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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31 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
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34 | %%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ??? |
35 | %%* '''Played For Laughs''': ??? |
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