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** Played with Terezi, who encourages John to fight [[DiscOneFinalBoss his Denizen]], because she has a computer program that can see into the future and knows that John survives well after the time of the fight. Naturally, John dies and creates an alternate, doomed timeline that Dave has to fix. Terezi is much more careful about this from then on.

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** Played straight with Terezi, who encourages John to fight [[DiscOneFinalBoss his Denizen]], because she has a computer program that can see into the future and knows that John survives well after the time of the fight. Naturally, John dies and creates an alternate, doomed timeline that Dave has to fix. Terezi is much more careful about this from then on.
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* ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'': Omi [[TheSlowPath freezes himself]] to recover the Sands of Time from his future self. Spot the flaw in this plan. [[spoiler: If Omi spends all of his time frozen, he can't give himself the Sands of Time because his old self wouldn't exist. [[LampshadeHanging The show does point this out.]]]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'': Omi [[TheSlowPath freezes himself]] to recover the Sands of Time from his future self. Spot the flaw in this plan. [[spoiler: If Omi spends all of his time frozen, he can't give himself the Sands of Time because his old self wouldn't exist. [[LampshadeHanging The show does point this out.]]]]out]] in the darkest way possible, as [[ButterflyOfDoom without Omi]] [[NotSoHarmlessVillain Jack Spicer rises up to become the new ruler of the world]].]]

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* Based on the idea of travelling to alternate universes being a different form of time travel, this essentially applies in ''Fanfic/CrossCases'' when Harry Dresden initially learns that new acquaintance Sam Winchester is from an alternate universe. Harry assumes that "alternate universe" just refers to the kind of universe where a specific part of history changed, such as a world where Harry Dresden was never born, but everything else he understands about the world still applies. However, he is later informed that "alternate universe" could involve a divergence taking place so far back in the past that the very rules of magic have been changed as well, with the result that Dresden can't be certain Sam's opponents will play by the rules he relies on to keep himself ahead of his enemies.

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* Based on the idea of travelling to alternate universes being a different form of time travel, this essentially applies in ''Fanfic/CrossCases'' when Harry Dresden Dresden (''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' initially learns that new acquaintance Sam Winchester (''Series/{{Supernatural}}'') is from an alternate universe. Harry assumes that "alternate universe" just refers to the kind of universe where a specific part of history changed, such as a world where Harry Dresden was never born, but everything else he understands about the world still applies. However, he is later informed that "alternate universe" could involve a divergence taking place so far back in the past that the very rules of magic have been changed as well, with the result that Dresden can't be certain Sam's opponents will play by the rules he relies on to keep himself ahead of his enemies.enemies.
* The ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'' fic "[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/13178310/ An Unexpected Future]]" features Egon Spengler being sent through a dimensional portal where he meets [[Film/Ghostbusters2016 another team of Ghostbusters]]. The new team and Egon initially assume that Egon is basically from an alternate past, but after Egon returns to his time he and Ray determine that he was actually in the future of ''his'' reality rather than an alternate future, leaving Egon in particular disturbed at the notion that he'll be dead in just over two decades and all knowledge of their accomplishments as Ghostbusters essentially erased from history.
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* In ''Series/Dark2017'', everything that happens in the town Winden actually is a result of a bunch of {{Stable Time Loop}}s. However, most of the time a character first learns that time travel is real, they would try to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong, they ensure that the time loop would happen instead with their actions[[example]]like Ulrich Nielsen trying to bring his son home ends in [[CreatingYourOwnVillain setting his son's kidnapper on the path of doing so in the first place[[/example]].

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* In ''Series/Dark2017'', everything that happens in the town Winden actually is a result of a bunch of {{Stable Time Loop}}s. However, most of the time a character first learns that time travel is real, they would try to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong, they ensure that the time loop would happen instead with their actions[[example]]like actions, like for example Ulrich Nielsen trying [[spoiler:trying to bring his son home ends in [[CreatingYourOwnVillain [[CreateYourOwnVillain setting his son's kidnapper on the path of doing so in the first place[[/example]].place]]]].
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* In ''Series/Dark2017'', everything that happens in the town Winden actually is a result of a bunch of {{Stable Time Loop}}s. However, most of the time a character first learns that time travel is real, they would try to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong, they ensure that the time loop would happen instead with their actions[[example]]like Ulrich Nielsen trying to bring his son home ends in [[CreatingYourOwnVillain setting his son's kidnapper on the path of doing so in the first place[[/example]].
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* The Shea Fontana ''WebAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls'' tie-in graphic novel ''Past Times at Super Hero High'' has Batgirl and Harley Quinn at one point stop in the 1980s to see a younger Amanda Waller being attacked by Solomon Grundy during their efforts to undo the alterations Harley caused to the timeline by taking a prehistoric egg during the class's field trip to the Jurassic period. Batgirl assumes that since Waller's encounter with Grundy happened before Super Hero High was founded and before either she or Harley were born, she and Harley shouldn't interfere. It isn't until hearing that Lucius Fox is principal instead of Waller upon returning to the present that Batgirl realizes that she and Harley were ''supposed'' to help the young Amanda Waller fight back against Grundy to [[StableTimeLoop ensure she'd later become their high school's principal]].

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* The Shea Fontana ''WebAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls'' tie-in graphic novel ''Past Times at Super Hero High'' has Batgirl and Harley Quinn at one point stop in the 1980s to see a younger Amanda Waller being attacked by Solomon Grundy during their efforts to undo the alterations Harley caused to the timeline by taking a prehistoric egg during the class's field trip to the Jurassic period. Batgirl assumes that since Waller's encounter with Grundy happened before Super Hero High was founded and before either she or Harley were born, she and Harley shouldn't interfere. It isn't until hearing that Lucius Fox is principal instead of Waller upon returning to the present that Batgirl realizes that she and Harley were ''supposed'' to ''supposed to'' help the young Amanda Waller fight back against Grundy to [[StableTimeLoop ensure she'd later become their high school's principal]].
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* The Shea Fontana ''WebAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls'' tie-in graphic novel ''Past Times at Super Hero High'' has Batgirl and Harley Quinn at one point stop in the 1980s to see a younger Amanda Waller being attacked by Solomon Grundy during their efforts to undo the alterations Harley caused to the timeline by taking a prehistoric egg during the class's field trip to the Jurassic period. Batgirl assumes that since Waller's encounter with Grundy happened before Super Hero High was founded and before either she or Harley were born, she and Harley shouldn't interfere. It isn't until hearing that Lucius Fox is principal instead of Waller that Batgirl realizes that she and Harley were ''supposed'' to help the young Amanda Waller fight back against Grundy to [[StableTimeLoop ensure she'd later become their high school's principal]].

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* The Shea Fontana ''WebAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls'' tie-in graphic novel ''Past Times at Super Hero High'' has Batgirl and Harley Quinn at one point stop in the 1980s to see a younger Amanda Waller being attacked by Solomon Grundy during their efforts to undo the alterations Harley caused to the timeline by taking a prehistoric egg during the class's field trip to the Jurassic period. Batgirl assumes that since Waller's encounter with Grundy happened before Super Hero High was founded and before either she or Harley were born, she and Harley shouldn't interfere. It isn't until hearing that Lucius Fox is principal instead of Waller upon returning to the present that Batgirl realizes that she and Harley were ''supposed'' to help the young Amanda Waller fight back against Grundy to [[StableTimeLoop ensure she'd later become their high school's principal]].
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* The Shea Fontana ''WebAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls'' tie-in graphic novel ''Past Times at Super Hero High'' has Batgirl and Harley Quinn at one point stop in the 1980s to see a younger Amanda Waller being attacked by Solomon Grundy during their efforts to undo the alterations Harley caused to the timeline by taking a prehistoric egg during the class's field trip to the Jurassic period. Batgirl assumes that since Waller's encounter with Grundy happened before Super Hero High was founded and before either she or Harley were born, she and Harley shouldn't interfere. It isn't until hearing that Lucius Fox is principal instead of Waller that Batgirl realizes that she and Harley were ''supposed'' to help the young Amanda Waller fight back against Grundy to [[StableTimeLoop ensure she'd later become their high school's principal]].
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* In ''Literature/TheLastContinent'', Scrappy (who should know) makes it clear to Rincewind that YouAlreadyChangedThePast is in effect, but Ponder Stibbons spends his time trying to explain TheButterflyEffect to the UU faculty who mostly refuse to understand it (ironically, Ridcully's bluff assurance that everything should work itself out is pretty close to what Scrappy's telling Rincewind).

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* In ''Literature/TheLastContinent'', Scrappy (who should know) makes it clear to Rincewind that YouAlreadyChangedThePast is in effect, but Ponder Stibbons spends his time trying to explain TheButterflyEffect the ButterflyOfDoom to the UU faculty who mostly refuse to understand it (ironically, Ridcully's bluff assurance that everything should work itself out is pretty close to what Scrappy's telling Rincewind).
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* In ''Literature/TheLastContinent'', Scrappy (who should know) makes it clear to Rincewind that YouAlreadyChangedThePast is in effect, but Ponder Stibbons spends his time trying to explain TheButterflyEffect to the UU faculty who mostly refuse to understand it (ironically, Ridcully's bluff assurance that everything should work itself out is pretty close to what Scrappy's telling Rincewind).

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