Temporal Looping

Temporal Looping
Artist depiction of a time looping clock.
Power/Ability to:	Create loops in time

"Temporal manipulations can create branches in time. Unstable dimensional openings, spacial paradoxes, time loops! You want to get stuck experiencing the same moment over and over again forever, or never having existed at all?"

― Karl Mordo (Marvel Cinematics Universe)

"I can't remember how this all got started

But I can tell you exactly how it will end

Every day is exactly the same

Every day is exactly the same"

― Nine Inch Nails, "Every Day is exactly the same"

The power to loop time and trap anyone or anything into reiterating time stream. Sub-power of Time Manipulation.

Also Called

• Groundhog Day Loop
• Quick Loading
• Temporal Causality Loop
• Temporal Loop
• Time Loop

Capabilities

User can trap anyone or anything into a reiterating time stream where everything inside the loop is restarted precisely every so often, possibly even backwards. They may be able to force someone to relive the same minute, hour, day, year, etc. for as long as the user keeps them there. On some occasions people have been known to retain a small amount of memories or eventually escape weaker temporal loops.

Applications

• Infinite Supply via repeated Temporal Duplication
• Memory Erasure
• Physical Restoration
• Higher level users can use Youth Inducement or Semi-Immortality by "trapping" their age in an endless time loop.
• Temporal Trapping

Associations

• Causality Manipulation
• Memory Manipulation
• Space-Time Manipulation
• Temporal Rewind
• Time Manipulation
• Time Travel

Limitations

• May be limited on how many times a user can use it.
• User may be affected by memory reset each time this power is activated.
• Others may eventually feel déjà vu.
• Won't affect users of Temporal Protection or Spatial-Temporal Lock.
• Users of Space-Time Restoration can undo the loop.
• Users of Time Manipulation and Time Acceleration can break the time loop.

Known Users

See Also: Time loop and "Groundhog Day" Loop.

• Itachi Uchiha (Naruto); via Izanami
• Mayuri Kurotsuchi (Bleach); via Postcognition Drug
• Phil Connors (Groundhog Day)
• Rinne Sonogami (Date A Live); via Eden
• Dr. Fendelman (Doctor Who)
• Dr. Strange (Dr. Strange)
• Reeren (Neera: Dark Secrets)
• Gabriel (Supernatural)
• Haruhi Suzumiya (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya)
• Wizards (Wizards Of Waverly Place); via Spell Casting
• Tempus (Charmed)
• Cupid (Hercules and Xena: The Warrior Princess)
• The Enterprise crew (Star Trek:TNG)
• Chronos (DC)
• Jack Harkness and John Hart (Torchwood)
• Prince Gasket (Power Rangers Zeo)
• Carter (Eureka)
• Mr. Mxyzptlk (Lois and Clark)
• Frank (Seven Days)
• Class 3-4 (Sunday without God)
• The Time Card (CardCaptor Sakura)
• Miranda Lotto (D.Gray-Man)
• Stefano Valentini (The Evil Within 2)
• Jonathan Levinson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Twilight Sparkle (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)
• Ananym/Witchfire (Marvel Comics)
• Professor Paradox (Ben 10)
• Queen Regina (Once Upon A Time); via the Dark Curse
• Fate (A Christmas Wedding Date); trapped a woman in a fateful time loop
• Ymbrynes (Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children)
  • Miss Peregrine
  • Miss Wren
  • Miss Crow 
  • Miss Nightjar
  • Miss Finch 
• Gray Boy (Worm)
• Avenger (TYPE-MOON)
• Len (TYPE-MOON)
• Dialga (Pokemon)
• Wyoming (Red Vs Blue)
• Simon Bellamy (MisFits)
• Yoshikage Kira (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Diamonds are Unbreakable); via Killer Queen: Bites the Dust
• Corrine Baxter (Strange Days at Blake Holsey High); one off
• Myron Castleman (12:01 PM; 1990 short film)
• Barry Thomas (12:01 PM; 1993 television film)

Known Objects

• Fasirs Crystal (Aladdin: The Animated Series)
• Eye of Agamotto/Time Gem (Dr. Strange)
• Do-Overinator (Phineas and Ferb)
• The Time Card (Card Captor Sakura)
• Time-Loop Generator (Ben 10)
• Postcognition Drug (Bleach)

Known Powers

• The Queen's Glass Game (TYPE-MOON)
• Izanami (Naruto)

Known Locations

• SCP-087 - The Stairwell (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-1775 - Retail Specters (SCP Foundation)

Gallery

Gabriel (Supernatural)

Yoshikage Kira's Stand, Killer Queen's (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Diamonds are Unbreakable) third bomb, BITES THE DUST, allows Kira to loop time from one hour to one day earlier to the bomb's explosion.

Bites the Dust's time loop in effect.

Powered by one of the infinity stones, the Eye of Agamotto (Marvel Cinematic Universe) is a powerful magical artifact created by the sorcerer supreme Agamotto with the power to manipulate time...

...which Doctor Stephen Strange wield to create a time loop to trap Dormammu in unless he bargain with him.

Tempus (Charmed) uses his power to create Time loop.

DNAliens (Ben 10) use the Time-Loop Generator…

…to generate a controlled time loop.