8 Movie Characters Who Suffered The Most From Time Travel

6. George Taylor Finds Out Humanity Destroyed Itself - Planet Of The Apes

Out of all the films to ever feature time travel, Planet Of The Apes is (shockingly) the most accurate. Time is relative, so if you were to travel away from Earth and return a few years later you'd find everyone back home would have aged much more. That's exactly what happens to Charlton Heston's Taylor on a massive scale in Planet Of The Apes.

During hypersleep he and his crew go so far away from Earth that when they crash on a mysterious planet they've travelled millennia into the future without ageing a day. The world that cynic Taylor winds up in is a perverse reversal of the 1960s Earth he left behind - a society of evolved primates rule the planet and keep mute humans as slaves. His teammates are captured and turned into museum exhibits/lobotomised, while he becomes a fugitive from the ape government.

Of course, as the DVD cover clued you in, the planet is none other than Earth - in the time Taylor was away humanity destroyed itself, leaving only the Statue of Liberty sticking out of the sand. He doesn't take it well - he may have spent the whole film moaning about the fallibility of man, but it's something else to come face-to-face with confirmation of it.

Things only get worse for Taylor in the sequel, Beneath The Planet Of The Apes - he gets captured by psychic mutants and winds up destroying the world with a doomsday device. Of course, that's so ridiculous only really die-hard fans accept it.