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* ''[[12 Monkeys]]'', as well as its inspiration, ''La Jetée''.
* ''[[Terminator|The Terminator]]'' gives a rare example of the good guys directly benefiting from the immutability of time. The machines sent back a Terminator to kill Sarah Connor before her son John Connor was born, in response, the rebels send back... the guy who becomes John's father.
** Also, in a deleted scene, it turns out that Cyberdyne, the company that built
* Harve Bennett's explanation for why the ''Enterprise'' crew was so careless about altering history in ''[[Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home]]'' seems to be (he says it in a rather disjointed way) that this trope is in place and the characters are [[Genre Savvy]]. Although this [[Timey-Wimey Ball|contradicts how time travel is usually portrayed in the series]], it does fall into line with the one episode of the original series that also used the "slingshot around the Sun to visit 20th century Earth" method.
** In the reboot movie ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]'', 200-something years in the future, {{spoiler|Spock fails to save Romulus because he doesn't get there in time, and he and Nero and his crew are sent back to the present. Nero, in revenge, destroys planet Vulcan, which Spock Prime tells Kirk was because of his failure to save Romulus. So, Spock(presumably) now knows his failure to save Romulus in the future was what caused the destruction of Vulcan in the present, so, when the time comes, he can simply leave for Romulus ''earlier'', to make sure he gets there in time, thus averting the destruction of ''both'' planets. '''''But''''', if he averts these events, there's no way for him to know he should leave for Romulus earlier, and-[[Austin Powers|Oh, God, I've gone cross-eyed.]]}}
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