You Will Remember Nothing!

Time Travel Tropes
Novella

Before Earth Came

Mary Ainsworth’s beau, Lee Carnforth, is the first test subject for old Professor Ainsworth’s new technique to uncover and display ancestral memories. In fact, these are extreme ancestors, from before the birth of the solar system.
—based on Frank J. Bleiler
Why should father want tounlock the doors of the unknown—probe backward through time? Beyond the beyond!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Time Phenomena
Comic Book

Avengers Annual #2

. . . and Time, the Rushing River . . .

After the Scarlet Centurion waylays the Avengers on their way back from the 1940s, they find themselves in an alternative 1968 where the five original Avengers stayed together under the thumb of the Scarlet Centurion.

The story includes flashbacks and previously unknown explanations of the team’s previous trip to the ’40s in Avengers #56, and at the end of the story, Goliath uses Dr. Doom’s Time Platform to banish the Scarlet Centurion back to his time—and we think this is the only time travel that actually appears in the story (apart from the flashbacks). We don’t know what happens to the alternative 1968 (now known as Earth-689, but the traveling Avengers return to the universe that we all knew and loved in the 1960s (a.k.a. Earth-616), with their memory of the whole affair wiped by the Watcher.
—Michael Main
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!
Five Avengers from 1968, led by Goliath and the Wasp, face off against the five Avengers as they were in early 1964, led by Giant Man and the Wasp.
  • Eloi Silver Medal
  • Superhero
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

Tudo Bem No Natal Que Vem

While playing Santa on the roof, avowed Christmas hater Jorge takes a fall that results in him waking up every Christmas with no memories of what happened since the last Christmas.
—Michael Main
Teu avô disse que eu ainda ia descobrir pra que serve o Natal. Foi você, né, sue velho?
translate He did it! Two days ago he said I’d find out what Christmas is all about! You cursed me, didn’t you, old man?
Frightened Leandro Hassum (as middle-aged Jorge) stands in a Santa hat among strands of Christmas lights.
  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Audience: Families
  • Debatable Time Travel
TV Episode

WandaVision

I don't understand this power, but I will.
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  • Eloi Gold Medal
  • Superhero
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Debatable 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.
  • Loki, Season 1 (Disney+, 9 June 2021 to 14 July 2021)  [6 episodes] .
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
Flash Fiction

Ad Nauseam

Illegal time travelers Jin and Rhea are stuck in a time loop in the 1950s.
—Michael Main
Was this the fourth, or the fifth time around?
Stylized outline of a rocket launching in a green circular seal for Daily Science Fiction.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel