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Time Crash

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It's already been well-established that time is like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff. Cause does not lead directly to effect; you can shoot your own grandfather and in all likelihood get away with it, take an active hand in the events that made you who you are, and generally abuse time until it cries uncle.
But what about universes where time is not quite so wibbly-wobbly or timey-wimey? What about those realities where time is a rigid, orderly, and above all fragile structure, and some well-meaning fool sets off with a time machine to change history?
Then in all likelihood, you'll have a Time Crash on your hands.
When you've gone and broken time, all bets are off. More benign Time Crashes may take the form of a "Groundhog Day" Loop waiting for someone to find the key which breaks the cycle. In others, cause and effect itself may be shattered, resulting in a Fate Worse than Death for all affected, if not the destruction of reality itself.
Garden-variety temporal wedgies need not apply in this trope. This is not about your usual temporal inconveniences, the kind that make your best friend vanish from the time line, put Adolf Hitler in the Oval Office or make medieval Japanese the lingua franca of the 21st century — that is, the sort that can be solved by a simple trip back in time to Set Right What Once Went Wrong. A good and proper Time Crash should have some large-scale, reality-breaking effects: holes get punched in the fabric of space-time, the Clock Roaches show up and start eating people, things that should happen one after another happen the other way around instead (or worse, simultaneously), All of Time at Once shows up in the present, etc.
A Time Crash is not a simple thing to solve, either: usually, it involves either some serious Applied Phlebotinum or enough firepower aimed at the right Eldritch Abomination... if it can be fixed at all.
A form of Reality-Breaking Paradox.
For the Doctor Who mini-episode which could have ended in this trope, see here.
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In the "It's About Time" episode of The Penguins of Madagascar, several future versions of Kowalski show up as a result of his experiments with a Time Machine. This ends up creating a vortex that threatens to wipe out reality (according to Kowalski, anyway) and ends only after the machine is destroyed.
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Age of Ultron concludes with one after warnings from the Tony Stark of an averted timeline. He posits that time is a living thing wounded by time travel paradoxes, and that too many may kill it. He's proven to be accurate when the event concludes with what looks like reality shattering as people's parallel selves collide with each other. This ripples through other timelines with multiple "What if" universes sparked by random characters suddenly dropping dead at random points in their lives.
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In Bloodivores, Mi Liu speculates at one point that those who are trapped in Aori are in some sort of a space-time distortion, aside from the manhua being titled Space-Time Prisoners.
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The Infinite Loops were started up because of one of these. Yggdrasil, the magical tree computer that runs the multiverse, was heavily damaged by something and the admins put everyone in a time loop while they tried to fix things.
Lesser versions have occurred thanks to actions within the loops. This is usually an excuse to shake more "loopers" into circulation, but the destructive effects are not glossed over. These come in a scale of 1 to 5, with a Category 1 being the same as what damaged Yggdrasil in the first place. At one point a Category 2 is witnessed; The Crash, which outright annihilates an entire universe completely. It also causes knock-on damage to several "nearby" universes, with differing levels of severity, resulting in several new loopers awakening and causing other universes to start looping.
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In the Looney Labs game Chrononauts, you play a bunch of time travelers meddling with history. If there are ever 13 unresolved Temporal Paradoxes on the board, the space-time continuum collapses in a Puff of Logic and everyone loses... except for Crazy Joe, who wants to destroy the universe to draw in more business to his extradimensional restaurant chain. If he's in the game when a Time Crash happens, he wins.
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In Dark Souls III, the game's main setting, the kingdom of Lothric, is described as a place where "the transitory lands of the Lords of Cinder converge". This explains some issues with the continuity from the previous games, including the apparent survival of characters the player supposedly killed in the first game, as well as explaining why many of the game's locations conveniently occur so close together. And in DLC, you ended up visiting the Dreg Heap: a place at the end of time, where all the lands have fully converged into a single location, piled on top of each other in a jumbled mess.
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The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K Leguin ends with something like this happening due to (ab)use of Reality Warper powers. George Orr changes and overwrites reality many times, but finally reality is warped past a breaking point and the Earth becomes a mashup of all previous "versions" or timelines.
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Some of the areas in Hyrule Warriors incorporate this in varying degrees, as the game's plot revolves around a villain pulling the locations from history. Often, bits of the rocky wasteland that the locations were dropped onto can be seen between the "time cracks". Lake Hylia, for example, is half its normal form from the "child" portion of Ocarina of Time and half its frozen form from the "adult" portion, with a line of glowy purple runes dividing it.
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In Eureka, the latest meddling with time causes one of these, causing 1947 and 2010 to merge at an exponential rate, which would eventually annihilate time itself.
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Yurie of Byrgenwerth realizes how horribly mangled Yharnam's timeline and timeflow are in Anderson Quest: Killing Vampires and Werewolves and Leprechauns - Old Yharnam was burned enough time ago that the Healing Church has managed to build an entirely new city, yet there are still surviving Powder Kegs who don't think it was that long ago. Most of the city's history (Logarius' crusade, the Nightmare, Gehrman himself) is a morass of confusing and contradictory accounts. As confirmed by Ebrietas, enough time has elapsed since Anderson's arrival that it should have already been morning hours ago, yet the moon is still high in the sky. Resources are still present in Yharnam even though they should have long since been depleted by quarantine and the Hunt, and despite the bloody horrors of the night, the city is still crawling with enemies. Putting it all together, she realizes the city and everyone within is trapped in a colossal dream.
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Miraculous Ladybug: This is a consequence of Sass, the Kwami of Intuition, using his specific power himself rather than relying on a Miraculous user. Ordinarily, Second Chance allows you to establish a "Groundhog Day" Loop no more than five minutes long, with the moment of activation as the return point. If Sass does it himself, he (and anyone he chooses to bring along) can return to any point Second Chance was activated, undoing all events having taken place after that. Unfortunately, it also causes time itself to become unhinged until a sufficient reference point can be made, during which things from different time periods will slip in and out of reality. (This is fairly standard for Kwamis as far as Power Incontinence goes. There's a very good reason they rely on human users to channel their powers.)
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Chronos causes this in the Justice League Unlimited episode "The Once and Future Thing: Time Warped" due to wantonly taking stuff from the past to appease his needy wife. Time starts to crack and fall apart, killing several people, and nearly erasing all of reality before Batman and Green Lantern stop him.
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Back when The Dandy had adventure comic strips, one of them was about a group of scientists creating a time machine whose vital component was a crystal. They attempted to test it by sending a plant one minute into the future, but this caused the machine to explode and fling fragments of the crystal throughout history. The scientists' children had to travel to different periods to retrieve the fragments; in the meantime, the explosion caused a series of "Timequakes" which resulted in people and things from across history breaking into the wrong time. For example, The Three Musketeers appearing in the Trojan War.
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The Outer Limits (1995): In the episode "Déjà Vu", a time travel experiment goes wrong after an attempt to weaponize it by a corrupt military official, which results in a "Groundhog Day" Loop... with a nasty twist. Each iteration grows shorter, and eventually there will be no hope of preventing the Time Crash from destroying the world. In the end, the disaster is averted, and the man responsible suffers a Karmic Fate Worse than Death, as the malfunctioning time machine traps him in the moment of his own annihilation.
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Bugs Bunny & Taz: Time Busters: The plot is kicked off when Daffy breaks Granny's Time Regulator, going back in time with the machine's core, the Time Gem, and scattering the gears that help keep it stable. In the process, time itself is disrupted, while also hurtling various residents of different eras in time across time and space. Bugs and Taz are recruited by Granny to retrieve the gears and gem, and repair the damage done to history before things get any worse.
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This is also implied by the existence of Crisis City: the end of Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) meant its timeline was erased, yet the Time Eater's actions have made it accessible from White Space. Blaze the Cat from Crisis City also appears, rather than her Sonic Rush counterpart.
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8-Bit Theater:
Black Mage's flow chart in this comic lists a Time Crash as the only thing that would stop him from trying to kill all life on Earth.
Chaos, who is trying to destroy all of existence, considers a Time Crash to be an acceptable way to get the job done.
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Mortal Kombat 11 is one big Time Crash, as Kronika, the Titan Keeper of Time, declares the current timeline too far deviated from her vision and plans to wipe it out to start over and try again. This causes the current Mortal Kombat timeline to loop back on itself (resulting in present day versions of characters meeting their past selves) as well as twist sideways (causing characters from alternate timelines to cross over into the current one). In a weird turn of events, some members of the cast support the elimination of the timeline, due to promises from Kronika that a version of them will get a better future in her next timeline. It's finally resolved by Raiden giving up godhood to empower Liu Kang, who punches Kronika so hard she is turned into the dust of time itself, leaving the new Fire God Lord Liu Kang to rewrite history. The ramifications of these actions are felt in Mortal Kombat 1, which acts as a hard reboot but also manages to include some strange business involving altering destinies and encountering alternate selves.
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Quantum Break: The story begins with time being fractured as the result of a flawed time machine experiment, resulting in "stutters" of frozen time that gradually increase in frequency and severity, and will eventually lead to the complete End of Time.
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A variation is used in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow�. It’s revealed that so many time travelers have tried to alter humanity’s historical development, for benign or malicious reasons, that the time line is shot all to hell. One example of this is that the Eugenics War, once stated to start in the 1990s, now happens in the early 21st century and the catalyst for World War III.
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Towards the end of Cross Ange, the Norma and DRAGONs race to free Aura in the Column of Dawn and stop Embryo before his Time Crash kills off all lifeforms.
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In the Rick and Morty episode "A Rickle in Time", thanks to one of Rick's inventions purposely freezing time for six months for everyone but Rick, Morty and Summer, the three of them end up caught in a feedback loop of uncertainty resulting in their timelines being split in half (shown as a split screen) and continues to divide when one of them is uncertain about something which means they have to escape before their alternate timeline collapses in on itself with them still in it.
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Happens in Ciel nosurge's eighth chapter: Due to Nero causing grave interferences in Ra Ciela's timeline just to get Zill to send her back to her world prior to Ion and forcing Clackett to proceed with the sending, the Seven Axis that form the world get distorted, and two years later, reality itself begins breaking down, leading the entire world to an apocalypse that requires Nay to sing a Song Magic to return time to two years prior and undo everything Nero did.
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Triggered with The World God Only Knows in FLAG 260 when the time travel device is destroyed. With the past and present Keimas unable to return to their native time periods, the present world breaks, leaving an empty white void, while the past freezes. Since there's no longer a present for Elsie to come from, she disappears... but Keima doesn't switch back. The goddess hosts, meanwhile, find themselves alone in the void, save for present!Keima's unconscious body. This is, interestingly enough, a safety mode to allow the goddess hosts to set things right - without it, the present world would have simply disappeared.
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SCP Foundation: SCP-3654 is a World War II-era American torpedo boat that continually fades in and out of existence every twenty-nine days. The Foundation believes that it comes from an apparent Alternate History where the Allies commenced Operation Downfall, and then something went terribly wrong; it is believed that the Japanese, desperate and about to lose their homeland, used some negative-temporal weapon that irrevocably broke the flow of time forever in that universe. The Foundation is currently attempting to contact the hapless crew (who do not materialise when the ship does) to get a better understanding of precisely what is happening over there, but it is known that the sanity of the crew is starting to deteriorate - they are seemingly obsessed with breaking any clock and burning any calendar they find, and last time the boat materialised back, it was scuttled and had a large blood stain on the deck.
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Discworld:
The History Monks (the Monks of Time, the Men in Saffron, from No Such Monastery) exist to prevent this sort of thing happening. Again. They've managed to piece things back together, but a Time Crash is used to explain why Ankh-Morpork has a Shakespearean theater on the same street as an opera house, and why there have been so many Battles of Koom Valley. Fan attempts to create a complete series timeline seem to always end up with inconsistencies — the author cites that same Crash as the reason.
In Thief of Time, one of the characters is working on a device that will cause one of these, of the variety that causes time to just stop and freeze everything in its current state. Not exactly intentionally; he's a bit mad, and he's got the Auditors (who would really really like it if things stopped changing all the time) helping him along. Stopping it causes a complete collapse, which only the Anthropomorphic Personification of time is able to fix, and which still causes the events of Night Watch as a side effect.
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In 12 Monkeys, the Army of the Twelve Monkeys is trying to destroy time itself, believing a world without time would be paradise. Fortunately, time itself is a conscious entity, and is fully capable of fighting back against them through the actions of the protagonists.
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In Final Fantasy III, Xande was so terrified of dying after his master Noah stripped him of his immortality that he planned to freeze time forever.
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A recurring danger in the spinoff Torchwood. The Series 1 finale involves a crash that threatens to collapse all of time together, while one Series 2 episode has 1918 and the present day crashing into each other.
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This happens halfway through Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light when the heroes accidentally release a time-breaking flood of darkness all over the world. However, Nice Job Breaking It, Hero can be said non-sarcastically this time, since this ultimately lets them fix the things that made their original timeline a Crapsack World.
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Homestuck:
There is a group of characters that have a computer program which lets them speak to another group of characters in the past or future. It's eventually revealed that the groups will lose contact after an event called "the Scratch", which is shown as a timeline graph that is suddenly cut off and replaced with flickering scrawls. Ultimately subverted in that the Scratch is not a Time Crash, but actually a Reset Button, and it results in both groups finally being able to meet each other face-to-face.
Every Doomed Timeline ends in one of these, though we do not see the mechanism by which this happens, beyond each one also ending in a Total Party Kill.
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There was an arc in Irregular Webcomic! in which every plot thread created a time paradox at once and the universe was destroyed as a result. Followed by an entire arc of black panels, and an entire arc of everyone hanging out in the afterlife.
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A big one is a central plot point of the second volume of Guardians of the Galaxy, called The Error, which is destroying reality after reality, causing a Great Offscreen War. Starhawk of the original Guardians keeps travelling back in time to determine what causes it. It's also playing merry havoc with his timeline, causing him to alter between male, female, old, young or undead at random. At first it seems the cause of the error is the War of Kings, but in the last issue it turns out to be Thanos.
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DuckTales (2017): In the episode "Timephoon", Louie steals (er, borrows) Gyro's time machine to "rescue" ancient lost treasures throughout history in a get-rich-quick scheme. He's under the impression that, because the treasures were going to be lost regardless, taking them before they ended up becoming lost won't affect the time-stream. Unfortunately, he doesn't realize the time machine releases waves of energy which transport random entities throughout time with it, resulting in a massive "timephoon" which teleports all sorts of historical figures in and around Scrooge's mansion, makes all the clocks go haywire, and eventually starts zapping people from the present into different times. He's able to reverse the effects by sending everything he took and all the chronologically displaced entities back to when they came from.
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Undertale features this as an outcome in one of the game's endings; one of the characters comments on tracking multiple timelines which keep jumping their tracks, stopping and starting suddenly, until they just end all at once. All while he's fighting you to prevent this from happening.
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In Sonic Generations, Eggman deliberately does this as revenge against Sonic by using the Time Eater, thrusting Sonic into the White Space, a region beyond time, and shattering time from at least as far back as 1991. When Sonic finally faces the Time Eater, it's at the Center of Time, where the Time Eater has taken chunks of places from various moments in the franchise and sent them floating about.
This is also implied by the existence of Crisis City: the end of Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) meant its timeline was erased, yet the Time Eater's actions have made it accessible from White Space. Blaze the Cat from Crisis City also appears, rather than her Sonic Rush counterpart.
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In Exalted the Solar Exalted, or... someone with considerable amounts of power, inadvertently broke reality during the First Age, freezing Creation in time for several years, until the Exalted managed to fix things. Roughly two centuries passed for a group of Dragon Blooded in the Wyld before time and reality managed to rectify itself.
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In The Ultimates (2015), the team is discussing the current timey-wimey nature of the world and ways to solve it. Miss America shoots down using time travel to avert the discovery of time travel, as she's been to realities where people attempted that, and it utterly shattered causality. Those are not pleasant realities to live.
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2000 AD:
In the Strontium Dog "Max Bubba" story, as Bubba alters time, various meteorological and electrical anomalies occur around him, which the Vikings believe is Ragnarok. Then things start falling into Norway from various points in the future.
In Absalom, an ancient stone carrying the memories of the city of London is used by a British fascist to create cracks in the time periods so that they'll overlap, like turning the wrong corner and ending up in the Great London Fire.
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In a nutshell, this is basically what happens in The 3rd Birthday, the third installment of the Parasite Eve series. We're still trying to figure out just how it leads to mutant monsters snatching people through dimensional holes.
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Criasu in HuGtto! Pretty Cure plans to destroy the future by stopping time in the present, thus preventing the future from ever coming to pass.
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In the Aaahh!!! Real Monsters episode "Clockwise", Ickis is forced to wear a huge clock around his neck as punishment for being late to class, that he discovers can manipulate time when its hands are set. He spends most of the episode abusing this power, ignoring the warnings from his friends that doing so can cause damage to the space-time continuum. Eventually the clock breaks, resulting in a Time Crash where duplicates of all the characters from different points of time start appearing all at once. Normality is restored when Ickis manages to fix the clock, sending him back to the beginning of the day where he is happy to receive a more mundane punishment.
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The Big Finish Doctor Who audio "The Anachronauts" involves the First Doctor's TARDIS being crashed into by some human temporal scientists who had made the first ever time flight, and both groups are then left on a desert island with no time travel. The result at first appears to be this, as the order of cause and effect seems messed up and things that cannot possibly exist (a 'time sprite') begin attacking them. However, this is a subversion, as it turns out that both teams are still inside the TARDIS and it has put the crews in a repair dimension while it attempts to stop time breaking down as a result of the crash.
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The Jackie Chan Adventures/W.I.T.C.H. crossover Guardians, Wizards, and Kung-Fu Fighters comes about because of one of these. As a Point of Divergence during the climax of the Demon World storyline, a spiteful Shendu decides as he's being banished to destroy the Book of Ages. This causes reality to collapse into a void, with the only saving grace being Jade grabbing the last scrap of the Book and hastily writing in that there's a happy ending, causing the last remnants of the JCA universe to merge with the WITCH universe.
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In the Forbidden Land in Shadow of the Colossus, time has stopped dead at high noon, probably as a result of Dormin's imprisonment. As you draw near the end of the ritual, however, the world starts to move again... in the form of a howling rainstorm in the dark.
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In the Chowder episode "Won-Ton Bombs", Chowder and Mung go back in time to make sure Mung doesn't embarrass himself in front of his mentor by replacing the bad dish he made with a good one. Despite Mung's warnings, Chowder takes Mung's past self back to the present, resulting in the universe being destroyed.
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In Haruhi Suzumiya, the character creates a Time Crash 3 years ago that prevents human time travelers from going back further than that. Presumably, Yuki's faction has no problem as Yuki mentions very casually that the humans' TPDD is an average method of time travelling. Moments later, she leads Kyon and Mikuru into a room and freezes the whole room, stopping time in there. It is maintained, even when Yuki engages in a battle against Ryoko in a data space created by Ryoko.
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In Thief of Time, one of the characters is working on a device that will cause one of these, of the variety that causes time to just stop and freeze everything in its current state. Not exactly intentionally; he's a bit mad, and he's got the Auditors (who would really really like it if things stopped changing all the time) helping him along. Stopping it causes a complete collapse, which only the Anthropomorphic Personification of time is able to fix, and which still causes the events of Night Watch as a side effect.
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In Pro Pinball: Timeshock!, the player's ultimate goal is to avoid a Time Crash.
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The Star Trek novel Q-Squared takes place across three different timelines: the main TNG timeline, a timeline that's generally similar but with enough differences to make it distinct from said main timeline (most significantly, Jack Crusher is alive and is Captain of the Enterprise), and a third timeline in which the altered reality of "Yesterday's Enterprise" was unable to be undone and became the permanent state of affairs. At the climax of the story, the timelines open up into each other thanks to the actions of Trelane. Chaos ensues.
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Plays heavily in the plot of Final Fantasy XIII-2, with a Time Crash causing paradoxes and "debris" from the crashing timelines to fall into other timelines and frames of reference. Resolving these paradoxes is the major quest of the game. Yet despite your efforts, you still ultimately fail and all timelines are erased from existence. Trying to fix this in a small wasteland that survived the time crash is the plot of the next game.
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This is what kicks off the Age of Apocalypse: Legion goes back in time in an attempt to murder Magneto and bring about Xavier's dream. The M'Kraan Crystal freaked out and began crystallizing the entire galaxy.. and it turns out that it still wasn't satisfied and it was going to crystalize the new universe that was created afterwards.
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The movie Millennium (1989) concludes with a massive paradox barreling its destructive way into the future whose time travel efforts caused it.
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League of Super Redundant Heroes: Audrey built a machine to filter paradoxes out of the timestream so that she could alter time in any way she wanted without having to worry if it made sense. However, the machine ends up overloaded when the LoSRHs go back in time a few hours and stop Audrey before she reveals her plan to them, creating a paradox so big the whole system crashes and causes thousands of time paradoxes to start colliding at the same time.
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Season 16 of Red vs. Blue ends with one that happens when the protagonists, through Time Travel, cause a Reality-Breaking Paradox. The next season kind of explains what followed: the ones who caused the incident were expelled from the current timespace to instead be trapped reliving their memories, and the villains who inspired them to wreck everything in the first place are changing those past events (which everyone is starting to notice) so reality is broken further. In the meantime, the present had the person who inspired the paradox experiencing two timelines at once (one where he was shot in the neck, and one where he wasn't).
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In the Back to the Future movies, this is a major concern for Doc Brown, although more often than not he'll change the future (or past) for personal reasons. He believes, for instance, that if present Jennifer encounters future Jennifer, one of two things will happen; Best case scenario, the shock of encountering what is obviously herself will result in an acute stress reaction that will cause her to faint. Worst case scenario? Future Jennifer will affect present Jennifer in an irreversible manner, resulting in a chain reaction of effect preceding cause that could destroy the entire universe. She passes out.
The reasoning is fear of paradox: for example, what if Jennifer seeing her future self faints, falls badly, breaks her neck, and thus doesn't age to the point of being the older self who startles herself? If you're a dabbling mad inventor who doesn't know if paradoxes might do really unpleasant things to reality, advocating caution is almost uncharacteristically pragmatic. (How do you do a controlled experiment to see if some event X destroys the universe, anyway?)
As a Shout-Out, Spock Prime implies to Kirk that this will happen if he ever meets himself in Star Trek (2009). As he tells his younger self by the end, he was just misleading the captain.
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In Hunters of Justice, Metropolis suddenly experiences a "Temporal Cascade" where people and animals from across history are pulled from their native times and dumped into the present day, causing havoc. The source of the cascade is the criminal Chronos traveling back in time to steal items from the era that "disappeared" according to history. Team RWBY has to travel back in time to stop Chronos to prevent the damage from getting any worse.
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Inverted in the climax of Doctor Strange (2016). Dormammu comes from the Dark Dimension, a place where time doesn't exist, so Strange pays him a visit and brings in the Time Gem, and time, with him. Strange sets up a stable time loop which he and Dormmamu relive over, and over...and over. Despite being a virtual god in his own home field, Dormammu has next to no understanding of time, and thus time travel, leaving him no effective counter. No matter how much more powerful he is and how many times he kills Strange, Dormammu is effectively Strange's prisoner, forcing him to accept Strange's bargain to leave Earth alone.
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In the Kim Possible movie "A Sitch In Time", it is feared that the destruction of the Time Monkey will have some catastrophic effect on time itself. The truth is pretty much the exact opposite: destroying it reverses everything it was used to accomplish.
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The Wheel of Time: Excessive use of balefire would cause the world to dissolve like fog as the Pattern unraveled from the Ret-Gone effect of balefire.
In the final book, this begins to happen with black cracks appearing in the ground and reality becomes increasingly unstable.
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Fire Emblem: Three Houses: Fifth Path starts off with Byleth botching a Divine Pulse to undo Dimitri and Edelgard killing each other during the final confrontation at the Imperial Palace. By forgetting to specify how far back she wanted to go after activating the Pulse, time is effectively frozen not just for them, but for every living creature until she or Sothis makes a decision. After Sothis yells at Byleth for her carelessness, Byleth decides that the best course of action is to go all the way back to the beginning of their adventure to try to prevent the war from happening in the first place, even though using that much power will prevent Sothis from ever using the ability again.
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In the original Command & Conquer: Red Alert, using the Chronosphere too much could trigger a mild form of these - a swirling distortion in the map that fried any nearby units or buildings with lightning or tore them apart as it roved around at random. Which naturally led to some players using as many Chrono-based abilities as possible in hopes of triggering one near their opponent's base.
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Kamen Rider Zi-O has various time travelers attempting to change history to either prevent or cause The Hero to become an Evil Overlord that rules over a Bad Future. The resulting paradoxes causes a slow-moving Time Crash that damages reality. At first this results in inconsistencies, such as Kamen Riders coming from a future that theoretically shouldn't exist because of the Bad Future showing up, Eventually, however, the effects start to ramp up over the course of the second half of the show, resulting in stuff like Kamen Riders existing with their Another Rider counterparts (which shouldn't be possible since There Can Only Be One) and contradictory timelines merging into the show's timeline. The characters acknowledge that something is up, but don't really comprehend just how bad it actually is until the last episodes where the effects really start ramping up to the point where Tsukasa decides that he needs to destroy the world before it starts damaging the rest of The Multiverse.
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The Pokémon Trading Card Game's Broken Time-Space. The rest of the set it's from hints that this is due to Cyrus attempting to capture Dialga and Palkia, controllers of time and space, respectively.
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One episode of Sliders has Quinn meddling in a world where time moves backwards... somehow. He changes the events that lead to his incarceration and the death of a police officer that was the double of someone he loved in his world, and a wormhole akin to Clock Roaches appears. We never know what happened to that world, as the heroes manage to slide out before things get serious, but we know messing with time created that paradox and the professor wonders if "there'll even be a tomorrow in that world".
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The Elder Scrolls: Happen at a few major events in the backstory when the draconic God of Time, known by many names but most prominently as Akatosh, is "tampered with" so to speak, causing him to temporarily "forget" the true course of historical events that happened for a brief period of time. As a result of this, all possible events that could have happened during that time, even mutually exclusive ones, will happen, though they might not have happened "fully" either, so to speak. They typically involve mortals attempting to use something of divine substance and cross over with Reality Is Out to Lunch. It happens so often that there's even an in-universe term for it: a "Dragon Break."
In the 1st Era, the Maruhkati Selectives, an extremist sect of the already extremist anti-elf Alessian Order, carried out a ritual in attempt to purge Akatosh of the elven aspects of the mythological basis that Akatosh was based on, the Aldmeri golden eagle god, Auri-El. The result was Time and Reality going out for drinks, getting absolutely plastered, taking Time's father's brand new sports car on a joyride, and plowing it head-on into a semi at 180 miles per hour. For the next 1008 years during an event that came to be known as the "Middle Dawn," bizarre and impossible events occurred during this time; people gave birth to their own parents, some sources mention wars and major events which never happened according to other sources, the sun changed color depending on the witness, and the gods either walked among the mortals or they didn't. How could they measure that period of time? They used the phases of Nirn's moons, said to be Lorkhan's decaying "flesh divinity", to measure time as they were not affected by the event. Even the Elder Scrolls themselves cannot rationalize the conflicting events of the Middle Dawn. When the Scrolls are attuned to that time period, their glyphs are said to simply disappear.
The Numidium, a giant brass golem built by the Dwemer and powered by the Heart of Lorkhan, the "dead" creator god, was essentially their refutation of the gods made material. Because of this, it frequently caused these when activated, such as the temporal toxic waste dump in Elsweyr where Tiber Septim's mages tried to figure it out after the Dunmer Tribunal gave it to him as a tribute, or the Warp In The West, where all the endings in Daggerfall essentially happened at once (though none to the same extent they would have individually).
Another Dragon Break appears to have happened during the Battle of Red Mountain, where the Chimer (who would become the Dunmer, or Dark Elves) fought the Dwemer in the final battle over the aforementioned Numidium. During the battle, Kagrenac, the Dwemer chief engineer, used his arcane tools on the Heart of Lorkhan in desperation, and that act caused the world to briefly revert to the chaos of the Dawn Era, before Tamriel was fully created by the Aedra... and in the process, he caused all of the Dwemer save a single one who was outside of normal spacetime at that point, to vanish. When things returned to normal, all the Dwemer were gone.
The Tribunal, a trio of Dunmeri Physical Gods most prominently seen in Morrowind, caused one of these when they tapped into the aforementioned Heart of Lorkhan to obtain divinity. Essentially, they brought together two timelines: one where they were mortals ascending to godhood, and one where they had always been gods. This, of course, created plenty of Mind Screw contradictions.
The eponymous Elder Scrolls themselves can cause a mild version of this depending on who reads them. Someone who is completely untrained in the history and nature of the Scrolls just sees the page picture for the main Elder Scrolls page (something that looks a bit like a star chart with odd glyphs around it). Someone who has some understanding of what an Elder Scroll actually is, but hasn't been trained to read it properly, is struck immediately and permanently blind, though they do gain a small piece of knowledge in the process. People with great training (e.g. members of the Cult of the Ancestor Moth) gradually go blind as they read more of the scrolls, but can extract enough information to reliably predict future events (or, at least, what might happen). Then we have the Dragonborn in Skyrim. Dragonborn are mortals with the soul of an immortal Aedric dragon, whose souls exist partially outside of time, not unlike the Scrolls themselves. Reading the Scroll you obtain as part of Skyrim's main quest results in being momentarily blinded, then recovering, and then immediately gaining access to precise information related to their current quest (either defeating Alduin or recovering Auri-El's Bow). It is also revealed that the aforementioned Dwemer were able to create a machine which could scan the Scrolls contents without having to subject their mortal eyes to it directly.
At a couple of points in the histories, characters actually weaponize the Dragon Break. During the ancient Dragon War, the ancient Tongues of the Nords caused an intentional Dragon Break by using an Elder Scroll to banish Alduin across time, creating a permanent "time wound" at that location. Later on, the Dragonborn in the Fourth Era would use the same Scroll, at the same spot, to travel back in time through the wound to learn the Dragonrend Shout to defeat Alduin in the future. The Dragonrend shout itself is essentially creating a small localized Time Crash in the mind of the targeted Dragon by forcing the Dragon's immortal mind to experience the concept of mortality for an instant, which is more than enough to stun them due to the massive existential paradox.
The Magna-Ge, aka "Star Orphans", are et'Ada ("original spirits") who fled Mundus (the mortal plane) along with their "father" Magnus (the God of Magic and "architect" of Mundus) during the creation of Mundus. The Magna-Ge are associated with various "untimes" and "untime folk". One of the most famous of the Magna-Ge is Mnemo-Li, aka Mnemoli the Blue Star and the "wayward daughter of Anu", who is visible even in the daytime sky during Dragon Breaks.
The threat of a Dragon Break is the driving motivator in a Psijic Order questline in the Summerset Expansion of The Elder Scrolls Online. You are tasked with taking a near-omniscient skull to fix time rifts across Tamriel, caused by an ancient artifact that caused at least one Dragon Break before. The Final Boss of the questline is a Psijic attempting to use said artifact, the Staff of Towers, to Set Right What Once Went Wrong, forcing you to fight several versions of her from across alternate timelines as the Dragon Break you've been trying to prevent begins to manifest.
Dragon Breaks even appear in several popular Game Mods. The Forgotten City mod uses a Dragon Break caused by a Stable Time Loop as part of the story, in which the player travels through the time loop to find out who is responsible for the loop and what events they put into motion to cause the disaster. In the Vigilant mod, the player ends up experiencing a Dragon Break where they witness an alternate history where Molag Bal used a false version of the Abadal-a (Amulet of Kings) stone to corrupt the Alessian Empire so that all the violence associated with their purging of elves would empower Bal himself, as well as the origin of Molag Bal in the form of a bard who fell in love with the woman who would became the first vampire, and was transformed into Bal when he raped her, and Jyggalag, the Daedric Prince of Order, starting his Greymarch on Molag Bal's realm of Coldharbour and ultimately killing him. Since all of this is happening during a Dragon Break, it is entirely possible that all of this did happen at some point and is totally true, up until another Dragon Break rewrote it all due to the player being a walking embodiment of Screw Destiny.
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The Last Sharknado: It's About Time concludes with this triggered as the result of a malfunctioning time machine. Time begins to collapse in the midst of the titular storm, turning it into a "timenado" filled with people and objects from throughout history. The universal apocalypse is only averted by the heroes sacrificing themselves to trigger a nuclear explosion at the core of the time vortex, erasing the entire franchise from history and creating a new, corrected timeline.
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Pokémon has some of these, usually involving Generation IV. It's fitting, considering this is the generation that introduced Dialga, the Legendary Pokémon with control over time:
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky's pre-credits plot is all about preventing one of these by way of keeping the local god of time from going insane. You even get to see the bad future where the Time Crash happened - a paralyzed planet where the sun never rises and the wind never blows.
Pokémon Legends: Arceus has the player character suddenly wind up in Hisui, the Sinnoh region centuries in the past. Though Arceus itself brought them here, Space-Time Distortions have been pulling other people, Pokémon, and things here too, popping in and out of various parts of Hisui; and an absolutely massive time rift has appeared over the summit of Mt. Coronet. All of this is a side effect of Giratina's revenge plot against Arceus. Giratina lives in the Distortion World, where time has always been broken, and it escaping into the normal world has caused all sorts of reality-altering effects. When Giratina is near escape, a Space-Time Distortion spreads across and replaces the entire Hisuian sky, with the implication of full destruction of space and time should it break completely free. Later games, starting from Pokémon Café Mix, show species and regional variants thought to be extinct as alive and well in the present, hinting that Giratina's meddling has had permanent effects on the Pokémon world.
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Futurama:
"Anthology of Interest I" ends with the space-time continuum being shattered by Fry not going to the future. Because of his previous adventures in time, the universe itself is tied to his existence.
The most apt Futurama example has to be "Time Keeps on Slippin'", in which the removal of chronotons causes time to skip randomly. Professor Farnsworth explains the ramifications thusly:
At the end of Bender's Big Score, Bender creates so many time paradox duplicates that he makes a tear in the fabric of reality. This becomes a major plot point in the sequel The Beast with a Billion Backs.
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Zero Hour: Crisis in Time!: Hal Jordan/Parallax deliberately triggers one of these destroying the entire timeline with the purpose of rebooting the universe his way. Fortunately, some heroes are pulled outside of normal time to deal with it. This results in one of the many Cosmic Retcons that The DCU has gone through over the years.
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One of the more out-there episodes of Seaquest DSV involved the Seaquest time traveling into the future by using their fusion reactors and laser weapon systems. The time they arrive in is a dead world inhabited only by an AI computer and 2 human children who spend all hours battling each other in a VR computer game involving real robots. The Seaquest can't return to the past, because the past doesn't exist because - get this - unless they help the 2 kids stop playing their game and procreate, then the human race has no future. And apparently if the human race has no future then time breaks and the past ceases to exist.
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Chrono Cross is the Trope Namer, and the circumstances of its Time Crash forms a significant part of the backstory. In the good future resulting from the events of Chrono Trigger, a time experiment sent the Chronopolis research facility back into antiquity, with the side effect of summoning a city from an alternate timeline as a sort of cosmic counterbalance. Chronopolis was able to defeat and subdue the opposing civilization, then used its extensive records of history to hide its presence from the rest of the world, subtly manipulating events to avoid any paradoxes that could threaten its future existence. And then Schala interfered with the lab's plans and rescued Serge from drowning, which screwed all this up and split the timeline in two. In one timeline where everything went according to plan Chronopolis is still able to exist, but in the other is a region where the Bad Future from Chrono Trigger is trying to reassert itself, creating a place where time is effectively broken. A collection of futuristic structures have sort of congealed into the Tower of Geddon, you can walk on the waves of a frozen ocean, and ghostlike temporal "echoes" haunt the ruins... [[spoiler:including three familiar faces from Chrono Trigger...
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In Life Is Strange, a girl named Max finds out she spontaneously gained time powers, and uses them to save the life of another girl, who happens to be her former best friend Chloe, kicking off the plot. With that simple act, Time seems to have broken, and things around town start getting weird: it snows despite being 80 degrees; there's an unscheduled solar eclipse; whales and birds start dying inexplicably; a desynchronized double moon appears briefly in the sky; and finally the enormous twister that Max keeps having visions of threatens to wipe the town clean off the map. It's implied that altering the fate of Chloe caused time and local reality to go haywire, rather than Max's abuse of her time powers, and everything is trying to right itself.
In the Nightmare scene in Episode 5, Max goes unconscious and has a surreal experience largely in a place that doesn't fully coincide with Earth. Whether it's a sort of fever dream or was an actual place that Max was actually sent to is left open to interpretation.
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In Absalom, an ancient stone carrying the memories of the city of London is used by a British fascist to create cracks in the time periods so that they'll overlap, like turning the wrong corner and ending up in the Great London Fire.
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A recurring theme in the Final Fantasy series:
In the original Final Fantasy, the world is stuck in a two-thousand-year-long time loop which it is your job to break. This means that when you succeed, your adventure never happened in the first place.
In Final Fantasy III, Xande was so terrified of dying after his master Noah stripped him of his immortality that he planned to freeze time forever.
In Final Fantasy VIII, Ultimecia's plan is to trigger one of these on purpose so she can rule the resulting time-compressed universe as a goddess. The heroes also try to trigger a time crash of their own, in an effort to stop her. This succeeds, the past and the future (reversibly) merge and create a Dark World that serves as the game's final disc.
Plays heavily in the plot of Final Fantasy XIII-2, with a Time Crash causing paradoxes and "debris" from the crashing timelines to fall into other timelines and frames of reference. Resolving these paradoxes is the major quest of the game. Yet despite your efforts, you still ultimately fail and all timelines are erased from existence. Trying to fix this in a small wasteland that survived the time crash is the plot of the next game.
This happens halfway through Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light when the heroes accidentally release a time-breaking flood of darkness all over the world. However, Nice Job Breaking It, Hero can be said non-sarcastically this time, since this ultimately lets them fix the things that made their original timeline a Crapsack World.
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The premise of the Time Spiral block in Magic: The Gathering is basically this: the planewalks of powerful planeswalkers and other high-energy events like blast of the Golgothian Sylex, the time-travel experiments at Tolaria, the creation of Karona and the firing of the Legacy Weapon were gradually bending time until it broke, resulting in a massive and quickly deteriorating Time Crash, centered on Dominaria and threatening the very existence of the Multiverse.
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In a particular test chamber in Portal 2, the automatic PA system gives you a warning:
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A Tale of Time City is about three children who want to prevent this from happening when their town, Time City, falls apart.
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In And Shine Heaven Now the I-Jin Wells goes back in time to kill one of Integra's ancestors, Prince Hakim. This causes things to rapidly get chaotic until Alucard briefly comes face to face with D at which point time and the universe are completely torn apart and everybody from all possible timelines finds themselves in the Whole Sort of General Mish Mash. With some help from a version of Wells who worked for Hellsing, Yomiko prevents everything from happening by swapping the I-Jin Wells's time machine with one that was about to explode from overuse, causing him to explode and almost the entirety of the Shine or Die arc from happening in the first place.
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In X-Men: The Animated Series, Apocalypse tries to cause one of these so as to rebuild reality as he sees fit once the dust clears.
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Happens again in Infinite Crisis, where some of the people directly involved with the first Crisis are dissatisfied with its results, and so they temporarily divide the one stable universe into several unstable ones again, then mix it back together after shuffling the parts around a bit.
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In Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: Shattered Grid, this is what Jen Scotts has theorized as to what's happened to the Power Rangers' timeline: In his attempt to recharge the Green Chaos Crystal, Lord Drakkon murdered his heroic counterpart, Tommy Oliver. Because Tommy is so integral to the Power Rangers timeline, the Morphing Grid freaked out and cauterized the wound caused by Tommy's death by pulling apart the various Ranger teams into their own little universes. Jen warns that if Drakkon doesn't cut it out, all of reality is going to be affected.
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In Saint Seiya: Next Dimension, as a result of Athena's time travelling back to the past, time around the 18th century Sanctuary begins to go out of whack, with the sun remaining still, the planets taking on an unusual alignment, and large temporal distortions appearing. This all leads to the return of the mythological Ophiuchus Temple and Gold Saint, and according to the Pope, eventually all of creation will be destroyed.
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The threat of a Dragon Break is the driving motivator in a Psijic Order questline in the Summerset Expansion of The Elder Scrolls Online. You are tasked with taking a near-omniscient skull to fix time rifts across Tamriel, caused by an ancient artifact that caused at least one Dragon Break before. The Final Boss of the questline is a Psijic attempting to use said artifact, the Staff of Towers, to Set Right What Once Went Wrong, forcing you to fight several versions of her from across alternate timelines as the Dragon Break you've been trying to prevent begins to manifest.
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Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time: Dr. Zomboss says that one of these will happen if Crazy Dave manages to re-eat his taco.
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In Fate/stay night Archer's true identity is Emiya Shiro, the protagonist. Specificaly he's a version of Shiro from the future who's become disillusioned from all his time as a hero especially since as a Counter Guardian, he is summoned only during the worst instances in Earth's history as a last resort to protect it. Being timeless as a Counter Guardian means he will never be able to stop, so he theorizes that killing himself in the past will create a paradox so powerful that it will stop himself from ever becoming a hero (even if it destroys all of time). He admits that this is a long shot, and the multiverse nature of time in the franchise means that, probably, nothing would happen at all even if he did succeed, but he's willing to try anyway.
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5ive Days to Midnight involves a briefcase sent back in time to physicist J.T. Neumeyer, containing a homicide file on his unsolved murder that will happen five days hence. When he tells one of his students Carl Axelrod, the latter believes this trope will happen if J.T. doesn't die, therefore becoming one of the potential suspects for the murder.
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In, of all shows, SpongeBob SquarePants, this happens in "SB-129" when Squidward breaks a time machine in a panic, sending him to a weird dimension that he seems to be stuck in forever, but he gets back when he finds the time machine after breaking through the floor of the dimension.
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This might be what's going on with the Hadex Anomaly in Warhammer 40,000, a Swirly Energy Thingy that seems to be regurgitating time from other dimensions into our own, and may even be sentient. The problem is getting close enough to study the thing, since any vessel that approaches to a certain distance gets trapped in temporal stasis, leaving the anomaly ringed by ghost ships.
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The My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "It's About Time" plays this trope for laughs when Twilight, certain that some horrific disaster is going to occur by next Tuesday thanks to a visit from her future self, spends the week leading up to it trying to find out what the disaster is. As Tuesday draws ever closer with no idea of what catastrophe is coming or how to prevent it, a frantic and sleep-deprived Twilight decides that the only way to avert the disaster is to find a spell to stop time itself so that Tuesday never comes. Fortunately for the universe's sake, she doesn't find any such spell, and the impending disaster was just a misunderstanding resulting in a Stable Time Loop.
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In the original Final Fantasy, the world is stuck in a two-thousand-year-long time loop which it is your job to break. This means that when you succeed, your adventure never happened in the first place.
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Doctor Who:
Rose causes a Time Crash in "Father's Day" when she saves her father Pete from dying at a hit-n-run incident when she was a baby. Flying Killer Time Monkeys come out and eat everyone on Earth. Things are only fixed when Pete sees the car circling the same spot outside the church and realises he was meant to be hit by the car, so he goes out and meets his fate. The Adventures in Time and Space RPG dubs this a "time spur", a sort of local quarantine to contain a Temporal Paradox until it's resolved by either the event that caused the paradox being resolved (i.e. Pete's sacrifice) or the Reapers eating everyone; the later, universe-spanning crises are because they're directly messing with fixed points in time.
Parodied in the mini-episode "Time Crash", a short made for Children in Need (which Word of God says is canon). The Doctor accidentally somehow merges his TARDIS with the TARDIS of his fifth incarnation. Hilarity ensues at first as a starstruck Ten (and a real-life admiring David Tennant, who was thrilled to be on the same set with his own childhood favourite Doctor) and a bewildered Five have to stop their inadvertent meeting from ripping a hole in space-time the exact size of Belgium.
"The End of Time": The Doctor realizes that something is wrong with time when he's told upon arriving at the Oodsphere that it's only been a hundred years since his last visit, and they've advanced far too quickly. He is then informed that "the end of time" is imminent. It turns out that Rassilon and the Time Lords are trying to bring this about as part of their plan to escape the Time War by destroying reality and Ascending to a Higher Plane of Existence.
Series 5 could almost be considered a deconstruction — the "total event collapse" at the end destroys all of time, including before the event that caused it (i.e. the TARDIS exploding), cracking but not destroying all of space and time (and having other effects as well). This, on top of giving us the season's Arc Symbol, also alerts the rest of the universe to the disaster and prompts them to form an alliance to stop it, tracing the cracks to the TARDIS and assuming it's the Doctor who will have caused it. When the collapse finally happens, the Doctor doesn't particularly care about why (and it wasn't finally explained until three and a half years later), he just wants to stop it from ever having happened. The results, by the way, are devastating — Earth is one of only two celestial bodies (the other being the moon) that has ever been in the sky, and by 1996 what little is left of the universe is starting to fall apart. In fact, the universe is so mangled that they can't repair it — their only option is to completely reboot it, which involves, among other things, erasing the Doctor from history. He gets better. It's eventually revealed the whole thing was an elaborate and thorough assassination attempt that almost worked.
Also, in a sort of meta sense, the wibbly-wobbly-ness of any event to do with the collapse is roughly proportional to how closely related the two are (from River's perspective, the next time she met the Doctor was in the Byzantium, in the cracked universe, which was erased from time; directly after the incident, River's diary is blank, despite the fact that her existence hinges on his, so he can't possibly have been erased; Amy wakes up the morning after the reset, 14 years in the future, and this is never explained). The most likely explanation seems to be that the collapse was so total that it broke time travel logic.
"The Wedding of River Song": The entire timeline of the planet goes pear-shaped when River refuses to kill The Doctor, even though it's meant to be a fixed point in time. Her failure to do so results in all of Earth's history happening at once — people travel by intercontinental steam trains and cars tethered to hot air balloons; pterodactyls are a nuisance in public parks; Charles Dickens is directing the BBC's big Christmas special; Winston Churchill is Caesar of the Holy Roman Empire, which is headquartered in London, has classical Roman trappings, and is fighting the Wars of the Roses, and his barber is a Silurian; JFK and Cleopatra are a known item, and the great pyramid of Giza has an American flag painted on the side and is known as "Area 52".
A recurring danger in the spinoff Torchwood. The Series 1 finale involves a crash that threatens to collapse all of time together, while one Series 2 episode has 1918 and the present day crashing into each other.
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Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series: Bonds Beyond Time Abridged features one of these when Jaden spoils the end of Yugi's series in front of him (but spoiling who won the duel between Jaden and Yugi, which happens the end of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, was considered okay because it was obvious). And it ends up being the way that Yuma was created.
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11/22/63 makes use of the idea that if a time traveler changes the past too much, it will eventually destroy time itself (metaphorically, it is described as plucking the strings of an instrument until it vibrates itself to pieces). Jake manages to save JFK from Lee Harvey Oswald only to return to his own time and find out that the Earth is well on its way to breaking apart into an asteroid belt and strange ripping noises are emanating from the sky, implied to be the sound of time collapsing. Jake's solution is to create a brand new timeline where JFK was killed as before, and then never, ever time travel again.
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Just before Infinite Crisis, the Justice Society of America had a story arc in which they traveled back in time. During the journey to the present, they hit the Time Crash created by the original Crisis. It affects Power Girl badly, kick-starting her role in Infinite Crisis.
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In Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time, one of these is caused in the backstory by the Fongoids abusing time travel to the point where the space/time continuum grew thin enough to breach. The resulting Negative Space Wedgie took out 83 star systems before Orvus and the Zoni created the Great Clock to repair the damaged fabric of reality and act as a Cosmic Keystone to maintain the natural flow of time. History would have repeated itself on a much greater scale had Alister Azimuth succeeded in abusing the Great Clock as a time machine. Which it's not supposed to be used as.
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Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky's pre-credits plot is all about preventing one of these by way of keeping the local god of time from going insane. You even get to see the bad future where the Time Crash happened - a paralyzed planet where the sun never rises and the wind never blows.
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By Beast Wars, they'd figured out this trope would happen, and despite it being G1 Megatron's intention, Beast Wars Megs declared it a last resort. After all, even if you don't break the universe, you're still screwing with the events that led to your own existence.
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Pokémon Legends: Arceus has the player character suddenly wind up in Hisui, the Sinnoh region centuries in the past. Though Arceus itself brought them here, Space-Time Distortions have been pulling other people, Pokémon, and things here too, popping in and out of various parts of Hisui; and an absolutely massive time rift has appeared over the summit of Mt. Coronet. All of this is a side effect of Giratina's revenge plot against Arceus. Giratina lives in the Distortion World, where time has always been broken, and it escaping into the normal world has caused all sorts of reality-altering effects. When Giratina is near escape, a Space-Time Distortion spreads across and replaces the entire Hisuian sky, with the implication of full destruction of space and time should it break completely free. Later games, starting from Pokémon Café Mix, show species and regional variants thought to be extinct as alive and well in the present, hinting that Giratina's meddling has had permanent effects on the Pokémon world.
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Hal Duncan's The Book of All Hours duology starts with a very Timey-Wimey Ball sort of cosmology that gets utterly trashed by the end of the first book when nanites loaded with the language of magic and haunted by the spirits of dead gods are set loose and pull a magical Grey Goo scenario on the fabric of space and time. The second book picks up with the protagonists wandering between pockets of stability and causality by taking advantage of - and fighting against - stories and cultural narratives to get around.
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Touch the Skyrim has this occur in version one. BONE DOGG'S attempts to ragdoll the Greybeards in slow-motion causes the passage of time to vastly speed up, to the point where a day is passing in a matter of a couple of minutes. Learning ZA WARUDO and obtaining the Master Sword do not help.
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Live A Live's Final Chapter takes place during such an event, with the protagonists warped to a world filled with numerous enemies from previous chapters, all of which take place in various time periods.
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The Philadelphia Experiment has this happen as an unanticipated side-effect of experiments in building an Invisibility Cloak. A Navy destroyer from 1943 and an entire Midwestern town from 1984 get sucked into the resulting vortex, which has to be stopped (from within) lest it destroy the entire world.
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Occurs in the award-winning Astro City story "The Nearness of You". A man is haunted by dreams of a wife he's never met, because she was erased from existence due to a Time Crash Crisis Crossover.
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In the second season of Russian Doll, once Nadia brings her newborn self to the future, things get screwed up and time seems to occur all at once, with her and the other person who got stuck in a time loop in the first season witnessing weeks or years going by with every door opened and multiple versions of the same person appearing.
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MÅ“bius has Homura warned her use of time rewinds was putting the universe in serious risk of this. As she was getting help from Bleach characters such as Yorouichi and Urahara to replace that part of her arsenal, she obliges to prevent one. However when Madoka makes a wish as part of a gambit to save the day, she panics, uses her powers, and causes a time crash to start. Fortunately Urahara was aware of the possibility of a panic use of a time rewind and had a back-up plan in place to undo it before it destroyed the universe.
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This is the main premise of Exit the Gungeon, where the gungeoneers' attempts to kill their pasts in the previous game has caused the titular dungeon to start collapsing in on itself, forcing the gungeoneers to escape with their lives intact.
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Ontoclysms in GURPS: Infinite Worlds start with rewriting history and get more devastating from there.
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In Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox, the trope is invoked by Professor Zoom to explain how The Flash going back in time to prevent his mother's death affected events preceding it or completely unrelated, including the location of Kal-El's ship landing.
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In Final Fantasy VIII, Ultimecia's plan is to trigger one of these on purpose so she can rule the resulting time-compressed universe as a goddess. The heroes also try to trigger a time crash of their own, in an effort to stop her. This succeeds, the past and the future (reversibly) merge and create a Dark World that serves as the game's final disc.
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In Mage: The Awakening:
More of a time explosion than a crash, but the collapse of the Celestial Ladder and the fall of Atlantis was such a cosmic wreck that the ruins of Atlantis got knocked out of the timeline. It's why no one's able to accurately place when Atlantis fell, despite certain mages being master-class postcognitives, why they can't even solidly place whether it actually happened in the past or was a future event cast backwards by the sheer weight of the event, and why they can't tell if anything like Atlantis will ever come into being again.
The Archmaster Xaphan fumbled a Time spell so badly that his past got ripped out of history and dumped into the present, leaving him as a small crowd of alternate selves aged from 5 to 90 years old, while all evidence of his life before the accident ceased to exist.
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A Crown of Stars: Invoked. Shinji and Asuka's hosts are able to time travel, but they try to make careful use of it because causing a time paradox and making the fabric of reality collapse is a very real risk.
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The Star Trek: Voyager episode "Shattered" has a Negative Space Wedgie warp sections of the ship into different times in its history. Chakotay finds himself the only one able to breach into these different sections ranging from before Voyager first launched to parts of nearly every season of the show with associated characters involved, like Seven of Nine before her Borg implants were removed in season four or Seska when she took over the ship in season two.
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On Legends of Tomorrow, the team creates one of these in the second season finale by breaking the first rule of time travel — Never the Selves Shall Meet — which has caused various people and things to be randomly displaced throughout time and space. The third season focuses on them tracking down these "anachronisms" and taking them back where they came from, while at the same time the Cult of Mallus tries to break time even further in order to release Mallus from his prison.
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Parodied in the webcomic Beaver and Steve. The characters go back in time and Steve eats the apple that was supposed to fall on Newton's head; thus, Newton never invents gravity [sic] and in the future, everything floats. Then, they travel back in time again and launch an apple at Newton's head but it ends up bludgeoning him to death. Finally, they travel back a third time and end up killing their own past selves. At this point, Beaver remarks, "Well, I'm no expert on temporal physics but my guess is the universe will implode." And then it does.
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In Dragon Ball Xenoverse, this is what Demon God Demigra is trying to achieve. 75 million years ago, the Supreme Kai of Time imprisoned him in a crack in time. He has spent all that time plotting his escape and now seeks to achieve it by causing enough distortions in history to weaken his prison. The real crash, though, is his ultimate objective, which is to destroy the Time Vault where the Scrolls of Time, the records of all history, are kept. If he were to succeed, then the entire universe would be undone.
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Happens during Crisis on Infinite Earths when the five remaining Earths (read: Universes) start to converge. As the heroes are trying to halt the process, time gets screwed up mixing people up between universes and different time periods randomly. Then the heroes and the Anti-Monitor race to the beginning of time and battle over Anti-Monitor's desire to become the hand of creation. This results in the remaining Multiverse crashing and being rebooted as a single universe (see Post-Crisis for more details.) Notable in that the heroes don't exactly fix everything so much as try to salvage what remains.
Happens again in Infinite Crisis, where some of the people directly involved with the first Crisis are dissatisfied with its results, and so they temporarily divide the one stable universe into several unstable ones again, then mix it back together after shuffling the parts around a bit.
Just before Infinite Crisis, the Justice Society of America had a story arc in which they traveled back in time. During the journey to the present, they hit the Time Crash created by the original Crisis. It affects Power Girl badly, kick-starting her role in Infinite Crisis.
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Ashes of the Past has the Pokémon 4Ever movie, where, thanks to the Iron Mask Marauder ordering Celebi to get rid of Ash by any means necessary at the same time Sammy worked out that he was Professor Oak, caused Ash to (in the words of another Celebi) break time. The numerous inconsistencies to the timeline were rectified by recreating the universe — it also functioned as the Cosmic Retcon promised by the author to include the Fairy-type and Mega Evolutions.
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The Smurfs (1981): In the episode "No Time for Smurfs", Handy, Brainy, Clumsy, and Smurfette tamper with Father Time's Sands of Time hourglass first by causing time to go backwards, then by causing time to repeat previous events, creating temporal copies of themselves in the process, then they break the hourglass and cause time to stand still. They try to fix it by creating a new hourglass and putting the sands into it in the hopes of restoring time, but instead they create a time crash in which the sun repeatedly rises and sets and random weather patterns appear in the sky, which as Father Time reveals is a result of mixing the Sands Of Time. Fortunately, Mother Nature and Father Time join together to straighten out the whole mess, restoring everything to normal and causing the temporal copies to vanish.
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In Bill & Ted Face the Music, Bill and Ted need to create the song that would ensure a utopian future, or else time will destabilize and reality would be destroyed.
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In Transformers, this is known as a time storm, and happens whenever someone makes a massive change to history. Cases include the Quintessons bringing Alpha Trion forward in time to cause the original Transformers Rebellion to fail, Megatron killing Cyclonus, and Beast Wars Megatron attempting to destroy Optimus Prime while the latter was in stasis, before the events of Transformers: Generation 1.
"Dinobot Island" involved the discovery of a time-displaced island of dinosaurs. It turns out that mucking about with the place very much (e.g., the Decepticons harvesting energy from the place) causes random time warps to appear all over the world.
By Beast Wars, they'd figured out this trope would happen, and despite it being G1 Megatron's intention, Beast Wars Megs declared it a last resort. After all, even if you don't break the universe, you're still screwing with the events that led to your own existence.
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In Blinx: The Time Sweeper the sweeper has to fix the damage caused by a rather large one of these.
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In the Strontium Dog "Max Bubba" story, as Bubba alters time, various meteorological and electrical anomalies occur around him, which the Vikings believe is Ragnarok. Then things start falling into Norway from various points in the future.
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Star Trek: The Next Generation:
In the episode "Parallels", Worf causes a Time Crash by flying through a Negative Space Wedgie, causing millions of starships Enterprise from different universes to appear in the same place. Fortunately, he manages to fix it before reality is entirely full of Enterprises.
Another episode, "We'll Always Have Paris", had a Mad Scientist accidentally rip open time with his experiments, causing temporal hiccups. Way to divide by zero there, buddy.
The series finale, "All Good Things...", has Picard deal with an incursion of anti-time that threatens to spread from the future into the past, wiping humanity from existence unless he finds the cause and repairs the anomaly.
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Time Crash
 The Multiversity (Comic Book) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 The Ultimates (2015) (Comic Book) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Venom (2021) (Comic Book) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 X-Men: Blue (Comic Book) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Zero Hour: Crisis in Time! (Comic Book) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Shattered Skies: The Morning Lights / Fan Fic / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 The Infinite Loops / Fan Fic / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Alice (The Non-Return) (Fanfic) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 An Eagle Among Lions (Fanfic) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Anderson Quest: Killing Vampires and Werewolves and Leprechauns (Fanfic) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Darth Vader: Shattered Galaxy (Fanfic) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Diamond and Silver's Excellent Adventure (Fanfic) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Hunters of Justice (Fanfic) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Magia Revolution (Fanfic) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 MÅ“bius (Fanfic) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 PinkieSenseAndSensibility
seeAlso
Time Crash
 Puella Arcana Somniator Madoka (Fanfic) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Rediscovered Frontiers (Fanfic) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 To Walk the Narrow Path (Fanfic) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Alice Through the Looking Glass / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Bill & Ted Face the Music / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Doctor Strange (2016) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 The Flash (2023) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 The Philadelphia Experiment / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Timequest / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 High School D×D / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 A Tale of Time City / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 11/22/63 / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 High School D×D / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Horus Heresy / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Orthogonal / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 The One Who Eats Monsters / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 The Silence Trilogy / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Twin Peaks / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Red vs. Blue: The Shisno Trilogy (Machinima) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Ryusui
seeAlso
Time Crash
 The World God Only Knows (Manga) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Cardboard Chronicles (Roleplay) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Continuum / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Debris / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Eureka / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Future Man / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Kamen Rider Den-O / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Kamen Rider Zi-O / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Legion (2017) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Paper Girls (2022) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Russian Doll / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 The Ark (2023) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 The Librarians (2014) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 12 Monkeys / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Arkham Horror: The Card Game (Tabletop Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Chrononauts (Tabletop Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 C°ntinuum: roleplaying in The Yet (Tabletop Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Marvel Super Heroes (Tabletop Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Another Eden (Video Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Back to the Future Part II & III (Video Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Blinx (Video Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Bugs Bunny & Taz: Time Busters (Video Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Chrono Cross (Video Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Ciel nosurge (Video Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Cognitive Dissonance (Video Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Crash Fever (Video Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Dark Souls Nightfall (Video Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Dead Cells (Video Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Dishonored 2 (Video Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Doctor Who Legacy (Video Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Dragon Ball Xenoverse (Video Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light (Video Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Final Fantasy XIII-2 (Video Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Grim Tales (Video Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Half-Minute Hero (Video Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Kirby: Revenge of Dream Land (Video Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 (Video Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 LEGO Dimensions (Video Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Life Is Strange (Video Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII (Video Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Marvel: Avengers Academy (Video Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Mortal Kombat 1 (Video Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Mortal Kombat 11 (Video Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time (Video Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Pro Pinball: Timeshock! (Video Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Quantum Break (Video Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Reverse: 1999 (Video Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Scarlet Nexus (Video Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Singularity (Video Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Siren (Video Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Siren Games (Video Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Sonic Mania (Video Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Sonic Robo Blast 2: The Past (Video Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Superdimension Neptune VS Sega Hard Girls (Video Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Tales of Maj'Eyal (Video Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall (Video Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 The Impossible Quiz (Video Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Time Commando (Video Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Tower of Fantasy (Video Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Video Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Choice of Games / Videogame / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Endless Summer (Visual Novel) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Bravest Warriors (Web Animation) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Evaporate (Web Animation) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Moonkitti (Web Animation) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Red vs. Blue: The Shisno Trilogy (Web Animation) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Kane Pixels' The Backrooms (Web Video) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Real-Time Fandub (Web Video) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Scott The Woz (Web Video) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 The Oldest View (Web Video) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Twitch Plays Pokémon Randomized Y (Web Video) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 VibingLeaf (Web Video) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 BallerinaMafia
seeAlso
Time Crash
 C0DA (Webcomic) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Tlf Travel Alerts (Website) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Babylon 5: The Road Home / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Ben 10: Omniverse / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 BravestWarriors
seeAlso
Time Crash
 Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Mr. Peabody & Sherman / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Unicorn: Warriors Eternal / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Zero Hour! (Comic Book) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 A Crown of Stars (Fanfic) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Aeon Legion: Labyrinth / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 Morgaine Cycle / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash
 BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma (Video Game) / int_98c95895
type
Time Crash