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** The timeline turns out to be unchangeable or work on [[AlternateTimeline split timeline logic]], so no matter how hard you try you can't kill your grandfather.



** Turns out [[CheatingWithTheMilkman the milkman was Bob's real grandfather]], so he still vanishes in a PuffOfLogic.
* '''Defied''': The timeline turns out to be unchangeable or work on [[AlternateTimeline split timeline logic]], so no matter how hard you try you can't kill your grandfather.

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** Turns out [[CheatingWithTheMilkman the milkman was Bob's real grandfather]], so he still vanishes in a PuffOfLogic.
* '''Defied''': The timeline turns out to be unchangeable or work on [[AlternateTimeline split timeline logic]], so no matter how hard you try you can't kill your grandfather.
PuffOfLogic.
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** Bob shoots his grandfather but he manages to survive since Bob isn't the best shot.

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** Bob shoots his grandfather but he manages to survive since Bob isn't the best shot.survive.
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* '''Inverted''': [[StableTimeLoop Bob is the reason why his grandparents even met]]

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* '''Inverted''': [[StableTimeLoop Bob is the reason why his grandparents even met]]met]].
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* '''Downplayed''': Bob kills his grandfather ''after'' he already conceives him, but not his brother.

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* '''Downplayed''': Bob kills his grandfather ''after'' he already conceives him, but not his brother.brother.
* '''Inverted''': [[StableTimeLoop Bob is the reason why his grandparents even met]]
* '''Subverted'''
** Bob shoots his grandfather but he manages to survive since Bob isn't the best shot.
** Bob thinks he killed his grandfather by accident, but it turns out to have been the similarly-looking milkman.
* '''Double Subverted'''
** Bob's grandfather swears he's never going to have kids after Bob tried to kill him, so his conception is prevented anyway.
** Turns out [[CheatingWithTheMilkman the milkman was Bob's real grandfather]], so he still vanishes in a PuffOfLogic.
* '''Defied''': The timeline turns out to be unchangeable or work on [[AlternateTimeline split timeline logic]], so no matter how hard you try you can't kill your grandfather.
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'''Basic Trope''': A TemporalParadox wherein a character travels back in time and kills their relative (usually a grandparent), thus preventing their conception.
* '''Straight''': Bob travels back in time and kills his grandfather, thus preventing his conception.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Bob travels back in time and kills '''all''' of his relatives, even distant cousins, preventing all of them from being conceived.
** Killing his grandfather causes a RealityBreakingParadox, [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt destroying the entire universe]].
** Bob kills the first humans, causing '''ALL''' modern humans to cease to exist.
* '''Downplayed''': Bob kills his grandfather ''after'' he already conceives him, but not his brother.

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