Time Paradox

CONCEPT

A time paradox is when a person who travels in time does something that influences their past self in a way that traveling in time in the first place would not be possible or not have occurred without the first intrusion.

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Overview

The idea is predicated on the notion that time is a linear series of unalterable events, so traveling back in time causes one to be incapable of changing anything from happening, as one was already predetermined to travel through time. Therefore, one would be unable to complete actions that would prevent time travel in the first place. A simple time paradox would be the following: If one were to go back in time and kill their grandfather, would they still be born and able to go back in time to kill their grandfather?

Time Paradoxes in Games

Killing Revolver Ocelot (Character) in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater or Metal Gear Solid V: Phantom Pain, nullifies everything that happened in the Metal Gear Solid (Franchise) series.

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• A Sound of Thunder (Game)
• Achron (Game)
• Back to the Future: The Game (Game)
• Back to the Future: The Game - Episode 1: It's About Time (Game)
• Breath of Fire (Game)
• Castlevania (Game)
• Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness (Game)
• Chrono Cross (Game)
• Chronomaster (Game)
• Clannad (Game)
• Clive Barker's Undying (Game)
• Clock Tower 3 (Game)
• Ecco the Dolphin (Game)
• Ecco: The Tides of Time (Game)
• Escape from Monkey Island (Game)
• Final Fantasy (Game)
• Final Fantasy Chronicles (Game)
• Final Fantasy I & II: Dawn of Souls (Game)
• Final Fantasy Origins (Game)
• Final Fantasy VIII (Game)
• Final Fantasy XIII-2 (Game)
• Futurama (Game)
• God of War II (Game)
• Gradius V (Game)
• Half-Life: Opposing Force (Game)
• Half-Minute Hero (Game)
• Jak 3 (Game)
• Jak II (Game)
• Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy (Game)
• Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend (Game)
• Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen 2 (Game)
• Legacy of Kain: Defiance (Game)
• Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 (Game)
• Life Is Strange (Game)
• Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII (Game)
• Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (Game)
• Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence (Game)
• Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Game)
• Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D (Game)
• Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness/Time (Game)
• Prince of Persia Trilogy (Game)
• Prince of Persia: Revelations (Game)
• Prince of Persia: Rival Swords (Game)
• Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands (Game)
• Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (Game)
• Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones (Game)
• Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (Game)
• Project Temporality (Game)
• Quantum Break (Game)
• Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time (Game)
• Retro Game Crunch (Game)
• Rose & Time (Game)
• Shadow Hearts: Covenant (Game)
• Shadow of Destiny (Game)
• Sigma Harmonics (Game)
• Simon the Sorcerer II: The Lion, the Wizard and the Wardrobe (Game)
• Sonic Generations (Game)
• Sonic the Hedgehog (Game)
• Steins;Gate (Game)
• Steins;Gate 8-bit (Game)
• Super Time Force (Game)
• Tanktics (Game)
• Tekken 5 (Game)
• Tekken: Dark Resurrection (Game)
• The Forgotten City (Game)
• The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past & Four Swords (Game)
• The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (Game)
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time / Master Quest (Game)
• The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages (Game)
• The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom (Game)
• Time Fcuk (Game)
• Time Gentlemen, Please! (Game)
• Time Hollow (Game)
• TimeShift (Game)
• TimeSplitters 2 (Game)
• TimeSplitters: Future Perfect (Game)
• Valkyrie Profile (Game)
• Word Rescue (Game)
• World of Warcraft: Cataclysm (Game)
• World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade (Game)
• Zero Time Dilemma (Game)
• inFamous (Game)

Concept details

Name

Time Paradox

Aliases

Games

• A Sound of Thunder (Game)
• Achron (Game)
• Back to the Future: The Game (Game)
• Back to the Future: The Game - Episode 1: It's About Time (Game)
• Breath of Fire (Game)
• Castlevania (Game)
• Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness (Game)
• Chrono Cross (Game)
• Chronomaster (Game)
• Clannad (Game)
• Clive Barker's Undying (Game)
• Clock Tower 3 (Game)
• Ecco the Dolphin (Game)
• Ecco: The Tides of Time (Game)
• Escape from Monkey Island (Game)
• Final Fantasy (Game)
• Final Fantasy Chronicles (Game)
• Final Fantasy I & II: Dawn of Souls (Game)
• Final Fantasy Origins (Game)
• Final Fantasy VIII (Game)
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Franchises

• Has franchises: Sonic the Hedgehog (Franchise), The Legend of Zelda (Franchise), Tekken (Franchise), Half-Life (Franchise), Castlevania (Franchise), Ecco (Franchise), Metal Gear (Franchise), Metal Gear Solid (Franchise), Jak and Daxter (Franchise), Ratchet & Clank (Franchise), Ratchet & Clank Future (Franchise), Mystery Dungeon (Franchise), Pokémon (Franchise), Pokémon Mystery Dungeon (Franchise), Tomb Raider (Franchise), Final Fantasy (Franchise), Back to the Future (Franchise), Warcraft (Franchise), Valkyrie (Franchise), Chrono (Franchise), Legacy of Kain (Franchise), Soul Reaver (Franchise), Half-Minute Hero (Franchise), Clive Barker (Franchise), Monkey Island (Franchise), TimeSplitters (Franchise), Breath of Fire (Franchise), Shadow Hearts (Franchise), Prince of Persia (Franchise), The Sands of Time (Franchise), God of War (Franchise), Clock Tower (Franchise), Clannad (Franchise), inFamous (Franchise), Science Adventure (Franchise), Gradius (Franchise), Steins;Gate Series (Franchise)

Characters

• Has characters: Kratos (Character), Link (Character), Revolver Ocelot (Character), Big Boss (Character), Raiden (Character), Jak (Character), Cole MacGrath (Character), Medivh (Character), Trunks (Character), Crono (Character), Raziel (Character), Kain (Character), Serge (Character), Sergeant Cortez (Character), Jacob Crow (Character), Spike (Character), Mantorok (Character), The Prince (Character), Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth (Character), Karin Koenig (Character), John Locke (Character), Tim (Character), Kyle Reese (Character), Kyon (Character), Tomoya Okazaki (Character), Kessler (Character), Kori Twelves (Character), Marty McFly (Character), Rintarō Okabe (Character)

Locations

• Has locations: Earth (Location), Jungle (Location), Hyjal Summit (Location), Old Hillsbrad Foothills (Location), Nosgoth (Location), The Culling of Stratholme (Location), Haven City (Location), Black Morass (Location), Caverns of Time (Location)

Objects

• Has objects: Spaceship (Object), Time Machine (Object), Sands of Time (Object), The TARDIS (Object), DeLorean DMC-12 (Object), Vic Viper (Object)

People

Related Concepts

• Has related concepts: Fate (Concept), Meme Origin (Concept), Time Limit (Concept), Younger Self (Concept), The Allies (Concept), World War II (Concept), World War III (Concept), Groundhog Day Scenario (Concept), Time Travel (Concept), Time Manipulation (Concept)