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Time Travel is the process of travelling through time which features in many Power Rangers and Super Sentai seasons.
Methods in Power Rangers[]
Time Force technology[]
The technology of the year 3001 has advanced to the point of time travel being available, but it is limited. After Ransik and his forces travel back a thousand years from a jailbreak, four members use the technology to pursue him and likewise use Time Force vehicles summoned from the future to fight him in the past and prevent any temporal damage.
SPD technology[]
A division of Space Patrol Delta in the future has gained the technology of time travel, but it is rather limited in only sending across an officer and reducing them to a ball of light outside the usage of their SPD powers. This was the means by which Sam, the Omega Ranger, assisted the SPD in their fight against Omni.
Other Cases in Power Rangers[]
- It is mentioned that Rita Repulsa trapped Zordon in a time warp, and she attempts to do the same to the Rangers using a small device that resembles a space shuttle. TV STORY-Day of the Dumpster
- The Wizard of Deception's magic wand was capable of sending people back in time. He sent the five-man Mighty Morphin Power Ranger team to colonial Angel Grove, turning a trio of rats into monsters to deal with them. Tommy Oliver took his wand and traveled to the past along with his clone Tom Oliver. After rescuing the other Rangers, Tommy returned to the present with his team while Tom stayed in the past. TV STORY-Return of the Green Ranger
- A Wormhole caused Kimberly and Goldar, Needlenose and the Z-Putties to travel from 1995 to 1880. TV STORY-Wild West Rangers (episode)
- Stuck in their young forms, Tommy, Kat, Aisha, Rocky, and Adam are sent into the past to retrieve pieces of the Zeo Crystal.
- Prince Gasket uses the Chronosapios, a crystal that loops time to start over until he finds a way to win. TV STORY-A Brief Mystery of Time
- The Blue Senturion traveled back in time to warn the Turbo Rangers that the United Alliance of Evil would conquer the universe and divide it up amongst themselves in the year 2000. TV STORY-The Millennium Message
- Clockster is summoned to reverse time in order to save Divatox’s Freeze Key. TV STORY-When Time Freezes Over
- Through unknown means, Carter Grayson was able to return one day into the past to stop the other Power Rangers from being destroyed. TV STORY-Yesterday Again
- Cam used the Scroll of Time to travel into the past and retrieve the Samurai Amulet from his mother, Miko Watanabe. TV STORY-The Samurai's Journey
- A Time Portal was used to summon Katana, an alien samurai from feudal Kyoto, Japan, to 2025. TV STORY-Samurai
- Broodwing used the Dino Gems to transport the three-man Dino Ranger team to 2025. TV STORY-History
- Wormholes could allow travel through time. Emperor Gruumm passed his Terror Spacecraft through a wormhole to travel from 2025 to 2004 to conquer Earth without interference from SPD. Learning of this, the SPD Rangers followed through the wormhole to team-up with the Dino Rangers against the Troobians. TV STORY-Wormhole
- Bridge Carson, now the Red SPD Ranger, came to 2007 as one of five Retro Rangers summoned by Sentinel Knight to replace and later fight alongside the Overdrive Rangers against Thrax. TV STORY-Once A Ranger
- Carnisoar casts a spell which allows himself and Dai Shi to see and alter the past. TV STORY-Good Karma, Bad Karma
- After the Dark Energem was destroyed, all 10 Energems were used to create a wormhole to transport the Ptera Zord and the Plesio Zord 65 million years in the past TV STORY-End of Extinction
Methods in Super Sentai[]
Tokimura Time Machine[]
In Choushinsei Flashman, Doctor Tokimura invented a time machine which he hoped to use to travel back twenty years to find out the identity of his abducted child. Initially this machine ends up missing its target two consecutive times and instead sending him to the time of the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. When its used near the end, it in conjunction with the time-manipulating power of Leh Wanda instead throws the Flashman through a rift where the identity is ultimately discovered before the team is thrown back to present day. TV STORY-Ep. 8: Father!! Mother!! Little Sisters! TV STORY-Ep. 9: The Doctor Who Travels Through Time TV STORY-Ep. 47: Wanda! Death Cry
Time Protection Bureau technology[]
The technology of the year 3000 in Mirai Sentai Timeranger has allowed for the means of beings to travel to the past; but it has become limited due to crimes committed in the past, many of which affect the future. Usually ships that travel through time go through a portal after being hit by Providus, a mecha launcher, sending them to the intended temporal period. All Timeranger mecha were sent to the past at this time; likewise throwing the Londer Prison through time at the start of the season due to Don Dolnero using trickery to have Providus hit it through the time portal via the initial time ship used by the four future Timerangers. TV STORY-Case File 1: The Time Fugitives
Likewise, the Greater Power of the Timerangers, GoZyuDrill, is used by Gokaiger member Gai Ikari (Gokai Silver), sent through time through TPB technology to assist him. The system data of GoZyuDrill was later used by Masato Jin to modify the Go-Busters' Buster Machines to allow them to take temporary trips to several points in the past to recover the Phantom Ranger Keys and their lost in time teammates, as well as the Gokaigers. TV STORY-Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters vs. Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger: The Movie
Horologium Kyutama[]
The Horologium or Tokei Kyutama equips the Orion Spaceship with time travel capabilities. The Kyurangers used this to travel back in time. The Kyutama has a limit however- after two trips it will break. It is unknown if the Kyutama can be repaired afterwards, or if another Horologium Kyutama can be obtained.
Kanaema Stone Reversia[]
One of the four Kanaema Stones in Mashin Sentai Kiramager, this one allows its user to travel to any point in time and to any location through a portal. The portal can only last for 20 minutes before closing. Afterwards the Kanaema Stone will lose its color, but after some time it will return and be usable again.
Other Cases in Super Sentai[]
- In Denziman, Taimular, Keller and Mirror developed a time machine utilized twice by Tatsuya Midorikawa; once sending him back to when he was a new police officer four years prior (and which temporarily transported this mind to the current Midorikawa making him forget about Denziman), the other into a possible future where the Vader Clan control Earth and humanity are mutated into ape-like creatures. TV STORY-Ep. 22: Super Time, Strange Experience
- In Maskman, Time Doggler's ability to create a 'Time Hole' is used by Tube in an attempt to kill Takeru during his childhood so he would never oppose them as Red Mask. They are foiled by the Maskmen, who follow them from the present. TV STORY-Ep. 38: The Time to Erase Takeru
- In Liveman, Doctor Obular created Time Zuno to open an opening in time to take a dinosaur for his experiments. TV STORY-Ep. 6: Attack! The Dinosaur That Lived
- Likewise in Liveman, Doctor Ashura created a tunnel that opens a door to twenty-five years in the future. TV STORY-Ep. 34: Love That Runs through the Future and Present!
- In Jetman, Gray's Dimensional Mammoth created a dimensional rift that sent Raita Ooishi into the ancient past. TV STORY-Ep. 26: I'm a Primitive
- In Ohranger, a boy named Mikio from the year 2200 possesses a pendant with a crystalline core that reacts to the energy emitted by Bara Devil in the past when activating his "Devil World" ability; the interaction creates a means for Jun to travel to the past, which ends up being undone when OhGreen uses Ohranger Robo to reactivate Bara Devil's power and send him home. TV STORY-Ep. 16: Naughty!! The Future Child
- Later in the season, the Ohrangers are sent a half-year into the future due to traveling into the Superpower Homeworld to save Dorin as a means to escape from the final assault by Buldont where he finally conquers Earth. TV STORY-Ep. 47: Stand, Shine, Revive!!
- In Abaranger, a Giganoid known as "Clock" is created as a means to eliminate the Abaranger by sending them into the past, ultimately sending them to the Japanese Edo period. However, it is forced to bring them back to modern time due to the Evolians discovering that due to the Abaranger's being in the past, they themselves will cease to exist. TV STORY-Ep. 12: The Abare Saw Cuts Through Kyoto! TV STORY-Ep. 13: The Abare Hand Topknot!
- Due to his ability to eat anything, Absolute God N Ma can also eat time itself, which he uses to fling himself and the Magirangers into the far future to show the final end of the world after he is done with it; the team ultimately force him with their powers to send them back to 2006. TV STORY-Stage 48: Decisive Battle TV STORY-Final Stage: Return to Legends
- In Gekiranger, Sea Fist Demon Rageku uses a Ringi to send both the Geki Juken and the two Rinjuken warriors through time to the time of the 47 Ronin. TV STORY-Lesson 33: Fure-Fure Gatchiri! Kung Fu Chūshingura
- In Goseiger, Matroid Bakutofūji-ER of the Timer's power can conflict with the Goseigers leading to a temporal rift that ends up sending both it and Alata to a period prior to the start of the team's trials; Alata ends up needing to defeat it in that time in order to return to his present. TV STORY-Epic 39: Epic Zero TV STORY-Epic 40: Strong Alata
- While already sent back in time, Domon uses his Ranger Key to give coordinates to the Gokaigers to travel further back in time to protect Negakure Temple. TV STORY-Ep. 40: The Future is the Past
- Several Gokaigers use the Den-Liner in Super Hero Taisen to try and stop the war between Riders and Sentai in 1976.
- In Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters vs. Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger: The Movie, the unstable power of the five Phantom Ranger Keys created a vortex in time which sucked in four of the Phantom Ranger Keys along with the Gokaigers and several of the Go-Busters to several points in the past.
- The main Kyoryugers are brainwashed and head through time in Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger vs. Go-Busters: Dinosaur Great Battle! Farewell, Eternal Friends to kill the dinosaurs, unknowing they nearly kill their own Zyudenryu in the process.
- In Ressha Sentai ToQger Returns: Super ToQ 7gou of Dreams, the grown-up ToQgers fall through a wormhole, dubbed a "time paradox" by Hikari, sending them eight years in the past from 2025 to 2017 when they graduated from elementary school. Thanks to Miss Gritta, who reopens the "time paradox", the ToQgers return to defeat Grand Duke Hei alongside their childhood selves.
- In Ninninger, the Youkai Nekomata, created from the combination of a corrupted Sealing Shuriken with a watch, possesses the ability to create time portals. Using them to go back in time to 2005 on two seperate occasions, he is followed by the Ninningers.
Alternate timelines[]
Super Sentai[]
Timeline | Negated By | Featured in |
The Vader Clan rule over an Earth where humanoids have been returned to a primitive state. | The Denzimen defeat Taimular after DenziGreen witnesses this future. | Denshi Sentai Denziman Ep. 22: Super Time, Strange Experience |
As foreseen by V-Rex pilot Ryuya in 2994, Gien's battle with the V-Rex destroys a third of Earth in the 21st Century. As TimeFire, the future Ryuya is killed. | Captain Ryuya by manipulating history. | Mirai Sentai Timeranger |
As foreseen by V-Rex pilot Ryuya in 2994, Gien's death by the G-Zord leads to the total annihilation of Earth in the 31st Century. As TimeFire, the future Ryuya is killed. | Captain Ryuya by manipulating history. | Mirai Sentai Timeranger |
The lives of all of the Timerangers of the 31st century have improved, including the survival of Yuri's family, a reduction in Domon's suspension, and a cure to Ayase's Osiris Syndrome. | The Timerangers return to the Great Annihilation to save Tatsuya Asami. | Mirai Sentai Timeranger Case File 49: Beyond the Millennium & Case File 50: To an Infinite Tomorrow |
The Invasion Garden Evolian is never formed after the Abarangers are sent to Edo Japan with no escape. | The Evolian force Giganoid 3: Clock to bring the Abarangers back to the present | Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger Ep. 13: The Abare Hand Topknot! |
Absolute God N Ma devours time. | The Magirangers by forcing N Ma back to their present before destroying him. | Mahou Sentai Magiranger Stage 48: Decisive Battle & Final Stage: Return to Legends |
Traveling back to just prior to the Tower of Heaven's destruction due to the power of Bakutofūji-ER of the Timer, Alata rallies the past versions of his Goseiger teammates to transform and fight the Matrintis monster. | Alata and Bakutofūji-ER of the Timer by returning back to their own present. | Tensou Sentai Goseiger Epic 39: Epic Zero & Epic 40: Strong Alata |
The Negakure Temple, containing the jar containing Ninjaman, is destroyed by Zan-KT0 of the Shot on October 2nd, 2010. | The six Gokaigers, sent by Domon. | Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger Ep. 40: The Future is the Past |
Using the History Modifying Machine to send Kamen Rider 3 to eliminate the Double Riders on February 10th, 1973, Shocker proceeds to take over the Earth while brainwashing the future Kamen Riders to serve their cause. | Shurikenjin Tridoron, piloted by Kamen Rider Drive and Ninninger, formed by Yoshitaka Igasaki. | Super Hero Taisen GP: Kamen Rider 3 |
Using the guise of "Runrun" to manipulate the Ninningers and Zyuohgers into annihilating each other, Gillmarda becomes responsible for the extinction of Super Sentai. | Ninninger and Zyuohger, assisted by Yoshiharu Igasaki. | Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger vs. Ninninger: Message from the Future from Super Sentai |
The legend of the Kyurangers is spread by Orion, setting the path for the fated warriors to rise up and oppose Jark Matter centuries later. | Don Armage's past self, by killing Orion prematurely after the Kyurangers traveled back in time to learn how the Shogun escaped his apparent death at the hands of Tsurugi Ohtori. The Kyurangers' future is preserved, however, as Shou Ronpo stays behind to continue Orion's work before entering cyrosleep. | Uchu Sentai Kyuranger (up to Space.29: Orion, The Strongest Warrior) |
Power Rangers[]
Timeline | Negated By | Featured in |
In the year 2000, the United Alliance of Evil, consisting of Lord Zedd & Rita Repulsa, the Machine Empire, and Divatox, conquer the universe and divide it amongst themselves. | The Blue Senturion by traveling back in time and delivering the Millennium Message to the Turbo Rangers circa 1997. In the ensuing timeline, the universal invasion occurs prematurely crica 1998, where it is defeated by Zordon's Energy Wave. | Power Rangers Turbo The Millennium Message |
On July 11st in 2025, the Troobian Empire conquers the Earth. | Omega Ranger, followed by Nova Ranger, by traveling back in time from 2040, ensuring that the Troobians are defeated in 2025. | Power Rangers S.P.D. (mentioned only) |
External links[]
- Time travel at the Kamen Rider Wiki
- Time travel at the Metal Heroes Wiki