History Main / PeggySue

In some hands, this can turn into a FixFic.

* In ''{{Konpeki no Kantai}}'', when Isoroku Yamamoto's plane is shot down in 1943 he wakes up in 1905 in on the cruiser Nisshin just after the Battle of Tsushima and he uses his knowledge to prevent Japan making the mistakes it made.

Noting the above, it needs to be reiterated: this is ''not'' a sister trope to MarySue, despite the name (and yes, [[MarySueTropes the Sue index]] causes some confusion here, we know). In the hands of a ''poor'' writer, the character can gain MarySue-like traits (knowing exactly how everything will happen and thus managing to get a "perfect" result from every scenario, etc) but generally the two do not intersect -- if anything the experience is often unpleasant for the character in question. The original Peggy Sue was disoriented and frightened by her experience, for example.

* The ''Manga/DragonBall'' spin-off ''Manga/DragonBallThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsYamcha'' combines this with an unintentional SelfInsertFic. An OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent from the real world falls down a set of stairs and wakes up in the body of Yamcha. At first he's excited at the prospect of dating Bulma, but when he remembers Yamcha's ignoble death during ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', he resolves to train and use his knowledge of ''Franchise/DragonBall'' canon to do things better than the original Yamcha[[note]]He also gives up on Bulma because he realizes how important Trunks is to the overall storyline[[/note]]. [[spoiler:He does well enough, but by the time Cell shows up he realizes that he won't be able to keep up any longer. In the end the whole thing turns out to be a "reincarnation game" being played by Beerus and Champa (the latter who had another average guy reincarnated as Chiaotzu).]]

* The {{Hentai}} OVA ''Gaki ni Modotte Yarinoshi!!!'' is about a man who had his life wasted by all the women who bullyied him in high school, including his stepsister, all of them recently married. Then one day he awakened as a kid in his old life with with all his adult memories (and his ''member'') untouched, so he decided to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong by stand back against her stepsister and all the girls made his life miserable, including his stepmother who always treated as a child even when he was adult.

* The epilogue of Stephen King's ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'' Series, although it is not clear exactly how much of his knowledge he can take with him in this do-over. At the very least, he has made some spiritual progress in each iteration.

** Actually, there's a subtle implication that [[spoiler: trying to change your past choices is actually another wrong path. Aside from the fact that the new choices cause harm in a different way, the figure who leads you down this path is called Morningstar... which is one of the Devil's names. In fact, there's an Easter Egg in the prologue if you address him as Lucifer.]]

* Sort of played with in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9''. The game starts off at the climatic battle of the previous game, ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombatArmageddon Armageddon]]'', which [[KillEmAll is revealed to have killed off pretty much the entire cast]]. [[EvilOverlord Shao Kahn]] has attained ultimate power, and Raiden, having been defeated, sends visions of the events of the entire series to his ''MortalKombat''-era self. [[spoiler: Things go horribly awry, because past Raiden's acting on incomplete information leads to the deaths of the vast majority of the heroes; leaving it an open question as to what will happen when the next BigBad, Shinnok, attempts to conquer the realms.]]

* The ''Manga/DragonBall'' spin-off ''The Case of Being Reincarnated as Yamcha'' combines this with an unintentional SelfInsertFic. An OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent from the real world falls down a set of stairs and wakes up in the body of Yamcha. At first he's excited at the prospect of dating Bulma, but when he remembers Yamcha's ignoble death during ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', he resolves to train and use his knowledge of ''Franchise/DragonBall'' canon to do things better than the original Yamcha[[note]]He also gives up on Bulma because he realizes how important Trunks is to the overall storyline[[/note]]. [[spoiler:He does well enough, but by the time Cell shows up he realizes that he won't be able to keep up any longer. In the end the whole thing turns out to be a "reincarnation game" being played by Beerus and Champa (the latter who had another average guy reincarnated as Chiaotzu).]]

* The ''Manga/DragonBall'' spin-off ''The Case of Being Reincarnated as Yamcha'' combines this with an unintentional SelfInsertFic. An OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent from the real world falls down a set of stairs and wakes up in the body of Yamcha. At first he's excited at the prospect of dating Bulma, but when he remembers Yamcha's ignoble death during ''DBZ'', he resolves to train and use his knowledge of ''DB'' canon to do things better than the original Yamcha[[note]]He also gives up on Bulma because he realizes how important Trunks is to the overall storyline[[/note]]. [[spoiler:He does well enough, but by the time Cell shows up he realizes that he won't be able to keep up any longer. In the end the whole thing turns out to be a "reincarnation game" being played by Beerus and Champa (the latter who had another average guy reincarnated as Chiaotzu).]]

* When Captain America returns the Infinity Stones to the past at the end of ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' he reconnects with his old love, Peggy Carter from before he was frozen.

'''Not to be confused with MarySue''', a Peggy Sue fic gives a character, usually at the end of a story or series, the chance to [[MentalTimeTravel go back and relive her/his life]] with the knowledge he gained from living through his story the first time. This sometimes uses a DeathFic-type setup as a starting point, where one of the things the character intends to do with his knowledge is [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong prevent the death of a loved one -- or him- or herself.]]

* The ''Manga/DragonBall'' spin-off ''The Case of Being Reincarnated as Yamcha'' combines this with an unintentional SelfInsertFic. An OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent from the real world falls down a set of stairs and wakes up in the body of Yamcha. At first he's excited at the prospect of dating Bulma, but when he remembers Yamcha's ignoble death during ''DBZ'', he resolves to train and use his knowledge of ''DB'' canon to do things better than the original Yamcha. [[spoiler:He does well enough, but by the time Cell shows up he realizes that he won't be able to keep up any longer. In the end the whole thing turns out to be a "reincarnation game" being played by Beerus and Champa (the latter who had another average guy reincarnated as Chiaotzu).]]

** This is played with ''Videogame/{{Undertale}}, as every time the fallen child dies, they are revived at the last save point thanks to determination, and the game notices this in many ways (Particularly, if you, by any chance, kill Toriel by accident and then reload to spare her, Flowey will call you on this). However, this is painfully deconstructed in the KillThemAll route, where the game will not allow you to go back and regret what you have done, because "you think you are above consequences".

* This is the essential premise of the ''Zero Escape'' series. In ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'', Junpei is able to use his experiences in alternate timelines in order to connect the dots and [[spoiler: figure out the key to the safe, which in turn provides him with the required combination to free Snake from the coffin]]; ''VisualNovel/VirtuesLastReward'' plays it straight, sending [[MentalTimeTravel Sigma and Phi's consciousnesses]] to various points in various timelines and provide them with key information, such as [[spoiler: the deactivation codes for the bombs.]]

* In ''Comicstrip/{{Peanuts}}'', Linus asks Charlie Brown what he would do if he got to live his life over again. Charlie Brown's reaction is to scream in terror.

** In "Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E14Tapestry", Picard is about to die due to events that happened in his past, and [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens Q]] sends him back in time to relive his Academy days. Picard reacts to the situation which led to his death in a manner that negates his later death. Changing his past however leads to a change in his personality, and Picard [[ItsAWonderfulPlot decides that he liked his life better the way it was before, even if he was about to die. Q, having made his point, brings Picard back to the present and saves his life.]] [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane Unless it was]] AllJustADream.
** "Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E18CauseAndEffect" involved the characters realizing they were trapped in a time loop that always concluded with the destruction of the ''Enterprise,'' and Data managing to ''cause'' a Peggy Sue by sending a message into the next iteration of the loop enabling them to escape.

** Similar to the ''VideoGame/AstroBoyOmegaFactor'' example, ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea|HourOfDarkness}}'' and its NewGamePlus system plays out like this, although with no meta elements: The normal ending, which you ''[[GuideDangIt will]]'' end up getting your first time through, has an incredible DownerEnding -- [[spoiler:Laharl confronts the head of the angels, he kills Flonne, and Laharl murders him in a rage. Then it's revealed it was all a failed BatmanGambit to teach Laharl the power of love, if the Angel leader was still alive he could revive Flonne, and that he was [[YouSuck supposed to forgive the angels.]] Laharl kills himself in grief,]] and you get the "Start a New Game" menu choice. Of course, this time you're high enough level to beat the last boss, yet alone all the hard boss fights on the way, as well as make sure you achieve the canon ending -- [[spoiler: by not accidentally killing ''anyone'' in your party.]] Of course, since this is ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'', later sequels have cameos from ''both'' endings ([[spoiler: In other words, Prinny Laharl and Normal Laharl]]) in them.

* PeggySue/FanFiction

[[folder:Fanfic]]

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* ''FanFic/ThePrinceOfDeath'' is a ''Manga/DeathNote'' peggy sue where this happens to Light [[spoiler: after dying and becoming a Shinigami]]. The Shinigami King, is wary of Kira's presence in his world, and so [[BarredFromTheAfterlife sends him back to his mortal life]], back to the day he would have received the notebook in order to get him out of the way and try to get him killed off for good.
* Another one for ''Manga/DeathNote'': Silver Pard's [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4182475/1/Redivivus Redivivus]] sends Light back to his ''infancy'' with Ryuk still at his side, tasked with saving as many lives [[PersonOfMassDestruction as he took the first time around]]. Unfortunately for Light, he killed a ''lot'' of people, and (of course) [[TykeBomb L]] will always be around to make things difficult for him, even when he's just a frustrated EnfantTerrible who [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial ''definitely'' hasn't killed a single person ''this time'']]. Long since [[DeadFic dead]], but solidly in position as the third best ''Death Note'' fan fiction.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'' has a lot of Peggy Sue fics, being one of the most lengthy manga series ever created and the single most popular one, but for those that refollow the journey of the Straw Hats, none of them have ever finished; in fact, the vast majority of them dead-end before or during the Alabasta arc (1/5 of the series). But g can't exactly blame people for continuing to try their own hands at it, considering the fact that of the top five most popular fics in the fandom, ''four of them'' are Peggy Sue fics, with the one that isn't being in fifth place overall:
** In first place is ''Fanfic/SecondWind'' by The-Lost-Samurai. In this one, Luffy and Zoro reach the end of the Grand Line…but everyone else dies shortly before that. Luffy and Zoro come back in time to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong, the method of which is revealed in Chapter 22. As of October 2016, it holds the new record for how far a ''One Piece'' Peggy Sue has made it in canon progression.
** In second place is ''[[Fanfic/NewGamePlusOnePiece New Game Plus]]'' by [=DuncanIdaho2014=]. In this one, all nine members of the Straw Hat Pirates escape certain death from a Marine ambush thanks to Dr. Vegapunk's experimental time machine, sending their minds five years into the past. When time catches up to them, Luffy resolves to do things differently to ensure that they don't end up in that situation again, so he takes a leaf out of Whitebeard's book and begins recruiting more crews to follow him, forming the Straw Hat Armada. In canon progression, it's just begun the second saga (which ends with the Alabasta arc); it's a testament to the author's skills that it stands with even the other Peggy Sue fics that have already made it past Alabasta. Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond the author's control, the story is on an indefinite hiatus.
** In third place is ''Fanfic/LuffysRenewedAdventure'' by F-ckthesystem125. This one has Luffy's crew massacred on the island before Raftel; only he survives, and he's imprisoned in [[HellholePrison Impel Down]]. He's eventually rescued by an old man with the power of the Open-Open Fruit, who offers him the chance to go back to the start of his adventures to ensure that the World Government does not attain the power it had before. Oh, and one thing sets this fic apart: said old man uses his powers to open Luffy's eyes to women. He's still an idiot in matters of love, but he's no longer oblivious. Besides being the third most popular of the Peggy Sue fics, it's also the longest in regards to word count and third longest in regards to canon progression (currently being in the Skypiea arc).
** And in fourth place is ''FanFic/OnceAgain'' by [=TheVictor=]. In this one, Akainu kills Luffy's crew, Luffy gives up, and a couple of years later Admiral Coby sends him back with his Toki Toki no Mi powers. This fic was the first Peggy Sue ever to make it past the Alabasta arc, and while the author has [[DeadFic long since vanished without a trace]], he set the bar high by making it to the middle of the Enies Lobby arc (about 1/4 of the series) before that. ''Once Again'' subsequently became the most popular fic in the One Piece fandom, a title it held for at least two years afterward, and it maintained its place as being the longest Peggy Sue in canon progression for three.
** Those aren't the only noteworthy ones, though. For another, there's ''Young and Built to Fall'' by fingers-falling-upwards. In this one, the time travelers are Luffy and Ace, and they return back to their childhood sometime after Sabo's "death." The first eight chapters of the story are original content that follows Ace and Luffy as they come to terms with their past and gather the necessary materials to prevent Blackbeard from ever coming to power, easing a few tragedies along the way. Everything after that is rehashing of canon with a few minor changes and very little detail, skimming or even skipping entire arcs. Updates are slow, but the story is ranked 12th overall, and the author is planning on making more AU changes soon. Note that the author began this story before canon revealed that [[spoiler:Sabo was alive]].
** ''The Rubbery Vengeance'' is one of these as well. Luffy made it to the end of the Grand Line, but lost all of his friends along the way. Despair finally overtakes him and he kills himself, but he receives a second chance from God Himself. The story follows a very dark and very overpowered Luffy as he goes through his journey from the time he first ate the Gum-Gum Fruit. Also a harem fic. Ranked 15th overall.
** ''For Better Or For Worse'' is another one where Luffy is sent back to his childhood. He made it to Raftel, but his friends died along the way; his willpower, with a little guidance from Roger's ghost, allows him to return to his 6-year-old self. The thing that sets this fic apart most is that one of the first changes Luffy makes is taming the Lord of the Coast and using it to travel to Minion Island to save Rocinante, collecting him, Law, and Bepo and bringing them back to Dawn Island. The three brothers grow to five and receive a father figure as a result. Infrequent but quality updates. Ranked 20th overall.
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8568328/25/All-For-You All For You]]'', a ''Anime/CodeGeass'' fanfic, has the premise that CC does this after [[spoiler:Lelouch's death at the end of R2]], and yet despite knowing all of what is going to happen and even actively including herself in the Black Knights as Infinity, everything still happens pretty much ''exactly'' like the anime. Well, except that the story is far more fluffy and all the [[spoiler:death and emotional turmoil]] that made the canon interesting to watch has been removed.
* ''FanFic/HogyokuExMachina'' earns its place as the fandom's third best story with a few twists from the usual premise. First, it has [[TheHero Ichigo]] ''and'' [[BigBad Aizen]] travel from the final battle back three months to when Aizen betrayed Soul Society. Then within minutes Ichigo yells out that time travel shenanigans are going on, which other characters are quickly able to confirm. Finally, although Ichigo keeps his [[NextTierPowerUp power-ups]] while Aizen loses his, it ends up being a more even playing field than one would expect.
* ''FanFic/AshesOfThePast'' is by far the most popular among all ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' fan fictions. The plot is that Gen IV's BigBad Cyrus reattempted to gain control of the Sinnoh Creation trio…and succeeded, causing the end of the world. Consequently, [[{{God}} Arceus]] sends someone with plenty of experience saving the world back in time to stop him: Ash Ketchum. He returns to the very beginning of his journey…meaning that until the journey takes them to Sinnoh and Team Galactic, the whole "saving the world" thing takes a backseat to Ash and friends [[TookALevelInBadass taking several levels in badass]] as they go through their adventures again.
* In the ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'' fanfiction ''Chasing an Empty Dream'', while trying to use magic to get information on the Holy Roman Empire, England accidentally sends himself, Germany, and Italy back to that time period. They witness HRE's fatal injury at the hands of the French Army and, upon seeing how devastated Italy and the past self of Prussia are by the kid's death, Germany decides to fix things by removing the bullet and disinfecting the wound. [[spoiler:It works and Holy Roman Empire lives, only to reveal that the whole thing was a StableTimeLoop - Holy Roman Empire loses his memories from the trauma of the attack, and Prussia decides to rename him "Germany" because his empire doesn't exist anymore.]]
* It turns out that the entire reason for ''FanFic/Zero2ARevision'' universe to exist in the first place is because the featured OriginalCharacter, Shaun wants to travel back in time in order to stop himself from releasing Demon and subsequently, killing off the entire Digidestined in the [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 original timeline]]. However, a malfunction in the time causes him to travel way too far back, as in 33 years back to the point that his actions ultimately caused a divergent timeline and subsequently created the Zero 2 universe as we know in the fiction.
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* ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'' has Arceus sending Ash back in time to prevent Cyrus from gaining control of reality and reshaping the world in his own image. However, a few things get garbled in transition, so the new timeline is quite different even before Ash's return. For example, he's 15 years old now, he kept in contact with Serena, and he's a Bloodliner (essentially a human with Pokémon-related powers). The story is, by WordOfGod, inspired by ''FanFic/AshesOfThePast''.

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* The ''[[http://www.grandt.com/Journey/stories/ Journeyverse]]'' turns Xander into a massive MartyStu, then gives him a Peggy Sue and carries Faith, Dawn, and Giles along for the ride. It is also a MegaCrossover.
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/936018/1/Here_Is_Gone Here is Gone]]'' gives Spike (former BigBad) a Peggy Sue after he completes his HeelFaceTurn and acquires his soul.
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/~robert2 Cordelia's Wish]]'' sends Cordelia back so she can join the Scooby Gang from day one... Her efforts to turn it into a FixFic go [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor rather disastrously wrong]], however, landing squarely in CosmicHorrorStory territory, as [[Fanfic/ThePriceOfTheWish the tropes list indicates.]]
* M. [=McGregor=]'s ''[[http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=m_mcgregor&keyword=Fanfiction+-+I+Am+What+I+Am&filter=all I Am What I Am]]'' sends the soul of a dying 97-year-old Xander back in time to take over his own body during That Halloween Episode. He takes a rather more direct approach than in most examples of the trope.
* Yahtzee (no, not [[Creator/BenCroshaw that one]]) has a fic called "[[http://www.thechicagoloop.net/yahtzee/chivalry/chivfic/TwoStepsBack/TSBIndexPage.html Two Steps Back]]" that gives this idea an interesting twist. After his [[BolivianArmyEnding final battle]], Angel is given a device that can send him backwards through his life, a little farther each time; he can use it as many times as he wants, but he can't go forward again. Angel thinks he'll only need one jump to fix everything, but he soon learns how easily "knowing then what you know now" can lead to disaster...
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5777070/1/Wesleys-Mulligan Wesleys Mulligan]]'' What happens when you get an Angel season 5 Wesley kidnapping and replacing his Buffy Season 3 counterpart? Well, things certainly go differently. This much more genre savvy and brutal Wesley does not play well with the much more innocent cast of the early Buffyverse. Played fairly straight here without any major negative impacts.
* [[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-11643/Hotpoint+Compelled+to+Play+Again.htm Compelled to Play Again]] features a Peggy Sue [[EldritchAbomination Illyria]]. Though the Fang Gang makes a huge difference in the battle against the First, Illyria's changes cause more [[IncrediblyLamePun evil eyes]] to turn towards the Hellmouth. The story is the first in a series, though the Peggy Sue aspect is strongest in the first.
* ''[[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-30444/ChefJackButler+Vintage+Season.htm Vintage Season]]'' is one of the very few ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''-based Peggy Sue stories to feature Dawn as the time traveler. She makes a deal with [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils D'Hoffryn]] as a means to seek vengeance against the [[EldritchAbomination First Evil]] by going back in time to prevent its schemes from coming to fruition.

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* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12125771/1/Ah-Screw-It Ah, Screw It!]]'' is a ''Literature/HarryPotter''[=/=]''Series/StargateSG1'' crossover, though the latter doesn't start showing up until the fourth year. Harry winds up going back to the day of his Sorting right after beating Voldemort, and, armed with seven years' worth of extra knowledge, does his very best to become the ruler of Magical Britain -- while mercilessly trolling everyone within range.
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3417335/1/Martian_Manhunter Martian Manhunter]]'' is a ''Series/VeronicaMars''[=/=]''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' fusion in which a college-age Veronica is inserted into the Buffyverse as a high school student along with enough of her surroundings to make her past make sense. Only the ''Veronica Mars'' half of it is a Peggy Sue in the strict sense, but the ''Buffy'' half often functions in much the same way, as Veronica's a fan...

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* In the ''Franchise/StarWars'' fic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3054756/1/Shadows_of_the_Future Shadows of the Future]]'', Obi-Wan is killed by Anakin at [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith Mustafar]]. The Force then [[MentalTimeTravel sends him back]] to when they first met during the [[Film/ThePhantomMenace Naboo crisis]] 13 years earlier and works to connect with Anakin better this time, becoming more of a cool BigBrotherMentor rather than the cold and aloof one he was before. Well, after he's done spending the first few chapters thinking he's been captured by the enemy or has gone insane.

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* Has a [[FanficRecs/HarryPotterPeggySue FanficRecs page]].
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8149841/1/Again-and-Again Again and Again]]'': Harry discovers that his life is stuck in a GroundhogDayLoop and he can't die... [[WhoWantsToLiveForever and this totally sucks.]]
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3693052/1/Back_Again_Harry Back Again, Harry?]]'': A most unusual Peggy Sue fic, one that refuses the usual powerups and exceptional maturity in favor of sending Harry back ''from his visit to Kings Cross Station'' in ''Deathly Hallows'' to a certain night spent staring into the Mirror of Erised.
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4101650/1/Backward_With_Purpose Backward With Purpose: Always and Always]]'' complicates the premise in three ways: 1) Harry, Ron, ''and'' Ginny go back, 2) The Lost Prophecy has changed as well, bringing ForWantOfANail to unpredictable levels, and 3) the author seems to have had the whole fic planned out before posting the first chapter.
** And then its sequel, ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4337434/1/Backward_With_Purpose_Part_II_The_Book_of_Albus The Book of Albus]]'' has [[spoiler:Albus Severus Potter travel back in time and he indirectly interacts with his own parents when they traveled back in ''Always and Always'']]. Again, signs that the author has everything planned out.
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2703901/1/Curse_of_Fate Curse of Fate]]'': Immortal Harry, after watching friends and family die over thousands of years, only wants to join his loved ones in death. Believing he's found a way, he sends himself back into the body of his infant self, vowing to change his fate. A really hilarious crack fic; Harry manages to convince the Death Eaters that he is the reincarnation of the Dark Lord; HilarityEnsues. Also, find out just how many Death Eaters ("here to kill you") can fit into a phone booth. Was said to be discontinued by author in personal messages.
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4009690/1/Fox_Ears Fox Ears]]'': The Weasley family is deep in mourning after the battle of Hogwarts, but George has better ideas than to sit around and cry about something he'd rather just fix. And Charlie believes he can do it.
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6486108/1/From_the_Flame_to_the_Spark From the Flame to the Spark]]'' is among the rare breed that features Ginny Weasley as the only time-traveler, though other characters are affected by fragments of the future that comes back in Ginny's wake. Features a believable determinator!Ginny, hardened from leading the DA during the year Harry was Undesirable No. 1, that doesn't even attempt to keep events close to the original timeline. [[spoiler: At only half-way through Harry's first school-year, three horcruxes are already destroyed, and Snape has died fighting Quirrell]].
* ''[[http://www.fictionalley.org/authors/worldmaker/FA.html Furious Angels]]'' features Ginny Weasley, rather than Harry Potter, returning to the past. The return is incomplete, however, so she doesn't quite remember details from the future very often, or very completely, and this causes problems.
* Zigzagged in ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8479548/1/George-Weasley-and-the-Computational-Error George Weasley and the Computational Error]]''. George Weasley jumps back in time as a 40-year-old man to his first year. He still has his own body, but he has the ability to possess his younger self when necessary...though the person who decides whether it is necessary is Fred and Fred doesn't particularly like it when this mysterious "Saintlike One" possesses his twin.
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5453054/1/His_Own_Man His Own Man]]'', has Harry return to the summer before his first year after meeting Dumbledore in the other King's Cross Station. He ends up far closer to the other Houses than he was in canon, especially the Slytherins, and the Malfoy family in particular.
* ''FanFic/InThisWorldAndTheNext'': Harry and Hermione are sentenced to death for killing RonTheDeathEater, but are saved when [[DeusExMachina the Dementor explodes]] and sent back in time to [[RevengeFic visit various strife]] on the Weasleys and Dumbledore, among others.
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8175132/4/Jamie-Evans-and-Fate-s-Fool Jamie Evans and Fate's Bitch]]'': Harry, at the end of his life, comes back as himself, only [[GenderBender he's a girl now.]] And in an alternate timeline where the Potters lived and had a daughter (him). It's pretty confusing.
* ''[[http://www.greyblue.net/MidnightBlue/story.php?storyid=2 Mirror of Maybe]]'': An old fic from before Order of The Phoenix where Harry isn't technically time traveling -- he's just had a very long look through a clairvoyant magical object. [[LanguageOfMagic SuperPowered]]!Harry + [[SlashFic SnapeSlash]] may scare people away.
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3735743/1/The_Moment_It_Began The Moment It Began]],'' in which Snape goes back to the point where he called Lily a mudblood. 300,000 words, and the story has [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9275658/5/Harry-Potter-and-the-Moment-of-Crossover an unfinished continuation]] by another author.
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2636963/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_Nightmares_of_Futures_Past Nightmares of Future Past]]'' is the best of this sort, judging from its popularity; with over 20,000 favorites, it's easily the most popular fan fiction in the entire Harry Potter fandom. Although well-written, Harry's future knowledge and skills make him extremely powerful, extremely quickly. ~400,000 words and it's only at the start of the fourth year; the author hasn't updated it in over two years, but he's taken breaks just as long as that before.
* ''Fanfic/OhGodNotAgain'': So maybe everything didn't work out perfectly for Harry. Still, most of his friends survived, he'd gotten married, and was about to become a father. If only he'd have stayed away from the Veil, he wouldn't have had to go back and do everything ''again''. Also, because [[spoiler: the ''Veil'']] was the method of time travel, he finds out that [[spoiler: ''Sirius'' time traveled as well]]. HilarityEnsues.
* Throughly [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12407725/1/A-Question-of-When A Question Of When]]'' by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1401424/vlad-the-inhaler vlad]], in which Romilda Vane (a StalkerWithACrush side character from Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince) is given nearly limitless MentalTimeTravel powers... which she uses to try and seduce Harry Potter. Exceptional use of language (tenses begin to switch constantly about halfway through as Romilda [[spoiler: begins to lose her grip on things like "where" and "when"]]) and is unique in how TimeTravel is treated as a MundaneUtility.
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4655545/1/Reunion Reunion]]'': A parody of Peggy Sue fics, starring Harry, Hermione, Luna, and Susan Bones as the returnees. They're on a mission to take the timeline and tie it into a pretzel. Unfinished.
* ''FanFic/{{Sisyphus}}'': Takes a twist on the general Peggy Sue plotline; Harry gets another chance - and another and another... After a while they stop feeling like chances at all. Very well-written and be prepared for a hint of dark, morbid humour.
* [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6517567/1/Harry-Potter-and-the-Temporal-Beacon Harry Potter and the Temporal Beacon]]: Harry and Hermione find a way to make a “save checkpoint” at the end of the 3rd year, just before its end. Each time they die they get resetted to that point. Author warns not to expect it to have an ending, since he plans to keep expanding on it as long as he has enough new good ideas to add to the story. 430,000(+) words
* [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6413108/ To Shape and Change]]: AU. Time Travel. Snape goes back in time, holding the knowledge of what is to come if he fails. No longer holding a grudge, he seeks to shape Harry into the greatest wizard of all time, starting on the day Hagrid took Harry to Diagon Alley.
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4068153/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_Wastelands_of_Time Wastelands of Time]]'' is only the most recent in a long series of Harry failing to save the world. And trying his hardest anyway.
* [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8823447/ Harry Potter and the Witch Queen]] — Harry gets unwillingly sent back through a dark ritual after a long stalemate with Voldemort. Main heroes are Harry and Hermione, and there is also a dark!future-Hermione featured in the story as well. 124,000(+) words and is not finished yet.

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* The ''Series/{{Lost}}'' fanfic ''Knowing Lost'', rather than having a canon character go back in time, opens with two rabid ''Series/{{Lost}}'' fans from the real world waking up in the wreckage of Oceanic 815 after having a CrypticConversation on the flight home from the finale party. The fic takes itself very seriously, with one character (Ryan) doing everything he can to [[FixFic fix the show's many problems]], while the other (Kevin) tries to keep things in line and stay detached from the events unfolding around him. It appears the "course correction" that prevented [[spoiler: the canon characters from changing the past in season 5]] is in effect and hinders Ryan's attempts change the most painful events in the show.
* The ''Series/ICarly'' fanfic [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8532906/1/iFightCrimeWithVictorious iFight Crime With Victorious]] has Megan Parker and Sikowitz going back in time after the heroes [[spoiler: fail to stop the BigBad from turning Seattle into a nuclear ground zero]] and later become AffablyEvil as a result of the current timeline.
* The ''{{Supernatural}}'' fanfic ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/1413922?view_full_work=true If I knew then what I know now]]'', has Dean going back into his four-year-old body to save his mother's life and change the plot.

[[AC: Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman]]
* The questionably titled but quite nicely written ''[[http://www.lcficmbs.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=6;t=001077 Begin the Begin]]'' by Aromassa has the post-finale, married Lois and Clark accidentally going all the way back to the Pilot and their first meeting, and rebuilding the events of the show from there.
* Zoomway's Kerth-nominated ''[[http://www.lcfanfic.com/stories/2002/persist.txt The Persistence of Memory]]'' has more intentional bits of time-travel, with the protagonists going back to [[FixFic revisit and correct]] some of the key moments in their relationship

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* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5095852/1/Vive_Vale_Gaude Vive, Vale, Gaude]]'' has Ryou Fujibayashi encounter a distraught Tomoya in the hospital where she works. She discovers that he lost everything: Nagisa and Ushio. She encounters a [[TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday wish shop]] (which may be a CLAMP reference) and she is then sent back in time, where she attempts to ensure things flow smoothly so that they might be able to avoid that fate.
* 4chan's /co/ has a copypasta fic involving King Arthur getting a chance to start over. He asks Merlin to change the female squirrel who pursued him in one sequence of Disney's ''The Sword In The Stone'' into a human to be his friend and companion (and implicitly his wife rather than Guinevere).
** The T-rated story is [[http://arch.413chan.net/arthur_x_hazel-%28n1292184800806%29.jpg here]].
* Halfway through [[FanFic/{{ITSMYLIFE}} ITS MY LIFE!]] the main character has [[spoiler:killed almost everyone and accidentally finds a time machine]]. She points out that it may be possible for her to fix everything, but first she [[spoiler:arrives too early and then too late and eventually ends up fighting another self-based villain entirely.]]
* The ''Manga/SchoolRumble'' fanfic [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5589453/1/School-Rumble-Time-Rumble School Rumble: Time Rumble]] is this with a twist. Harima Kenji gets sent back in time to win Tenma's heart... but everyone's feelings toward everyone else in the series (both romantic and non) travel back in time with him. Needless to say the plot goes ridiculously off the tracks very quickly, with barely a casual glance at the StationsOfTheCanon.
* [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10257428/1/Begin-Again ''Begin Again'']] and [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10257658/1/Unforeseen-Consequences ''Unforeseen Consequences'']] by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/42078/Salamon2 ''Salamon2'']] have the four youngest Stark children return to the beginning of ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''. Something of a FixFic, save that several of the changes - such as [[spoiler:No One/Arya killing Theon]] - bring things to a head ahead of schedule.
* Another Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire example is ''FanFic/RobbReturns'', with the Old Gods sending Robb back to before the start of the series.
* ''FanFic/TheInfiniteLoops'' is this on a ''massive'' scale. The underlying concept is that reality itself is broken, and until the problem has been fixed, all the universes (i.e. every fictional and real universe that exists) are set to repeat a certain period (usually start to end of whatever media it's based on) over and over. Also, one person in each universe is its "Anchor" and is aware of the repeats, as are any individuals they've managed to "awaken", and so have ample opportunity to engage in this trope. Many Loopers can boast ''millions'' of iterations, and the first few have mostly lost count. Shenanigans are extremely common, as it makes for a great coping mechanism.

[[AC:{{Naruto}}]]
* Has a [[FanficRecs/NarutoPeggySueFics FanficRecs page]].
* ''Sasuke'' gets sent back (as an adult) in ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3111764/1/Two_Steps_Back Two Steps Back]],'' and adopts Naruto in order to give him a better childhood this time.
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2461703/1/This_Time_Around This Time Around]]'' sends both Naruto ''and'' Sasuke back to save everything.
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3969880/1/Mixed_With_the_Lightning_of_Slaughter Mixed With the Lightning of Slaughter]]'' beautifully subverts this by sending Sasuke back (from presumably some point near the end of the series)...but he may be going insane from the mind-breaking stress of involuntary time-travel.
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4203131/1/Reload Reload]]'' Also has Naruto and Sasuke doing the time warp again. Only it's been ''thousands'' of times, and all they want to do ''this'' time around is drink, party, and kill that damn cat. The end result is a very, very crazy Naruto who uses the power of '''SCIENCE!''' and an equally crazy Sasuke who has no gender identity -- or, at most, a decidedly ''female'' one. At the start of one repeat, Naruto convinces Sasuke(-chan) to go on a road trip; their ultimate goal is a Ramen Festival in Suna. Inuzuka Hana joins them as the OnlySaneMan. Then we're introduced to Naruto's most frightening creation -- Keisei. HilarityEnsues.
** WordOfGod supposedly says that they're [[spoiler:actually now free of the loops. Whatever happens now is going to happen ''period.'']]
* Don't know why there aren't a hundred examples just in this category, considering the size of the Naruto fandom in ffnet alone, but here's an up-and-comer for ya. [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4812616/1/A_Second_Chance_for_a_Frozen_Heart A Second Chance For a Frozen Heart]], definitely fits into both DeathFic and FixFic, though the death was canon. And if you can't figure out who just from the title, you don't read Naruto. Summary: Given a second chance to save people precious to him Naruto accepts and bonds with the Kyuubi. Now back at the age of Nine he gets ready to save a certain swordsman and his pupil. [=NaruXfemHaku=]
* [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4605848/1/A_Chance_at_the_Road_Not_Taken A Chance At The Road Not Taken]]
* Here's a very interesting take on it. [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4830410/1/Afterthoughts Afterthoughts]] Summary: Time-travel, that is not really time-travel. Naruto makes his way from his first day as a genin, with a 'feel' about how he should do things as a shinobi, and dreams about what 'a' future holds.
** From the looks of it, it really is a time-travel fic, and not one where Naruto suddenly gets precognitive powers. This is evidenced when Jiraiya sends word to the Sandaime in ch. 2 (I think) and says Naruto may be acting strangely.
** An older version of Naruto from an alternate dimension is sending him random memories. He doesn't get all of the memories from his alternate self, so it's really more of a limited precognition of a possible future than actual time travel.
* ''[[http://reldencalder.deviantart.com/art/Whoo-Time-Travel-CH-1-104213255 False Memories]]'' by [[http://reldencalder.deviantart.com Relden Calder]]: At the Chuunin exams, the Kage's Box where the Hokage, his wife, the Kazekage and the Kage's aides are sitting gets attacked by person or persons unknown.\\
Fifteen years in the past, Naruto, Hinata, Gaara, Shikamaru and Temari wake up with all the memories they accumulated up to the attack -- despite the fact they're just ten years old. Features excellent characterisation, very good grammar, and a fascinating plot that never breaks verisimilitude.
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4705070/1/In_Myriad_Ways In Myriad Ways]]'' by Charles Bhepin: It's a Peggy Sue with a twist: Naruto slowly goes completely insane. Sent back in time by the Shinigami to just before the Chuunin Exam, Naruto...well, just read it for yourself.
* ''FanFic/TimeAndAgain'' by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/476650/KyLewin KyLewin]]: Essentially, this story is a [[DeconstructedTrope deconstruction]] of the usual Naruto goes back in time fanfiction. The main difference is that, unlike most other Peggy Sue fics, Naruto not only has a hard time readjusting to his 12-year-old body for the first few days, but he also doesn't even believe that he is in the past; instead, he is convinced that he is trapped in [[LotusEaterMachine some kind of super illusory world]]. It gets better and worse for Naruto and his friends as he tries to change the village's fate for the better. It has a sequel, [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4781296/1/Here_and_Now Here and Now]], which is dead.
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3536141/1/The_Tragedy_of_Repetition The Tragedy of Repetition]]'', by Rurouni12065: Instead of waking up in his twelve-year-old body, Naruto (who goes by Nanashi) exists as a separate entity to his younger counterpart. Puts a refreshing spin on the SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong time-traveling fics. In addition, this is perhaps the first fic that not only pulls off a believable Naruto/Anko pairing, but one where she doesn't come across as a creepy pedophile.
** Officially a DeadFic, according to the author's profile.
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2147268/1/ For The Love of My Friends]]'' by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/596816/ Foxie-sama]]: An excellently written fic, the story is actually very believable and the characters stay in character. Recommended to any ''Naruto'' fans.
** Officially A DeadFic.
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3965729/1/The_Benefits_of_Omnipotence The Benefits of Omnipotence]]'' is a rather witty take on the genre that avoids overpowering Naruto. In fact, the biggest story arc so far happens when [[spoiler:Haku and Zabuza kidnap Naruto after he reveals that Gato would have betrayed them]], which your typical MartyStu Naruto would've gotten out of.
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4358794/1/bTime_b_bTravel_b_for_Beginners Time Travel For Beginners]]'' Naruto and Sasuke ''try'' to "fix fic" their lives as Peggy Sues, but... It doesn't quite work out. HilarityEnsues.
* ''[[FanFic/YetAgain Yet again with a little extra help]]'' by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/~ThirdFang Third Fang]] is one where Naruto goes back in time thanks to the intervention of an OC. It's notable in that crosses the [[CrackFic crack]], {{deconstruction}}, and adventure variations, in part due to the antics of the [=OCs=], weary immortals who act nuts and are for the most part intervening only because it'd be entertaining for them.
* ''FanFic/TimeMixUp'' deconstructs the genre even further by showing what happens when four different time travelers from four different bad futures fall in the same origin point, and each one of them tries to fix what went wrong in their respective timelines. The result is utter plot derailment as their respective plans conflicts with each other. Later another time traveler shows up, one who comes from a future where everything came peachy and traveled by mere accident.
* ''FanFic/IAmNOTGoingThroughPubertyAgain!'' is another deconstruction in that it's ''epilogue-compliant'' -- Team 7 and Hinata didn't want to go back in time because the future they come from was as ideal as it could be considering the circumstances. They don't even know how they ended up in the past (Naruto had sealed away all scrolls and knowledge pertaining to TimeTravel, as it was potentially dangerous), and unfortunately, [[TrappedInThePast they have no idea or means of undoing the situation]]. Also, unlike most Peggy Sue fics, they don't even bother trying to keep to the plot once they realize where, or ''when'', they are, as to them, [[RealityEnsues all of this happened decades ago and there is no way they'd manage to remember all the details, even with Sakura's amazing retention rate]]. To top it off, it's a CrackFic, because they all managed to retain their skills and abilities, making two of them (Naruto and Sasuke) the most powerful shinobi in the world by far and diminishing any and all potential threats to them. All four are ''completely'' aware of this, and seemed to be milking the experience for all it's worth.
** It also provides an inversion when [[spoiler:it turns out that they weren't so much sent back in time as swapped with their child selves, which causes its own set of problems.]]
* ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/5339486 reverse]]'' stars Kurama (the Kyuubi), sent back in time in a modified version of Naruto's body. Kurama cares about very few things and protecting the timeline isn't one of them. This fic is from the same author as ''backslide'' and as of June 1, 2017 is only a few chapters away from completion.
* ''Fanfic/ForLove,'' a fic where Hinata was sent back fifteen years from a BadFuture where Akatsuki has won (after Naruto created a different timeline to canon by [[ForWantOfANail killing Nagato instead of sparing him]]) and tries to improve things starting from when she's five years old.

[[AC:Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion]]
* Has a [[FanficRecs/NeonGenesisEvangelionPeggySue FanficRecs page]].
** Done to death in the ''Evangelion'' fandom, to the point where it's become an [[EpilepticTrees Epileptic Tree]] for the ''Rebuild of Evangelion'' movies. Considering the original End of Eva basically tore a hole in the fabric of reality, the possibility of that happening is the least surprising.
* The most notable, though the least acessible, example is the ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Evangelion]]'' {{doujinshi}} ''Manga/ReTake,'' which shows much of the later half of the series as Shinji's dream. Of course this doujin, despite the {{hentai}}, is also OriginalFlavour for ''Eva,'' so things go horribly wrong, such as [[spoiler:Asuka ''dying'' in the second volume after being unable to sync with her Eva anymore and it being forced to self destruct]] for example.
** This gets [[SubvertedTrope subverted entirely]] in Volume 3, when [[spoiler:it turns out it's not really a Peggy Sue, but the original Shinji's consciousness sort-of [[GrandTheftMe possessing]] his analogue's body in an AlternateUniverse. In the end, Shinji changes that parallel universe for the better, gets his taste of happiness, but recognizes he can't take back what he messed up the first time, and winds up back on the beach from [=EoE=] with Asuka, wiser, happier, and better-adjusted, but with nothing in the past ''really'' changed. Oh, and the Shinji he possessed and the local Asuka analogue forget everything that happened during the comic. At least they get to work out their issues in peace.]]
* To counterpoint the above, Crazy-88's ''Fanfic/OnceMoreWithFeeling'' has up to the current point of the story, generally positive results of Shinji going back in time. This can be explained by him having gone back to before stuff began going downhill fast, and having a spine shoved in him during the time travel. Still, it's a good story so far. It has his own [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanFic/OnceMoreWithFeeling Tropes Page]] now.
* Yet another straight up and well written example is ''Fanfic/HigherLearning'' by Strike Fiss, although the Peggy Sue is not immediately apparent. It has his own tropes page now.
* ''FanFic/TheSecondTry'' by Jimmy Wolk is something of a subversion; Shinji and Asuka travel back in time, but [[spoiler: [[{{RetGone}} they leave their daughter behind]]]]. Emotional and well written.
** The last few chapters are somehow very... [[SandInMyEyes dusty]]; [[TearJerker be careful while reading them]], or you might [[ManlyTears get something in your eyes]].
* Yet another one (by a troper!): ''FanFic/TakingSights'' has ''Gendo'' go back instead of Shinji. Also a subversion of the common FixFic aspects of this genre.
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5077294/1/Better_Luck_Next_Time Better Luck Next Time]]'' subverts this to the point of DarkFic territory.
* There's at least one story (''Home'') that has Asuka going back and trying to hi-jack the plot. It ended up as a DeadFic before much could happen with it.
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7457971/1 Unbroken]]'' has Asuka taking care of a near-catatonic Shinji after Third Impact for several months, until he disappears. Then Lilith/Rei shows up and sends Asuka back to just before Leliel with instructions to stop Shinji's descent into despair... but Asuka still has her own mental problems to sort out. It certainly doesn't help that her first attempt at being honest with her feelings resulted in [[spoiler:Shinji going paranoid and shutting into himself even more, convinced that she's messing with him for her own amusement]].
* ''Fanfic/NGEMitigation'' by Fourth Impact shows Gendo is CrazyPrepared for everything... including possible time-travelers. However, when he is alerted someone has indeed come back from the future, and that person is beginning to influence his scenario, he has the identity of the traveler quite wrong.
** For the first few chapters, it stays more or less in line with the original show, albeit with some minor (but poignant) deviations (such as Shinji being the one who's sent to retrieve the Lava Angel instead of Asuka). [[spoiler: Then things completely "[[OffTheRails jump the tracks]]", so to speak, when Gendo decides he can no longer risk having his Scenario contaminated any further, and orders section 2 to eliminate Shinji. Normally, this would have been a good guess, seeing as how Shinji is prime Peggy Sue material, and the kid had been showing unexplained CharacterDevelopment. However, in this case, the character growth was due to the influence of the ''actual'' time-traveler... '''Asuka'''. OOPS!]]
** Now with its own tropes page that needs a lot of love.
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7251473/1/Samsara Samsara]]'' by Chuckman shows Shinji having an awful day in his mother's death's anniversary. Before turning in for the night he wishes he had at least one good day. The next day he wakes up... and realizes it is still his mother's death's anniversary. He finds himself reliving that day hundreds of times without knowing how or why or how fixing it. After going crazy for several dozens of loops he realizes what he really wants -and his only way to break the loop- is making Asuka happy. He only needs figuring out how accomplishing ''that'' in one single day.
* [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10344595/1/Fruity-Loops Fruity Loops]] by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/5725932/SpiderLobb SpiderLobb]] plays this trope for both comedy and tragedy. Shinji, Asuka and Rei return to the beginning from the history every time that he dies. Unfortunately he does this ''a lot'', and the continuous repeats are having crazy effects on the pilots. For example, Asuka and Rei start to bond, and they go from rivals to friends to lovers that consider that Shinji belongs to them by right (and if the fic reaches that point, it is possible that Kaworu joins the harem).
* [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11042928/1/In-Tune In Tune]] by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/211888/Z98 Z98]] pulls several subversions: Shinji, Asuka and other characters have traveled back in time with their intact memories... but instead of keeping their old bodies or reincarnating into their younger selves they have been reborn into completely different people [[spoiler:-Shinji became a German violinist; Asuka a German army captain ad UN Auditor; Misato a German army general; and so on...-]]. So that rather setting out to influence events directly, they opt to work behind the scenes, infiltrate Nerv as average, clueless employees and mentor and support the Children without raising suspicions. They are also well-aware that their knowledge of the future will become useless after a while due to them altering the past.
* You would not know that ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji'' is one until the last chapter when it is revealed that [[spoiler: the ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' gods sent a time-traveler back to the past to prevent an awful future.]]
* ''Fanfic/DoingItRightThisTime'': The three Children [[spoiler:and some other characters]] are sent back [[spoiler:by Kaworu]] three months before the beginning of the War. This story stands out for several things: Shinji does not believe he can prevent the Third Impact [[DeterminedDefeatist but he decides to try anyway]] since he can not possibly top his former failure; the three pilots have turned into accomplished snarkers and are both more cynical and more carefree; and eventually the three of them get together.
* "[[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/coupled-effort-nge.18333/ Coupled Effort]]": After Instrumentality the three Children return to the past in the middle of the battle against Sandalphon... and Shinji and Asuka decide getting married inmediately. However Rei returned right after Shinji's choice, whereas Shinji and Asuka spent ten years surviving alone in the devastated world, forced to lean on and help each other in order to survive, before going back. Unfortunately Shinji became a tad -more- mind-broken and aggressive in the process, and Asuka ''of all people'' has to be the voice of reason among her fellow pilots and future family.

[[AC:Manga/RanmaOneHalf]]
* Ringmaster's ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2693964/1/The_Demons_Contract The Demon's Contract]]''.
* [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/22510/Lord_Archive Lord Archive]]'s ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/122063/1/Second_Chances Second Chances]]'' features an emotionally-shredded Akane going back in time via a wish from [[Manga/AhMyGoddess Urd]] to both prevent Ranma's eventual death and make their lives together happier.
* ''[[http://archives.eyrie.org/anime/Ranma/ranma.timeslip.gz Actor in the Mirror]]'' is a well-written straight example that is quite enjoyable.
* Parodied in the short story ''[[http://skjam.livejournal.com/141126.html Deja Vu All Over Again]]'' by Scott Jamison, wherein Akane is given a magical amulet which will take her back to the day she met Ranma so she can make sure their relationship gets off on the right foot -- [[spoiler:only to discover that a similar amulet has been given to ''every other'' girl chasing him as well when they all show up within minutes of each other]].
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1988140/1/ Ranma, the Second Time Around]]'', which is set to break ''one million goddamned words.''
** Already has, still not at 100 chapters yet.
* Toyed with in ''[[http://web.archive.org/web/20030607004506/members.rogers.com/spghome/ASIS.html The Bet: Study in Scarlet]]'', where Akane found a way back to the day Ranma arrived after an ill-worded wish dropped her in a far-future era long after Ranma's bloodline died out, and she spent several centuries getting back (in the process becoming a legendary and universally-feared ''villain'' in that era). Problem is she seems to have forgotten a lot about human society (one does not use pain-inflicting pressure points to impress a prospective mate, even if putting them through a wall would somehow slide).

[[AC:VideoGames]]
* [[FanFic/TheLifeIsAGameMultiverse Mass Effect: Life is a Game]] has a Male!Paragon!Shepard ''and'' a Female!Renegade!Shepard take a one-way trip from [[Franchise/MassEffect Mass Effect 3's]] endgame into the ''same'' universe. His is MentalTimeTravel, hers isn't. They get married.
* A variation occurs in a fanfic for ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'' entitled [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5239787/1/Chapters Chapters]]. The main character experience the game's own NewGamePlus, [[YouCantFightFate which means he can't change anything]], but he ''can'' mentally slap himself over how he acted...and find post-game content.
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7038096/1/Fate_ReNight Fate ReNight]]'' is a Peggy Sue fic for the ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' VisualNovel, where Shirou accidentally activates the remains of the Grail and wishes himself back from the end of the Fate route to the moment he summoned Saber. What's notable about this fic is that it is both the first ''Fate/stay night'' fic of this type and, although the author is a self-admitted Saber/Shirou fan, he seems to take a sadistic glee in the fact that Fate Shirou lacks a lot of the knowledge revealed in other routes (Archer's identity, Sakura's situation etc), and because of this most all of Shirou's attempted fixes backfire. He has recently begun to play with the dream-sharing between Servants and Masters, which likely is going to complicate Shirou's efforts to conceal the time travel thing from Saber.
* Mandi Paugh's ''VideoGame/MegaMan'' FanFic ''[[http://mmhp.net/TheSeries/mmbooks/MMPU.html Powered Down]]'' has a variation of this. Mega Man switches bodies with his counterpart from the PSP remake of the first game, ''VideoGame/MegaManPoweredUp'', eventually attempting to use his knowledge to prevent ''Mega Man 2'' from ever happening. Unlike other Peggy Sue fics, it doesn't affect his own timeline, but he's still using knowledge of his own future to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong.
* A rather strange example occurs in the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' fanfics (link unavailable because apparently they're on an "adult" site) ''A Rose And A Thorn 3'' and ''A Rose And A Thorn 4''. The OC 'Project: Mirage' loses everything -- including her lover Espio and her vision -- at the end of [=ARAAT3,=] and then with Sonic's help uses the Time Stones to try and re-write history in [=ARAAT4=]. She -- and the reader -- learn many strange things about the events on the ARK, including the possibility that [[spoiler:she is perpetuating a time loop that may have been going round for centuries, and the uncertainty of whether Espio reminded her of a former love on ARK -- known as Project: Midnight -- or that Midnight reminded her of Espio.]]
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5353458/1/Blast_to_the_Past Blast to the Past]]'' has Silver, Blaze and Princess Elise thrown back in time in an Archie/Fleetway mixed Mobius, when Sonic and Eggman were apparently friends. Knowing that the Metarex, the antagonists of the fic, were attempting to alter the timeline to take over Mobius and the universe, Elise ensures that the plot doesn't come to fruition. However... [[spoiler:in doing so, it turns out that Princess Elise ''herself'' was the one responsible for turning Eggman evil, very much the same way Sonic was responsible in the Fleetway comic.]]
* The ''VideoGame/Persona4'' fic [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5196521/1/Fortune_no_Hikari Fortune no Hikari]] is an interesting take on this. In it the main character goes back in time to the start of the game after one of the {{Downer Ending}}s. However he's unable to come up with a way to save the SacrificialLamb character at the start without making himself look suspicious and thus fails to save her. He also opts to let a lot of things play their course since he knows it will work out in the end and is afraid trying to change it will make things worse. He does however cause a few minor changes, such as preventing a friend from doing something stupid to get the police off their case, use his knowledge of the future to start of on better terms with his uncle, and subtly give a few hints to cause his two friends to admit their feelings and become a couple almost right away rather than go on with the ShipTease for months on end.
* The ''VideoGame/Persona3'' fic [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6370401/1/Reset Reset]] puts the protagonist in an interesting situation: He wakes up in front of Tartarus the day before his arrival in Iwatodai, and finds that he's been replaced by the female protagonist from P3P, and that [[spoiler:Elizabeth has taken his place as the Great Seal.]] He's no longer a Wild Card and his former friends and Social Links no longer are as close with him, and he must make a great deal of effort to prevent [[spoiler:the Arcana Shadows from being defeated to stop Ikutsuki's plans and Nyx's return.]]
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5422982/1/Time_Paradox Time Paradox]]'' is a ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' fic where Cloud, one he gets his life sorted out, gets sent back in time against his will and placed in an alternate reality where everyone else is either a CloudCuckoolander, TheWonka, AxCrazy, AttentionDeficitOohShiny, CrazyAwesome, or... okay, summary: Cloud Strife is the OnlySaneMan and a Peggy Sue to a universe that he really isn't bothered about changing the fate of. HilarityEnsues.
* Another ''FFVII'' one is ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/846875/1/Fusion Fusion]]'', where Cloud is given the chance by Aeris to go back to his life in the military and to try to save Sephiroth. This was written long before the Compilation came out, so some of the characterizations obviously differ from the later installments, and some of them coincide (like Cloud angsty-self in ''Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren''). This is a SlashFic and it's sadly [[DeadFic dead]].
* [[FanFic/TheFifthAct The Fifth Act.]] After an accident with a time travel material, Cloud is thrown into the past (not returned to his old body) before the events of Crisis Core. Instead of trying to save Sephiroth, he sets off to kill him and prevent the coming tragedies. Being Cloud, what he actually planned is entirely different from what he ends up doing. The Fifth Act defies TheStationsOfTheCanon as Cloud's actions dramatically change the course of Midgar and its revealed that the fic is [[spoiler: a {{Subversion}}. Cloud doesn't SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong as he created a new timeline when he time traveled]]
* [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12467016/1/Killing-The-Past Killing The Past]], a ''VideoGame/NightInTheWoods'' and ''VideoGame/EnterTheGungeon'' crossover, has Mae, Gregg, Angus, and Bea enter the Gungeon to find [[McGuffin The Gun That Can Kill The Past.]]
* The highly-moddable {{Hentai}} JRPG ''Monster Girl Quest'' has a popular (although still in development) mod for it called 'Monster Girl Quest NG+'. Contrary to the title, rather than being a NewGamePlus mode for the original, it's a Peggy Sue story where the hero Luka is sent back to the day his adventure first began, complete with all his skills, powers (except the powers of the Four Elemental Spirits, since those are dependent on the spirits accompanying him and they didn't follow him back) and equipment, including the unique Angel Halo sword, and, more importantly, complete knowledge of the game's big plot twist (namely that [[spoiler:GodIsEvil and the Monster Lord is a NobleDemon who he had actually ended up married to in the future]]). This leads to amusing scenarios where the Goddess Ilias tries to give him a divine mission to slay the Monster Lord only for him to tell her to go fuck herself (to her complete befuddlement as he'd always been a pious believer before), and he now has absolutely no qualms about breaking the goddess' taboo about sexual contact with monster girls.

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* ''[[http://Loopy777.deviantart.com/art/The-Chosen-183958450 The Chosen]]'' is an '''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' fanfic that features three twists on the basic Peggy Sue premise. First, it's [[BigBad Ozai]] who gets to go back in time following his defeat at the hands of Avatar Aang. Second, Ozai lives over his entire [[GroundhogPeggySue lifetime from age 15 onward multiple times]], totaling several hundred years ''at the least''. Third, the canon timeline is the last and final loop Ozai ever experiences.
* In the''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'', [[spoiler:Queen Chrysalis]] ends up being a deconstruction. She sees the events of the canon episode and adjusts her plans accordingly...but fails to factor in the ButterflyOfDoom and that her changing her behavior will cause OTHERS to change theirs, which is ultimately her downfall.
* The ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' fic ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/10543197/chapters/23281713 The Weight Of Living]]'' has Marinette travel back in time using the Peacock Miraculous after Hawkmoth wins, but with the twist that [[{{Retgone}} her own existence is erased]]. As such, Marinette arrives in a past [[ItsAWonderfulPlot where she was never born]] (it's later revealed that Sabine miscarried), [[ForWantOfANail there are already two Miraculous holders she doesn't recognise from the first timeline, and Chat Noir is operating without a Ladybug and struggling to assert himself alongside the Bee and the Fox]].

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* Meltalviel's ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3814006/1/ For Good]]'' is a story which starts off a year after ''Wicked'' ''ends'' and throws Glinda into the body of herself (G''a''linda) shortly before "Dear Old Shiz." Thrown for a twist in that she immediately decides to change things ''[[TitleDrop for good]]'' and that she's not the only one finding herself back at Shiz.
* "Almost Like a Prophecy" has Elphaba accidentally sending herself back through time through her magic, which she uses as a second chance to fix what she sees as her mistakes right. Namely, to protect those she loves.
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* ''Manga/OnePiece'' has a lot of Peggy Sue fics, being one of the most lengthy manga series ever created and the single most popular one, but for those that refollow the journey of the Straw Hats, none of them have ever finished; in fact, the vast majority of them dead-end before or during the Alabasta arc (1/5 of the series). But you can't exactly blame people for continuing to try their own hands at it, considering the fact that of the top five most popular fics in the fandom, ''four of them'' are Peggy Sue fics, with the one that isn't being in fifth place overall:

** And in fourth place is ''FanFic/OnceAgain'' by [=TheVictor=]. In this one, Akainu kills Luffy's crew, Luffy gives up, and a couple of years later Admiral Coby sends him back with his Toki Toki no Mi powers. This fic was the first Peggy Sue ever to make it past the Alabasta arc, and while the author has [[DeadFic long since vanished without a trace]], he set the bar high by making it to the middle of the Enies Lobby arc (about 1/4 of the series) before that. ''Once Again'' subsequently became the most popular fic in the One Piece fandom, a title it held for at least two years afterwards, and it maintained its place as being the longest Peggy Sue in canon progression for three.
** Another noteworthy one is ''Young and Built to Fall'' by fingers-falling-upwards. In this one, the time travelers are Luffy and Ace, and they return back to their childhood sometime after Sabo's "death." The first eight chapters of the story is original content that follows Ace and Luffy as they come to terms with their past and gather the necessary materials to prevent Blackbeard from ever coming to power, easing a few tragedies along the way. Everything after that is rehashing of canon with a few minor changes and very little detail, skimming or even skipping entire arcs. Updates are slow, but the story is ranked 12th overall, and the author is planning on making more AU changes soon.