1 | '''Basic Trope''': Something changes history, but the effect is delayed. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Alice is a time-traveler and uses her time manipulation to change something, but it takes a while for an effect to appear. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': Alice blinks at a time she wasn't supposed to and as a result, in an hour, all of humanity ceases to exist. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': The changes are subtle and in real-time, affecting memory as well, so its delay isn't even noticed. |
5 | * '''Justified''': Time itself is sapient and is trying to figure out what's going on after Alice's change and revising the timeline step by step from the event itself to the present. |
6 | * '''Inverted''': The change Alice makes is very slow in effect, but the results of the change are shown immediately. |
7 | * '''Subverted''': [[YouAlreadyChangedThePast Alice makes a change to the past but history remains the same.]] |
8 | * '''Double Subverted''': ...or so it seems, as Alice then goes some time between the event of her time manipulation and the present, seeing that time ''has'' changed and recognising the present will likely follow. |
9 | * '''Parodied''': |
10 | ** A history-altering time ripple approaches from the future at a rate of -263,000.[[note]]That's half a year per minute, backwards in time.[[/note]] The date and time are currently 8:36 pm, June 28, 1960, and the ripple [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble is]] still 20 years into the future. At what time will the wave hit? |
11 | --> '''Answer:''' 9:16 pm, same day.[[note]]-20 years/(-.5 year/min) = 40 min.[[/note]] |
12 | ** When [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble will/did]] the wave hit June 28, 1950? |
13 | --> '''Answer:''' 9:36 pm, June 28, 1960. |
14 | ** Why weren't we affected by the ripple on June 28, 1950, when it hit that date? |
15 | --> '''Answer 1:''' Because the ripple [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble didn't/won't]] hit 1950 until 1960. In 1950, the ripple [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble was]] 2.63 million years into the future, or hadn't been generated yet. |
16 | --> '''Answer 2:''' Who says we weren't affected in 1950? Once the ripple hit us in 1960, the new history became the true history. Therefore, we ''were'' affected in 1950. |
17 | * '''Zig Zagged''': Combining YouCantFightFate with this results in Alice going back and changing the past, but that change [[YouAlreadyChangedThePast already happened]]. However, this is just one shown timeline, and the action happens in more than one, and effects can be seen in other timelines. |
18 | * '''Averted''': Alice doesn't change the past at all. |
19 | * '''Enforced''': A movie director thinks it would look cool and changes the script to make that happen. |
20 | * '''Lampshaded''': "Okay, it should be about 20 minutes before I cease to exist." |
21 | * '''Invoked''': A MadScientist builds a machine that uses this effect specifically. |
22 | * '''Exploited''': The CessationOfExistence effect mentioned above is used to commit crimes and cause a large amount of problems and leave no suspects. |
23 | * '''Defied''': YouAlreadyChangedThePast |
24 | * '''Discussed''': "Again, ''how many minutes'' do I have, before I [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble will have died]] an hour ago?" |
25 | * '''Conversed''': ??? |
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27 | Back to DelayedRippleEffect |
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30 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
31 | %% |
32 | %%* '''Implied''': ??? |
33 | %%* '''Deconstructed''': ??? |
34 | %%* '''Reconstructed''': ??? |
35 | %%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ??? |
36 | %%* '''Played For Laughs''': ??? |
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