Line #19 PlayingWith/TemporalParadox


1	'''Basic Trope''': A character travels through time and causes an impossible event or paradox.
2	* '''Straight''': [[MyOwnGrandpa Alexia accidentally becomes her own grandmother.]]
3	* '''Exaggerated''': Alexia brings technology from the 2500's to Ancient Rome, accidentally becomes her own ancestor, and ends up leading to an endlessly long world empire.
4	* '''Downplayed''': Alexia uses time travel to detonate a grenade twice, first its future copy and then the original in the past.
5	* '''Justified''': The "paradox" cleans itself up. Once SanDimasTime reaches Alexia's birth, time rearranges itself so that she ''[[StableTimeLoop always]]'' caused those events.
6	* '''Inverted''': The universe would end because of a natural paradox in it (no meddling necessary), until Alexia sets the time stream right.
7	* '''Subverted''': Alexia accidentally kills her own grandmother, but when she comes back to the present her grandmother is alive ''and'' she herself isn't erased from existence.
8	* '''Double Subverted''': Turns out it's her grandmother's twin sister. [[PuffOfLogic Poof]] goes Alexia.
9	* '''Parodied''':
10	** Alexia causes a Pradadox, and everyone in the world only wears Prada.
11	** The world starts to turn into BizarroWorld through increasingly hodgepodge attempts to "fix" the last paradox she caused.
12	* '''Zig Zagged''': Alexia killed her grandmother, but what she doesn't know is she was supposed to die anyway- except that's because of a StableTimeLoop, only now she can't exist.
13	* '''Averted''':
14	** Alexia kills Hitler, uses a TimelineAlteringMacGuffin, and sets up an empire using 32nd century technology. The effect? She creates an alternate timeline because the changes were too radical. Her home Earth goes unchanged.
15	** Alternately, time has a cleanup crew (be it TimePolice, ClockRoaches, or the ButterflyOfDoom) that can fix any problem, so there aren't ever paradoxes.
16	** No TimeTravel.
17	** No one ever changes anything.
18	* '''Enforced''': "It's a story with TimeTravel, ''of course'' there has to be a paradox!"
19	* '''Lampshaded''': "Great. Just ''great!'' We've killed ourselves from five minutes from now. Now we have to take their[=/=]our place and get slaughtered by our future/present selves or destroy the universe!"
20	* '''Invoked''': Alexia convinces the MadScientist not to use the time machine by convincing her she'll just end up killing one of herself when her Ego clashes with her past self's ego.
21	* '''Exploited''': An EldritchAbomination [[HordeOfAlienLocusts eats universes]] by [[MindManipulation mentally influencing]] time travelers to create temporal paradoxes, thus [[TimeCrash ripping the universe asunder]], allowing said eldritch abomination to [[CosmicHorrorStory feed on the metaphysical scraps]].
22	* '''Defied''': Alexia takes pains to ''never'' mess up time.
23	* '''Discussed''': "I hate time travel. If we step on a butterfly we'll end up starting World War Three, and then the universe will implode."
24	* '''Conversed''': "I wonder why anyone uses time machines when it's so easy to make a time travel paradox."
25	* '''Deconstructed''': Time travel inherently creates paradoxes (paradoxi?) and is thus too dangerous to ever use. Realizing this, Alexia makes one last paradox to save the universe: she kills the inventor of the time machine.
26	* '''Reconstructed''': ... which was completely pointless: a paradox only seems impossible to human observers, the nth dimensional Time Beavers explain to Alexia that it's all just a giant TimeyWimeyBall, and she shouldn't worry too much about it.
27	* '''Implied''': Alexia attempts time travel. Cue the entire universe caving in on itself.
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29	What? You can't head back to and read TemporalParadox! The universe might be destroyed!
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34	%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
35	%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

Context PlayingWith / TemporalParadox