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Author: OmarKarindu

Aug 4th 2011 at 3:02:32 PM

Comic Books
* This was the premise of the JLA story "Rock of Ages," by GrantMorrison. Some of Metron's dialogue further suggests that this kind of thing happens on a regular basis in the course of Darkseid's attempts to rule the universe.

Live Action TV
* [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in ''{{Dollhouse}}'': [[spoiler: After getting a glimpse of a BadFuture caused by the brainwashing technology being weaponized by the Rossum Corporation, the heroes think they've accomplished this in the final episode of Season 2 when they blow up the Rossum mainframe and kill the founders. Unfortunately, the TimeSkip in the LostEpisode "Epitaph One" had already made it clear that they ''can't''. Once the technology exists, it will inevitably be recreated and deployed.]]
* Initially [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] and then played partly straight in ''DoctorWho'' with the episodes "Utopia," "The Sound of Drums," and "Last of the Time Lords." Initially, the villain transports beings from a far distant BadFuture through time to create a monstrous present-day with himself as ruler of the Earth; later, the Doctor and his allies manage to undo the villain's manipulations and revert time to moments before he conquered the world. Interestingly, the more distant BadFuture is implicitly left uncorrected, suggesting its inevitability.

Video Games
* Depending on the player's knowledge of the game and choices -- or with the help of NewGamePlus -- encountering and preventing this can be achieved in various ways in ''ChronoTrigger''.

Western Animation
* The ''JusticeLeague'' story "Hereafter" is built on this idea, with a time-displaced Superman being sent to the future where a belatedly repentant villain who destroyed the world works to send him back to the present to thwart his own ruinous schemes.
** And arguably used again in "The Once and Future Thing."
* A ''DarkwingDuck'' episode had Gosalyn being abducted to the future by Megavolt and Quackerjack's Time Top; her disappearance turned Darkwing into a monstrous KnightTemplar dishing out DisproportionateRetribution to all of St. Canard, and only her return to the present could fix things.
* This is the end goal of the protagonist of ''SamuraiJack''. If he can go back in time, he can preclude Akuma's global rule in the show's BadFuture.