Welcome to the challenge of August, which is going to be all about Time; mostly fiction dealing with Time Travel, but also other topics to do with Time, and the manipulation thereof.

Today is a potentially SPOILERIFIC day, as the main topic is about all the stories where the time travel component isn’t readily apparent; The cases where characters realize that “OMG this is earth, but future and bad!” or where a mysterious character is revealed as a time-displaced version of someone else.

And so todays prompt is, what are the best and worst cases of time travel being deployed as a plot twist, and why?

Bonus Prompt: What are good/bad cases where the twist is, there was NO time travel and characters just thought otherwise?

Extra Bonus Prompt: In what cases should characters really have been clued in to the time travel earlier?

Paradox Bonus Prompt: What IRL people would make sense to be secretly time displaced?