time loop theme
A repeated period of time that is typically re-experienced by those within it.
16 total · 4 choice · 8 major · 4 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: Timecrimes (2007) | choice | The film's protagonist Héctor unwittingly became trapped in a causal loop and reasoned he must terminate two rival versions of himself. |
| tftc1989e6x03 | choice | Rolanda was doomed to repeat her fateful final day of life ad infinitum. Somehow, and to some extent, she was aware of what was going on and tried to change it, to no avail. Only the manner of her death changed from day to day. |
| tng5x18 | choice | temporal causality loop |
| voy3x15 | choice | Captain Janeway got trapped in a time loop and ended up repeating the same day over and over with minor variations. |
| futurama7x26 | major | The Professor invented a button with which you could create time loops at will. |
| ldr2019e1x03 | major | The story begins with the woman witnessing the man murdering someone who turns out to be herself, and concludes with the man witnessing the woman murder someone who turns out to be himself. The viewer is left to ponder whether the series of events would recur indefinitely in a kind of time loop. |
| movie: 12:01 (1993) | major | The morning after receiving a strong electrical shock at precisely 12:10 AM, Barry found the events of the previous day were repeating themselves with him being the only one who realizes that the world is stuck in a time loop. This went on for several days with Barry changing the course of events each time. |
| movie: Edge of Tomorrow (2014) | major | Cage got stuck in some kind of time loop and relived the same day over and over again. |
| movie: Je taime je taime (1968) | major | Claude got stuck skipping around in the recent past, repeating numerous incidents again and again but in a fragmented, out of order manner. |
| tng1x24 | major | The crew experienced loops in time. |