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** The BigBad [[EvilPlan constructed his plan]] in such a way that nobody, including Alice, would be able to change the timeline, [[MortonsFork even if they attempted to fix it]], by manipulating seemingly [[ForWantOfANail minuscule details]] in the lives of seemingly random individuals.
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** The BigBad [[EvilPlan constructed his plan]] in such a way that nobody, including Alice, would be able to change the timeline, [[MortonsFork even if they attempted to fix it]], by manipulating seemingly [[ForWantOfANail minuscule details]] details in the lives of seemingly random individuals.
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* '''Averted''': Any entry in TemporalMutability except YouAlreadyChangedThePast. (Enforced Immutability, RubberBandHistory, Temporal Balancing Act, and [[ForWantOfANail Temporal Chaos Theory]].) Arguably also TrickedOutTime (sort of), and a few others.
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* '''Averted''': Any entry in TemporalMutability except YouAlreadyChangedThePast. (Enforced Immutability, RubberBandHistory, Temporal Balancing Act, and [[ForWantOfANail Temporal Chaos Theory]].Theory.) Arguably also TrickedOutTime (sort of), and a few others.
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** The events are part of a StableTimeLoop
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** The events are part of a StableTimeLoopStableTimeLoop.
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* '''Justified''': The rules of time travel specifically work this way, as is eventually explained to Bob.
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** The rules of time travel specifically work this way, as is eventually explained toBob.Bob.
** The events are part of a StableTimeLoop
** The rules of time travel specifically work this way, as is eventually explained to
** The events are part of a StableTimeLoop
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* '''Played For Laughs''': Bob's quest to travel back in time to save Alice is... [[WithCatlikeTread extremely unsubtle]]. And bizarre enough to become a NoodleIncident in history. The reason this doesn't change the timeline? The witnesses by an large decided: LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain.
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* '''Played For Laughs''': Bob's quest to travel back in time to save Alice is... [[WithCatlikeTread extremely unsubtle]]. And bizarre enough to become a NoodleIncident in history. The reason this doesn't change the timeline? The witnesses by an and large decided: LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain.
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* '''Deconstructed''': After it turns out that time travel changes nothing, research into the technology grinds to a halt.
* '''Reconstructed''': Even if (or ''especially'' if) it doesn't change the timeline, time travel becomes incredibly useful for historical research and other forms of fact finding.
* '''Played For Laughs''': Bob's quest to travel back in time to save Alice is... [[WithCatlikeTread extremely unsubtle]]. And bizarre enough to become a NoodleIncident in history. The reason this doesn't change the timeline? The witnesses by an large decided: LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain.
* '''Reconstructed''': Even if (or ''especially'' if) it doesn't change the timeline, time travel becomes incredibly useful for historical research and other forms of fact finding.
* '''Played For Laughs''': Bob's quest to travel back in time to save Alice is... [[WithCatlikeTread extremely unsubtle]]. And bizarre enough to become a NoodleIncident in history. The reason this doesn't change the timeline? The witnesses by an large decided: LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain.
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* '''Parodied''': Alice lost [[MemeticMutation The Game]]. After much Wangst on her part [[SeriousBusiness (and people around her)]], she travels back in time to in order to tell her past self [[RewardingInactivity not to think about The Game]], which [[EpicFail fails spectacularly]], as in each timeline the loss results in a [[DownerEnding Downer Ending]], in which the [[BigBad Big Bad]] [[TakeOverTheWorld takes over the world]].
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* '''Parodied''': Alice lost [[MemeticMutation The Game]]. After much Wangst {{Wangst}} on her part [[SeriousBusiness (and people around her)]], she travels back in time to in order to tell her past self [[RewardingInactivity not to think about The Game]], which [[EpicFail fails spectacularly]], as in each timeline the loss results in a [[DownerEnding Downer Ending]], in which the [[BigBad Big Bad]] [[TakeOverTheWorld takes over the world]].
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* '''Downplayed''': What you observed, you observed, but you might have seen a careful illusion. Bob ''saw'' Alice fall to her death... so he later manages to [[TrickedOutTime trick time]] by replacing Alice with a {{Doppelganger}}.
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* '''Downplayed''': What you observed, you observed, observed... but what you might saw doesn't have seen a careful illusion. to be what actually ''happened''. Bob ''saw'' may have thought that he saw Alice fall to her death... so he later manages to [[TrickedOutTime trick time]] by replacing die in the past, but what ''happened'' was that his future self saved Alice with previously and sent a {{Doppelganger}}.{{Doppelganger}} to fall off the building to stage the scene as Past!Bob saw it.
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** Any time travel that doesn't leave a trail to cause it after the change was made doesn't persist. If there was neither a problem nor obeyed instructions to prevent the problem the original time travel would be undone as a time traveler wouldn't know they had to make the change.
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** Filled with remorse, Bob travels further back in time in order to prevent the building from which Alice fell into her death from ever being built. While attempting to sabotage the construction project, he is captured by a mysterious masked character. After returning Bob to the present, the figure explains why he had to be stopped. It turns out, that Bob's parents where involved in the construction of the building. By getting the job there, they couldn't go to the annual city festival that year, when the mass-shootings took place. [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments They met each other at work and fell in love]]. Bob understands that even if he saved Alice, he would have destroyed the life of countless people in the process.
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** Filled with remorse, Bob travels further back in time in order to prevent the building from which Alice fell into her death from ever being built. While attempting to sabotage the construction project, he is captured by a mysterious masked character. After returning Bob to the present, the figure explains why he had to be stopped. It turns out, that Bob's parents where involved in the construction of the building. By getting the job there, they couldn't go to the annual city festival that year, when the mass-shootings took place. [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments They met each other at work and fell in love]].love. Bob understands that even if he saved Alice, he would have destroyed the life of countless people in the process.
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** Filled with remorse, Bob travels further back in time in order to prevent the building from which Alice fell into her death from ever being built. While attempting to sabotage the construction project, he is captured by a mysterious masked character. After returning Bob to the present, the figure explains why he had to be stopped. It turns out, that Bob's parents where involved in the construction of the building. By getting the job there, they couldn't go to the annual city festival that year, when the mass-shootings took place. [[HeartwarmingMoments They met each other at work and fell in love]]. Bob understands that even if he saved Alice, he would have destroyed the life of countless people in the process.
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** Filled with remorse, Bob travels further back in time in order to prevent the building from which Alice fell into her death from ever being built. While attempting to sabotage the construction project, he is captured by a mysterious masked character. After returning Bob to the present, the figure explains why he had to be stopped. It turns out, that Bob's parents where involved in the construction of the building. By getting the job there, they couldn't go to the annual city festival that year, when the mass-shootings took place. [[HeartwarmingMoments [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments They met each other at work and fell in love]]. Bob understands that even if he saved Alice, he would have destroyed the life of countless people in the process.
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'''Basic Trope''': Someone turns back time in an effort to change the past, but realizes that the past cannot be changed, or might have even been caused by himself[=/=]herself.
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'''Basic Trope''': Someone turns back time in an effort to change the past, but realizes past and finds out that event they are trying to change was caused by their own action and they realize that the past cannot be changed, or might have even been caused by himself[=/=]herself.changed.
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** Filled with remorse, Bob travels further back in time in order to prevent the building from which Alice fell into her death from ever being built. While attempting to sabotage the construction project, he is captured by a mysterious masked character. After returning Bob to the present, the figure explains why he had to be stopped. It turns out, that Bob's parents where involved in the construction of the building. By getting the job there, they couldn't go to the annual city festival that year, when the mass-shootings took place. [[HeartwarmingMoments They met each other at work and fell in love]]. Bob understands that even if he saved Alice, he would have destroyed the life of countless people in the process, which [[SubvertedTrope wouldn't be much of a]] [[HeroicSacrifice Heroic Sacrifice]].
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** Filled with remorse, Bob travels further back in time in order to prevent the building from which Alice fell into her death from ever being built. While attempting to sabotage the construction project, he is captured by a mysterious masked character. After returning Bob to the present, the figure explains why he had to be stopped. It turns out, that Bob's parents where involved in the construction of the building. By getting the job there, they couldn't go to the annual city festival that year, when the mass-shootings took place. [[HeartwarmingMoments They met each other at work and fell in love]]. Bob understands that even if he saved Alice, he would have destroyed the life of countless people in the process, which [[SubvertedTrope wouldn't be much of a]] [[HeroicSacrifice Heroic Sacrifice]].process.
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* '''Defied''': Bob could [[TrickedOutTime Trick Out Time]], get [[AppliedPhlebotinum better 'tech]] that allows him to alter history, or ignore [[SelfFulfillingProphecy the naysayers]] and go BeyondTheImpossible.
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* '''Defied''': Bob could [[TrickedOutTime Trick Out Time]], get [[AppliedPhlebotinum better 'tech]] that allows him to alter history, or ignore [[SelfFulfillingProphecy the naysayers]] and go BeyondTheImpossible.ScrewDestiny.
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* '''Averted''': ???Any entry in TemporalMutability except YouAlreadyChangedThePast. (Enforced Immutability, RubberBandHistory, Temporal Balancing Act, and [[ForWantOfANail Temporal Chaos Theory]].) Arguably also TrickedOutTime (sort of), and a few others.
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** Either way, the heroes can be confident that nobody is going to rewrite the history to prevent the Big Bad's defeat (given he/she has already been defeated)
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* '''Defied''':???Bob could [[TrickedOutTime Trick Out Time]], get [[AppliedPhlebotinum better 'tech]] that allows him to alter history, or ignore [[SelfFulfillingProphecy the naysayers]] and go BeyondTheImpossible.
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* '''Downplayed''': ???What you observed, you observed, but you might have seen a careful illusion. Bob ''saw'' Alice fall to her death... so he later manages to [[TrickedOutTime trick time]] by replacing Alice with a {{Doppelganger}}.
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* '''Subverted''': Years later following the incident, despite being told that nobody can change their fate, Bob becomes the leader of a secret Time Police. They get a warning message about a terrorist they need to stop somewhere in the past, otherwise the city will cause a global economic collapse and destruction of thousands of lives. Bob leads his squad of highly skilled professionals to infiltrate the past without being noticed by the public. When they split up, the leader notices the attacker and quickly subdues him, saving the day.
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* '''Subverted''': Years later following the incident, despite being told that nobody can change their fate, Bob becomes the leader of a secret Time Police.TimePolice. They get a warning message about a terrorist they need to stop somewhere in the past, otherwise the city will cause a global economic collapse and destruction of thousands of lives. Bob leads his squad of highly skilled professionals to infiltrate the past without being noticed by the public. When they split up, the leader notices the attacker and quickly subdues him, saving the day.
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* '''Justified''': ???The rules of time travel specifically work this way, as is eventually explained to Bob.
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** The [[BigBad Big Bad]] can be confident that nobody is going to rewrite the history to erease this very moment of his [[EvilTastesGood delicious]] [[EvilIsHammy triumph as a villain]].
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The [[BigBad Big Bad]] [[EvilPlan constructed his plan]] in such a way that nobody, including Alice, would be able to change the timeline, [[MortonsFork even if they attempted to fix it]], by manipulating seemingly [[ForWantOfANail minuscule details]] in the lives of seemingly random individuals.
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** The [[BigBad Big Bad]] BigBad [[EvilPlan constructed his plan]] in such a way that nobody, including Alice, would be able to change the timeline, [[MortonsFork even if they attempted to fix it]], by manipulating seemingly [[ForWantOfANail minuscule details]] in the lives of seemingly random individuals.
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* '''DoubleSubverted''': Bob recognises the terrorist - it was Bob, who attempted to stop a construction project, so that the building existing in his present day won't be there for Alice to fall from. The secrecy of the operation also is blown and Bob makes a huge [[FacePalm Face Palm]] when he remembers those [[NoodleINcident strange "cosplayers"]] from the newspaper he read with his dad when he was a kid. Faced with the evidence, the Time Police closes down indefinitely.
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* '''DoubleSubverted''': '''Double Subverted''': Bob recognises recognizes the terrorist - it was Bob, who attempted to stop a construction project, so that the building existing in his present day won't be there for Alice to fall from. The secrecy of the operation also is blown and Bob makes a huge [[FacePalm Face Palm]] when he remembers those [[NoodleINcident strange "cosplayers"]] from the newspaper he read with his dad when he was a kid. Faced with the evidence, the Time Police closes down indefinitely.
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'''Basic Trope''': Someone turns back time in an effort to change the past, but realizes that the past cannot be changed, or might have even been caused by him/herself.
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'''Basic Trope''': Someone turns back time in an effort to change the past, but realizes that the past cannot be changed, or might have even been caused by him/herself.himself[=/=]herself.
The [[BigBad Big Bad]] [[EvilPlan constructed his plan]] in such a way that nobody, including Alice, would be able to change the timeline, [[MortonsFork even if they attempted to fix it]], by manipulating seemingly [[ForWantOfANail minuscule details]] in the lives of seemingly random individuals.
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* '''Parodied''': Alice lost [[MemeticMutation The Game]]. After much Wangst on her part [[SeriousBusiness (and people around her)]], she travels back in time to in order to tell her past self [[RewardingInactivity not to think about The Game]], which [[EpicFail fails spectacularly]], as in each timeline the loss results in a [[DownerEnding Downer Ending]], in which the [[BigBad Big Bad]] [[TakeOverTheWorld takes over the world]].
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* '''Parodied''': Alice lost [[MemeticMutation The Game]]. After much Wangst on her part [[SeriousBusiness (and people around her)]], she travels back in time to in order to tell her past self [[RewardingInactivity not to think about The Game]], which [[EpicFail fails spectacularly]], as in each timeline the loss results in a [[DownerEnding Downer Ending]], in which the [[BigBad Big Bad]] [[TakeOverTheWorld takes over the world]].
* '''UpToEleven''': The [[BigBad Big Bad]] [[EvilPlan constructed his plan]] in such a way that nobody, including Alice, would be able to change the timeline, [[MortonsFork even if they attempted to fix it]], by manipulating seemingly [[ForWantOfANail minuscule details]] in the lives of seemingly random individuals.
* '''UpToEleven''': The [[BigBad Big Bad]] [[EvilPlan constructed his plan]] in such a way that nobody, including Alice, would be able to change the timeline, [[MortonsFork even if they attempted to fix it]], by manipulating seemingly [[ForWantOfANail minuscule details]] in the lives of seemingly random individuals.
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* '''Parodied''': Alice lost [[MemeticMutation The Game]]. After much Wangst on her part [[SeriousBusiness (and people around her)]], she travels back in time to in order to tell her past self [[RewardingInactivity not to think about The Game]], which [[EpicFail fails spectacularly]], as in each timeline the loss results in a [[DownerEnding Downer Ending]], in which the [[BigBad Big Bad]] [[TakeOverTheWorld takes over the world]].
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*'''UpToEleven''': The [[BigBad Big Bad]] [[EvilPlan constructed his plan]] in such a way that nobody, including Alice, would be able to change the timeline, [[MortonsFork even if they attempted to fix it]], by manipulating seemingly [[ForWantOfANail minuscule details]] in the lives of seemingly random individuals.'''Enforced''': ???
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* '''UpToEleven''': The [[BigBad Big Bad]] [[CrazyPrepared constructed]] [[XanatosGambit his plan]] in such a way that nobody, including Alice, would be able to change the timeline, [[MortonsFork even if they attempted to fix it]], by manipulating seemingly [[ForWantOfANail minuscule details]] in the lives of seemingly random individuals.
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* '''UpToEleven''': The [[BigBad Big Bad]] [[CrazyPrepared constructed]] [[XanatosGambit [[EvilPlan constructed his plan]] in such a way that nobody, including Alice, would be able to change the timeline, [[MortonsFork even if they attempted to fix it]], by manipulating seemingly [[ForWantOfANail minuscule details]] in the lives of seemingly random individuals.
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* '''Exaggerated''': Alice traveled into the future only to see her own gravestone and hearing about how a mysterious stalker caused her untimely death. She becomes paranoid to the point of never leaving her building. One day, she decided that it would be safer for her to scout the surrounding area for the killer that is inevitably coming her way. People notice this and suspect that she wants to commit suicide by jumping off from the top. Alice starts to suspect everybody to be the killer and refuses to get help, because the person she would confess her fears to might be or attract the murderer. Even worse, her words might inspire some sick deviant to commit the crime. Standing on the rooftop, she contemplates the inevitable. Suddenly she hears footsteps and a loud scream behind her, which scare her enough to lose balance and fall into her death.
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** Alice traveled into the future only to see her own gravestone and hearing about how a mysterious stalker caused her untimely death. She becomes paranoid to the point of never leaving her building. One day, she decided that it would be safer for her to scout the surrounding area for the killer that is inevitably coming her way. People notice this and suspect that she wants to commit suicide by jumping off from the top. Alice starts to suspect everybody to be the killer and refuses to get help, because the person she would confess her fears to might be or attract the murderer. Even worse, her words might inspire some sick deviant to commit the crime. Standing on the rooftop, she contemplates the inevitable. Suddenly she hears footsteps and a loud scream behind her, which scare her enough to lose balance and fall into her death.
** Alice traveled into the future only to see her own gravestone and hearing about how a mysterious stalker caused her untimely death. She becomes paranoid to the point of never leaving her building. One day, she decided that it would be safer for her to scout the surrounding area for the killer that is inevitably coming her way. People notice this and suspect that she wants to commit suicide by jumping off from the top. Alice starts to suspect everybody to be the killer and refuses to get help, because the person she would confess her fears to might be or attract the murderer. Even worse, her words might inspire some sick deviant to commit the crime. Standing on the rooftop, she contemplates the inevitable. Suddenly she hears footsteps and a loud scream behind her, which scare her enough to lose balance and fall into her death.
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** The [[BigBad Big Bad]] can be confident that nobody is going to rewrite the history to erease this very moment of his [[EvilTastesGood delicious]] [[EvilIsHammy triumph as a villain]].
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* '''Straight''': Alice fell off the building to her death. Bob looked up the moment she landed to find her killer, and saw a figure disappearing into the building. Bob turns back time in an effort to save Alice and find the culprit, and runs to the top of the building where Alice fell off from, but the moment he yells for her, she was so shocked she fell off to her death. Bob realizes that the reason why Alice fell off was because he turned back time to save her, and that the figure that he's seen in the building back then was actually himself.
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* '''Straight''': Alice fell off the building to her death. Bob looked up the moment she landed to find her killer, and saw a figure disappearing into the building. Bob turns back time in an effort to save Alice and find the culprit, and runs to the top of the building where Alice fell off from, but the moment he yells for her, she was so shocked she fell off to her death. Bob realizes that the reason why Alice fell off was because he turned back time to save her, and that the figure that he's seen in the building back then was actually himself.
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* '''Exaggerated''':???Alice traveled into the future only to see her own gravestone and hearing about how a mysterious stalker caused her untimely death. She becomes paranoid to the point of never leaving her building. One day, she decided that it would be safer for her to scout the surrounding area for the killer that is inevitably coming her way. People notice this and suspect that she wants to commit suicide by jumping off from the top. Alice starts to suspect everybody to be the killer and refuses to get help, because the person she would confess her fears to might be or attract the murderer. Even worse, her words might inspire some sick deviant to commit the crime. Standing on the rooftop, she contemplates the inevitable. Suddenly she hears footsteps and a loud scream behind her, which scare her enough to lose balance and fall into her death.
** Filled with remorse, Bob travels further back in time in order to prevent the building from which Alice fell into her death from ever being built. While attempting to sabotage the construction project, he is captured by a mysterious masked character. After returning Bob to the present, the figure explains why he had to be stopped. It turns out, that Bob's parents where involved in the construction of the building. By getting the job there, they couldn't go to the annual city festival that year, when the mass-shootings took place. [[HeartwarmingMoments They met each other at work and fell in love]]. Bob understands that even if he saved Alice, he would have destroyed the life of countless people in the process, which [[SubvertedTrope wouldn't be much of a]] [[HeroicSacrifice Heroic Sacrifice]].
* '''Subverted''': Years later following the incident, despite being told that nobody can change their fate, Bob becomes the leader of a secret Time Police. They get a warning message about a terrorist they need to stop somewhere in the past, otherwise the city will cause a global economic collapse and destruction of thousands of lives. Bob leads his squad of highly skilled professionals to infiltrate the past without being noticed by the public. When they split up, the leader notices the attacker and quickly subdues him, saving the day.
*'''DoubleSubverted''': Bob recognises the terrorist - it was Bob, who attempted to stop a construction project, so that the building existing in his present day won't be there for Alice to fall from. The secrecy of the operation also is blown and Bob makes a huge [[FacePalm Face Palm]] when he remembers those [[NoodleINcident strange "cosplayers"]] from the newspaper he read with his dad when he was a kid. Faced with the evidence, the Time Police closes down indefinitely.
*'''Zigzagged''': ...which is [[BatmanGambit exactly]] what the [[BigBad Big Bad]] wanted all along. Bob realises this and reactivates the Time Police. The heroes and the villain try to [[GambitPileup outsmart each other]] in their time travels in an attempt to see whether they truly can change the past. [[HopeSpot Maybe there is a way of bringing Alice back]].
* '''Parodied''': Alice lost [[MemeticMutation The Game]]. After much Wangst on her part [[SeriousBusiness (and people around her)]], she travels back in time to in order to tell her past self [[RewardingInactivity not to think about The Game]], which [[EpicFail fails spectacularly]], as in each timeline the loss results in a [[DownerEnding Downer Ending]], in which the [[BigBad Big Bad]] [[TakeOverTheWorld takes over the world]].
* '''UpToEleven''': The [[BigBad Big Bad]] [[CrazyPrepared constructed]] [[XanatosGambit his plan]] in such a way that nobody, including Alice, would be able to change the timeline, [[MortonsFork even if they attempted to fix it]], by manipulating seemingly [[ForWantOfANail minuscule details]] in the lives of seemingly random individuals.
* '''Exploited''': The [[BigBad Big Bad]] can be confident that nobody is going to rewrite the history to erease this very moment of his [[EvilTastesGood delicious]] [[EvilIsHammy triumph as a villain]].
** ...[[MindScrew or are the heroes]] [[BatmanGambit trying to use his reaction]] to ultimately defeat him?
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Filled with remorse, Bob travels further back in time in order to prevent the building from which Alice fell into her death from ever being built. While attempting to sabotage the construction project, he is captured by a mysterious masked character. After returning Bob to the present, the figure explains why he had to be stopped. It turns out, that Bob's parents where involved in the construction of the building. By getting the job there, they couldn't go to the annual city festival that year, when the mass-shootings took place. [[HeartwarmingMoments They met each other at work and fell in love]]. Bob understands that even if he saved Alice, he would have destroyed the life of countless people in the process, which [[SubvertedTrope wouldn't be much of a]] [[HeroicSacrifice Heroic Sacrifice]].
* '''Subverted''': Years later following the incident, despite being told that nobody can change their fate, Bob becomes the leader of a secret Time Police. They get a warning message about a terrorist they need to stop somewhere in the past, otherwise the city will cause a global economic collapse and destruction of thousands of lives. Bob leads his squad of highly skilled professionals to infiltrate the past without being noticed by the public. When they split up, the leader notices the attacker and quickly subdues him, saving the day.
*'''DoubleSubverted''': Bob recognises the terrorist - it was Bob, who attempted to stop a construction project, so that the building existing in his present day won't be there for Alice to fall from. The secrecy of the operation also is blown and Bob makes a huge [[FacePalm Face Palm]] when he remembers those [[NoodleINcident strange "cosplayers"]] from the newspaper he read with his dad when he was a kid. Faced with the evidence, the Time Police closes down indefinitely.
*'''Zigzagged''': ...which is [[BatmanGambit exactly]] what the [[BigBad Big Bad]] wanted all along. Bob realises this and reactivates the Time Police. The heroes and the villain try to [[GambitPileup outsmart each other]] in their time travels in an attempt to see whether they truly can change the past. [[HopeSpot Maybe there is a way of bringing Alice back]].
* '''Parodied''': Alice lost [[MemeticMutation The Game]]. After much Wangst on her part [[SeriousBusiness (and people around her)]], she travels back in time to in order to tell her past self [[RewardingInactivity not to think about The Game]], which [[EpicFail fails spectacularly]], as in each timeline the loss results in a [[DownerEnding Downer Ending]], in which the [[BigBad Big Bad]] [[TakeOverTheWorld takes over the world]].
* '''UpToEleven''': The [[BigBad Big Bad]] [[CrazyPrepared constructed]] [[XanatosGambit his plan]] in such a way that nobody, including Alice, would be able to change the timeline, [[MortonsFork even if they attempted to fix it]], by manipulating seemingly [[ForWantOfANail minuscule details]] in the lives of seemingly random individuals.
* '''Exploited''': The [[BigBad Big Bad]] can be confident that nobody is going to rewrite the history to erease this very moment of his [[EvilTastesGood delicious]] [[EvilIsHammy triumph as a villain]].
** ...[[MindScrew or are the heroes]] [[BatmanGambit trying to use his reaction]] to ultimately defeat him?