"Hey! Wait! You can not escape! Never run away from the Time Police! You will not survive!"
"Everyone who tries to manipulate the timeline thinks they're doing it for the best. The law of averages says that half of them are right. Well, I'm just a human being; I can't make that call and stop only half. Either I preserve the original timeline or I chuck it all, and I'm not about to do that for the likes of you. In the name of the United Federation of Planets—"
"God no," Dulmer groaned.
"—I demand that you return the space-time continuum to its original state!"
— Gods, Fate, and Fractals, by William Leisner.
"Hmmph. 'Times change,' I have heard. Well not if I have any say in it. The time in London must be the time in Brabazon, in Worlebury, in New Winchester, in Lustrum. To the second. It is the privilege and duty of this office to ensure that continuity. A task that was considerably easier before we began spending hours like shillings and sixpences. Now it might be yesterday in one place, and next week in another. It is most untidy."
—The Chief Horologist, Sunless Skies
I work for an organization called the Commission. We are tasked with the preservation of the time continuum through manipulation and removals. [...] Sometimes, people... make choices that alter time. Free will, don't get me started. When that happens, we dispatch one of our agents to... eliminate the threat. No, no, no, no. [chuckles] You misunderstand me. You're not a target; you're a recruit. I've come to offer you a job, Number Five. We've had our eye on you for quite some time, and we think you have a lot of potential. Your survival skills have made you quite a celebrity back at headquarters. That and your ability to jump through time...
—The Handler, The Umbrella Academy (2019), "Number Five"
You have been detained. Await your sentence at the end of time.
—Risk of Rain 2s death message when you get "killed" by a Void Reaver's implosion.
