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Cassius335: From the "Back to the Future II" example.
"The older Jennifer also faints. Which is odd, because future Jennifer had thirty years advance notice that her past self will faint upon seeing her."
...No, she didn't. That's why it's a paradox: Until it happened, it had never happened.
Anonymous Mc Cartneyfan: Cut the rest of that example. Jennifer didn't faint because she was scared, or for any personal reason; she fainted because the universe objected to her meeting herself so directly. Think of it as Back To The Future's version of the Blinovitch Effect.
- In Back To The Future Part II, Jennifer from 1985 faints upon seeing her 2015 self.
