History Main / TimeMachine

* ''Manga/LittleJumper'' has ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' style as the TimeMachine used desintegrates the particles of both user and machine in order to time travel. There are also clear omages to the ''Terminator'' series with both NakedOnArrival and time travelers being {{Cyborgs}} due to the side effect of the time machine integrating with the user during the process.

* A Time Dilation Field is a device that causes time inside a certain area to either go [[YearInsideHourOutside faster]] or [[YearOutsideHourInside slower]]. While not a backwards time machine in the classical sense, as in that sense it only provide a trip to the relative past, but a field with time set to go slower is a way to travel ''forward'' in time.

* A Time Dilation Field is a device that causes time inside a certain area to either go [[YearInsideHourOutside faster or slower.]] While not a backwards time machine in the classical sense, as in that sense it only provide a trip to the relative past, but a field with time set to go slower is a way to travel ''forward'' in time.

* The ''ComicBook/BlakeAndMortimer'' episode "The Time Trap" features a ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture''-style time machine. But the MadScientist who created it rigged it so the time traveler has little control over when he ends up...

* In ''ComicBook/IKilledAdolfHitler'' the time machine is a round capsule that takes 50 years to charge for one travel.

* The ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes possesses a [[http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Time_Bubble time bubble]] that they often used to visit ComicBook/{{Superboy}} and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}. Previously, they had used a stationary, room-sized Time Cube to project and retrieve travelers, who had to return to the physical location they arrived at and be there exactly 24 hours later, or be stranded in the past. Braniac 5 invented the Time Sphere (a mobile, miniaturized improvement on the Cube built into an environmental bubble) in his pre-teens...so he could go back in time and prove Superman was real.
* The time machine in ''ComicBook/{{Meanwhile}}'' is one-way and can only go as far back as when its receiving end was originally built. When Timmy first encounters it, the Professor has locked it so that it can only go a maximum of ten minutes into the past.
* Chronosails in ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'', usually taking the form of bracelets. The Raider, being CrazyPrepared, wears two of them... And, [[AllThereInTheManual according to the inserts]] ''his BadassCape is another''.
* Dale and Stacey Yorkes from the Marvel comic ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' pilot a stationary two-seater TARDIS-type time machine.
* In ''ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske'' (Spike and Suzy) the "teletimemachine" is a ''Film/{{Timecop}}''-type; the machine does not come with the time traveler, but an operator who stays behind can retrieve the time traveler at any moment. This feature was often used for last second rescues.
* In the time-travel arc of ''ComicBook/PS238'', Zodon and two time-traveling 20th Century metahumans who are the archnemesis of each other [[spoiler:and also the same person, as repeated unshielded exposure to the 4th Dimension has left him so loopy he developed a split personality]] all have Back To The Future style machines. Tom, meanwhile, has the innate metahuman ability to travel through time and space like a TARDIS.

* ComicBook/DoctorDoom made use of a time machine in his first appearance in the ComicBook/FantasticFour comics.

* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlertSeries'': The Chronosphere is a time travel device invented by Albert Einstein, who first used it to assassinate Hitler but only wound up creating an alternate timeline. It's also an in-game structure, but due to GameplayAndStorySegregation, it effectively just works as a pretty standard [[{{Teleportation}} teleporter]]. According to the manual, it's supposed to be stopping time when it does this so that the units can walk across the screen.

** In RealLife, TimeDilation is an actual effect that occurs when bodies are moving at different relative velocities, or at different depths in a gravity well. This is generally too tame and prosaic for all but the [[MohsScaleOfSciFiHardness hardest]] ScienceFiction, though.

* The movie ''Film/DejaVu'' has a ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}''-type.

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* ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons'' features a TARDIS-type time machine: It is essentially a jerry-rigged (flying) car like the [=DeLorean=], and can be driven like a regular car, but has instantaneous space/time-travel capabilities as well.

** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6099 SCP-6099]] is another time machine, but this time, it can take you as far into the past as you want. (However, you can't interact with anything.) [[spoiler:Thanks to this device, the Foundation [[TheUnmasquedWorld discovers something quite unexpected...]]]]

* The film ''Film/{{Primer}}'' has an interesting variation on the Time Machine that doesn't quite fit into any of the above types, but can be imagined as a sort of unique combination of [[TimeDilationField Time Dilation Fields]] and [[TimePortal Time Portals]] that only go backwards a la ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}''. It gets worse; see [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_%28film%29 the film's Wikipedia entry]].

[[caption-width-right:350:"At my old school the bus couldn't turn into a time machine."]]

[[quoteright:350:[[Franchise/BackToTheFuture https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/delorean__back_to_the_future__by_cylonka-d6m5v3e_5818.jpg]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Goes from 1985 to 2015 in under 8 seconds.]]

A Time Machine is the main prerequisite for TimeTravel and all the other fun that goes along with it. Time Machines in fiction can boil down to a few simple types. The type of machine can combine with any of the [[OurTimeTravelIsDifferent different ways of experiencing the process of time travel]] and with [[TemporalMutability the various degress to which the past can be changed]].

In ''[[Film/TimeTrap]]'', the main characters are trapped in a Time Dilation Field within a cave, in which slows down the time for anyone down there compared to the outside, the people in the cave are also able to meet humans from previous generations due to them also having their time slowed down.

* TruthInTelevision / PortalToThePast - Okay fine, only sort of. But during the controversy over the Large Hadron Collider in the run-up to its activation, as media all over the world started blabbering about the end of the world due to some pretty poor evidence, some supporting scientists put out a reassuring theory. Apparently, after some calculations were done, it proved more likely that time travellers would come out of the first full power collision, than the LHC bringing about the end of the world. There's a chance someone in the future will make a machine that can target wormholes in the past and use them for time travel, if they know about them. Given that the LHC ''may'' be capable of generating wormholes with fraction-of-a-second long lifespans, this may give them a 'year zero', an earliest point for time travellers to come back to, as it would be the first instance of a wormhole forming close enough to Earth to be useful. The LHC has not made a full power collision yet.

** A [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krasnikov_tube Krasnikov tube]] would be similar to this. It's built with the ends at different times. The entrence and exit time match the departure and arrival times of the space-craft making it. If you built one and went through it, you'd arive a little after you left. But if you spend ten years building one in a giant circle, then anyone from the future can follow you back.

->'''[[ComicBook/AntMan Scott Lang]]:''' Time works differently in the Quantum Realm. The only problem is, right now, we don’t have a way to navigate it. But what if we did? I can’t stop thinking about it. What if we could somehow control the chaos, and we could navigate it? What if there was a way to enter the Quantum Realm at a certain point in time but then exit at another point in time? Like...like before Thanos.\\

->''"Aaron, I'm standing at the Time Portal, which scientists say follows ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' rules, that is, it's one way only and you can't go back. This is in contrast to, say, ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' rules, where back and forth is possible, and, of course, ''[[Film/TimeriderTheAdventureOfLyleSwann Timerider]]'' rules, which are just plain silly."''
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''

[[caption-width-right:350:Goes from 1985 to 2015 in [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble under 8 seconds]].]]

* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlertSeries'': The Chronosphere is a time travel device invented by Albert Einstein, who first used it to assassinate Hitler but only wound up creating an alternate timeline. It's also an in-game structure, but due to GameplayAndStorySegregation, it effectively just works as a pretty standard [[{{Teleportation}} teleporter]]. According to the manual, it's supposed to be stopping time when it does this so that the units can walk across the screen.
* * ''VideoGame/TylerModel005'': Tyler uses one specifically sized for him to use to TimeTravel.

* In ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'', Nobita’s desk houses Doraemon's Time Machine. It is one of the most commonly used gadgets in the series.

* ''[[VisualNovel/SteinsGate Steins;Gate]]'' features both ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' and ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' type time machines.

* The Cosmic Treadmill used by various [[ComicBook/TheFlash Flashes]] in the DC multiverse can transport them through time.

* The ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes possesses a [[http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Time_Bubble time bubble]] that they often used to visit Superboy and Supergirl. Previously, they had used a stationary, room-sized Time Cube to project and retrieve travelers, who had to return to the physical location they arrived at and be there exactly 24 hours later, or be stranded in the past. Braniac 5 invented the Time Sphere (a mobile, miniaturized improvement on the Cube built into an environmental bubble) in his pre-teens . . . so he could go back in time and prove Superman was real.

* Dale and Stacey Yorkes from the Marvel comic ''Comicbook/{{Runaways}}'' pilot a stationary two-seater TARDIS-type time machine.

* In ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}'', Nobita’s desk houses Doraemon's Time Machine. It is one of the most commonly used gadgets in the series.

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' has the Cassiopeia, which is essentially a time-traveling pocket watch.

* A Time Dilation Field is a device that causes time inside a certain area to either go [[YearInsideHourOutside faster or slower.]] While not a time machine in the classical sense, a field with time set to go slower is a good way to travel ''forward'' in time.

* Although disputable, a cryogenic chamber can be viewed as a time machine as the suspended animation within one causes anyone within it to be frozen in time, so when they are thawed out later, from the perspective of the one frozen they went from one time to another, however this type of time travel is strictly forward-only.