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Spin the Earth Backwards
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Simply put, this is the idea that slowing, stopping, or reversing the rotation of the Earth will somehow alter the flow of time, with reversing the planet's rotation causing a local reversal of causality. The nefarious Dr. Dino, a fearsome T. Rexpy that spent eras trapped in ice hundreds of miles beneath ground level and gained massive scientific intelligence through exposure to radiation from the planet's core, is hard at work with his evil scheme in his secret lab at the center of the Earth. He knows his people are long extinct, but he plans to undo that: he's installing a heat-powered, super-strong revolution motor in the center of the planet. When he finally switches it on, it will force the Earth's rotation to stop and reverse direction, thereby rewinding time to the Cretaceous period where the dinosaurs reigned supreme! Mwahahaha... It doesn't take a physics major (although it doesn't hurt to be one) to realize that Dr. Dino's scheme has no reason whatsoever to work as planned, even if his planetary rotation motor thingamajig does. We just so happen to measure time by the rotations and revolutions of the Earth; modifying the latter would almost certainly do absolutely nothing to alter the former (excluding the principle of relativity, of course, but that works very differently). Expecting it to do so is akin to pouring more mercury into a thermometer and expecting the room to get warmer as a direct result. And yet, this appears to be a fairly common misconception across many different works. How many times in fiction has someone slowed down, sped up, or (most commonly) rewound time simply by altering the Earth's rotation accordingly, as if the planet were attached by the poles to the Master Clock of the Universe? A subtrope of Artistic License – Physics and Artistic License – Space. Examples |
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In A gentleman and a lady, a Pretty Little Liars fanfic, Emily experiences a humiliating moment and runs away, "as fast as she could, hoping beyond hope that she could run fast enough to rotate the Earth backwards so she could go back in time." | |
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In one episode of Almost Naked Animals, Duck increases the rotation of the Earth, which causes time to speed up. As a result, everyone ages more rapidly. Eventually, Earth's rotation is reversed, which turns back time. | |
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Viz: One issue had the drunk superhero The Brown Bottle thinking he could reverse time by spinning around. He passes out and wakes up thinking he's successful after finding the previous day's newspaper. | |
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In the X-Men fanfic, The Blood & Tears Progression, Wade is disappointed that time travel does not involve reversing the Earth's rotation. Or even a DeLorean for that matter. | |
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One villain in Totally Spies! tried this— by flying rapidly around the planet with a high-class airplane, no less. | |
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The Taz-Mania episode "The Man from M.A.R.S." has Taz and Marvin the Martian reversing time using this method as an attempt to stop themselves from blowing up the Earth. | |
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The music video for David Guetta, Taio Cruz, and Ludacris's song "Little Bad Girl" involves David Guetta hosting an "Endless Night" party. In order to attain a literally endless night, he and his rave crowd collectively leap in one direction in order to reverse the earth's rotation when dawn arrives. | |
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Depressingly subverted in a Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic in reference to the Superman example. | |
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Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes did this as part of a Stupendous Man fantasy once, striking the Earth at a low angle to turn it backwards a full rotation so it'd be Saturday instead of Sunday, thereby giving himself an extra day to shirk off his homework. | |
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In The Long Utopia by Stephen Baxter and Terry Pratchett, some Insectoid Aliens actually manage to speed up the rotation of one of the parallel Earths, with realistic consequences, such days getting shorter and shorter and the Earth eventually exploding due to gravitational stress. Since the process is slow, it takes the inhabitants some time to realise what is going on. | |
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Superman does this to stop a missile hitting Gotham City in Holy Musical B@man! and Hurls It Into The Sun. | |
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Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers had this a couple times, though since we see it from the perspective of the villains' base on the moon, it's unclear if the Earth rotating backwards is the cause of the time-reversal, or an effect. Though it was magically-induced both times, so... | |
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In one episode of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, the twins gain super powers by making a wish on a shooting star. After they find being superheroes is more trouble than it's worth, they decide to reverse the rotation of the planet to go back in time to the point they made their wish. Unfortunately, they go too far into the past. In the end, their adventures turn out to have probably been a dream. | |
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In Superman and Man, Pre-Crisis Superman gets to watch the 1978 movie. When he gets to the part where his cinematic incarnation reverses the Earth's rotation, he lampshades that time-travel doesn't work like that (and he would know). | |
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Occured in an episode of Sidekick when Eric and Trevor were trapped in a super fast Cool Car that eventually got stuck in reverse. | |
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A variation appears in the second Jimmy Timmy Power Hour. Anti-Cosmo, after freeing the anti-fairies from their prison by teaming up with Professor Calamitous, has half of the anti-fairies fly around the world opposite Earth's rotation, not to reverse the Earth's spin, but to stop it, thus making tomorrow never come and making every day Friday the Thirteenth. This also results in calendars becoming an endless series of Friday the 13ths. | |
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Atomic Puppet: In the episode "Bucket List", Joey and AP try to complete a list the former made when he was 5 about things he wanted to do when he became a superhero, and one of these is to fly around the world so fast they go back in time (a la Superman: The Movie). Joey openly wonders if that's even possible, but AP convinces him to give it a try. It turns out it does work, but when they end up in the Mesozoic by accident, they try the opposite to get back to the present and find that it also works. | |
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Spoofed in an episode American Dad!. Upon learning that Hayley eloped with her boyfriend, Jeff, Stan angrily leaped into the sky and flew around the world to turn back time to the beginning of the episode. Turns out it was actually an Imagine Spot. Stan had actually hit his head when he leaped up. However, he believes he actually turned back time and that Francine is her own grandmother. | |
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This was also in the original director's cut of Superman II. Apparently, Donner had originally intended the "going back in time/spinning the earth backwards" ending for Superman II, but for whatever reason, used it to solve the dilemma of the first film. The reason that it was in the Director's Cut was that that there was no realistic way to film a new ending (and using Richard Lester's ending would defeat the purpose of Donner's director's cut.) | |
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This form of time manipulation is mentioned in "Martha, Martha, Martha!", a short story by John F. Sills III. In this adaptation of a portion of the Gospel of Luke, the main character embarrasses herself in front of Jesus and wishes she could "spin the earth backwards just one hour to change out a single event for a more suitable one." | |
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In the season one finale of Centaurworld, Ched gets delirious and thinks he can bring Horse back by flying round the world backwards to reverse time. | |
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In one chapter of The New Adventures of Phineas and Ferb, Perry the Platypus is warned that Dr. Doofenshmirtz might be planning to reverse the rotation of the Earth to change history. Considering his overall incompetence and the fact that his previous attempts to manipulate the Earth's rotation failed to work out as planned, this scheme would be doomed to failure even if we put aside the fact that it makes no scientific sense. | |
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"The Guardian", an episode of Sliders, has a slightly more plausible version of this trope. The main characters arrive on a parallel Earth that is spinning on its axis at a slightly different speed than in their original reality. Objective time is unchanged, of course, but the difference in the speed of rotation means that events on this Earth are "behind," so that it appears to be 1984, rather than 1996 (present day). For example, Quinn attends his father's funeral, which took place, from his perspective, in 1984. | |
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In The Scarlet Speedster, a fanfic set in The DCU, the villainous Professor Zoom tries to use his Super Speed to reverse the rotation of the Earth, sending the planet back to the beginning of time. His end goal is to remake the Earth in his image. | |
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Averted in the Futurama episode "That Darn Katz!", when Earth's rotation is first stopped, then restarted in the opposite direction, but this has no effect on time. | |
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The Amazing World of Gumball: Variation in "The Loophole". Gumball is hit by Bobert so hard, he winds up being flung across the entire planet backwards until he crashes back into his room, one year prior. | |
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In an episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog, the Earth is hit by an asteroid that two aliens are using to play a game, causing it to spin much faster than normal in its usual direction, sending Courage, Eustace, and Muriel 1000 years into the future. At the end of the episode, it gets hit by the Asteroid again and spins really fast in reverse, sending them back to the present. This one also seems to require Space Friction, since if anything caused the Earth to start spinning faster, it would keep spinning at that same speed until something else made it slow down, per Newton's First Law of Motion. | |
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Superman: The Movie is well-known for including this toward the end of the movie. Superman flies around the earth at absurd speed, and somehow this seems reverse the earth's spin and turn back time. Fans have rightly pointed out for years that this makes no sense whatsoever. However, according to Word of God, the scene was misunderstood: it wasn't this trope at all. Superman was actually flying so fast that he went faster than light, thus going backwards in time as per the rules of special relativity. The earth's rotation reversed because, from Superman's (and the viewer's) perspective, time was flowing backwards and we were watching it in reverse. | |
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Fireball: In one episode, Gedächtnis claims Drossel is powerful enough to reverse the rotation of the planet and turn back time. | |
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In Death to Invisobill, a Danny Phantom fanfiction, Vlad Plasmius uses an army of beings flying in the opposite direction to the planet's rotation to stop time. This is only the first step in a plan to reverse Earth's rotation and erase certain characters from existence. | |
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Arrowverse crossover Elseworlds (2018) pays homage to Superman the Movie in the third episode. As Deegan begins rewriting Earth-1 using the Book of Destiny, Flash and Supergirl come up with a plan to super-speed in opposite directions around the planet, slowing time and giving Superman a chance to get back the Book. | |
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Doctor Who: "Last of the Time Lords" uses this as an effect to show time reversing when the Paradox Machine is destroyed, back to just before it activated. The Earth isn't actually spinning backwards. | |
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Teen Titans: Parodied affectionately in Tiny Titans #6 when the Teen Titans ask Supergirl to reverse time by flying around the Earth backward in order to not get grounded (long story). | |
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Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Joys of Seasons episode 1 inverts this trope by having an alien spacecraft run out of control and brush by Planet Earth, causing it to spin faster in its normal direction. This causes time to go faster, eventually aging the goats to adult age and Wolffy to senior citizen age within a matter of days. | |
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Happy Tree Friends: In "Better Off Bread", Splendid, a Superman expy, turns back time by spinning the Earth backwards. | |
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In one of Doug's Quailman imagine spots, the villain plans to eliminate weekends by speeding up the rotation of the Earth. Quailman uses his machine to slow down the Earth's rotation to add a third day to the weekend, which he calls "Funday". Speeding up the Earth's rotation would have no effect on the number of days in a week (unless you define a week 1/52 of a year, in which case it would increase the number of days per week, because it would make the days shorter without affecting the year). Maybe Doug fell asleep through astronomy class. | |
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In one episode of Drawn Together, Captain Hero manages to turn back time this way, despite being in a wheelchair and paralyzed from the neck down. The Superman example is explicitly referenced. | |
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