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** ''ComicBook/TheFlash'': The most famous Reverse-Flash, Professor Zoom, otherwise known by his real name [[Characters/TheFlashEobardThawne Eobard Thawne]], turned into one thanks to his connection with Negative Speed Force in ''ComicBook/TheFlashRebirth'', able to alter history and be the only one to remember the way things were before. In ''ComicBook/FlashpointDCComics'', he becomes a paradox in that universe due to being from the prior timeline, which allows him to try and kill Barry without fear of losing his powers (though he's killed by Thomas Wayne before he can go through with it). In ''ComicBook/TheButton'', his return to life gives him the idea to [[ImmuneToFate use this as a weapon]] against [[spoiler:Dr. Manhattan]], reasoning he can use it to steal his reality-altering power for himself. He's [[VillainsWantMercy wrong]]. ''[[StrippedToTheBone Very, very wrong]]'', though notably he still comes back from even this. The "Paradox" arc shows that each time he dies he's reborn in the Negative Speed Force with his memories of what happened before; not only that, but he retains said memories even when he's at points in his timeline (like killing Nora Allen) where he shouldn't. Finally, his position as this is undone at the end of "Legion of Zoom" and "Finish Line" when Barry figures out that the reason this is happening is Thawne has nothing to ground him in the current timeline -- so he [[spoiler:phases through Eobard and imparts some Speed Force energy to him -- acting as a lightning rod to anchor him to the here-and-now by [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor having the connection to Barry he always wanted]], erasing the Reverse-Flash as he is from existence and "resetting" him to the NiceGuy curator of the Flash museum in his home time period]].

*** Clara Oswald (The Impossible Girl) exists in multiple places and times, due to [[spoiler:dispersing herself along the Doctor's timeline.]]
*** Clara also exists [[spoiler:a heartbeat from her own fixed-point-in-time HeroicSacrifice, thanks to the Doctor abusing Time Lord technology to try to save her life. This leaves her functionally immortal, but also renders the Universe in danger of coming apart if she doesn't eventually repair the paradox by returning to her moment of death.]]

A subtrope of LiminalBeing. For the more dangerous variants that are of the grotesque and harmful kind, see EldritchAbomination or EldritchLocation. Compare RetGone, which might be the state these characters enter. They're almost guaranteed to be ImmuneToFate. When this occurs as a result of game programming rather than storytelling, you have a GlitchEntity. When a character bears a contradiction or paradox in their own identity, rather than with respect to the world, that's OxymoronicBeing.

* ''Literature/TheLongPriceQuartet:'' In order to create an ''andat'', a poet must somehow twist the concept he wishes to embody against itself, creating an innate paradox that keeps the andat from simply returning to the memetic void from which it was pulled. This is why all andat seek dissolution, because ceasing to exist is the only way by which they can resolve the intolerable self-contradiction that is their own existence. Freedom-from-Bondage, however, is called out as being this even by the standards of the ''andat''. Other concepts such as Stone-Made-Soft or Clarity-of-Vision can be bound as andat, but there is no way to control something that embodies the impossibility of control. Freedom-from-Bondage could be created as an andat, but no poet could hold it in existence for more than the blink of an eye.

* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'': {{Invoked|Trope}} by the [[TheAntiGod Dark One]] to create TheSoulless Gray Men. Usually, soul loss leaves the victim a drooling EmptyShell, but extracting the soul within the EldritchLocation of Shayol Ghul creates a being with an intellect but no actual "self". This impossibility creates a PerceptionFilter that keeps people from noticing a Gray Man's presence.

* ''Series/Loki2021'': The protagonist Loki is the one that teleported away with the tesseract during Film/AvengersEndgame. This violated the Sacred Timeline, causing the TVA to arrest him. He's explicitly called a Cosmic mistake. However, [[PlayingWithATrope played with]] when it turns out that [[spoiler:he didn't cause any real temporal paradox, and that the TVA isn't even designed to contain those; it's just enforcing one specific (and apparently arbitrarily chosen) timeline, and pruning anyone who makes decisions that would diverge from that, such as Loki variants who decide to be genuinely heroic]].

* ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'': Near the end of [[WebAnimation/RedVsBlueTheShisnoTrilogy Season 16]], The Reds and Blues decide to TimeTravel and prevent Wash getting shot in Season 15, and contracting brain damage. They succeed, but cause a RealityBreakingParadox that traps them in a loop of "Soft Time", forever reliving their lives up until that point. In Season 17, Donut learns that after the moment the paradox happened, Agent Washington is now two people in one body- a Wash who got shot and was treated, and one who ''wasn't'' shot and ''didn't'' get treated. This has resulted in Wash checking into a hospital for a gun wound that never happened, and when Donut finds him, is now constantly shifting between Sane/treated and Loopy/untreated. Luckily, confronting the LogicBomb stabilizes Wash's personality.

* ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'' introduces Paradox Pokémon, which are supposedly past/future versions of contemporary {{mons}} brought to the current day by TheProfessor's TimeMachine. [[{{Foreshadowing}} The game itself points out that several aspects of their existence don't add up]], such as the fact that there were sightings of them before the time machine was even built. [[spoiler:It's speculated that these {{mon}}s never actually existed to begin with, and [[{{tulpa}} were created by the machine drawing from people's imaginations]] as a result of the MineralMacGuffin used to make it and the influence of [[SequelHook a mysterious third Legendary]] shown in Arven's book which was later identified as Terapagos. However, this plot is [[AbortedArc ultimately left unresolved]] with no clarification regarding their origins. Although TheProfessor suggests that {{Alternate Timeline}}s are in play.]]

* ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'' introduces Paradox Pokémon, which are supposedly past/future versions of contemporary {{mons}} brought to the current day by TheProfessor's TimeMachine. [[{{Foreshadowing}} The game itself points out that several aspects of their existence don't add up]], such as the fact that there were sightings of them before the time machine was even built. [[spoiler:It's speculated that these {{mon}}s never actually existed to begin with, and [[{{tulpa}} were created by the machine drawing from people's imaginations]] as a result of the MineralMacGuffin used to make it and the influence of [[SequelHook a mysterious third Legendary]] shown in Arven's book which was later identified as Terapagos. However, this plot is [[AbortedArc ultimately left unresolved]] with no clarification regarding their origins.]]

* ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'' introduces [[spoiler:Paradox Pokémon, which are supposedly past/future versions of contemporary {{mons}} brought to the current day by TheProfessor's TimeMachine. [[{{Foreshadowing}} The game itself points out that several aspects of their existence don't add up]], such as the fact that there were sightings of them before the time machine was even built. It's speculated that these {{mon}}s never actually existed to begin with, and [[{{tulpa}} were created by the machine drawing from people's imaginations]] as a result of the MineralMacGuffin used to make it and the influence of [[SequelHook a mysterious third Legendary]] shown in Arven's book which was later identified as Terapagos]].

** [[spoiler:Eobard Thawne/the Reverse-Flash becomes this throughout the franchise. The first season of ''Series/TheFlash2014'' ends with him being [[RetGone retroactively erased from history]] thanks to the GrandfatherParadox. Then a younger version of him shows up in season two, apparently protected by the Speed Force "until" all that other stuff happens. By the time he appears in ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'', he's become such a timeline headache he has a unique form of {{Clock Roach|es}} gunning for him specifically. Strangely enough, the younger version of him somehow gained the memories of his older self. Even after this version is killed, another version of his older self pops up later, and only gives a dismissive "time travel, so very confusing" HandWave when asked where he comes from. Season 5 of ''The Flash'' explains it as him using [[TheDarkSide the Negative Speed Force]], which protects him from temporal changes.]]
** At the end of Season 3 of ''The Flash'', [[spoiler:Savitar becomes this, after failing to kill Iris. With the StableTimeLoop broken, he only has a few hours to live, so he has to go with his plan B -- having Cisco modify the Speed Force Bazooka into a quantum splicer, which will turn Savitar into a god, thus sparing him from being RetGone. When he’s killed before completing the plan, he fades away in a similar way to the Thawnes from season 1 of ''The Flash'' and season 2 of ''Legends of Tomorrow'']].
** At the end of Season 2 of ''Legends'', the titular team itself willingly becomes this trope, interacting with their past selves, in order to stop the Legion of Doom. Most of the future team end up being killed anyway, while Sara vanishes into thin air after [[spoiler:the Black Flash kills Thawne]] and the Legion is stopped. This means that ''forevermore,'' the Legends are walking paradoxes: they exist because they were saved by versions of themselves that they ''never became'' thanks to ''having been saved by those selves.'' People who can't exist at once thanks to their own actions had to work together to make those actions! ...mind you, this did cause damage to the space-time continuum that they'd spend quite some time cleaning up, but it should never have been able to happen in the first place and the Legends as we know them now should be impossible.
** After ''Series/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths2019'', Earth-1, Earth-38, and Black Lightning's Earth are all merged, while Earth-2 is destroyed and replaced with a new one which serves as the setting for ''Series/Stargirl2020''. However, for some reason, the Laurel Lance who appears in the last two episodes of ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' is still the same one we've been following for the past four seasons. She still acts as if she came from Earth-2, even though it doesn't exist (and, post-Crisis, [[RetGone never did]]). In fact, the Laurel from Earth-1 who died all the way back in Season 4 is stated to be a different person and still dead (though thanks to Oliver saving Tommy from death, they were married), even though everyone else is merged with their Earth-2 selves. This is because Oliver specifically chose to save Earth-2 Laurel; with him being the [[RealityWarper Spectre]], he had the ability to reconfigure the multiverse so she could continue to exist even when she should have not.

*** The Doctor's species, the [[TimeMaster Time Lords]], are acausal beings who aren't affected by the space-time continuum surrounding them. In ''Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresTheAlsoPeople'', it's stated that they simply "step outside" the normal flow of time, thus making them ImmuneToFate.

* At the end of ''Anime/BleachMemoriesOfNobody'', Rukia tells Ichigo about their friend Senna, who was really just a [[spoiler:person called Memory Rosary holding different memories of "Blanks" and was only created because so many blanks lost their memories.]]
-->'''Rukia:''' One can't remember something that shouldn't have existed in the first place.
* ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'': Goku Black's entire existence is paradoxical. ''Franchise/DragonBall'' utilizes {{Alternate Timeline}}s, so that any changes made in the past create a new timeline and leave the original future untouched. That is until ''Super'' introduces Time Rings allowing "acausal time travel" that do not create new timelines. Goku Black was created as the result of [[spoiler: Present Zamasu using the Super Dragon Balls to steal the body of Goku, before traveling to the future. However, while Beerus takes the liberty of destroying Zamasu in the present, Goku Black still exists in the future. Black explains wearing the Time Ring allows him to evade being erased from existence and preserve his own history. It gets even more complicated in Episode 67, where it's revealed Beerus' actions did create a Time Ring (and by extension a new timeline) after all]].
** Then there's the Zamasu native to Trunk's timeline, who used the Super Dragonballs to wish for CompleteImmortality. Thus the trope becomes invoked again when [[spoiler: the two alternate Zamasus fuse, creating a being that simultaneously is and is not immortal. Emphasis on 'paradox' here, because "killing" this mortal/immortal being instead causes him to become a bodiless, metaphysical entity, [[EldritchAbomination a literal living paradox that merges with reality on a conceptual level and threatens all of spacetime]].]]

* By definition, Servants in ''Literature/FateZero'' and ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''. They are the souls of heroes of mythical past given body to exist in this world. Since dead people are supposed to stay dead, the world will try to crush this contradiction, which means that Servants disappear if they aren't channeled with {{Mana}}. [[spoiler:Except those who get doused by the corrupted Grail's mud and consequently gain a physical body, like Gilgamesh (who, atypically, has enough of a colossal ego to resist the actual corruptive effects of such a transformation).]]
** Doubly so with Assassin, a Servant summoned by a Servant from a spirit who never existed.

* [[TimeMaster Homura Akemi]] in the end of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''. [[spoiler: She was once a normal human being (in her universe's first flow). But after continuous alterations to the universe's fabric, because of the nature of her success, everything that motivated her or developed her character never happened, which changes the nature of her magic. However, [[RippleEffectProofMemory she still remembers the original circumstances]] even if no one else does]].
* ''Literature/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'', at the end of the Web Novel, [[spoiler:[[TheHero Rimuru Tempest]] reaches this point after becoming the WorldsStrongestMan and a full-on PhysicalGod, able to alter the past at will without compromising his own existence or the world resulting from his actions. He's able to TimeTravel to the point where his past self Satoru Mikami was fatally stabbed, stops the incident from ever happening, and completely get away with it to let his old self live a happy life without causing a massive GrandfatherParadox.]]
* ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'' and its sister series ''Manga/XxxHolic'' have one of the most convoluted examples in manga, with both [[spoiler:Original!Syaoran]] and [[spoiler:Watanuki, his time travel duplicate]] who were born out of a wish to keep a certain person alive. Much of ''Manga/XxxHolic'' is eventually revealed to be an attempt to anchor that character to reality so they won't disappear when the paradox eventually catches up. [[spoiler:Watanuki's]] ability to attract spirits is eventually revealed to be a subconscious wish to die because of their nature.

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** In the ''War Master'' audio miniseries ''Only the Monstrous'', the War Master goes to considerable lengths to deliberately create such a person. After [[spoiler:the Msater saves pilot Cole Jarnish from the accident that would have caused his death, he manipulates Cole into a course of action that turns an innocent race of farmers into ruthless cyborg conquerors. This turns Cole into what the Master describes as a "potent living paradox", which the Master intends to use to power a weapon that he hopes will allow him to rewrite the whole history of the Time War]].

* ComicBook/JohnConstantine is noted as a "glitch" in the universe, thus making him able to abuse the rules of the universe (via his Synchronicity Highway). As it was once put, "circumstances, people, events, even time and space, just line up for him".
* ''ComicBook/Warlock1967'': Adam Warlock has become something akin to this, a being who stands outside and is not affected by otherwise universal forces of chaos and order or life and death. His sometime enemy the In-Betweener was similarly described in his first appearance, but has since been treated as a creation and servant of the {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s of chaos and order. Adam's ally Gamora was plucked from the timeline to make her into such a being, but it didn't take.
* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'': A cosmic being called the Anomaly is essentially the embodiment of Things That Should Not Be.
* ''ComicBook/TheFlash'': The most famous Reverse-Flash, Professor Zoom, otherwise known by his real name [[Characters/TheFlashEobardThawne Eobard Thawne]], turned into one thanks to his connection with Negative Speed Force in ''ComicBook/TheFlashRebirth'', able to alter history and be the only one to remember the way things were before. In ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'', he becomes a paradox in that universe due to being from the prior timeline, which allows him to try and kill Barry without fear of losing his powers (though he's killed by Thomas Wayne before he can go through with it). In ''ComicBook/TheButton'', his return to life gives him the idea to [[ImmuneToFate use this as a weapon]] against [[spoiler:Dr. Manhattan]], reasoning he can use it to steal his reality-altering power for himself. He's [[VillainsWantMercy wrong]]. ''[[StrippedToTheBone Very, very wrong]]'', though notably he still comes back from even this. The "Paradox" arc shows that each time he dies he's reborn in the Negative Speed Force with his memories of what happened before; not only that, but he retains said memories even when he's at points in his timeline (like killing Nora Allen) where he shouldn't. Finally, his position as this is undone at the end of "Legion of Zoom" and "Finish Line" when Barry figures out that the reason this is happening is Thawne has nothing to ground him in the current timeline - so he [[spoiler:phases through Eobard and imparts some Speed Force energy to him - acting as a lightning rod to anchor him to the here-and-now by [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor having the connection to Barry he always wanted]], erasing the Reverse-Flash as he is from existence and "resetting" him to the NiceGuy curator of the Flash museum in his home time period]].
* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'':
** Even though she was killed off and retconned out in ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', and DC went to great lengths to ensure that she couldn't exist in the new universe, the original Kara Zor-El continued appearing in Post-Crisis stories such like ''ComicBook/ShouldAuldAcquaintanceBeForgot''. As a result of it, when Post-Crisis Kara Zor-El finally shows up in ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton2004'', a cosmic being called Dark Angel tries to prove in ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl2005 Identity]]'' that Kara is a cosmic anomaly which should be eliminated since Kara Zor-El cannot exist.
** ''ComicBook/PowerTrip2005'': It is revealed that ComicBook/PowerGirl's conflicting backstories are due to the universe itself trying to make sense of her existence, since she was born in a parallel universe whose existence was retroactively erased during the ''Crisis on Infinite Earths''.
* ''ComicBook/WonderGirl'': Donna Troy, a founding member of the ComicBook/TeenTitans with a MultipleChoicePast as a result of so many {{retcon}}s that both in and out of universe nobody's really sure where she came from, not even herself. And of course, the Speed Force complicates things further thanks to Wally West knowing her with RippleEffectProofMemory despite her latest "origin" contradicting it.
* ''ComicBook/XMen'':
** ComicBook/XMan is one of the few survivors from the ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse timeline which no longer exists. This is discussed (in a maddened gabble) by Legion, who unwittingly created the Age of Apocalypse, in ''[[ComicBook/UncannyXMen2018 X-Men: Disassembled]]''.
** So are Dark Beast and Blink. However, the AOA exists again. [[TimeyWimeyBall Don't ask]].

* ''ComicBook/{{Loki}}'': The 3rd Loki tried to do a HeelFaceTurn and failed, becoming King Loki, but their turning back to evil came too late to do the damage they wished for so they [[ComicBook/LokiAgentOfAsgard travelled to the past]] to put their younger self on the ''right'' path sooner. ''Unfortunately'' said younger self would rather burn virtually everything that belonged to their past selves (which may or may not count as dying, cats and boxes and all) so instead of King Loki they became Loki the God of Stories... making that future an alternate timeline and both of them this trope by virtue of temporal paradox and being goddamn confusing.
* ''Chronos'': Walker Gabriel, the DC hero named Chronos (not to be confused with his mentor, the DC ''villain'' named Chronos), eventually ends up preventing his own childhood as the only way to [[spoiler: save his mother's life]]. He's rather surprised when his time travel powers enable him to survive this, and he goes right on ahead existing. Unfortunately, an earlier adventure left him in a dystopian alternate timeline which he then had to fix, but with the result that his evil self from that timeline also survived (calling himself Anachronos), and he wants revenge. Also, an associate of his is the Contessa, a Renaissance Italisan noblewoman from a now-deleted timeline, who continues to survive only as long as she stays in the extradimensional city of Chronopolis; she's rather bitter about it.
* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'': Silver, due to constantly {{Time Travel}}ing back and forth between the present and his own BadFuture while causing various changes in the timeline, ultimately ended up "decoupled" from time. On the plus side, this means he remembers the past versions of the timeline before his various history-altering acts and he's immune to RetGone. On the bad side, he needs to figure out [[ButterflyOfDoom what changed due to his actions]] the hard way by combing through the "new" records of history.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' fic ''Fanfic/BlameItOnTheBrain'', it is revealed that Fry's status as his own grandfather is important for more reasons than just his lack of the Delta Brainwave; [[spoiler:as revealed by Nibbler, the Brainspawn and the Nibblonians are essentially the same race (the universe was created by a ‘mass-inversion event’ that turned the nothingness of pre-universe into the ‘something-ness’ of the universe, so the Brainspawn are the inversion of the Nibblonians who came before it/the Nibblonians are the pre-reflection of the Brainspawn), with the result that the three are linked as a complex cosmic trinity due their shared state of self-manifestation]].
* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' has Doctor Strange, who has an unusual variation on immortality and a very [[{{Pun}} strange]] relationship with time thanks to [[spoiler: being empowered by the Time Stone]]. As a result, he's also a low-level RealityWarper, doing things that should logically being impossible and treating the Laws of Nature as vague guidelines.
** 'Nathan' is this because he's [[spoiler: a version of Harry]] from another reality, and thus an OutsideContextProblem (for the villains).
* This is [[ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} Braniac's]] view on WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11229151/7/Days-of-Justice Days of Justice]]''.

* Rainbow Dash in ''Fanfic/{{Austraeoh}}''. [[spoiler:After killing Discord]], she became host to both Chaos and Harmony, the two constantly battling for dominance. As long as she's wearing the element of Loyalty, she can survive without adverse affects, but if she removes it, Chaos starts taking hold and she [[spoiler:mutates into a chaos being like Discord]]. Her goal in the fic is to [[spoiler:reach the midnight armory, where she can reforge the other elements, which would have the added benefit of making her immortal.]]

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* In ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse'', [[spoiler:Miles learns he's one of these as the spider that bit him came from an AlternateUniverse, leaving that reality without a ComicBook/SpiderMan and forcing history to correct itself in his own by killing off his Spider-Man to make room for him. It's for this reason that he was excluded from the AllianceOfAlternates and LockedOutOfTheLoop]].
* Vanellope von Schweetz in ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'' is a GlitchEntity in a racing game called ''Sugar Rush'', making her a paradox person within the world of the arcade. AllOfTheOtherReindeer ostracise her and relegate her to live in a DummiedOut bonus level, and King Candy refuses to let her race out of fear that people would notice the glitch and unplug the "broken" game, which would leave most of the characters without a home and delete Vanellope herself from existence. [[spoiler:Or so King Candy claims — turns out he's the one who doesn't belong, being an invader from an earlier racing game called ''Turbo Time''. Vanellope used to be a legit character in ''Sugar Rush''; in fact, she was originally the princess of the game world until King Candy deleted her, and she ends up returning to rule (as a president this time) after the usurper gets overthrown.]]

* The protagonist of Creator/RobertAHeinlein's short story "Literature/AllYouZombies" who is [[spoiler:his/her own mother, his/her own father, and the person who recruited him/her into the TimePolice]].
%%* Cassie is described as something like this in one of the ''[[Literature/{{Animorphs}} Megamorphs]]'' books, though the reason why is never explained.

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': In ''Literature/{{Mort}}'' someone becomes a Paradox Person by not dying properly. Mort, Death's apprentice, is supposed to reap the soul of a princess, but she's so beautiful he can't bring himself to do it. Since the event that ''actually'' killed her still happened, she's left between life and death, kicking off most of the major events of the book.

** Becoming a Paradox Person by abusing TimeTravel is the basic membership qualification in the spinoff group ''Literature/FactionParadox''.

** In the Eleventh Doctor novel ''Touched by an Angel'', the Weeping Angels attempt to manipulate Mark Whittaker into becoming one by sending him back in time seventeen years with a letter allegedly written by his future self. Most of the letter's advice helps Mark ensure that his own past works out as it should, such as giving his past self a winning lottery ticket and retrieving his stolen wallet during a holiday, but the Angels' ultimate goal is to trick Mark into saving his wife from the accident that killed her in 2003. Without that death, Mark would have no reason to ''want'' to go back in time in the first place, but he would therefore have no reason to do everything else he's done in the past, creating a potent paradox that these Angels can feed on.
* In David Gerrold's ''Literature/TheManWhoFoldedHimself'', the eponymous time traveler also manages to erase his own birth at least once...but by then he's created so many alternate timelines that there's thousands of him lurking around, all of whom are outside of the timeline and thus should not exist.
* In Creator/JRRTolkien's [[Literature/TheSilmarillion mythology]]:
** Dwarves were not created with the world and therefore would not exist in its first designing. They were created when Aulë, the smith god, grew impatient for the first of Ilúvatar's children (the elves) to awaken; he decided to create creatures for himself. However, because he didn't have the power of true creation, they were originally little more than automatons, with no free will. Ilúvatar questioned Aule's intentions for stepping outside the plans for the universe which led to the creation of a mockery of real life. Aulë responded that he did it only because he was compelled by his love for creating which drove him to give life to creatures to share in that love. He then repented and was sorrowfully preparing to destroy the first dwarves but because unlike Melkor he genuinely respected his creations and didn't see them as an extension of his will, Ilúvatar, seeing Aulë's grief, gave the dwarves free will. As a result, the dwarves exist in Tolkien's world, but they occupy a strange place in it: they are like the Children of Ilúvatar (elves and humans), and yet separate from them as they technically were made by the force of crafting and skill.
** Tom Bombadil is an unusual... Person. He was apparently already there at the creation of Middle Earth and he isn't a Human, Hobbit, Dwarf, Elf, Vala or Maia. He's also completely immune to the effects of [[ArtifactOfDoom the one ring]] and defies the mythology of Middle Earth. [[InexplicablyAwesome It's never explained as to what exactly he is]].
* ''Literature/YoungWizards'' has the Transcendent Pig, an immortal being whose existence transcends space and time. He counts as a paradox person because none of the PowersThatBe, who collectively created Reality itself, can remember creating ''him'' (a fact about which the Powers are rather embarrassed).
* Creator/NKJemisin's ''Literature/InheritanceTrilogy'':

* In Asimov's ''Literature/TheEndOfEternity'' Noÿs appears to be this: Her existence seems to be so unlikely that Harlan can't find any altered version of the timeline that still includes her. [[spoiler:This is because she is from the distant future.]]
* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'': {{Invoked|Trope}} by the [[TheAntiGod Dark One]] to create TheSoulless Gray Men. Usually, soul loss leaves the victim a drooling EmptyShell, but extracting the soul within the EldritchLocation of Shayol Ghul creates a being with an intellect but no actual "self". This impossibility creates a PerceptionFilter that keeps people from noticing a Gray Man's presence.

* ''Series/TwelveMonkeys'': The Primaries' prophecy in Season 4 speaks of "the Djinn", a person whose existence is the root cause of causality being twisted into an interconnected series of {{Stable Time Loop}}s. It is naturally assumed that [[BigBad the Witness]] is this, as they fit the criteria (having used time travel to ensure their own existence). [[spoiler: However, it actually turns out to be [[TheProtagonist James Cole]], the first successful time traveler, whose mother turns out to herself be a time traveler from the future, whose life was saved as a child by Cole (who didn't realize who she really was).]] Taken up a notch during the GrandFinale, wherein [[spoiler: Cole lets himself be erased from all points in time in order to break the loop, only for a last minute change by [[ParentalSubstitute Jones]] (and the blessing of time itself, which feels it [[EarnYourHappyEnding owes him]]) ensures that he pops back into existence, despite the fact that his parents will now never meet, meaning he now has no timeline.]]
* Series/{{Arrowverse}}:
** [[spoiler:Eobard Thawne/the Reverse-Flash becomes this throughout the show. The first season ends with him being [[RetGone retroactively erased from history]] thanks to the GrandfatherParadox. Then a younger version of him shows up in season two, apparently protected by the Speed Force "until" all that other stuff happens. By the time he appears on ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'', he's become such a timeline headache he has a unique form of [[ClockRoaches Clock Roach]] gunning for him specifically. Strangely enough, the younger version of him somehow gained the memories of his older self. Even after this version is killed, another version of his older self pops up later, and only gives a dismissive “time travel, so very confusing” HandWave when asked where he comes from. Season 5 of ''The Flash'' explains it as him using [[TheDarkSide the Negative Speed Force]], which protects him from temporal changes.]]
** At the end of Season 3, [[spoiler:Savitar becomes this, after failing to kill Iris. With the StableTimeLoop broken, he only has a few hours to live, so he has to go with his plan B - having Cisco modify the Speed Force Bazooka into a quantum splicer, which will turn Savitar into a god, thus sparing him from being RetGone. When he’s killed before completing the plan, he fades away in a similar way to the Thawnes from season 1 of ''The Flash'' and season 2 of ''Legends of Tomorrow''.]]

** After the [[Series/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths2019 Crisis]], Earth-1, Earth-38, and Black Lightning's Earth are all merged, while Earth-2 is destroyed and replaced with a new one which serves as the setting for ''Series/{{Stargirl|2020}}''. However, for some reason, the Laurel Lance who appears in the last two episodes of ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' is still the same one we've been following for the past four seasons. She still acts as if she came from Earth-2, even though it doesn't exist (and, post-Crisis, [[{{RetGone}} never did]]). In fact, the Laurel from Earth-1 who died all the way back in Season 4 is stated to be a different person and still dead (though thanks to Oliver saving Tommy from death, they were married), even though everyone else is merged with their Earth-2 selves. This is because Oliver specifically chose to save Earth-2 Laurel; with him being the [[RealityWarper Spectre]], he had the ability to reconfigure the multiverse so she could continue to exist even when she should have not.
*** Similarly, the aftermath of the Crisis sees Dinah Drake return to her normal place in the Earth-1 timeline, long enough to [[spoiler: attend the funeral of Oliver Queen]]... only to wake up the very next day in Mia's future, with all evidence of her past existence in the timeline having been erased.

* ''Series/Loki2021'': The protagonist Loki is the one that teleported away with the tesseract during Film/AvengersEndgame. This violated the Sacred Timeline, causing the TVA to arrest him. He's explicitly called a Cosmic mistake.
** However, [[PlayingWithATrope played with]] when it turns out [[spoiler:that he didn't cause any real temporal paradox, and that the TVA isn't even designed to contain those; it's just enforcing one specific (and apparently arbitrarily chosen) timeline, and pruning anyone who makes decisions that would diverge from that- such as Loki variants that decide to be genuinely heroic.]]
* In the third season of ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy2019'', the Umbrella Hargreeves siblings [[spoiler:unknowingly]] become ones because [[spoiler:Viktor's removal of his powers from Harlan wasn't entirely complete, so Harlan goes on to accidentally kill all of their mothers via these borrowed powers before they were born and create a GrandfatherParadox in which the siblings need to exist in order to travel back in time to give Harlan his powers to kill their mothers, but their timeline meddling means that they should never have been born in the first place to give Harlan his powers.]] Their very existence interacting with the Sparrow Hargreeves timeline of 2019 spawns the [[NegativeSpaceWedgie kugelblitz]] in the Academy's basement.

** This is the whole point of ''TabletopGame/PrometheanTheCreated''. ''Reality itself'' rejects your existence and staying in one place for too long causes the location to decay.

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'', there is the Yozi Oramus. The first of the Primordials to awaken was Cytherea--yet when she did, Oramus asked what took her so long, because Oramus is the embodiment of paradox and the impossible. Unable to hold him in any lesser prison, the gods stitched Oramus' wings together and bound him within himself.

* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'':
** Nobodies are initially described as this. They are the remains of a person's body and soul after they lost their heart (which becomes a Heartless), animated by their strong will. They are born lacking hearts, which make them unable to truly feel, but their memories allow them to act out the appropriate emotions in the right situations. They are said to defy the laws of the universe to the point that neither the Realm of Darkness nor the Realm of Light accept them. As the series goes on, however, the Nobodies' inherent otherness becomes less and less emphasized, making it seem like the whole "unable to feel emotion" shtick is an InformedFlaw created so people can subject them to FantasticRacism. It all culminates with TheReveal in ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance Dream Drop Distance]]'' that [[spoiler:everything established as fact about Nobodies is one enormous lie, simply conjured up by Xemnas to make the members of the Organization easier to manipulate. Nobodies are not contradictory; they are simply the natural state people endure when their hearts are ripped out. By all accounts, the state is temporary and Nobodies will eventually replace the lost hearts with new ones, unless (as with the Organization) they are made to believe that can't happen and ignore any hint of their own emotions.]]
** A more straightforward example is Xion, who is an ArtificialHuman created from Sora's memories and is meant to be a clone and replacement of Sora's Nobody, Roxas. Because of her relationship with Roxas, she unwittingly absorbs Sora's memories, causing her to grow stronger and essentially [[BecomeARealBoy becoming a person]], but making both Sora and Roxas weaker. When she perishes, she is {{Ret Gone}}d. [[spoiler:Or so we think. It turns out that replicas, like Nobodies and other intelligent beings who lack hearts, are capable of growing them given time. Xion did, so when the heart is returned to her, everyone remembers her again.]]
* [[spoiler:Ciel]] from ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' is a walking, talking paradox because she cannot live and cannot die at the same time, making her effectively [[CursedWithAwesome a perfect immortal]].
* In ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' [[spoiler: Noel Vermillion]] never existed in previous timelines (as the result of being an ArtificialHuman AttackAnimal of some sort). [[BigBad Terumi]] is able to use this knowledge (combined with the fact that [[spoiler: that Tsubaki would [[LoveMakesYouEvil have Jin to herself]] and withholding the fact that in the prime universe, she'd be dead and Jin would become Hakumen]]) to MoreThanMindControl [[spoiler: Tsubaki, Noel's best friend]] into a FaceHeelTurn.

* Waluigi from ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' is this from a [[{{Postmodernism}} postmodern]] perspective, as discussed in the essay "[[https://theemptypage.wordpress.com/2013/05/20/critical-perspectives-on-waluigi/ Critical Perspectives on Waluigi]]". In the author's words, "Waluigi is the ultimate example of the individual shaped by the signifier. Waluigi is a man seen only in mirror images; lost in a hall of mirrors he is a reflection of a reflection of a reflection. You start with [[TheHero Mario – the wholesome all Italian plumbing superman]], you reflect him to create Luigi – [[StuckInTheirShadow the same thing but slightly less]]. You [[ShadowArchetype invert Mario to create Wario]] – Mario turned septic and libertarian – then you reflect the inversion in the reflection: you create a being who can only exist in reference to others. Waluigi is the true nowhere man, [[https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/8uflkp/a_comic_about_waluigi/ without the other characters he reflects, inverts and parodies he has no reason to exist]]. Waluigi’s identity only comes from what and who he isn’t – without a wider frame of reference he is nothing. He is not his own man."
* ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'' introduced [[spoiler:Paradox Pokémon, which are supposedly past/future versions of contemporary {{mons}} brought to the current day by TheProfessor's TimeMachine. [[{{Foreshadowing}} The game itself points out that several aspects of their existence don't add up]], such as the fact that there were sightings of them before the time machine was even built. It's speculated that these {{mons}} never actually existed to begin with, and [[{{tulpa}} were created by the machine drawing from people's imaginations]] as a result of the MineralMacGuffin used to make it and the influence of [[SequelHook a mysterious third Legendary]] shown in Arven's book which was later identified as Terapagos.]]
* Elizabeth from ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite''. [[spoiler: Being born of another universe and split between the two, she can access virtually ''any'' conceivable universe.]] The ''Burial at Sea'' Episode 2 DLC [[spoiler:sees her lose this status, due to the fact that by returning to [[VideoGame/{{Bioshock}} Rapture]] after the version of her there died at the end of Episode 1 [[LaserGuidedKarma by her own actions]], her existence as a quantum suspension is "reset" and now she's stuck in that timeline and ''will'' die for real the next time ([[KilledOffForReal which ultimately happens at the end]]).]]
* In ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor2 [[UpdatedRerelease Record Breaker]]'', [[spoiler:Miyako Hotsuin, aka Cor Caroli, was created by the divine being Canopus as a replacement for Yamato Hotsuin after his data in the AkashicRecords went missing. However, he is eventually brought back into the world, making Miyako this. Just trying to process the paradox of their simultaneous existence is enough to make the supposedly-invincible Canopus ''freak out so hard it becomes vulnerable''.]]
** [[spoiler:The PlayerCharacter is himself a paradox in the storyline of Record Breaker as his data was erased in the second world, and in the current third world there are moments where he will still temporarily flicker out of existence while his data is being simultaneously repaired by Yamato and attacked by Canopus.]]
* In the ''VideoGame/Persona2'' duology, [[spoiler:Tatsuya Suou participated in the destruction of his world via the Oracle of Maya's prophecy, leading to the end of the ''Innocent Sin'' timeline. While [[AllPowerfulBystander Philemon]] rewound time to separate the TrueCompanions to avert the Oracle by creating a new world (the ''Eternal Punishment'' timeline), everyone else in his group allowed themselves to forget each other. Tatsuya, however, refused to forget Maya, and his stubbornness instead sent him into the ''EP'' world's Tatsuya. Ironically, in his attempts to protect Maya, he wound up ensuring [[HistoryRepeats a repeat]] of many of the events of the ''IS'' world.]]
* In ''VideoGame/Injustice2'', Reverse-Flash can't return to the future because Superman's Regime in this timeline killed one of his ancestors, thus making him a paradox.
* In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series, Mephala is a [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Prince]] whose sphere is "obscured to mortals", but who is associated with [[ManipulativeBastard manipulation]] and the themes of murder, sex, and secrets. All of these themes contain subtle aspects and violent ones (assassination/genocide, courtship/orgy, tact/poetic truths); Mephala is understood paradoxically to contain and integrate these contradictory themes. It's rather fitting then that Mephala has associations with Sithis, a [[TheAntiGod primordial force]] representing chaos, change, and limitation. Sithis is described as an equal but opposing force to Anui-El, "the soul of all things", making Sithis is the ''antithesis'' of all things. [[MindScrew Sithis Is Not]].
* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfMajEyal'', Paradox Mages' power is increased by causing trouble in spacetime, and their TimeMaster powers are [[TimeyWimeyBall not limited by the rules of sanity, let alone causality]]. Fittingly, the class can only be unlocked when a Temporal Warden [[GrandfatherParadox is killed by his own future self]]; this is only the start of the reality glitching.
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'':
** Sylvanas Windrunner is viewed this way by the Alliance. She falls into the category of "The Powers that Be did not intend you to happen". She was killed and raised to undeath by the Lich King, but the Lich King was supposed to keep his army (called The Scourge) mind-controlled. Someone did some magic interfering with this, and Sylvanas managed to get free of the Lich King's mind-control. Oops. She also freed some other people including her former lover Nathanos Maris who always happened to be a brilliant tactician. Basically, The Scourge was screwed. The Alliance however views the undead as unnatural abominations, and therefore Sylvanas is a paradox person for them.
** Illidan Stormrage thinks he's this due to consuming the Skull of Gul'dan and becoming a demon, but he might also just be an arrogant JerkassHero. Though with how weird the lore in this game is getting, one never knows for sure.
* In the ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'' series, Raziel is one starting about a third of the way through the first Soul Reaver game. This is because he absorbed the soul of the titular reaver, which is ''his'' soul from a possible future. Since there are now always two of him at the same point in space/time wherever he goes, he is a walking paradox.
* Jeanne D'Arc Alter Santa Lily of ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' is the idealistic child self of a being that was a) BornAsAnAdult and b) wished into existence by the Grail. The Throne of Heroes threatens her life because there is no concievable timeline or universe where she can naturally exist without some tie to the original Jeanne, and due to her young age she hasn't done anything that can connect her. Amakusa and the Protagonist manage to justify her existence in time by bringing her to the ocean, fulfilling a dream that Jeanne (and by extension Jeanne Alter) never got to experience in her youth.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsIntoReverie'', [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel Rean Schwarzer]] encounters a man who looks very similar to him yet at the same time is a RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver version of him. This variation of Rean ends up causing reality to try and merge the two Reans into one being as only one Rean is supposed to exist in the timeline. It's revealed that the other Rean [[spoiler:is a simulated version of him in an alternate timeline where he performs his HeroicSuicide as depicted at the end of ''Cold Steel IV'', formally named as "Ishmelga-Rean".]]
* In ''VideoGame/KingdomsOfAmalurReckoning'', YouCantFightFate is one of the defining features of the setting. So when the [[ImmuneToFate Fateless One]] comes along, it's a very big deal. The paradox is made evident early on: a man knows that he's fated to die at a certain time by the hand of a certain monster. But when the time comes, the Fateless One kills the monster, saving the man. This action indelibly alters not only the fate of the man, but also that of [[ButterflyOfDoom every other person]] he will interact with for the rest of his life (and everyone the monster and its future offspring would have interacted with, as well).
* The climax of ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'' sees the birth of Fire God Liu Kang, who comes into existence as a result of the fusion between the souls of Past!Liu Kang, Revenant!Liu Kang, and Raiden. This fact in itself already creates a paradox (as his past self's death would have been completely undone and it would have prevented his Revenant's existence), and he also exists outside of time as Raiden revealed to have been a property gods have. In ''Aftermath'', when the three people that make up his being don't merge (with his human and Revenant possibly dying too), he still shows up in the end to confront Shang Tsung. Simply put, there are so many factors that prove that he shouldn't even exist but he still does due to being a god.

** Sumeru's Archon Quest explores this trope at length. [[spoiler: Greater Lord Rukkhadevata realized this would be the result if she attempted to erase herself from Irminsul, and therefore created Nahida as her reincarnation to exploit a loophole. Her lingering memory and the corruption attached to it would cause numerous disasters throughout Sumeru until Nahida was finally able to purge Rukkhadevata from the world's memory. In doing so, Nahida herself is given credit for her predecessor's actions to account for everyone but the Traveler forgetting Rukkhadevata ever existed]].
** The interlude quest, "Inversion of Genesis", likewise centers on this trope. [[spoiler: Scaramouche's attempt to erase his own existence results in him becoming such a being. As the amnesiac Wanderer, he encounters the Traveler and resolves to reclaim a hidden copy of his lost memories. As of the quest's conclusion, he resolves to take advantage of his RetGone status to take revenge against the Fatui. The organization, normally so careful about cleaning up loose ends, has completely forgotten the existence of such a dangerous former member and all the secrets he knows]].
* The art prep room ghost from ''WebAnimation/HololiveERROR: The Game'' [[AmbiguousSituation may or may not]] be one of these in-universe ([[WatsonianVersusDoylist out-of-universe]], it's just because the developers didn't want to injure the likeness of a ''hololive'' talent on-screen). Watchers of the motion manga would quickly realize that things simply ''don't match up'', and not just in appearance, because not only does [[spoiler:Mari Akagane]] not show up after her death, the deaths tied to the blood painting are associated with a simple curse there, ''not'' the ghost of the painter coming in and draining you of your blood to use as more paint. [[spoiler:As such, it is very likely that the game version was created by the Perfect World itself, but it then would've had to reconfigure itself after Shino Misora found out the truth about Mari and thus wouldn't need the overly-violent stand-in anymore. However, even after the ending of the motion manga, she is ''still there in the game'', suggesting that she somehow was unaffected and still exists despite the fact that she shouldn't. Shino even supports this, stating in "202 Accepted" that there is some kind of "error" in the new world.]]

* ''Webcomic/TheDragonDoctors'': [[http://dragondoctors.dhscomix.com/archives/comic/ch-9-page-2-2 Delta X]], "the result of a mad scientist kidnapping a girl and fusing as many things into her as he could--creatures with contradictory natures, like fire and ice."

** Chaz -- a sword but a TalkingWeapon so he's also a person -- is stated to be from outside the Fate Web, which is why he's able to kill a god and why even the KingOfGods is unable to destroy him. Though the details remain sketchy, he was brought into the world from [[spoiler: the hellish dimension the Never, by Satan.]]

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* ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'': "[[Franchise/DragonBall Goku Black]] vs. [[ComicBook/TheFlash Reverse-Flash]]" explores what happens when two Paradox People want each other dead. After duking it out the old-fashioned way in the first half of the battle, Thawne and Zamasu both get the idea to travel back in time and kill their opponents before the fight begins ([[CallBack a la Green Lantern vs. Ben 10]])... only to find neither of them is affected by the deaths of their past selves. [[spoiler:Thawne wins this one, courtesy of being a ''natural'' Paradox Person; Zamasu only possesses the status due to his Time Ring, which can be removed.]]

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* Every [[HumanoidAbomination human(ish) SCP]] of the ''Website/SCPFoundation'', by dint of not complying to how reality (as we know it) works. Some of them are outright normal people with [[MundaneHorror something subtly wrong with them that makes them harmful]] or a threat to TheMasquerade.
** A more literal example would be the [[EldritchAbomination Pattern Screamers]], who are sentient forms of unlife [[YourMindMakesItReal created by the human consciousness]] [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm attempting to process total nothingness and literally seeing things that aren't there]]. They're [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-000 fully aware]] of the fact they don't exist, [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3930 they hate us for giving them form]], and they want nothing more than to [[RetGone return to nothingness and take us with them to achieve it]]. Basically, {{tulpa}}s that want themselves and their creators dead.
* In ''AudioPlay/DoctorWhoovesAdventures'', [[spoiler:Penny Dreadful's parents met in an aborted timeline]]. She exists solely because the universe has overlooked this fact while the timelines, in Doctor's words, are "boiling". Fixing the universe has to involve [[RetGone erasing her]].
* ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'': Near the end of the Season 16, The Reds and Blues decide to TimeTravel and prevent Wash getting shot in Season 15, and contracting brain damage. They succeed, but cause a RealityBreakingParadox that traps them in a loop of "Soft Time", forever reliving their lives up until that point. In Season 17, Donut learns that after the moment the paradox happened, Agent Washington is now two people in one body- a Wash who got shot and was treated, and one who ''wasn't'' shot and ''didn't'' get treated. This has resulted in Wash checking into a hospital for a gun wound that never happened, and when Donut finds him, is now constantly shifting between Sane/treated and Loopy/untreated. Luckily, confronting the LogicBomb stabilizes Wash's personality.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': In "Gold Stars", the Lich mentions that before time started, there was nothing, and then mentions the group of monsters who were around ''before that nothing''. Orgalorg ([[spoiler:[[SealedEvilInATeddyBear AKA Gunter]]]]) was one of them, the Lich and [[{{Satan}} Marceline's father]] may be others.
* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'': A monster from 50 years in the past that accelerates time is destroying a town, and Ben and the gang is told the creature does not hold order in the time stream.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': Fry became [[MyOwnGrampa his own grandfather]], thanks to some mixups sending the crew to 1947. Because he is a paradox himself, he lacks a delta brainwave, which becomes a plot point later on.
** ''[[Recap/FuturamaM1BendersBigScore Bender's Big Score]]'': Time paradox doubles are also an example of this trope, being temporal copies brought about when a time-traveller breaks their own causality when interacting with their past self. These doubles inevitably die because they're paradoxes. [[spoiler:Lars Fillmore, Leela's new love interest, turns out to be one of Fry.]]
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* Jones from ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt''. A human (sort of) who already existed [[TimeAbyss before the beginning of life on Earth]]. Nobody knows where she came from, not even herself. Her existence even predates the one of gods, who only exist in this universe because they were imagined by humans. The gods themselves don't seem to know what the deal is with Jones either.

* In ''VideoGame/Injustice2'', Reverse-Flash can't return to the future due to the fact that Superman's Regime in this timeline killed one of his ancestors, thus making him a paradox.

* [[ComicBook/Warlock1967 Adam Warlock]] has become something akin to this, a being who stands outside and is not affected by otherwise universal forces of chaos and order or life and death. His sometime enemy the In-Betweener was similarly described in his first appearance, but has since been treated as a creation and servant of the {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s of chaos and order. Adam's ally Gamora was plucked from the timeline to make her into such a being, but it didn't take.
** Another Creator/MarvelComics cosmic being, the Anomaly, is essentially the embodiment of Things That Should Not Be.

* ''ComicBookContinuitySnarl/DonnaTroy, aka Wonder Girl. A founding member of the ComicBook/TeenTitans with a MultipleChoicePast as a result of so many {{retcon}}s that both in and out of universe nobody's really sure where she came from, not even herself. And of course, the Speed Force complicates things further thanks to Wally West knowing her with RippleEffectProofMemory despite her latest "origin" contradicting it.
* ''ComicBook/XMen'': ComicBook/XMan is one of the few survivors from the ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse timeline which no longer exists. This is discussed (in a maddened gabble) by Legion, who unwittingly created the Age of Apocalypse, in ''[[ComicBook/UncannyXMen2018 X-Men: Disassembled]]''.

%%* [[Characters/{{Thorgal}} Thorgal Aegirsson.]]

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** Then there's the Zamasu native to Trunk's timeline, who used the Super Dragonballs to wish for CompleteImmortality. Thus the trope becomes invoked again when [[spoiler: the two alternate Zamasus fuse, creating a being that simultaneously is and is not immortal. Emphasis on 'paradox' here, because "killing" this mortal/immortal being instead causes him to become a bodiless, metaphysical entity, [[EldritchAbomination a literal living paradox that merges with reality itself and threatens all of spacetime]].]]

* ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'' introduced [[spoiler:Paradox Pokémon, which are supposedly past/future versions of contemporary {{mons}} brought to the current day by TheProfessor's TimeMachine. [[{{Foreshadowing}} The game itself points out that several aspects of their existence don't add up]], such as the fact that there were sightings of them before the time machine was even built, Roaring Moon is supposedly connected to Mega Salamence when [[SuperMode Mega Evolution]] has only existed for 3000 years, Brute Bonnet has the same Poké Ball pattern as Amoonguss despite coming from an era that predates humanity (though the Pokedex entry of Fonguss from the same game sugests that the Pokeball pattern was based on Foonguss and Amoonguss as opposed to the other way around, possibly to try and justify this), Scream Tail (prehistoric Jigglypuff) ''predates multicellular life'' (albeit the Pokedex entry this information comes from explicitly cites a "paranormal magazine" implying this is seen as unreliable in-universe as well), and the future mons apparently evolved (in the Darwinian sense, mind you) ''into robots'' (though Miraidon is stating as having DNA, so perhaps they're actually cyborgs). It's possibly implied that these {{mons}} never actually existed to begin with, and [[{{tulpa}} were created by the machine drawing from people's imaginations]] as a result of the MineralMacGuffin used to make it and the influence of [[SequelHook a mysterious third Legendary]] shown in Arven's book which was later identified as Terapagos. But that's just speculation.]]

*** Amy Pond grew up in close proximity to a crack in time, and can remember things erased from time: Rory and later the Doctor himself were restored ''from her memory.'' Amy's own parents were also among those erased pre-series, and yet Amy still exists.

* ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'' introduced [[spoiler:Paradox Pokémon, which are supposedly past/future versions of contemporary {{mons}} brought to the current day by TheProfessor's TimeMachine. [[{{Foreshadowing}} The game itself points out that several aspects of their existence don't add up]], such as the fact that there were sightings of them before the time machine was even built, Roaring Moon is supposedly connected to Mega Salamence when [[SuperMode Mega Evolution]] has only existed for 3000 years, Brute Bonnet has the same Poké Ball pattern as Amoonguss despite coming from an era that predates humanity (though the Pokedex entry of Fonguss from the same game sugests that the Pokeball pattern was based on Foonguss and Amoonguss as opossed to the other way around, possibly to try and justify this), Scream Tail (prehistoric Jigglypuff) ''predates multicellular life'' (albeit the Pokedex entry this information comes from explicitly cites a "paranormal magazine" implying this is seen as unreliable in-universe as well), and the future mons apparently evolved (in the Darwinian sense, mind you) ''into robots'' (though Miraidon is stating as having DNA, so perhaps they're actually cyborgs). It's possibly implied that these {{mons}} never actually existed to begin with, and [[{{tulpa}} were created by the machine drawing from people's imaginations]] as a result of the MineralMacGuffin used to make it and the influence of [[SequelHook a mysterious third Legendary]] shown in Arven's book which was later identified as Terapagos. But that's just speculation.]]

* ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'' introduced [[spoiler:Paradox Pokémon, which are supposedly past/future versions of contemporary {{mons}} brought to the current day by TheProfessor's TimeMachine. [[{{Foreshadowing}} The game itself points out that several aspects of their existence don't add up]], such as the fact that there were sightings of them before the time machine was even built, Roaring Moon is supposedly connected to Mega Salamence when [[SuperMode Mega Evolution]] has only existed for 3000 years, Brute Bonnet has the same Poké Ball pattern as Amoonguss despite coming from an era that predates humanity, Scream Tail (prehistoric Jigglypuff) ''predates multicellular life'', and the future mons apparently evolved (in the Darwinian sense, mind you) ''into robots''. It's implied that these {{mons}} never actually existed to begin with, and [[{{tulpa}} were created by the machine drawing from people's imaginations]] as a result of the MineralMacGuffin used to make it and the influence of [[SequelHook a mysterious third Legendary]] shown in Arven's book which was later identified as Terapagos.]]
** Of particular note are [[spoiler:Walking Wake and Raging Bolt, the primal Paradox versions of Suicune and Raikou. These two are particularly JustForFun/{{egregious}} instances of the paradoxical nature of the Paradox Pokémon as they're Paradoxes of Pokémon that, as far as we know, ''didn't exist until'' '''''much''''' ''later'' as the Legendary Beasts came about when they were revived by Ho-Oh after dying as completely different Pokémon in the Tin Tower fire.]]

* ''Literature/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'', at the end of the Web Novel, [[spoiler:[[TheHero Rimuru Tempest]] reaches this point after becoming the WorldsStrongestMan and a full-on PhysicalGod, able to alter the past at will without compromising his own existence or the world resulting from his actions. He's able to TimeTravel to the point where his past self Satoru Mikami is fatally stabbed, stops the incident, and can completely get away with it to let his old self live a happy life without causing a massive GrandfatherParadox.]]

* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' has Doctor Strange, who has an unusual variation on immortality and a very [[IncrediblyLamePun strange]] relationship with time thanks to [[spoiler: being empowered by the Time Stone]]. As a result, he's also a low-level RealityWarper, doing things that should logically being impossible and treating the Laws of Nature as vague guidelines.