History PeggySue / FanWorks

* ''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.

* ''[[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.

* ''Fanfic/RobbReturns'': In a certain time, when the Red Wedding happened, the Gods (all of them) decide that there were too many lost leaders to win the War for the Dawn. So to remedy this, they send Robb back from his death, [[ForWantOfANail starting a cascade of choices]] that will bring the Seven Kingdoms together in a new way to be prepared for the Others. Somewhat unusually, the typical SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong aspects are dropped fairly quickly. The story instead focuses on the return of the magic, the growing power of the Old Gods, and preparing Westeros for the Others.

** In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/46318249?view_full_work=true What If...? Catelyn Tully]]'', Catelyn wishes on a star that Brandon Stark, Ned's brother to whom she was originally betrothed, didn't die, just so she wouldn't have to deal with the "insult" that Jon Snow's presence brings her anymore. She wakes up the next morning in her childhood bedroom in Riverrun and realizes that she's in an AlternateUniverse where, among other differences, [[ForWantOfANail the Mad King Aerys II died earlier on]] which allowed Rhaegar to be crowned king. Cat is initially ecstatic when she gets married to Brandon, but BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor is in full effect here, as she is hit with the realization that she was only ever [[LovingAShadow in love with the image of the "Wild Wolf"]] and he's a very different husband from how Ned was; this, along with several other faux pas moves she makes, quickly sours Cat as an [[ObnoxiousInLaws obnoxious in-law]] to the rest of the Stark family. She also ends up figuring out that Jon is actually her nephew through Lyanna and Rhaegar, which means her ire at Jon was completely misplaced. The story ultimately ends with her wishing she could go back to her original life.

* ''[[Fanfic/WhereTheresAWillTheresARoad]]'' features this as a twist, though only [[spoiler: the resentment-poisoned spirits of the Venerated Triad]] travel back. It's heavily implied that they've changed the past by being there, though.

* Crazy-88's ''Fanfic/OnceMoreWithFeeling'' has 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.

* ''[[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.

* 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.

* ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20181113053905/https://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.
* [[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

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* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/8211029 no matter how bright a torch]]'' sends Sansa from a timeline in which most of Westeros has already fallen to the White Walkers into the body of Cersei Lannister the day of her wedding. She immediately sets herself to become a much more competent and politically active Queen, goading Robert into at least putting token efforts to unify the realm and developing a successful and productive marriage. While this does avert a great deal of the issues that plagued the realm in the original timeline, events are changing as well to counter her own efforts, starting with Littlefinger being sent to King's Landing far too early.
* ''Fanfic/TheRavensPlan'': With the White Walkers having triumphed over the living, the remaining heroes use a highly risky BloodMagic spell channeling the power of the Old Gods to send some select people back in time to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong by preventing the wars that left Westeros depleted of the resources necessary to effectively counter the Others. However, due to the massive LastStand HoldTheLine battle going on around the spot, the spell becomes fueled by the extra blood sacrifices and ''much'' more powerful than intended, "awakening" far more people than originally planned. Despite the unexpected turn of so many remembering their previous lifetimes (and deaths), the people of Planetos overall are grateful for this miraculous second chance and get to work to not waste it, with some even looking to gain some justice they never got in the previous timeline.
* ''Fanfic/ThereAndBackAgain'' starts out as a ContinuationFic where Jon Snow meets [[TheGrimReaper the Stranger]] (one of the aspects of the Seven-Pointed Star making up the Faith of the Seven) four months after [[Recap/GameOfThronesS8E6TheIronThrone the series finale]] and offered the chance to go back in time to five years before the series' events began, fix his mistakes, and truly fulfill the Prince That Was Promised prophecy. Other characters are also sent back to help Jon, including Ned, Sansa, Varys, Maester Aemon, and Tormund. However, a wayward soul also makes their way back in Daenerys Targaryen, who is determined to get revenge on all those who wronged her.
* The "[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/3495646 What If...?]] series centers on certain characters wishing they could start their lives over, with varying degrees of success.
** In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/46318249?view_full_work=true What If...? Catelyn Tully]]'', Catelyn wishes on a star that Brandon Stark, Ned's brother to whom she was originally betrothed, didn't die, just so she wouldn't have to deal with the "insult" that Jon Snow's presence brings her anymore. She wakes up the next morning in her childhood bedroom in Riverrun and realizes that she's in an AlternateUniverse where, among other differences, [[ForWantOfANail the Mad King Aerys II died earlier on]] which allowed Rhaegar to be crowned king. Cat is initially ecstatic when she gets married to Brandon, but BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor is in full effect here, as she is hit with the realization that she was only ever [[LovingAShadow in love with the image of the "Wild Wolf"]] and he's a very different husband from how Ned was; this, along with several other faux pas moves she makes, quickly sours Cat as an [[ObnoxiousInLaws obnoxious in-law]] to the rest of the Stark family. She also ends up figuring out that Jon is actually her nephew through Lyanna and Rhaegar, which means her ire at Jon was completely misplaced. The story ultimately ends with her wishing she could go back to her original life.
** In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/46912057/chapters/118170406 What If...? Elia Martell]]'', Elia wishes she never got married to Rhaegar while Gregor Clegane and Amory Lorch kill her and her children during the Sacking of King's Landing. She then wakes up in her childhood bedroom in Dorne and immediately gets to work trying to make sure she doesn't get married to the prince with the [[TheCaligula extremely unstable]] father.
* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/48776269/chapters/123043462 Shielding Their Realms Forever]]'' initially starts out [[TimeSkip ten years after]] the events of [[Recap/GameOfThronesS8E6TheIronThrone the series finale]] where it turns out that the Others have not been entirely defeated (with the implication that the Night's King [[SoulJar put a piece of himself in Bran]] as a back-up for himself), so Jon is sent back to when he was resurrected from the dead in [[Recap/GameOfThronesS6E2Home "Home"]] and he immediately gets to work to not only find out how to truly defeat the Others but also save as many people as he can from the dark paths their fates took them in the original timeline.

[[AC: Series/LoisAndClark]]
* 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.

* ''[[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.

* 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.
* ''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.
* ''FanFic/ImperiumAscendant'' is a ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' fanfic where the [[DarkLordOnLifeSupport God-Emperor of Mankind]] is able to use the power of the Warp to reach out from the [[ArcWords grim darkness of the far future]] to warn his past self, 10,000 years ago, about what is to befall his grand plans, [[AdaptationalBadass and give him a massive power boost]]. The resultant story is an AlternateUniverseFic about past-Emperor trying to use his newfound knowledge and power to prevent the Imperium from becoming [[CrapsackWorld what it was in the 41st millennium]].

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* [[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.]]

[[AC: VideoGame/{{Control}}]]

[[AC: Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}]]
* ''Fanfic/AndAgain'' combines this with GroundhogDayLoop. Naegi inexplicably reawakens at the beginning of the game and takes it upon himself to ensure EverybodyLives.
* ''Blog/AStudentOutOfTime'' has this in the format of an ask blog. [[VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair Hajime Hinata]] inexplicably finds himself back at the beginning of the ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'' timeline, now with the chance to prevent [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt The Tragedy]] and save the lives of his classmates.

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[[AC: Franchise/FateSeries]]
* ''Fanfic/FateBlackAvalon'': In a variant, Morgan, the one going back in time, had absolutely nothing to do with the original events; the very first change she made was getting herself summoned instead of someone else. She still fills the role, though, as she has full knowledge of the future and uses it to put everything on a more preferred path.
* ''[[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.

[[AC: Franchise/FinalFantasy]]

* 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'': After an accident with a time materia, Cloud is thrown into the past (not returned to his old body) before the events of ''VideoGame/CrisisCore''. 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 it's revealed that the fic is [[spoiler: a {{Subversion}}. Cloud doesn't SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong as he created a new timeline when he time traveled.]]

[[AC: Franchise/FireEmblem]]

[[AC: Franchise/MassEffect]]

[[AC: Franchise/MegaMan]]
* 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.

[[AC: Franchise/{{Persona}} Series]]
* 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.]] Dead-ends in the summer, unfortunately, with the author having no intention of continuing.
* 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.
* ''VideoGame/Persona5''
** The fic series ''Fanfic/StartAgain'' features a version of this where the entire party is transported back in time from the DarkestHour of the original game. The catch? They don't all get sent back to the same point. And certain events are isolated enough from each other that several time travelers believe they're the only ones, and start changing things from their end. A beautiful collection of chaos currently six stories long (plus a seventh fic that exists just to keep track of the twisting timeline).
** ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/15858858/chapters/36941703 The Trickster's Reawakening]]'' has Joker sent back from right before he would have died after the Fusion to a year before the events of the game. He vows to be a better person, friend, and lover this time around. The pairing is the Protagonist and Ann, with the biggest plot point being that Shiho joins the Thieves in spite of not having a Persona...which has serious consequences down the line.

** ''Fanfic/BreakingAllTheThings'' has Akechi being sent back in time at the moment of his death, ending up near Shido just before Akira was framed for assaulting him. Akechi impulsively punches Shido out for real, before quickly realising that he just derailed Akira's story and prevented the Phantom Thieves from coming into existence. He later tries to set things back on course by giving Akira's description to the local police, but it doesn't get back to Shido thanks to Judge Kurusu's influence and Akira still doesn't get arrested. This forces Akechi to create the Phantom Thieves himself, eventually forming his own team with Morgana, [[spoiler:Futaba and Haru.]] and covering as many of their canon targets as he can. It's only when he targets Akira's estranged mother and causes his father's corruption to be exposed that Akira ends up being sent to Tokyo and Shujin. Even then, the Velvet Room inhabitants have no idea what to do with him.

[[AC: Franchise/{{Pokemon}}]]

[[AC: Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog]]
* 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.]]

[[AC: VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou]]

[[AC:VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles]]

[[AC: ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'']]

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Trollhunters}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Withhold}}'' takes the PeggySue premise of the episode “[[Recap/TrollhuntersS2E11Unbecoming Unbecoming]]” and has Jim predict where Kanjigar has his fatal battle with Bular and saves him, thus Kanjigar does not die and Jim does not become the trollhunter.
* ''Fanfic/RebootMiraculousLadybug'': Marinette is sent back in time by Master Fu to prevent the TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, specifically into the body of her thirteen year-old self the morning she gains her miraculous.
* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'':
** ''Fanfic/TotalDramaRedemption'' has an adult Noah be sent to an alternate timeline of ''Total Drama Island'', where he is given the opportunity to redeem himself by improving his performance in the competition. The fic was popular enough to inspire other writers to try similar stories.
** ''Fanfic/CourtneysCrusadeForRedemption'' has Courtney as travel back in time to ''Total Drama All-Stars'', giving the her the chance to make up for all her mistakes on that season and take her life down a new and better path.
** ''Fanfic/TotalDramaCodysRedemption'' has Cody time travel to ''Total Drama Island'', where he decides to use the opportunity to not only play differently, but also stop pursuing Gwen and befriend different girls, which results in Lindsay and Bridgette developing feelings for him.
** In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13688939/1/Ezekiel-s-Time-Tour Ezekiel's Time Tour]]'', thanks to Chris and Chef fooling around with a time machine for an upcoming ''Total Drama'' season, Ezekiel is sent back to the ''World Tour'' season, to where he decides to redeem himself, make some friends and win.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' fanfic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/18280892/chapters/43264091 The Peridot Effect]]'', there's a variation in which Peridot wakes up 4,500 years prior to the events of the series to discover everything up to [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E28ChangeYourMind the season five finale]] was all a premonition. She had no intention of going back, and the time she left was bright, with everyone [[EarnYourHappyEnding earning their happy ending]] and making strives towards fixing Homeworld. She's upset at first, but decides she can't just sit, wait, and let everything happen again with what she knows now, and requests an assignment to Earth at the first opportunity; she abandons Homeworld, frees Lapis from the mirror, and (re)joins the Crystal Gems.
* [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/259631/a-second-chance A Second Chance]] features Twilight Sparkle being visited by her future self who gives her the knowledge of everything that happened in her life before sending back in time to the moment when she first left for Ponyville. Armed with this newfound information she begins to make changes for her life and her friends as well as stopping threats before they occur.
* ''Fanfic/DominoesStarWarsTheCloneWars'' has the various members of Domino Squad squad transported back from the points of their deaths to the date of the final test. From there on out, they work to change things for the better-most pressingly, exposing Order 66
* ''Fanfic/{{Odaliaverse}}'' involves [[WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse Odalia Blight]] being revived moments after dying at the Day of Unity, decades into the past before she entered Hexside, giving her a chance to ensure she doesn't repeat the same mistakes her past life did.

[[AC:General]]
* 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 ''Series/{{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.
* The ''Series/DowntonAbbey'' fanfic ''Fanfic/AuthorsOfOurOwnFate'' sees Matthew, upon the moment of his death, waking up the night before the news broke of the Titanic's sinking. He proceeds to make a list of all he will do to change the future, with some events working out well (him and Mary get together much sooner) while others do not (Pamuk becoming a ranting, screaming madman that nearly beats Carson to death). To further complicate matters [[spoiler: Sybil has also returned to the past and is much more willing to alter things, with her hiring Bates to kill Pamuk and then risking her relationship with Tom by revealing she is a time traveler.]]
* In ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/NewBeginningsSmallville'', ComicBook/LoisLane interferes with [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Clark Kent]] trying to use the [[ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes Legion Ring]] to prevent being exposed by Linda Lake, causing them going back eight years in the past instead of some few months.
* ''[[Series/Supergirl2015 Arrowverse]]'' story ''Fanfic/FutureShock'' has the Earth's heroes lose the war against ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} eleven years into the future. With options depleted [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara]], Miss Martian, Sara Lance and Thea Queen play the ultimate gamble, to send Kara's memories, some essential tech, and all the resources they can muster back to before the war was lost, before everyone died, before there was even a Supergirl. And this time, Kara intends to do better.
* The ''Series/Merlin2008'' fanfic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/15919503/chapters/37112211 To Start Anew]]'' begins with a century-old, post-finale Merlin using a spell to put his magic himself into his younger body, before Morgana discovered her magic. However, rather than actively using his foreknowledge, he wipes his memory upon arrival, leaving himself a note with instructions on what to change to avoid Arthur's death, and a failsafe spell in case it doesn't work. He tries ''multiple times'' to stop Morgana and Mordred from their canon [[FaceHeelTurn Face-Heel Turns]] by being more kind to them, but fails every time, nearly driving himself insane from grief. Finally, Merlin instead instructs himself to come clean and change Arthur's mind during his ultimatum with The Disir. The rest of the story follows what happens from there.
** [[spoiler: It later turns out Gaius and Nimueh had used the same spell years before in order go back and bind Arthur's innate magic before Uther could discover its existence, at the cost of The Disir's ultimatum.]]
* A ''Series/TheWalkingDead2010'' fanfic [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11528171/1/Awake "Awake"]] features this trope mixed with a GroundhogDayLoop: Rick, Daryl, Carol, Glenn, and Carl wake up back at the beginning of the series after arriving at Alexandria in Season 5. The five are forced to relive the same day over and over, initially with only a few of them being [[TitleDrop awake]] at a time, until all five are awake in the same loop and manage to change Morgan and Duane's future.
** The sequel, "Aware", picks it up from there, with the five working to change later events. The most recent chapter (updated in 2015) reveals that other members of the cast who made it to Alexandria have gotten some of their memories back, including Michonne and Maggie (the latter having her memories fully restored upon reuniting with Glenn).
[[AC:Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer and Series/{{Angel}}]]

* ''[[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 [[{{Pun}} 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.

* 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 [[https://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/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]].

** Now with its own tropes page that needs a lot of love.

* [[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 it's very unlikely he could make things any ''worse''; the three pilots have turned into accomplished snarkers and are both more cynical and more carefree, and one major trope convention is defied straight out of the gate[[note]]A very conscious decision on the author's part to try something different with a well-used trope[[/note]]: They don't try to keep it a secret from their allies... including Gendo, whose inclusion as an ally is [[TeethClenchedTeamwork grudging]] at best. Oh, and [[OneTrueThreesome there's something about polyamory]], too.
* "[[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.

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* 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://www.fanfiction.net/s/1988140/1/ Ranma, the Second Time Around]]'', which is set to break ''one million goddamned words.''

* 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).
* [=MM007=]'s ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13250586/1/Ranma-Restart-Bid-for-Freedom Ranma Restart: Bid for Freedom]]''.

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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). Some examples include:
** ''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. It was placed on indefinite hiatus in October 2020 before the author formally discontinued it in February 2023.
** ''[[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 as of September 2017.
** ''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. The story made it to the Skypiea arc before, in July 2020, the author announced that he was going to rewrite it.
** ''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 [[DeadFic vanished without a trace]] back in 2013, 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.
** ''The Will Of D'' by The Animaniac Dude has Luffy travel back in time with Gold Roger's ghost helping him to do things right and save his crew while operating on another agenda involving the fishmen. Originally begun in 2008, the author began a rewrite in 2018, keeping the original premise but adapting with canon's revelations and twisting the entire fic to be DarkerAndEdgier, bringing the bad guys up to Luffy's level. The rewrite of already-present chapters is half-done, with the last update being in March 2019.
** There's also ''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 author is planning on making more AU changes soon. Note that the author began this story before canon revealed that [[spoiler:Sabo was alive]]. Last updated March 2017.
** ''[[FanFic/ForBetterOrForWorseOnePiece 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.
** ''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. Last updated April 2020.
** ''The Coward's Redemption'' continues the idea that after all of the other Straw Hats died, the only one left was sent back in time to change things. Just one ''slight'' change from the normal formula: the one who gets sent back with enough years before the journey begins to train themselves into shape for the Grand Line is ''Usopp'', not Luffy.
** ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13945286/1/ Crossed Lines]]'' sees every member of the Straw Hat crew travel back in time, only they're all from different timelines and none of them realize it until they start meeting up. The only two from the same timeline are Nami and Vivi.

* ''Fanfic/TheGreatestOfThemAll'': Peter has to go through the experience of being born all over again, and takes this opportunity to do everything he can to make things better and prevent the destruction of the multiverse at the hands of the One Below All.

* ''Fanfic/HermioneGrangerTheWitchingHour'' (''Literature/HarryPotter'', ''Webcomic/TheGamer''): Hermione's life has always been a video game, it's just that the console was hidden from her. It only shows up when she dies the first time. Because it's a video game, hers is a DisneyDeath and she can choose to start anew, which for all intents and purposes is traveling back in time. Hermione is quick to go this path if it means she can save her friends from death and Britain's Wizarding society from a tyrannical regime.

** [[BigBad Eudora]] kills Stella out of fear of her Light powers (Light is the ElementalRockPaperScissors weakness of the Burning Legion's Fel). Bloom is kind of collateral damage but a fearsome opponent nonetheless. After their demise, the situation rapidly degenerates into a gruesome, HopelessWar impacting several planets, one of them even suffering Argus' fate (being utterly corrupted by Fel). Desperate times call for equally desperate (and expensive) measures, so an elite squad from the Tyrannus Division is sent to the past to try and prevent the two Winx's deaths in an attempt to turn the tides in Magix's favor. Guess who is sent? Exactly! The mini Winx! Altalune, Trisha, and Stacy because it's their mothers who they're trying to rescue, plus Gilliam as a buffer between the two belligerent sisters and Zoe thanks to her tech-oriented skills. Also, Trisha was the one to come up with the idea and the scientific basis for time travel. They didn't get the Timeless' approval for this, so science is the only option left which, in turn, presents them with the [[NeverTheSelvesShallMeet 'if I see my younger self, either of us will fade']] issue. Alas, [[spoiler: Stella and Bloom's deaths are set in stone, so their daughters fail to save them]].
** There are two more characters who embody this trope. Both are more successful in their attempts to change the outcome of the timelines. Partly because they are more subtle and thoughtful in their changes and because well, they use magic to do so. One of them is Galadwen, the elven ChosenOne of Elune. Her job is facilitated both by her long, long lifespan and having Chronormu (a Time Dragonflight) as an ally. As of now, Galadwen has seen no less than three timelines where both Azeroth and Magix succumb to Eudora. The second character goes under the alias of Indís and is able to mess with the time-space continuity due to her status as a nymph. Indís is the Tyrannus Division's founder as well as its main economical and political supporter. This Division is the main reason Magix hasn't been entirely conquered by the Burning Legion.

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* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/938431/chapters/1828199 lay down your sweet and weary head]]'' has Thorin being sent back to the day Smaug attacked his kingdom. He slays Smaug before the dragon can destroy Erebor, causing massive changes to canon events from there on.

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* ''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.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.
* ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20181113053905/https://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/{{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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* "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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* ''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'']].
* ''[[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]] has been removed.
* ''Fanfic/HogyokuExMachina'' is a ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' fanfic that offers a few twists from the usual PeggySue 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 at the top of the list for the ''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/HetaliaAxisPowers'' fanfiction ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6904903/1/Chasing-An-Empty-Dream 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''.
* ''Fanfic/PokemonSecretJourneys'' involves The Beyonder from Marvel's ''ComicBook/SecretWars1984'' taking over the Pokemon universe, and sending Ash Ketchum back in time as part of a challenge to help Arceus regain control of the world. The twist is, the world Ash is sent back in time to is an alternate timeline to the one Ash originally came from, merging the world of the Pokemon anime with the worlds of ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'', the ''Franchise/PowerRangers'', ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'', ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' and the ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksUniverse''.
* There's this ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'' fanfic, appropriately titled ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12836761/1/ History Strongest Disciple Again]]''. The summary goes: When the missile detonates prematurely at Yami's base of operation during the invasion to prevent the Eternal Setting Sun, all hope seems lost... Until [[AmbiguouslyHuman Niijima]] somehow rips a portal to the past that sucks Miu, Kenichi and himself in. Now armed with that knowledge, [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong the trio must work together to change the future!]] Probably the first story of this genre in this particular fandom.
* Subverted in ''FanFic/CodesAndGeassEmbracingYourInnerMegalomania'', because Murphy actively hates "Trollouche" just as much as he does in canon. Which means Lulu has to work for his victories.
* The ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TwiceUponATime'' sees an elderly Vegeta sent back in time fifty-five years prior thanks to a wish on the Dragon Balls by Vegeta Jr. due to Vegeta's exact words, providing him with a chance to be there for his family.

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* 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/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.'']]
* [[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. 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 Zabuza and Haku.
* [[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.
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7364874/1/False-Memories 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/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.
* ''[[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 Marty Stu 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/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, 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.]]
* ''FanFic/BlackkatsReverse'' 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. Once Kurama reunites with a child version of Naruto, everything goes OffTheRails as Kurama decides to ScrewDestiny and let Naruto know that he has family. It results him in essentially declaring a one-man war against Akatsuki and the Elemental Nations.
* ''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]]

[[AC: Franchise/MassEffect]]
* ''[[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.

[[AC: VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou]]
* A variation occurs in ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5239787/1/Chapters Chapters]]''. The main character experiences 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.

[[AC: Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog]]
* 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.]]

[[AC: Franchise/FinalFantasy]]
* The ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12443942/1/Second-Chances Second Chances]]'' pulls this off magnificently [[AscendedGlitch by way of the Opera House glitch]] that sends the player back to the World of Balance if you leave a rat alive in the rafters and the party loses a battle to it during the second half of the game. In-story, Celes is killed by a rat knocked down from the opera house rafters by the Dirt Dragon's Quake spell. But thanks to [[spoiler:the Phoenix Magicite]], she unwittingly mentally goes back in time to just before the opera boss battle. Both she and the others are initially unsure of what happened at first and whether or not to believe she experienced the future, but ultimately do. Not everything goes according to plan, but most of the changed events turn out for the better.
* ''[[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, CrazyIsCool, 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'': After an accident with a time materia, Cloud is thrown into the past (not returned to his old body) before the events of ''VideoGame/CrisisCore''. 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 it's revealed that the fic is [[spoiler: a {{Subversion}}. Cloud doesn't SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong as he created a new timeline when he time traveled.]]

[[AC:Crossovers]]
* [[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.]]

[[AC:Other Games]]
* The highly-moddable {{Hentai}} JRPG ''Monster Girl Quest'' has a popular (although still in development) mod for it called 'Monster Girl Quest NG+'. The mod is a NewGamePlus mode for the original that justifies being such through a new Peggy Sue narrative 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 [[TheReveal 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 [[spoiler: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]].
[[AC: Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}]]
* ''Fanfic/AndAgain'' combines this with GroundhogDayLoop. Naegi inexplicably reawakens at the beginning of the game and takes it upon himself to ensure EverybodyLives.
* ''Blog/AStudentOutOfTime'' has this in the format of an ask blog. [[VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair Hajime Hinata]] inexplicably finds himself back at the beginning of the ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'' timeline, now with the chance to prevent [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt The Tragedy]] and save the lives of his classmates.

[[AC: VideoGame/{{Control}}]]
* ''Fanfic/NewGirlMortimermcmirestinks'':
** [[spoiler:While the ETC Experiments was supposed to let Jesse do this, all it does is have Polaris from the new timeline give that version of Jesse visions from the original timeline with no context for any of it.]]
** [[spoiler:Somehow, this ''did'' happen with Langston, waking up with all of his memories from the canon timeline despite his lack of involvement in the experiments]].

[[AC: Franchise/FireEmblem]]
* In ''Fanfic/AChanceForANewDawn'', Bernadetta watches Byleth die during the final battle of the Verdant Wind route, and nearly [[DrivenToSuicide kills herself out of grief over his death]] only to wind up back in a pre-war Garreg Mach with the memories of everything that happened beforehand. Her ultimate goal is to keep Byleth (and their relationship) alive.
* The plot of ''Fanfic/FireEmblemThreeHousesFifthPath'' basically boils down to Byleth (who in this timeline went down the Blue Lions route) traveling back in time to prevent the war, and by extension the deaths of her friends, from ever happening. This is after she accidentally [[TimeCrash freezes time]].
* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/20157739 Godspeed]]'' starts with Byleth dying during the final battle of the Azure Moon route and being sent back to the events of the beginning of the game, with Sothis encouraging him to avoid making the same decisions he did before to throw the war off its course before it even begins.

* ''Fanfic/OneDayAtATimeFanfic'' is a Franchise/{{Batman}}[=/=]Franchise/{{DCU}} example where [[ComicBook/RedHood Jason Todd]], thirty years after Bruce's death and twenty-five years after he became Batman in the wake of Dick's death (followed by Tim and Damian's deaths two years later), travels to the past after ''his'' death at age fifty via [[LifeWillKillYou lung cancer]]. It also serves as a bit of a deconstruction, as despite all the tragedy he endured Jason managed to move on and live a mostly happy and fulfilling life. He even goes into a HeroicBSOD when he realizes that he's traveled back and merged with his sixteen-year-old self.