Time Travel

Gotta go back...

The act of moving through time either backward or forward. The most common way of achieving Time Travel is with a Time Machine that can move its user in either direction they want to go. Another method used for Time Travel is having the Chronokinesis superpower which allows the user to manipulate the flow of time, although the superpower is mainly used to slow, stop, reverse, or speed up time.

There are two directions of Time Travel: backward and forward time travel. Backward time travel is one of the options for time traveling. It allows time travelers to see any point in time before the present. Forward time travel is the other direction a time traveler can send themselves in. It's where they can view the future, events that didn't happen yet. Unlike with backward time travel, the traveler cannot alter the outcome of actions or decisions.

Time Travel is a common cause of Plot Wires, especially when it's a part of Secret Plans that the audience doesn't have full understanding of at the current point of the story. Backward Time Travel has the ability to change the course of history, which can create Alternate Timelines that have a different series of events occur in their version of the story. These different possibilities in the story either may be told in a sequel or collide with the "default" timeline which can cause duplicate characters, which in turn can further the confusion in the story.