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1	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/time_runner_dvd_starring_mark_hamill_rae_dawn_chong.png]]
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3	''Time Runner'' (also known as ''In Exile'') is a 1993 Canadian sci-fi action movie directed by Michael Mazo, starring Creator/MarkHamill, Creator/RaeDawnChong, and Creator/BrionJames.
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5	In [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture 2022]], the Earth is being invaded by a hostile race of aliens when a wormhole accidentally sends an astronaut back in time, where he tries to prevent the invasion as he's being chased by TheMenInBlack.
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8	!!This film provides examples of:
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10	* BadFuture: In 2022, the Earth is [[AlienInvasion invaded by a race of aliens]] who have already infiltrated most layers of society by [[TheyLookLikeUsNow posing as humans]]. A wormhole allows the hero to go back in time to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong.
11	* MeanwhileInTheFuture: The movie repeatedly cuts back and forth between the BadFuture where the aliens have invaded Earth and the past where a time traveller is [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong trying to prevent all this]].
12	* PresidentEvil: [[spoiler:The World President [[TheyLookLikeUsNow turns out to be one of the aliens]] who have been plotting the conquest of Earth for decades.]]
13	* RetGone: The bad guys at one point try to kill the time travelling hero's pregnant mother before she could give birth to him. [[spoiler:They manage to kill his mother, but he saves his newborn self. However, his future version ceases to exist after he kills the bad guy since there would have been no reason for him to go back in time in the first place.]]
14	* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong:
15	** The whole movie is based on this premise. TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture the Earth is invaded (and ultimately overrun) by aliens when an astronaut is hurled three decades back in time by a wormhole. He also experiences several precognitions of things that are ''soon'' to happen such as a waitress getting shot when the bad guys chase him through a diner, which he tries to prevent as well.
16	** The aliens infiltrate human society for several decades before launching an [[AlienInvasion all-out invasion]]. Their number even includes [[spoiler:the [[PresidentEvil World President]]]].
17	* TheyLookLikeUsNow: The aliens infiltrate human society for several decades before launching an [[AlienInvasion all-out invasion]]. Their number even includes [[spoiler:the [[PresidentEvil World President]]]].

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