Superhero

Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound! Look—up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superman!

Yes, it’s Superman, strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Superman, who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands, and who—disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannored reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper—fights a never-ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way!

And now I shall send you back. . . hundreds of years into the past! You will have forty-eight hours to bring me Blackbeard’s treasure chest! Do not fail!

Ahhh—an ancient explosion of a nuclear bomb! The perfect device with which to conquer the twenty-third century!

Unseen by human eyes, the two mighty spirit images race thru time and space . . .

For though I do not know your real identity . . . I, Cleopatra, have lost my heart to you!

At the conclusion of that adventure, Doom’s castle was abandoned by him, but there is still a chance that the machine he used to send us into the past may still be operational!

A baby dinosaur!! Don’t just stand there! Grab him!

You can win Odin’s enchanted hammer—but you will have to meet death first!

Spider-Man! Well, much obliged to you, fella! I never knew you were so . . . cooperative!

We approach the time-space continuum of ancient Babylonia— It is there that the book which we seek was created milenniums [sic] ago!

Time is like a river! Dam it up at any one point . . . and it has no choice but to flow elsewhere . . . along other, easier routes!

That’s just what’s begun to torure me! How can I be sure he’s dead? I saw only a single searing blast! If I somehow survived it . . . couldn’t he have, too?

Jonathan Kent: My son, there is one thing I know, and that is that you are here for a reason.

Awesome! But do you think they had pizza back then?

Lois, did you know that in the future you're revered at the same level as Superman? Why, there are books about you, statues, an interactive game—you’re even a breakfast cereal.

This is a repair I think you must make. It is irresponsible to leave something broken when it can be fixed—

Autographed copies of Minus Men 121? Practically nonexistent in 2059, at least until we got home with some.

Chloe: When you were a baby. Clark, if you really are in trouble on Krypton, you’d better find a way to get there, and soon, or. . .
Clark: I’ll never have existed.

Jeepers, I have seen some faraway looks in my time, but with that look, you might as well be on the North Pole or someplace.

This device allows us to transport into the future or past, at a date or destination of our choosing. Unfortunately, the consequences of altering the order of history are so dangerous [thunder], we’ve chosen to leave it alone. So you mustn’t touch!

Time travel, Stephanie! We’re talking the big leagues! The Flash! Silver Surfer!! Doc Brown’s DeLorean!!!

Now prepare for a heaping helping of quick-dry tartar sauce!

Will they get it right? Will SpongeBob and Patrick get to see their superheroes in their super-prime?

Are we destined to destroy each other, or can we change each other and unite? Is the future truly set?

Wells: Yes, it’s possible, but problematic. Assuming you could create the conditions necessary to take that journey, that journey would then be fraught with potential pitfalls: the Novikov Principle of Self-Consistency, for example.

Joe: Wait—the what, now?

Barry: If you travel back in time to change something, then you end up being the causal factor of that event.

Cisco: Like . . . Terminator.

Joe: Ah!

Wells: Or is time plastic? Is it mutable, whereby any changes in the continuum could create an alternate timeline?

Cisco: Back to the Future.

Joe: Ah, saw that one, too.

Time Turner actually did pretty well with her power until she accidentally let slip. . .

No, that’s not how it works. In our timeline, Barry’s mother’s already dead, and her death is a fixed point. And nothing can change that.

I like being part of a team, man.

Dormammu, I’ve come to bargain.

It predicts future crimes so we can catch criminals in the act.

If we see ourselves in the past, the whole universe could close in on itself. Watch a movie, you bookworm!

Tony, there was no other way.

As far as I could tell, I was the last person left alive. I never figured out what killed the human race. I did find something else: the date it happens. . . . The world ends in eight days, and I have no idea how to stop it.

Hazel to Five: If you want to live, come with me.”

I don't understand this power, but I will.

Appears to be a standard sequence violation. Branches growing at a stable rate and slope. Variant identified.

Agent Carter, wouldn’t you be more comfortable in the booth?

The Ancient One: Her death is an Absolute Point in time.
Dr. Strange: Absolute?
A.O.: Unchangable. Unmovable. Without her death, you would never have defeated Dormamu and become the Sorcerer Supreme—and the guardian of the Eye of Agamotto. If you erase her death, you never start your journey.

Well, someone killed our mothers, so we shouldn’t exist, but clearly we do exist, and the universe can’t handle it, which is a problem.

Well, maybe some things are supposed to be just for us.