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So you finally get your time machine working, and decide to visit some out of the way town in a quiet year. You hit the Big Red Button, step out of the machine, and trip over Shakespeare. Cue the Historical In Jokes. And probably the discovery that Beethoven Was an Alien Spy. This means that as soon as you step out of your time machine, a well known historical figure will show up shortly. This can either be someone who was famous in the real world, or, if the series takes place in The Future, someone who became famous in the Future History.

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  • So you finally get your time machine working, and decide to visit some out of the way town in a quiet year. You hit the Big Red Button, step out of the machine, and trip over Shakespeare. Cue the Historical In Jokes. And probably the discovery that Beethoven Was an Alien Spy. This means that as soon as you step out of your time machine, a well known historical figure will show up shortly. This can either be someone who was famous in the real world, or, if the series takes place in The Future, someone who became famous in the Future History.
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  • So you finally get your time machine working, and decide to visit some out of the way town in a quiet year. You hit the Big Red Button, step out of the machine, and trip over Shakespeare. Cue the Historical In Jokes. And probably the discovery that Beethoven Was an Alien Spy. It seems that time machines and real life famous people have a very strong attraction. Even when you manage to avoid everyone in the history books (both real and in-verse), you'll probably run into an ancestor.|pedigree collapse]]. . (And if it's your grandfather, 9 times out of 10 you'll end up killing him. Or shagging him. Or he will look just like you.) This means that as soon as you step out of your time machine, a well known historical figure will show up shortly. This can either be someone who was famous in the real world, or, if the series takes place in The Future, someone who became famous in the Future History. Shows up in historical fiction too. A good deal of historical fiction is about famous people, but even the stories that aren't tend to spend a lot of time running into celebrities. Note that this only "counts" if you're not specifically aiming for the famous person (e.g. Bill and Ted don't exactly count because A: they were actually trying to find Genghis Khan and Sigmund "Frood," and B: they had the help of a magic phone directory to find them). Though, even then, other well-known personages from the same period may crop up unexpectedly. If you meet a famous figure before they did anything to earn said fame, it's a case of Young Future Famous People. If you don't find out who they are until the end of the story, it's a Historical Person Punchline. Examples of In the Past Everyone Will Be Famous include:
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