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''Now take that tree you've just drawn. Put it on a desk. And empty your inkwell onto it. That's what happens when a time machine blows up.''|'''Tycho Green''', ''[http://adamcadre.ac/if.html#Shrapnel Shrapnel]''}}

 

 

It's already been [[Doctor Who|well-established]] that time is like a [[Timey-Wimey Ball|big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff]]. [[Temporal Paradox|Cause does not lead directly to effect]]; [[Grandfather Paradox|you can shoot your own grandfather and in all likelihood get away with it]], [[Stable Time Loop|take an active hand in the events that made you who you are]], [[Tricked-Out Time|and generally abuse time until it cries uncle.]]

** ''The Wedding of River Song'': The entire universe goes pear-shaped when River refuses to kill The Doctor, even though it's meant to be a fixed point in time. Her failure to do so results all of earth's history happening at once - people travel by intercontinental steam trains and cars tethered to hot air balloons; pterodactyls are a nuisance in public parks; [[Charles Dickens]] is directing the BBC's big Christmas special; Winston Churchill is ''kaiser'' of the Holy Roman Empire, which is headquarted in London, has classical Roman trappings, and is fighting the Wars of the Roses, and his barber is a Silurian; JFK and Cleopatra are a known item, and the great pyramid of Giza has an American flag painted on the side and is known as "[[Area 51|Area 52]]".

* In ''[[Eureka]]'', the latest meddling with time causes one of these, causing 1947 and 2010 to merge at an exponential rate, which would eventually annihilate time itself.

* One episode of ''[[Sliders]]'' has Quinn meddling in a world where time moves backwards... somehow. He changes the events that lead to his incarceration and the death of a police officer that was the double of someone he loved in his world, and a wormhole akin to [[Clock Roaches]] appears. We never know what happened to that world, as the heroes manage to slide out before things get serious, but we know messing with time created that paradox and the professor wonders if "[[The End of the World as We Know It|there'll even be a tomorrow in that world]]".