History Main / CantTakeAnythingWithYou

* ''Series/{{Bodies2023}}'' employs this method of time travel, [[spoiler: much to Iris Maplewood's dismay, as her futuristic mobility aid is left behind.]]

* ''Series/{{Bodies}}'' employs this method of time travel, [[spoiler: much to Iris Maplewood's dismay, as her futuristic mobility aid is left behind.]]

* ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' is probably the most famous example of the "arrives naked" version. However, the titular killer robots are able to travel back in time because they're covered in living tissue. Presumably, the liquid metal that more advanced models use is able to mimic living tissue closely enough to work.[[note]]According to the DVD commentary, the three reasons discussed amongst the writers were that, along with the T-1000 being covered in living tissue which he shed upon arrival and '[[MST3KMantra it's just a movie; who cares?]]'[[/note]]
** Averted in [[Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines the third movie]], where the T-X has an energy weapon built under her liquid metal exterior.
** In any case, no in-universe reason is ever given for why a time machine built by robots would have such a limitation. The closest explanation is the {{Handwave}} by Kyle listed above. Even admitting that sending infiltration models back in time makes sense, there's no reason to not let them take advanced weapons back as well. The out of universe explanation is a case of CoconutSuperpowers.

* Averted in ''LightNovel/TheAmbitionOfOdaNobuna'' where Sagura Yoshiharu had his cell phone with him when transported back 450 years in time. [[spoiler:That cell phone is a ChekhovsGun.]]
* In ''LightNovel/StrikeTheBlood'', [[KidFromTheFuture Reina]] arrives in the present naked and has to steal clothes. She could bring her magic spear with her because she can create and dismiss it with her powers. When she returns to her time, she vanishes and her [[EmptyPilesOfClothing stolen outfit falls to the ground]]. She arrives in her home naked and quickly puts on a bathrobe.

* The early ''Series/RedDwarf'' episode "Stasis Leak" had an inversion where the crew could take things to the past fine, but couldn't bring anything back with them. (A bar of soap used to try it out crumbled to dust; the implication was that -- at least using the stasis leak method -- anything brought Xty years into the future instantly aged Xty years.) When Rimmer says he wants to bring his past self back, the Cat agrees for once. (Rimmer takes a few moments to figure this out.)

* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': A variation in "In Another Life" as it involves travel to an AlternateUniverse rather than TimeTravel. When the various alternate versions of Mason Stark are transported to the Eigenphase Industries CEO Mason's universe by the Quantum Mirror, they arrive naked.

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** The Japanese ''[[GuideDangIt guide books]]'' explain that it is not technology per se that is blocked, but rather metallic objects. The Time Gate is an electromagnetic phenomenon, and metal or electronic objects would interfere with its operation much like when a person wears metal jewelery during an MRI scan. Carry metal or electronics with you, and at best you'll arrive in a different time and place from where you intended. At worst you'll be dead.

* ''VideoGame/Pathologic2'' has a non-time-travel example. Artemy is warned before entering [[spoiler:Mother Boddho's innards]] that "anything [he] clings to will fall from his hands there", including clothes, weapons, and medicine. The point of his journey is to retreat into the Kin's primal mindset, which includes trusting that [[EarthMother Boddho]] will provide for all his needs. The fact that Artemy can bring only one thing- [[spoiler:her panacea blood]]- back from this sequence further emphasizes its surreality.

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* The time traveling boat in possession of the Wiki/SCPFoundation does not allow anything to be taken out of its time. If you try, it will change it to something that fits the time its in.

* A non-TimeTravel version in the series ''Series/{{Forever}}''. Whenever protagonist Doctor Henry Morgan dies, his body vanishes and reappears naked in the nearest body of water, with his clothes apparently vanishing along with any blood he left at the scene. The first time we see him reappear, Henry is immediately arrested for indecent exposure, and it's implied that this happens a lot.

* The ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' series takes this UpToEleven: you can't even take your ''body'' with you when time travelling. In order to go to another time, one has to have the ability to separate the heart from the body. Of course, if you have another body waiting for you at your destination, you can always inhabit that vessel when you get there...

Sometimes the inverse is seen, where it's not possible to take anything from the past back to the future. (Sometimes this is justified by the claim that, for the object, the future doesn't exist yet.) Since it's otherwise not much of a dramatic limitation, this version usually only comes up in stories where a time-traveler is trying to save something (or some''one'') from being destroyed in the past. [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused with]] the only saying "You can't take it with you", referring to when you die.

See also AlienNonInterferenceClause, ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing and NakedOnArrival. Compare MentalTimeTravel, in which one typically can't carry anything but information.

* ComicBook/JackKirbysFantasticFour: The FF travel to ancient Egypt to retrieve some herbs that, somehow, can restore people's vision, in hopes of helping Alicia Masters with it. They get them, but lost them during the time travel.

See also AlienNonInterferenceClause and NakedOnArrival. Compare MentalTimeTravel, in which one typically can't carry anything but information.

See also AlienNonInterferenceClause. Compare MentalTimeTravel, in which one typically can't carry anything but information.

* In ''VideoGame/DukeNukem Zero Hour'', when traveling back in time to the Wild West, it's implied that Duke arrives in the buff. Invoking ''Film/TheTerminator'', Duke asks the local for his clothes, boots, and horse before deciding he doesn't need the horse.

* [[spoiler:Chao Lingshen]] of ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' solves this by improvising with what she has in the current timeline. She still ends up being a genius inventor.

* ''Manga/ZetsuenNoTempest'': When Hakaze Kusaribe time travels, her outfit falls to the floor and she arrives naked.

* In ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', the time machine used to trade with ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' will, rather obviously, only allow you to trade first-gen Pokémon with attacks that were available in the first generation (e.g. trading a Cubone will be okay so long as they don't know Bone Rush).

* ''Manga/ZetsuenTheTempest'': When Hakaze Kusaribe time travels, her outfit falls to the floor and she arrives naked.