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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-05-15 10:09 am
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Five Stories About Time Travel and Bureaucracy



What's the fun of time travel without a regulatory body to enforce the rules?

Five Stories About Time Travel and Bureaucracy
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[personal profile] patrick_morris_miller 2025-05-18 01:31 am (UTC)(link)

And they're pretty much assholes, at least in the series.

The Marvel Cinetelematic Universe (and probably the comics) has the Time Variance Agency, which doesn't regulate time travel itself so much as prevents history from being changed, by any means necessary. And they're pretty much assholes, at least in the series.

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[personal profile] roseembolism 2025-05-18 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, given history, maintaining it as it is implies a degree of assholery. Of course the opposite, allowing changes to history, creates the genocide of billions. Prevent Columbus from landing, and billions of lives are snuffed out.