Questions tagged [timeline]
A timeline is a paradox filled science fiction plot device consisting of a series of chronological events, each a link from the past that leads up to the present. Timelines are sometimes portrayed as being vulnerable to alteration and are often threatened by the actions of time travelers.
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How can the "End of Time" be the end of time when we know events occurred AFTER He Who Remains died?
Something doesn't quite add up with the concept of the "End of Time" in Loki.
He Who Remains, aka Kang the Conqueror, dies at the End of Time. Killed, I wager, is more precise. That was ...
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Book with two timelines and two girls. The book specifically says that timelines are tangled
So, there are two girls; one of them is living in present day and does some kind of research with a drug and kinda 'dies', but she gets this out of body experience. In the other timeline, there's a ...
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Story ID: Lafferty? Conversation about a condensing/telescoping past
The thesis of the story: like our memory of history, actual history (past time) is telescoping, i.e., becoming shorter. The story is a conversation between characters musing on, e.g., the multiple ...
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In Superman (1978), did two Supermen exist at one point in time?
In the movie Superman (1978), Superman flies around the world in one direction to make the Earth go back in time, and then he stops and then flies around the Earth in the opposite direction to restore ...
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Movie about soldiers fighting robots in a parallel timeline, and a scientist traveling between timelines
The main character in the movie was a man with black curly hair and glasses, who was a scientist, and he had a wife. This man was involved in an experiment traveling to other parallel timelines. He ...
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A novel about converging timelines
I remember reading a novel where multiple timelines converge over several days and then separate again. The character gradually becomes aware that the convergence is happening through a sequence of ...
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Beethoven driven mad by voice from future
Short story in which a student of music uses some sort of an audio time machine to speak across time to Beethoven. He wants to the ask the famous composer why he didn't finish his last work.
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How do the Marvel One-Shots fit into the MCU timeline? [duplicate]
There are several Marvel One-Shots, short films that were released as extras on Blu-Ray releases of certain movies. The full list is:
The Consultant (September 13, 2011) | Thor
A Funny Thing Happened ...
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At the time of the burn did Starfleet have ships in the Delta Quadrant?
From Star Trek Voyager: Death Wish:
QUINN: Well, good luck to you all. I really have to be going now.
JANEWAY: Return my crew!
QUINN: I, I'm not sure how. Humans. Humans.
Who would have more recent ...
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Is there a difference between timelines and universes in the MCU?
Is there a difference between a timeline and a universe as established by the MCU?
After watching the Loki series, my understanding is that a single reality/universe exists with the potential to ...
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If the TVA exists outside of time, why are there still nexus events?
In the new Loki TV show, we see the TVA having to deal with nexus events from "time to time" (no pun intended). However, we are also made aware that the TVA exists outside of what we would ...
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Star Wars: The Bad Batch, where does it go in the timeline?
I'm trying to figure out where the Bad Batch goes in the (Disney) Star Wars timeline.
It happens at the very end of the Clone Wars (or just after the wars) as far as I can tell, so my guess is that it ...
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Timeline of events in/around 32 BBY
I would like to get the timeline of the following events - which has never been entirely clear to me - straightened out once and for all:
The Phantom Menace - including the Battle of Naboo, the ...
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What happens to everyone else when Cage resets the day?
So we know Cage gets the ability to reset the "day" by absorbing the blood of an Alpha mimic thus enabling him to kill the Omega and end the war. That's cool and everything but what happens ...
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The Tunnel (Korean) - How come this character has the same name in the old timeline?
In the 2017 Korean TV series The Tunnel, a detective named Park Kwang Ho accidentally time travels from 1986 to 2016 through a mysterious tunnel, while investigating a series of gruesome murders that ...
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