The ability to rewind time. Sub-power of Time Manipulation. Opposite to Time Acceleration and Flash-Forward.
Also Called
- Revival
- Temporal Reversal
- Time Reversal/Rewind
- Turning Back Time
Capabilities
The user can rewind time to a few seconds, minutes, hours, days and years into the past and alter it. This method of time travel rarely entails any paradoxes (such as the grandfather paradox) as user rewinds themselves parallel to time.
Applications
- Prevent and dodge an attack by rewinding time.
- Limited Memory Erasure, Physical Restoration, Resurrection and/or Event Negation
- Aim Dodging
- Regenerative Healing Factor
- Temporal Healing
- Temporal Restarting
- Temporal Resurrection
- Time Travel to the past.
Variations
Limitations
- May occur in sleep.
- May be limited to how far you can rewind.
- May not be able to rewind beyond the point of birth.
- May require Energy.
- The further you go, the more energy you need.
- May not be able to bring back those who died.
- May require energy to be extracted from environment causing harm to those in the immediate area.
- Users of Temporal Protection or Accelerated Probability will notice time rewinding and try a different approach.
- Actions that occur after time is rewound changes the timeline, and could cause unexpected consequences.
- May need to set a "checkpoint" ahead of time to return to.
- May be unable to return to their original time and must re-live the timeline up until they get to the time period in which they originally left.
- May be unable to control.
Known Users
Cartoons
- Francis Grey (The Batman)
- Eon (Ben 10)
- Professor Paradox (Ben 10)
- Clockwork (Danny Phantom)
- Krux (LEGO Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu)
Films
- Major William Cage (Edge of Tomorrow)
- Sergeant Rita Vrataski (Edge of Tomorrrow)
- Phil Connors (Groundhog Day)
- Superman (Superman)
- Makoto Konno (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time)
Live Action TV
- The Oracles (Angel)
- Tempus (Charmed)
- Zaira Vangoria (Chica Vampiro)
- Alistair Peck (Fringe)
- KirinRanger (Gosei Sentai Dairanger)
- John Mulligan (Heroes)
- Curtis (Misfits)
- Jor-El (Smallville)
- Tru Davies (Tru Calling)
- Jack Harper (Tru Calling)
- Ferdinand Magellan's Astrolabe (Warehouse 13); can rewind and erase 24 hours for the user.
- Wizards (Wizards of Waverly Place); via Spell Casting
- Stephen Jameson (The Tomorrow People)
Manga/Anime
- Satoru Fujinuma (Boku Dake ga Inai Machi)
- The Time Card (Cardcaptor Sakura)
- Shunsuke Otosaka (Charlotte)
- Yuu Otosaka (Charlotte)
- Aoba Takatsu (Code: Breaker)
- Whis (Dragon Ball)
- Ultear Milkovich (Fairy Tail)
- Saori (Gokukoku no Brynhildr)
- Yoshikage Kira (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 4: Diamond is Unbreakable); via Bites the Dust
- Ringo Roadagain (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 7: Steel Ball Run)
- Homura Akemi (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)
- Misty (Super Doll Licca-chan)
- Burger Director (Doraemon: Nobita's Space Heroes)
Video Games
- Tim (Braid)
- Mercurius (Dies Irae); via his Law Acta est Fabula
- Time Mages (Final Fantasy V); via the spell Reset/Return
- Loki/Yoshino Reiji (Fortissimo Akkord Bsusvier)
- Sissiel (Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective)
- Young Xehanort (Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance)
- Ekko (League of Legends)
- Max Caulfield (Life is Strange)
- Aion (Norn9); limited to rewinding all of history
- D is Astranagant (Super Robot Wars)
- Viewtiful Joe (Viewtiful Joe)
- Tracer (Overwatch)
- Deja Vu (Skylanders)
- Tama (World of Final Fantasy)
Webcomics
- Aradia Megido (Homestuck); via her quartz music boxes and status as Maid of Time
- Dave Strider (Homestuck); via his Timetables and status as Knight of Time
Literature
- Perdition (Worm)
- Grey Boy (Worm)
- Epoch (Worm)
Known Objects
- The Lyoko supercomputer (Code Lyoko); via the Temporal Reversion program.
- Time Button (Futurama)
- Omega 13 (Galaxy Quest)
- Time Turner (Harry Potter)
- Shuyong Seeds (Kung Fu Panda)
- Do-Over-Inator (Phineas and Ferb)
- Sands of Time (Prince of Persia)
- Reversal Time Blade (LEGO Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu)
Gallery
Clockwork (Danny Phantom)
Tim (Braid) can rewind time to solve puzzles and save himself from death.
Aoba (Code: Breaker) can revert time with anything her right hand touches, except death.
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Using his Temporal Do-Over, Whis (Dragon Ball) can rewind time up to three minutes.
Loki/Yoshino Reiji (Fortissimo Akkord Bsusvier) can rewind anything.
Ringo Roadagain (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) can rewind time 6 seconds using his stand Mandom.
Young Xehanort (Kingdom Hearts) can rewind time to regenerate himself.
Maxine Caulfield (Life is Strange) can rewind time at will, but is has its limitation in temporal range.
When Curtis (Misfits) uses this power, the camera zooms in on one of his eyes as the events shown going backwards.
Friedrich (Misfits) bought this ability from Seth to rewind time to kill Hitler but messed up.
In the alternate timeline, Kelly (Misfits) got this ability from Seth to undo Friedrich's mistakes from making the Nazi's win the war.
When Tracer (Overwatch) activates her ability, Recall, it restores her health and position to what they were 3 seconds ago.
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Using the Recall ability of the Sands of Time, the Prince of Persia (Prince of Persia) can reverse the flow of time.
Homura Akemi (Puella Magi Madoka Magica), as a result of her wish, can instantly rewind time to the point where she first met Madoka Kaname, which she uses in an effort to protect her.
Whenever Lann and Reynn fall in battle, Tama (World of Final Fantasy) can rewind time in order to save them, though it costs her one of her lives.
After getting hit with the arrow for a second time, Yoshikage Kira's (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure) stand gained a third ability that kills anyone finding out his true identity and rewinding time back an hour every time it triggers
The Depiction of 'Bites the Dust' reversing time.
Video
Superman (Superman) Reversing Time