8 Movie Characters Who Suffered The Most From Time Travel

3. David Rips Himself From Existence - Project Almanac

It was only a matter of time before the found footage genre set its eyes on time travel. What better way to allow the audience to really feel like they were jumping from date to date than giving them a front seat to the action?

Outside of the shooting style, the story of Project Almanac is a pretty standard time travel yarn - friends discover the technology, start off using it just to have a good time before things start to mess up - although it does explore one of the oft-cited questions about Back To The Future. If you change something in the past then return to the present, how do you deal with this new timeline you know nothing about? That's a problem that David (eventually) gets to when he fixes a bad romantic encounter and winds up in a relationship he has no knowledge of. But that's not really where David, or his friends, really suffer.

When he starts jumping alone (one of the group's rules is that they always do it as a team) things get muddled and past selves keep meeting, which in this version of the tech leads to the person getting erased from reality. In the end David goes back to his scientist father and sets the timeline right, inadvertently leaving his recorded footage as a memento to his future self.

This is all played as rather happy - in this new version of events David and co. get to experience the thrill of knowing without having to go through the ruinous trials and tribulations of learning - but it doesn't come without a dark (if perhaps not totally intentional) undercurrent; to get to this point, the 'first' versions of the gang have had to be painfully ripped from existence.