History Main / GoneToTheFuture

* ''GeneratorRex'' features the protagonist sent a mere six months into the future, which turns out to be more than enough time for everything to go to shit in a way like you wouldn't believe.

* In the live action television adaptation of ''Series/TheFlash'', the hero is accidentally warped into the future and finds his absence leads to a royally screwed up future, with the recurring bad-guy becoming a tyrant Mayor-for-life.

* ''Film/TimeChasers''. Before revealing it to the world, Nick took casual trips to 2045 (and 1955) in his TTT (Time Travel Transport).

* In the live action television adaptation of ''TheFlash'', the hero is accidentally warped into the future and finds his absence leads to a royally screwed up future, with the recurring bad-guy becoming a tyrant Mayor-for-life.

* In ''TheSarahConnorChronicles'', this was the last cliffhanger ending before it got ScrewedByTheNetwork. John Connor traveled to the future, only to discover that this version of the future didn't even hear about him (since he wasn't there to become his legendary self).

* In ''ThePowerpuffGirls'', the girls once accidentally traveled through time into a dystopian society. They learn that they have vanished several years ago which allowed Him to take over and destroy everything. They fix this problem by going back through time and reinserting themselves into the timeline.

* In the BadFuture in ''Webcomics/AutumnBay'', Johnny specifically mentions that he hadn't seen Marie-Ange and Andrew since before the opening event of the comic (the "fallen star"), implying that they were gone all that time. That future seems to be obliterated when they travel back to the present.

* Happened more than once to Magik in the NewMutants comics--depending on who she brought with on a time jump, the future would be different flavors of bad due to the disappearances.

* In the ''KimPossible'' movie ''A Sitch In Time'', both Kim and Ron traveled into the future and removed themselves from the time line, allowing [[spoiler: Shego]] to take over.

* The movie version of ''TheTimeMachine'' resulted in this, with the protagonist stuck in the future. However, this is the place where he finally finds peace, as he gets to rebuild civilization from the ground up, throwing out the old preconceptions. Back in the present, his best friend, who doesn't know where Alexander is, hopes that he never comes back (he was miserable in this time).

* ''TheTimeMachine'' does this. The protagonist whisks away into the future never to be heard from again. This is probably the UrExample.

* The movie version of ''TheTimeMachine'' resulted in this, with the protagonist StuckInTheFuture. However, this is the place where he finally finds peace, as he gets to rebuild civilization from the ground up, throwing out the old preconceptions. Back in the present, his best friend, who doesn't know where Alexander is, hopes that he never comes back (he was miserable in this time).

* The movie version of ''TheTimeMachine'' resulted in this, with the protagonist StuckInTheFuture.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster'' part of an issue of the ''SuperMarioBros'' comic, Kevin is knocked into a garbage chute. Samus takes a second-or-more-hand time gadget and tries to go forward just a little bit so she can catch him and take him back. But the device is defective and sends her 20 years forward, where due to the absence of Kevin and Samus, Garbageworld is the last place that [[{{Metroid}} Mother Brain]] hasn't taken over, and it's under attack as well, defended only by Kevin and KidIcarus (Pit in the game, but Kid Icarus here). She eventually warps back in time and prevents the incident, so he can defend Videoland again.

* In the ''StargateAtlantis'' episode "The Last Man", Col. Sheppard ends up stuck 48,000 years in the future during his search for a missing team member. A [[FlingALightIntoTheFuture hologram of one of his teammates, Dr. [=McKay=]]], briefs him on what went wrong since he went missing and explains what he needs to do to return to the past to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong set right what once went]] [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble (will go?)]] [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong wrong]].

* Happens in ''LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' when Lilo, tired of being just a kid, uses an experiment to jump forward ten years, becoming a teenager. She soon discovers that she had gone missing during those years, and later, when she uses the experiment to jump another ten years into the future and become a young adult, she discovers that during the time she and Stitch were absent, Dr. Hamsterveil managed to take over the world. Luckily, Jumba's future self manages to inform her of how to reverse the experiment's power and return to her own time and become a kid again.

* In the ''CaptainNTheGameMaster'' part of an issue of the ''SuperMarioBros'' comic, Kevin is knocked into a garbage chute. Samus takes a second-or-more-hand time gadget and tries to go forward just a little bit so she can catch him and take him back. But the device is defective and sends her 20 years forward, where due to the absence of Kevin and Samus, Garbageworld is the last place that [[{{Metroid}} Mother Brain]] hasn't taken over, and it's under attack as well, defended only by Kevin and KidIcarus (Pit in the game, but Kid Icarus here). She eventually warps back in time and prevents the incident, so he can defend Videoland again.

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* The main cast of ''Manga/FairyTail'' ends up [[ArcNumber seven]] years into their future to the stasis effect of a mass-protection spell they cast on themselves. In that time, their guild has gone from one of the region's most powerful to its weakest.
* The DeathJunior tie-in manga had this happen to Pandora as part of the time machine's anti-tampering mechanism. While she was away, her friends had drifted apart and a snake goddess had seduced DJ.
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Can be ForWantOfANail, if the absent time traveler is the nail. Limit examples to instances in which the absence is unexpected or otherwise significant to the plot.

* ''RipvanWinkle'' by Washington Irving is an early example of this. Rip falls asleep and wakes up twenty years later to find that his family assumed he was dead. He also gets into trouble with the townspeople who didn't recognize him at first for announcing his loyalty to the king of England, not knowing that the American Revolution had taken place.

* Happened in ''BlazBlue'' to both Hakumen and [[spoiler: Relius]], but in different forms. Hakumen was sealed away for 90 years [[spoiler: but due to confusing time, his former self, Jin, was still born and so on]] and wasn't apart of the story until Kokonoe took him out of the Void. [[spoiler: Relius, on the other hand, fell into a Cauldron during the Dark War and reappeared decades later, but eventually just went back to his original, science-filled ways.]]

* ''DuckTales'': "Duck To The Future". Scrooge is trying to see his own future, resulting instead in this and a BadFuture. He succeeds in returning to his own time and thus sets things right.

* In the ''StargateAtlantis'' episode "The Last Man", Col. Sheppard ends up stuck 48,000 years in the future during his search for a missing team member. A [[FlingALightIntoTheFuture hologram of one of his teammates, Dr. [=McKay=]]], briefs him on [[ItGotWorse what went wrong since he went missing]] and explains what he needs to do to return to the past to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong set right what once went]] [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble (will go?)]] [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong wrong]].

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