History Main / PeggySue

* Zigzagged in ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8479548/1/George-Weasley-and-the-Computational-Error George Weasley and the Computational Error]]''. George Weasley jumps back in time as a 40-year-old man to his first year. He still has his own body, but he has the ability to possess his younger self when necessary...though the person who decides whether it is necessary is Fred and Fred doesn't particularly like it when this mysterious "Saintlike One" possesses his twin.

* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2636963/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_Nightmares_of_Futures_Past Nightmares of Future Past]]'' is probably the best of this sort. Although well-written, Harry's future knowledge and skills make him extremely powerful, extremely quickly.
** To be fair, though, Harry's foreknowledge creates as many problems as it solves, and arguably becomes all but moot as the story progresses. As for his becoming extremely powerful, there is an explanation for it, and it doesn't seem to come into play very much.

* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4068153/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_Wastelands_of_Time Wastelands of Time]]'' is only the most recent in a long series of Harry failing to save the world. And trying his hardest anyway.

* ''[[http://www.fictionalley.org/authors/worldmaker/FA.html Furious Angels]]'' features Ginny Weasley, rather than Harry Potter, returning to the past. The return is incomplete, however, so she doesn't quite remember details from the future very often, or very completely, and this causes problems.
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3735743/1/The_Moment_It_Began The Moment It Began]],'' in which Snape goes back to the point where he called Lily a mudblood. It's really a very good story.

* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3693052/1/Back_Again_Harry Back Again, Harry?]]'' by [=JediButtercup=]: A most unusual Peggy Sue fic, one that refuses the usual powerups and exceptional maturity in favor of sending Harry back ''from his visit to Kings Cross Station'' in ''Deathly Hallows'' to a certain night spent staring into the Mirror of Erised.
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4655545/1/Reunion Reunion]]'' by Rorschach's Blot: A parody of Peggy Sue fics, starring Harry, Hermione, Luna, and Susan Bones as the returnees. They're on a mission to take the timeline and tie it into a pretzel. Unfinished.
* ''Fanfic/OhGodNotAgain'' by Sarah1281: So maybe everything didn't work out perfectly for Harry. Still, most of his friends survived, he'd gotten married, and was about to become a father. If only he'd have stayed away from the Veil, he wouldn't have had to go back and do everything ''again''. Also, because [[spoiler: the ''Veil'']] was the method of time travel, he finds out that [[spoiler: ''Sirius'' time traveled as well]]. HilarityEnsues.
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2703901/1/Curse_of_Fate Curse of Fate]]'' by Mistress Nika: Immortal Harry, after watching friends and family die over thousands of years, only wants to join his loved ones in death. Believing he's found a way, he sends himself back into the body of his infant self, vowing to change his fate. A really hilarious crack fic; Harry manages to convince the Death Eaters that he is the reincarnation of the Dark Lord; HilarityEnsues. Also, find out just how many Death Eaters ("here to kill you") can fit into a phone booth. Was said to be discontinued by author in personal messages.
* ''[[http://www.greyblue.net/MidnightBlue/story.php?storyid=2 Mirror of Maybe]]'' by Midnight Blue: An old fic from before Order of The Phoenix where Harry isn't technically time traveling -- he's just had a very long look through a clairvoyant magical object. [[LanguageOfMagic SuperPowered]]!Harry + [[SlashFic SnapeSlash]] may scare people away.
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4009690/1/Fox_Ears Fox Ears]]'' by The Starhorse: The Weasley family is deep in mourning after the battle of Hogwarts, but George has better ideas than to sit around and cry about something he'd rather just fix. And Charlie believes he can do it.
* ''FanFic/{{Sisyphus}}'' by esama: Takes a twist on the general Peggy Sue plotline; Harry gets another chance - and another and another... After a while they stop feeling like chances at all. Very well-written and be prepared for a hint of dark, morbid humour.
* ''FanFic/InThisWorldAndTheNext'' by robst: Harry and Hermione are sentenced to death for killing RonTheDeathEater, but are saved when [[DeusExMachina the Dementor explodes]] and sent back in time to [[RevengeFic visit various strife]] on the Weasleys and Dumbledore, among others.
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8149841/1/Again-and-Again Again and Again]]'' by Athey, Harry discovers that his life is stuck in a GroundhogDayLoop and he can't die... [[WhoWantsToLiveForever and this totally sucks.]]
* Zigzagged in ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8479548/1/George-Weasley-and-the-Computational-Error George Weasley and the Computational Error]]'' by pisoprano. George Weasley jumps back in time as a 40-year-old man to his first year. He still has his own body, but he has the ability to possess his younger self when necessary...though the person who decides whether it is necessary is Fred and Fred doesn't particularly like it when this mysterious "Saintlike One" possesses his twin.

* ''FanFic/HogyokuExMachina'' has this premise with a few twists from the usual. It has [[TheHero Ichigo]] ''and'' [[BigBad Aizen]] travel from the final battle back three months to when Aizen betrayed Soul Society. Then within minutes Ichigo yells out that time travel shenanigans are going on, which other characters are quickly able to confirm. Finally, although Ichigo keeps his [[ShonenUpgrade power-ups]] while Aizen loses his, it ends up being a more even playing field than one would expect.

* This is the essential premise of the [[Main/ZeroEscape Zero Escape]] series. In ''9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors'', Junpei is able to use his experiences in alternate timelines in order to connect the dots and [[spoiler: figure out the key to the safe, which in turn provides him with the required combination to free Snake from the coffin]]; ''Virtue's Last Reward'' plays it straight, sending [[MentalTimeTravel Sigma and Phi's consciousnesses]] to various points in various timelines and provide them with key information, such as [[spoiler: the deactivation codes for the bombs.]]

* Kaworu Nagisa from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' seems to get this in multiple media. The ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' series gave him dialog implying rather strongly that he went from ''[[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsAlpha Alpha]]'' to ''[VideoGame/[SuperRobotWarsMX MX]]'' and back to ''Alpha 3''. And just to add to it, ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' has him saying that he's looking forward to meeting Shinji "this time".

* Kaworu Nagisa from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' seems to get this in multiple media. The ''SuperRobotWars'' series gave him dialog implying rather strongly that he went from ''[[SuperRobotWarsAlpha Alpha]]'' to ''[[SuperRobotWarsMX MX]]'' and back to ''Alpha 3''. And just to add to it, ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' has him saying that he's looking forward to meeting Shinji "this time".

* The ''Series/{{Stargate SG-1}}'' episode "Window of Opportunity" may qualify by virtue of the fact that it features a repeating {{time loop}} effect centered on Jack O'niell and Teal'c. [[spoiler:They end up spending an unspecified amount of years repeating the same 24 hour period, until someone suggests a way for them to end the time loop. After that they spend another unspecified amount of time memorizing the necessary quantum physics, and ancient hieroglyphs necessary to get them out of the time loop.]]

** One wonders how Alice surviving, Yuri knowing Albert's motivations from the start, and exactly what messed up [[spoiler:Kato]] would [[ButterflyOfDoom screw]] with crucial bits of what happened later. [[spoiler:Like meeting his [[TimeyWimeyBall mother]]]]. [[hottip:* :Wait. That sounds ''awesome''. ''Someone write that!'']]

* Yahtzee (no, not [[ZeroPunctuation that]] [[ChzoMythos one]]) has a fic called "[[http://www.thechicagoloop.net/yahtzee/chivalry/chivfic/TwoStepsBack/TSBIndexPage.html Two Steps Back]]" that gives this idea an interesting twist. After his [[BolivianArmyEnding final battle]], Angel is given a device that can send him backwards through his life, a little farther each time; he can use it as many times as he wants, but he can't go forward again. Angel thinks he'll only need one jump to fix everything, but he soon learns how easily "knowing then what you know now" can lead to disaster...

* ''TheTwilightZone'' episode "Of Late I Think Of Cliffordville" has a business Tycoon selling his soul to Satan in order to relive his life again so he can use his knowledge of the future to build a bigger business empire than the one he has. Not surprisingly, it doesn't end well for him.

While this might seem as a recipe for an overly powerful character, the Peggy Sue is not without its risks. Often the only way they made it through the first time was because of fate or luck giving them PlotArmor, a luxury that they will be unlikely to have a second time around, though they can try for TrickedOutTime. They may also have to deal with a weaker and less experienced body, mental baggage, gaps in their knowledge regarding past events, negative reactions by anyone who realizes that they know things they shouldn't, or worst of all, that another, less friendly, individual has also pulled the same stunt.

** For the first few chapters, it stays more or less in line with the original show, albeit with some minor (but poignant) deviations (such as Shinji being the one who's sent to retrieve the Lava Angel instead of Asuka). [[spoiler: Then things completely "[[OffTheRails jump the tracks]]", so to speak, when Gendo decides he can no longer risk having his Scenario contaminated any further, and orders section 2 to eliminate Shinji. Normally, this would have been a good guess, seeing as how Shinji is Prime PeggySue material, and the kid had been showing unexplained CharacterDevelopment. However, in this case, the character growth was due to the influence of the ''actual'' time-traveler... '''Asuka'''. OOPS! Kaji, with some help from an unexpected source, was able to save Shinji's ass and the two are now on the run; armed with some ''really'' dangerous info that could spell the End for both SEELE and Gendo, ''and'' the intention to return to Tokyo-3 with the manpower to do it. Back at home, Gendo is resorting to more extreme methods to keep the situation under control, which is spreading increasing amounts of dissent amongst the folks at NERV. Meanwhile, Asuka has completely escaped his notice, and is beginning to make her own move.]]

** For the first few chapters, it stays more or less in line with the original show, albeit with some minor (but poignant) deviations (such as Shinji being the one who's sent to retrieve the Lava Angel instead of Asuka). [[spoiler: Then things completely "[[OffTheRails jump the tracks]]", so to speak, when Gendo decides he can no longer risk having his Scenario contaminated any further, and orders section 2 to eliminate... Shinji. That's right, He thought that ''Shinji'' was the time traveler. OOPS! Kaji, with some help from an unexpected source, was able to save Shinji's ass and the two are now on the run; armed with some ''really'' dangerous info that could spell the End for both SEELE and Gendo, and the intention to return to Tokyo-3 with the manpower to do it. Back at home, Gendo is resorting to more extreme methods to keep the situation under control, which is spreading increasing amounts of dissent amongst the folks at NERV. Meanwhile, Asuka has completely escaped his notice, and is beginning to make her own move.]]

* In ''StargateContinuum'', Ba'al uses time travel to go back seventy years and make a huge number of changes, resulting in him becoming the leader of all the Goa'uld, with almost the entire galaxy enslaved, reinforcing his status as a ''DangerouslyGenreSavvy'' villain

* ''OnceAgain'' by [=TheVictor=] is a ''OnePiece'' FanFiction. In this one, Akainu kills Luffy's crew, Luffy gives up, Coby eats a devil fruit and sends him back. It's notable in that it's the ''only'' one that has managed to reach Crocodile ''at all''. Every other FanFic has never managed to get to the Alabasta Arc.

Not to be confused with MarySue, a Peggy Sue fic gives a character, usually at the end of a story or series, the chance to [[MentalTimeTravel go back and relive her/his life]] with the knowledge he gained from living through his story the first time. This sometimes uses a DeathFic-type setup as a starting point, where one of the things the character intends to do with his knowledge is prevent the death of a loved one -- or himself.

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* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'': In the ''HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'' parody "Torg Potter and the President from Arkansas", the Time Turner from the original is tweaked so that it rewinds the users in time, leaving them but no-one else with memories of what happened next. Instead of going back a few hours as the Hermione analogue intends, Torg uses it to return all the way to the beginning of the story, stomps on the bad guy in his animal form, and goes home, neatly avoiding any possible loose ends and negating the need for him to be involved in the affairs of that annoying school.

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* The most notable, though the least acessible, example is the ''[[NeonGenesisEvangelion Evangelion]]'' {{doujinshi}} ''ReTake,'' which shows much of the later half of the series as Shinji's dream. Of course this doujin, despite the {{hentai}}, is also OriginalFlavour for ''Eva,'' so things go horribly wrong, such as [[spoiler:Asuka ''dying'' in the second volume after being unable to sync with her Eva anymore and it being forced to self destruct]] for example.

* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2703901/1/Curse_of_Fate Curse of Fate]]'' by Mistress Nika: Immortal Harry, after watching friends and family die over thousands of years, only wants to join his loved ones in death. Believing he's found a way, he sends himself back into the body of his infant self, vowing to change his fate. A really hilarious crack fic; Harry manages to convince the Death Eaters that he is the reincarnation of the Dark Lord; HilarityEnsues. Also, find out just how many Death Eaters ("here to kill you") can fit into a phone booth.

* Invoked in ''VideoGame/TheAdventuresOfWillyBeamish'', in the phrasing of its tagline: "What if you were 9 again, knowing what you know now?"
* This is the essential premise of the Zero Escape series. In ''9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors'', Junpei is able to use his experiences in alternate timelines in order to connect the dots and [[spoiler: figure out the key to the safe, which in turn provides him with the required combination to free Snake from the coffin]]; ''Virtue's Last Reward'' plays it straight, sending [[MentalTimeTravel Sigma and Phi's consciousnesses]] to various points in various timelines and provide them with key information, such as [[spoiler: the deactivation codes for the bombs.]]

* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5193644/1/Time-Braid Time Braid]]'' sends Sakura on one of these - every time she dies, or something 'breaks the timeline', she wakes up in her old body on the first day of the Chuunin exam. Eventually, she becomes knowledgeable enough to link up with the other 'loopers' (Naruto, Sasuke, and later Hinata) and figure out what's going on - and break the loop. Of course, things aren't all sunshine and roses - Sasuke is a psychotic maniac, and the first time she meets the looping Hinata she gets demolished by a shattered, hateful ball of bile and lethality - after all, Hinata has been living the same *week* for years - from the first day of the Chuunin exams... to her death at the hands of Neji during the preliminaries.