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So you have a powerful piece of Applied Phlebotinum, but it is too heavy to carry around and you don't want the Big Bad to lay hands on it? Well, if you are a time traveler, you are in luck: just put it in a little Place Beyond Time, one second out of sync with the rest of the universe! That was easy, wasn't it? It will be permanently ahead or behind you in time, and is absolutely unreachable until you use your fancy gadgets to summon it back. Extra points are awarded for style if the object slowly fades away. This is a bit difficult to figure out with most models of how time works. Let's say time is a horizontal line. In this case moving it to the left or to the right should result in the same line. As a consequence, the object you are trying to hide won't disappear at all, only get a second older or younger. In universes with branching timelines, your precious item may be placed on a different branch, but then again, people in that parallel universe can still interact with it. Possibly, it's analogous to putting it in a different "boat" in the same "river"; you're both traveling through the timestream at the same speed, but it's "ahead" of you, so you can never catch up with it. How that works in the physical world is anyone's guess. If the geometry of time in your universe resembles a ball rather than a line, a tree, or a river, forget we said anything. |
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Future Times Three written by René Barjavel used a shifting device. It allowed the time traveler to shift one second back and forth, making him unreachable. | |
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In Eternals (2021), Titano, the fallen capital of the Eternals, is "superimposed between three seconds from now and two seconds ago." | |
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In Star Trek Online, the Krenim were mostly wiped out by the Vaadwaur as part of the background to the Delta Rising expansion. During the Iconian War, a Krenim artifact... acquired by a Ferengi trader is the hook for a mission that reveals one Krenim outpost has survived by using temporal technology to hide half a second away from the "regular" timestream. | |
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In Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics), Knothole was shifted three hours into the future when the Ultimate Annihilator hit it. It was supposed to outright destroy it, but Snively modified the weapon to only kill Robotnik. When Robo-Robotnik showed up and decided to forcefully restore Knothole to its proper time (and, thus, destroy it), Sonic strapped himself to a Super Chaos Emerald and used his speed and the emerald's power to stop Robotnik's weapon, with the side effect of turning him into his Sonic Adventure variation. | |
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One of the endings in the Choose Your Own Adventure book The Cave of Time has you end up five minutes out of sync with the rest of the universe. This doesn't make you unreachable, but it does have the effect that others perceive you doing things five minutes after you've actually done them. | |
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This is one of the many things that happened to Baxter Stockman in the '80s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series. | |
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The Outer Limits (1963): In the episode "The Premonition", a test pilot and his wife are trapped 10 seconds into the future. They slowly move back toward regular time at a rate of 1 second per 30 minutes of subjective time. Their problem: they discover that their daughter will be run over by a truck once they return to normal time, and must find a way to stop it. | |
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In Yoko Tsuno, Monya hides her time machine, the shifter, by moving it to a nearby "time spiral." | |
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In the first episode of the Æon Flux TV series, Trevor uses a special harness that puts him out of phase with the world around him. He uses it to enter a special love nest he built for himself and Aeon, which is hidden inside the body of a kidnapped politician for some reason. | |
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The History Monks in Discworld have worked out how to weaponise this. By performing a complex ritual, they're able to displace a training dummy's head by a split-second, resulting in it being blown off. This happens to Sam Vimes; in a time of high stress, either he or his Disorganiser device is displaced in time and space by the merest fraction of a second. Thus by the million-to-one chance, he grabs the one belonging to the Sam Vimes in ther universe next door and learns from its confused commentary how he and all he holds in regard are killed when the Klatchians invade Ankh-Morpork. |
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The Twilight Zone (1985) episode "A Matter of Minutes", based on the 1941 short story "Yesterday Was Monday" by Theodore Sturgeon. A young married couple woke to find numerous faceless workers in blue coveralls disassembling their home around them. It turns out that they are the beings responsible for breaking down the minute that has just passed in order to re-use the raw materials to build the minute yet to come. (They actually work with a few hours worth of buffer as a safety factor.) On occasion the time workers muff their stage directions, which is why your car keys will be missing one minute, and back where you left them the next. It's explained that the viewpoint couple have dropped out of sync with their own timeframe, necessitating their disappearance from reality. (It's implied that this has happened to individuals such as Amelia Earhart, Judge Crater and Jimmy Hoffa.) | |
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The Twilight Zone (2002) also had a similar one called "Gabe's Story". A man takes a blow to his head and begins seeing a fellow in blue overalls who keeps doing stuff to mess up his life. He's eventually told the little fellow was supposed to make sure his wife left him, his assistance to a theft was discovered and he went to prison. | |
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This happens to Sonic in one episode of Sonic Boom. He puts on a device that Tails developed in order to push him to new heights of speed but ends up going so fast that he phases himself slightly into the future and becomes invisible to everyone else. Tails fixes the problem by joining him at the point of desync and then recalibrating his hardware to bring him back. | |
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This happens in the Stephen King story The Langoliers (and the miniseries adapted from it). A plane-load of people get stuck an unspecified but short time behind the normal timeframe, and have to escape before they are eaten by the titular creatures. In the meantime, their separation from the present means that the rest of the world is entirely empty, the day/night cycle is fading into perpetual twilight, sounds and echoes are deadened, food is tasteless, carbonated drinks are flat, and matches won't light. To top it all off, a horrible chewing noise in the distance grows ever louder as the Langoliers approach. It ends with them being a moment in the future, but it's more tenable since they shift back to the present. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: There's the temporal filcher, a bizarre monster which pulls its victim out of synch. It is a bit different since the anomaly only works for several subjective rounds but the filcher is still alone with its victim until the rest of the party catch up. |
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Shows up in Drive (Dave Kellett) as an alternate use for the Ring Engine. Warping space around a vessel, rather than in front of it causes the ship to become undetectable and invulnerable. The Veetans use this to trick the enemy into thinking that they Grandfather Paradox'd their homeworld, forcing a surrender. | |
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Timemaster: Time Corps chronoscooters have "vanish" mode, which sends the 'scooter backwards in time at a rate equal to the current forward rate. In-game, this equates to the 'scooter hovering at the edge of existing until it is called back by the agent. | |
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Gromph Baenre, the Archmage of Menzoberranzan, has a sanctuary which exists in some ways both in the distant future and the distant past in War of the Spider Queen. | |
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Clock King did this in Batman: The Animated Series when he got his hands on time manipulating technology, placing one on the Batmobile then setting it moments out of sync with time so the on-board trap sensors wouldn't find it. | |
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This was how Thanos kept The Avengers from interfering with him in the storyline that introduced him back in the 1970s. | |
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In the Pony POV Series, the Interviewers eventually explain that this is how they operate in relation to the ponies they're interviewing, at least when acting as The Voice. | |
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Eerie, Indiana: In "The Lost Hour", Marshall sets his watch back an hour in spite of the fact that Eerie does not observe daylight savings time and becomes trapped in another dimension one hour ahead of everyone else in Eerie. The only other people in town are a girl named Janet Donner (who has been similarly trapped for a year), a strange milkman who is implied to be Marshall from the future and a dangerous group of garbagemen. | |
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Perry Rhodan has this happen with the entire solar system... twice. First time around, they shift the whole thing "a relative five minutes into the future" so as to be able to avoid an attack without causing unnecessary bloodshed. The second time, they throw in a randomiser (because the Monster of the Week has access to superior technology), meaning the entire solar system keeps randomly leaping and bounding across the timeline (going from a split second to up to twenty minutes into the future). | |
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TRU-Life Adventures has CHAOS headquarters, hidden downtown. | |
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In Stone Cold, a Ninjago graphic novel, a villain known as the Time Ninja lives a second ahead of everyone else because he once exposed himself to the "Chrono Crater" in an attempt to become immortal. As a result, he is unbeatable in hand-to-hand combat and knows everything one will say before one says it. Wu is able to defeat him by setting up a trap that takes longer than a second to escape from. | |
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An equivalent is weaponised in Blackest Night, when Nekron- the ruler of the Black Lantern Corps- is able to send Black Lantern rings after the various resurrected heroes by confronting them with Black Lantern Batman, the sight of their friend in such a state triggering an intense emotional reaction that allowed the black rings to latch on to heroes such as Superman, Wonder Woman and Green Arrow. Hal Jordan and Barry Allen are able to escape the black rings focused on them by Barry taking himself and Hal a few moments into the future, severing their connection to those rings (although Barry notes that he and Hal will have to take care to stay in control of their emotions so they don't attract any new ones). | |
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Warhammer 40,000 has an example in the staff of Orican the Seer, said staff existing half-a-second before the "now". The effect is described that the staff will hit the enemy before Orican even swings it, ensuring a hit. In game-terms, this allows Orican to reroll to-hit dice. | |
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In Next Grand World, Olga is able to prevent the canon destruction of Chaldea by teleporting the entire build - staff and all - into a different second in time, though at the cost of being unable to transform for a good while. | |
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This trope occurs in an Achron tactic called "Timewave Dodging". If a unit dies in the past, any passing timewaves will propagate its nonexistence into the present. By time traveling it right across the approaching timewave, you can prevent it from being wiped out of existence. Weirdly enough, you're not hiding from other time travelers; you're hiding from causality itself! There's another tactic called echoless sneaking, in which an army approaching an enemy stops immediately before each timewave so that the attack doesn't get propagated to the future, and the enemy doesn't see it until it happens in the present. |
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Doctor Who has used it repeatedly. The original use was in First Doctor serial "The Space Museum". The TARDIS "jumps a time track" and deposits them on the museum planet's in this manner. It eventually wears off on its own but while in this state the Doctor and companions are invisible and inaudible to everything around them. The glimpse of the near future they receive while like this is what starts the serial's plot. "The Keeper of Traken": The Master does it to the Doctor's TARDIS to cut off his escape route. The ATMOS devices in "The Sontaran Stratagem" work as advertised on the surface, but their true purpose is to spew a noxious gas the Sontarans can use to turn Earth into a clone farm. This facet of its design is disguised by hiding the dangerous part one second out of time. "The Stolen Earth": The Daleks use this to create a pocket universe for their multiverse-destroying machine, hiding their headquarters, the 27 planets they've stolen, and the large nebula they're hiding out in one second out of sync with the rest of the universe. This causes the Doctor some trouble when he's trying to reach Earth. In "The End of Time", the Doctor hides the TARDIS from the Master this way. |
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Some objects in Singularity are slightly out of phase with the present time. These are detectable with the "chronolight" function of the TMD, and it can also pull them back into sync for your use. Phased things include boxes for puzzle-solving, Renko's footsteps from his last attempt to fix the problem, and even explosive barrels to chuck at enemies. | |
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Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers has this occur in a cutscene. Celebi uses this trick to help the current heroes escape from the villains surrounding them. Primal Dialga is present to counter the effect and jolt them back into regular time, but they only needed a few seconds anyway. Later on it is also revealed that Hidden Land, where Temporal Tower is located, was hidden within the parts of a split second. | |
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IDW's Beast Wars comic book series used this trope to set their stories within the same setting as the television show without creating continuity issues. The characters in the comic were in a different "time phase" than the characters in the show, allowing them to travel to the same locations while remaining invisible and intangible. | |
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Kang the Conqueror, a recurring foe of The Avengers, uses this variation of a Pocket Dimension as a gun rack. As a Big Bad from a 30th-century earth that is entirely under his dominion, he's got some pretty startling weapons to stash there. | |
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Square Root of Minus Garfield is the Trope Namer, with this strip, which discusses the trope. This page was then created by the maker of that strip. Done again with Garfield's Christmas presents. |
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In Crimson Echoes, it's revealed that all Time Gates are moving forward at a constant rate, thus explaining San Dimas Time. If a person gets knocked even one second into the future, no Time Gates for them... | |
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This is accidentally done to Calvin, Hobbes, and Socrates in Calvin & Hobbes: The Series when the MTM tries to fast-forward through a boring museum visit. They all end up out of sync with each other, initially causing Calvin to give answers before other people ask the accompanying question. Hilarity Ensues, to say the least. | |
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In the Riftwar book Krondor: The Betrayal, which is also the novelization for the computer game Betrayal at Krondor, the Lifestone under Sethanon had been time-shifted in this manner, and the entire invasion plot by the Big Bad Makala was to provide a distraction so that he could bring the Lifestone back into normal time to study and/or steal it. This only happens in the novelization; in the game, the timeshifting protection doesn't exist. It does, however, exist in the book A Darkness at Sethanon, which the game is a sequel to. |
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Negima! Magister Negi Magi has Chao making herself invincible by using a time-travel device to very briefly (as in, milliseconds) jump to a different point in time and then back again. No-one is able to lay a finger on her until Negi figures out a way to engineer a similar effect. | |
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In The Demolished Man, Ben Reich had a safe that was "out of phase" with normal space, rather than time. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager uses it a few times. "Year of Hell": The Krenim weapon ship exists outside of normal space-time when the temporal core is online. This doesn't render the ship invisible but makes it immune to conventional weaponry and, most importantly, immune to being affected by changes to the timeline. Also, the crew doesn't age in this state. There's also the more primitive Krenim torpedoes, which use a similar effect to bypass shields. "Relativity": Seven of Nine is sent through time by the timeship USS Relativity (which is from the 29th century) to save Voyager from being destroyed by a strange device that is "out of phase" with normal time, since she is the only one that can see it due to her ocular implant. |
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The time stops in Artemis Fowl take a certain area out of time for up to 8 hours so criminals can be arrested and Muggles can have their memories erased without interference. | |
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Doctor Who New Adventures: In The Also People, the Doctor does it to hide the TARDIS from the advanced race whose Dyson Sphere he's visiting, so they aren't tempted to reverse-engineer it. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: In "The Next Phase", Geordi and Ro think they're dead, when they're actually a little out of sync with the rest of the universe. The aliens in the episode "Time's Arrow" live scant fractions of a second out of phase with the rest of reality. |
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