Characters that are tied to a particular period of history and tend to remain tied to it even as the passing of real time would tend to make them die of old age, or the passing of Comic Book Time would tend to shift them to a later period. It is essentially the hardest aversion of the Sliding Time Scale applied to just one character, normally occuring when the time period becomes highly emblematic of the character or is needed to provide a strong point in their characterisation. Examples of Refugee From Time include:
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| - Characters that are tied to a particular period of history and tend to remain tied to it even as the passing of real time would tend to make them die of old age, or the passing of Comic Book Time would tend to shift them to a later period. It is essentially the hardest aversion of the Sliding Time Scale applied to just one character, normally occuring when the time period becomes highly emblematic of the character or is needed to provide a strong point in their characterisation. Examples of Refugee From Time include:
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| - Characters that are tied to a particular period of history and tend to remain tied to it even as the passing of real time would tend to make them die of old age, or the passing of Comic Book Time would tend to shift them to a later period. It is essentially the hardest aversion of the Sliding Time Scale applied to just one character, normally occuring when the time period becomes highly emblematic of the character or is needed to provide a strong point in their characterisation. This trope is invoked every time you see an adult in their forties, fifties, or sixties complain about the music the kids are listening to these days. The original fans of rock and roll, even assuming they were all fifteen back when rock began, would be in their sixties today and anyone who grew up listening to punk rock in the late 70s would think today's music tame by comparison. This causes problems of logic for when the Refugee From Time ends up inside a Sliding Time Scale. By all Fridge Logic the person should be older or even dead, they may at one point follow what should be the time and then flip back to pick up some attributes from another time. At some point the character may have started aging naturally before they realised that it wasn't going to hold. For example, Magneto's backstory involves being in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. Each new iteration shifts his age down, with Applied Phlebotinum providing excuses for him to be magically or scientifically rejuvenated. Occasionally a significant cultural event will become such an important marker that its appearance in fiction seems to completely detach it from the normal timeline and have it follow around any character it can find. Woodstock would have to have been held within a TARDIS to cover all the fictional characters that have claimed to be there. Wars are another matter. Rather unfortunately the regular appearance of wars give writers the chance to continuously update their veteran characters. Examples of Refugee From Time include:
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