 209 | ** This was how Piper's power was originally described, the ability to stop time. In practice (and later explicitly), it was more "the ability to stop things in place." |
| 210 | ** As of the season three finale, the demon [[MeaningfulName Tempus]], who could create {{Groundhog Day Loop}}s and [[ResetButton rewind time]], was described as "the only one on either side" with control over time. |
| 211 | ** Later the [[WellIntentionedExtremist Avatars]] and [[TheMenInBlack The Cleaners]] also had time manipulating powers. |
| 212 | * ''Series/Charmed2018'' has this as Mel's (Piper's equivalent) power. In her case, it is explicitly control over time. In addition to stopping time, she eventually learns how to accelerate the flow of time in limited areas (e.g. causing a plant to bloom), and she gets a bracelet that allows her to speed herself up in time. |
| 213 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': The Time Lords, despite the name, are usually a subversion. Most of them ''cannot'' do this without their technology, with the following exceptions: |
| 214 | ** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E2InvasionOfTheDinosaurs Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E5TheTimeMonster The Time Monster]]", the Doctor's Time Lord nature provides immunity from TimeStandsStill effects. Also, in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E2CityOfDeath City of Death]]", both the Doctor and Romana notice a time loop that hits Paris while all the humans around them are oblivious to it. The Doctor also displays an immunity to the effects of a localized time loop in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E11TheLodger The Lodger]]", carrying about his business as if it wasn't even there. |
| 215 | ** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E5PlanetOfTheSpiders Planet of the Spiders]]" the ascetic Time Lord K'anpo Rimpoche has greatly developed his PsychicPowers to the point where he can travel through time and space without a TARDIS. |
| 216 | ** The Time Lord who turns up to warn the Doctor about the Master in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E1TerrorOfTheAutons Terror of the Autons]]" appears, disappears, and hovers in mid-air without visible technology; it's possible he's doing something similar to K'anpo. |
| 217 | ** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E2TheEndOfTheWorld The End of the World]]", the Doctor shows that he has a perfect sense of timing, and that he can slow down his perception of time to the point [[SuperReflexes he can walk safely through a spinning fan.]] |
| 218 | ** The Doctor has implied on several occasions in the new series that he is constantly aware of his position in time and space on a fundamental level, though this doesn't manifest as a practical ability beyond some sense of spatial anomalies. He also repeatedly demonstrates RippleEffectProofMemory, and is aware of whether or not history can be changed. In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E11HeavenSent Heaven Sent]]" he reveals he can feel time travel. |
| 219 | ** In the ''Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse'', trained Time Lords can do this on a small scale, reaching a few seconds across time, usually for combat purposes, and the Celestial Intelligence Agency has operatives who can stop time, or jump a billion years, by willpower alone. But of course, when the Time Lords have their technology with them, they will prove ''exactly'' why they are called the '''Time Lords'''. |
| 220 | %%** Bilis Manger from ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' embodies this trope. |
| 221 | * Einstein in ''Series/{{Farscape}}.'' Quite apart from having power over wormholes which can allow passage through both time and space, he can handily stop time whenever his guests start getting disagreeable. |
| 222 | * Kazu of the Heaven Time Star, the [=KirinRanger=] from ''Series/GoseiSentaiDairanger'' has time-rewind powers. |
| 223 | * ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': |
| 224 | ** Hiro Nakamura has the power of travelling through time (though in some cases he can't control it). By extension, Peter Petrelli gets the same power after he copies it from Hiro, and in turn Arthur Petrelli stole it from Peter. Besides being Time masters, all three can also teleport as a result of controlling the space-time continuum. |
| 225 | ** Daphne's super speed enabled her to time travel when combined with Ando's supercharging, allowing her to travel faster than the speed of light. |
| 226 | * ''Franchise/KamenRider'': |
| 227 | ** ''Series/KamenRiderRyuki'' has Kamen Rider Odin, who has a "Time Vent" ability that allows him to control time, changing events that are dangerous for TheLongGame that he's part of. |
| 228 | ** ''Series/KamenRiderExAid'' has Kamen Rider Cronus, who can freeze time and attack at will, becoming a GameBreaker who only doesn't kill the entire cast in their first encounter because he feels they're of use to his DeadlyGame. Worse, there are a few ways of bringing back a deleted character, but Cronus can "trap you in the moment of death," meaning you can't be revived. |
| 229 | ** ''Series/KamenRiderZiO'', being a show about time travel, has a number of cast members to whom this trope applies. The most powerful of these is the titular main character himself, whose powers steadily escalate over the course of the show to where he can rewind time with a thought or create entire new future timelines out of his dreams. His EvilOverlord future self is more powerful still, able to freeze armies in place or age them to death so rapidly that it looks like he ''disintegrates'' them with a wave of his hand. [[spoiler:Under great stress, he could demonstrate those same extreme levels of power as a child.]] Upon receiving [[SuperMode Geiz Revive]], Geiz obtains the ability to [[SuperStrength compress]] and [[SuperSpeed expand]] time to boost his abilities beyond his limits. The Time Jackers, their primary antagonists, display similar powers to stop or rewind time at will, though with a stamina limit. |
| 230 | ** ''Series/KamenRiderSaber'' has the Sword of Time wielded by Kamen Rider Durendal, who can use it to erase time in the same fashion as [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure King Crimson]], becoming temporarily invincible and able to move anywhere he wants while everyone else carries out their actions as if he hadn't moved. Durendal isn't nearly as clever as King Crimson's wielder, though, and almost exclusively uses it to attack his opponent from behind. |
| 231 | * ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' features the Pilgrim, who possesses temporal micro-manipulation, allowing her to reverse or freeze time at will. |
| 232 | * ''Series/Lucifer2016'': In the first season, Lucifer's brother Amenadiel, the Angel of Time, has the power to stop or drastically slow time for mortals, although other angels are not affected. His rather un-angelic plots to get his brother to return to Hell cause him to fall from grace and lose the power in Season 2. |
| 233 | * ''Series/SapphireAndSteel'': Sapphire can wind back time. Apart from that, Sapphire and Steel's enemies (which includes, arguably, ''Time itself''), commonly can distort and manipulate time. |
| 234 | * ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': |
| 235 | ** Fate can stop time. She uses this power to cause [[RubeGoldbergDevice overly elaborate]], almost cartoonish deaths. |
| 236 | ** Angels possess time travel abilities, although it doesn't work as well if they're cut off from Heaven (Castiel tries it, and ends up badly bloodied as a result). |
| 237 | ** Chronos had the BlessedWithSuck version. He can travel through time, but since [[PowerIncontinence he has no control over it]], he's just constantly teleporting from one period after another. |
| 238 | * Several ''Franchise/UltraSeries'' {{kaiju}}. |
| 239 | ** Daidarahoshi from ''Series/UltramanAce'' is a Time-Traveling Choju created by Yapool to destroy a sacred statue. |
| 240 | ** Goldras from ''Series/UltramanTiga'' is able to create "time storms", enormous clouds of electrical and magnetic energy that warp whatever their lightning bolts strike through time and space. It's also implied Goldras' time storms are behind every mysterious disappearance in history, such as the ships and planes of the Bermuda Triangle. |
| 241 | ** Aeroviper from ''Series/UltramanGaia'' could open wormholes through time in mid-flight to evade foes. These time warps take whoever enters them into any possible timeline, including the past and alternate futures. |
| 242 | ** Arados from ''Series/UltramanCosmos'' is a GentleGiant unlike the previous three, using its powers to migrate through time in search of food. However, when threatened, it can freeze time to make an escape or even send enemies through time to deal with them permanently. |
| 243 | ** Yunijin from ''Series/UltramanMax'' is an interesting case as it's time abilities are actually an unintentional side effect. Because the monster perpetually orbits the solar system, it is never allowed to stop for more than a few seconds because if it does, it will release spores that erases existence. Luckily, the erasure lasts only temporarily if the monster is freed in time. |
| 244 | ** Chronorm from ''Series/UltramanMebius'' is a very strange example. It consumes memories by warping targets to the time the memory it has targeted occurred, and then follows the victim into the past and kills their past selves. |
| 245 | [[/folder]] |
| 246 | |
| 247 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 248 | * The Watchmaker character from Music/{{Avantasia}}'s song "Master Of The Pendulum" controls time and thus forces events to occur with precision. |
| 249 | -->Tick away time, I allot and I divide, |
| 250 | -->Master of the hands that guide you. |
| 251 | [[/folder]] |
| 252 | |
| 253 | [[folder:Myths & Religion]] |
| 254 | * In [[Myth/AboriginalAustralianMyths Arrernte]] mythology Altjira is a [[TopGod sky god]] whose name means "eternity". This is essentially the origin of the Dreaming or Dreamtime concept in Aboriginal spirituality as far as pop culture is concerned; since the SpiritWorld is [[HeavenAbove the sky]] and Altjira is the sky god and his name means "eternity", [[InsaneTrollLogic New Agers and neo-pagans think that this means the spirit realm exists outside time and space]]. On the plus side, many modern depictions of Altjira show him with time powers because of this. |
| 255 | * Myth/ClassicalMythology has Chronos[[note]]Χρόνος[[/note]], a primordial being who is time itself. He is not to be mistaken with Kronos[[note]]Κρόνος[[/note]], the King of the Titans and originally an agricultural deity. However, as early as Cicero, ancient authors sometimes drew connections or even conflated them, hence why Father Time sometimes carries a scythe. |
| 256 | * The archetypical figure of FatherTime is an amalgamation of several different time deities. He frequently appears as an older man, though may take other appearances depending on who depicts him, and he is always an AnthropomorphicPersonification of Time. |
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| 259 | [[folder:Roleplay]] |
| 260 | * Jacob has a form of time power in ''Roleplay/DawnOfANewAgeOldportBlues''. He can cause objects to replay their actions, essentially trapping them in a miniaturized [[GroundhogDayLoop time loop]] where they can't be affected by outside forces (though outside forces ''can'' be affected by them, as Jacob found out when he rewound a screwdriver right into Barbra and killed her). |
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| 263 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 264 | * ''Arcane Exxet'', the magic and supernatural sourcebook for ''TabletopGame/AnimaBeyondFantasy'', features Time magic as an available subschool. |
| 265 | * Spanners in ''TabletopGame/{{Continuum}}'' can travel through both time and space. Traveling in time uses up a spanner's span capacity, while traveling in space does not. Span Ones can travel up to 1 year total in time between 24-hour rest periods, and up to one mile per jump. Span Twos extend their range to 10 years between rests and 10 miles per jump. Span Threes, 100 years and 100 miles. Span Fours get 1000 miles and years, while Span Fives get 10,000. Beyond that, [[ArcWords further information is not available here]]. |
| 266 | * ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' features classes, [=NPCs=], and monsters with this sort of ability: |
| 267 | ** The Time Lord {{NPC}} class in Magazine/{{Dragon}} magazine #65. |
| 268 | ** The Time Elemental in the 1st Edition Monster Manual II. |
| 269 | ** [=AD&D=] 2nd edition had a sourcebook called "Chronomancer" that introduced a variant wizard who specialized in magic that manipulated time, including the ability to move back and forth through time by traveling to the Demiplane of Time. |
| 270 | ** The maximum-level Time Stop spell offers a limited ability to do this in 2nd Edition, causing TimeStandsStill by actually affecting time. In the 3rd Edition, the spell has the same practical effect, but it's explained as SuperSpeed instead of controlling time. |
| 271 | ** Istus, goddess of Fate in the World of TabletopGame/{{Greyhawk}}. |
| 272 | ** Phanes, described in the ''TabletopGame/EpicLevelHandbook'' supplement, are unwanted children of deities of time/destiny who look like black clouds of various shapes. They can travel back in time, summon a copy of themselves from the future, summon loyal-to-phane copies of their opponents from an alternate timeline, and freeze themselves or others in time and devour their future (which basically makes their victims grow old at an accelerated rate.) |
| 273 | ** Time [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons]], introduced in ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'' magazine's final issue, manage to one-up phanes as masters of time. Even their wyrmlings can cast ''time stop'' every few rounds, as they age they're surrounded by an aura of ''slow'' time that affects creatures around them, while the dragons eventually fall under a permanent ''haste'' effect. Their BreathWeapon inflicts RapidAging upon victims and objects that causes them to rapidly decay, and the oldest time dragons can time travel at will -- they typically make their lairs not in remote locations, but remote points on the timeline, such as before or after the era of humanoid civilizations. And speaking of age, due to their connection with time, their [[StrongerWithAge age categories]] are weird, so a young time dragon larger than a building might have [[ReallyWasBornYesterday hatched just hours ago]], while a wyrmling [[Really700YearsOld may have been born two millennia ago.]] Time dragons also may be the most powerful creatures in ''D&D'' history, as their great wyrms have a Challenge Rating of 90 in a system where "epic"-level gameplay starts at level 21 (the aforementioned phanes, in contrast, clock in at CR 25). |
| 274 | ** The ''[[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragonsFifthEdition 5th Edition]]'' sourcebook ''[[WebVideo/CriticalRole Explorer's Guide to Wildemount]]'' introduces Dunamancy, a subsect of magic which alters space and time. Character subclass options that use time magic are Chronurgy, a subclass for Wizard which makes use of the titular subset of Dunamancy, and Echo Knight, a subclass of Fighter which pulls alternate reality versions of themselves into their timeline in the form of an "echo" to fight alongside with. |
| 275 | * ''TabletopGame/FabulaUltima'': The [[EntropyAndChaosMagic Entropist]]'s spell list contains two spells that manipulate time. One lets an ally take an extra action on their turn, while the other reduces the number of actions an enemy can take on its next turn. They also have a skill, Stolen Time, which lets them manipulate time to produce effects like curing/inflicting the slow status or letting another player take their next turn right now. |
| 276 | * Creator/GamesWorkshop games: |
| 277 | ** ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' gives any wizard who can use the [[LightEmUp Lore of Light]] the ability to manipulate time with the spell Birona's Timewarp, which frees a target unit "from the passage of time" and allows them to fight at unnatural speeds. Casting this on the right unit, such as the [[MightyGlacier slow but hard-hitting Saurus,]] can transform the target into a legion of game-breakers for one turn. |
| 278 | ** ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': |
| 279 | *** The game introduces the Crypteks of the [[WhateverMancy Chronomancy school]] in the 5e Necron codex, who use [[ClarkesThirdLaw incredibly advanced hyperscience]] to manipulate time as they see fit. Their aeonstaves can trap victims in bubbles of slow-time, their chronometrons can shift them out of phase with the normal time flow, and their timesplinter cloaks are comprised of protective casings of crystalised time, rendering inert any blow that does not land in the right fraction of a second. |
| 280 | *** The most adept of all Cryptek Chronomancers is Orikan the Diviner, a Necron Cryptek whose hyper-advanced technology allows him to manipulate the time-stream in very far-reaching ways. He is fully capable of time travel and altering events in the past to suit his plans, and he's one of if not the only individual in the galaxy who is. With such incredible potential at his command, one might imagine Orikan to be a major player in the galaxy's wars, but in fact he is all but harmless. The thing about Orikan is that he, like all Necrons, is a million-year-old robot whose programming has degraded severely. In life he wasn't a technologist at all, but an astrologer and court fortune-teller. Thus the only thing Orikan really cares about now is making sure that his reputation for accurate fortune-telling is maintained, and this he does by going back in time and making sure his petty predictions and prognostications come true. Not the other way round - he doesn't visit the future to see what will happen, or come up with plans first and predict their success later, he just makes whatever he's predicted using traditional astrology happen. That's pretty much the total extent of the use he puts his fantastically awesome powers to. |
| 281 | *** Some Chaos Sorcerers have been granted the ability to manipulate time in their immediate vicinity. In-game this is represented by the 'Warptime' PsychicPower that, in the 8th Edition version of the rules, allows the Sorcerer or a nearby unit to move twice in a turn as the time surrounding them is altered. |
| 282 | * Both ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension'' and ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'' feature the Sphere/Arcanum of Time, which allows perception of the past/future as well as manipulation of the flow of time. |
| 283 | ** ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension'' has it as a specialty of the Cult of Ecstasy (a Tradition that uses ecstatic measures to enter an altered state of perception), whereas ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'' has it as a specialty of the Acanthus Path. |
| 284 | ** The rare and much maligned True Brujah bloodline from ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' can control time with the Temporis Discipline. |
| 285 | ** Wraiths may gain some control over the passage of time using the Pandemonium Arcanos in ''TabletopGame/WraithTheOblivion''. |
| 286 | ** Characters in ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheDreaming'' can control time using the Chronos Art. |
| 287 | * ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': |
| 288 | ** The game has a select few cards that can, in fact, skip or repeat a player's turn, which tend to be Blue-aligned. Some are guaranteed (being very powerful) and other are conditional ([[TwentyBearAsses doing something X number of times, for example]]) or left to straight-up chance, like flipping a coin. An example of one such card would be [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=96928&type=card Stitch In Time]], from the Ravnica Block. |
| 289 | ** For a specific character example, the Blue Planeswalker, [[http://wiki.mtgsalvation.com/article/Teferi Teferi]], specializes in Time magic. |
| 290 | * /tg/ give us the aptly named ''Meanwhile: the Time Wizards'', where the players are {{Reality Warper}}s that can bend time in order to tear holes in the fabric of reality and logic itself. There results range from cereal rains to burger rays, with a stroll through crazy country when a bar becomes a bra and everyone is now squeezed in between two gigantic breasts in an alternate dimension. |
| 291 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}'' Worldbook 3: England features both Temporal Mage and Temporal Knight character classes. |
| 292 | * ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'': |
| 293 | ** The Time Wizard. [[Anime/YuGiOh The anime]] typically portrays the card effects as the Wizard using its powers to rapidly age monsters to dust, although certain monsters can actually become stronger after a millenium or so. |
| 294 | ** The D-Heroes also have traces of this as many of their abilities are connected with time (like sending enemy monsters into the future). |
| 295 | ** Galaxy-Eyes Tachyon Dragon is able to negate card effects and control time to its own advantage during the battle phase. Its Barian-Force upgraded counterpart has an effect that negates the effects of all other cards and resets the entire state of the duel to that of the beginning of the turn and and then averts the occurrence of any unfavorable outcomes during the main phase. |
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| 297 | |
| 298 | [[folder:Toys]] |
| 299 | * ''Toys/{{BIONICLE}}'': |
| 300 | ** The Kanohi Vahi gives this power, although with the limitation that only the time around a given target can be sped up or slowed down. It doesn't allow time-travel either... Unless you break the thing, in which case it crashes time itself, so that the past, present and future will be all happening at once. |
| 301 | ** Voporak, a member of the [[MurderInc Dark Hunters]] can willingly give off a temporal force field that drastically ages anything thrown at him, this power becoming extremely potent through touch. His abilities however have no effect on the Mask of Time itself. Voporak is also sensitive to fluctuations in the fabric of time, allowing him to sense the use of and track the Kanohi Vahi. His Rhotuka has the ability to distort an opponent’s sense of time, knocking their perception of time backwards by several seconds. |
| 302 | [[/folder]] |
| 303 | |
| 304 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 305 | * ''Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}'': |
| 306 | ** One of the Five True Magics of the setting, specifically the Fifth Magic "Magician's Blue", is this. While the exact limits are unknown, TimeTravel is part and parcel of the package, along with the ability to [[spoiler:draw upon the power you will hold years into the future to your present self or ''displace someone's death into the far future'' to revive them from fatal injuries]]. Its current holder is [[VisualNovel/WitchOnTheHolyNight Aoko Aozaki]]. |
| 307 | ** ''Literature/FateZero'': Kiritsugu Emiya is a more restrained version of this. He has a magecraft called 'Innate Time Control' which allows him to internally affect time - speed it up for superhuman reaction time in combat, or slow down his bodily functions to avoid a search-and-destroy system. However, whenever he reverts to normal time, his body is forcibly 're-synced' to the time of the World, which can cause [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique very heavy internal injuries]], and they get worse the more he speeds up or slows down. |
| 308 | * In ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterNG'', Masaru's wish was to relive the time when his mother was alive. When he became part of Tsukuyomi, this manifested itself as the elevator in Moon Tower becoming capable of shunting people back in time. |
| 309 | * [[spoiler:Claude Trilleo]] from ''VisualNovel/{{Sunrider}}'' is a time traveller, which [[PhysicalGod makes her omnipotent by the setting’s rules]]. In addition to TimeTravel, she’s able to teleport; stop, speed up, or slow down time for herself and/or others; create duplicates of herself by skipping back a second in time; create pocket dimensions; summon meteors from interdimensional rifts; and even create and destroy alternate timelines and universes on a whim. The only thing holding her in check is the fact that using too much of her power will result in [[RealityBreakingParadox reality-destroying]] [[TimeCrash temporal paradoxes]], [[GodsHandsAreTied which limits her to more subtle displays of power]]. |
| 310 | * Ezekiel "Zeke" Dorian in ''VisualNovel/VillainousNights'' has the power to manipulate time. He's vague about the specifics of how his ability works and what he can do with it, citing the potential for paradox, but he can speed up or slow down time for a few seconds to allow himself to FlashStep. His power also appears to allow him to see into possible futures or alternate timelines; in Renzei's third season, he mentions the death of a particular villain as being a catalyst for ominous future events. |
| 311 | [[/folder]] |
| 312 | |
| 313 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 314 | * ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'': The series feature plenty of combatants who can mainpulate time itself. |
| 315 | ** ''Ratchet & Clank VS Jak & Daxter'' has this and compares the two versions directly. Jak can use his SuperMode of Light Jak to slow time to a crawl which allows him to use it to shoot a defenseless Ratchet. Clank can also do this, but his time-manipulation is slightly slower than Jak's. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for Jak, Clank is flat-out immune to any attempts to alter time and can pass this skill onto other people. Ratchet dodges Jak's attack as a result.]] |
| 316 | ** There's [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Shadow the Hedgehog]], who can [[TimeStandsStill freeze time]] via the Chaos Emerald. It helps him in his fights with both [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Mewtwo]] and [[Anime/KillLaKill Ryūko Matoi]]. |
| 317 | ** While it's not used in the 2018 rematch between both [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]] and [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic the Hedgehog]], the hosts both mention on how they could both freeze time via the [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2 stopwatch]] and Chaos Control respectively, [[spoiler:but cited on how Mario's is easier to use and has been done so in canon compared to Sonic's usage only being shown in a non-canon multiplayer game]]. |
| 318 | * ''WebAnimation/{{Hololive}}'' has two examples, both of which come from the English branch. Amelia Watson from Generation 1/Myth is a detective with a sci-fi pocketwatch that allows her to travel through time, including parallel timelines, possibly being the cause of some Indonesian branch members showing off [[AlternateSelf AU counterparts of themselves]]. Heck, she even has a few of her own, the most infamous of which is known as [[FunSize Smol Ame]]. Meanwhile, Kronii Ouro from Generation 2/Council is the titular council's very own "Warden of Time", and effectively an AnthropomorphicPersonification of time itself, with it being suggested that she's the one who allows Amelia's TimeTravel watch to function in the first place. |
| 319 | * In ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'', Gary/Gamma's special AI ability is to manipulate time. The Meta steals it between ''Blood Gulch Chronicles'' and ''Revelation''. |
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| 321 | |
| 322 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 323 | * In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Susan [[https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/parable-009 uses]] a slow time spell creatively to become this. (Note that this is only in an initially non-canon ''VideoGame/{{Fable}}'' pastiche that later became canon, but only as a DreamSequence. Time magic officially doesn't exist in the "real world" of EGS.) |
| 324 | * ''Webcomic/HeroesUnite'': Timesweep. With sufficient technological assistance and a powerboost he can send people through time. Most of the time he can 'just' slow down and speed up time for specific individuals. |
| 325 | * There are two major groups in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' with mastery over time: |
| 326 | ** Time is one of the powers available to Sburb players, and one of the [[SpaceMaster two]] which must occur in every session. [[TheLancer Dave Strider]] is the Knight of Time in the human session, [[EmotionlessGirl Aradia Megido]] is the Maid of Time in the troll session, and Damara is the Witch of Time in [[spoiler:the pre-Scratch troll session]]. All are in charge of timeline management - using their powers to establish and take advantage of {{stable time loop}}s to ensure things proceed as they must, and to provide [[TrialAndErrorGameplay a way to avert]] {{bad future}}s should things go wrong ([[HarderThanHard which they have... often]]). All use music-themed {{Magic Feather}}s to travel through time - Dave uses turntables, while Aradia and Damara use music boxes; after [[spoiler: [[CameBackStrong ascending to the God Tiers]], Aradia is strong enough in her time powers to freeze [[DiscOneFinalBoss Jack]] [[PhysicalGod Noir]] in time without any assistance, however temporarily it may have been]]. Also, both Dave and Damara's Lands house the item necessary to initiate [[ResetButton the Scratch]], itself a massive burst of time energy. |
| 327 | ** The Felt each have a different power that allows them to manipulate time or perceive things in the past or future. Well, except for [[DumbMuscle Biscuits]], whose "power" is hiding in an oven that he thinks lets him time travel into the future. [[TheSlowPath Technically true]], even though he's just traveling at the same rate as everyone else. [[spoiler: Actually, his oven doesn't have time powers; it has ''[[HammerSpace space]]'' powers.]] |
| 328 | ** Lord English has absolute dominion over time. He has the ability to travel to any point in time, anywhere in any physical (or non-physical) location. He can even travel outside of time itself. So he isn't just ''coming'' for us. He's already here. [[spoiler:Lord English was originally the cherub Caliborn, the time player (specifically, Lord of Time) in a failed Sburb session.]] |
| 329 | * ''Webcomic/M9Girls'': Any/Blue Destiny can generate a bubble inside of which time almost stops completely. |
| 330 | * ''Webcomic/{{Unordinary}}'': Sera can't travel through time, but she can stop time - allowing her to eliminate entire teams in the blink of an eye - and "rewind" any injury she does manage to receive, restoring her to perfect health... and this is all in addition to SuperStrength, SuperReflexes, and SuperToughness. John explicitly compares her to a god. |
| 331 | * ''Webcomic/WaywardSons'': Nysus can speed or slow time in a localized area. He first used it to [[MundaneUtility rapidly ferment wine]]. |
| 332 | [[/folder]] |
| 333 | |
| 334 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 335 | * Dan from ''Literature/TrintonChronicles'' has control over time including accelerating, deaccelerating, and [[TimeStandsStill stopping time]]. As a bonus he gained [[LightEmUp light]] and [[CastingAShadow dark]] generation and control which gives him the bonus abilities to age/de-age (from light) and restore/degrade (from dark) people and objects. |
| 336 | * WordOfGod says there is no time travel in the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'', but Stopwatch has the power of temporal warping. He can speed up his own personal time until he's effectively a speedster, or he can slow down someone else's time while he moves at a normal rate. |
| 337 | [[/folder]] |
| 338 | |
| 339 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 340 | * Tony the Talking Clock from ''WebVideo/DontHugMeImScared'' can move and transport objects backwards and forwards through time at will, as well as speeding up or slowing how fast an object moves through time. |
| 341 | * ''WebVideo/NightmareTime:'' Stopwatch (aka Daniel) has the power to stop time for as long as he holds his breath. He uses it in fights to dodge attacks. |
| 342 | * Virginia from ''WebVideo/ThePlatoonOfPowerSquadron''. At first she can only make [[TimeStandsStill time stop]], but then she and the gang do a little experimenting and discover she can [[spoiler: unfreeze people and create portals to other times and places. There are a few side effects, such as portals to the past being invisible from that end. Naturally, Donald ends up getting lost once.]] |
| 343 | * Tempo from ''Series/WarpZoneProject''. He has the kind that doesn't permit time travelling, unless it's greatly boosted. There is a character who can boost other people's powers in the work, but he is one of Tempo's enemys and hence only helps in EnemyMine situations. |
| 344 | [[/folder]] |
| 345 | |
| 346 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 347 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'': The [[MonsterOfTheWeek Villain of the Week]] in "[[Recap/TheBatmanS4E8Seconds Seconds]]", Francis Gray, has the ability to reverse time up to 20 seconds, so he can relive what he just did and avoid mistakes like awkward one-liners. [[spoiler:When his estranged son dies as a result of his actions, his power goes into overdrive and sends him decades back, just before he could set off the string of improbable coincidences that set him down the path of supervillainy in the first place, and he's much happier as a result.]] |
| 348 | * ''Franchise/Ben10'': |
| 349 | ** Professor Paradox. Thanks to a TimeTravel experiment gone wrong and [[TheAgeless thousands of years of practice]], he's capable of displacing himself across time and space at will. He's also immune to time manipulation done by outside forces. |
| 350 | ** Paradox's ArchNemesis, Eon, is also a time master who can travel through time at will, age enemies to dust, and cause [[GrandTheftMe cross-time brain swaps]]. |
| 351 | ** There's also Clockwork, whose entire species, the Chronosapiens, can manipulate time. |
| 352 | ** Special mention goes to Maltruant, the [[FinalBoss final]] BigBad of ''Omniverse'', who's a stronger than average, rogue Chronosapien who wants to rule time itself. |
| 353 | * The BigBad of ''WesternAnimation/ClassOfTheTitans'' is Cronus, the God of Time himself. He does have the power to speed up, slow down, and stop time at will. He only has the ability of TimeTravel during New Years Day, and even when he does use it, he could be made weaker from using it excessively. |
| 354 | * Clockwork in ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom''. The Observants who presumably rule the Ghost Zone see a linear timeline; Clockwork sees ''everything'', as in all the possible choices and futures. |
| 355 | * Parodied on ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' with Chronos, '''Master of All Time!''' *DramaticThunder*: A [[FunnyAnimal talking Grizzly bear]] who had dubbed himself '''Master of All Time!''' *DramaticThunder* due to having stuffed his cave full of watches that he all meticulously kept precise time on. Well, except the VCR clock. That one was beyond even ''his'' vast and immaterial powers. |
| 356 | * Two of the zodiac Kwamis in ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' grant their wielders some power over time: |
| 357 | ** Fluff, the rabbit, is the official kwami of time and grants the power to create time portals. These can connect to or from any time or place through an extradimensional “burrow,” which allows heroes like [[FutureBadass Bunnyx]] to time travel and TeleportSpam. |
| 358 | ** Sass the snake, as the kwami of the second chance, allows his wielder to create a short-term GroundhogDayLoop. Once activated, they can repeat the next five minutes as often as they like and achieve victory through trial and error. |
| 359 | * ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'': In "Home Made Heroes," besides having weather powers, Molly's comic character Shaeeyaa can also control time. She uses it to make night come faster. |
| 360 | * In the Season 5 finale of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', Starlight Glimmer evidently TookALevelInBadass into this -- managing to modify Equestria's only known TimeTravel spell from something limited to the point of nigh-uselessness... into something [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Dialga]] would be proud of. This predictably leads to some {{Bad Future}}s the good guys must sort through. |
| 361 | * In Season 7 of ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'' the ninjas battle Krux and Acronix, the (former) Masters of Time. Acronix could accelerate the flow of time or force people/objects into slow motion. Krux could reverse time or freeze people/objects by stopping time. These powers were later taken from them and sealed inside four "time blades." |
| 362 | %%* Slow Mobius from ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty''. |
| 363 | * Chronozoid on ''WesternAnimation/SkysurferStrikeForce'' complete with VillainTeleportation and of course TimeTravel. |
| 364 | * The Pastmaster from ''WesternAnimation/SwatKats'', an [[OurLichesAreDifferent undead]] EvilSorceror with the ability to travel through time, and with the [[SpellBook Tome of Time]], summon creatures from different eras. |
| 365 | * ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'': |
| 366 | ** Elita One from [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers the original cartoon]] is a {{Downplayed|Trope}} example; she has the power to stop time within a certain radius around her, but rarely ever uses this ability, as it’s CastFromHitPoints and using it too long could kill her. |
| 367 | ** Vector Prime from ''Anime/TransformersCybertron'' is a much straighter example, as he’s [[TopGod Primus’s]] appointed guardian of space and time. He’s pretty much a one-man TimePolice and has all sorts of time-based powers, allowing him to travel through TheMultiverse setting things right. His lot in life is bittersweet; on one hand, he exists outside the normal flow of time and is thus a NighInvulnerable PhysicalGod... but [[CursedWithAwesome he’s cursed to spend all eternity protecting spacetime and watching all those he cares about die around him]]. |
| 368 | * The [[SdrawkcabName Xelor]] class in ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'' are time mages, and casually do all of the [[TimeStandsStill associated]] [[TeleportSpam tricks]], except for the aforementioned TimeTravel, something beyond even their patron god. [[WellIntentionedExtremist Nox]] goes to some unsavory lengths [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong to try and prove that last part wrong]]. [[spoiler:In the end, it turns out all the power he'd accumulated over two hundred years was enough to send him back a whopping ''twenty'' minutes.]] He doesn't take it well. |
| 369 | * ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'': The Sands of Time allows its user to travel back and forward in time, also applying a RippleEffectProofMemory if the past is affected. |
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