Court Cases Involving Time Travelers

Tag Area: Time Travel Trope
Comic Book

Cat Kid Comic Club [#1]

Dennis the Toothbrush Who Wanted to Be a Dinosaur Lawyer

There may well be many moments of time travel in Dav Pilkey’s wacky tales of critters who want nothing more than to create great comic books, but the one that I spotted was from the first Cat Kid Comic Club compilation (being read by my daughter to her sons): a two-parter by Melvin the Frog titled Dennis the Toothbrush Who Wanted to Be a Dinosaur Lawyer. That says it all. —Michael Main
Afterwards they used Dennis to brush their teeth.
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  • Comedy
  • Audience: Children
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Loki, Season 1

Hang on to your Tesseracts! Apparently, in Endgame, when the Avengers traveled back in time to swipe various things from the 2012 Avengers, they inadvertantly started a branch in time where Loki ended up with the Tesseract. Of course, once that occurred, the Time Variance Authority spotted him as a Variant and quickly recruited him to help in their fight against even more variant Variants. —Michael Main
Appears to be a standard sequence violation. Branches growing at a stable rate and slope. Variant identified.
Tom Hiddleston (as Loki) stands with his arms crossed and an annoyed look on his face, in front of a large analog clock with multiple hands.
  • Eloi Bronze Medal
  • Superhero
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

MacCoinnich #5

The Bureaucratic Constraints of Time Travel

  • by Jeff Currier
  • in The Kafka Protocol and the Burden of Compliance, edited by Jessica Augustsson (JayHenge, July 2024)
“Have any requests ever been approved?”
“Of course—just last week I approved a request to investigate the original Neolithic origins of the ‘Iceman’, the preserved mummy found in an Alpine glacier in the late 20th century.”
“And that wasn’t deemed a risk of changing the past?” Deraz asked.
“Certainly not. Prior to approval, it was determined the requestor was the ‘Iceman ’. ”
A bleak gray image of repeating grey rectangles, possibly windows in a giant apartment building.
  • Silver Medal Eloi
  • Science Fiction
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel