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jormis29 Since: Mar, 2012
2025-05-12 14:17:42

Don't know if it's particularly what you are looking for but in "Far From Home" episode of Justice League Unlimited the League are taken to the future to help the Legion of Super-Heroes. The Legion think that Kara is going die because records show that one hero never returned but in the end Kara chooses to stay in the future willingly.

NateTheGreat Since: Jan, 2001
2025-05-12 14:31:39

Definitely a related or inverted example.

ApeAccount Since: Feb, 2015
2025-05-12 16:34:19

Some possibly relevant examples would be:

Edited to add one more example:
  • Eureka has Founder's Day where Trevor Grant travels from the past to the present and is now missing from history (altering the timeline).

Edited by ApeAccount
NateTheGreat Since: Jan, 2001
2025-05-12 16:41:20

Is this TLP worthy?

ApeAccount Since: Feb, 2015
2025-05-12 17:18:02

If you have the interest, then I don't see why not. Looking at the (admittedly long) existing Time Travel Tropes, this seems like it's covering a valid trope in time travel stories which doesn't look like it's being covered at the moment.

NateTheGreat Since: Jan, 2001
2025-05-14 15:35:36

Is there a good place to send this to gather more examples before we send it to the TLP?

TheGreaterFool Since: Jan, 2013
2025-05-16 09:45:00

There isn't a trope page for it, but this is a key plot point in Kaliane Bradley's "The Ministry of Time." The Ministry selects people from the past who disappeared from history and brings them to the present. The justification is that they probably were about to die anyway — but the Ministry admits bringing people forward might be why their fates were previously unknown.

Edited by TheGreaterFool
Vehek Since: May, 2012
2025-05-16 12:27:19

Gone to the Future

DuckTales (1987) and Star Trek: The Next Generation are listed there.

The Time Travel Tropes list misleadingly describes it as "Going forward in time erases you from the timeline."

(Oops, thought this was Trope Finder for a moment.)

Edited by Vehek
Medinoc (Before Recorded History)
2025-06-25 13:56:25

The finale of Mirror, Mirror (1995) has the Old Man permanently disappearing... because his younger self just managed to warp to the presentnote  and decided to stay there.

Edited by Medinoc "And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."
Aspectifer Since: Apr, 2014
2025-07-06 13:41:04

In the Teen Titans (2003) episode "Teen Titans S 2 E 1 How Long Is Forever?", Starfire travels twenty years into the future and witnesses the Bad Future affecting her team-mates resulting from her absence in the present.

Ameena Since: Jan, 2018
2025-08-01 12:20:26

Dragonflight, the first of the Pern novels (by Anne Mc Caffrey) has this as a major plot point - in the present day, there is only one weyr of dragons and their riders, with all the others having disappeared mysteriously about 400 years prior. Turns out the protagonist figured out that dragons can time-travel and went back to get them in order to bring them forward to the modern day when they'd once again be needed.

Muppet95 Since: Feb, 2024
2025-08-24 18:43:24

The Powerpuff Girls had an episode called Speed Demon where the girls accidentally travel 50 years in the future and due to being gone for so long Townsville and possibly the world was taken over by HIM, an evil demon.

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