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Travelers

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Travelers	comment	Travelers is a Sci-Fi television series co-produced by Netflix and Showcase Television for its first two seasons, and Netflix exclusively for the third season. It focuses on a team of five time travelers from the future, coming back to change history and avert the apocalyptic timeline in which they live. Through Mental Time Travel, the Travelers jump back and possess people who died in the original timeline, right before the historically recorded time of death; they take over the person's body and identity from that point forward.The focal Traveler team consists of: MacLaren (Eric McCormack), team leader Marcy (MacKenzie Porter), team medical specialist Carly (Nesta Cooper), team tactical specialist Philip (Reilly Dolman), team historian Trevor (Jared Abrahamson), tech specialistThings appear straightfoward enough at first, with their planned mission being executed just fine (if improvising a little on the way), but as the plot thickens and knowledge of the future grows so does the difficulty in changing it, as well as telling if the changes are for the better.The show is notable for being created by Brad Wright and starring a not-quite Production Posse of several people who worked on Stargate SG-1 and its many spinoffs (the final episode being directed by none other than Amanda Tapping) sharing some of the writers, directors and producers. It is also surprisingly original in its execution of Science Fiction tropes, taking several already seen concepts (many of them already shown in Stargate-verse) and giving them unique new twists, or analyzing them from new perspectives.It started in 2016, and a second season was greenlit in early February 2017 and began filming in March. Season three (to air exclusively on Netflix) was announced in March 2018. Filming commenced later that year. It was announced in February 2019 that Netflix has cancelled the series; all three seasons remain available on the streaming site.Has a character page that could use some troper love, along with other expansion.
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Travelers / int_1044a759	type	Dying Race
Travelers / int_1044a759	comment	Dying Race: Humanity has become this in the future, so much so that Traveler numbers appear to be limited to four digits and that a change that results in 10,000 people being saved radically alters the balance of power in the future.
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Travelers / int_13a6b7ef	type	Gaia's Lament
Travelers / int_13a6b7ef	comment	Gaia's Lament: Subverted. While it is implied that Earth in the future is a very unpleasant and harsh world to live in, environmental destruction was a consequence of several events, only some of which are explicitly humanity's responsibility. (I.e., the major reason was an asteroid impact - the wars about resources came after that. On the other hand, one Traveler is seen to kill an oil company CEO, and when that isn't enough to stop the pipeline the company is building, the main characters arrange for another CEO to be taken over by a Traveler. He's later seen campaigning for the environment.) It is heavily implied, however, that Earth is borderline uninhabitable with no wildlife, and no drinkable natural water at all. And the shelters need to have their air endlessly recycled, implying nuclear fallout and/or a deadly airborne virus on the outside. (Though it's mentioned in the second season that the Shelter the team comes from was buried under a very thick glacier that probably wasn't there when they were first constructed (hence the collapse of Shelter 41 under the weight of the ice), so that would also explain why, a few generations after moving into the shelters, they can't pump in fresh air from the outside anymore and can't ever leave to see the wildlife that may still be there. Maybe there just aren't any animals in the shelters, because that would have wasted resources.) This is also the justification that The Faction uses for extraordinarily brutal tactics.
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Travelers / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
Travelers / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Trevor (see Really 700 Years Old below). In "Room 101", while the younger members of the team are showing varying degrees of distress and terror, Trevor plays The Gadfly, trolling his way through his interrogation, and doggedly repeating his cover story even though he clearly knows that his interrogator is aware it's false.
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Travelers / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Travelers / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: Multiple: It takes until the end of "Aleksander" for the rest of the team to find out about Philip's heroin addiction. His impaired judgement and irascibility as a result of withdrawal are the catalyst for the events of the entire episode, and by extension several casualties and the near-exposure of the Traveler team. This is enforced by Protocol Two, which prohibits Travelers from discussing their future. This means that when their time alterations create an enemy faction of Traveler extremists, the main characters' lack of information about the Faction's goals and abilities means two billion people nearly die. Lampshaded in Traveler 0027's trial, when it turns out that she created Protocol Two and is accused of doing so in order to make the Travelers easier to manipulate from the future. The fact that she argues this was necessary because if Travelers were fully aware of the consequences of their actions they would rebel en masse doesn't help her case. The Director is fond of giving orders without any explanation. This can cause problems, such as when it orders the quantum frame be destroyed without explaining why.
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Travelers / int_1c7a7a52	type	The Slow Path
Travelers / int_1c7a7a52	comment	The Slow Path: There is no way back to the future for Travelers except this. This wasn't expected to be a problem given that they assumed a temporal paradox would wipe them all out if they succeeded. Several plans involve placing long lasting objects in strategic locations so they will be available in the future.
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Travelers / int_1e020735	type	Heroic Suicide
Travelers / int_1e020735	comment	Heroic Suicide: Gleason attempts what seems like one from his perspective, trying to shoot himself so he is not taken over and forced to set a bomb off. It's actually powering a device which will save the world from disaster, but he doesn't know that. He's out of bullets though, so this fails. Marcy performs one in "Omega" to deny 001 access to vital data that could have been extracted from her brain.
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Travelers / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Travelers / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: "Fellow Travelers," as in the term used for communist sympathizers during the era of McCarthyism.
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Travelers / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
Travelers / int_2493b31d	comment	Fire-Forged Friends: Subtle, but after making a particularly tough and risky choice (and going in blind, since they didn't really know what the mission objective was), MacLaren thanks the team for supporting him against all odds.
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Travelers / int_256664a8	type	Death of Personality
Travelers / int_256664a8	comment	Death of Personality: This is inflicted on everyone Travelers take over, though usually the host was going to die soon anyway.
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Travelers / int_2726d167	type	The World Is Just Awesome
Travelers / int_2726d167	comment	The World Is Just Awesome: It becomes common to see Travelers arriving and marveling at how alive, green, and beautiful the earth is, looking at roadside trees in amazement, tasting the most banal foods ever, and wondering at living animals. Before what they think is the final mission, a critically important back up team arrives late because they stopped to look at a dog — apparently having never seen one before (it was a bear).
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Travelers / int_27ba9b64	type	What Did I Do Last Night?
Travelers / int_27ba9b64	comment	What Did I Do Last Night?: Invoked by the team on MacLaren's wife, to uphold The Masquerade. More specifically, she's knocked out with a drug that as a side effect, creates hangover symptoms, and Phillip and Trevor set up a scene on the kitchen emptying bottles and spilling on the table. She doesn't buy it, though. Not because any particular detail on the deception, rather that she knows herself well enough to know she'd never drink that much.
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Travelers / int_2d7ef923	type	Mistaken for Cheating
Travelers / int_2d7ef923	comment	Mistaken for Cheating: MacLaren's wife understandably comes to this conclusion because he seems like a different person and is constantly lying to her. Ironically he actually is cheating on her with Carly (or perhaps he's cheating on Carly with her given that the relationship with Carly came first). He isn't cheating on Kat in the conventional sense since he isn't really Grant MacLaren and never actually married her — however, his own ethical code demands he act like he's married to her (Protocol 5) and leave all his previous identity's relationships behind (Protocol 2), meaning that his ongoing sexual relationship with Carly is indeed illicit.
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Travelers / int_2e0c6c38	type	Eskimos Aren't Real
Travelers / int_2e0c6c38	comment	Eskimos Aren't Real: In "U235", David recalls seeing a movie about a pandemic where looting took place, which he thought didn't make sense - why would people getting sick lead to looting? He's therefore nonplussed that there's now a pandemic going on around him, and people have started looting.
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Travelers / int_2f94135c	type	Thou Shalt Not Kill
Travelers / int_2f94135c	comment	Thou Shalt Not Kill: Protocol 3 forbids killing anyone not designated by The Director. Unusually it also forbids saving anyone not designated. Even beyond this, Travelers seem to be extremely averse to killing, presumably because life is so precious in the future. For instance, despite knowing that the soldiers attacking the antimatter powered laser will all die in moments anyway, none of the Travelers assign to defend the area shoot to kill.
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Travelers / int_326a44a1	type	Create Your Own Villain
Travelers / int_326a44a1	comment	Create Your Own Villain: The series Big Bad is revealed to be Traveler 001, who decides - instead of dying in 9/11 like he should have - to overthrow the Director. Ultimately, he uploads his consciousness on the Internet and triggers a nuclear war in order to cause the Bad Future to happen sooner so that he would be the one to rule it.
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Travelers / int_33f1c576	type	Not Helping Your Case
Travelers / int_33f1c576	comment	Not Helping Your Case: Grace is prone to this. In "Traveler 0027", she responds to the allegations of questionable actions by ranting about how yes, she most definitely did exactly what she's accused of, and her accusers should be thanking her for it! In "001", she tries to convince a group of Muggles that the idea of time travelers taking over people's bodies is ridiculous... by going into an in-depth lecture about all the technical difficulties involved in time travel, parts of which sound suspiciously like they're well beyond the grasp of any current-day Nobel prize winner, to say nothing of the current-day high school guidance councilor she's claiming to be.
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Travelers / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
Travelers / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: While the show takes place in the United States, nearly every regular and recurring actor on the show is Canadian and their accents poke through really frequently. Jared Abrahamson (Trevor) is probably the worst offender but the way just about anyone on the show pronounces words like "about" or "against" or "tomorrow" is not the way an American would.
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Travelers / int_35ca4848	type	Antimatter
Travelers / int_35ca4848	comment	Antimatter: The Van Huizen Corp. has produced a lot of it. The Travelers steal it to avoid a disaster and then use it as a power source for an explosively pumped X-ray laser.
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Travelers / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Travelers / int_38326b11	comment	Clone Degeneration: A purely mental version. Overwriting the same host repeatedly is possible but causes increasing amounts of brain damage.
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Travelers / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
Travelers / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: Vincent won't let anything near him that could confirm when and where he is at any given time. He has also lined his house with neutron moderators to prevent anyone inside from being targeted.
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Travelers / int_3b0fd855	type	Obstructive Code of Conduct
Travelers / int_3b0fd855	comment	Obstructive Code of Conduct: The Travelers have a number of "Protocols" that they frequently chafe against and sometimes feel compelled to go against for moral or practical reasons. The ones mentioned on the show are: Protocol One: "The mission comes first." Protocol Two: "Leave the future in the past." (i.e., don't discuss the Bad Future unless necessary, even with other members of your team.) This is to avoid unnecessarily "corrupting" the future course of history by spreading knowledge about it. Protocol 2H is a subset of Protocol 2 that applies only to Historians: "Never reveal the existence of Updates to a non-Historian. " Only Historians know that there's a process by which they can download new information from the future after they arrive in the past - information that now includes knowledge of the destiny of their fellow Travelers and themselves. Protocol Three: "Don't take a life, don't save a life, unless otherwise directed." Protocol Four: "Do not reproduce." Protocol Five: "In the absence of direction, maintain your hostâ€™s life." Protocol Six: "No inter-team/deep web communication except in extreme emergencies." Protocol Alpha, if invoked by a Traveler, indicates that they've been given specific instructions by the Director that supersede all other missions and protocols. This notably overrides Protocol Six, explicitly authorizing them to give orders to other Travelers at will Protocol Epsilon is one of a number of emergency protocols that seem similar to Protocol Alpha but do not require direct orders from the Director. In this case, it states that if one of the Archives where historical information is preserved for the Director in the future is threatened, all Travelers must suspend all other missions and protocols to save it. If the Director gives the order Protocol Omega, it means the current timeline has been abandoned by the Traveler project, all protocols are revoked, and Travelers trapped in the past are free to spend their remaining lifespan as they see fit.
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Travelers / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Travelers / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: The Travelers use information from online databases to choose their hosts. However, some of those records end up being false. Marcy's mental disability is missed because Marcy's online profile is entirely made up as a wish-fulfillment exercise thought up by David. Philip's addiction is missed because his family arranged for the official records to state that he died using drugs for the first time rather than that he was a long-time junkie.
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Travelers / int_420c50b7	type	A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Travelers / int_420c50b7	comment	A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Its not entirely clear how the dice fell but the Director in charge of the Travelers is an advanced AI. It seems mostly benign, but the Faction absolutely hates it and considers it not only a tyrant that has no business telling human beings what to do, but also considers its Grand Plan to be a failure and believes that solutions deviced by human minds would be more effective in averting the apocalypse.note That solution is basically genocide, so make of that what you will An unexpected kind of AI issue happens in Season 3. When the Director uses an AI to briefly make a little girl into a Messenger able to outhack people trying to destroy a nuclear powerplant the kill switch to shut it down when finished fails to work properly. As a result the AI keeps running inside of the girl's brain.
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Travelers / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Travelers / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Philip. In "Aleksander", he deceives the team into thinking that rescuing Aleksander, an abducted child, is a mission from the director, because he feels they have a moral responsibility to prevent avoidable, pointless deaths, in direct violation of the Protocol 3 temporal non-interference directive. Possibly subverted, in that a remark from Marcy implies Philip's judgement is impaired by Original Philip's heroin addiction. For some reason the Traveler soldiers sent to protect the Engineer's laser obey Protocol Three even though lethal force couldn't possibly affect the timeline given that an antimatter explosion is about to vaporize the entire building.
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Travelers / int_4a852458	type	Big Good
Travelers / int_4a852458	comment	Big Good: The Director. For a given value of "good," at least.
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Travelers / int_4acee1ed	type	Fish out of Temporal Water
Travelers / int_4acee1ed	comment	Early in Season 2, there's some jokes about how Walt doesn't know how to drive a car and generally acts even more like a Fish out of Temporal Water than most Travelers. Walt isn't a regular Traveler, but one of many Faction members who were crammed into the quantum frame in a last-ditch effort to flood the twenty-first century with as many of them as possible. As such, he never got the training or preparation that normal Travelers get to make sure they're ready to blend in.
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Travelers / int_4cb90f31	type	Three Laws-Compliant
Travelers / int_4cb90f31	comment	Three Laws-Compliant: Vincent is convinced that The Director is this and becomes extremely concerned when his wife was targeted despite not being about to die, which makes her death murder. Season 3 shows that the Director actually has a variant of the Three Laws where the second law supersedes the first rather than vice versa - it can take a life, but only at the urging of a human.
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Travelers / int_4eb0815	type	The Nth Doctor
Travelers / int_4eb0815	comment	The Nth Doctor: Casting only. MacLaren has a hallucination of Carly (Traveler 3465) in "Protocol 5". However, we only know it's her because she's got "3465" tattooed on her neck; she's played by Erika Walter, who looks completely different from Nesta Cooper, her regular actress. It's implied that this is what Traveler Carly actually looks like. Likewise, in "Trevor" we get our first actual (very brief) flashback / flashforward to the Traveler future, including a look of one of 0115's previous host bodies.
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Travelers / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Travelers / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: None of the first four members of the team are met by earlier Travelers.
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Travelers / int_54d6f53f	type	Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory
Travelers / int_54d6f53f	comment	Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: Played straight and discussed. The Travelers have no way of knowing if anything they do changes the future. This becomes a major plot point after they complete their mission and... nothing happens. This trope is discussed later on as, through sheer coincidence, they realize that the timeline has changed significantly, yet no one from the future remembers the original timeline, and no one in the past knows about the new one.
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Travelers / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Travelers / int_558f5da6	comment	Cryptic Conversation: Protocol Two ("leave the future in the past") outright forbids Travelers from discussing the future, even among themselves. Because of this, most of what we find out about it is in the form of this trope.
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Travelers / int_59f0de2a	type	Not Himself
Travelers / int_59f0de2a	comment	Not Himself: Travelers are fairly uniformly serious, intelligent, and competent. Meanwhile, to name a few, Original Marcy had a severe learning disability and couldn't live independently, Original Trevor was a high school sports star and bully who liked cage fighting, and Original Philip was a young, directionless heroin addict. Philip didn't have a lot of friends, and Trevor has the excuse of a severe (in the original timeline, lethal) head injury, so they get off with a few odd looks, but Marcy attracts significant notice. Zigzagged with Marcy, post mind reboot. She actually is herself, But the team does notice she's a bit different that usual, as it turns out, 0027 erased her empathy. Grace Day, the school counselor, is kind, warm, understanding, and patient. Always going beyond the call of duty to help her students. Traveler 0027 is exactly the opposite, being a cold, heartless bitch with zero people skill and no intent of faking it, which makes sense as she is not a trained operative on a mission but a rogue agent improvising in order to save the Director.
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Travelers / int_5b84f2a	type	Transhuman
Travelers / int_5b84f2a	comment	Transhuman: In "Room 101", Philip mentions having been "modified" to become a Historian when he's injected with a drug that only works on Historians, implying he might be this — although it's not clear how, given that time travel only works on disembodied consciousness.
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Travelers / int_5bdf025f	type	Instant Sedation
Travelers / int_5bdf025f	comment	Instant Sedation: Used when another team shows up with a sick member, who convulses and is sedated (instantly!) to stop the convulsions.
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Travelers / int_5c5ac0e2	type	Really 700 Years Old
Travelers / int_5c5ac0e2	comment	Really 700 Years Old: Trevor's host body is 17 but is described as being older than the rest of the team put together and is later stated to have lived longer than an other human. He has known The Engineer for at least 100 years.
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Travelers / int_5cfeb43f	type	Save Scumming
Travelers / int_5cfeb43f	comment	Save Scumming: A variation in a Season 2 episode. The team is killed in a surprise attack by the Faction to prevent them from completing their mission, retrieving a meteor containing unobtainium necessary for creating the Director. A skydiver named Carrie becomes a Traveler host, but runs through about seven Travelers who all fail to save the team by either getting killed in the process or being too late. An eighth attempt uses her brother instead and also turns a trucker Carrie bumps into into a Traveler earlier, but he's also too late. The final attempt has a ninth Traveler possess the trucker while the eighth is on his way, so he tells the team about the attack ahead of time and helps them stop it.
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Travelers / int_5ecdd585	type	Renegade Splinter Faction
Travelers / int_5ecdd585	comment	Renegade Splinter Faction: The Faction has the same methods and end goal as the other Travelers, but they disagree with the Grand Plan and with the Director's very existence.
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Travelers / int_5fdf73bc	type	Photographic Memory
Travelers / int_5fdf73bc	comment	Photographic Memory: While all Travelers are required to memorize mission-critical information, the team Historian has apparently been modified to be able to memorize incredibly vast amounts of information.
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Travelers / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
Travelers / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: Pretty common for the team. Several times, a new Traveler will have their entry into a new body messed up by an unexpected accident or something history didn't record (a suicide victim having already overdosed on pills before shooting himself). The team also face how their actions create ripple effects which alter the past and thus create issues they're not prepared for. Really, it's almost impossible for them to find a mission that doesn't run into an unexpected issue that throws the plans off.
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Travelers / int_614a4e11	type	Do You Want to Copulate?
Travelers / int_614a4e11	comment	Do You Want to Copulate?: When Trevor gives Grace a supportive hug during her trial, she goes within ten seconds from shock and horror to noting that it actually felt kind of nice to asking Trevor if he has a regular sex partner.
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Travelers / int_61c683d2	type	We Have Reserves
Travelers / int_61c683d2	comment	We Have Reserves: The Director seems to be very unconcerned with how many Travelers it needs to sacrifice to achieve its goals, even when alternatives are available. When alternatives aren't available, it will send whole teams to their certain death without a second thought. For one early example, it does not authorize the Travelers guarding the antimatter laser to shoot to kill (resulting in them being easily slaughtered by trained soldiers, and the need to get more Travelers killed to stop those soldiers). In a later example, it sends a Traveler back to overwrite someone as a form of execution... immediately before he is sent to prison. He serves no further purpose in the grand plan. He is immediately approached by another Traveler in the same position, with the implication that they try to rebel. This is ultimately its downfall. Traveler 001 only rebels because the Director insisted he should let himself die after surviving his initial suicide mission. If he had been left alone (and had not expected it to hunt him down), the series' main villains would never have existed.
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Travelers / int_6201e8b0	type	I Have Your Wife
Travelers / int_6201e8b0	comment	I Have Your Wife: Vincent pulls this on the entire Traveling team in "001." He kind of has to scrape the barrel for some of them, though, so it's technically, "I have your wife, and your boyfriend, and your son (and his abusive deadbeat father, not that you care), and your... fellow operative (because everyone you care about keeps getting used as a host), and your... skeevy Amoral Attorney (because your life's so sad that that's the closest thing you have to a loved one!)."
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Travelers / int_658f7193	type	Lack of Empathy
Travelers / int_658f7193	comment	Zigzagged with Marcy, post mind reboot. She actually is herself, But the team does notice she's a bit different that usual, as it turns out, 0027 erased her empathy.
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Travelers / int_6991bb9	type	Oracular Urchin
Travelers / int_6991bb9	comment	Oracular Urchin: Messengers — ordinary children who are briefly possessed in order to pass on messages to Travelers. It's stated that only prepubescent minds can survive Traveler possession without damage.
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Travelers / int_6d089995	type	The Shrink
Travelers / int_6d089995	comment	The Shrink: Doctor Perrow works as this for Vincent although they disagree on what treatment she is providing exactly. She thinks he is delusional while he just wants someone to talk to.
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Travelers / int_6ef09297	type	Masquerade
Travelers / int_6ef09297	comment	Masquerade: Hundreds to thousands of Travelers have taken over the identities of people in the early 21st century.
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Travelers / int_7095c87e	type	TheMasquerade
Travelers / int_7095c87e	comment	Protocol Five: "In the absence of direction, maintain your hostâ€™s life."
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Travelers / int_738d1a0f	type	Because You Were Nice to Me
Travelers / int_738d1a0f	comment	Because You Were Nice to Me: Trevor recognizes a name on the list of potential hosts and tries to prevent her death, even knowing that he's way out of line. Grace gets taken over later anyway.
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Travelers / int_753a61d4	type	Time-Travel Tense Trouble
Travelers / int_753a61d4	comment	Time-Travel Tense Trouble: "Leave the future in the past." (Protocol 2)
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Travelers / int_75b53c77	type	Arcology
Travelers / int_75b53c77	comment	Arcology: Humanity seems to be limited to living in huge, hermetically sealed domes due to how badly the world is messed up in the future. The only one we know by name is Shelter 41. Philip mentions that he has never seen them from the outside though it is implied that Trevor has as he recognizes the geography.
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Travelers / int_75bbe725	type	Double Standard: Rape, Sci-Fi
Travelers / int_75bbe725	comment	Double Standard: Rape, Sci-Fi: Inherent in the mission, as the Travelers are supposed to continue the hosts' lives while keeping the switch a secret from the hosts' spouses / partners. To the main characters' credit, they do try to avoid this. (Original Marcy and David didn't have a romantic relationship, of course, so that romance is legitimate. Carly throws out her host's abusive boyfriend and even later doesn't have sex with him when they try to reconcile for the baby's sake. Trevor refuses to have sex with his host's teenage girlfriend and gladly lets her go when she wants to end the relationship in season 2. Mac tries to avoid having sex with his host's wife for months, until he is drugged and hallucinating that she's Carly one evening.) But still, there doesn't seem to be real awareness in the writing that this would be rape by fraud in any case, and not just problematic in some cases for age difference reasons. Mac's growing romantic attraction to Kat is never presented as creepy. It remains to be seen if Kat will point out that she never consented to sex with a bodysnatcher, now that she finally knows.
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Travelers / int_7a19a69b	type	Not Quite the Right Thing
Travelers / int_7a19a69b	comment	Not Quite the Right Thing: The team saving a small boy's life in "Alexandr" was against protocol but seemed like the humane thing to do... and then, two seasons later, it turns out that he's now fated to grow up to be a serial killer and the team is tasked with killing him. Subverted in that spending a day with MacLaren turns out to be enough to turn Alexandr from that path, and the Director calls off the assassination.
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Travelers / int_7a614b0c	type	San Dimas Time
Travelers / int_7a614b0c	comment	San Dimas Time: Justified. For technobabbly reasons, people can't be sent further back than the time of the last arrival. That enforces a crude synchronization between the twenty-first century and the Bad Future - the latest Traveler to arrive will always have been sent back from a later time than all the Travelers who arrived before them, creating the illusion that the two time periods are happening in parallel. At the end of the final episode of Season 3, Grant MacLaren is nonetheless able to "jump" back 17 years into Special Agent MacLaren's body - even before 001 was originally transferred on 9/11 - because he is using a supercomputer / A.I. in his present (the upgraded "Ilsa").
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Travelers / int_7c0bfb83	type	Obviously Evil
Travelers / int_7c0bfb83	comment	Obviously Evil: The man whom Yates gets to impersonate 001 to the Travelers in "Omega" isn't exactly subtle. MacLaren sees right through the charade and sarcastically asks her why she didn't just give him an eyepatch and a cat to stroke while she was at it.
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Travelers / int_7cc7ff15	type	Mental Time Travel
Travelers / int_7cc7ff15	comment	Mental Time Travel: Travelers can be sent back this way but they must know the target individual's location with some amount of precision. This seems to be part of the reason they so often choose people about to die since the location of death would be in official records. The other reasons is that overwriting the original mind is a horrifyingly painful experience that effectively kills the host.
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Travelers / int_7d34f23a	type	Reckless Gun Usage
Travelers / int_7d34f23a	comment	Reckless Gun Usage: David gets a gun in Season 3, and Marcy promptly chews him out over his complete ignorance of safety practices, e.g., that you should never try to clean a loaded gun. In the end, she reluctantly agrees to teach him how to use it, including how to not engage in this trope.
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Travelers / int_7f1be21	type	Functional Addict
Travelers / int_7f1be21	comment	Functional Addict: Philip is one although only just barely. Since the team needs constant access to the information he has, there is no time for him to try to get clean. The historical record missed this detail.
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Travelers / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Travelers / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In "Omega", Yates states bluntly that instead of saving the world, the Travelers have just made the apocalypse happen ahead of schedule.
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Travelers / int_81c8dd41	type	Deus Est Machina
Travelers / int_81c8dd41	comment	Deus Est Machina: It turns out that The Director is nearly on this level. With a mere three seconds of power, it is able to reroute power to the rest of the system, develop a cure to a Synthetic Plague specifically designed to foil it, provide that to a Traveler, and send that Traveler back to the earliest possible moment. The show even lampshades this trope, more or less subtly. In the first season, the team recites an oath about their commitment to the mission that almost comes across like a group prayer to the Director. And in season 2, Grace's trial happens in a church, and at the end, her "judgement" is pronounced by the Director personally, by speaking through a succession of old men (and one old woman) who are in a coma and about to die anyway, with the video getting holographically projected above Grace like a divine vision.
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Travelers / int_8560c16f	type	Fatal Family Photo
Travelers / int_8560c16f	comment	Fatal Family Photo: An incredibly cruel variant occurs when Vincent's wife takes a picture of him sleeping with their child in his arms and sends it to a friend. The photo itself, along with the attached date and location information, is enough for The Director to get a lethal target lock - on Vincent's wife.
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Travelers / int_867f9f5c	type	Alien Non-Interference Clause
Travelers / int_867f9f5c	comment	Alien Non-Interference Clause: The Travelers have a (somewhat confusing) list of protocols meant to limit the unintentional changes they cause to the timeline.
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Travelers / int_8c00901a	type	Creepy Good
Travelers / int_8c00901a	comment	Creepy Good: The Traveler in "Archive" who ends up in a serial killer's body still looks and sounds as decidedly off as his host did, but is a gentle and friendly person who saves the world and then meekly submits to being incarcerated. In a wider sense, all Travelers are body snatchers who have brutally taken over the identities of people whose loved ones they are now deceiving. That's pretty creepy - but they're only doing it to save uncounted lives and avert a catastrophic future, and they are being as ethical about it as they think they can afford to be.
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Travelers / int_8cda3dc2	type	Flawed Prototype
Travelers / int_8cda3dc2	comment	Flawed Prototype: The very first thing we learn about Vincent is that he was the original Traveler test case and that it went catastrophically wrong up to and including the only known case of a Traveler missing the target and instead accidentally transferring into another bystander.
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Travelers / int_8d23f3a7	type	Timey-Wimey Ball
Travelers / int_8d23f3a7	comment	Timey-Wimey Ball: Due to "some pretty complicated reasons having to do with ripples in space-time" they can only send Travelers back in time as far as the most recent arrival. This prevents them from retrying any failed missions. (One reason the Director apparently routinely assigns missions to two independent teams working without knowledge of each other.) Moreover, we learn in the final episode that deflecting Helios did alter the future but didn't affect the memories of Travelers sent back before the change was made. Since communication is so limited no one even noticed. The rule that people cannot be sent back before the most recent arrival has a loophole that nearly allows missions to be retried. Travelers can be sent to the same host within fractions of a second of each other, each provided with information about what the one before them did that failed. Unfortunately the process is traumatic and multiple transfers within such a short time frame are inevitably fatal. In the episode "17 minutes," there was almost a "Groundhog Day" Loop, with a limited number of do-overs. Since more people died because of the new actions taken, they too became targets for Travelers.
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Travelers / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Travelers / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: After spending the entire first season causing problems for Carly and indirectly the rest of the team, domestic abuser Jeff apparently gets his comeuppance through his one decent act, shooting a Traveler who was trying to kill Carly only to have her abandon him so that it looks like he just killed an innocent teenager. However, he is not punished once they find out she murdered her family with pencils.
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Travelers / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
Travelers / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: Most of the human population was wiped out. Known factors include: An arms race to develop antimatter weapons, which eventually were used in wars over dwindling resources. The impact of Helios-685 in the North Atlantic. note Though the number of people stated to be killed in that incident (90 million) seems ridiculously low for an event that would wipe out the entire US Eastern coast and Western Europe with a huge tsunami, as well as crash the world economy due to the destruction of those major first world cities, and likely lead to at least one year of global harvest failures due to water vapor catapulted in the high atmosphere. And despite modern argiculture, global grain reserves have never been big enough to last more than 100-150 days without a new successful harvest. Realistically, the repercussions of such an asteroid impact would mean that at least a couple billion people would starve or die of epidemics that failing governments can't keep under control anymore. Perhaps the death toll mentioned was just the people who drowned in the immediate tsunami. A return of the ice age just a few hundred years from now, apparently. (It was briefly mentioned in season 2 that the Shelter that the team remembered was buried under a very thick glacier.) note Not inconceivable if we assume that 'originally' the asteroid impact completely crashed the world economy and killed a few billion people within the next few years, thus causing far lower carbon dioxide emissions from that moment onwards. The fact that Shelter 41's collapse was seemingly the only major thing that averting Helios changed in the future, suggests that this interpretation is true. No Helios impact -> no rapid decarbonisation -> global warming stays on track -> no glacier forming above Shelter 41 that eventually weighs too much for the construction to bear. The same history of (nuclear?) wars about scarce resources would likely still happen in a world ravaged by slow climate change (mega droughts leading to harvest failures, ocean acidification leading to fishery collapse, sea level rise swallowing coastal cities, etc.) instead of the sudden asteroid impact. The fact that the shelters were put up in Canada instead of as close to the equator as possible suggests that the ice wasn't the sole or major reason they and their hermetically closed air supply systems became necessary, even in the original timeline. Due to the country's low population density, remote mountains in Canada are less likely to be irradiated than anywhere in the US, after a round of global warfare. Whether the climate was too hot or too cold doesn't matter anymore in that case. A massive plague designed to kill 2 billion people - at least in the version of history the Faction was trying to create. This did not come to pass, however. note This approach actually makes a cruel kind of sense, if the interpretations in the notes above are true. The Faction was only created after the asteroid impact was averted. (It was stated that they originated from Shelter 41.) So from their perspective, what ruined the world was climate change caused by the generation of humans in the 21st century, and they're trying to induce the same rapid reduction in population numbers and resultant economic crash that Helios would have caused. They don't know that the future with 2 billion people less was just as bad as the one they're living in, only for different reasons. After the Helios impact, a Kudzu-like, rapidly spreading GMO plant would have taken over and ruined most of the agricultural land in North America. The Director ordered a Traveler to commit murder, and when that wasn't enough, sent another Traveler to take over the life of an oil company CEO, just to prevent a specific pipeline from being built. It's not stated if this was part of a wider plan to avert climate change, or maybe just because that specific pipeline would have burst and poisoned a major freshwater supply at some point in the future. At some point in the future (barring extraordinary circumstances, sometime between 2060 and 2104) the election of the 56th US President is held, between Anna Hamilton, a deeply beloved, inspiring leader, and an opponent whom it is implied is much less popular but has strong institutional support. Anna's narrow loss plunges the country into chaos and eventual civil war, leading the Faction to try to assassinate Anna as a child to prevent the election from occurring. The Director instructs the team to instead preserve her life, having calculated the changes already made to the timeline make it possible for her to win the election and for her presidency to go on to save the country. Eventually, complete breakdown of the biosphere, as implied by the fact that newly arrived Travelers are amazed to see living trees and animals. (Though it could also be that there still is plenty of wildlife outside the shelters, but these people have never been able to leave the shelters since birth, due to nuclear fallout or deadly viruses or a mile of ice above the entrance.) "Omega" finally spells out that the main factors were global warming, leading to widespread famine and plague, leading to nuclear war over diminishing natural resources, leading to a nuclear winter - though it's clear that that's a very brief summary and that plenty of lesser (but still catastrophic) disasters also added to the mix.
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Travelers / int_92a61707	type	The Speechless
Travelers / int_92a61707	comment	The Speechless: Vincent's staff are apparently all mute and possibly deaf.
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Travelers / int_93c04c8a	type	Future Food Is Artificial
Travelers / int_93c04c8a	comment	Future Food Is Artificial: On his first day, MacLaren is nonplussed to find that the coffee his wife serves him is laced with "cow's milk". He dumps that cup out, but he, and the others, presumably adjust, since they manage to keep up the Masquerade. Later, via a hallucination Philip is having, we get a look at what people eat in the future — a sort of grey porridge that looks deeply unappetising.
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Travelers / int_93ed8515	type	Set Right What Once Went Wrong
Travelers / int_93ed8515	comment	Set Right What Once Went Wrong: The entire point of the Travelers' mission. They come from a Bad Future and are doing their best to avoid it. In a lesser sense, the Travelers avoid the deaths (bodily at least) of MacLaren, Marcy, Carly, Philip, and Trevor. It's yet to be seen whether this counts as setting things right. In some sense, the Travelers have had some success "making things right" (or at least getting justice) for their dead hosts. I.e., Trevor getting back at the sexually abusive football coach, rescuing his host's friend from further abuse, and letting his host's parents finally know why their boy was so disturbed; or Marcy figuring out what really happened to damage poor Original Marcy's brain. The season 3 finale takes this to the next level as MacLaren travels back in time twenty years so he can send a message to the Director that will stop the Traveler program from starting at all since it becomes clear that it made the future even worse than it was before.
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Travelers / int_96a2363c	type	Bathos
Travelers / int_96a2363c	comment	Bathos: In the middle of an antimatter recovery operation, Trevor bemoans Original Trevor's mother finding out that he missed a science test.
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Travelers / int_97c8b5b0	type	Tyop on the Cover
Travelers / int_97c8b5b0	comment	Tyop on the Cover: Averted. The show was co-produced by Netflix, an American company, hence the spelling.
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Travelers / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
Travelers / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: The Faction wants to save the world, same as the Travelers do. However, while the Travelers try to do so in a more or less ethical way and by means of an intricate, fine-tuned Grand Plan, the Faction believes that extreme and blatant measures are the way to go, such as engineering a plague to wipe out 30% of the world's population in order combat overpopulation.
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Travelers / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Travelers / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Early in Season 2, there's some jokes about how Walt doesn't know how to drive a car and generally acts even more like a Fish out of Temporal Water than most Travelers. Walt isn't a regular Traveler, but one of many Faction members who were crammed into the quantum frame in a last-ditch effort to flood the twenty-first century with as many of them as possible. As such, he never got the training or preparation that normal Travelers get to make sure they're ready to blend in. Related to the above, at the end of "Ave Machina" the team considers the seeming Insane Troll Logic of the Director setting a bomb to kill a bunch of people, then treating them as valid host candidates because they were now about to die. No one wants to question the win, though, and the general impression is that the Director was just desperate enough to bend the rules a bit. It turns out that the Director was no longer in charge at that point, and the flimsy logic was just there to hide from the loyal Travelers that the new arrivals were sent by someone without the Director's ethical constraints.
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Travelers / int_9e062ca3	type	Suicide Mission
Travelers / int_9e062ca3	comment	Suicide Mission: Some Traveler missions are this, though it seems to be rare and reserved for extremely important missions that justify the sacrifice. On a larger scale, the Grand Plan is this for the entire Traveler organization, since it's believed that if they successfully avert the future they come from, they may cease to exist. Travelers have to officially swear to not let that possibility stop them from carrying out their mission. Later episodes imply that this is not in fact how it works.
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Travelers / int_a2492aff	type	Dogged Nice Guy
Travelers / int_a2492aff	comment	Dogged Nice Guy: Zigzagged, and averted. David has this trope written all over him for Marcy. Although the situation is more complicated than "she's just not into him", between the brain damage, him being her state-appointed guardian, and her (apparently) erratic behaviour. In the end though, she actually considers dying a better alternative than living without memories of their time together.
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Travelers / int_a52faac6	type	Benevolent Conspiracy
Travelers / int_a52faac6	comment	Benevolent Conspiracy: The Travelers see themselves as this.
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Travelers / int_aa7b6e26	type	Muggle
Travelers / int_aa7b6e26	comment	In "001", she tries to convince a group of Muggles that the idea of time travelers taking over people's bodies is ridiculous... by going into an in-depth lecture about all the technical difficulties involved in time travel, parts of which sound suspiciously like they're well beyond the grasp of any current-day Nobel prize winner, to say nothing of the current-day high school guidance councilor she's claiming to be.
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Travelers / int_ac0f4761	type	Future Imperfect
Travelers / int_ac0f4761	comment	Future Imperfect: Only so much information about the past has survived into the future. Most of what they know was apparently mined from social media sites. Lack of detailed records also mean that they can't send people back to before the 21st century because they don't know exactly where they were.
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Travelers / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
Travelers / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Almost every episode title is either a name ("Donner," "Jenny"), a number ("11:27", "001") or a name that includes a number ("Traveler 0027", "Helios-685").
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Travelers / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Travelers / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: The security guard in "17 Minutes" gets frustrated when a logging truck blocks him from chasing and killing a Traveler , so he shoots the driver, which makes him a suitable host for another Traveler. After entering the truck driver, the Traveler kills the security guard, and goes on to save the mission.
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Travelers / int_ad459d78	type	Write Back to the Future
Travelers / int_ad459d78	comment	Write Back to the Future: How the team solved the problem of the U235 stolen by the Faction. They didn't recover it themselves, but they were able to trigger a message when the Director shut down that enabled the loyalist team to act quickly and find the stolen uranium at some point in the future. On a broader sense, this is basically how the entire communication works, everything that is recorded digitally is known in the future, which will be how the director makes decisions. A lot of missions and teams seem to be simply to gather things that will be needed in the far future, where resources are reduced, such as the fuel for The Director. Season 3 reveals that the Faction has started destroying digital records to keep important information from surviving long enough to become available to the Director. The Travelers respond by starting to covertly store data within the DNA of family lines known to have descendants in the future.
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Travelers / int_ad54ff39	type	Hiroshima as a Unit of Measure
Travelers / int_ad54ff39	comment	Surprisingly, the explosion of 10.3 grams of antimatter — enough to make an explosion more than ten times the size of the one that leveled Hiroshima — only caused 11,000 deaths in the original timeline, due to the location being in the middle of a large industrial complex, and detonations at surface level greatly narrowing the spread of damage and the damage increase doesn't increase the damage range as much as the volume. In the revised version of history, most of the energy is absorbed by the Engineer's X-ray laser using it as a bomb pump, limiting the damage.
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Travelers / int_aec63727	type	Pragmatic Hero
Travelers / int_aec63727	comment	Pragmatic Hero: The Travelers' hat. They're here with noble goals and good intentions, but that doesn't mean that they're gonna save random people from dying even if it would be literally effortless. The pilot episode is pretty much one big example but Philip leaves his host's roommate to die of an overdose; Trevor saves Original MacLaren and patiently explains the premise of the plot — but that's only to keep him occupied until he gets possessed by Traveler MacLaren immediately after.
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Travelers / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
Travelers / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: The finale of Season 3 reveals that thanks to 001, the Traveler program not only fails to prevent the Bad Future but actually causes it to happen ahead of schedule.
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Travelers / int_b2ad812d	type	So What Do We Do Now?
Travelers / int_b2ad812d	comment	So What Do We Do Now?: "Protocol 5" revolves around this. Having deflected Helios-685, the team believe they've cut off the timeline they came from, and will now be expected to live out the rest of their lives as the people they took over. Turns out, things have changed in the future, but not for the better, and their original plan is not as flawless as they used to believe, leaving them in uncertainty if following orders is the right course of action.
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Travelers / int_b3eecaae	type	Colony Drop
Travelers / int_b3eecaae	comment	The impact of Helios-685 in the North Atlantic. note Though the number of people stated to be killed in that incident (90 million) seems ridiculously low for an event that would wipe out the entire US Eastern coast and Western Europe with a huge tsunami, as well as crash the world economy due to the destruction of those major first world cities, and likely lead to at least one year of global harvest failures due to water vapor catapulted in the high atmosphere. And despite modern argiculture, global grain reserves have never been big enough to last more than 100-150 days without a new successful harvest. Realistically, the repercussions of such an asteroid impact would mean that at least a couple billion people would starve or die of epidemics that failing governments can't keep under control anymore. Perhaps the death toll mentioned was just the people who drowned in the immediate tsunami.
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Travelers / int_b3f4b615	type	Raging Stiffie
Travelers / int_b3f4b615	comment	Raging Stiffie: Implied when the Traveler occupying Trevor, having newly arrived in the body of a teenage boy, wakes up and peers under his bedclothes. Unlike most examples of the trope, he seems rather pleased about it, probably because he's actually very old.
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Travelers / int_b5914444	type	Noodle Implements
Travelers / int_b5914444	comment	Noodle Implements: All we find out about the mission in "Room 101" is that it requires two full Traveler teams and a helicopter. Later we find out another detail: for some reason, the Faction wanted it to fail.
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Travelers / int_b5ac90ac	type	"Groundhog Day" Loop
Travelers / int_b5ac90ac	comment	In the episode "17 minutes," there was almost a "Groundhog Day" Loop, with a limited number of do-overs. Since more people died because of the new actions taken, they too became targets for Travelers.
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Travelers / int_babc974	type	Sadistic Choice
Travelers / int_babc974	comment	Sadistic Choice: Having finally admitted her feelings for David, Marcy is forced to choose: either die a slow and painful death, or live, by "rebooting" her consciousness and forgetting the entire events of season 1. In the end she makes her choice. Not that it matters because someone else chooses in her place.
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Travelers / int_bf1f379a	type	Sense Freak
Travelers / int_bf1f379a	comment	Sense Freak: Travelers have absolutely no experience with the world as we know it so exposure to the full range of normal human sensation is extremely disorienting at first. Even hospital food is described as "amazing". It's most likely not that they didn't have "normal human sensations", but rather that they spent their entire lives in an extremely resource-poor, overpopulated, hermetically closed bunker, so they haven't seen anything even approximating a natural environment before and their food was tasteless gruel made from vat-grown yeast or similar. They've never eaten any fresh veggies before or spices or real meat, so even what we consider boring, under-seasoned, additive-laced fast food is a complete novelty to them.note (Kind of makes you wonder if people going on long-term space exploration / colonization missions would be the same, and if it's worth it to put people through that kind of sensory deprivation torture.)
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Travelers / int_c2299d6e	type	Cutting the Knot
Travelers / int_c2299d6e	comment	Cutting the Knot: David is trapped in a locked room with a nuclear bomb that he has to disarm with no tools or training and only three minutes on the clock, with Voice with an Internet Connection Trevor guiding him. They do their best, but when they're only halfway through the procedure, time runs out and the bomb makes a whirring sound as it begins to activate â€” upon which MacLaren shouts at David to just grab the uranium core and throw it against the ground, shattering it before it can reach critical mass and saving the city. Why didn't they just do that in the first place?... Because, as everyone besides David knows, doing this has exposed him to a lethal blast of radiation and doomed him to an agonizing death over the next few hours.
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Travelers / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Travelers / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Kat's belief that Mack is cheating on her leads to her sneaking aboard a doomed flight to see if he's flying with his supposed side chick. She finds out she's wrong and also learns in the process of Mack saving her that he's a part of something greater... but she reacts badly to it and protocol dictates she has to be Laser-Guided Amnesia'd anyway, bringing us back to square one. Carly manages to convince the CPS worker that Jeff is not a good person to entrust Jeffrey Jr. to, earning her sympathy. The CPS worker wants to help her get a job to build a better case for her against Jeff, but Carly ends up having a difficult time applying due to her background check claiming she assaulted a police officer, courtesy of Jeff. Not to mention her Traveler work getting in the way... forcing her to leave Jeffrey Jr. with Jeff temporarily, except "temporarily" accidentally turns into two days. The CPS worker is pissed and points out this clearly means Carly does trust Jeff as a suitable caretaker while she's off doing anything but that, giving CPS a reason to give permanent custody to Jeff. Trevor's physics teacher thinks he's cheated on a test (a very important one that meant either passing or failing the year) when he does too well on it. The guidance counselor and the teacher agree to let Trevor retake a couple days later, and the counselor sees for herself when helping Trevor study that he's gotten much smarter than before. But due to Traveler business, he ends up missing the retake and fails the class, leading to his parents agreeing to send him to military school.
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Travelers / int_c44b1c65	type	Inevitably Broken Rule
Travelers / int_c44b1c65	comment	Inevitably Broken Rule: Hardly an episode goes by in which someone doesn't violate the Protocols.
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Travelers / int_c5b47b36	type	Offscreen Moment of Awesome
Travelers / int_c5b47b36	comment	Offscreen Moment of Awesome: In "U235," the loyal Travelers in the future manage to find the power source the protagonists have hidden and bring it to the depowered Director without being discovered by the currently-dominant Faction. This in turn allows the Director to have one: the power source is capable of fueling it for all of three seconds, which is all the time it needs to start the main reactor back up again and block the Faction from shutting it back down, effectively winning the civil war on the spot, and then, as an encore, overwriting most of the Faction members in the twenty-first century, developing a cure for the disease they have spread, and passing it along to the loyal Traveler medics for distribution.
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Travelers / int_c5f0119c	type	Insane Troll Logic
Travelers / int_c5f0119c	comment	Insane Troll Logic: Jenny claims that the Faction only takes over people who are going to die soon, same as the Travelers do. It's just that "soon" is a relative term when viewed from the far future - from the Faction's perspective, everyone is going to die "soon."
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Travelers / int_c6102eb0	type	Grand Theft Me
Travelers / int_c6102eb0	comment	Grand Theft Me: The Travelers use Mental Time Travel to get from their original bodies into the bodies of people who would have died in the history that the Travelers are coming back to change, at the point of death. The original mind dies screaming in agony. It's stated in "Aleksander" that prepubescent minds are the only ones malleable enough to survive Traveler possession without permanent damage and so they are sometimes briefly taken over to send messages. It turns out that doing this at the moment of death is only a convention. In fact they execute a rogue Traveler by having his mind overwritten and later they overtake Grace Day by finding a GPS record of the call she made to 911 after her original time of death, and very far away from her original location. In the second season, numerous people are overwritten at times and places completely unrelated to their proper deaths. It turns out that this is done by The Faction rather than by The Director.
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Travelers / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
Travelers / int_c8146c52	comment	Synthetic Plague: An especially horrifying one that is designed to kill 30% of the world population and to do it as slowly as possible in order to ensure that it spreads. The final stages are so awful that having seen it before a fanatic who helped spread it immediately offers to betray the cause merely at the mention of a possible cure.
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Travelers / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Travelers / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: To an extent. The Travelers presumably had names prior to coming back, but they don't use them at any point, instead using the names of their hosts. This applies even in situations where they would have known each other's personal names (MacLaren and Carly are implied to have been a couple). The only consistent label that we know Travelers use is "Traveler [number]". Philip, for example, is Traveler 3326. The numbers seem to be simply sequential. Travelers with lower numbers generally have higher status. For example 009, 0017, 0027, and 0029 are all programmers who work with the Director. However, Traveler 001 was apparently expendable enough to be sent into the North Tower of the World Trade Center minutes before its destruction in order to test the system. The conditioning against ever using a future human's real name (Protocol Two) is apparently so strong that even in the throes of his madness, Simon (Traveler 004) only calls the woman from the future he's obsessed with by her Traveler number (0019). A few very special individuals get a designation but even then not a name: The person who designed the antimatter pumped X-ray laser is called "The Engineer". The leader of the future society is called "The Director" but turns out to be a sentient supercomputer. Traveler 009 identifies herself as "The Speaker" and is evidently a representative for the Director. In "David," it's implied that no, the Travelers really don't have any other names than their numbers and that that's just another crappy element of their Bad Future. (Possibly because Travelers are recruited at a very young age.) We learn that there are highly specialized teams of Travelers with a lettered prefix and their own numbering. The D-Team are Doctors, an elite version of Medics like Marcy entrusted with miraculous nanotechnology; D13 is the recurring Doctor who becomes Marcy's acquaintance. The A-Team are Archivists, who have authority over Historians like Philip and manage the transmission of information to and from the future; the one Philip knows is a woman named A26.
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Travelers / int_cdc4a218	type	Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act
Travelers / int_cdc4a218	comment	Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act: The Director needs large amounts of detailed information in order to ensure only the changes they want will come to pass, a requirement not fulfilled until the 21st century.
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Travelers / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Travelers / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: It's common for one of the team confronted on how they know certain events to flatly say "I'm from the future" and not be believed.
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Travelers / int_d0f0a80d	type	One-Word Title
Travelers / int_d0f0a80d	comment	One-Word Title: Job Title Team Title.
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Travelers / int_d23a9bb8	type	Possession Burnout
Travelers / int_d23a9bb8	comment	Possession Burnout: Marcy suffers from epileptic seizures caused by her being accidentally placed in the body of a woman with a severe developmental disability. The brain apparently has trouble keeping up with the new mind.
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Travelers / int_d243518d	type	In Spite of a Nail
Travelers / int_d243518d	comment	In Spite of a Nail: The timeline is remarkably resilient despite what the Travelers do. The data that Philip brought back is so reliable that when only three of five long-shot bets pays off, he gets concerned, because he knows that he has proof that the timeline has changed, even if no one from the future told him, and even if he doesn't know how. In fact, by the end of the first season, they have averted the impact of Helios and saved an estimated 91 million lives but the changes to the timeline are so subtle that Travelers from before and after the change still know each other and have the same basic relationships.
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Travelers / int_d49f90ea	type	Western Terrorists
Travelers / int_d49f90ea	comment	Western Terrorists: The Travelers are ultimately mistaken for this by the FBI. Arguably the FBI isn't even mistaken in this assessment.
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Travelers / int_d4f281a3	type	Villainous Underdog
Travelers / int_d4f281a3	comment	Villainous Underdog: The Faction in Season 3 is definitely on the defensive, having lost all support from the future and having none of the specialized operatives that make up Traveler teams (i.e., no Historians who have memorized past events in detail, no technicians who can construct advanced technology from primitive components, and - judging from how often Travelers seem to beat the Faction in fights where the latter have the former outnumbered - none of the superior combat training either). Dawn at one point admits that they would be better off going to ground, but then they'd have to give up all hope of affecting the future. They seem to partly bounce back by forming a Villain Teamup with 001.
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Travelers / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Travelers / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: It comes with the territory given that these are moral people being forced to do immoral/amoral things in pursuit of a far greater good. The true hypocrisy may vary wildly depending on a lot of unknown factors but some particular points do get explicitly pointed out: Trevor attempts to save the school counselor, both from her untimely death AND from being taken as host, due to her being one of the most kind and genuinely caring individuals in the series. She gets possessed anyway, and the Traveler chews him out on his interference and most importantly on the fact that the original Trevor didn't deserve to die either, but he got possessed anyway so it's not like he's any different.
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Travelers / int_d73e0f7f	type	"Ray of Hope" Ending
Travelers / int_d73e0f7f	comment	"Ray of Hope" Ending: In the end, all that the Travelers managed to accomplish was undoing the damage they themselves had caused, and possibly delivering a warning about Helios-685 that may or may not be heeded. All of which means that the Bad Future is still on track. The ray of hope is that the final scene implies that the Director is about to start over again, this time sans 001 - but given its track record so far, how reassuring that's supposed to be is very much up for debate...
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Travelers / int_d7c9f1a5	type	Amnesia Missed a Spot
Travelers / int_d7c9f1a5	comment	Amnesia Missed a Spot: Jeff's alcohol tolerance makes him resistant to the mind-wipe drug, so after the ordeal with 001 he starts to remember things about the Travelers and causes even more trouble than usual. Kat's memories are successfully erased, except for the lingering feeling of having lost a day... and remembering that it's happened before. This ends up being the breaking point for her already strained relationship with Mac.
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Travelers / int_d8dde631	type	You Are Worth Hell
Travelers / int_d8dde631	comment	You Are Worth Hell: Having come to terms to the fact that she's dying AND she is in love with David, Marcy is then presented with a possible cure for her condition. The catch is that she will forget everything that has happened in the present (basically the events of season 1). While she understands that this is the obvious course of action, she actually chooses to die rather than forgetting about David. When the Director ignores her choice and resets her memories anyway, she comes to feel the emptiness from the missing experiences so deeply she ends up inducing a near-death experience in an ice bath to recover them.
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Travelers / int_d9c4365c	type	Reset Button
Travelers / int_d9c4365c	comment	Season 3 ends with a MASSIVE Reset Button. The Bad Guy Wins, 001's consciousness has replaced the Director in the future, and he's triggered a nuclear war in the past to begin the Bad Future as soon as possible so he can rule over it. With this timeline completely FUBAR and abandoned by the Director as per Protocol Omega, MacLaren decides to use 001's quantum frame in the present to overwrite Grant MacLaren's mind all the way back in 2001, a gross violation of Protocol 3 and an act of murder, in order to take 001's place and warn the Director never to begin the Traveler program at all. We get an entirely new timeline where nothing we saw ever happened, and a vague hint that Season 4 will be something completely different.
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Travelers / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Travelers / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Just about every female Traveler, but Carly in particular.
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Travelers / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Travelers / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: The Traveler leadership isn't exactly cuddly, but nor is it as cold and ruthless as one might expect from an organization running such an over-elaborate, clockwork-precision master plan. It seems to understand that missions cannot always be executed exactly as planned, and has shown a willingness to forgive teams occasionally breaking protocol for messy human reasons (though it certainly doesn't approve of such disobedience, it just doesn't seem to expect perfection), at one point even applying rare life-saving technology to save a Traveler who got injured going against a direct order to save himself. It also shows a commitment to basic morals by only taking over people who are about to die, even when breaking that rule would be more convenient. Having said all that, it always puts the mission first — but in fairness, it's perfectly upfront with that, to the point of making it Protocol One.
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Travelers / int_dd6ce5db	type	Artistic License
Travelers / int_dd6ce5db	comment	Artistic License: It's never explicitly stated, although there are other indications (such as referencing street names like Westlake Avenue) that the show takes place in Seattle. There are some liberties taken such as an airport overlooking the port (the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport is not very close to Seattle, much less its bay).
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Travelers / int_deb39de3	type	Bad Future
Travelers / int_deb39de3	comment	The entire point of the Travelers' mission. They come from a Bad Future and are doing their best to avoid it.
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Travelers / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
Travelers / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: For almost all of the first episode, the true nature of the Travelers is withheld from the audience so it looks like we're going to be following Agent MacLaren as he tries to figure out what's going on. However, at the end of the episode he gets taken over by a Traveler himself, so we switch to their point of view.
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Travelers / int_e0d0fb13	type	Please Put Some Clothes On
Travelers / int_e0d0fb13	comment	Please Put Some Clothes On: When Marcy answers David's knock at the door naked in episode 1. Her rationale for doing so is unclear — it's unlikely to be simple cultural naivetÃ©, given the Travelers' fairly comprehensive intel operation. Post reboot, in episode 12 she's at it again.
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Travelers / int_e21faf11	type	Friend to All Living Things
Travelers / int_e21faf11	comment	Friend to All Living Things: It seems most animal life is extinct in the future, which makes the Travelers fascinated by animals to the extent that a team of highly trained soldiers sent back as reinforcements delay their critical mission to take a picture of a dog (which some of them insist is a bear). The concept of eating meat is so shocking to new arrivals that Ellis, upon taking the body of a farmer, says he burst into tears for hours when he looked in his larder and realized where the bacon had come from.
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Travelers / int_e35ab565	type	Indy Ploy
Travelers / int_e35ab565	comment	Indy Ploy: The team is forced to improvise their way out of a jam quite often. While their superiors usually understand when this is done out of need, they still generally see it as a violation of the Grand Plan.
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Travelers / int_e7b0229a	type	Laser-Guided Amnesia
Travelers / int_e7b0229a	comment	Kat's belief that Mack is cheating on her leads to her sneaking aboard a doomed flight to see if he's flying with his supposed side chick. She finds out she's wrong and also learns in the process of Mack saving her that he's a part of something greater... but she reacts badly to it and protocol dictates she has to be Laser-Guided Amnesia'd anyway, bringing us back to square one.
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Travelers / int_e8e56799	type	Blue-and-Orange Morality
Travelers / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue-and-Orange Morality: Subverted. The Travelers initially ''seem' to have this. However, as the plot progresses, they show themselves to be perfectly moral and reasonable people. The actions they take and rules they follow are simply made to ensure a change in the timeline that will, literally, save mankind.
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Travelers / int_ec1f731c	type	Individuality Is Illegal
Travelers / int_ec1f731c	comment	In "David," it's implied that no, the Travelers really don't have any other names than their numbers and that that's just another crappy element of their Bad Future. (Possibly because Travelers are recruited at a very young age.)
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Travelers / int_ecbf37ff	type	Disposable Sex Worker
Travelers / int_ecbf37ff	comment	Disposable Sex Worker: One man kills a number of cam girls when he bombs their building for revenge when they stop him from contacting one he'd been obsessed with, claiming it's God's will. Forbes later gets disgusted when the state cuts a deal to get him life with a chance of parole, rather than life without parole or death, thinking it's because they don't think such victims matter. It's actually because he's become a Traveler.
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Travelers / int_ece27800	type	Kill and Replace
Travelers / int_ece27800	comment	Kill and Replace: What Travelers do to people since it is the only way for them to reach the past. For ethical reasons, they do this by replacing someone historically about to die, then take a different course of action so that they survive, or are saved by other Travelers. In the second season the interference of the Faction results in much more frequent instances of this.
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Travelers / int_ed2bbf8a	type	You Are in Command Now
Travelers / int_ed2bbf8a	comment	You Are in Command Now: Not shown on screen, but Boyd later reveals that she's not only the leader of her team, but also the medic. When MacLaren asks how could she be given the duties of both roles, she explains the trope. It is implied that this happens often.
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Travelers / int_f364de89	type	Make Wrong What Once Went Right
Travelers / int_f364de89	comment	Make Wrong What Once Went Right: After preventing the deaths of 91 million people seemingly only makes the future worse, a Faction concludes the real problem was overpopulation.
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Travelers / int_f3d5d15f	type	Creepy Child
Travelers / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Creepy Child: The Messengers, children the Director temporarily takes over to send messages to the Travelers (thanks to the fact that their immature brains can recover from being temporarily possessed while adult brains can't).
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Travelers / int_f506d08c	type	Broken Masquerade
Travelers / int_f506d08c	comment	Broken Masquerade: In the season 2 finale, the team's closest non-Traveler acquaintances (Kat, Jeff, David, and Ray) are told the truth about Travelers. They don't take it well.
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Travelers / int_fc225bec	type	Artistic License â€“ Physics
Travelers / int_fc225bec	comment	Artistic License â€“ Physics: Despite being set Next Sunday A.D., the Van Huizen Corp. has managed to make 10.3 grams of antimatter — which is literally billions of times the amount that could be produced by all the particle accelerators in the world even with years of work. Surprisingly, the explosion of 10.3 grams of antimatter — enough to make an explosion more than ten times the size of the one that leveled Hiroshima — only caused 11,000 deaths in the original timeline, due to the location being in the middle of a large industrial complex, and detonations at surface level greatly narrowing the spread of damage and the damage increase doesn't increase the damage range as much as the volume. In the revised version of history, most of the energy is absorbed by the Engineer's X-ray laser using it as a bomb pump, limiting the damage.
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Travelers / int_fc52510	type	Brain Uploading
Travelers / int_fc52510	comment	Brain Uploading: The method for sending Travelers back involves this. Trevor mentions being temporarily disembodied during an early experiment. Another use for it is found as a way to reformat Marcy's brain with a modified version of her mind that won't cause conflicts. Additionally, Traveler 001 employs 004 to make a similar machine which he uses to escape hosts under scrutiny and stay under the radar.
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