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[ultramagnus1]

Personally I think it causes more problems then not. Id be interested in what others think.
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[CyclonusArmada]

I really don't want say Galvatron with a Tardis altmode. Messages from the future are fine, nothing more than that.
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[RiceDaddy07]

This topic is irrelevant. It's already here. My biggest fear is that it opens the possibilities to muliverse explanations, which I do not want in these books. It's hard enough keeping track of things as is.

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[CyclonusArmada]

Actually going back in time and killing Ratbat would have prevented the war technically. Yet as the old saying goes...

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[HdE]

I'm personally not a fan of time travel as a sci-fi conceit.

I think there are some stellar examples that prove how it can be made to work brilliantly - movies like Source Code and Deja Vu come to mind - but the whole notion of it is a bit of a hard sell for me. It's not an idea that mkes me think 'Wow! Cool!'

I think Transformers has used some interesting ideas in connection with time travel, though. I remember reading the old Marvel books, and when Prowl, Prime and whoever else it was were transported to that weird limbo place with the parasites... that was cool, and quite original.
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[Kingoji]

The way James handled time travel in Eugenesis was thus; everything is predetermined and nothing can be changed. There are no alternate timelines or erased futures. If someone enters your time stream from the future, then he was always meant to enter it and everything from then progresses as it should.
For example, if someone travels back in time to alter the course of history in his own favour, then he is already destined to fail because he already did it and there is no historical record of it.

The best example of this in Eugenesis was the introduction of the Quintecons. Decepticon body-types discovered in the ruins of an old Decepticon fortress who, upon being awakened, suffer amnesia yet follow a mysterious homing instinct which leads them to the Quintessons. The Quintessons ask no questions, and take the trio down. They later upload the minds of Quintesson generals into the three Decepticons, and after a series of events, find themselves trapped in Earth's past where they are locked up in the basement of the Decepticon stronghold, where they will later be discovered and awaken with amnesia...

But it depends on how the concept is used, The entire Marvel UK Galvatron saga was and still is some of the finest TransFormers fiction created. And my personal favourite TV series, Beast Wars, was hinged entirely upon it. So I can't say it has no place.
But it *is* a bit tired now, and as Hde says, someone would have to do something pretty spectacular with it for me to get enthusiastic.
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[CyclonusArmada]

X-Men handle it in a similar way. Although I personally thought the Dragonball Z approach was best: In trying to save his own timeline Trunks goes into the past which generates an alternate timeline in which he went back into the past to save his timeline etc etc
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