Time Travel Possible? Avengers Endgame vs Tenet (8 Types Explained)

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Time travel fiction has been a recurring go-to for Hollywood films, from Avengers Endgame to Christopher Nolan's new film TENET. But which time travel movie gets it right? In this episode of #BigQuestion, Erik Voss and Hector Navarro dive deep into time travel in movies, TV, and literature to outline the 8 TYPES of time travel, from alternate timelines and paradox loops, to consciousness displacement and "anything goes" comedies. This is your definitive breakdown of the time travel Back to the Future, Avengers Endgame, Bill and Ted Face the Music, Terminator, Harry Potter, X-Men Days of Future Past, LOST, Game of Thrones, Hot Tub Time Machine, Interstellar, Looper, Rick and Morty, Groundhog Day, and more! Which time travel story has the worst plot holes? And which time travel story is the most accurate with what theoretical physicists and mathematicians have recently discovered to be possible?
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[@NewRockstars]

Whoops, forgive me for mixing up Peter Sarsgaard and Liev Schreiber. In my timeline they're swapped and no one noticed.

[@realMuseology]

In mine they are one and the same.😂

[@mr_player_one7383]

you have put interstellar 2 times in the movie list :)

[@Trouchy]

how is tenet and harry potter time travel not the same?

[@nk2012]

Voss when are you going to do a proper review/easter egg of Tenet?? hurry up

[@realMuseology]

@@nk2012 chill. It takes time to make KZbin videos like this, I know because I make KZbin videos as well, heck out my channel if you don’t believe me.

[@NewRockstars]

Erik here. We are so heartbroken over the death of Chadwick Boseman. He obviously meant so much to us, as I know he meant so much to all of you. This video and yesterday’s video were taped and scheduled long before we learned of his passing on Friday night. Our tribute video is here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h3vRppV7aM6UjMk

[@samuraijack9683]

Me 2 I was heartbroken

[@intothefrayyo]

Thanks Erik

[@rafininjatv92]

yeah poor chadwick

[@bigman8635]

😭

[@maxblonde]

Agents of Shield sort of made it explainable how Cap could have gone to the same timeline at teh end of Endgame...It is a time machine that can travel between universes AND time.

[@vishalbharti5483]

@@lanedayes7956 Endgame is a high budget movie

[@BettyAlexandriaPride]

@@vishalbharti5483 Can't it be both?

[@Witchyrose2349]

True😊 I love that serie so much❤😍

[@ajtee721]

I love the idea of time travel. I get deja vu and i also write down my dreams. Most of my deja vu are dreams i had playing out in real life

[@J.O.R.D]

I do the same thing 🙌🏽

[@InkdBaker]

Some times those dreams have alternate meanings, if you have an open mind for it. Like a dream of running away from something you cant see that you have every night.

[@BronzeManul]

"TENET, soon to be released..." *laughs in UK*

[@prakharvarshney]

I wish I could time travel and *SKIP 2020*

[@princetonchia1285]

@@marcelus4848 *CHANGING THE PAST DOESN'T CHANGE THE FUTURE!!!!* - Endgame professor hulk

[@princetonchia1285]

@@marcelus4848 You'll most likely create an alternate timeline when a version of 2020 has no covid. Good luck with that, buddy.

[@marcelus4848]

Princeton Chia tuff. Rather have that then COVID ruining the whole year

[@joshtownsend5525]

there will be nothing... an empty world

[@princetonchia1285]

@@marcelus4848 So you'll let our original timeline suffer? Hope that stays on your conscience and give you guilty pangs.

[@giobrach]

Physics soon-to-be graduate here: quantum mechanics is VERY real, all chemical and subatomic phenomena are regulated by it! It's Everett's Many Worlds *interpretation* of the theory that physicists still debate about. Also, time dilation near massive objects like black holes is a VERY real phenomenon: digital clocks on GPS satellites orbiting around the Earth have to be programmed to match time at sea level because their time is slightly (but not negligibly) faster than ours. ALSO also, you might be interested in the idea that particles of antimatter can be interpreted as particles of matter travelling back in time! Look up "Feynman-Stückelberg interpretation" PS: I think there's an episode of Supernatural featuring a Type 6 mechanic

[@thebeef7238]

Yeah I'm very concerned that there aren't any more comments that are at least aware of the fact quantum mechanics exist.

[@wasupman1074]

*insert sciency sounding words here*

[@SaurianStudios1207]

I wish I can time travel to relive the pre-Covid era

[@zwhitaker]

So, everything before 2020?

[@marmic339]

You could always time travel to the post-Covid era 😛

[@Elliott185]

We´ll get buddy

[@Asherg0723]

Kids: Mum can we have Filip Molina Mum: we have Filip molina at home Filip molina at home 4:16

[@youfavplay3309]

NOLAN : THANK YOU BONG JOON HO : AND THE 2020 OSCAR GOES TO...

[@xaviermaster1]

with pandemic going on, there won't be many movie at the oscar as last year

[@christianrodriguez3877]

big brain joke and i love it

[@pinetreecurlingclub3718]

Definitely want to see the “Erik’s first movie script” time travel twist!

[@camarcebry]

a missed opportunity not mentioning Netflix's Dark

[@matt28788]

This is not the crossover I was expecting but the crossover I NEEDED!

[@samgreenhalgh6958]

I just came back from the cinema from seeing TENENT, I loved it!

[@jazmiller8947]

Massive Nolan fan can't wait to watch, looking forward to Washingtons performance

[@youfavplay3309]

TENET OF 10?

[@salvadorpeletier]

Cardi B: cOrOnAvIrIoUs!

[@samgreenhalgh6958]

08 José Fonseca I had no idea what the movie was about but I still loved it

[@samgreenhalgh6958]

Joker I live in England so some cinemas are opening up

[@WalterMangandid]

I think Final Destination also revolves around time travelling.

[@andim.8788]

No

[@transienthorror]

@@andim.8788 Yes? The seeing future type?

[@TheYoungDoctor]

The Doctor: "We can travel anywhere and everywhere in that old box as you call it. Regardless of space and time."

[@MikeMixtapeMM]

THE BEST TIME TRAVEL VIDEO EVER! Sorry I had to caps that. I'm a time travel nerd and I appreciate this. 👏

[@tonyams]

"Always happened" = bootstrap paradox. Who wrote Beethoven's 5th?

[@elywahl9520]

I did lol

[@libnatsephania]

I can't wait for you to watch Tenet so you can talk about the details I've missed because boy that movie was 🤯

[@revmaynardd]

Dark covered time travel the best for me. Enough mystery to make it fun, but enough explanation to make it feel real. Bummed this wasn't included as I feel it's one of the best/most original sci-fi projects to come out in recent years.

[@freemanvs9970]

I think there is a distinction between receiving information from the future and predicting the future based on information in the present. The former I consider time travel of the information and the other is prediction imo

[@deanlemckeevans]

What about time being a full loop like what was shown in Futurama in "The Late Philip J. Fry" S6E7

[@marshad_ow802]

Would Twilight play into the “Seeing Future” type of Time Travel?

[@jairmorales2017]

That was such a fuking tease lol

[@victoriakjroffersen2430]

Technically Alice plays into that...

[@Mudokon666]

for the Groundhog day, i would also mention an episode from the Star Gate (Window of Opportunity), where two characters relive the same day over and over again. mine favorite episode, tbh.

[@sreenivaskamath4243]

20:53 You won a Billion Hearts Erik 🔥😍

[@crystal.naputi]

This is my first comment. I really loved this episode. Eric, my 5 yo knows you by name because I watch all of your videos. Great channel. I have sent so many of my nerdy friends and family here. I’m currently trying to get my 15 yo to watch. I love the way you break down everything important to me. Thank you for making life bearable!!

[@funbrickstudios1956]

Tenet more like... teneT... Yeah i don’t know, i have never been this early.

[@Roger_Waters_Broken_Balls]

More like TeneT

[@funbrickstudios1956]

Saul Goodman :O

[@deathswitch2008]

Saul Goodman I think it’s backwards, but I’m not sure.

[@sasapesic7988]

Although number 8 has some theoretical bases, it is not most realistic. The time stretching version is not a theory, it's reality. Satellites in the Earth's orbit are calibrated to this time distortion effect, or else our GPS (or anything dependant on satellites) would not work. Hence, this is most realistic version, it is actually reality.

[@PhatGirlLuvr68Comix]

Where does Umbrella Academy fall?

[@InkdBaker]

I think that depends on whether you're talking about #5, the ending of the first season going to the second season or The Temps Comission.

[@amyschelemanow1994]

I think it would be F**k It I don't know though, I haven't seen all of season 2 yet

[@drpollo6001]

F it. It switches it up every other episode.

[@ohawwgeez3112]

“Unstuck mind” time travel.

[@donkeyface4452]

Confusing time travel

[@kriigzrandom827]

Went To Watch It Yesterday Its Such A Good Film I Cant Wait To Watch It Again

[@dustinyoder2148]

Could reincarnation be considered a form if time travel? Perhaps for the soul. Kinda like in Cloud Atlas.

[@MsNaiyaz]

Eric: Ever since I found the love of our life... Me: AWWWWWWWWWWWW

[@Woosky117]

I know this didn't get mentioned because it's technically a game, and not a film, but Quantum Break used several kinds of time travel. I would love to see those unpacked! 😃

[@adamryan2215]

Ok so 'that doesnt Sitwell with me' had me laughing harder than it should

[@johanlarsson9805]

I have loved timetravel since i was a kid in the 90's. Predestination became my favorite film when I saw it at release. Probably it had always been my favorit film, I just discovered that it was so then.

[@xueshanshanxia1475]

my favorite "it always happened" movie was the rom com "The Lake House" with Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves

[@wmj1860]

Honestly agents of sheild done a decent job at filling the plot holes of end games time travel rules, saying that the quantum realm allows you to travel between timeliness as well as through time

[@wmj1860]

Wether those plot holes existed in the universe or our heads, this helped me understand it

[@edith7747]

In my opinion time travel should be like the back and forth like a internet browser

[@peteballinger7271]

I believe in this always happened time travel

[@LEOxuan]

This was a really well thought out video I thoroughly enjoyed it.

[@RoyceTheHardysRule]

I wish that I could time travel too

[@FlintsInfernape]

It always baffles me when people say that Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is an example of "this always happened" time travel. Ask yourself why they're time traveling. To save Sirius and Buckbeak. If they always saved Sirius and Buckbeak, they wouldn't time travel, and yet they do. So there are moments of "this always happened" like with the patronus. But there are things that they change from the previous version

[@garnix5427]

Can you explain what exactly changed? I remember it all working out

[@caitlinbehrens3609]

This is an amazing episode! One of my favorites ever. Thank you guys. My favorite "it always happens" example is Futurama. Fry doing the nasty in the pasty.

[@masonharrell5711]

My favorite episode of Supernatural deals with the Groundhog Day type of time travel

[@owenward3570]

Dark is the best example of the Type 4 always happened. One of my favourite representations of time travel in film/TV

[@masonharrell5711]

A book series that deals with “this always happened” time travel that I hope makes it to film one day is “The Licanious Trilogy”

[@howiethao277]

I love time paradox talks. I wonder if any film has ever tackled the ripple effect theory.

[@joaotorres3512]

11:50 I think it's pretty well implied that at the end of his life Cap just used the wrist time machine to return to his original timeline

[@CamoFlash7_]

Yes!!! I have been waiting for the analysis of Tenet since I watched the movie!

[@didiman4252]

Who does thinks Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is cannon except for the play writers and J.K Rowling.

[@edpulfer4715]

I’m not sure Rowling even considers it canon, just has to say it because of a contract or something.

[@ToasterInaFridge]

There’s Project Almanac for type 4, personally a very creative time travel story

[@jsarge3749]

That ST:4 explanation is a game changer!

[@nigelfranco5755]

DARK was a very well thought out type 4 in my opinion

[@christopherjamesgunn]

Thank you for explaining all the different types of time travel! Hadn’t even realised it was an hour long.. However in case you came for Tenet and don’t want to wait. This starts at 39:20 , however it’s worth the full clip to watch.

[@thebatbrick6937]

Love the Big question

[@nadavlev2536]

in seeing the future another reference is also agents of shield season 7 sibyll predicted the time using odd and sometime trying to avoid that prophecy they wlaked straigt to it

[@katielebrun1625]

And Robin had an unstuck mind!

[@sayandeeppal1833]

Great video ... being a Time travel geek myself just absolutely loved it .... the mention of Primer was an absolute treat ... that was definitely the most realistic version of time travel .... however a little disappointed that the best depiction of time travel on screen did not get a mention .... yup talking about Dark (TV Series) here .... Another good example of the Unstuck Mind theory is the Series Travelers .... really loved it .... 'Also .... these are not movies .... but the games like the Prince Of Persia Warrior Within and Bioshock Infinite .... both had these awesome concepts of multiple realities branching out from a single point yet everything just also kind of meant to happen ..... POP showing two versions of your character existing side-by-side within the same timeline yet there was technically only one version and you were using the other version to sort of be at the right place at the right time ..... and Bioshock Infinite with all the multiple universe shenanigans resulting from the choice of the path taken by your character .... those were just great storytelling ....

[@360.Tapestry]

one of the major reasons i like and respect the time travel in harry potter so much is because i didn't expect it. it didn't sell itself as a time travel movie, and yet it pulled it off so gracefully (i never read the books)

[@starc8446]

Such a great episode! Watched the whole damnnnnn thinggg

[@Tony-body]

It's about time you posted something

[@jessiewelch8726]

Oh my gawd. When you put your face on your old videos I was laughing so f***in hard. Thank you

[@brentjones8628]

The Big O, Season 1 and 2. Doesn’t really deal with time travel as much as events that keep repeating themselves over and over again. But the outcome changes every time. I’m not sure which category it would fall under. It’s a great anime and worth looking into.

[@EliteFiveJon]

Honourable mentions: Sliding doors with Gwyneth Paltrow. Branch timeline but emphasises on what Erik says about changing one thing can make you miss the love of your life. The Lake House with Keanu and Sandra Bullock and a mailbox that sent messages between a two year gap. I feel it is a bit like looper as it would technically always happen but there is choice.

[@jperry9488]

Ashton Kutcher punkd time travel is all I ever needed to hear😭😂😂😂

[@saurabh__sp4240]

Guys make part 2 of this. And please include all the movies mentioned by your followers here.

[@treytiks5359]

Very wonderful video !!! I really liked it. Thanks to the author for the job LIKE

[@masdox27]

Great Looper reference in the beginning

[@mckid2683]

Glad to see you mention "Predestination "! Myself n the wife are the only 2 ppl I know that know about this movie and we absolutely Love It! Great video all around! Was wondering why you said Peter Skaarsgard instead of Liev Schreiber at 1st but we all make mistakes!? And this was 3 yrs plus ago so...

[@Luc11d_]

17:24 looks like the island that maui was found on in moana ngl. Great vid!!!!

[@fdstaybridgeorlando3641]

the intro is hilarious!!!

[@katielebrun1625]

For type seven, I'm disappointed you didn't mention Robin from AoS😔

[@suthius85]

Love me some time travel. LOVE this episode

[@NahNahNahNoWay]

I’m not proud of how many times i watched and laughed at Fillup slapping Erik. I love you Erik. I’m sorry.

[@rafininjatv92]

i remeber thinking of the logic for prisonier of azkaband and my mind blew up

[@TheGabrielKaplan]

I wanted them to talk about ‘Time Freak’

[@DonKeyhoetee]

The Time Machine 1960, a version in the 70's and 2002. Also Time After Time.

[@GrimlockGuy34]

I was really hoping theyd mention primer in this video. I absolutely love that movie

[@mrstooshnov]

About Time covers a lot of categories, especially the wouldn’t-change-a-thing option from the end of this video

[@smilefactory8286]

Good one guys

[@pauljohncorpuz9267]

Here is one big problem with time travel that I don’t see anyone is talking about. Let say you are able to go back in time, where are you dropping? Note that the earth is constantly moving in space, the solar system is constantly moving in the galaxy, and our galaxy is also moving. What is our point of reference to lock us in a specific space in a specific time?

[@TheSonicbuum]

You guys are so funny together I very much enjoyed watching the segment at 37:00 -37:57 😂

[@spundefiant3925]

52:24 I'd go back and tell myself to invent the tension sheet.

[@rfan]

Somewhere in Time is one of my favorites. Beautiful and sad.

[@michaelpaul85]

Two time travel tv series/movies not mentioned: the final episode of Star Trek Next Gen where Picard jumps all over the place in time; and Somewhere In Time with Christopher Reeves, which is one of the films Rhodie lists in endgame.

[@akazjahbrawls3300]

Is there a list of all the movies talked about here because I want to watch all of them!!!

[@somakorosi1568]

22:14 I think you just mixed up Petter Sarsgaard and Liev Schreiber, it was definitely the latter who was in Kate & Leopold and played Sabretooth.

[@MommyOfMutants]

I noticed that too. And Peter Sarsgaard isn’t even in Kate & Leopold. The other main male character besides Hugh Jackman and Liev Schreiber is Kate’s brother played by Breckin Meyer (shown in the pic with Liev Schreiber at 22:17).

[@kyctinc6078]

I dont think they changed anything in avengers because dr strange saw 1 scenario in which they win, then they won, meaning they were always living in the time line in which they won

[@xavierclarkxoxo]

I love primer!!!

[@mrfreeman1995]

I really like About Time - it’s a bit of a rom com but great grounded time travel 👌🏻

[@sarenanichols8152]

you guys should have talked about project almanac. if you guys haven't seen it, please watch it. I don't want to give too much of it away but its incredible.

[@tracyschaber]

Loved Knowing! Crazy movie!

[@rjtavares1480]

I felt that Cursed Child rant, Erik

[@ethanmorgan3849]

The book "The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O." by Neal Stephenson uses the Schroedinger's Cat thought experiment to try and explain how magic, and thus time travel might have been possible. The short version of the theory is that if there is a section of space in which nothing can be predicted, in that space all possible occurrences are happening (which would appear to an observer like magic or time travel).

[@connermaccloud7036]

Confuses Peter Sarsgaard for Liev Schreiber. -LOL

[@Syphyryna]

Seeing your future and changing it movie that was missed. “Paycheck”, starring Uma Thurman, Aaron Eckhart, and Ben Affleck.

[@DarthTingleBinks]

I really want someone to combine all 8 of these into one movie successfully.

[@johnmastroligulano7401]

88 means infinity double you meaning to create an alternate timeline-reality as all realities are AI construct this makes perfect sense if you know how they are constructed(how data how data's values are arrived at).

[@Helmer54]

I read the curse child the week the "book" (script) came in. I'd love to go watch it due to it sounding amazing with the stage directions but yeah the story isn't even hot trash because it would help people stay warm its just the worst.

[@jhenninge]

Always loved Stargate's take on time travel.

[@wynnyx7071]

The Time Machine - HG Wells.