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24 Reasons Time Travel is the Ultimate Superpower

March 5, 2019 by Roy Huff

Hollywood has finally caught on with the Flash, Timeless, Frequency, and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, but they’re only scratching the surface.

It took confronting a rabid pit bull in middle school to understand the awesomeness of superpowers and how not having them sucks when you’re in a bind.

Imagine staring down a beast foaming at the mouth, not knowing if it would chase you down and infect you with an insidious disease that drives you mad until you succumb to a horrible death. Fortunately, in this case, the only superpower I needed was patience to wait for animal control.

But all superpowers aren’t created equal. With all due respect to Scientologists’ who revere powers like  auditing  and the ability to hold one’s need to use the restroom, time travel is in a league of its own.

I don’t mean the limited power depicted in most fiction. I’m talking about time travel that avoids the nonsense of the paradox and encompasses slowing time, freezing time, looping time, and moving backward and forward through time at will.

And don’t let some content editor block you with a mysterious force that prevents you from changing too much just because he thinks it’s bad fiction or gives the protagonist too much power. It’s all or nothing, baby. Yes, it’s totally awesome, and you know it. In case you’re not convinced, try these reasons on for size.

Kill Hitler (or Any Other Ruthless Dictator) and See What Happens

Screw the consequences. And don’t tell me Hitler made the world a better place for some sick, twisted reason. Yes, the world would be totally different, but I’d bet it would be a very interesting and good different. Why not find out?

Cream the Kid Who Picked on You in School

If you’ve ever been bullied, you’ll appreciate this one. A few time loops will make you poetic with your jabs and punches, or you could just have a little fun and put them in an awkward position when time resumes at normal speed.

Ace Any Test

If you can’t get an A with the ultimate cheat sheet, it’s time to move on.

Try Out Different Lines on a Prospective Date Until One Works

50 First Dates  comes to mind, as does  Groundhog Day  (my personal favorite). But there’s so much to work with. Who wouldn’t want to know the most beautiful thing to say to that perfect person they’ve always wanted to impress?

Make a Ton of Cash

It’s so obvious, yet so many time travel stories don’t bother to make the most of this storyline. If you controlled time, how would you make a ton of cash? So many possibilities here:

Win the lottery, a hand at poker, or name your gambling vice. Play the stock market. Invest in real estate. Discover hidden loot, buried trinkets, lost relics, and sunken ships. The list is endless.

Invent Gadgets From the Future

Another personal favorite, but I digress. Why not accelerate things a bit? For the environmentally conscious, here’s an excellent way to make alternative energy a cheap efficient reality. Or invent a way to upload information to your brain. While you’re at it, throw in a holodeck and some replicators.

Save Books From the Library of Alexandria (Then Read Them All)

Bibliophiles rejoice! Even lovers of poetry and literary fiction should jump on the sci-fi bandwagon for this one,  seriously ! You’ll need to bring a translator, or at least a souped up version of Google Translate. The payoff would be enormous.

Rip Mega Hits From the Future

You may not sound as good, but then again, talent is overrated. It’s not stealing if it hasn’t been invented yet, so ignore the naysayers who complain about the ethics. If it’s fame you desire, this option is a must.

Find out if Your Significant Other is a Cheater

If you have suspicions, they probably are. But if you’ve just started dating, save yourself the headaches and skip ahead.

Buy the Perfect Gift

If you’ve found that perfect love, you know finding the perfect gift can be equally as hard. Those initial facial expressions don’t lie.

See What Happens to Your Kids

For maximum impact, foresight is necessary. Maybe your kid should study art. Find out now if that safe career path makes them miserable or that speed takes them to the Olympics  or prison .

Prevent the Death of Millions Before Natural Disasters

Even time travel stories constrained by the paradox should jump on this one. The butterfly effect may change most things, but natural disasters will outlast most storms of change. What could be better than saving thousands of lives from earthquakes and tsunamis?

Get the Appreciation you Know you Deserve

It’s okay to indulge every once in a while. Who wouldn’t want to know what those accolades from your boss, friends, or significant other will look like? It will save a heck of a lot of time if you discover you need to move on. Just make sure your clicker doesn’t share the same memory feature as Adam Sandler’s.

Change the Outcome of Elections

Whether you’re a Democrat, Republican, Tory, or Liberal, I’m sure there’ve been winners you’d like to see get crushed. Time travel takes opponent research to the next level. Have fun with it.

Visit Your Own funeral

Avoiding death is obvious, but a more practical reason is discovering who attends your funeral. Don’t waste any more time caring what people think if they don’t bother to show up. Life’s too short.

Visit the End of Civilization (if it Ever Comes)

Call me an optimist. I’m still planning on hopping into a cryo chamber by the  Alcor Life Extension Foundation  and hitching a ride to the future. Therapeutic cloning, gene modification, and singularity may extend life well beyond the realms of modern science. 

If we’ve survived this long, what’s a few more billion years? Yes, maybe we’ll all look like Lady Cassandra from  Doctor Who , but I think mankind will survive longer than most envision,  Skynet  be damned.

Visit the Death of the Universe

Our universe will eventually die. Everything down to the subatomic particles will be ripped apart as the expansion of the universe throttles at breakneck speeds. It may be boring to watch, but why not?

Prevent the Death of the Universe

If you can visit, why not stop it? You could do it the hard way by changing the laws of physics, like the Q in  Star Trek TNG . Or, you could do it the “easy” way by creating a stable wormhole to a parallel universe and hitching a ride.

Accelerate the Progress of Scientific Theories

Don’t know how to make a stable wormhole? No worries! A few hundred thousand time loops will do the trick, or you could just jump a century or two in the future and read the Cliff notes version.

Prove Once and for all What Happened in the Beginning of Time

After you’ve visited the end, take a trip to the beginning.

Hang Out With Jesus

I’m sure hanging out with JC would be a lot cooler than most people realize. Besides, good friends are hard to come by.

Empty Your Netflix Queue

I saved the best for last. I remember when this didn’t take that long, but since the advent of original content and A+ acquisitions, there’s never enough screen time.  

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The realm of time-traveling superheroes presents a captivating fusion of power and potential. These heroes can travel through history with incredible ease, altering timelines to prevent catastrophes, A diverse group of characters like Flash, Doctor Strange, and Cable showcase their talents in this riveting subject matter.

The domain of time travel characters includes many opportunities for excitement and suspense. Their exceptional skills that set them apart from other superheroes stem from their ability to master one of the most enigmatic aspects of existence - time itself. These awe-inspiring individuals harness their powers to navigate past, present, and future, accomplishing exploits that defy conventional norms. Hold on tight as you embark on a rollercoaster ride through space and time with these personalities.

Flash's astonishing speed enables him to breach temporal boundaries at will; Doctor Strange employs his mystical arts prowess to manipulate reality and traverse dimensions; while Cable boasts telepathic abilities and an advanced understanding of futuristic tech. These beings utilize their strengths for good deeds while safeguarding humanity. These heroes represent just a fragment of what makes this specific genre alluring.

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Traveling through time is the ultimate ace in the hole when it comes down to superhero battles and plenty of DC and Marvel super-powered beings, including some anti-heroes, are gifted with this powerful ability.

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In some cases, these heroes' time-manipulating skills are the side effects of talents that, in and of themselves, have nothing to do with journeying to the past or the future, like super-speed for example. Any damage taken or mistakes that were made are irrelevant in the presence of these ten powerful superheroes who can defeat their enemies and right their wrongs by going forward and backward through time.

The fastest man in the DC universe, Barry Allen —  The Flash is so quick that he is capable of traveling through time. That gives him the power to alter timelines  just like in the Flashpoint story in order to restore the world to its normal state. Furthermore, he can even go beyond that and travel across what is known as hypertime — the stream of multiple timelines, which allows visitors to hop from one reality on to another.

9 Doctor Strange

The Doctor doesn't really need the Time Stone as shown in the MCU in order to time travel. The Master of the Mystic Arts is capable of manipulating time without it, in a variety of ways through his formidable magical capabilities . Strange is able to stop time, slow it down or he can just travel to the past or the future. Despite his remarkable skills, he still requires a significant amount of concentration in order to pull this particular trick off.

Young Superman , back in the Silver Age of comics, was able to travel through time. His later, more grounded version, was deprived of that skill probably so that his opponents can be more of a threat to him.

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The less experienced Clark Kent, however, known as Superboy during the Pre-Crisis period was just a casual time-traveler who could simply move faster than light, affect his past and future self and occasionally, take people with him for the ride.

Rina Patel discovered her one and only power by accident, which started her on an adventure that led the unsuspecting college student to the New Warriors. Timeslip can travel to the future or the past and manipulate time in basically every other way. If Patel wants to be faster than a foe, she slows time down. If she wants to fast-forward to a moment in the future, Rina simply speeds it up. This ability also allows her to be super fast (in the eyes of others).

Nathan Summers can manipulate timelines through his psionic powers. Cable is able to transport himself as well as other individuals to any point in time and he can stay there temporarily (from a few minutes to years).

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Summers is also capable of going through this special type of travel in his astral form (his spirit detached from his body). Although Nathan used the ability once and it was extremely difficult, there is no certain proof that he is incapable of doing it again.

Nathaniel Richards (Iron Lad) from Marvel's Other Earth (Earth - 6311) brought peace to this particular version of the planet and its history after arriving through time-travel. His armor is quite similar to Tony Stark's and shares many of his Iron Man suit's features . The one difference is that Iron Lad's armor allows him to create temporal divergences, which let him manipulate time and travel through it. Richards also has a ship featuring that same ability.

DC's Godspeed can travel through time with the assistance of Barry Allen's Cosmic Treadmill. The device allows August Heart to jump into the timestream and move to whatever point in the past or the future he prefers. All of that is possible because of his Speed Force connection that grants him a number of other superhuman abilities such as enhanced stamina, strength, reflexes, healing and dimensional travel.

Bishop is a mutant of considerable talents and he is a master of energy absorption but one other very special ability of his is time travel. The member of the X-men is a capable time-traveler because of the Forge cybernetic arm that Bishop claimed as a replacement of his lost limb.

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The prosthetic is equipped with a technology, which allows Lucas to time-jump and move so quickly that he appears to be super-fast to the individuals that surround him.

2 Booster Gold

This particular DC superhero doesn't have any special powers of his own - his strength is derived from the artifacts that he stole from a future museum. Gold's power suit makes him quite a formidable being. One of its many uses is the so-called Time-travel circuitry or Chronokinesis, which is more or less the upgraded version of time travel since it also allows the user to manipulate the timestream from a distance.

1 Green Lantern

The Green Lantern Power Ring grants the wearer with many abilities but one of the most powerful and yet, somehow less popular ones is time travel. Naturally, more willpower is required for farther trips into the future. Hal Jordan, in particular, has definitely proved his mental toughness and spiritual resilience since he has successfully explored as far as the 70th century. Also, the Power Ring allows the Lantern to communicate with other individuals that are from a different point in time.

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10 Best time-travelling superheroes of all time

Get confused in time with these best time-travelling superheroes ever

Time travel is having something of a moment in current superhero media, and that's not just because Avengers: Endgame  used time travel as a key plot device. But none of that would be possible without the help of the best time-travelling superheroes of all time.

So what better time than now to look at the best time-travelling superheroes ever?

10. Waverider

The almost-forgotten hero from the alternate timeline of DC Comics ' 1991 event Armageddon 2001, Matthew Ryder escaped a dystopian dictator and certain death by traveling into the past with the ability to "read" potential futures of people just by touching them.

Unfortunately, while he prevented his future from happening, he did so by accidentally causing the creation of his dictator nemesis a decade early, setting in motion events that led to the Zero Hour crossover years later.

In recent years, Waverider has returned in spirit as the namesake of Rip Hunter's time ship in DC's Legends of Tomorrow - a unique live-action transition, to say the least.

9. Iron Lad

The Young Avengers' first leader sought to balance the scales for things that he'd do later in life - time travel can get weird, when it comes to cause and effect, remember - by adopting the guise of Iron Lad before he grew up to become the villainous Kang the Conqueror.

As Iron Lad, he managed to lead the team's short-lived first incarnation before fate - or the time-traveling equivalent - asserted itself, taking him to his destiny as one of the Avengers' most famous, and most deadly, foes. His career may not have been the longest, but his aim was true…

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8. Deathlok

The original Deathlok was Luther Manning, a man from the post-apocalyptic future world of 1990 - well, he was created in 1974 — who traveled back to the present to find himself teaming up with the Thing and Nick Fury (after earlier clashes, of course) to try and undo the world from which he came.

Since most of us will recall that 1990 was not the year society collapsed into dystopian ruin, we'll have to assume he succeeded.

Good job Deathlok!

7. Guardians of the Galaxy

No, not the current team, but the original 1969 lineup which decided to try and save the world of the 31st century by travelling back to our time and recruiting some more heroes to the cause.

Along the way, they had numerous chances to accidentally screw up things, but always managed to avoid it - even when that meant avoiding spilling the beans to Vance Astrovik, the future New Warrior known as Justice, that one of their members was… Well, an alternate version of himself. All that and they defeated the Badoon invasion that was the reason behind their formation.

Members of this version of the team even appeared in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, with writer/director James Gunn pointing to the potential of future film stories featuring the characters.

One of the two most time-travel-y X-Men, Lucas Bishop didn't really intend to be a time traveler; instead, it was more a matter of doing his job as one of the XSE (Xavier's Security Enforcers) and following a bad guy through a time portal.

Like Rachel Summers, he watched as the future he'd arrived from became more and more likely, but unlike Rachel, he decided to do something about it… Namely, try and kill Hope, even if that meant traveling through time again and hunting down Cable to make sure it happened (actions that got him on our time-traveling villains list, as well). He failed, of course, and realigned himself with the X-Men once again.

5. Green Lantern

What's that? You don't tend to think of Green Lantern as a time-traveler? Clearly, you've never heard of Pol Manning, Earth's Greatest Hero in the year 5700 — better known, perhaps, as Hal Jordan. The surreal existence of Manning is one of the stranger pieces of Green Lantern lore: When in need of a hero to save the world, the governments of the Earth of 5700 would simply kidnap Jordan from his own time, wipe his memory and give him the temporary (fictional) identity of Manning before returning him to his rightful time, place and mindset.

Sure, Jordan may not have been in control of - or even fully aware of - his time traveling double life, but that doesn't mean that he didn't serve as a Time Cop as well as a Space Cop when the situation demanded it.

4. The Flash

With the creation of the wonderfully-named Cosmic Treadmill, The Flash mythos gained a whole new dimension as the speedy superhero was suddenly given the ability to travel through time, meaning that his adventures could take place any when as well as any where.

Of course, it was only a matter of time before this ability would end up being exploited in the wrong way, leading to a butterfly effect mix up that created Flashpoint and the New 52, but for that brief period before everything went wrong, the Flash could be relied upon to clean up messes all through time.

Time travel has even played a significant role as a plot element in CW's The Flash too.

3. Superboy

For a teen who'd grow up to become the world's greatest superhero, it's almost disappointing to discover that it took three time-traveling teens from the 30th (later, 31st) century to introduce Clark Kent to the mysteries of the timestream.

Once the Legion of Super-Heroes entered his life, Superboy became a regular passenger on the cross-time express, either by Time Bubble or under his own steam but somehow always managing to stay away from any knowledge of his future self's actions, which may end up being his most impressive feat, considering just what Superman ended up accomplishing during his long career.

Now, the current Superboy, Jon Kent, looks to be the latest inheritor of the mantle to adventure alongside the Legion of Super-Heroes.

To try and get into the reasoning behind Cable and his various time-travel escapades would be both exhausting and confusing, so let's just leave it at this: At no point during his entire decades-long career as the X-Men family's favorite techno-organic enforcer has he managed to entirely undo the time stream by needlessly slaughtering another superhero, even with the amount of heavy artillery he carries around at all times.

Cable was played by Josh Brolin in Deadpool 2, a movie that hinged on his time-traveling nature (and provided the fuel for an all-time-classic mid-credits stinger scene).

1. Booster Gold

Perhaps comic books' top time-traveling superhero, Booster Gold may have started off his superheroic career with one simple time jump, but since then, he's teamed with Rip Hunter - who may or may not have been Booster's son - to protect the timestream from unwanted changes, only to fall victim to the rewriting of all DCU history via the New 52, where he's traveled into the past to meet Jonah Hex, and later went back to the future as part of Justice League 3001.

Booster recently returned to the DC Universe as part of Heroes In Crisis - another story in which time travel played a role. He'll next appear in the era-spanning Legion of Super-Heroes: Millennium this September.

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Teleportation and Other Fantastic Claims

The idea of people with superpowers is one that has long captivated audiences. Modern-day movies, graphic novels, TV shows and video games are full of fictional stories involving people who have acquired extraordinary and seemingly impossible abilities. The real world has plenty of fantastic claims as well spurring on debate and study.

One person who made fantastic claims was Pedro Ruiz Calderón, a Catholic priest who was brought to trial in Mexico City in 1540. Calderón claimed that he could teleport between continents, make himself invisible, predict the future , make women fall in love with him, find buried treasure, summon and exorcise demons among other abilities. Research by John Chuchiak IV, a professor at Missouri State University, sheds light on his trial.

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Psychokinesis

Psychokinesis (PK) is the ability to move or otherwise manipulate objects using the human mind . There are two types of psychokinesis , the "macro" and "micro" level. Many have claimed macro abilities — to be able to manipulate of large objects — throughout history. A 19th-century example was Eusapia Palladino who, in an 1892 photograph taken in Milan, and shown here, supposedly levitated a table while researcher Alexandr Aksakov checked for fraud. 

The micro level involves the manipulation of random events using the human mind. Between 1979 and 2007 the PEAR (Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research) lab in New Jersey studied this phenomenon running detailed statistical analysis. Its researchers found that the human mind has a very slight ability to manipulate random events, a finding that is controversial and debated among scientists. 

Time Travel

Time Travel is an ability which is often featured in science fiction. Through time dilation it is theoretically possible to travel forward in time although the effect wouldn't be significant unless you traveled a vast distance on a very fast spacecraft.

Moving backwards in time is more difficult and scientists are still uncertain as to whether it is even theoretically possible.

There have been claims of people having encounters, of sorts, with the past. On August 4, 1951 two English women on holiday near Dieppe claimed to hear the sounds of the famous World War II battle throughout the night while in their hotel room. They took careful notes and an article describing their case was published in the May-June 1952 edition of the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research.

Reincarnation

Reincarnation is the belief that when someone dies they are reborn. It's featured in several religions including Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism.

There have been cases where young children recall information which some believe to be from past lives they lived. The late Dr. Ian Stevenson, a medical doctor who was head of the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia, documented and published an estimated 3,000 cases of this over a period of 40 years. He tried to match up these claimed experiences with people who actually died.  

Extra Sensory Perception (ESP)

Extra Sensory Perception, or ESP, is the ability to obtain information through means other than the five senses. Examples of it include telepathy or “mind reading,” as it’s more popularly known. Precognition is another form and involves knowing of a future event ahead of time. Another form is remote viewing, seeing a distant place through paranormal means.

The U.S. military and CIA did research exploring the military and intelligence applications of ESP, particularly remote viewing. Project "Stargate" was a $20-million study started during the Cold War. It was spurred on by reports that the Soviet Union was investigating ESP. Although some claim that there were successful instances of remote viewing the project was shut down in 1995. [ The 10 Most Outrageous Military Experiments

The practice of "dowsing" or "divining" often features a person using twigs or a rod to find a water source. It can, however, be used for other things as well. Pedro Ruiz Calderón, the 16th-century priest, claimed to have been able to find buried treasure using supernatural means, and made a good amount of money selling his abilities. Needless to say modern-day scientists are skeptical that dowsing can actually be done.

(Shown here, an 18th-century depiction from the 1733 book "Histoire Critique des Practiques Superstitieuses.")

Predicting the Future

In many ways predicting the future is not a supernatural power. Economists, climatologists, demographers, all use scientific (or semi-scientific) methods to try to predict the future.

The use of supernatural powers to predict the future, however, has a much longer history. The use of horoscopic astrology, though not based in science, dates back more than 2,000 years and is tailored to the individual.

An ancient astrologer would determine the positions of the planets, sun and moon at the time their client was born. They would then use the information to determine their future.  Researchers reconstructed and published in 2012 the oldest known astrologer's board , found in a cave in Croatia.

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Invisibility

From HG Wells 1897 novel "The Invisible Man" to Harry Potter's invisibility cloak, the ability to make yourself invisible is one that has long fascinated science fiction writers.

Pedro Ruiz Calderón, the Catholic priest put on trial in 1540, claimed to be able to turn invisible. He said that the ability came in handy when he snuck in and out of the bedrooms of his mistresses.  

Although the power seems fantastic scientists are working on technologies that may one day be able to render large objects partly or entirely invisible. Using artificial metamaterials they are developing techniques to bend light. Another effort, published in 2011 in the journal Nature Communications, uses calcite to block off red and green lasers and ordinary white light .

Love Spells

The ability to use supernatural abilities to make someone fall in love with you has ancient origins.

Archaeology Magazine reported on a case from Roman Egypt in which two wax figurines were found in an "erotic embrace." They contained an inscription which read in part "seize Euphemia and lead her to me Theon, loving me with mad desire, and bind her with unloosable shackles, strong ones of adamantine, for the love of me..."

Although modern-day scientists don't believe in love spells some substances, like strawberries, are said to act as an aphrodisiac, increasing sexual desire. [Top 10 Aphrodisiacs]

Teleportation

Teleportation was made famous by the series "Star Trek." People, aliens included, could beam from the fictional starship Enterprise to the surface of a planet in one piece (although transporter malfunctions were occasionally used as a plot device).

In real life Pedro Ruiz Calderón, the priest who went on trial in 1540, claimed to be able to teleport from Mexico to Europe and back again. His claim was laughable since, if he could do that, he could have easily escaped his trial!

Today scientists working in the field of quantum physics are working on teleporting light , with some success . Whether we will ever be able to teleport spaceship crewmembers or warlock priests is another matter. [ Twisted Physics: 7 Mind-Blowing Findings ]

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The Super Power IssueA User's Guide to Time Travel

All it takes is a grasp of theoretical physics, control of the space-time continuum, and maybe a ball of cosmic string.

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Did the tech bubble burst in your face? Were you one of those unlucky outsiders who missed the Yahoo! IPO or got stuck with Enron stock long after the execs had dumped theirs? Wouldn't you like to be, just once, in the right place at the right time? Now you can. Follow a few simple instructions to relive the bull market and bail out just in time – then go on to march with Pericles or meet your great-great-great-grandchild.

Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem. Physicists schooled in Newton's laws believed that time moved along a straight, steady course, like a speeding arrow. Then came Einstein in the early 1900s. His equations showed that time is more like a river. The more mass or energy you possess, the more the current around you varies. By moving at high velocity, for instance, you can make time slow down, and when you come to a stop, you'll be younger than if you'd remained at rest. Thus, a speedy spacecraft makes a fairly basic time machine.

Even after Einstein, most physicists believed the clock ticked in only one direction. While moving faster than the speed of light could, according to Einstein's equations, reverse time's arrow, such motion was impossible, because any object that reached that velocity would become infinite in mass. Trips to the past were preposterous.

Not anymore. Having examined Einstein's equations more closely, physicists now realize that the river of time may be diverted into a whirlpool – called a closed timelike curve – or even a fork leading to a parallel universe. In particular, the more mass you can concentrate at a single point, the more you can bend the flow.

In recent years, new designs for time machines have been flying off drawing boards at the world's top science labs. Exact specifications depend on where in time and space you wish to travel. You'll need a hefty CPU to solve the relevant equations for your machine's precise size, shape, motion, location, surroundings, and so on; the more accurately you can nail down these variables, the closer you'll come to your intended destination.

The designs that follow don't have the panache of Doc Brown's DeLorean in Back to the Future or even H. G. Wells' brass and quartz dream machine, but they do put time travel within reach of anyone with a couple of fast spaceships, a supercomputer, and a solar-system-scale machine shop. Warning: Time-space distortions may not be stable and may collapse as you enter, so approach them at your own risk. Also, when going back in time, do not – repeat – do not kill your parents before you are born. Wired takes no responsibility for parallel universes in which you find yourself trapped for eternity.

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When Carl Sagan was writing his 1985 novel Contact , he asked Caltech physicist Kip Thorne how to abbreviate the lengthy flight time required for a trip to a distant star. Thorne suggested a wormhole, a shortcut through space-time that almost certainly exists as a consequence of Einsteinian principles, although one has yet to be detected. A few years later, Thorne suggested that a wormhole's entrances could be positioned in space and time as desired. Unlike some other time machines, this Thorne-inspired design allows round trips. However, it can't take you back to a time before the machine was built. Here's how it works:

•Obtain four large conductive plates at least a few miles in diameter. Arrange them in parallel, very close together. The space between each plate will teem with negative energy – a proven phenomenon known as the Casimir effect – creating slices of identical space-time. •Separate the plates into two pairs. A wormhole will connect the pairs like an umbilical cord. •Place one pair in a rocket ship and accelerate to almost the speed of light, preferably in a circular path so the rocket doesn't stray too far. Time will nearly freeze for that set while the other, still on the ground, ages at the usual rate. With each passing moment, the space-borne plates will go farther back in time relative to the others. •When a sufficient amount of time has passed – preferably decades – step between the earthbound plates. You'll immediately be transported back in time and across space to the other pair.

Fine print : To activate Thorne plates, the distance between each plate must be less than the width of an atom. The resulting wormhole will be equally small, so getting in and out might be difficult. To widen the portal, some scientists suggest using a laser to inject immense amounts of negative energy. In addition, Thorne believes that radiation effects created by gravitons, or particles of gravity, might fry you as you enter the wormhole. According to string theory, however, this probably won't happen, so it's scant reason to cancel your trip.

Many scientists believe the big bang that created the universe left behind cosmic strings – thin, infinitely long filaments of compressed matter. In 1991, Princeton physicist J. Richard Gott discovered that two of these structures, arranged in parallel and moving in opposite directions, would warp space-time to allow travel to the past. He later reworked the idea to involve a single cosmic-string loop. A Gott loop can take you back in time but not forward. The guide to building your own:

•Scan the galaxy for a loop of cosmic string. •When you find one, fly close to it in a massive spaceship. Use the ship's gravity to shape the string into a rectangle roughly 54,000 light-years long and .01 light-years wide. Gravity exerted by the longer sides of the rectangle will cause it to collapse, bringing the sides closer and closer together at nearly the speed of light. •As the two sides approach within 10 feet of each other, circle them in a smaller ship. When you return to the start of the circle, you will have traveled back in time.

Fine print : To take you back one year, the string must weigh about half as much as the Milky Way galaxy. You'll need a mighty big spaceship to make that rectangle.

Gott Shell In essence, a Gott shell is a huge concentration of mass. The shell's sheer density creates a gravitational field that slows down the clock for anyone enclosed within it. Outside, time rolls along at its familiar pace, but inside, it creeps. Thus the Gott shell is useful for travel into the future only. If you're planning a jaunt to the past using a Gott loop, you might want to bring along a Gott shell for the return trip. What to do, step by step:

•Salvage scrap planetary matter to assemble a mass equal to or greater than Jupiter's. •Working slowly so as not to produce sudden gravitational disturbances, assemble the matter around yourself in a sphere. For your comfort – and to avoid inadvertently creating a black hole later in the process – be sure to leave a cavity larger than 18 feet in diameter at the center. •Stock the cockpit with lots of food, drink, diversions, and back issues of Wired. Your journey might take a while. •Using a high-powered energy source, compress the shell. The greater the compression, the faster you'll be transported – up to five times the pace of ordinary time for a Jupiter-sized mass, faster for a larger ball of matter. •After waiting the desired interval – several decades works best – slowly decompress the shell and emerge. You'll find yourself in the same place but in a distant epoch. Welcome to the future.

Fine print : This is a relatively slow method of time travel, and life inside the shell could become tedious.

Van Stokum Cylinder

Mass and energy act on space-time like a rock thrown into a pond: the bigger the rock, the bigger the ripples. Physicist W. J. van Stockum realized in 1937 that an immense cylinder spinning at near-light speed will stir space-time as though it were molasses, pulling it along as the cylinder turns. Although Van Stockum himself didn't recognize it, anyone orbiting such a cylinder in the direction of the spin will be caught in the current and, from the perspective of a distant observer, exceed the speed of light. The result: Time flows backward. Circle the cylinder in the other direction with just the right trajectory, and this machine can take you into the future as well. How it works:

•Using a high-performance spacecraft with tractor beams, or at least heavy-duty cables, trawl the galaxy gathering planets, asteroids, comets, and the like. Collect as much matter as you can. •With a galactic-scale forge, extrude the planetary matter into a long, dense cylinder. •Use an industrial-strength electromagnetic field to spin the cylinder along its central axis. Accelerate it to the speed corresponding to your destination time. •Orbit the cylinder in the direction of the spin. With each circuit you make, you'll return at a time before you left.

Fine print : The cylinder must be infinitely long, which could add slightly to its cost.

When Karl Schwarzschild solved Einstein's equations in 1917, he found that stars can collapse into infinitesimally small points in space – what we now call black holes. Four decades later, physicist Roy Kerr discovered that some stars are saved from total collapse and become rotating rings. Kerr didn't regard these rings as time machines. However, because their intense gravity distorts space-time, and because they permit large objects to enter on one side and exit on the other in one piece, Kerr-type black holes can serve as portals to the past or the future. If finding one with the proper dimensions is too much trouble, you can always build one yourself:

•Gather enough matter to equal Jupiter's mass. •Compress it into a ring about 5 feet in diameter. This can put a lot of stress on mechanical tools, so a high-energy electromagnetic field is recommended. •As you compress the ring, set it spinning. Increase its velocity to nearly the speed of light. A black hole will form at its center. •Step through the hole and you'll be transported instantly to another time (and, possibly, place), potentially as far back as the big bang or as far forward as the end of the universe as we know it. Bon voyage!

Fine print : The Kerr ring is a one-way ticket. The black hole's gravity is so great that, once you step through it, you won't be able to return.

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Temporal Teleportation

The power to teleport through space and time . Sub-power to Space-Time Manipulation . Combination of Teleportation and Time Travel .

• 1 Also Called
• 2 Fiction-Specific Terms
• 3 Capabilities
• 4 Applications
• 5 Techniques
• 6 Associations
• 7 Limitations
• 8 Known Users
• 9 Known Objects
• 10 Known Locations

Also Called [ ]

• Chronoportation
• Space-Time Travel/Jumping
• Space-Time Teleportation
• Spatio-Chronoportation
• Teleport-Time Travel
• Temporal Geo-Leaping/Phase-Jumping/Spatial Movement/Translocation/Tele-Transportation
• Time Travel via Teleportation/Teleportation via Time Travel

Fiction-Specific Terms [ ]

• Chronoshift ( Command & Conquer: Red Alert )

Capabilities [ ]

The user can teleport through both space and time, allowing them to reach any location and/or era in the same move. With the right calculations and timing, they may create time loops and paradoxes, arriving at a destination before they have left or even existing in multiple locations at the same time.

Applications [ ]

• Multi-Directional Movement
• Multipresence
• Time Travel

Techniques [ ]

• Remote Temporal Teleportation

Associations [ ]

• Power Mixture
• Space-Time Distortion
• Spatial Manipulation
• Time Manipulation
• Superior Human Physiology
• Teleportation Manipulation
• Temporal Paradox Inducement
• Time Machine Operation Mastery

Limitations [ ]

• Users of  Space-Time Manipulation ,  Time Manipulation , and similar powers may affect the user's ability to travel through space and time.
• May be weak against Teleportation Negation .
• Temporal Immortality

Known Users [ ]

• Chrono Commandos ( Command & Conquer: Red Alert )
• Chrono Ivans ( Command & Conquer: Red Alert )
• Chrono Legionnaires ( Command & Conquer: Red Alert )
• Hounds Of Tindalos ( Cthulhu Mythos )
• Jashin-chan ( Dropkick on My Devil! ); accidentally
• Hiro Nakamura ( Heroes )
• Arthur Petrelli ( Heroes )
• Peter Petrelli ( Heroes )
• James Kelly ( Heroes i-Story )
• John Egbert ( Homestuck )
• The Shrike ( Hyperion Cantos ); via high-level temporal manipulation abilities.
• Quanjels ( Magi-Nation )
• Illyana Rasputina/Magik ( Marvel Comics )
• Various Mutants ( Marvel Comics )
• Charlie ( Meiji Tokyo Renka )
• Timetagger ( Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir ); after marking a location.
• Rowan Darkwood ( Planescape ); via escaping The Mazes
• Kaguya Houraisan ( Touhou Project )
• Five Hargreeves/Number Five/Portal Boy ( The Umbrella Academy )
• Lila Pitts/Number Eight ( The Umbrella Academy ) via Power Mimicry
• Time Traveler ( Valkyrie Crusade )

Known Objects [ ]

• Chronosphere ( Command & Conquer: Red Alert )
• Chrono Miner ( Command & Conquer: Red Alert )
• Chrono Tank ( Command & Conquer: Red Alert )
• TARDIS ( Doctor Who )
• Max ( Flight of the Navigator )
• Hayase's Master Transporter ( Time Travel Girl )
• Celestial Express ( Valkyrie Crusade )

Known Locations [ ]

• Magic Tree House ( The Magic Tree House )

Gallery [ ]

• 1 Superpowers
• 2 List of Kinetic Abilities
• 3 Darkness Manipulation

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Pros and Cons of Time Travel

Time travel offers the potential to enrich personal and societal understanding through historical insights and future predictions. It allows individuals to correct past mistakes and explore different life choices, fostering emotional healing and resilience. However, it also carries significant emotional risks , including nostalgia and regret, exacerbated anxiety, and feelings of alienation. Time travel may also hinder personal growth by encouraging risk avoidance. To balance its profound opportunities with its deep psychological impacts requires careful consideration. Discovering more about these aspects illuminates the full spectrum of time travel's implications.

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• Time travel can enrich historical understanding by providing firsthand experiences of past events.
• Correcting past mistakes through time travel offers opportunities for altering personal and societal outcomes.
• Time travel may lead to nostalgia and regret, causing emotional stress and anxiety.
• The process of time travel can result in feelings of displacement and alienation due to unfamiliar surroundings.
• Confronting past trauma during time travel can exacerbate existing mental health issues and cause significant distress.

Benefits of Time Travel

Time travel offers unparalleled opportunities for historical enrichment and personal development. By enabling individuals to travel across time, it provides unique possibilities for correcting past mistakes and making different choices , potentially altering personal trajectories and societal outcomes . This temporal exploration allows for direct engagement with various historical periods, granting firsthand witnessing of significant events and fostering a deeper appreciation of human history.

Moreover, time travel facilitates the exploration of diverse cultures, offering rich experiences that contribute to personal growth and cross-cultural understanding . Engaging with different eras can lead to gaining new insights, knowledge, and perspectives, which can be invaluable in both personal and professional contexts. The ability to travel through time opens up opportunities for historical research, enabling historians and scholars to validate or challenge existing narratives with primary observations and evidence.

Additionally, the potential benefits of time travel include the chance to shape the future based on lessons learned from the past. This expanded understanding of the world can lead to more informed decision-making , fostering a greater sense of global citizenship and responsibility. The benefits of time travel extend beyond mere curiosity, providing profound opportunities for enlightenment and advancement.

Learning From the Past

Exploring the past provides valuable insights and lessons that contribute to personal growth and informed decision-making. By examining historical events and personal experiences , individuals can extract wisdom and traditions that foster development. Learning from past successes and failures equips people with the knowledge to navigate future challenges effectively and avoid repeating mistakes.

This reflective process instills resilience, as drawing strength from positive memories can bolster one's ability to handle current adversities.

Moreover, delving into past events can facilitate emotional healing . Understanding and resolving past wounds can pave the way for progress and improved mental well-being. For instance, acknowledging and addressing past traumas can free individuals from the negative emotions that may otherwise impede their growth.

The act of exploring the past is not merely an intellectual exercise but a therapeutic one that promotes overall well-being .

However, it is important to strike a balance. While learning from past experiences is beneficial, an excessive focus on past wounds can be counterproductive. Dwelling too much on negative emotions may hinder personal development and the ability to move forward.

While the past serves as a valuable resource for learning and growth, it is essential to engage with it in a balanced manner.

Visualizing the Future

Visualizing the future is essential for anticipating technological advancements and understanding societal changes. By projecting forward, we can better prepare for shifts in innovation and cultural dynamics .

However, this forward-thinking approach must be balanced to avoid creating undue anxiety and to make sure we remain grounded in the present.

Predicting Technological Advancements

By leveraging trends, data analysis, and research, experts can anticipate how emerging technologies will transform society and everyday life. This predictive approach allows us to visualize future events and understand how they might unfold. Although we cannot change the past, we can prepare for potential advancements by examining current innovations and societal needs.

Visualization tools such as trend maps, scenario matrices, and future wheels are instrumental in this process. These tools help in mapping out different possibilities and outcomes, offering a holistic view of how technologies like AI, biotech, and space exploration might evolve. Scenario planning and foresight methods further aid in anticipating the impact of these technologies on various sectors, including industries, jobs, and global challenges.

The following points paint a picture of what experts can foresee:

• AI Integration : Enhanced decision-making capabilities in healthcare, finance, and transportation.
• Biotechnological Breakthroughs : Advanced medical treatments and genetic engineering possibilities.
• Space Exploration : Potential colonization of other planets and asteroid mining.
• Clean Energy Solutions : Innovations in renewable energy sources to combat climate change.
• Quantum Computing : Revolutionary changes in data processing and cybersecurity.

Understanding Societal Changes

Understanding societal changes through the lens of time travel provides a unique opportunity to anticipate and adapt to future cultural, technological, and environmental shifts. By visualizing the future , individuals and policymakers can gain a clearer understanding of how our current actions will shape societal changes in the years to come. This foresight enables the identification of emerging trends in cultural norms , values, and beliefs, allowing societies to prepare for and possibly mitigate future challenges .

Time travel offers a valuable perspective on the potential impact of today's decisions on future generations. For instance, it can highlight the long-term effects of policies related to climate change, technological innovation, and political structures. By doing so, it underscores the importance of sustainable and forward-thinking decision-making.

In addition, exploring future societal changes can help identify opportunities for growth and adaptation, ensuring that societies remain resilient in the face of evolving circumstances.

Ultimately, understanding societal changes through time travel fosters a proactive approach to shaping the future. It allows us to envision and prepare for the complex interplay between cultural, technological, and environmental factors, thereby promoting a more informed and adaptive society .

Handling Past Wounds

Harnessing the potential of time travel to address past wounds can be a profound tool for emotional healing and personal growth. By going back to the past, individuals have the opportunity to revisit and process past traumas with a fresh perspective. This can facilitate a deeper understanding of the origins of their pain, providing a pathway to closure and acceptance which is essential for moving forward in time.

Exploring past wounds through time travel can:

• Facilitate Healing : Revisiting traumatic events allows individuals to confront unresolved emotions and issues.
• Enable Self-Reflection : A unique vantage point on past experiences offers the chance for introspection and growth.
• Provide Perspective : Seeing past events with the wisdom of the present helps in gaining a balanced view.
• Encourage Forgiveness : Directly interacting with past scenarios can create opportunities for forgiveness and letting go.
• Promote Readiness : Emotional readiness and self-awareness are pivotal in dealing with potentially challenging memories.

Negative Emotional Impact

The important emotional impact of time travel can manifest in various forms, including:

• Nostalgia and regret over past decisions
• Feelings of displacement and alienation in different eras
• The triggering of trauma and anxiety

These emotional challenges can greatly disrupt an individual's mental well-being and daily functioning.

Hence, it is essential to examine these points to understand the full scope of time travel's psychological repercussions.

Nostalgia and Regret

Balancing the emotional duality of nostalgia and regret is vital when considering the potential negative impacts of time travel. Nostalgia can evoke joyous recollections, reinforcing one's sense of happiness and connection to cherished moments. However, when revisiting the past through time travel, these positive experiences might be overshadowed by the emergence of regret.

Regret often stems from unfulfilled desires or perceived mistakes, leading to self-blame and a sense of missed opportunities, which can severely affect one's mental health.

Here is how nostalgia and regret could manifest in the context of time travel:

• Nostalgia : Experiencing warm memories that boost mood and well-being.
• Regret : Encountering past decisions that lead to feelings of disappointment and self-blame.
• Emotional Imbalance : A struggle to maintain a healthy perspective between positive nostalgia and negative regret.
• Mental Health Impact : The potential for regret to overshadow nostalgic feelings, leading to increased stress and anxiety.
• Personal Growth : The challenge of using past experiences constructively for growth rather than being bogged down by regret.

Understanding and preparing for these emotional complexities is essential for those contemplating the notion of time travel, ensuring a balanced and mentally healthy approach to traversing one's past.

Displacement and Alienation

Frequently, time travelers encounter profound feelings of displacement and alienation upon arriving in a different temporal period. This psychological impact stems from the sudden shift from familiar surroundings and relationships to an entirely new, often unfamiliar environment. The customs, language, and societal norms of the destination era can be radically different, making it difficult for the traveler to relate and adapt. This can lead to a deep sense of alienation , as the individual finds themselves out of sync with the prevailing cultural context.

Such emotional dislocation can evoke significant feelings of isolation and loneliness. The traveler may struggle to form meaningful connections or integrate into the local community, amplifying their sense of being an outsider . The stress and discomfort associated with adjusting to a new temporal environment can be overwhelming, further exacerbating feelings of displacement.

Coping with these emotional consequences requires a high degree of resilience and adaptability. Without these traits, the psychological toll of displacement and alienation can become a severe impediment to the time traveler's overall well-being.

While the allure of exploring different eras is compelling, the potential for profound emotional impact should not be underestimated.

Trauma and Anxiety

Confronting traumatic events from the past through time travel can greatly exacerbate existing anxiety and emotional distress. Revisiting distressing moments can lead to re-traumatization, causing individuals to relive their most painful experiences. This process can substantially worsen existing mental health issues, making recovery more challenging.

The inherent uncertainty and unpredictability associated with time travel further intensify anxiety levels. The fear of encountering unforeseen events or altering the past in unintended ways heightens emotional turmoil. These uncertainties can produce considerable stress and fear, as individuals grapple with the potential consequences and paradoxes of their actions.

• Revisiting past traumas can lead to re-traumatization and worsen existing mental health issues.
• Unpredictability in time travel increases anxiety and emotional distress.
• Fear of altering past events creates anxiety about unintended consequences.
• Heightened stress and emotional turmoil arise from the uncertainties of time travel.
• Engaging in time travel can trigger significant fear and anxiety due to potential paradoxes.

Avoiding Growth and Risks

Avoiding growth and risks in time travel can result in a stagnant existence devoid of personal development and transformative experiences . Refusing to take risks inherently limits one's potential for growth and the invaluable learning that stems from new and challenging experiences. The fear of the unknown and of change often acts as a significant barrier, hindering progress and impeding personal growth in time travel scenarios.

Embracing the challenges and risks associated with time travel can lead to new possibilities that foster self-discovery and growth . By stepping out of one's comfort zone, individuals are more likely to encounter transformative experiences that provide valuable life lessons. This willingness to engage with uncertainty can catalyze profound personal development and offer unique insights into the human condition.

Conversely, an overly cautious approach to time travel, driven by a desire to avoid risk, may result in missed opportunities that could have been pivotal for personal evolution.

Therefore, while the decision to embrace or avoid risk is deeply personal, it is essential to recognize that avoiding growth and risks can ultimately lead to a life that lacks the richness of experience and the depth of understanding that comes from exploring the unknown.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the downsides of time travel?.

Time travel poses significant risks, including the creation of paradox loops and temporal anomalies. These disruptions can lead to unpredictable consequences, such as altered history, social injustices, and the absence of essential modern amenities like medicine and birth control.

What Is the Benefit of Time Travel?

The benefit of time travel includes gaining invaluable historical insights, allowing us to witness and understand significant events firsthand. Additionally, it enables future discoveries, fostering advancements in knowledge, technology, and personal growth through the exploration of different eras.

What Are the Risks of Time Travel?

The risks of time travel include the potential for timeline alterations, which could have unforeseen and catastrophic consequences. Paradox prevention is critical, as creating paradoxes can lead to instability, confusion, and significant mental health challenges for the traveler.

What Are the Disadvantages of Time Machines?

The disadvantages of time machines include paradox creation, which can lead to unpredictable and confusing outcomes, and temporal displacement, potentially causing significant mental health issues due to the inability to adapt to different historical or future environments.

Time travel presents a complex array of benefits and drawbacks . It offers the potential to learn from historical events, visualize future possibilities, and address unresolved past issues.

Conversely, it may also result in negative emotional impacts and inhibit personal growth by allowing individuals to circumvent life's inherent risks and challenges. The balance between these advantages and disadvantages underscores the intricate nature of time travel and necessitates a cautious approach to its theoretical application.

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Time Travel Superheroes: 15 Heroes Who Can Travel Through Time

How cool would it be to go back in time and meet your younger self? 

Yes, we know. It’s probably a bad idea. These Superheroes, however, don’t think so. Each of them has traveled through time and has saved the world many times using this ability.

Let’s take a look at these time travelers and their adventures!

#15 Rip Hunter

Publisher:  DC Comics Time Travel Meter:  10+

Rip Hunter is a DC superhero that has come to the aid of many heroes if ever there were any time travel-related issues. He first appeared in the ‘Challengers of the unknown’ and later even got his series during the 1960s. 

Hunter is an ordinary man who uses an invention of his called the Time Sphere, and he travels through time seeking new adventures. Rip Hunter has been instrumental in many Crisis events in the comic books. We also see him playing essential roles in the events of the Arrow-verse. 

In the comics, he is the one who develops the tech that our heroes use to go back in time and fight the Anti-Monitor. This is during the events of the Crisis on Infinite Earths. The changes that occur because of this event completely alter the DC fictional universe, making way for new and old stories to be told differently.

#14 Spider-Man 2099

Publisher:  Marvel Comics Time Travel Meter:  5+

Miguel O’Hara, or Spider-Man of 2099, comes from one of the dark timelines of the Marvel Universe. He is a brilliant young geneticist who works with the Alchemax School for Gifted Youngsters, which is implied to be the old X-men Headquarters. Here, the young scientists conducted experiments and studies about the original Spider-Man. During one of these experiments, an accident gives O’Hara spider powers. 

Miguel’s powers are superior to the original Spider-Man’s, and the two have shared pages on many occasions.

Spider-Man 2099 is a regular time traveler as well. Upon realizing that Tyler Stone was his actual father and that an issue in the past might get his father erased, Miguel decides to go back in time to stop the temporal shift from happening. He does so through a time machine that his biological father destroys, which traps him in the past. He travels into the future along with the Spider-man army to fight the Inheritors.

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#13 Franklin Richards

Publisher:  Marvel Comics Time Travel Meter:   4+

Franklin Richards is the son of Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman. Believed to be a mutant, he has vast reality-warping powers and is said to be one of the most powerful beings in the universe. 

The Child of Mr. and Mrs. Fantastic has been riddled by many journeys in time, and most were not at his discretion. There are instances of him being kidnapped into the future and sometimes even being wiped out of existence. 

Time travel is usually mind-bending by itself, but imagine someone who could do it with the snap of his finger. Franklin is said to easily create galaxies in his hand and travel dimensions. In the comics, a young Franklin is trained by a mysterious figure in his play area. The figure is eventually revealed to be an adult, Franklin Richards. Like we said, Mind-bending. 

#12 Wolverine

Publisher:  Marvel Comics Time Travel Meter:  4+

The Wolverine needs no introduction. Weapon X is one of the critical members of the X-men and has been instrumental in saving the day several times. His healing factor makes him a nightmare to go up against, and he can even stand toe-to-toe with the Hulk.

One more should be added among his many persona and titles – Time Traveler. Wolverine has journeyed through time on many occasions, and we also see that in the movie version. It involves Kitty Pryde sending Wolverine’s consciousness back in time to save mutants from annihilation.

In the new series – X Deaths, two Wolverines are sent back in time from two different future timelines. In both timelines, Wolverine is the last mutant alive and must go back in time to change the future.

Time Travel is messy, guys. Please don’t try this at home.

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#11 Kitty Pryde

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Kitty Pryde is a core member of the X-Men. Her powers allow her to phase through objects, which means she can move through anything. She has used her powers on many occasions and has helped her team save the day. She even uses her abilities to phase out of sync with the earth’s rotation. She can travel at infinite speeds, or at least faster than light. 

In fictional theory, she could use this ability to phase in and out of time. However, Kitty Pryde travels time without achieving this feat as well. Unlike the movie adaptation of the ‘Days of future past’ storyline, Kitty’s consciousness goes back in time to save mutant kind from extinction. Rachel Summers, the daughter of Cyclops and Marvel Girl, can send her back in time. 

She eventually manages to save mutant kind and change their dark future.

#10 Super Boy

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Superboy has had many incarnations over the years, with some iterations just being the younger version of the original Superman. As Superboy, Kal El meets the Legion of Superheroes, formed after taking inspiration from the former’s stories. 

The Legion travels back to the 31st century to recruit Superboy to their team and fights threats in the future. The Legion already has time travel tech in the future, and it is using this that Superboy can travel to the future. 

Another character incarnation is Con El, who has the DNA of both Lex Luthor and Superman. This Superboy has died many times but has been revived multiple times as a clone. He is even resurrected in the 31st century by Brainiac. This same Con El travels back in time to live with Jonathan and Martha Kent. 

There are so many origins and stories for this character that it can get confusing at a point.

#9 Dr. Manhattan

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Dr. Manhattan turned into an energy being after he was exposed to a lab accident. The abilities he acquired manifested over time and slowly grew in power. Eventually, he turned into a being that could be everywhere at once and had the powers of a god. He could change reality to his wishes and create universes out of nothing.

With his omniscience came a significant shift in perspective. He no longer saw time in the same way as others. It was one large picture rather than a string of events, and he could place himself anywhere in that picture with just a thought. This has enabled the Doctor to travel to any moment he wished. 

Since he is a timeless being, he doesn’t precisely need to travel anywhere. He can change realities and change futures instantly. He even destroys the DC universe and restarts it.

What is time to a God?

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#8 Dr. Strange

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Stephen Strange is no Stranger to time travel. The Sorcerer Supreme is a master of the Mystic Arts and is a core member of the Avengers. He takes the lead on any threat of supernatural origin and is a more powerful practitioner of all things magic. 

We see Dr. Strange using these magical objects to manipulate time on many occasions. The most famous would be the Eye of Agomotto or the Time Stone to see different futures. However, that is not the case in the comics. Dr. Strange discovers that the Book of Cagliostro can be used to travel time and that this method does not align with the scientific techniques in the other versions of time travel fiction. 

Even without tools, Dr. Strange has been shown to simply travel time with her mystic arts.

#7 Superman

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There is seemingly very little that Superman can’t do. He is faster than light, can create a rift in reality just by punching it, and bench press the earth for five days straight. That is some next-level power. With the speeds he can achieve, it has been asked whether the Man of Steel can also travel time.

Superman has traveled time on many occasions. The how’s of this are rather sketchy and used to depend on the writer. The Superboy iteration could simply go back and forth in time with relative ease and could even carry people with him.

Even in one of the earlier Superman movies featuring George Reeves, we see the character go back in time but simply slow and reverse the earth’s rotation. He also uses his speed in the comic ‘Return to Krypton’ to go and visit Krypton before its destruction and meet his parent.

There truly is nothing that this man can’t do, huh?

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#6 Green Lantern

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The Lantern’s ring is only limited by its wielder’s imagination. From energy constructs to energy projection, the possibilities seem endless. Within its vast capabilities lies the power to manipulate and travel through time.

Hal Jordan has used the Ring to travel to the 70th century, and another GL Arisia Rrab uses the Ring’s power to send time through her and age quickly. We have to admit that the latter is rather strange.

Hal used his power in the comics to open a portal to the past so that he could send a few pterodactyls through it. 

News Flash – comics books can be bizarre. 

#5 Iron Lad

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Nathaniel Richards is a 30th-century genius and the younger version of Kang the Conqueror. Kang appeared to his younger self and saved him from a bully, thus giving him a glimpse of his future self and his armor similar to that of Iron Man. Upon seeing what he would turn into, Nathaniel renounced his destiny and decided to use his intellect to never become the evil version of himself. 

The armor given to Nathaniel has neuro-kinetic capabilities and allows him to travel time, the same as Kang.

The most amazing time travel Adventure is when Iron Lad travels back in time to warn the Avengers of the oncoming dangers. Unable to get in touch with them, he helps the Young Avengers and even kills his older version in battle.

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Bishop is the great-grandson of the mutant Gateway, who could manipulate and travel through time. Although he does not possess the powers to do so himself. Bishop is a soldier from the future who can passively absorb energy and dispel it however he wants. He is often depicted holding an energy gun that would allow him to shoot his absorbed energy out as blasts.

Bishop uses time travel devices from the future similar to that of Cable to journey to different periods. He is usually seen traveling back in time from a dystopian future to help the X-men rewrite history.

Bishop was sent back in time to stop Legion from killing Magneto, but his failure to do so is what brought about the Age of Apokolips.

The fastest man on the planet has been known to play around a little too much with time. With the ability to run at a million times the speed of light, The Flash can alter the vibrations in his body to travel through time. He can do the same to travel through dimensions as well. 

Not all versions of the Flash can achieve this feat, but Barry Allen and Wally West seem to do so easily. The most famous time-related adventure by a Flash is the Flashpoint paradox.

Due to his selfish needs, the Flash goes back in time and saves his mother, creating a massive rift and modifying the future to a world on the brink of war and destruction. Once in this new reality, Barry Allen realizes his mistake and works toward correcting his actions. He uses his time traveling abilities to go back in time and correct his errors.

This storyline is the most critical example of why the time stream is not to be tampered with.

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#2 Booster Gold

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Booster Gold is from the 25th century Gotham, and unlike other future genii who come back in time, he just does so for fame. An underachiever in the future, Booster works as a janitor at the Museum of Superheroes. This is where he discovers much about the legendary heroes and their stories. He manages to steal a flight ring and Brainiac 5’s energy belt. He also takes Rip hunter’s time sphere, and it is with this that he travels back in time. 

All his tools are still high-tech in the 20th century, and he uses them to make people believe that he is a superhero and simply works to become famous. Though initially shown to be a greedy showboat, Booster slowly learns the way of a true hero. He uses his abilities to travel through time and help change histories that lead to dystopian futures.

Booster uses his tech to go back in time and save Blue Beetle from getting murdered just moments before his death.

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Cable is the most famous time-traveling character in the Marvel Universe. He is the son of Scott Summers and a clone of Jean Grey from the future. He has traveled back in time numerous times to help the X-men with a threat or to prevent a dystopian future from occurring. 

There are many versions of the character and various explanations for how he can travel time. The most common two are – he possesses inherent time travel abilities due to the techno-organic virus in his body, and the other is that he has a time travel device that looks like a watch which helps his travel time.

The best example of this feat is during the events of Ultimate X-men, where he comes back in time to warn and train Professor Xavier for their upcoming battle with Apokolips.

Honorable Mentions

• Guardians of the Galaxy
• Reed Richards

This brings us to the end of our time traveler’s list. If anything, we have learned that messing with time is bad news. However, do you think we could create a timeline where superheroes were real if we mess it up enough?

Interesting. Very interesting.

What Is the Ability to Control Time Called?

Chronokinesis is the ability to alter or control time with your mind. With it, you can travel through time or even stop it.

Which Superhero Can Travel Through Time?

The Flash can travel through time. He can vibrate his body at such speeds that he can phase through time. He can use some power to travel dimensions as well.

Which Marvel Hero Can Time Travel?

Kitty Pryde can time travel. She is the mutant that goes back in tune during the events of Days of Future Past in the comics.

Can Any Marvel Character Time Travel?

Yes, Iron Lad can time travel. He is the younger version of Kang the Conqueror and travels back in time to warn the Avengers of his future self.

What DC Characters Can Time Travel?

Booster Gold can time travel. He does so by making using Rip Hunter’s Time sphere that he stole from the 25th century.

Can Green Lanterns Time Travel?

Yes, Green Lanterns can time travel. Anything is possible as long as there is enough willpower. Hal Jordan once made a jet construct that could travel fast enough to enter the speed force, which means that he can probably travel through time.

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Have Powers, Will (Time) Travel: Superheroes and the Urge to Change the Past

Eileen Gonzalez

Eileen's primary literary love is comic books, but she’s always on the lookout for her next literary adventure no matter what form it takes. She has a Bachelor's in media studies, a Master's in digital communication, a smattering of published short stories, and a seriously cute dog. Follow her on Bluesky .

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In Alex Segura’s YA novel Ara ñ a and Spider-Man 2099: Dark Tomorrow , Anya/Araña is on the trail of a stolen artifact when said artifact unexpectedly blasts her into the early 22nd century. There, she meets Miguel, the former Spider-Man 2099, who is no stranger to time travel. But Miguel gave up being a hero after traumatic personal losses, and it will take the gravest crisis imaginable to convince him to put on his costume and be a hero one more time.

Since time travel is integral to the plot, reading this novel got me thinking about the different ways time travel has appeared in superhero stories — some good, some bad. Along the way, Segura was kind enough to answer my questions about Dark Tomorrow and time travel stories in general. If you care about spoilers, read freely: there are none here — at least, none for Dark Tomorrow .

Just a Jump to the Left…

Time travel stories predate comics by at least several decades. Encyclopedia Britannica cites books like H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine and even Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol as early classics in the genre. The Time Machine was adapted as a comic book in the Classics Illustrated series, which Segura cited to me as a story that resonated with him as a young reader.

“I love [time travel stories], honestly,” he said. “The idea of hopping around time has always been of interest”

It has also been a part of the superhero experience since the early days. In the 1940s, Batman traveled back in time to pal around with D’Artagnan and the Three Musketeers in Batman #32 and into the near future to show what the world might be like if the Nazis were to win World War II in Batman #15. (Granted, this last one was less a story and more an attempt to scare the audience into buying war bonds.)

Time travel became a common plot device in the 1950s and ’60s, when stringent self-censorship precluded more violent kinds of stories. That’s how we got nonsense like Action Comics #148, in which Superman travels back in time to cheat Indigenous people out of the land Metropolis sits on, and Green Lantern #8, in which Hal Jordan is drafted into fighting villains in the 58th century because humans of the future are too pathetic to do it themselves (but not too pathetic to kidnap a 20th-century man and give him amnesia).

But there were more serious stories too. In the poignant yet retroactively hilarious Avengers #56, Captain America traveled back to the 1940s to convince himself that his sidekick Bucky was really dead. (Bucky was not, in fact, dead.)

This versatility is part of what draws Segura to time travel stories: they “can range from the funny to the painfully emotional,” he told me, “and I love the idea of affecting your own future or going back in time to see what things were like. The story possibilities are endless.”

As superheroes made their way into other genres, they took their tales of time travel with them. An episode of Freakazoid! has the titular hero prevent the Pearl Harbor attack, which somehow results in Rush Limbaugh becoming a decent person. In his 1978 film, Superman reverses the Earth’s rotation, which also reverses time and allows him another chance to save Lois Lane. (It goes without saying that that’s not how science works , but okay, fine.)

And then there’s the star of The CW’s The Flash , Barry Allen. Oh, Barry. Damn it, Barry .

With Great Power Comes Great Irresponsibility

The Flash may be more closely associated with time travel than any other hero (which I’m sure upsets Booster Gold, a 25th century ne’er-do-well who traveled to our time to become a heroic gloryhound). Early on, he learned he could travel through time by running on the Cosmic Treadmill. Some of his biggest foes — Reverse-Flash and Abra Kadabra — and his closest allies — his wife Iris West and their grandson Bart Allen — come from the future. Barry would later abuse his ability to time travel in both the comic Flashpoint and the TV show The Flash , when he rewrote all of reality to bring his murdered mom back to life.

This storyline is where I started to view time travel tales differently. Even more than Ray Bradbury’s A Sound of Thunder , this is the story that made me realize the ethical pitfalls of time travel.

Unlike Eckels, the hapless protagonist of Bradbury’s classic story — or even grief-stricken Superman impulsively reversing the Earth’s rotation by a couple of minutes — Barry Allen makes a conscious decision to change the past. As Reverse-Flash gleefully puts it, “You traded the life of your mother for the rest of the world!”

And Barry’s action is not without consequences. In both the comic and the TV show, the lives of Barry’s friends turn out vastly different — and sometimes worse — than how they were before.

As Segura points out, consequences are another reason that time travel makes for such a fascinating subject. In particular, he cited the “emotional stakes” — the inevitability of revisiting painful events or dead loved ones, or of seeing future events you may not like — as being especially high and therefore especially interesting. I can certainly agree, but personally, I have trouble sympathizing with a supposedly heroic character who willingly (and, in the TV show, more than once) messes with something as dangerous as time because he can’t handle being sad or accept his mistakes.

Obviously, Barry has the right to be upset over his mother’s death, even years after the fact. But you don’t get to ruin countless lives just because you can (it seems unlikely that Barry’s friends are the only ones who got screwed over, out of all the billions of people in the world). He allows his grief to make him selfish, even villainous. Who else but a villain tries to remake the world as they see fit? Go to therapy like the rest of us, bud.

Fortunately, Dark Tomorrow is more judicious in its use of time travel: Anya doesn’t do it on purpose, and Miguel only did so when the world was in danger. But Segura acknowledges that Miguel’s pain, much like Barry Allen’s, could have driven him down a darker path.

“[I]t’d be weird if he wasn’t” tempted to go back in time and prevent his personal tragedies from occurring, Segura says. “But I think one of the lessons Miguel learned early on was the fragility of time travel, and how the timeline tends to right itself or protect itself against major attempts to alter it….At his heart, Miguel is a scientist, and has probably grappled with these questions regularly when caught up in his time travel adventures!”

In other words, the heroes of Dark Tomorrow are not trying to remake the world in their image, so to speak. They’re just trying to save it, and in the process of doing so, they could end up changing a few things — probably for the better, but who knows what tomorrow will bring?

In the Not-Too-Distant Future…

So why do we still like all these time travel tales? Or, in my case, all of these tales except for those starring Barry Allen?

I think it’s a combination of everything I’ve covered: it’s high-stakes, it’s emotional, and it’s just plain fun. The appeals and temptations of time travel may be stronger for a superhero than for your average character, making for even richer storytelling. Righting wrongs is the superhero’s main reason for existing. If presented with the chance to use time travel to fix past mistakes, they’re sure to feel pressure to do so — and, in some cases, succumb to that pressure.

In Dark Tomorrow , the time travel is in part a simple necessity: Araña and Spider-Man 2099 exist a century apart, so the only way that they — Marvel’s two Latine Spider-people — could go adventuring together is through time travel shenanigans. But Segura believes it serves another purpose: to compare two very different worlds with surprisingly similar problems.

“Miguel’s Nueva York might seem shinier and more convenient than our New York, but as we dig deeper, we see some of the same problems crop up — and some of the same class issues and social situations,” Segura says. “It really helps hammer home the theme that you can be a hero whenever you are, and it takes the same kind of passion, dedication, and sacrifice.”

By opening a door to the past — or the future — time travel stories don’t just entertain us: they teach us the critical lesson that people are people, no matter where or when they were born.

For more time travelin’ superheroes, check out these lists about heroes wrecking the timestream and getting stuck in the past !

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Family Guy has been delivering laughs since 1999 and has become one of the most popular animated sitcoms with over 400 episodes under its belt. The show is currently in its 21st season, and is still carried by creator, Seth MacFarlane who provides the voice of several characters in the series, including Peter Griffin, Glenn Quagmire, and the sophisticated world-dominating baby, Stewie.

Known for his superior intelligence and musical routines, Stewie's been the center of memorable moments, but episodes like "Stewie Loves Lois" and "Road to the Multiverse" are just a few of his best episodes. From his days of plotting Lois' demise to his escapades with Brian, it's the perfect time to rank Stewie's biggest, boldest, and best episodes in the long-running sitcom (so far) .

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15 "The Stewaway"

Season 21, episode 7 (2022).

After Stewie is introduced to the game of hide-and-seek, he becomes obsessed with playing and tries to get Brian to play along. During a game, Stewie decides to hide in Quagmire's suitcase which, unbeknownst to him, is being shipped off to Paris. When Quagmire discovers the baby in his luggage, he's hesitant to babysit until he returns home, but surprisingly, they end up having a good time together.

It's always fun to see random characters team up in an episode and Season 21, episode 7, "The Stewaway," fans get to see the unlikely partnership of Stewie and Quagmire. Most fans are aware that Quagmire isn't exactly the most nurturing person and, while he doesn't mind kids, he's not sure how to care for them, especially when he's not prepared to ahead of time. Given that Stewie isn't quite a normal baby, the two end up meshing well into a series of comedic events that make "The Stewaway" a top-tier Stewie episode.

14 "Chap Stewie"

Season 12, episode 21 (2014).

When Stewie gets in trouble for acting out, he decides that he's fed up with his family and wishes he had been born into a more dignified household. With the help of his time machine, he travels back in time to ensure Lois and Peter never get together and when he returns to the present time, he realizes he was born into a proper British family. Initially, Stewie thinks he's finally gotten his wish, but after spending time with his new boorish, stuck-up family, he begins to miss his old one.

Stewie learns firsthand in Season 12, episode 21, "Chap Stewie," that the grass isn't always greener on the other side , realizing his family life could be worse. While Stewie has always been a bit out of place in the Griffin family (mainly the British accent fans have seemingly accepted), he learns that he's a dime a dozen in any other sophisticated, well-to-do family. Even though he might not live a life in high society among intelligent people, Stewie is grateful that he has a family who shows him love and affection.

13 "Dammit, Janet!"

Season 2, episode 15 (2000).

After Lois ( Alex Bornstein ) discovers that Stewie doesn't play well with other children, she enrolls him in daycare, where he soon becomes smitten with a quiet girl named Janet. After several efforts of flirting, Stewie finally manages to gain Janet's affection, but just as they establish their relationship, Stewie realizes that Janet is nice to every boy in exchange for their cookies.

Ah, young love. It can either make you or break you and in Season 2, episode 15, "Dammit Janet!," it breaks Stewie up for the first time. While the ending doesn't turn out well for Stewie, the episode does show the typically negative character in a more sensitive light , allowing him to express his rather romantic side with Family Guy 's musical rendition of Frank Sinatra 's classic tune, "You Make Me Feel So Young." The episode marked one of the first times fans didn't see Stewie continue to try and take over the world and even though heartbreak can sour anyone, Stewie manages to pick himself back up....and learns to guard his cookies more carefully in the future.

12 "Send in Stewie, Please"

Season16, episode 12 (2018).

When Stewie goes to see a child psychologist, voiced by Ian McKellen , he begins to open up about his long list of misdeeds and secrets that he's never shared with anyone before. During the session, Stewie and the good doctor begin to find common ground and, eventually, Stewie admits that he has been putting on a persona his whole life, dropping his British accent and revealing he's had an American one all along. Stewie decides he's going to turn over a new leaf, but when the opportunity presents itself to get rid of the only person who knows his secret, he cruelly rethinks his intentions.

Season 16, episode 12, "Send in Stewie, Please," is a twisted bottle episode that unveils some new information about Stewie, but also reinforces his true sadistic, evil nature. It's obvious that McKellen's character isn't aware of exactly who he is dealing with and while he thinks he has pinpointed Stewie as a patient, he fails to realize that Stewie has been making his own inquiry about the good doctor. While the episode ends on a rather unexpected note, "Send in Stewie, Please," reestablishes Stewie's dark and twisted personality that makes him one of the series' most unpredictable (and entertaining) characters.

11 "The Talented Mr. Stewie"

Season 19, episode 2 (2020).

While Stewie is in the attic looking for pictures of him and his teddy bear, Rupert, he discovers that the stuffed animal used to belong to Chris and breaks up with him. After Stewie returns Rupert to Chris, he tries to find a new companion but is unable to cope, and, to make matters worse, he learns that Chris and Rupert are getting along just fine together. Stewie sets out to find himself and comes to the conclusion that he must kill Chris and Stewie if he ever wants to get on with his life.

Season 19, episode 2, "The Talented Mr. Stewie," is a hilarious parody inspired by the film, The Talented Mr. Ripley , starring Jude Law and Matt Damon . Stewie has always had a flare for the dramatics, but he takes his usual antics to a whole other deadly level that, of course, results in a comedic outcome . From trying to connect to a stuffed giraffe to luring Chris and Rupert to a lake house to set his plan in motion, "The Talented Mr. Stewie" is easily one of Stewie's cleverest (and rather absurd) episodes in the entire series.

10 "And Then There Were Fewer"

Season 9, episode 1 (2010).

The Griffins and other residents are anonymously invited to a dinner party hosted by James Wood who has gathered them together to try and make amends. Just as everyone starts letting their guard down, guests start being picked off by a killer who could only be one of them. The survivors have to act fast before they're targeted.

"And Then There Were Fewer" is a hilarious parody of Agatha Christie 's murder mystery, And Then There Were None as well as the 1985 movie, Clue . While Stewie isn't the main focus, his insecurities about not packing proper dinner attire and saving Lois at the end make this a notable Stewie episode .

9 "Baby Not on Board"

Season 7, episode 4 (2008).

When Peter wins a lifetime of free gas, the Griffins go on a cross-country road trip to the Grand Canyon but while on the road, they realize Stewie isn't in the car. As they race back home, Stewie tries to make it on his own and discovers that he misses his family more than he expected. Sound familiar?

"Baby Not on Board" is an epic Stewie episode inspired by the classic Christmas movie , Home Alone . The episode skips the Wet Bandits adding a twist of desperation as Stewie uses Meg's hats for diapers and is forced to get a job at McBurgertown. Since Stewie's on his own for most of the episode, the episode is one of the baby's best as he essentially gives a one-man show .

8 "Go, Stewie, Go"

Season 8, episode 13 (2010).

When Stewie learns there will be an American version of his favorite show, "Jolly Farm," he goes to audition only to learn that they've filled all the roles for boys. Determined to get on the show, Stewie auditions in disguise as a girl and ends up becoming the series' break-out star, impressing cast and crew alike.

"Go, Stewie, Go" is another parody episode inspired by the funny 1980s romantic comedy , Tootsie . Like Hoffman, Stewie's situation is complicated when he falls for his co-star and struggles to balance his success and new love interest. The episode highlights Stewie's frequent flare for the dramatics especially the intense argument he has with himself that spirals down a rabbit hole.

7 "The Tan Aquatic with Steve Zissou"

Season 5, episode 11 (2007).

When Peter fails to put sunscreen on Stewie before going golfing, he develops a tan and becomes obsessed with keeping his new bronzed look. He also develops a personality to along with it. Despite all the fun, Stewie eventually suffers a severe sunburn and must put his tanning days behind him when Dr. Hartman tells him that he might have cancer.

From gawking at himself in the mirror to drawing a mustache on himself, "The Tan Aquatic with Steve Zissou" is an imperative Stewie episode full of cultural references including Ferris Bueller's Day Off and the sitcom, Three's Company . According to the episode's DVD commentary, Stewie's all-white attire party for his tan friends is a nod to the 1977 movie, Annie Hall .

6 "From Method to Madness"

Season 3, episode 18 (2002).

Stewie tags along with the beloved animated dog from Family Guy , Brian who is auditioning for a spot in Quahog's School of Performing Arts, but the directors are more interested in Stewie and enroll him instead. While he has no problem fitting into his new environment, Stewie starts to obsessively compete with the school's star pupil, Olivia and ultimately jeopardizes both of their chances at fame.

Stewie gives MacFarland the chance to showcase his musical talent and in this episode , fans are treated to show tunes and dance numbers that have become a staple in the character's appeal and humor. The episode also exposes another absurd side of the character as well as an emotional quality that audiences rarely see.

5 "Back to the Pilot"

Season 10, episode 5 (2011).

When Brian can't remember where he buried his favorite tennis ball, Stewie uses his time machine to take them back to the pilot episode. As Stewie and Brian retrieve the ball, they return to the present only to find that their actions have altered history and must go back and undo the damage.

"Back to Pilot" is a nostalgic nod to the show's original low budget and mistakes that Stewie doesn't hesitate to call out . Along with the trip down memory lane, the events that Brian changes such as writing the Harry Potter book series and Stewie's failed attempts at correcting history is what ultimately make this one of the best Stewie episodes.

4 "Road to Rupert"

Season 5, episode 9 (2007).

During a yard sale, Stewie leaves his teddy bear, Rupert, with Brian, who accidentally sells him. Stewie manages to track the customer down but unfortunately, he and his family have moved away. Unable to let go of his best friend, Stewie, and Brian make the long journey to Colorado to get him back.

"Road to Rupert" is the third in the show's series of "Road to.." episodes which are a nod to the classic comedies starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby . This is a notable episode because of its scene with Stewie dancing alongside actor, Gene Kelly . It features a scene from, Anchor's Aweigh , where Kelly dances with Jerry from Tom and Jerry , but animators swapped the mouse out for Stewie. The creative TV episode is among the best from the series that highlights how it pushes the medium to its limits.

3 "Stewie Kills Lois, Lois Kills Stewie"

Season 6, episodes 4 & 5 (2007).

When Lois and Peter set sail on a cruise, Brian challenges Stewie to actually do something about taking out his mother. After Lois is lost at sea, Peter's wrongfully charged with her murder, but just when Stewie thinks the Fat Man's going to take the fall for him, Lois returns to Quahog, surprising everyone.

This two-part episode addresses Stewie's darker side as everyone finally acknowledges him for the first time . Prior to the episode, other characters viewed Stewie as an average baby who could only be heard by Brian. The absurd series of events like Lois being saved by a merman and a nod to the hit series, The Sopranos , at the end ranks this as one of the finest and funniest Stewie episodes.

2 "Road to the Multiverse"

Season 8, episode 1 (2009).

Stewie and Brian decide to go on another adventure with the baby's new remote control teleporting to different parallel universes. When they end up in a world where dogs are superior to humans, Brian doesn't want to leave and soon faces the risk of never returning home when someone breaks the remote.

"Road to the Multiverse" is a clever episode featuring characters in different styles of animation . One of the most memorable universes is where everyone looks like they're in a Disney movie. Between the various universes and the human version of Brian, "Road to the Multiverse" is an essential Stewie episode that also establishes the existence of a multiverse in the show .

1 "Stewie Loves Lois"

Season 5, episode 1 (2006).

While at the park with Lois, Rupert is snatched out of Stewie's arms by a dog and ripped apart. While Stewie thinks his best friend is gone forever, he's overjoyed when he sees that Lois has fixed him. Lois' motherly gesture causes Stewie to become overly affectionate and starts to drive her up the walls.

"Stewie Loves Lois" features a lovable but clingy Stewie who becomes obsessed with Lois to the point where she can't get a moment's peace. The episode ranks at the top for its rare version of Stewie as well as containing one of the character's most iconic moments as he obsessively calls for a visibly exhausted Lois for no real reason.

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Netflix just released a great 100% rt show to binge-watch while waiting for the boys' next episode, netflix's new superhero series with perfect rotten tomatoes score becomes global hit.

• Supacell is a superhero series focusing on young black people in London with latent powers connected to sickle cell disease.
• The show effectively blends fiction with fact, using sickle cell disease as a key plot element and unifying factor for its characters.
• Supacell's majority black cast helps raise awareness of sickle cell disease and provides a powerful social commentary on the condition's impact on the black community.

Netflix's Supacell is an unconventional superhero series focusing on a group of young black people in London who discover latent powers – yet while much of the story is fantastical, a key plot element, sickle cell disease, is very much grounded in reality. Created by Rapman, the show has been acclaimed for its thrilling story and powerful social commentary. Part of its effectiveness comes from the way it blends fiction with fact, and the inclusion of sickle cell disease is an important part of the process.

Supacell features an extensive cast of characters , centering on Michael Lasaki, a young Londoner who discovers that he has the ability to travel through time. This enables him to perceive that his fiance, Dionne, is in grave danger, compelling him to try and save her. However, he soon discovers that he is far from the only person to have incredible abilities as other superpowered individuals begin to emerge. Each of them has a different story and ability. And yet, one thing that unifies all of the heroes in Supacell is their connection to sickle cell disease.

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Sickle Cell Disease Is An Inherited Blood Disorder That Disproportionally Affects Black People

It's a debilitating condition that can have devastating consequences.

In real life, sickle cell disease is an inherited blood disorder that impacts hemoglobin – a substance that helps the blood transport oxygen around the body. Ordinarily, red blood cells are circular with a partial indentation at the center – a shape that allows them to pass through the body's blood vessels smoothly. As the disease's name suggests, sickle cells are distorted into a shape that resembles a " C ", which impacts their ability to transport blood and can even cause the body's spleen to attack them as diseased tissue.

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According to Johns Hopkins University , the symptoms of sickle cell disease include anemia, acute pain caused by sickle cell blockages, debilitating chest problems, jaundice, priapism, and even strokes, with complications ranging from leg ulcers to organ failure . Regarding the causes of the disease, the website explains:

"A person will be born with sickle cell disease only if two genes are inherited—one from the mother and one from the father. "A person who inherits just one gene is healthy and said to be a "carrier" of the disease. A carrier has an increased chance of having a child with sickle cell disease if he or she has a child with another carrier. "For parents who are each carriers of a sickle cell gene, there is a 1 in 4, or a 25 % chance of having a child with sickle cell disease."

A particular quirk of sickle cell disease is that it affects black people much more frequently than white people. As the CDC explains: " Sickle cell disease (SCD) affects about 100,000 people in the United States; more than 90% are non-Hispanic Black or African American, and an estimated 3%–9% are Hispanic or Latino. " The site also reveals that sufferers of sickle cell are estimated to have a life expectancy around 20 years shorter than those who are disease-free.

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Supacell's Heroes Are All Children Of People With Sickle Cell Disease

It's a medical history that creates an important connection.

Although it's not initially clear where the group's powers come from in Supacell , it soon transpires that each of them has a connection to sickle cell disease. In every case, one of the individuals with powers has a parent who had sickle cell disease , with a mutation in their own blood producing extraordinary gifts. This is obviously very different from the way typical sickle cell disease works. As a result, Netflix's superhero series is simultaneously rooted in real science, while also drawing on a tradition established throughout the superhero genre in works such as X-Men .

Given that the real disease disproportionately affects the black population, it is a neat way to create a black-centered superhero drama that has a basis in reality.

This detail goes some way towards explaining why all of the individuals with powers in Netflix's Supacell are black. Given that the real disease disproportionately affects the black population, it is a neat way to create a black-centered superhero drama that has a basis in reality. Furthermore, the idea of having so many characters connected by sickle cell disease is nowhere near as farfetched as many superhero origin stories – even if the source of the powers themselves is a little fanciful.

Supacell Is A Mutation Of Sickle Cell In Netflix's TV Show

It's sparked by the real disease.

Initially, Supacell is somewhat hazy on the details of how each individual develops their powers. However, an explanation does arrive, courtesy of the show's main villain – Eddie Marsan's Ray . As Ray explains in the show:

“At least one of your parents had sickle cell…or they both had the trait. And supacell is a mutation of sickle cell. It’s very rare, and even if you have it, it can lay dormant in your body forever. But it can also awaken, given the right conditions. Close proximity with another activated supacell is most common.”

In the show, each of the super-powered characters has their abilities activated by specific circumstances – often due to intense danger. This not only leads to the onset of Michael Lasaki's time-travel abilities, but also Sabrina's ability to move objects with her mind, Andre's incredible strength, and Rodney's super speed – as well as many others. While these talents remain fantastical, the fact that Supacell draws on a real medical condition makes its origin story even more powerful .

Why Only Black People Have Powers In Supacell

It sets the show apart.

On one level, Supacell 's sickle cell origin story makes black characters the most obvious stars of the superhero series. Since, in real life, sickle cell is a major concern in the black community in a way that it isn't necessarily among other ethnic groups, it would be deeply strange to base a superhero series around sickle cell, only to cast white actors in lead roles. Beyond these practical considerations, however, Supacell 's majority black cast helps the show make a powerful broader social commentary .

Supacell's creator, Rapman, provided the real reason behind the focus on black characters. In an interview with Blavity's Shadow And Act (via MSN ), Rapman explained:

“It basically was turning a weakness into a strength, and that strength is raising their awareness with it. That strength is, anybody who’s suffering with something [or] with a similar condition, can watch that and [be like], ‘Finally, people are going to understand what I’m going through. "And imagine [thinking], ‘Something that made me, puts me down may make my children extraordinary…imagine what that would be like.’ So it was to make them feel seen, something to make them feel strong and something to raise awareness, because so many people have never heard of it. I think it’s such a great thing that the power comes from something…like it is crazy having a superpower from it as it is crazy having something that only affects someone with dark skin.”

This careful consideration means that Supacell 's story is more than a convenient schtick. In fact, it is a powerful way of exploring a serious medical condition that speaks to a particular community while raising awareness of a debilitating real-world condition. This complex approach not only explains why Supacell has been so well received, but also why it is regarded as much more than a simple story of crime-fighting superheroes.

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Why parents must protect young children from excessive screen time

SINGAPORE - At KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH), doctors have seen children as young as 18 months who were exposed to screens for between two and six hours a day – and some of them had been exposed to screens since they were six to 10 months old.

Spending multiple hours on screens may be the norm for many adults but this should not be the case for children, particularly infants, as it can affect their overall development. 

Excessive screen time for children can lead to a myriad of issues, including myopia, speech delay, autism-like symptoms and obesity.

Dr Yvonne Ling, an eye surgeon specialising in adult squints and paediatric ophthalmology at the Singapore National Eye Centre, said that young children who spend hours indoors every day focusing on near work, such as viewing mobile devices and reading, may get myopia as early as in their pre-school years.

It may progress to very high myopia, which is a complex condition that can lead to blindness in adulthood, she added.

“The younger you get it, the higher it will be when you become an adult because the eye is still growing,” said Dr Ling, who also sees young patients at KKH.

Children should be spending some time outdoors, preferably around two hours every day, she said. “I used to agree with parents who are very busy and say, okay, you just take them out on weekends. But I realised that, actually, every day of the week, the eye is still growing.”

Near work induces the growing eyeball to elongate, resulting in a myopic or nearsighted eye. Activities outdoors under the sky and during daylight can stop, although not reverse, the elongation, Dr Ling said.

Looking into the far distance – at the clouds and sky, for instance – would also help, she added.

Dr Christelle Tan, a consultant in paediatric medicine at KKH’s Department of Child Development, said children who spend too much time on screens may experience other possible negative effects, including speech delay in toddlers, poor social interaction and reduced attention span.

She said KKH gets continual referrals of infants aged 18 months and older who experience speech delay.

“Their parents tell us that these children have been exposed to screens for two to three, sometimes, even five to six hours a day since they were six to 10 months old,” said Dr Tan.

While screen time can be beneficial for children, it is not the case for infants below 18 months of age. Local guidelines, as with those overseas, state that they should not be exposed to screens, unless it is for video chatting with a family member.

Measures to deal with device usage in Singapore will be released in the coming months, Health Minister Ong Ye Kung and Minister for Social and Family Development Masagos Zulkifli said in June.

Research has shown that exposing children between one and 1½ years old to screens led to poorer cognitive development including language delay, social interaction difficulties and reduced attention span, Dr Tan said, adding that “content in screens is of no help to those below 18 months”.

“Some studies have seen effects lasting beyond eight years of age for these infants exposed when they were one year old,” she said.

At KKH, there are children, aged from three to 10, who have symptoms that look like attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) such as reduced attention capacity.

“Excessive screen time doesn’t cause ADHD, but it can lead to symptoms that are quite similar in that it can shorten the child’s ability to focus on a task and affect his or her executive functioning, which is how he or she plans, organises and completes multi-step tasks,” said Dr Tan.

Unlike the symptoms of ADHD, which is a brain disorder that results from an imbalance of neurotransmitters (brain chemicals that help nerve cells communicate with each other), ADHD-like symptoms gradually go away with controlled screen time, she said. 

Dr Ling and Dr Tan are guests in an upcoming ST Health Check podcast on the impacts of excessive screen time on children and why parents must do something about this.

The episode will be released on July 3 on the ST Health Check channel, the Straits Times website, Apple podcasts and Spotify.

What is screen time?

It is the time spent on devices with screens such as TV, smartphones, tablets, computers and learning devices. It includes having the TV play in the background, which can lead to a decrease in high-quality interpersonal communication and overstimulation. Screen time can support learning, development and play, but it must be balanced with other activities.

How much is enough?

Under 18 months: No screen time except for video calling From 18 months to six years old: Less than an hour a day, with co-viewing preferred From seven to 12 years old: Make a collaborative screen use plan to ensure a healthy balance between screen exposure and other age-appropriate activities.

What are the negative impacts?

Data shows that children in Singapore are becoming short-sighted from a younger age, even as young as in pre-school, putting them at risk of high myopia in adulthood. Those with very high myopia are more vulnerable to serious complications that can lead to severe vision loss or blindness in adulthood.

Speech delay

This can happen to infants who are exposed to screen use from birth and do not have enough one-on-one communication with another child or an adult. As infants learn the most from human interaction, they should have opportunities to engage and play with people.

Autism-like symptoms

Some signs of too much screen time in children may be poor social interaction, decreased eye contact and a lack of response to their names. These symptoms, similar to those of autism spectrum disorder, can resolve with less screen time.  

Screen time can displace outdoor play and physical movement that strengthens muscles and bones. The lack of physical activity may lead to obesity, putting children at increased risk of getting chronic health issues such as high blood pressure earlier in adulthood.

Dry and tired eyes

​Prolonged screen time can leave eyes feeling dry and tired. Blurry vision and headaches can also occur. These are short-term problems that do not cause eye damage. However, a more serious condition of double vision due to misalignment of the eyes, or squint, is surfacing even among young children. This type of double vision occurs when both eyes are being used and disappears when either eye is closed.

Reduced attention span

Children given too much screen time are easily distracted and have difficulty staying on a task. Parents may start to see this in their pre-school or lower primary children. 

The blue light from screens may affect the initiation of sleep, so screen use should be stopped at least one hour before bedtime. Excessive screen use has been associated with poorer sleep quality and sleep disturbances. 

Aggressive behaviour

After viewing violent content or playing certain games, some children may exhibit violent behaviour, such as punching or making stabbing motions. This stems from a lack of maturity to filter out inappropriate content or understand context. 

Neck and back strain

This is not a common complaint among children, but it can happen from too much time spent in a slouched position, with the head held forward. When this same position is held for very long periods of time, it can strain the muscles and joints in the back of the neck and in the back.

Mental health concerns

Depressive symptoms, such as low mood, may be seen in older children in upper primary or secondary school. Other issues such as anxiety can also develop.

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Rapman's Netflix sci-fi series is finally here! Supacell is the new six-parter which takes us on a superpower-filled journey in South London.

While Rapman (also known as Andrew Onwubolu) is known for his directorial debut, Blue Story , Supacell is the writer-director's first venture into the world of science fiction.

The series is about a group of five ordinary people who unexpectedly develop superpowers.

As per the synopsis: "They have little in common except for one thing: they are all Black South Londoners. It is down to one man, Michael Lasaki, to bring them all together in order to save the woman he loves."

Leading the cast is Doctor Who 's Tosin Cole as Michael, who suddenly develops the power to travel in time. Joining Cole in the cast for Supacell are also the likes of The Responder star Adelayo Adedayo, The Rig 's Calvin Demba and Boarders ' Josh Tedeku, to name a few.

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But who else stars in the new Netflix series? Read on for everything you need to know about the cast of Supacell.

Supacell cast: Full list of actors and characters in Netflix series

Led by Tosin Cole, the cast of Supacell features plenty of familiar faces to the world of TV. Scroll on to find out more about the main characters, plus where you've seen the actors previously.

• Tosin Cole as Michael Lasaki
• Adelayo Adedayo as Dionne
• Yasmin Monet Prince as Veronica
• Eddie Marsan as Ray
• Nadine Mills as Sabrina
• Eric Kofi-Abrefa as Andre
• Calvin Demba as Rodney
• Josh Tedeku as Josh

Rayxia Ojo as Sharleen

Giacomo mancini as spud, michael salami as gabriel.

• Travis Jay as John

Ghetts as Krazy

Sanchez brown as energy hunter.

• Kojo Attah as Strong Hunter

Tosin Cole plays Michael Lasaki

Who is Michael Lasaki? Describing Michael, Cole described his character as "just your average Joe".

"He’s an everyday guy with a very simple life. He goes to work, comes home, watches TV with his girlfriend, and looks after his mum. Then, his world gets turned upside down when he gets his powers and starts to navigate worlds and environments that he's not comfortable in."

What else has Tosin Cole been in? Cole started off his acting career in The Cut, Eastenders: E20 and Hollyoaks, but is perhaps best known for his role as Ryan Sinclair in Doctor Who from seasons 11 through to 12. He has also had starring roles in American legal drama 61st Street as well as films like Till and Bob Marley: One Love .

He is further known for his acting on stage, currently starring in the production of Shifters which has recently transferred to the West End.

Adelayo Adedayo plays Dionne

Who is Dionne? Dionne is Michael's girlfriend and the pair are very much in love – but when Michael's new powers threaten to break down their usual communication style while also helping to save her life, things start to get a little rocky.

What else has Adelayo Adedayo been in? Adedayo is known for her roles in BBC sitcom Some Girls, Timewasters and, most recently, in The Responder . She has also starred in The Capture and Origin.

Nadine Mills plays Sabrina

Who is Sabrina? Working in the NHS, Mills admits that Sabrina "starts off as someone who doesn't want the powers, and then eventually she comes into her own, and she is able to use these powers to her advantage with full power and confidence".

What else has Nadine Mills been in? Mills has starred in TV series Sliced, as well as films like The Pay Day, The Strangers and The Weekend.

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Eric Kofi-Abrefa plays Andre

Who is Andre? Andre is a young single father who's struggling to stay on the straight and narrow due to being knocked back for jobs after they find out about his criminal past. He develops the power of super strength.

What else has Eric Kofi-Abrefa been in? Kofi-Abrefa has starred in several productions over the years, including Blue Story, Black Mafia Family and Netflix's The One . He has also starred in Harlots, Informer, The Book of Clarence and White Widow.

Calvin Demba plays Rodney

Who is Rodney? Rodney acquires the superpower of speed, but in his day-to-day life, has been described by Demba as "a wheeler and dealer, a Del Boy".

What else has Calvin Demba been in? Demba is best known for his roles in Hollyoaks as Scott Sabeka and in Prime Video's The Rig as Baz. He has also starred in Youngers and Life, as well as films like Brotherhood, Yardie, Kingsman: The Golden Circle and Last Christmas.

Josh Tedeku plays Tazer

Who is Tazer? Tazer is a little bit emotionally immature, but he is the leader of his gang and is fiercely loyal to those he loves the most.

Describing his character, Tedeku said: "There's an avenue for change where we don't just see a road man who's just kill, kill, kill. There's so much more to it. And people can root for change."

What else has Josh Tedeku been in? Having been recently one of the leads in BBC comedy Boarders, it's safe to say that we'll likely be seeing much more of Tedeku on our screens in the near future. He has also starred in A Town Called Malice and Moonhaven, as well as short film Festival of Slaps.

Eddie Marsan plays Ray

Who is Ray? An enigmatic figure who seems to be monitoring the group's powers from afar.

What else has Eddie Marsan been in? Marsan has starred in numerous productions over the years, most recently in Back to Black as Mitch Winehouse.

He is known for his starring roles in Ray Donovan, Ultimate Force, Ridley Road, The Power and The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe. Some of the films he's best known for include Sherlock Holmes, Vice and V for Vendetta. He is set to star in Suspect season 2 and Reunion .

Who is Sharleen? Sharleen is Sabrina's sister and the pair have a very close-knit bond, which is the very thing that leads to Sabrina accepting her own powers.

What else has Rayxia Ojo been in? In terms of TV, Ojo has featured in Call the Midwife, but is known for her various stage roles including in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

Who is Spud? Spud is Rodney's best friend, and acts as a moral compass for him a lot of the time, trying to underline the importance of the superpowers that his friend now has.

What else has Giacomo Mancini been in? Mancini is known for his role as Gem in the first and second seasons of Top Boy. He has also starred in Orthodox, Ripper Street and Pan.

Who is Gabriel? Gabriel is the best friend of Michael Lasaki, and a local bar owner.

What else has Michael Salami been in? Salami has starred in BBC Three comedy Just a Couple (created by Supacell co-director Sebastian Thiel) but is also known to audiences as Shane Sweeney in Hollyoaks. Other screen credits include Temple, Sumotherhood, Wonder Woman 1984 and Saving Art . Off screen, Salami has also starred in numerous theatre shows including the touring production of Dial M for Murder.

Who is Krazy? Krazy is like an older brother to Tazer, passing down his knowledge and getting Tazer to do his dirty work for him when he goes to jail.

What else has Ghetts been in? Acclaimed rapper, Grime MC and songwriter Ghetts is of course best known for his music, with Supacell being his first major TV acting credit. Elsewhere in the world of telly, Ghetts worked on BBC's Champion to create the original music used in the drama.

Who is Energy Hunter? Energy Hunter is a mysterious character who we come to meet throughout the series.

What else has Sanchez Brown been in? EastEnders fans will recognise Brown for his role as Gains Guv'nor earlier this year, but his other credits include short films Sunrise Meets Sunset and Malachi.

Supacell is available to stream on Netflix from Thursday 27th June 2024.

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I always keep this $49 power bank in my car because of one life-saving feature

ZDNET's key takeaways

• The AstroAI 2000A 12V jump starter is available from Amazon for $49 .
• It's easy to use, has a bright, clear display, and is powerful enough for over a dozen jump starts.
• There's no USB-C output port.

Right now, it's summer, and car batteries are at their best. The weather is warm, and there's no ice, frost, or snow. Give it a few months, and you'll soon find out whether your car battery is ready for another winter.

If you're lucky, your car might falter in the morning when you're at home, or somewhere you can get emergency roadside assistance. If you're unlucky -- and it's always worth planning for when luck is not on our side -- your car will decide to die at night when it's cold and wet.

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This is why it's always good to be ready to help yourself (or others, as most of the time I need a jump starter, it's for somebody else's vehicle). In short, I think the AstroAI 2000A 12V jump starter belongs in every car's glove box or trunk. 

AstroAI 2000A 12V jump starter tech specs

• Capacity : 48.84Wh
• Peak Output Current : 2,000 amps
• Product Dimensions : 3.8 x 6.7 x 1.6 inches
• Output Ports USB-A 3.0 : 5V⎓3A or 9V⎓2A USB-A 2.0 : 5V⎓2.4A DC : 15V⎓10A
• Input USB-C port : 5V⎓2A or 9V⎓2A
• Recharge Time : 3.5 hours at 9V⎓2A 
• Weight : 2 lbs
• Compatibility : 7.0L gas/3.0L diesel 12V engines

I'm old enough to remember when car jump starters were huge, heavy devices containing lead-acid batteries. Actually, I can remember when we jump-started cars using jumper cables. Things have moved on, and now you can get a device that's a substitute for your car's battery that's not much bigger than a power bank.

Since most people don't need to jump-start cars all the time, this device is primarily a big power bank. It features two USB-A ports for charging devices and a DC output where you can attach a car 12V socket to power devices, such as car vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, and tire compressors.

Outputs and the input for charging

There's a USB-C port built into the jump starter, although it's only used to charge the device. That's a shame because USB-C is now pretty much the standard everywhere, and charging modern devices with USB-A is slow. That said, having USB-C to charge the jump starter is a huge advantage over devices that still use micro USB.

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At the end of the jump starter, there's a compass. While I'm not sure what I'd use it for, the compass does sort of point north, which is a nice change from some of the others I've seen built into things like power banks.

The compass.

No jump starter would be complete without an LED flashlight, and this one offers four modes: flashlight, strobe, SOS, and flashing red warning lights. It's a neat feature, especially when trying to jump-start your car at night in the rain.

LED flashlight

The LCD is big, clear, and easy to read at night and in bright sunshine, giving you a quick view of what the jump starter is doing.

Around the display are three tactile buttons that turn the jump starter on, the flashlight on, and the boost mode on. There's also a light that shows when the jump starter is being charged.

LED display and buttons

The main purpose of the jump starter is, as the name suggests, to jump-start vehicles with a dead battery. Can the AstroAI 2000A do this? You bet it can. I tested the device several times and found that each jump-start took about 5% off the battery life. If I switched to boost mode, needed if the car battery is severely depleted, each start took about 10%.

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Everything about the jump starter is nice, easy, and straightforward, which is exactly what you need because, as I mentioned earlier, chances are you won't use your jump starter on a bright sunny day. It's likely to be dark, cold, and wet, so the more straightforward the device, the better.

The AstroAI 2000A 12V jump starter in action

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The Monday speech and a Tuesday appearance at a Washington, D.C., emergency operations facility to discuss extreme weather both were quintessential Biden, allowing him to rail against Trump then vow support for those who will be impacted. That is precisely what one former Democratic official said voters need to see and hear.

“I’m in the ‘Let Joe be Joe’ camp. Joe Biden needs to get out and interact with people — it’s always been his superpower,” Ivan Zapien, a former DNC official and aide to Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., said in an email. “Let people see him and interact with him. Let his actions speak to the narrative in the press and with D.C. elites.”

While it might seem like a stretch to separate Biden — a senator for 36 years, then vice president for eight before becoming president in 2021 — from the so-called D.C. elites, his top campaign aides also have attempted to do just that since Thursday night’s one-on-one with Trump. (That’s a total of 47 years.)

“It’s a familiar story: Following Thursday night’s debate, the Beltway class is counting Joe Biden out,” Jen O’Malley Dillon, Biden’s campaign chair, wrote in a Saturday memo. “The data in the battleground states, though, tells a different story.

“On every metric that matters, data shows it did nothing to change the American people’s perception, our supporters are more fired up than ever, and Donald Trump only reminded voters of why they fired him four years ago and failed to expand his appeal beyond his MAGA base,” she said.

It will be worth tracking Biden’s closest congressional allies, including Delaware Democratic Sen. Chris Coons. Asked Monday in a television interview whether the president had decided to stay in the race, Coons replied, “Yes.”

Coons said Biden’s more energetic rally Friday in Raleigh, N.C., was the “beginning of that process of showing him forceful, engaged, energetic [and] going through the arguments that I, frankly, wish he had made as forcefully on the debate stage Thursday night.”

Elected Democrats

Biden aides had been quick to note that no elected Democratic lawmakers or officials had publicly called for him to step aside. That changed, however, on Tuesday.

Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told MSNBC that she has heard this from fellow Democrats: “Some are like, ‘Well, how can we subject the [nomination] process to what might be possible? Others are, ‘Joe is our guy. We love him. We trust him. He has vision, knowledge, judgment, integrity,” she said, adding, “I trust his judgment.”

Doggett issued a statement moments later saying Biden should end his bid for a second term.

“Recognizing that, unlike Trump, President Biden’s first commitment has always been to our country, not himself, I am hopeful that he will make the painful and difficult decision to withdraw. I respectfully call on him to do so,” Doggett said in a statement. 

Biden’s top campaign aides gave no indication on Tuesday that Doggett’s call had changed those plans. Their vows to go on have not stopped some influential Democratic lawmakers from describing party bigwigs and Biden’s inner circle as still deciding whether, at his age and after much personal trauma, the president has lost too many mental and physical steps to both defeat Trump again and serve another four-year term.

“There was a big problem with Joe Biden’s debate performance. … There are very honest and serious and rigorous conversations taking place at every level of our party,” Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., told MSNBC.

“We’re having a serious conversation about what to do. One thing I can tell you is that regardless of what President Biden decides, our party is going to be unified,” he added.

And Kentucky’s Democratic governor, Andy Beshear, mentioned as a possible top-of-the-ticket replacement, did little Monday to dispel the notion he would be interested should Biden step aside.

“Only he can make decisions about his future candidacy. So as long as he continues to be in the race, I support him,” Beshear told a group of local reporters, according to clips posted on social media site X.

‘Go on offense’

Democratic power brokers and lawmakers surely watched Biden’s Monday prime-time speech closely, as well as his Tuesday remarks on severe weather. Some Democratic strategists have said publicly since the debate that the White House and campaign should quickly get the president into an unscripted environment.

Jim Manley, a Democratic strategist and former senior Senate aide, said the Biden campaign needs to realize that “real damage was done that will be difficult to overcome — but it’s possible to get back the momentum that was lost.”

To do so, Manley said in an email, “they are going to have to roll the dice and go on offense. [Biden] is simply going to have to sit down with the media and take questions. The [speech] Monday night was a start, but they are going to have to do more to show Democrats — and wavering independents and [GOP] never-Trumpers — that he still has what it takes to be president.”

Jean-Pierre vowed a publicly active president who “gets it” about his debate night. “We want to turn the page,” she said Tuesday.

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01 /13 what's in store for you this week.

Welcome to this week's horoscope, where the celestial alignments offer insight into the lives of the zodiac signs. From career and love to finances and health, these forecasts provide a glimpse into what the week holds for you. Discover how the cosmic energies might influence your decisions, emotions, and interactions, guiding you through the paths of your sun sign. So, let's break down these predictions given by astrologer Vishal Bhardwaj, Founder of Predictions for Success, without further delay.

02 /13 Aries

Aries, you should anticipate having great thought processes and a buzzing energy from fascinating new ideas and insights that are just waiting to be explored. Jot down your thoughts as they occur if you are feeling inspired. Maybe these are the seeds that grow into successful projects. Your ability to communicate clearly and swiftly is supported by planetary strength, which may enable you to seize new chances and business this time. Career: There are a few work-related deadlines to meet this week. Certain projects you are working on will need to be completed, and some will come to an unexpected end. You need to exercise extreme caution because this will be a very delicate period for your career. Love: A romantic dinner with your significant other can help defuse any tension as the week begins. Although you will be dealing with challenging situations, the Aries motto is "never say die." You'll win! Keep it simple. Do the basics. Put your health first in life. Money: You should expect some significant changes at work, but they will not have a significant impact on your finances. This week is for stock market speculators; make the most of it through careful planning and study. Health: This week, the chest region is crucial. The planetary influences will be triggering the chest area, so you will have some concerns regarding your health. There will be a lot of responsibilities, so you should attend to family matters.

03 /13 Taurus

Even though you are naturally charming, you might feel this week like you can express yourself more clearly and persuasively than usual. Expanding your professional and personal networks is highly recommended during this period. Now is a great time to investigate new schools of thought or pursuits that inspire greater spiritual motivation. Your flow of ideas is quicker, so this is the perfect time for any kind of expression that helps you gain a deeper understanding of your subconscious. Career: You will work with some international partners. Working on media and communication projects is most productive right now. This is also an opportunity for international cooperation. You will also travel in connection with your career. Love: You may put your lover to work! Savor the flavor and feel of comfort at home. You may invite your family, business associates, and male companions to dinner. Take pleasure in a little domestic bliss! Swinging folk dances and hot food should work. Money: Refrain from lending money hastily as this could result in bad debts. You will be able to resist the temptation to overspend on luxuries and more readily reach your financial objectives. Health: Your family members will also be concerned about certain things. The knee region will be sensitive because of the impact of these planets on it. You must eat calcium because it will be crucial to the health of your bones.

04 /13 Gemini

This is a great time to work on intellectual projects of all kinds, such as making decisions and negotiating; these endeavors may open up new doors. Benefit from your keen intellect, which will make it easy for you to comprehend and communicate complex concepts. Bring in the changes, demonstrate your abilities, and ask the right questions. Your life does not pass you by as a spectator. Both the main character and the author are you. Let your charm and intelligence get you the job you want. Career: Professionals in law and administration will also be engaged. This will be a pivotal moment for debating-related activities. You would accept new ideas from your managers without questioning them. Love: As the week progresses, relaxation is key. Take pleasure in creative or physical lifestyle activities. Playing with kids can help some people destress. This week, you might run into a stunning person that you can not stop thinking about. Money: This week's horoscopes predict that you will travel on business, which could lead to financial gains. Increase your social media presence to potentially form profitable alliances that will advance your financial situation. This week is your chance to learn investment tricks by making mistakes, so seize the opportunity and make it your own. The charts for salaried individuals show promotions. Health: There will be extreme sensitivity in the neck-to-hand area. You will need a lot of rest because you will be working a lot, which can be extremely exhausting. You will be forced to work nonstop due to planetary influences. You will need a lot of energy for that, so eat well and stay hydrated.

05 /13 Cancer

This is a great time to explore new ideas, have lively conversations, interact with people more, and exchange information more quickly. You should feel free to express yourself because others could greatly benefit from your viewpoint. The opportunities that present themselves might surprise you. Today, your communication skills and quick wit are your friends. Make the most of them to share your insights and unearth some crucial facts. The enlightening talks you have this week have the potential to be extremely transformative, releasing a better version of yourself. Career: For business owners, this is a crucial period. This signifies the start and finish of a business partnership. You could finish a project for a partnership. Deal-makers and PR professionals will be very busy with their work. Love: As the week gets underway, your love might be irritable or even fierce. Proceed towards the conference table if you have any tasks to complete. Ease yourself into a homey mood. Spend time with your special someone enjoying a hot bath, hot food, and hot love. Savor the conveniences of your own home. Money: Long-term business investments will help you hit your goals quickly. The middle of the week is the ideal period for saving and growing money. Seek financial guidance from your pillars of support and well-wishers before making investments in new ventures. Health: You should exercise caution if you already have joint pain because it has the potential to worsen. In such case, kindly take adequate medication. The lower hip region will be impacted by the planets, so the entire body will be activated.

This is a great time to experiment with different ways of expressing yourself because you can see things from different perspectives without letting your emotions get in the way. Give up on your insecurities and fears so that you can be more proactive in your relationships. The planets help you communicate more effectively and think faster, which makes it possible for you to be more gregarious and open in day-to-day activities. Anticipate increased expressiveness, a propensity for brainstorming, and the capacity to manage several projects, activities, and ideas at once. Career: Legal experts and business owners should recognize their value. For those in the public relations industry, this is a challenging week. The planetary forces may impact your workplace and colleagues. You could finish a task. Love: Stay close to your love in the cozy den because you are feeling particularly romantic as the day gets started, Leo. After that, there is a noticeable practicality. Money: Keep an eye on your outlays; necessary debts are shown in the chart for business growth. You will put a lot of effort into improving your finances this week, but the benefits will not become apparent until midweek. Health: You should take good care of your face, and now is a good time to enhance the beauty of your face. You will have a strong desire to enhance your appearance, self-worth, and physical well-being. You should take extra care of your eyes this week because they will be exposed to a lot of heat.

07 /13 Virgo

Today, your abilities to understand new concepts and express yourself are your allies, which makes self-expression of any kind immensely fulfilling. It is an opportune moment to express yourself through writing, speaking, and writing in the most genuine way you can. This is a great week to talk to your loved ones effectively without letting your emotions carry away. There are a million ideas in your head that you will be able to communicate to the people you care about in a meaningful way. Career: There will be team discussions. Competitive events may occur. Please exercise caution around your teammates and coworkers. Healthcare, pet care, and accounting professionals will be very busy. You are trying to find a new project or role. Love: You and your partner might be having private conversations or hatching plots behind closed doors. This week you may explore a favorite fantasy along with your beloved. You and your loved one are going to have a hectic week together. Money: Your group would provide you with great assistance as you strive for personal and professional development. This week, take your chances because traveling and networking will lead to the kind of positive connections needed for improvement. Health: Your mental and physical well-being will be influenced by the positions of the planets. You will feel motivated this week to make improvements to your look and personal life. In particular, you will try to start getting new aesthetic procedures like facials, laser treatments, or acne treatments.

08 /13 Libra

You are expected to handle situations fairly and diplomatically, making sure that both you and the other person feel understood and appreciated. Seek to improve the relationship you have with your partner and let go of any unneeded disagreement. Now is the ideal moment to resolve any conflicts you may have with your coworkers. Today, a meaningful and considerate talk could make a big difference. Find solace in your routine, but do not undervalue the ability to brighten your day with a meaningful conversation. Career: You should carefully consider the opportunities that the creative sector will present to you this week. You will work to showcase your abilities. Those who operate in speculative industries must exercise extreme caution. Love: As the week gets underway, spend a few sinister hours with your significant other. Take pleasure in your personal space. Food and family time are the plans for this week. You and your partner could indulge in your favorite flavors and textures during the midweek. Money: As strong returns from previous investments are anticipated, the financial front will get stronger. If you are looking for a job abroad, there are opportunities available to you; all you need to do is keep working hard. Health: You will be worried about your health this week and you want to look better. It is quite normal to experience some discomfort or headaches during this time. Your subconscious will be working, and you will be worried about your happiness.

09 /13 Scorpio

You are very inspired right now, so take advantage of this to do creative pursuits or anything else that will allow you to express your gratitude and love in a lovely way. Enjoy the connections that add color and vibrancy to life by letting your playful side come out. This week is ideal for spending time with those you care about. This might be especially consoling if you have been having a difficult time at work. Your familiarity with your loved ones will comfort you, and you will be grateful for their love and kindness. Career: Long-term partnerships, group initiatives, and technical communication are all supported by a cluster of planets in this sector. There could be new long-term initiatives. You and your coworkers may disagree on small matters. Love: New endeavors will be introduced, and attention will be paid to making new friends or reestablishing previous ones. As the week gets underway, get-togethers or groups will be featured. You can enjoy company or trips with your sweetie. Steer clear of significant disagreements in viewpoints. Money: Refrain from lending relatives money. Be wary of rash decisions regarding more recent investments. Someone might not pay you back for a loan that they took out. This is not the best week to invest in profitable schemes because there is a high likelihood of being scammed, so exercise extreme caution. Health: Unless you have a chronic illness, you may experience minor symptoms like fever or headaches. You should take precautions because this transit may be difficult for you if you are a chronic patient.

10 /13 Sagittarius

This week is excellent for writing and other delicate forms of communication. Your charisma and persuasiveness will win anyone over to your side if you need to negotiate. Let your inherent charm come through in every conversation and enjoy the flow of ideas. This time, reflect on the things that you truly value in your work. These days, it can be especially consoling to connect with someone who values you as much as you do. Talk to each other about your financial objectives or your personal values and how you can strive to uphold them. Career: Those who work from home will have a busy schedule due to the influence of planetary forces on your chart. For real estate brokers, this is a big week, and there will be more work for civil engineers. Love: As the week progresses, it is time for some wickedness in the shadows and joy with your lover. Observe your surroundings when you take a step back from life's daily grind. Activities that are spiritual or creative are preferred. Savor some tasty and easy meals during the week. Money: Exercise extreme caution when making financial decisions. Avoid investing in expansion since the expected losses will be the same. For those who are salaried, this week would be steady with potential for extra money from side projects. Health: You will need to be mentally and physically active. You might experience knee problems, such as pain, or you might get hurt. Thus, you need to eat more calcium and take better care of your knees.

11 /13 Capricorn

You have a great chance to be authentic and strike the right balance in your relationships with others. Savor the peace that arises from feeling in tune with your actual self and linked to the people who really matter. The true magic occurs at this point. You will be experiencing feelings of introspection or a desire to explore the more profound realities of life, why not have a conversation with someone who has a similar outlook on spirituality? You can explore your inner landscape with a trusted friend over a thought-provoking conversation. Career: New projects will be available for those who work in the sports industry and on creative projects. You may receive calls for interviews, so this is a challenging placement for your career. Love: As the week starts, keep your composure. You might have to deal with an urgent situation or a test. Money could be the main cause of it. Review before making a decision! Later in the week, things get easier. It is the ideal evening to have dinner with friends. Spice it up with something exotic and fiery. Money: This week will bring many opportunities for stability and growth, so your financial prospects should be good. But be ready for the possibility of mental strain in your work life, particularly in the middle of the workweek. Health: Due to the heavy workload you have both at work and at home this week, you will be extremely exhausted. You need to exercise extreme caution because this week will cause some turbulence in the area around your knees. Please protect your knees because there is a chance you could get minor injuries.

12 /13 Aquarius

Today's social interactions have the potential to be especially rewarding for you, offering both enjoyment and emotional support. Give the people you have selected to be a part of your social circle due diligence and extend an invitation to these individuals to become more involved in your life. Your ability to communicate is enhanced, so this is a great day for any activity that calls for your diplomacy and sense of justice. Even though you can accomplish all of your goals on your own, the journey will be more fulfilling if you travel with the right people. Career: There is going to be a lot of work this week. This will increase attention to the communication-related industry. You will be occupied with networking, technology, and communication-related projects. Now is an excellent moment to write and edit. Love: Spend midweek curling up in a cocoon with your significant other. Seek out forbidden delights and communicate with trust. Act and speak in a tidy, effective manner. It is possible to refocus on joint assets or finances with your spouse. Money: Keep an eye on your spending to prevent surprises, as higher incomes are usually accompanied by higher expenses. High value investments have a good chance of succeeding. Several gates leading to different revenue streams may open. Health: You should take extra precautions if you already have knee injuries or other similar problems. Parents' emotional needs may also be important, in addition to their physical health. This week highlights the mother's or other senior female family members' needs.

13 /13 Pisces

This week you have a calling to establish connections with individuals from various cultural or ethnic backgrounds. Sharing ideas and having meaningful conversations with people who have had different experiences than you can enrich your outlook on life and encourage you to make a positive difference. This is a great time to talk about things that usually make you feel vulnerable because your communication skills are your superpower. You can achieve more emotional balance and security when you are willing to show your heart to the right people. Career: Exams and training relevant to a career may also arise. Individuals employed in the training and counseling sector will also have a full schedule. A few initiatives from the banking and finance industry will be present. Love: Enjoying a meal with friends and some lively conversation during the midweek is ideal. Common interests will be highlighted. It is possible that this week you and your partner need to discuss important matters. Money: You may anticipate financial gains from your place of employment, so this is a great week to achieve financial growth. Invest in low- to medium-risk securities to keep your financial situation steady and secure. Health: The planetary combinations indicate that this week will require you to be extremely vigilant because there will be several issues that require your prompt attention. You will be concentrating on developing your mental toughness because you tend to spirituality.

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Prime Minister Christopher Luxon during the post-Cabinet press conference, Parliament, Wellington, 24 June, 2024. New Zealand Herald photograph by Mark Mitchell

Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine and China’s actions as a growing world superpower are likely to be central issues during Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s trip to the United States for the Nato summit.

Luxon will be in Washington DC from July 9 for the summit with other world leaders with whom the PM would hold several bilateral meetings.

“Prosperity is only possible with security, with our discussions set to focus on our collective efforts to support the rules-based system,” Luxon said.

Nato countries, particularly the US, had deemed Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine and China’s growing presence in regions, including the Pacific, as indicative of their shift away from an international rules-based regime.

During the summit, a meeting of the Indo-Pacific Four - New Zealand, Australia, Japan and Korea would take place. It was the third time such a meeting had been held at a Nato summit, intended to allow the countries’ leaders to discuss shared challenges.

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Chris Evert’s schedule is packed again. Six months after announcing for the second time that she had cancer, Ms. Evert, one of the greatest champions in sports history, is back to work as a tennis commentator, coach and charitable fund-raiser. She seems to have beaten cancer again.

She was at her home in Florida last week for less than a day, a stopover before a flight to London, where she will work as a broadcaster at Wimbledon for the next two weeks.

In that brief window at home, Ms. Evert, 69, grabbed some sleep, attended to the charity she works for, then packed for her trip. Work, travel and especially family take up her time now, instead of chemotherapy.

She had just flown home from Denver after a visit with her son’s new baby boy. Yes, Ms. Evert, once a steely teenager who won the first of her 18 major tennis championships in 1974, is now a grandmother.

“I’m in love with this little baby already,” she said in a video call. “It makes me want to live even more.”

Two years ago, Ms. Evert publicly detailed her first cancer diagnosis to raise awareness about ovarian cancer, which had killed her younger sister, also a tennis professional, in 2020.

Because of her sister’s diagnosis, Ms. Evert got tested and soon discovered that she had stage 1 ovarian cancer. She had surgery, underwent difficult chemo treatments and lost her hair. But her hair grew back, along with her positive outlook. The cancer was in remission and doctors told her she had a 94 percent chance of a complete recovery.

Ms. Evert returned to work giving on-air analysis at tournaments and helping to run her tennis academy and the charitable arm of the United States Tennis Association, where she has proved a record-setting fund-raiser.

“She’s our superpower,” said Ginny Ehrlich, the foundation’s chief executive.

But she is human. She is just like the legions who must deal with the dreadful news that cancer has returned. A little more than a year after she was in remission, a precautionary CT scan in December revealed a cancerous mass. Ms. Evert went through the entire process a second time, and is happy to report that the cancer is once again gone. She is also very honest with herself.

On the video call, she glanced out a window of her home, pulled at the bill of her baseball cap and flashed a smile.

“Doctors are always hopeful,” she said. “Obviously, if something returned the second time, there’s more of a chance that it’s going to return. Some people have cancer once and it goes away, and they live for 30 or 40 more years. That’s a wonderful story. It’s not always like that. But my doctor told me I won’t die from this.”

The cancer was again stage 1, meaning it had not spread. As with her original diagnosis, early testing was critical — a message Ms. Evert shares zealously. She said that since she was first diagnosed and began talking about genetic testing, five women close to her have also had surgeries.

Ms. Evert underwent her second surgery in December and endured more chemotherapy, which she played down, mostly because she knew what to expect.

“The first four or five days I feel like crap and I’m nauseous and weak and I have bone aches,” she said. “But after four or five days it goes away, and then I have two and a half weeks to feel OK before my next one. With the improvements they’ve made with chemo over the last 25 to 30 years, I can’t complain.”

She was scheduled for six rounds of it but developed an allergic reaction. She had difficulty breathing and her tongue swelled, so she stopped at four. But tests showed she was cancer-free again. The remaining treatment is a regimen of four daily pills for the next two years.

The physical drain of the treatments and the side effects of the medication have left her energy and vitality at 80 percent of what they were before cancer intruded in her life, she says. But she is strong enough to work out, to hold her new grandson, to travel and work.

“You can’t live in fear,” she said. “I just have to keep exercising, try and be as healthy as I can, and be up on all my CT scans and my appointments with the doctor.”

Because the cancer returned, she could not attend the Australian Open in January. But she eased back to work at the French Open in May, doing a week on air for the Eurosport channel. After Wimbledon, she plans to be in New York this summer, covering the U.S. Open for ESPN, and attending the U.S.T.A. Foundation’s gala fund-raiser.

She became the chairwoman of the foundation in 2019 and, despite the cancer, has already worked two years beyond the normal term of previous chairs. During that time, Ms. Evert helped bring in $55 million. Even sophisticated donors tend to get a little awed when they get a call from a Hall of Fame player who won the United States Open six times and the French Open seven times. Ms. Evert also won an astonishing 90 percent of her singles matches.

“We will take Chris Evert for as long as we can,” Ms. Ehrlich said. “She embodies our mission in the way she gives her time and energy to young people.”

And Ms. Evert sees no reason to stop. Even as she was describing how her cancer had returned and then faded again, she wanted to stress the foundation’s latest efforts to keep kids involved in tennis past age 13, when most quit sports.

“I’m not going to stop living my life,” she said. “I’m going to keep going and keep going.”

David Waldstein writes about the greater New York region with an emphasis on sports. More about David Waldstein

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