History Main / OurTimeTravelIsDifferent

* While it also includes Instantaneous Time Travel, the ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh Tenth Anniversary Movie}}'' briefly shows Paradox coming out of a portal.
* ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds}}'': The Infinity Device is capable of creating wormholes.

* In the ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh Tenth Anniversary Movie}}'', the time travellers' motorbikes glow brightly, then they speed up and disappear in a flash of light.

'''Instantaneous Time Travel''': Who says you need to see anything when you go back in time? Used in the ''BackToTheFuture'' films, this is where time travel is simply instantaneous. One second Marty [=McFly=] is in 1985. Then there's a flash of light and he's in 1955. Simple as that.

* As mentioned, the ''BackToTheFuture'' series.

* At the end of {{Stargate SG-1}}, Teal'c is sent back in time through this method, to impart the solution to the problem of the Ori's ability to track the ship with the Asgard memory core (the Odyssey). The solution is on a memory crystal, which when inserted, prevents the Ori from tracking the ship.

* In ''Series/{{Stargate SG-1}}'', the Stargates have twice been used for time travel (also seen in Atlantis and the SG-1 movie Continuum). It's unclear whether or not this counts since wormholes are a regular fixture of Stargate travel anyway.

* ''{{Stargate SG-1}}'' used this version with the time-traveling puddle jumper in "Moebius". Another time-traveling puddle jumper (or possibly the same one) appeared in the ''StargateAtlantis'' episode "Before I Sleep".

->"''I'm standing at the time portal, which scientists say, follows '{{Terminator}}' rules. That is, it's one way only and you can't go back. This is in contrast to, say, 'BackToTheFuture' rules, where back and forth is possible, and of course 'Timerider' rules, which are just plain silly.''"

* ''TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' and ''TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'' (the latter accessing the wormhole through a gate).
* ''TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTurtlesinTime'' had a mostly black version that they blipped through.

* ''DayOfTheTentacle'' "This must be that Woodstock place Mom and Dad are always talking about!"

* The book ''TheMagicSchoolBus in the Time of Dinosaurs''. Absurdly, the TV adaptation used this theory for the trip back in time, but switched to the one below for the return trip. Even stranger, the fossilized dinosaur egg became a normal egg (as in feasibly hatchable or edible), yet none of the humans on board disintegrated from aging backwards millions of years.

* This is how time travel works in {{Jasper Fforde}}'s ''ThursdayNext'' Series, but here you can also pause and loop.

* In ''Futurama'', Farnsworth made a time machine that acted this way, although it could only go forward in time. The machine was completely unaffected by outside events, such as explosions.

* InuYasha. The well is the wormhole.

* ''PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': [[spoiler: Homura seems to walk through some time portal when time traveling]].
* ''TheGirlWhoLeaptThroughTime'': Actually plays with both Worm Hole and Instantaneous travel. Makoto's first leap she goes through a very strange occurrence, all subsequent leaps after are instant.

* ''TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' and ''TheLegendOfZeldaOracleOfAges''.

* ''RedVsBlue''. The very first instance of time travel is the latter version, since it occurs during a huge explosion that knocks all the characters out and then waking up in the future, except for Church who's in the past. Every other instance somebody goes back in time though, it's instantaneous.

* In ''[[TheTimeTravelersWife The Time Traveler's Wife]]'', this is how Henry [[spoiler:and later, his daughter Alba]], travels through time. [[UnstuckInTime Unfortunately, he can't control it.]]

* This is how the Time Matrix works in ''{{Series/Animorphs}}''

** George "Yankee" Longago, an obscure [[TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] superhero, had the power to travel through time while asleep, usually based on his subconscious desires.

* [[SlaughterHouseFive "Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time,"]] meaning that he lives his life out of order, but there are no discernible time travel moments or effects.

* The {{Planet Of The Apes}} variety could be number 3, but as it's never shown, we can't say for sure. It's not one or two, though, based on some of the dialogue from ''Escape''.

* ''TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask''.

* ''TheLegendOfZeldaTheOcarinaOfTime''.

* ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' had the Guardian of Forever.

* HarryTurtledove's AlternateHistory novel ''Guns of the South'' has time travel via square platforms that apparently dematerialize the user in a fashion similar to ''StarTrek'' transporters. We only ever see them in use once, as [[spoiler:a Confederate soldier shoots at someone using the platform, causing it to break down and eventually explode.]]

* Captain Picard time-travels this way in "All Good Things...", the finale of StarTrekTheNextGeneration.

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* ''ChronoTrigger''

* ''TheLegendOfZelda: Ocarina of Time''.

* ''[=~Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time~=]'' had a mostly black version that they blipped through.

* As the title suggests, the [[TheSixties 1960s]] TV show ''TheTimeTunnel''.

* In ''{{Stargate SG-1}}'', the Stargates have twice been used for time travel (also seen in Atlantis and the SG-1 movie Continuum). It's unclear whether or not this counts since wormholes are a regular fixture of Stargate travel anyway.

* In the ''SuzumiyaHaruhi'' novels, Asahina's time travelers's method and Nagato's "emergency escape program" seems to be of the "special effects" variety, but it makes Kyon much too dizzy and nauseous to actually look beyond taking quick peeks, which he doesn't understand; this arguably makes it '''both''' [[OurWormholesAreDifferent Wormhole Time Travel]] and Unseen Time Travel. Asahina and Nagato don't seem to have that problem, but we don't know for sure either.
* ''CalvinAndHobbes'' uses this, which Calvin compares to traveling on a highway:

* ''{{Braid}}'' used a more efficient form of the one used in ''PrinceOfPersia Sands of Time.''

* ''Series/DoctorWho''[='=]s Time Vortex

* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' ,the Wormholes cross space and time

* One issue of ''CountDuckula'' had a wormhole made of rings labeled with years.

* ''{{Futurama}}'' when it's as a result of combining microwaves and radiation from a supernova. They even ended up with a bunch of clocks on board.

* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' ,the Wormholes cross space [[spoiler:and time]]

* This is also used, sometimes as AppliedPhlebotinum, but also for comedic effect, with Paradox, on Ben10AlienForce. Paradox has almost complete knowledge of the TimeyWimeyBall.

* A Season 4 episode of ''{{Supernatural}}'', "In The Beginning": one second, Dean is in 2008, and then Castiel [[spoiler: puts his fingers on Dean's forehead, knocking him out; Dean wakes up in 1973]]. We don't ever see how they travel there.

* [[SlaughterHouseFive "Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time,"]] meaning that he lives his life out of order, but there are no discernable time travel moments or effects.

* ''TheEndOfEternity'' has a parallel "timeless" dimension.

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* ''Farscape'' ,the Wormholes cross space [[spoiler:and time]]

* ''Farscape'',the Wormholes cross space [[spoiler:and time]]