Time Travel in Fiction Rundown

An entire video on time travel without using the word 'paradox'. Congratulations.

I wish there was a second part of this, with Avengers Endgame, Tenet, Dark, and Umbrella Academy included.

the time machine is pretty good too! it was built for the purpose of saving a loved one but the inventor can never save her from dying because her death is what led him to build the machine to begin with, so he can't be there if she doesn't die

It's a shame that the Jeremy Bearimy didn't make it in here. I'd like to see him try to explain that.

Me: “So, Doctor Who, which time travel mechanism will you use?” Doctor Who: “Yes.”

"Harry potter time travel is perfect because nothing is changed" Cursed Child: "Allow me to introduce myself"

I think Steins'Gate is really worth talking about as it has an interesting concept of how time travelling works in their timelines.

I really liked the arrow charts as a visualization tool. I also realized that Doctor Who's chart would essentially be a scribble to our eyes.

Cursed child isn’t accepted as: a) an actual Harry Potter book b) a well written book c) consistent with prisoner of Azkaban time turner logic “Cursed child sucks” -literally everyone

And so came "The Cursed Child" which ruined everything

One of my favorite examples of time travel, and in my opinion the best example of time travel, comes from Steins;Gate. There are three methods of time travel in Steins;Gate: D-Mail, Time Leaping, and physical time travel. With a D-Mail, you send a text message through time, which has the possibility of changing the past. If the change isn't big enough, then functionally nothing will change (for instance, if the thing you tell someone to do is minor or if they just ignore the text), but if it's big enough, you can change a lot. This is a large part of the plot, the characters sending text messages to the past and it enacts huge changes. For instance, in the story, someone plans to leave, and you send a D-Mail to them telling them to stay, and they will which causes massive changes. Nobody remembers anything from a D-Mail except for the protagonist Okabe. With Time Leaping, you mentally jump back into your past body from the future. You can only jump back 72 hours, and obviously because of this restriction you can only jump back three days before the machine was created. The person who uses the machine remembers everything, and the timeline changes just by virtue of your future knowledge. If someone other than Okabe were to use it, however, Okabe wouldn't notice any timeline change under normal circumstances, unless whoever it was did something so big that it forced the timeline to change. But time leaping itself wouldn't cause the timeline to change on its own, it's what the Leaper does with the future information that would cause it to change, With physical time travel, it's exactly what it sounds like. You travel back with your physical body. No changes are enacted on the timeline because the timeline already takes into account the fact that you have/will travel back in time, like Harry Potter. All of this revolves around the Worldline system. Every change made to the timeline takes them to a different Worldline. These Worldlines are shown on a little device that shows you exactly what Worldline you're in, but for the most part only the numbers after the decimal point change. To change the ones place of the device, that requires an absolutely massive change, one large enough to change the entire trajectory of the world. However, the worldlines revolve around several points that happen no matter what. No matter what you change, no matter how you turn back time, there are several points in history that will always happen no matter what. The main plot of the story is that one of the characters is fated to die by the worldline, and Okabe's attempts to save this person's life in the completely fucked up timeline that he inadvertently made, requiring him to revert every change he made in the story. Fate literally contrives this persons death. Even if Okabe does everything perfectly and gets this person in a position where they cannot possibly die even by mistake, they'll just drop dead with no discernable reason. It's SUCH a good example of time travel, and it manages to prevent paradoxes perfectly by just saying "It's another Worldline!".

To me back to the future is as logical as harry potter time travel, you have to stop thinking about it like multiple timelines but rather as a single timeline, the timeline goes as followed, the main character is born, years pass, mc goes back in time and does things, mc goes back to the future. He didnt change anything, he just followed the timeline

Can’t wait to see “Time Travel in Non-Fiction”

Alarm rings: 7am Snooze the alarm 2 minutes later Looks at watch 11am I am a time traveller

The game Outer Wilds has probably my favourite depiction of time travel ive seen recently (huge spoilers, go play the game first) Similarly to Groundhog Day, the main character seemingly relives the exact same 22 minutes over and over again, retaining all their memories of past loops. We find out later in the game that there is effectively a time machine linked to the main characters brain that is repeatedly sending our own memories back in time 22 minutes to their past self, creating the illusion of a time loop where in reality they have consious memories of things they have not done yet.

Clicked on this video only because primer was in the thumbnail. INCREDIBLE movie; far too many people have not seen it. Nice video too!

DARK entered the room. DARK destroyed everything. DARK left the room. DARK will return on June 27th.

Everyone else is talking about different forms of time travel in media and I'm just here to point out he drew a tail on the apes at 1:00

You should watch Sisyphus, one of the most well done time travel stories I've ever watched. Time travel stories are often so lazily written, but this one ties everything together. It is at times absurd (the male lead is cartoonishly smart), but over all it is damned good.

If there was a second part it should include the Killer Queen Bites the Dust paradox