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* The ''Film/BillAndTed'' movies have a ''TARDIS''-type that runs on SanDimasTime.

** ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'' revolves around one created by TheProfessor that's responsible for bringing [[ParadoxPerson "Paradox Pokémon"]], supposedly past/future versions of contemporary {{mons}}, to the present day. They state that they haven't used it themselves because it only works one way. [[spoiler:It's heavily implied that it never worked at all, and the Paradox Pokémon were in fact created by the MineralMacGuffin they used to make it.]]

** The sequel has a cooler time machine entirely self-contained within a metallic space suit (mobile TARDIS-type?). In addition to allowing instantaneous time travel, the suit has a cloaking mechanism, a temporal anachronism detector, and permits instantaneous translation of the written and spoken forms of all languages (except Latin written backwards). Notably, the suits worn by the live action actors in the game's {{cutscene}}s were designed by the same group responsible for the suits from the [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Turtles]] films.

* ''Podcast/TheRadioAdventuresOfDrFloyd'' is an {{Edutainment Show}} featuring the time and space travel device allowing Dr. Floyd, Dr. Grant and C.H.I.P.S. to follow Dr. Steve and Fidgert through time and space as the latter attempt to steal historical artifacts and sell them on eBay.

* ''Podcast/TheRadioAdventuresOfDr.Floyd'' is an {{Edutainment Show}} featuring the time and space travel device allowing Dr. Floyd, Dr. Grant and C.H.I.P.S. to follow Dr. Steve and Fidgert through time and space as the latter attempt to steal historical artifacts and sell them on eBay.

* ''Podcast/The Radio Adventures Of Dr. Floyd'' is an {{Edutainment Show}} featuring the time and space travel device allowing Dr. Floyd, Dr. Grant and C.H.I.P.S. to follow Dr. Steve and Fidgert through time and space as the latter attempt to steal historical artifacts and sell them on eBay.

* ''Podcasts/The Radio Adventures Of Dr. Floyd'' is an {{Edutainment Show}} featuring the time and space travel device allowing Dr. Floyd, Dr. Grant and C.H.I.P.S. to follow Dr. Steve and Fidgert through time and space as the latter attempt to steal historical artifacts and sell them on eBay.

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* {{The Radio Adventures Of Dr. Floyd}} is an {{Edutainment Show}} featuring the time and space travel device allowing Dr. Floyd, Dr. Grant and C.H.I.P.S. to follow Dr. Steve and Fidgert through time and space as the latter attempt to steal historical artifacts and sell them on eBay.

* The movie ''Film/TwelveMonkeys'' is another ''Film/{{Timecop}}''-type.

* As mentioned in the lead, ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' has one built out of a [[CoolCar DeLorean]], because Doc Brown thought that "if you're gonna time travel, why not do it in style?" (and the writers thought a car time machine fixed the problem of the time traveller needing to go between places)

Time machine types that supposedly move a person through time alone but not space, and which don't require another machine or portal at the other end, generally completely ignore the problems caused by [[TimeAndRelativeDimensionsInSpace planetary rotation and the movement of astronomical objects through space]].

->'''[[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.\\
'''[[Franchise/CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]]:''' Wait, are you talking about a time machine?\\
'''Scott:''' No, no, of course not. No, not a time machine. It’s more like a – yeah, a time machine.

* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' has the TPDD (Time Plane Destruction Device), which the {{Time Travel}}ers use. No one really knows what it is because its "Classified Information", but it seems to be a handy device.
** The Integrated Data Sentient Entity is capable of producing a TimeDilationField (technically TimeStandsStill, but functionally the same), as demonstrated in ''Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody''.

* ''Series/SevenDays'' has a ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}''-type that goes back, you guessed it, exactly seven days, except when it's eight days one time due to an upgrade.
** Or seven years in one case due to another alien ship crashing, providing more fuel.
** Or only a couple days due to an unexplained breakdown. Honestroy, the Sphere broke down more times than it worked right.

* ''Franchise/StarTrek'' often uses ''Back to the Future''-types, especially ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' and ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''. [In fact, the Federation has a TimePolice force, the Department of Temporal Investigations.] They've used other types from time to time (no pun intended) though:
** Timecop-style in the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "Relativity"
** a Time Portal in the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "Time's Orphan", the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "The City at the Edge of Forever" and the [[Film/StarTrek2009 2009 film]].
** The ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "Assignment: Earth" was the first episode in which the crew deliberately used a time-travel mechanism they'd stumbled across accidentally in an earlier episode. They flew at warp speed very close to a star, and by controlling the vector with which they pulled away they traveled to a specific time in the past.
** A ''Terminator'' style in the ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' episode "E-squared".
** TimeDilationField in the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "Blink of an Eye" and the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "Wink of an Eye". Or vice versa, maybe...
** And a unique sort of time travel in the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' two parter "Year of Hell": You couldn't actually go forward or back, but you could delete objects from time. This would negate all changes caused by that object (except that time travellers and other ships with "temporal shields" were not affected).

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', as implied in the page quote, featured a ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}''-type machine in one episode.

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''

** ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'' revolves around one created by TheProfessor that's responsible for bringing [[ParadoxPerson "Paradox Pokémon"]], supposedly past/future versions of contemporary {{mons}}, to the present day. They state that they haven't used it themselves because it only works one way.

* ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'' revolves around one created by TheProfessor that's responsible for bringing [[ParadoxPerson "Paradox Pokémon"]], supposedly past/future versions of contemporary {{mons}}, to the present day. They state that they haven't used it themselves because it only works one way.

* Wiki/SCPFoundation: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1968 SCP-1968]] is a bronze torus of unknown origin. Officially it merely alters a person's memories so that they do not match current historical records. The truth, and what makes it qualify for Keter status, is that it's actually a time machine. The person's memories don't match history because of RippleEffectProofMemory. The Foundation is keeping the torus on hand as a last resort. They speculate that this might not be the first time someone used it to save the world either, but there's no way to confirm it.

* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}} FES'' has multiple doors which open to different points in the main cast's history. Most of these doors only allow you to see what is happening and not interfere but the door in the lounge of the dorm travels to the mall where they can interact with what is happening. [[spoiler:This door is eventually used to travel to the moment when the SilentProtagonist makes his HeroicSacrifice.]]

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* ''Anime/{{Tamagotchi}}'': Miraitchi and Clulutchi own a doorknob-shaped time machine called the Knock Tap. The machine, when attached to a wall, creates a sort of door in the wall that leads into a time-travel portal.
* ''Manga/BillyBat'': Fake!Chuck Culkin is able to figure out that the scroll is this, sorta, thanks to the real Chuck Culkin explaining the basics of Einstein's Theory of Relativity and Time Travel.
* ''Manga/LittleJumper'' has ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}''-style time machines which disintegrates 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.

* ''Fanfic/MaybeTheLastArchieStory'': Mad Doctor Doom devises a magically-powered time machine. It looks like a slightly rectangular cube that opens time rifts when activated.

* The ''Fanfic/ForeverCaptain'' series: The temporal GPS Tony built in ''Film/AvengersEndgame''.

* ''Film/SeeYouYesterday'' A rig on a backpack, one per person is what Claudette and Sebastian use to Time Travel.

* The [[spoiler:trolley (shopping cart)]] in [[Literature/JohnnyMaxwellTrilogy Johnny and the Bomb]] is a ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture''-style time machine.

* In Creator/PoulAnderson's series of short stories and novellas about the Literature/TimePatrol, the members of the Patrol use distinctly [[TimeAndRelativeDimensionsInSpace TARDIS]]-like vehicles, ranging from one- or two-person motorcycle-like "time scooters" to larger, multi-passenger time transports.

* The Outlandish Watch in ''Literature/SylvieAndBruno'' is another early example, allowing the user to travel up to a month into their past and return to the present. It also allows its user to experience events backwards for an hour.
* [[{{Literature/Voidskipper}} Voidskipper]]: Strictly speaking every single Voidskipper is a limited TARDIS-type example, due to the nature of general relativity. However, going to a position in time and space from which you could violate causality will simply result in the timeline branching and the time traveler being unable to return to their home timeline. Well, unless they thought to bring along one end of a wormhole connecting back to it. Even then you can't alter your own past.
* "Literature/MimsyWereTheBorogoves": Unthahorsten built a Box which could travel in time and sent it to the past. But it didn't return, so he built a second one and sent it to the past as well, but that one failed to return as well. This would probably be the end of the story, except he put [[TimelineAlteringMacGuffin toys]] in each Box.
* ''Literature/TheRubyRedTrilogy'': The chronograph is a time machine that's triggered by blood (only a drop is needed each time). The characters who have the time-travel gene are able to travel through time without it, but travel without the chronograph is uncontrolled and dangerous because they could jump at any time to any era. People who don't have the gene can't travel in time at all, time machine or not. It can only send people into the past, not the future, sends them back to the same location where the chronograph is currently located, and sends them for a fixed, preset amount of time that cannot exceed 4 hours, resulting in the need for careful planning to accomplish missions.
* [[https://archive.org/web/web.php The WayBack machine]] allows you to view previous versions of webpages.

* ''Series/TheMinistryOfTime'' works with the TimePortal version: special gates connect two points in space and time within Spain, letting people from the past visit the future or viceversa. The Ministry of Time is an organization that keeps watch on gates as they appear, in order to ensure history does not change and to prevent people from (mis)using them for their own benefit.

* The various starship drives in ''{{Webcomic/Starslip}}'' are kind of incidentally time machines of the TARDIS type. There's also Deep Time's timesuits, which are also TARDIS-like, but in suit form.
* ''Webcomic/CaseyAndAndy'' portrays almost all variants. The final story arc has a BTTF version in the form of an armband, a Timecop version with a return button, and a Fixed Destination Tardis version - travels through time and space, but only to [[spoiler: The White House during Grover Cleveland's time in office.]]

* ''Franchise/TheFlash'': The Cosmic Treadmill used by various Flashes in the multiverse can transport them through time.

* ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'': The Legion 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.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheWackyAdventuresOfRonaldMcdonald'': "Have Time, Will Travel" has Ronald [=McDonald=] and friends travel through time using a time machine invented by Franklin's father Dr. Quizzical.