History Main / TimeTravelRomance

** The FridgeLogic in this one is quite hard, because there were many obvious options to save Keeler without harming history- including ''simply taking her with them back to the future'' (Since she was supposed to die, this would not have changed history, except to go from "killed by a car" to just "missing forever.")
*** But then Kirk couldn't be the {{Casanova}} and kiss an alien every week!

* ''SomewhereInTime'' is all about this.

* ''Shippu MahouDaisakusen'': Kickle & Laycle have this dynamic. In the end, they both go back to the future, to Kickle's time period, and Laycle [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean becomes a part of the family.]]

* [[spoiler: Rachel Weintraub /]] Moneta and Kassad in DanSimmons' {{Hyperion}}. Like [[Series/DoctorWho River Song]], Moneta travels in a different time stream than Kassad, but she keeps meeting him during important training of his early years training under the FORCE (but when they first meet she is in her late twenties, he is younger), which causes him to fall in love with her. She, on the other hand, has been in love with him long before, as ''Rise of Endymion'' divulges and even sends him off with a goodbye kiss with the admonition to be on the look out for her as he returns to his own time, [[spoiler: after having dying in combat with the Shrike and being taken by Moneta into the Time Tombs. More detail on Kassad's paradoxes in the time stream in connexion with Moneta are delineated in more depth on the {{Hyperion}} page.]]

** Fry is also [[spoiler:his own grandfather by having slept with his grandmother in a trip to 1947 Roswell.]]

** Then there's River Song, supposedly The Doctor's lover. She is also a time traveller, but moves on her own, and explicitly meets the doctor in precisely reverse order- her last time meeting him was his first time meeting her, and visa versa.
*** Weeeeeeelll...not exactly. Though it was indicated at first that they are meeting in roughly reverse order, later episodes show that it's a little more complicated than that. For example, the Doctor is present at her birth, but though it's the first time she meets him, it's not the last time he meets her. The only point we know for sure is that [[spoiler: the ''last'' time River meets the Doctor is in 'Silence in the Library' in which she dies.]] His last encounter with her is as yet unknown, since from the audience's point of view, it hasn't happened yet.

* [[spoiler: Rachel Weintraub /]] Moneta and Kassad in DanSimmons' {{Hyperion}}. Like [[Series/DoctorWho River Song]], Moneta travels in a different time stream than Kassad, but she keeps meeting him during important training in his early in his life (but she is far advanced in years), which causes him to fall in love with her. She, on the other hand, has been in love with him long before, as ''Rise of Endymion'' divulges and even sends him off with a goodbye kiss with the admonition to be on the look out for her as he returns to his own time, [[spoiler: after having dying in combat with the Shrike and being taken by Moneta into the Time Tombs. More detail on Kassad's paradoxes in the time stream in connexion with Moneta are delineated in more depth on the {{Hyperion}} page.]]

* [[spoiler: Rachel Weintraub /]] Moneta and Kassad in DanSimmons' {{Hyperion}}. Like [[Series/DoctorWho River Song]], Moneta travels in a different time stream than Kassad, but she keeps meeting him during important training in his early in his life (but she is far advanced in years), which causes him to fall in love with her. She, on the other hand, has been in love with him long before, as ''Rise of Endymion'' divulges and even sends him off with a goodbye kiss with the admonition to be on the look out for her as he returns to his own time, [[spoiler: after having dying in combat with the Shrike and being taken by Moneta into the Time Tombs. More detail on Kassad's paradox's in the time stream in connexion with Moneta are delineated in more depth on the {{Hyperion}} page.]]

* [[spoiler: Rachel Weintraub /]] Moneta and Kassad in DanSimmons' {{Hyperion}}. Like [[Series/DoctorWho River Song]], Moneta travels in a different time stream than Kassad, but she keeps meeting him during important training in his early lives, which causes him to fall in love with her. She, on the other hand, has been in love with him long before, as ''Rise of Endymion'' divulges and even sends him off with a goodbye kiss with the admonition to be on the look out for her as he returns to his own time, [[spoiler: after having dying in combat with the Shrike and being taken by Moneta into the Time Tombs. More detail on Kassad's paradox's in the time stream in connexion with Moneta are delineated in more depth on the {{Hyperion}} page.]]

* "TheDandelionGirl" is about a man falling in love with a girl from the future.

** The FridgeLogic in this one is quite hard, because there were many obvious options to save Keeler without harming history- including *simply taking her with them back to the future* (Since she was supposed to die, this would not have changed history, except to go from "killed by a car" to just "missing forever.")
* Phil and Keely's romance in {{''Phil of the Future''}}. Eventually played for drama as Phil and his family are sent back to the future.

* In ''DoctorWho'' there is an episode called "Human Nature" where the Doctor gets his memory wiped for an undercover job finding aliens in 1913 England, and he ends up falling in love (while still memory wiped) with a schoolteacher there.
** Also in ''DoctorWho'', in the episode "The Girl In The Fireplace," the Doctor fell in love with Madame de Pompadour (you know, the French King's mistress), she also loved him back [[spoiler: but they were separated at the end]].

* ''SomewhereInTime''is all about this.

* ''SomewhereInTime''
* The film version of ''TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' hints at this between Queen Susan and Prince Caspian. However, it never gets beyond innocent glances.

** Then there's River Song, supposedly The Doctor's lover. She is also a time traveller, but moves on her own, and essentially is moving in the opposite direction of The Doctor. Her introductory episode ends with her death, then she appears in the next season.

Time travel provides all kinds of possibilities for a romance arc: some of them comic, some of them tragic, and some of them bittersweet. As a comedy trope, time travel can result in a culture clash between two otherwise suited people, since different times have different manners and mores. More dramatically, a time travel plot may force a protagonist to make a decision between returning home or staying in a different era. Time travel can also serve as a force which reluctantly separates the couple, if one must return to his or her original time. Time travel can sometimes result in the ultimate LongDistanceRelationship, if the couple tries to make it work despite the time barrier.

* James T. Kirk has another tragic example in the StarTrek:TheOriginalSeries episode "The City On The Edge Of Forever." Kirk is sent back to [[TheGreatDepression Great Depression]] [[BigApplesauce New York City]] through a NegativeSpaceWedgie TimePortal. There, he meets and falls in love with Edith Keeler, a kind-hearted, visionary shelter worker. The tragedy is that unless Keeler dies, [[GodwinsLawOfTimeTravel the Nazis will win World War II]] and Starfleet will never exist. The punch is all the worse in the end, as Kirk has to personally intercede to prevent Dr. [=McCoy=] from saving Keeler's life.