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* In the series ''Literature/TimeRiders'' by Alex Scarrow, Liam, Maddy, and Sal are recruited by 'The Agency' at the time of their deaths and offered the choice of dying, or become a [=TimeRider=]. They choose the latter and are taken to The Agency's field office which is located underneath an archway of the Williamsburg Bridge in New York City in a two day 'Time Bubble', on 10 and 11 September 2001. [[spoiler:But actually, their memories leading up to their recruitments are all FakeMemories. Liam, Maddy, and Sal were cloned by founder Roald Waldstein from his son, wife, and a young employee (all of whom had died prior to him founding The Agency) respectively.]]

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* In the series ''Literature/TimeRiders'' by Alex Scarrow, Liam, Maddy, and Sal are recruited by 'The Agency' at the time of their deaths and offered the choice of dying, or become a [=TimeRider=]. They choose the latter and are taken to The Agency's field office which is located underneath an archway of the Williamsburg Bridge in New York City in a two day 'Time Bubble', on 10 and 11 September 2001. [[spoiler:But actually, their memories leading up to their recruitments are all FakeMemories. Liam, Maddy, and Sal were cloned by founder Roald Waldstein from his son, wife, and a young employee (all of whom had died prior to him founding The Agency) respectively.respectively as his metaphorical ReplacementGoldfish.]]
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* In the series ''Literature/TimeRiders'' by Alex Scarrow, Liam, Maddy, and Sal are recruited by 'The Agency' at the time of their deaths and offered the choice of dying, or become a time rider. [[spoiler: They choose the latter and are taken to The Agency's field office which is located underneath an archway of the Williamsburg Bridge in New York City in a two day 'Time Bubble', on 10 and 11 September 2001.]]
* Discussed in ''Literature/ManyWaters'' when a pair of modern day twins trapped in [[Literature/TheBible Noah's time]] consider this method to save a local girl they have a crush on from the inevitable flood (since they don't recognize her name among the Biblical list of people aboard the ark). They decide against it when they consider the ramifications, such as her lack of immunities from present day illnesses.

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* In the series ''Literature/TimeRiders'' by Alex Scarrow, Liam, Maddy, and Sal are recruited by 'The Agency' at the time of their deaths and offered the choice of dying, or become a time rider. [[spoiler: [=TimeRider=]. They choose the latter and are taken to The Agency's field office which is located underneath an archway of the Williamsburg Bridge in New York City in a two day 'Time Bubble', on 10 and 11 September 2001.2001. [[spoiler:But actually, their memories leading up to their recruitments are all FakeMemories. Liam, Maddy, and Sal were cloned by founder Roald Waldstein from his son, wife, and a young employee (all of whom had died prior to him founding The Agency) respectively.]]
* Discussed in ''Literature/ManyWaters'' when a pair of modern day twins modern-day twin boys trapped in [[Literature/TheBible Noah's time]] consider this method to save a local girl they have a crush on from the inevitable flood (since they don't recognize her name among the Biblical list of people aboard the ark). They decide against it when they consider the ramifications, such as her lack of immunities from present day present-day illnesses.
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* Early on in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'', Doc and Marty wind up preventing a new schoolteacher, Clara Clayton, from falling into a ravine. However, it is only after the fact that they remember this was a historical event: That know of that ravine as "Clayton Ravine" back in 1985 ''because'' she fell in. While not much more is made of this in the movie, beyond the fact that Doc uses this as ''yet another example'' of why he shouldn't have invented time travel, the point effectively becomes moot by the end of the movie [[DownplayedTrope where we see she decided to come along with Doc to visit Marty and Jennifer (after he completed the time train sometime in the 1890s).]]
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* In ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'', Marty and Doc save Clara Clayton from dying without realizing that doing so will [[AlternateHistory change history through the children she would have taught had she lived in the original timeline]]. In the end, Doc fixes this "mistake" by removing Clara from the timeline when he builds a second time machine and taking her into the future.
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* In ''Fanfic/WeightOffYourShoulder'', it's revealed that Marinette did this to [[spoiler:the Sentimonster Ladybug created by Mayura]] so they could take her place as the new Ladybug and Guardian of the Miraculous. The problem then becomes that this new Ladybug is quite mission-oriented and causes some accidental mayhem in Marinette's attempt at having a normal life, [[spoiler:which leads to the decision by Marinette to [[ArtificialFamilyMember adopt Ladybug]] and have them both share the burden of the role.]]
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* In Creator/MargaretPetersonHaddix's ''Literature/TheMissing'' series, people from the future do this with the missing children of the past (e.g Anastasia), and give them to families in the future. Unfortunately, the time machine went wrong and ended up in an airport in the 90s. When people found it, it was an airplane filled with babies. These babies were put into foster care and adopted by various families.

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* In Creator/MargaretPetersonHaddix's ''Literature/TheMissing'' ''Literature/{{The Missing|Haddix}}'' series, people from the future do this with the missing children of the past (e.g Anastasia), and give them to families in the future. Unfortunately, the time machine went wrong and ended up in an airport in the 90s. When people found it, it was an airplane filled with babies. These babies were put into foster care and adopted by various families.
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* ''Videogame/EarthBound'' sees Buzz Buzz escape to the past after Gigyas destroys the universe.

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* ''Videogame/EarthBound'' ''Videogame/EarthBound1994'' sees Buzz Buzz escape to the past after Gigyas destroys the universe.
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* In the MarvelUniverse it looked like this happened, but it didn't. A man believing himself to be [[ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel|MarvelComics}} Captain Mar-Vell]] appears. Everyone thinks that he's avoided his death from cancer by jumping forward in time. It turns out that time travel wasn't involved in the first place; the guy's really a Skrull sleeper agent brainwashed into thinking he's the real deal.

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* In the MarvelUniverse Franchise/MarvelUniverse it looked like this happened, but it didn't. A man believing himself to be [[ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel|MarvelComics}} Captain Mar-Vell]] appears. Everyone thinks that he's avoided his death from cancer by jumping forward in time. It turns out that time travel wasn't involved in the first place; the guy's really a Skrull sleeper agent brainwashed into thinking he's the real deal.
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* In Creator/LeoFrankowski's ''The Cross Time Engineer'' series, Conrad tells his [[TimeTravel time-traveling]] cousin Tom that he (Conrad) saw Tom get killed by a Mongol spearman in 1241. Tom's response was "Hmmm... I guess I'll avoid going to Poland in 1241, then." Thus performing this trope on himself.

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* In Creator/LeoFrankowski's ''The Cross Time Engineer'' ''Literature/ConradStargard'' series, Conrad tells his [[TimeTravel time-traveling]] cousin Tom that he (Conrad) saw Tom get killed by a Mongol spearman in 1241. Tom's response was "Hmmm... I guess I'll avoid going to Poland in 1241, then." Thus performing this trope on himself.



* Creator/JohnVarley's novel ''Millennium'' is about {{time travel}}lers who rescue plane passengers just before their planes crash and replace them with realistic corpses. The passengers are taken forward in time to repopulate a devastated future Earth.

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* Creator/JohnVarley's novel ''Millennium'' ''Literature/Millennium1983'' is about {{time travel}}lers who rescue plane passengers just before their planes crash and replace them with realistic corpses. The passengers are taken forward in time to repopulate a devastated future Earth.
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* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' reveals that that Daniel Sousa, a main character from ''Series/AgentCarter'', was the "first fallen Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.". When the Team time travels to the day of his death in 1955, Coulson takes his place and impersonates Sousa's dead body, who is then taken away by the rest of the team. [[TrickedOutTime As far as anyone back in the fifties is concerned, Sousa is dead]], and Sousa stays with the team for the rest of the season as they move forward in time to the present day.
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* In the SciFi trilogy, ''Literature/RichardIIIInThe21stCentury'' this is how UsefulNotes/RichardIII escapes certain death at the Bosworth Field. A team of researchers from the future swap him out with an IdenticalStranger so they can interview him. He gets stuck in the present and becomes obsessed with rescuing his deceased wife and son the same way. [[spoiler: His wife Anne is too sick for it to be possible without changing the timeline, but they manage to save his young son, who had died of appendicitis.]]

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* In the SciFi science fiction trilogy, ''Literature/RichardIIIInThe21stCentury'' this is how UsefulNotes/RichardIII escapes certain death at the Bosworth Field. A team of researchers from the future swap him out with an IdenticalStranger so they can interview him. He gets stuck in the present and becomes obsessed with rescuing his deceased wife and son the same way. [[spoiler: His wife Anne is was too sick for it to be possible without changing the timeline, but they manage to save his young son, who had died of appendicitis.]]
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* In the novel ''Literature/TheLastDaughterOfYork'' it turns out that this is the backstory of the heroine's mysterious Grandfather Dick. [[spoiler: He's the younger of the [[TheFateOfThePrincesInTheTower Princes in the Tower]] who was brought to the future using a magic amulet when he was on the run from Henry Tudor.]]
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* In the SciFi trilogy, ''Literature/RichardIIIInThe21stCentury'' this is how UsefulNotes/RichardIII escapes certain death at the Bosworth Field. A team of researchers from the future swap him out with an IdenticalStranger so they can interview him. He gets stuck in the present and becomes obsessed with rescuing his deceased wife and son the same way. [[spoiler: His wife Anne is too sick for it to be possible without changing the timeline, but they manage to save his young son, who had died of appendicitis.]]
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* In ''WesternAnimation/OurFriendMartin'', the protagonist Miles takes UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKing to the future to prevent him being assassinated. Unfortunately, he takes him ''before'' he did all his civil rights activism, leading to an AlternateUniverse where segregation still exists. [[spoiler:MLK decides to make a HeroicSacrifice and SetWrongWhatWasOnceMadeRight.]]

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* In ''WesternAnimation/OurFriendMartin'', the protagonist Miles takes UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKing UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr to the future to prevent him being assassinated. Unfortunately, he takes him ''before'' he did all his civil rights activism, leading to an AlternateUniverse where segregation still exists. [[spoiler:MLK decides to make a HeroicSacrifice and SetWrongWhatWasOnceMadeRight.]]
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* In ''WesternAnimation/OurFriendMartin'', the protagonist Miles takes UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKing to the future to prevent him being assassinated. Unfortunately, he takes him ''before'' he did all his civil rights activism, leading to an AlternateUniverse where segregation still exists. [[spoiler:MLK decides to make a HeroicSacrifice and SetWrongWhatWasOnceMadeRight.]]
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* In ''ComicBook/TheAvengers: ComicBook/TheChildrensCrusade'', [[spoiler:Scott Lang]] is rescued from his death in this manner.

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* In ''ComicBook/TheAvengers: ComicBook/TheChildrensCrusade'', ''ComicBook/AvengersTheChildrensCrusade'', [[spoiler:Scott Lang]] is rescued from his death in this manner.
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* ''Series/{{Visitors}}'': In Czechoslovak TV series "Návštěvníci" (Visitors), the eponymous group of time travellers, sent to the past to gather information about teleportation technology to realign Earth's orbit, after a planetary computer predicts the orbit will be misaligned by passing comet, prevent the death of Mr. Drchlík, who was supposed to perish in a car crash, and take him to the future with them. Although the plan fails, Drchlík inadvertedly fixes a glitch in the planetary computer, which confirms that the original prediction was false and the comet will have no effect on Earth's orbit.

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* ''Series/{{Visitors}}'': In Czechoslovak TV series "Návštěvníci" (Visitors), the eponymous group of time travellers, sent to the past to gather information about teleportation technology to realign Earth's orbit, after a planetary computer predicts the orbit will be misaligned by passing comet, prevent the death of Mr. Drchlík, who was supposed to perish in a car crash, and take him to the future with them. Although the plan fails, Drchlík inadvertedly fixes a glitch in the planetary computer, which confirms computer (which caused a lot of problems for the expedition, including sending wrong clothing, banknotes etc.), confirming that the original prediction was false and the comet will have no effect on Earth's orbit.
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* ''Series/{{Návštěvníci}}'': In Czechoslovak TV series "Návštěvníci" (Visitors), the eponymous group of time travellers, sent to the past to gather information about teleportation technology to realign Earth's orbit, after a planetary computer predicts the orbit will be misaligned by passing comet, prevent the death of Mr. Drchlík, who was supposed to perish in a car crash, and take him to the future with them. Although the plan fails, Drchlík inadvertedly fixes a glitch in the planetary computer, which confirms that the original prediction was false and the comet will have no effect on Earth's orbit.

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* ''Series/{{Návštěvníci}}'': ''Series/{{Visitors}}'': In Czechoslovak TV series "Návštěvníci" (Visitors), the eponymous group of time travellers, sent to the past to gather information about teleportation technology to realign Earth's orbit, after a planetary computer predicts the orbit will be misaligned by passing comet, prevent the death of Mr. Drchlík, who was supposed to perish in a car crash, and take him to the future with them. Although the plan fails, Drchlík inadvertedly fixes a glitch in the planetary computer, which confirms that the original prediction was false and the comet will have no effect on Earth's orbit.
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* ''Series/{{Návštěvníci}}'': In Czechoslovak TV series "Návštěvníci" (Visitors), the eponymous group of time travellers, sent to the past to gather information about teleportation technology to realign Earth's orbit, after a planetary computer predicts the orbit will be misaligned by passing comet, prevent the death of Mr. Drchlík, who was supposed to perish in a car crash, and take him to the future with them. Although the plan fails, Drchlík inadvertedly fixes a glitch in the planetary computer, which confirms that the original prediction was false and the comet will have no effect on Earth's orbit.
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A subtrope of SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong. May require TrickedOutTime. Contrast YouWillBeBeethoven. Has nothing to do with traveling through time to escape pursuit.

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A subtrope of SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong. May require TrickedOutTime. Contrast YouWillBeBeethoven. Has nothing to do with traveling through time to escape pursuit.pursuit, that's EmergencyTemporalShift.
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* Present in the ''Literature/TimeMachineSeries'' gamebooks; it specifically happens in ''Blade of the Guillotine'' when you visit Robespierre during the French Revolution. Attempting to escae has you run right into a closet and jump in time. One of the rules of time travel at the start of each book warns you to not disappear in a way that startles people or makes them suspicious. The text [[LampshadeHanging even acknowledges that everyone will be in for a shock when they open the closet]].
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* In ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} story arc ''Comicbook/ManyHappyReturns'', pre-Crisis Kara Zor-El lands in Leesburg and is discovered by the then current Supergirl Linda Danvers. [[spoiler:Inverting the trope, Linda goes back in time to die in Kara's place when it becomes clear that this event must come to pass. Subverting the trope, Kara eventually goes back to return the time line to normal.]]

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* In ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} the ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' story arc ''Comicbook/ManyHappyReturns'', pre-Crisis Kara Zor-El lands in Leesburg and is discovered by the then current Supergirl Linda Danvers. [[spoiler:Inverting the trope, Linda goes back in time to die in Kara's place when it becomes clear that this event must come to pass. Subverting the trope, Kara eventually goes back to return the time line to normal.]]
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* ''Fanfic/WithThisRing'': [[spoiler:Ex-Time-Trapper]] Paul suggests something like this to Doctor Strange, who wants to go back in time to save a woman from a car crash, but who finds that events keep adapting to ensure she dies anyway. Paul explains that in order to make it work, he has to arrange things so his younger self still believes she's dead, and thus still sets out to find a way to travel back and save her; otherwise he's attempting to create a paradox, which the universe can't sustain.
--> '''Strange''': Her death set me on this path. I can't go back and save her because if I ''did'' then I wouldn't exist.\\
'''Paul''': Nearly. Your ''perception'' of her death set you on this path.

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* In ''VisualNovel/TimeHollow'', Ethan saves his parents from a burning restaurant 15 years in the past by opening a Time Hole linking that time to the present. Ethan's father carries his unconscious mother through the hole and to safety in the present day. This has some side effects though, and is ultimately an unsatisfying solution -- so in the end they [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong fix the reason why they were in that building in the first place]].
** This is also what happens to Kori prior to the game's events, as Ethan's dad pulls her through time to a few weeks after she would've fallen to her death. This leaves her out of the flow of time for years, as Ethan's dad couldn't figure out a way to save her besides pulling her through a Time Hole. Again, this is an unsatisfying solution, and Ethan and Derek are able to save her by sending Derek through to cushion her fall.

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* In ''VisualNovel/TimeHollow'', Ethan saves his parents from a burning restaurant 15 years in the past by opening a Time Hole linking that time to the present. Ethan's father carries his unconscious mother through the hole and to safety in the present day. This has some side effects though, and is ultimately an unsatisfying solution -- so in the end they [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong fix the reason why they were in that building in the first place]].
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place]]. This is also what happens to Kori prior to the game's events, as Ethan's dad pulls her through time to a few weeks after she would've fallen to her death. This leaves her out of the flow of time for years, as Ethan's dad couldn't figure out a way to save her besides pulling her through a Time Hole. Again, this is an unsatisfying solution, and Ethan and Derek are able to save her by sending Derek through to cushion her fall.
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* In the MarvelUniverse it looked like this happened, but it didn't. A man believing himself to be [[ComicBook/CaptainMarVell Captain Mar-Vell]] appears. Everyone thinks that he's avoided his death from cancer by jumping forward in time. It turns out that time travel wasn't involved in the first place; the guy's really a Skrull sleeper agent brainwashed into thinking he's the real deal.

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* In the MarvelUniverse it looked like this happened, but it didn't. A man believing himself to be [[ComicBook/CaptainMarVell [[ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel|MarvelComics}} Captain Mar-Vell]] appears. Everyone thinks that he's avoided his death from cancer by jumping forward in time. It turns out that time travel wasn't involved in the first place; the guy's really a Skrull sleeper agent brainwashed into thinking he's the real deal.
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* The humpback whales George and Gracie in ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'' were the subject of a TimeTravelEscape. All humpback whales were extinct by the end of the 21st century according to that timeframe, until the crew of the ''Bounty'' intervened.

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* The humpback whales George and Gracie in ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'' were the subject of a TimeTravelEscape.Time Travel Escape. All humpback whales were extinct by the end of the 21st century according to that timeframe, until the crew of the ''Bounty'' intervened.



** A later episode shows that the time travel agency Nicholas Prentice works for recruits via TimeTravelEscape; they take the potential recruit to the future seconds before they would have died, then offers them a choice between joining or being sent back to their death.

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** A later episode shows that the time travel agency Nicholas Prentice works for recruits via TimeTravelEscape; Time Travel Escape; they take the potential recruit to the future seconds before they would have died, then offers them a choice between joining or being sent back to their death.

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