Fix Your Own Future!

Tag Area: Time Travel Trope
Comic Book

Topolino #911

Zio Paperone e la scorribanda nei secoli

After waking an Egyptian pharaoh from a millennia-long sleep, Uncle Scrooge summons Donald and Gearloose, eventually realizing that they can restore the pharoah to his rightful throne via a trip to ancient Egypt in Gearloose’s not-quite-finished time machine. That doesn’t go quite as planned, and on the way home, they manage to turn the future into a money-mint-land or somnethin’?. —based on Duck Comics Revue
Il veicolo aveva bisogno di una messa a punto! Comunque, siamo sulla “strada” giusta! Tenetevi forte!
translate Keep your seat belts buckled at all times! In the unlikely event of a water landing, your seat cushion doubles as a flotation device.
In three panels, Uncle Scrooge is visited by three fawning minions and then decides to visit his private museum.
  • Science Fiction
  • Comedy
  • Audience: Families
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

Deuxième vie

Shortly after the tragic French loss in the 1982 World Cup, an indecisive and depressed thirty-year-old Frenchman is thrown sixteen years into the future by a car crash, where he sees the French national team finally win a World Cup, and his ignoble future self shocks him into doing everything he can to go back to ’82 to ply a nobler course. —based on Wikipedia
An old and a young Patrick Braoudè (as old and young Vincent) are shocked to face each other.
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

13 Going On 30

Everything that could go wrong is going wrong for 13-year-old Jenna Rink. If only she could be already grown up in the future! —Michael Main
I wanna be thirty and flirty and thriving.
Jennifer Garner (as adult Jenna Rink) stands tall in a polka dot summer dress, with skirt blowing in the wind, holding a child
  • Eloi Honorable Mention
  • Fantasy
  • Romance
  • Comedy
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (s01e10)

A Quality of Mercy

A despondent Captain Pike considers warning two future cadets about the accident that will kill them and maim Pike himself, but before he can write to them, his older self shows up to transport young Pike to the future that the warnings will create. —Michael Main
Young Pike: How am I supposed to believe . . . ?
Old Pike: . . . that I’m really you?
Young Pike: You ever gonna let me get a word in edgewise?
Old Pike: I knew you were gonna say that. Does that help?
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (s02e03)

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

A mysterious, bloody man appears and warns La’an of an attack in the past, after which she races to the bridge, only to find herself in an alternate timeline with a young James T. Kirk at the helm.

A trip to the past seeems in order. —Michael Main
There’s going to be an attack. It’s going to change the timeline. We have to stop it.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel