Temporal Looping

Temporal Looping
Gabriel (Supernatural) once trapped the Winchesters in an endless loop with Dean dying again and again in order to teach Sam that nothing good will come of their sacrifices for each other.
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 Cinematic Universe)

"So, uh... Oh, were his parents murdered? I'm not quite getting it. Could you show us a thousand more f***ing times?"

― Edgar Cizko/Doctor Psycho (Harley Quinn 3x08, "Batman Begins Forever")

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

Also Called

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

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, week, month, year, etc. for as long as the user keeps them there. On some occasions people have been known to retain a small number of memories or eventually escape weaker temporal loops.

Applications

• Infinite Supply via repeated Temporal Duplication
• Memory Erasure
• Multiple Lives via repeats
• Personal Reiteration
• Physical Restoration
• Higher level users can use Youth Inducement or Semi-Immortality by "trapping" their age in an endless time loop.
• Some users are able to gain Hyper Experience due to the tremendous number of experiences while trapped inside a loop.
• Repeated Temporal Rewind
• Temporal Trapping

Variations

• Temporal Reload (Video-game-like Looping)

Associations

• Causality Manipulation
• Memory Manipulation
• Reiteration Inducement
• Space-Time Manipulation
• Spatial Looping
• Suicide Immunity
• Temporal Rewind
• Temporal Reload
• Time Manipulation
• Time Travel

Limitations

• May be limited on how many times a user can use it.
• Dying too many times may weaken the user.
• Without Timeline Memory Retainment, the user doesn't have memory of the previous loop.
• User may be affected by memory reset each time this power is activated.
• Others may eventually feel déjà vu.
• If conscious of the temporal repetition, the victim can cause conditions different enough to break the time loop.
• Won't affect users of Omnilock, Temporal Protection and Spatial-Temporal Lock.
• Users of Space-Time Restoration can undo the loop.
• Users of Time Manipulation and Acceleration can break the time loop.
• Users with Timeline Memory Retainment can navigate their way through the loop.

Known Users

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

• Myron Castleman (12:01 PM; 1990 short film)
• Barry Thomas (12:01 PM; 1993 television film)
• Time (Alice Through the Looking Glass)
• Samantha Kingston (Before I Fall)
• Professor Paradox (Ben 10)
• The Origin (Blazblue) via the Amaterasu Unit
• Mayuri Kurotsuchi (Bleach); via Postcognition Drug
• Jonathan Levinson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• The Time Card (CardCaptor Sakura)
• Tempus (Charmed)
• Fate (A Christmas Wedding Date); trapped a woman in a fateful time loop
• Suzuki-kun and Takagi-san (The Long Summer of August 31)
• Rinne Sonogami (Date A Live); via Eden
• Chronos (DC Comics)
• Saiki Kusuo (The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.)
• Quria, the Blade Transform (Destiny)
• Miranda Lotto (D.Gray-Man)
• Dr. Fendelman (Doctor Who)
• Time Lords (Doctor Who)
• Carter (Eureka)
• Stefano Valentini (The Evil Within 2)
• The Constant Wanderer (Fear Mythos)
• Garland (Final Fantasy I); via Time Travel
• Phil Connors (Groundhog Day)
• Teresa Tree Gelbman (Happy Death Day/Happy Death Day 2U)
• Ryan Phan (Happy Death Day 2U)
• Anson Shumway (Haven)
• Cupid (Hercules and Xena: The Warrior Princess)
• Rika Furude (Higurashi When They Cry)
• Satoko Hojo (Higurashi When They Cry)
• Yoshikage Kira (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Diamonds are Unbreakable); via Killer Queen: Bites the Dust
• Ringo Roadagain (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Steel Ball Run); via Mandom
• Mr. Mxyzptlk (Lois and Clark)
• Link (Majora's Mask) Via song of time.
• Ergoth (MapleStory); via hallucination
• Dr. Strange (Marvel Cinematic Universe) via the Eye of Agamotto & the Time Stone
• Ananym/ (Marvel Comics)
• Haruhi Suzumiya (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya)
• Luka Couffaine/Viperion (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir); via Second Chance
• Simon Bellamy (MisFits)
• Ymbrynes (Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children)
  • Miss Peregrine
  • Miss Wren
  • Miss Crow
  • Miss Nightjar
  • Miss Finch
• Him (Mother !)
• Saeki Shizuka (Munou na Nana)
• Twilight Sparkle (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)
• Izanami Users (Naruto)
  • Itachi Uchiha
  • Naori Uchiha
• Reeren (Neera: Dark Secrets)
• Queen Regina (Once Upon A Time); via the Dark Curse
• Dialga (Pokémon)
• Homura Akemi (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)
• Prince Gasket (Power Rangers Zeo)
• Wyoming (Red Vs Blue)
• Frank (Seven Days)
• Fleauesse (Shadowverse)
• The House Invading Entity (Skinamarink)
• The Enterprise crew (Star Trek: TNG)
• Corrine Baxter (Strange Days at Blake Holsey High); one off
• Class 3-4 (Sunday without God)
• Gabriel (Supernatural)
• The Entity (The Endless)/(Resolution)
• Jeremy (The Strangest Security Tape I Have Ever Seen)
• Jack Harkness and John Hart (Torchwood)
• Avenger (TYPE-MOON)
• Len (TYPE-MOON)
• Wizards (Wizards Of Waverly Place); via Spell Casting
• Gray Boy (Worm)
• Postcrush/Kiwi Lollipop and Supernova Zap (My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Sunset's Backstage Pass); via Time Twirler and temporarily
• One-Shot Wren (SMG4)
• MPN2 Arena Mode Protagonist (Madness Combat); via Imprints
• Savanti Romero (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012); via Time Scepter

Known Objects

• Fasirs Crystal (Aladdin: The Animated Series)
• Universal Remote (The Amazing World of Gumball)
• The ARQ Machine (ARQ)
• Time-Loop Generator (Ben 10)
• Postcognition Drug (Bleach)
• The Time Card (Card Captor Sakura)
• Eternity Devil (Chainsaw Man)
• The Time Button (Futurama); when used in succession
• Sisyphus Quantum Cooling Reactor (Happy Death Day 2U)
• Imprints (Madness: Project Nexus)
• Eye of Agamotto/Time Stone (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
• Ocarina of Time's Song of time with Majora's mask only (The Legend of Zelda)
• The Crystal (Mother!)
• Time Twirler (My Little Pony: Equestria Girls)
• Izanami Users (Naruto)
• Do-Over-Inator (Phineas and Ferb)
• Time Knife (Swords)
• Repeat Clock (The Thundermans)
• Time Sceptre (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012)

Known Powers

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

Known Locations

• The Cycle (Bendy and the Ink Machine/Dark Revival)
• Termina (Majora's mask)
• SCP-087 - The Stairwell (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-1775 - Retail Specters (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-5600 - A December to Remember (SCP Foundation)
• The Aeolus (Triangle Film)

Gallery

Time (Alice Through the Looking Glass) traps the Mad Hatter and his friends in a time loop using the clock on his chest, making their tea party go on forever.

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

…to generate a controlled time loop.

Mayuri Kurotsuchi (Bleach) created the Postcognition Drug. When used on Hitsugaya, it causes him to enter the time loop in which each time he kills Mayuri...

...he ends up being sent back into the past, where he is forced to kill Mayuri again, sending him back at the same time before he killed him...

...after at least 10 loops, the strain on his hippocampus causes temporary paralysis, and the the only way to exit the loop is to not kill Mayuri.

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

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

…Bites the Dust's ability time loop in effect.

Powered by one of the Infinity Gems/Stones, the Eye of Agamotto/Time Stone (Marvel Cinematic Universe) is a powerful magical artifact created by the Sorcerer Supreme Agamotto with the power to manipulate time…

…which Doctor Stephen Strange wields to create an endless time loop to trap Dormammu in unless he bargains with him.

The Do-Over-Inator (Phineas and Ferb) can create loops via reversing time.

SCP-087 - The Stairwell (SCP Foundation) doesn't seem to have an endpoint due to the space-time anomaly trapping the stairwell in a temporal loop, which can also trap victims from within.

Having a temporal anomaly, SCP-1775 - Retail Specters (SCP Foundation) restores itself to the way the building was supposed to be prior to 1979 due to the temporal phenomenon affecting the building between 09:00, and 20:00.

As the god of Eternal Recurrence, Mercurius's (Shinza Banshou series) law traps the entire universe in an endless loop. The only way to escape the loop if for Mercurius to fulfil his wish of dying in Marie's arms.

The MPN2 Arena Mode Protagonist (Madness Combat) needs to be stuck in a time loop in order to save Nevada from its fall by imprinting themself many times.

Time Twirler (My Little Pony: Equestria Girls)

Sisyphus Quantum Cooling Reactor/Sissy (Happy Death Day 2U)

Teresa 'Tree' Gelbman (Happy Death Day/Happy Death Day 2U) died and relieved the same day eleven times via Sissy. Due to the multiple deaths her life was getting weaker and weaker each time she reset the day.

Samantha Kingston (Before I Fall)

By playing the "Song of Time", Link (Majora's mask) can warp back to the dawn of the First Day at any given time or place.

Savanti Romero (TMNT 2012) once trapped the ninja turtles and Renet in a temporal loop.

Celosbugs (Monster High 2022 Series) create time loops to feed on the blood of those who are bitter.

Videos

JJBA Diamond is Unbreakable - Hayato's Unfortunate Encounter

Groundhog Day - Supernatural - TNT-2

Dean Dies Again & Again - Supernatural - TNT-2

Groundhog Day For A Black Man

When a black man lives the same day over and over again, he tries changing his behavior to survive a police interaction.

Groundhog Daying - Chris & Jack-2

When games bug out - The Loop-2

What's at the Bottom of SCP-087? (SCP Animation)

Godzilla SCP? SCP-2954 Looping Kaiju Killing (SCP Animation)-2