But wait, you may say. Do you mean time traveler tournament?
Well, yes, but no.
Do you have a favorite time traveling character? Time traveling organization? Location used to time travel? Object associated with wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey stuff? Singular episode of a series where timelines get strange? Something I can't even think of but you 100% believe it should be presented to an audience because That's Time Travel, Baby?
All are welcome! Depending on what gets submitted and how often, there may be smaller brackets of related submissions before it all gets merged together, but isn't that just on brand?
What To Know:
Please submit through the form below! Asks will not be accepted as submissions.
There are no limits to what you can submit (go nuts), but I reserve the right to not add a submission.
Submissions close on June 17th at 11:59PM EST!
The bracket will be randomized.
Submissions:
Welcome to the TTT, a bracket for time travel! Submit characters, groups, ships, locations, objects, medias themselves, and anything else yo
Propaganda under cut. There may be unmarked spoilers!
The DeLorean [4 submissions]
I mean, just look at it!
A car was chosen to be a time machine because they wanted to be able to move, and a DeLorean was chosen because it was known to be a crappy car that they could make fun of breaking down.
The character of all time. He accidentally prevents his parents from meeting and starts fading out of existence. He tries to save his bestie from getting shot by telling him 30 years before it happens. He wears 4 layers in October in California. He has problems thinking 4th dimensionally. He just wants to play guitar and hang out with his girlfriend, but first he has to save the world and his own life like 5 times.
Back to the Future (1985) [2 submissions]
Teenager accidentally goes back in time and prevents his parents from meeting. He has to get them to fall in love before he gets erased from existence and then get back to his own time, with the help of the mad scientist/his best friend who invented the time machine in the first place (but technically hasn't yet because it's the past).
Doc and Marty's friendship is so sweet and I love them and this trilogy so much :)
Marty McFly accidentally time travels from 1985 to 1955, to the day his friend Doc Brown came up with the concept of time travel in the first place. He accidentally prevents his parents from meeting, so he has to set them up or else he'll be erased from existence. He and 1955 Doc then harness a bolt of lightning to send Marty back to the future, where Marty discovers his family is richer and happier as a result of his actions. 1985 Doc then goes to the future to see what it's like, before returning and getting Marty and his girlfriend Jennifer to save their future kids.
Back to the Future Part II (1989)
Marty McFly and Doc Brown go to the future (2015) to save Marty's kids from getting into trouble with the law. Marty buys a sports almanac to make money in 1985, but it's stolen by the villain from the first movie, who gives it to his past self and becomes rich, creating an alternate timeline where he rules the world and it sucks. Doc and Marty have to go back to the events of the first movie in 1955 to stop the evil future from being created. Before they can return to 1985 Doc and the time machine are struck by lightning, sending Doc back to 1885. Doc sends Marty a letter telling him where he is, and Marty goes to get help from the Doc in 1955, causing him to faint as he just saw the Marty from the first movie go back to the future.
Back to the Future Part III (1990)
Marty McFly and his friend Doc Brown just saved the world again, but Doc was accidentally sent back to 1885. Marty has to get help from 1955 Doc, who helps him get to 1885 to rescue 1985 Doc, who they learn will die in a week if Marty doesn't save him. Marty gets to the old west and prevents him from dying. Along the way Doc falls in love with a teacher named Clara and is heartbroken when he tries to tell her he's from the future and she doesn't believe him. Doc and Marty use a train to get up to speed to get back to the future, but Clara climbs on at the last second to reunite with Doc, but falls off. Doc jumps off the train to save her, leaving Marty to return to 1985 alone. Doc then reappears in 1985, having built a time machine into a different train, and goes off to travel the world with his new family, while still promising Marty he'll keep in touch.
"Your future hasn't been written yet. No one's has! Your future is whatever you make it, so make it a good one."
Star Trek: The Original Series s1e28 - "The City on the Edge of Forever"
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds s2e7 - "Those Old Scientists"
Star Trek: The Next Generation s5e26 and s6e1 - Times Arrow Part I and II
Star Trek: The Next Generation s7e25/26 - "All Good Things..."
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s3e11 & 12 - Past Tense Part I and II
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s5e6 - "Trials and Tribble-ations"
Star Trek: The Next Generation s5e18 - "Cause and Effect"
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds s2e3 - "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow"
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Voting ended onJun 30
Top three proceed to the main bracket!
Propaganda under cut. There may be unmarked spoilers!
Star Trek: The Original Series s1e28 - "The City on the Edge of Forever"
Kirk and Spock go back in time to save their other friend who accidentally time traveled. Along the way Kirk falls in love with this woman, Edith Keeler, who is a big advocate for peace and the Federation's ideals ahead of her time, who he learns is destined to die in a week. When he starts thinking of saving her, he learns that if she lives she will singlehandedly prevent America from entering WWII and Germany will win. So he has to let her die. It's one of the best and strongest episodes of Star Trek ever.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds s2e7 - "Those Old Scientists"
It's a crossover episode between two Star Trek shows (Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks) that were airing at the same time! Some of the Lower Decks crew accidentally time travels back to the time of the prequel Strange New Worlds. While trying to get back they meet the heroes they've been fawning over their whole lives, and learn they have more in common then they thought :)
Star Trek: The Next Generation s5e26 and s6e1 - Times Arrow Part I and II
Data finds his own head in a cave, so Picard and the gang go back in time to figure out how it happen(s/ed), and also befriend Mark Twain.
Star Trek: The Next Generation s7e25/26 - "All Good Things..."
The finale of Next Generation! Picard's mind keeps traveling between the past, present, and future, and he has to trust his crew in every time period in order to get back to normal. He's being messed with by the trickster/god(?) Q, who finishes the trial against humanity that he started in the very first episode.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s3e11 & 12 - Past Tense Part I and II
Sisko and the gang accidentally go back in time to 2024 and discover the terrible conditions that a lot of homeless people in America had to live in, and get caught up in the Bell Riots, a riot against the people in charge of the 'Sanctuary Districts' where the homeless are forced to live.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s5e6 - "Trials and Tribble-ations"
Deep Space Nine characters interact with the Original Series characters through archive footage and retroactively contribute to one of the best Star Trek episodes :)
Star Trek: The Next Generation s5e18 - "Cause and Effect"
The Enterprise crew gets caught in a time loop that ends with the ship exploding, and only has a vague, increasing sense of deja vu in every loop to help them escape.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds s2e3 - "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow"
One of the main characters, La'an, accidentally travels to an alternate universe, and later back in time to late-2010s Toronto with the alternate universe's James T Kirk. They spend the episode trying to prevent any more changes to the timeline, including stopping someone killing one of La'an's ancestors as a child, who grows up to be an evil dictator. They end up falling in love with each other, but he dies at the end of the episode and she's returned to her proper time and timeline.
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
AKA The One With the Whales. A probe in space is destroying Earth and sending out humpback whale noises! Unfortunately, humpback whales went extinct 200 years ago, so Kirk and the gang have to go back in time to 1986, steal some humpback whales, and return with them to 2286 to satiate the probe with their noises before the Earth is destroyed. It's one of the best Star Trek movies and the last part of a loose trilogy with 2 and 3. It has a lot of lighthearted and funny moments with the crew and feels really fitting for a 20th anniversary :)
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
The Borg (an alien hivemind that assimilates every culture and species they come across) go back in time to prevent humanity's first contact with aliens, so Picard and the gang have to also go back in time to stop them messing up the future, and avoid being assimilated while there. Picard's trauma from previously being assimilated comes up again prominently and impacts his decision making.
Propaganda under cut! There may be unmarked spoilers.
Doctor Who Season 9 Episode 11 - "Heaven Sent" [2 submissions]
The twelfth doctor when he punches his way through a diamond over the course of millennia
Big feelings
The Doctor is trapped in a time loop where he is stuck in a castle with various puzzles to solve, leading to the exit - a big thick wall made of diamond. Every loop The Doctor punches a bit of the wall away before being killed by the monster that's always chasing him. He then drags himself to a materializer thingy that reconstitutes himself back at the beginning of the loop. He also has to deal with the grief of losing one of his best friends the episode before. It turns out his own people trapped him there to get him to give up information, but he decided to go through a 4 billion year time loop instead.
Doctor Who Season 3 Episode 10 - "Blink"
One of the best episodes of Doctor Who
Doctor Who 2022 Specials #1 - "Eve of the Daleks"
The Doctor and her friends get stuck in a time loop on New Year's Eve. Every loop they get killed by the Daleks, and every subsequent loop gets shorter by one minute, and will collapse at midnight. They remember each loop and so can anticipate the Daleks' moves, and eventually outsmart them.
The Doctor [2 submissions]
An alien Time Lord that ran away from their planet and time travels with various companions. When they're dying all the cells in their body can regenerate but that also changes their appearance (and personality), which is why so many actors have played the same character!
Twelfth Doctor
Grumpy space grandpa who runs like a penguin with his arse on fire. My favourite modern version of The Doctor and it's not even close. He can be hilarious and adorable and infuriating and complicated and heartbreaking and he's just everything to me ya know.
Bill Potts
Bill Potts my beloved!! <33 She's charismatic, she's kind-hearted, she's a lesbian who had a date ruined by the Pope rocking up, she's a fan of Little Mix. I love her, I adore her in fact.
Vincent van Gogh
That scene of him seeing his paintings displayed in the modern day, it makes me cry bro
The Doctor x River Song
Obsessed with their non-linear relationship! From the first meeting for us to the prison escapes and archeological encounters to the last night and everywhere between, before, and after.
The TARDIS [2 submissions]
Absolute queen <3 Even people who have never seen the show can recognise the Tardis instantly.
It's disguised as a public phone booth because the circuits that let it camouflage broke when it was in this form.
