Quickpoll: Time Travellers?

Two of my fleshed out characters.

Ahreman the Red, a SS/WP Brute. The spirit of Aaron Tetherson has been possessing members of his bloodline since the 1800s, granting the power to transform into a superhuman being that currently answers to the name Ahreman the Red.

Steelbane, a Bots/FF MM. Think Terminator crossed with the Shrike, HK-47, and Bender. Near the year 3000, humanity is wiped out by machines. Not content with the eradication of the meatbags of their time, the machines send their primary offensive unit back in time to the legendary Age of Heroes to continue the job. The Mark VIII unit (nicknamed the Steel Bane of Humanity by the human resistance, or Steelbane) has the ability to summon previous versions of itself via one-way time portals to assist in it's mission.

good luck D.B.B.

About 13 maybe?
I had a supergroup from the 37th Century, the Celestial Bodies, who'd travelled back to the 21st Century for a while. There were a few 21st century natives, but at least 12 native 37th C-er time travellers.

One of my first characters, Michael Mordecai (Dark Defender) was a 1970's physicist who'd got shunted forwards to the early 21st century and turned into a photographic negative of himself - a bit of a homage to the Jerry Cornelius books there.
I've since remade him as a warshade, but he never really stuck.

Come to think of it, my current villain group are alternate future Victorians, so add another ten there.

So 24 all up, give or take a few.

[Edit] - make that 28, I just remembered two other duos of time-travelling amazons.

Absolutely zero!

I have two, one that's a full fledge time traveller and one that has time elements.

My first is Annalist, a broadsword/WP scrapper that found a ring that has the souls of warriors of the past trapped in it. He calls upon those spirits and becomes the warrior for an amount of time. His main costume is just a kid and the rest are different warriors of the past, ex; a knight, egyptian soldier, pirate.

My other came around right when I first heard about the Ouroboros issue. He's been remade about 5 or 6 times until I finally found a unique powerset for a timetraveler, not knocking it but 95% of time characters are grav/ trollers.

His name is Timeslider and he's a Emp/Ice defender, he is the son of an Ouroboros Mender who died defending time. The boy has never taken time travel that serious, often spending years at a time in a certain period and then moving on, thus the Menders would never officially make him a Mender and often refer to him as the Timeslider. His powers take a touch of RPing on the team to work, the Empath is RPed that he see's someone getting hurt and goes back and prevents he/she from being hurt or he slows down time and prevent the damage. The ice is RPed as him stopping time and attacking his opponents.

Most of my characters on on Virtue, but not this one:

Nick O'Time
natural Katana scrapper

Justin Nicholas O'Tim was a U.S. Cavalry officer in the American Old West. That life vanished when he pursued a strange, green outlaw into a cave, unaware that the cave was actually a time portal: a side effect of the Cavern of Transcendance portal energies which merged the western cave with one in the Hollows of our time. Emerging out a "back door", O'Tim was beset by Trolls and would have perished if not for the aid of a patrol of heroes. The tunnel back collapsed in the fight. Now lost in a strange world, O'Tim still maintains his sense of duty, fighting alongside heroes.

As was sometimes the custom in the U.S. Cavalry, O'Tim carried weaponry of personal choice: leaving behind his sabre, the symbol of his rank, he carried into the field a formidable katana: a gift sent from a fellow officer who spent time in Japan. Nick is refining his skill under the guidance of several modern katana heroes.

I've got two time travelers.

Aerial Avenger, a WWII heroine who was sent to stop Wolfgang Ubelmann's time-traveling experiments, and was knocked through the prototype portal during the fight. She took great joy in beating him into a pulp in the "Ubelmann the Unknown" arc. She's a Eng/Eng blaster.

Timestepper, a steampunk version of Dr. Egon/Aeon/Echo from one of the alternate Nemesis-controlled dimensions. Was sent here to look for allies for overthowing their Nemesis, but found that the opportunities for easy money and SCIENCE! in our Rogue Isles were just too good to pass up. DB/SR Brute with Teleport, RPd as not actually having great reflexes, but being slightly out-of-sync with our timeline, so that enemies are simply moving too slowly to land a hit.

I have a mid-20s Axe/Shield Brute named Kargat.

Backstory, short version... he's a cyborg barbarian from 1000 years in the future who was somehow yanked back in time from the sacking of Rome, and is none too happy about it.

Well, I have one in That Other Superhero MMO - she was yanked out of the timestream for training as a sorceress back in the early 19th century. And here I had an idea for a mecha pilot from the future getting yanked back by some inverse subspace polarity field or somesuch. I also had the idea of a future costume being a rebuilt battlesuit and starting them out in their version of a flightsuit.

SoulTrain 2020 is a time-traveler, and an Ouroboros 'Acolyte' (I figure she's 'in training' or otherwise at a provisional status.)

The story is, at some point in her childhood, her parents actually took her into Time to find a spot in the space/time continuum to raise and train her, without the risk of Rikti bombs in the living room or undead in the backyard. Then when she became a full-fledged heroine in her own right, she traveled BACK to the day of her conception, to fill in for her mother so that she could be properly cared for as an infant.

Cause and effect is a little odd with this one.

One at the moment.

Warrior Widow (TA/Arch). The wife of a murdered samurai warrior who joined a group of rebels in an attempt to find and kill the evil master that slew her husband and had him labelled a traitor. A miscast spell sent dozens of men and women from the final, epic battle to present day Paragon City.

I used to have another (DM/SR scrapper) who was essentially a man driven by revenge to study the blackest of magics, blah, blah, blah, who learned to step outside of time, effectively becoming an immortal, time-travelling psychopath bent on butchering every last member of the CoT and BP. Never could get into the character, being as absolutely evil as he was, and gave up the name (used for a name change by some level 50)

I've had others, that are ancient, or immortal, but only those two who were true time-travellers.

Zero. I'm not fond of time-travelling or time-displaced characters, save for maybe one of my characters taking part in That One Quest. Just doesn't really click well for me.

Now, dimensional-travelling characters, however, that's another story. For one character alone, I think I have... maybe about 20-25 different versions of him, all relating to some MMO I played, an RPG (pen-and-paper or no) I've taken part in, and whatnot. I dunno; I never really counted, so the number's really a guesstimate.

I am not particularly active right now, but this thread was too good to pass up. I provided links to all three toons that have time travel as part of their premise.

I have several time distorted characters, they include an Galactic Guardian from the 24th century, now trapped in the 21st century due to a time paradox perpetuated by an ancient demon:



The famous, "I was hidden in the past, then came back to the present to confront my own parents" schtick:



And the, "I'm really just an NPC, but my whole purpose is to ignite story lines dedicated to time distortions, time paradoxes and to clean up the 'pollution' time travel causes" character:



I like time travel as a story/plot device, we also use alternate dimensions (alternate forms of Earth) a lot - and combine the two to justify ourselves as "Galactic Guardians" - saving alternate dimensions from peril - and preserving the integrity of the time continuum in each of them. Basically ripping off large chunks of Wolfman's "Crisis on Infinite Earths", to create simple, basic urgency and peril in our missions.

Standard, boiler-plate comic book stuff really. Which is why I love it so.