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'''Time travel''' is a recurring, though not frequent, theme in the {{Main Series}} franchise. As each instance directly ties into a game's story at a crucial junction, be ware of spoilers when reading ahead.

==Occurrences==
==={{DQ5}}===
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After returning from his adventure from [[Uptaten Towers]] to [[Whealbrook]], The {{Hero 5}} meets a [[Hero (Dragon Quest V)|mysterious man]] at outside the church who wants to look at the [[Gold Orb]].  He gives the older man a chance to look at the treasure and (apparently) receives it back, but later loses it when Bishop [[Ladja]] destroys the Orb.

Years later, The {{Hero 5}} and his [[Party (Dragon Quest V)|family]] discover that the Orb was needed to allow for [[Zenithia]] Castle to rise to the sky and are pointed by to the [[Faerie Palace]] by Queen Treacle of [[Faerie Lea]].  The palace's Queen Caramel is unable to help directly, but produces a [[Gold Orb#Gold bauble|Gold bauble]] which The {{Hero 5}} holds onto while looking at a painting in the area that takes him back in time to [[Whealbrook]] village so that he can exchange it with his younger self's orb.

In the remakes of the game, after winning the game, the other portrait in [[Faerie Palace]] allows The {{Hero 5}} to travel to the past of [[Lofty Peak]].  This new mission allows for him to acquire more [[Knick-knack]]s and to meet both [[Pankraz]] & [[Madalena]] in their youth.
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==={{DQ7}}===
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Time travel is a frequent means of The {{Hero 7}} and his party slowly restoring the world which was destroyed over the course of history aside from the island of [[Estard]].  Their means of visiting various regions in the past require them to acquire special [[Fragment]]s and placing them on the correct pedestals in the [[Shrine of Mysteries]].
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==={{DQ10}}===
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Time travel is a power of the Royal Family of [[Tenton]] when it was a kingdom, but was lost to the sands of time. However, the {{Hero 10}} and their sibling unknowingly have the power, which is first seen when the sibling is accidentally sent a 100 years into the past during [[Nelgel]]'s attack on Tenton as a village. Later, it is used to acquire the Haja Boat to infiltrate Reidametesu and then have it made in the present after [[Razerburn]] is defeated. The mechanic doesn't show up again for the player to use until Version 4, where the {{Hero 10}} meets their biological parents and discovers that an [[Kyronos|evil]] that will destroy Astoila is absorbing various evils to achieve his full power, while at the same time, learning about certain histories previously alluded to, like the Ulbea Empire, and altering certain histories to a more positive effect, like saving [[Alvin]] from having to go insane after [[Kamil]] was branded a traitor, but was actually led astray by one of [[Nerodus]]'s generals disguised as her [[Yaslam|lover]]. However in this case, it is due to a [[Time-Trotter's Trinket|cube]] their sibling gave them.
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==={{DQ11}}===
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Time travel is used to access this game's post-story content. After defeating [[Mordegon]] and holding a memorial service for {{Veronica 11}}, who sacrificed herself to mitigate the destruction caused by the death of [[Yggdrasil]], the {{Party 11}} can visit the [[Tower of Lost Time]] in the [[Lost Land]], using the [[Wheel of Time]] to open the door to the tower. There they meet the [[Timekeeper]], a [[Tockle]] who watches over the flow of time in the tower. She shows them [[Time's Sphere]], the crystallization of all that has taken place in [[Erdrea]], and informs the {{Party 11}} that the only way to restore {{Veronica 11}} is to turn back time to before she died; however, only one person can go, one with the power of the {{Luminary}}, and he may never return to the present time. Using the [[Sword of Light]], the {{Luminary}} strikes Time's Sphere, transporting him to [[Arboria]] before [[Yggdrasil]]'s death. He then uses the [[Sword of Shadows]] -- obtained from defeating [[Mordegon]] in the future -- to kill [[Jasper]] at the [[Heart of Yggdrasil]], as it breaks through his previously impervious barrier. The {{Party 11}} later defeats [[Mordegon]] again, freeing [[King Carnelian]]. The heroes then go on a quest to obtain the strength needed to destroy the ultimate impending evil known as [[Calasmos]], residing in [[Erdwin's Lantern]].

Although this time travel undoes the devastation experienced in the normal timeline, it also undoes many of the {{Hero 11}}'s feats, such as how [[Mia]] and [[Ryu]] are back to their cursed forms. As such, several side-quests open up in all previously visited locations, and the {{Party 11}} can return to these characters to peacefully restore them to their normal selves again and avoid much of the strife found in the terrible future. Furthermore, this instance of time travel is not the creation of a new timeline as seen so often in other media, at least not in the traditional sense: it is in fact a transmigration of all souls of [[Erdrea]] into a new universe through the power of the {{Luminary}} and the Time's Sphere. This is evidenced by {{Veronica 11}} suddenly bursting into tears and feeling immense gratitude for her friends once the time of what would have been her death comes to pass, and other characters such as [[Kai]] and [[Michelle]] recalling glimpses of their bad future and sticking together this time around.

Eventually, the {{Luminary}} and his {{Party 11}} defeat [[Calasmos]] and restore the Timekeeper to her true self, [[Serenica]], and send her back in time to reunite with [[Erdwin]].
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==={{DQM3}}===
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{{Psaro C}} is informed of [[Rose]] being kidnapped when in the depths of [[Estark's Crypt]] as in the original story, and races off to [[Rosehill Tower]] to rescue her. As Psaro hurries his way back, The [[Zenith Dragon]] warns him how he's to make a choice that could affect not only himself, but the very world around him too. He thus implores him to look past his perceptions and maybe he'll be able to find the truth of what's happening to Rose. Upon finding her safe and sound in her room, [[Toilen Trubble]] bursts in and accuses her of being a fake meant to distract Psaro while the real Rose is in grave danger. The player is presented with a choice of who to believe. But if they choose Toilen, Rose will cry ruby tears at being doubted and Psaro will believe she's the real one. The scene will play out the same regardless of what the player chooses. Toilen storms off in frustration, and later that same day a bat flies into the tower to whisper to Rose. The elf maiden laughs that her job is done and reveals herself to have been a [[succubat]] in disguise all along just as Toilen said, bragging about how convincing her ruby tears were. Realizing that he has been fooled, Psaro rushes off only to find the real Rose dying after having been severely beaten by humans seeking her tears.

The events of the finale of {{Dragon Quest IV}} then take place, with Psaro too wrought with grief to respect Rose's final wishes of abandoning his plans for human genocide and using the [[Secret of Evolution]] to destroy the world. Becoming a mindless beast, Psaro goes on a rampage in Nadiria's many Circles, bringing them all to complete ruin and possibly slaughtering all around him indiscriminately, including the game's cast of characters, until he is confronted by the Chosen Ones and slain on [[Psaro's Peak|a cliffside in Nadiria]] by the {{Hero 4}}. The Zenith Dragon laments to Psaro how he choose poorly and that he could've stopped such a horrible end if he'd only grasped the truth back then.

This sad fate is avoided by Toilen using the [[Sands of Time]] he half-inched from [[Dr. Helix Helix]]'s laboratory earlier in the game. He had survived Psaro's transformed rampage and plucked him from death with the magic of the sands, sending them back to the stand off with the succubat in Rosehill Tower. The player then chooses who's right all along, being Toilen after what they've both seen happen otherwise. With her ruse in shambles the bat tries to kill Psaro directly but is dealt with, moaning [[Aamon]]'s name before dying and exposing the demon as the mastermind of the plot. With the subterfuge dealt with, Psaro and Toilen sprint off to save Rose. As the elf makes no mention of her death in the previous timeline, nor do the other characters fear Psaro due to his rampage, it seems that only Toilen and Psaro remember the terrible future.
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==Trivia==
*Time travel's prevelence in the series and ''Chrono Trigger'' is due to it being one of Horii's favorite themes in media. In an interview with ゲーム批評 ("game criticism magazine"), he cites watching [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Tunnel| The Time Tunnel] as one of his favorite shows when it aired in Japan as an example<ref>編: 映画とかもかなりご覧になられるんですか?
堀井: 映画は、最近忙しくてあまり見ないですけど。好きな映画てパターンがあって、時間旅行ものが好きなんですよ。タイムスリップものというのが大好きで。
編: それが「クロノ・トリガー」などに出ているんですね。
堀井: ええ。あと、昔テレビでやってた「タイムトンネル」が大好きで、毎週欠かさず見ていたんですよね。他には二面性があるものが好きなんですよ。水戸黄門(笑)とか、スーパーマンとか。映画では、「天国から来たチャンピオン」。小説だと司馬遼太郎さんとか好きです。
編: では、二面性の魅力ってなんでしょう。ゲーム批評 volume 8, April 1996</ref>.

==Gallery==
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<center><gallery>
DQ V Android Faerie Palace 2.jpg|Going back in time to [[Whealbrook]]. ([[Cell phone]])
DQ V Android Whealbrook 7.jpg|Meeting of the {{Hero 5}}s. ([[Cell phone]])
DQ V Android Faerie Palace 3.jpg|Going back even further in time to [[Lofty Peak]]. ([[Cell phone]])
Hero Ruff pedastle activation.jpg|[[Shrine of Mysteries]] pedestal. ({{PSX}})
DQVII All Aglow.png|The {{Hero 7}}, [[Kiefer]] and [[Maribel Mayde]] going back in time. ({{3DS}})
</gallery></center>
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==References==
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