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How did Biff return to 2015 from 1955 without a lightning strike?
Biff didn't actually have to use the same plutonium-driven Delorean that Marty had to use in the 1st part. He used the Delorean that Doc had modified based on 2015 technology, which didn't need the ...
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TV-Show: Time travel with group of different times. Fork-like tool used as weapon
This is The Fantastic Journey. It's actually from the late 70s rather than the 80s. The show revolves round a group of people shipwrecked or lost on an island in the Bermuda Triangle where different ...
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How did Ulrich end up in 1953?
[Currently there is another answer that has been accepted, but I don't think it clearly answers the question, so I provide this answer as an alternative.]
The cave's tunnels serve as a junction of ...
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Time-travelling neo-Nazis try to give Hitler an H-bomb
Zítra vstanu a oparím se cajem (1977)
English title: Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea
Former Nazi Klaus Abard survives to the 1990s by taking anti-aging pills. He plans to use a ...
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What's the role of the Receiver/Transmitter in Avengers Endgame?
The GPS's connect them to the Quantum Bridge.
They allowed them to travel through it remotely and safely.
Stark solves this with a "time-space GPS," a way for the team to
travel through the ...
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How did Ulrich end up in 1953?
The idea of going 33 years into the future and 33 years in the past had to do with the methods of time travel, and there are several shown in the show.
"Season 1" Time Travel
The 33 years ...
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Time travel movie: guy wants to live in the past, travels there and meets another girl who wants to live even further in the past
The movie is "Midnight in Paris (2011)", American-French romantic comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen.
Set in Paris, the film follows Gil Pender, a screenwriter, who is forced to ...
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Why doesn't Marty and Jennifer's time jump to 2015 affect their future in Back to the Future Part II?
In the first film Marty changes the course of his parent's meeting. Despite this creating an obvious grandfather paradox, the reverberations from his actions take multiple days to catch up with him. ...
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How did Travelers bring matter/objects/artifacts into the past?
Like the other answer attempts to explain, The Travelers do not take any physical materials with them, but instead The Director is able to communicate with the traveler teams in the 21st Century ...
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MCU connected to Doctor Who?
There is no connection between the MCU and Doctor Who that I am aware of. Several actors have played characters in both but that is about it. The only other connection is that Doctor Who Weekly was ...
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Where did the second Marty go?
Marty2 is Marty 1 from the beginning of the movie. He goes to the same time and place Marty1 went earlier.
In the scene you describe, Marty1 is watching the events from earlier in the movie. The "...
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Was Dormammu's dimension required for the time loop to work?
Maybe, but it would be more of a trick than actually trapping someone.
The only reason his plan worked was because Dormammu himself "lived outside of time". Meaning that while Dr. Strange put ...
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Back to the Future Part 2: What was the point of going to the future?
I think the most simple answer is that this is what the characters did at the end of the original film.
Bob's Zemekis and Gale never had any intention of producing a sequel and never originally ...
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Back to the Future Part 2: What was the point of going to the future?
It's not the worst plan ever.
Firstly, the Marty of 1985 is arguably more grounded than his 2015 self.
Although there are plenty of ways that Marty could just try to keep his son from getting ...
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How does Ash figure the year is 1300 A.D.?
Do we know the year
We know from the filmmakers that the plot was intended to be set in 1300. This was their original intention for Evil Dead II, which they got to realizing in Army of Darkness (and ...
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First appearance of going to past (time-travel) to change the present
The 1933 film Berkeley Square has the protagonist wanting to go back to experience sea faring England, and not change it, but he does.
The 1947 film Repeat Performance has a woman wish she could go ...
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How did Travelers bring matter/objects/artifacts into the past?
They don't. They go back to the past with them (or their Historian) knowing where to find the necessary materials to build whatever they need, with their future technological knowledge. The Travelers ...
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Time travel / accessing the fourth dimension
First, is this a fair understanding of time travel in movies?
Broadly speaking, you are correct. The points I'm raising are nuances to your ideas, to show you why it's different from what you expect.
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How come the present is not changed for the lab team?
The present is never changed for the lab team because they never traveled through time. To our knowledge, the members of the lab team all originated in the timeline in which the time travelers arrive,...
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Shot mechanic in Tenet
I struggled with this as it seemed to be a temporal loophole but I think there is an answer - which lies at the end if you don't care for the details.
Examining the relevant scenes of the film, this ...
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How does Ash figure the year is 1300 A.D.?
The Evil Dead series includes The Evil Dead (1981), Evil Dead II (1987), and Army of Darkness (1992).
Thus Ash's era in the 20th century should be sometime within the period of about 1975 to 2000.
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How did Aaron and Abe repeatedly loop back to the party in "Primer" without creating paradoxes?
The narrator himself (Aaron2) is an Aaron who encountered a future Aaron (Aaron3) who looped back to do the party a second time. Aaron2 himself has been convinced by Aaron3 to not do the party, ...
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What happened to Thomas Granger?
I don't have much to add to these interesting speculations. But the director's commentary on the DVD indicates that he was asked this very question at a tech conference. Carruth explained that he ...
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Where did the second Marty go?
The second Marty travels back to the same point Marty originally traveled to, and becomes the Marty that prevented his father from being hit by his future father-in-law's car and endangered his ...
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Time travel / accessing the fourth dimension
Mathematically, it depends on the shape or curvature of the 3rd dimension. Consider a more tangible example. Two people on opposite sides of the Earth are 1 earth diameter apart (about 7,900 miles ...
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Identify Kids Time Travel TV Show
Sounds like the UK kids show Kappatoo from 1990. From a website dedicated to it:
Kappatoo is based around 2 people who can be termed as “Time Twins” – they are identical in appearance, but separated ...
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How did Aaron and Abe repeatedly loop back to the party in "Primer" without creating paradoxes?
There is a rather crude way to get this done. We know that Aaron and Abe are both capable of drugging their alternate selves unconscious. One of them could use two boxes and repeat this dark ritual ...
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Are there any guides to the timeline of Donnie Darko?
Not sure if this is going to help:
ref: Donnie Darko Explained
In the Tangent Universe (green) - Donnie is alive and Gretchen and Frank die.
In the Primary Universe (blue) - Donnie dies and ...
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What happened to Thomas Granger?
How and why Thomas Granger came back was deliberately made vague in the film. As per an interview with Shane Carruth (Primer writer and director, and also the actor who played Aaron) (emphasis mine):
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Why does Harry only make use of time travel in The Prisoner of Azkaban?
Going by the other answer that says it can't outrun the sun, so, no more than 24 hours. There's still the question, why didn't they go back and save Sirius from his death. Lets assume that it was ...
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