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* [[ComicBook/{{Warlock}} Adam Warlock]] has become something akin to this, a being who stands outside and is not affected by otherwise universal forces of chaos and order or life and death. His sometime enemy the In-Betweener was similarly described in his first appearance, but has since been treated as a creation and servant of the {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s of chaos and order. Adam's ally Gamora was plucked from the timeline to make her into such a being, but it didn't take.

* Every [[HumanoidAbomination human(ish) SCP]] of the ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'', by dint of not complying to how reality (as we know it) works. Some of them are outright normal people with [[MundaneHorror something subtly wrong with them that makes them harmful.]]

* ComicBook/AdamWarlock has become something akin to this, a being who stands outside and is not affected by otherwise universal forces of chaos and order or life and death. His sometime enemy the In-Betweener was similarly described in his first appearance, but has since been treated as a creation and servant of the {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s of chaos and order. Adam's ally Gamora was plucked from the timeline to make her into such a being, but it didn't take.

* ''Literature/TheLongPriceQuartet:'' In order to create an ''andat'', a poet must somehow twist the concept he wishes to embody against itself, creating an innate paradox that keeps the andat from simply returning to the memetic void from which it was pulled. This is why all andat seek dissolution, because ceasing to exist is the only way by which they can resolve the intolerable self-contradiction that is their own existence.
** Freedom-from-Bondage, however, is called out as being a ParadoxPerson even by the standards of the ''andat''. Other concepts such as Stone-Made-Soft or Clarity-of-Vision can be bound as andat, but there is no way to control something that embodies the impossibility of control. Freedom-from-Bondage could be created as an andat, but no poet could hold it in existence for more than the blink of an eye.

** The Irregularsare beings who have entered the Tower from the outside and are not subject to its rules, nor the limits set by its all-powerful Administrators, which is largely the same thing. The also seem to be ImmuneToFate.

** The Irregulars in are beings who have entered the Tower from the outside and are not subject to its rules, nor the limits set by its all-powerful Administrators, which is largely the same thing. The also seem to be ImmuneToFate.

* The most famous Reverse-Flash, Professor Zoom, otherwise known by his real name ComicBook/EobardThawne, turned into one thanks to his connection with Negative Speed Force in ''The Flash: Rebirth'', able to alter history and be the only one to remember the way things were before. In ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'', he becomes a paradox in that universe due to being from the prior timeline, which allows him to try and kill Barry without fear of losing his powers (though he's killed by Thomas Wayne before he can go through with it). In ''ComicBook/TheButton'', his return to life gives him the idea to [[ImmuneToFate use this as a weapon]] against [[spoiler:Dr. Manhattan]], reasoning he can use it to steal his reality-altering power for himself. He's [[VillainsWantMercy wrong]]. ''[[StrippedToTheBone Very, very wrong]]''. The "Paradox" arc shows that each time he dies he's reborn in the Negative Speed Force with his memories of what happened before; not only that, but he retains said memories even when he's at points in his timeline (like killing Nora Allen) where he shouldn't. Finally, his position as this is undone at the end of [[ComicBook/TheFlashRebirth "Legion of Zoom" and "Finish Line"]] when Barry figures out that the reason this is happening is Thawne has nothing to ground him in the current timeline - so he [[spoiler:phases through Eobard and imparts some Speed Force energy to him - acting as a lightning rod to anchor him to the here-and-now by [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor having the connection to Barry he always wanted]], erasing the Reverse-Flash as he is from existence and "resetting" him to the NiceGuy curator of the Flash museum in his home time period]].

* Elizabeth from ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite''. [[spoiler: Being born of another universe and split between the two, she can access virtually ''any'' conceivable universe.]]

* The most famous Reverse-Flash, Professor Zoom, otherwise known by his real name ComicBook/EobardThawne, turned into one thanks to his connection with Negative Speed Force in ''The Flash: Rebirth'', able to alter history and be the only one to remember the way things were before. In ''Flashpoint'' he becomes a paradox in that universe due to being from the prior timeline, which allows him to try and kill Barry without fear of losing his powers (though he's killed by Thomas Wayne before he can go through with it). In ''ComicBook/TheButton'', his return to life gives him the idea to [[ImmuneToFate use this as a weapon]] against [[spoiler:Dr. Manhattan]], reasoning he can use it to steal his reality-altering power for himself. He's [[VillainsWantMercy wrong]]. ''[[StrippedToTheBone Very, very wrong]]''. The "Paradox" arc shows that each time he dies he's reborn in the Negative Speed Force with his memories of what happened before; not only that, but he retains said memories even when he's at points in his timeline (like killing Nora Allen) where he shouldn't. Finally, his position as this is undone at the end of [[ComicBook/TheFlashRebirth "Legion of Zoom" and "Finish Line"]] when Barry figures out that the reason this is happening is Thawne has nothing to ground him in the current timeline - so he [[spoiler:phases through Eobard and imparts some Speed Force energy to him - acting as a lightning rod to anchor him to the here-and-now by [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor having the connection to Barry he always wanted]], erasing the Reverse-Flash as he is from existence and "resetting" him to the NiceGuy curator of the Flash museum in his home time period]].

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsIntoReverie, [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel Rean Schwarzer]] encounters a man who looks very similar to him yet at the same time is a RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver version of him. This variation of Rean ends up causing reality to try and merge the two Reans into one being as only one Rean is supposed to exist in the timeline. It's revealed that the other Rean [[spoiler:is a simulated version of him in an alternate timeline where he performs his HeroicSuicide as depicted at the end of ''Cold Steel IV'', formally named as "Ishmelga-Rean".]]

* The Irregulars in ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'' are beings who have entered the Tower from the outside and are not subject to its rules, nor the limits set by its all-powerful Administrators, which is largely the same thing. The also seem to be ImmuneToFate.

*** Similarly, the aftermath of the Crisis sees Dinah Drake return to her normal place in the Earth-1 timeline, long enough to [[spoiler: attend the funeral of Oliver Drake]]... only to wake up the very next day in Mia's future, with all evidence of her past existence in the timeline having been erased.

* [[Characters/{{Thorgal}} Thorgal Aegirsson.]]

* Walker Gabriel, the DC hero named Chronos (not to be confused with his mentor, the DC ''villain'' named Chronos), eventually ends up preventing his own childhood as the only way to [[spoiler: save his mother's life]]. He's rather surprised when his time travel powers enable him to survive this, and he goes right on ahead existing. Unfortunately, an earlier adventure left him in a dystopian alternate timeline which he then had to fix, but with the result that his evil self from that timeline also survived (calling himself Anachronos), and he wants revenge. Also, an associate of his is the Contessa, a Renaissance Italisan noblewoman from a now-deleted timeline, who continues to survive only as exist as she stays in the extradimensional city of Chronopolis; she's rather bitter about it.

** Tom Bombadil is an unusual... Person. He was apparently already there at the creation of Middle Earth and he isn't a Human, Hobbit, Dwarf, Elf, Vala or Maia. He's also completely immune to the effects of [[ArtifactOfDoom the one ring]] and defies the mythology of Middle Earth. [[InexplicablyAwesome Its never explained as to what exactly he is]].

* ''TabletopGame/TheWorldOfDarkness'':

** [[spoiler:The PlayerCharacter is himself a paradox in storyline of Record Breaker as his data was erased in the second world, and in the current third world there are moments where he will still temporarily flicker out of existence while his data is being simultaneously repaired by Yamato and attacked by Canopus.]]

* Jeanne D'Arc Alter Santa Lily of ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' is the idealistic child self of a being that was a) BornAsAnAdult and b) wished into existence by the Grail. The Throne of Heroes threatens her life because there is no concievable timeline or universe where she can naturally exist without some tie to the original Jeanne, and due to her young age she hasn't done anything that can connect her. Amakusa and the Protagonist manage to justify her existence in time by bringing her to the ocean, fulfilling a dream that Jeanne (and by extention Jeanne Alter) never got to experience in her youth.

* ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'': Goku Black's entire existence is paradoxical. ''Dragon Ball'' utilizes AlternateTimelines, so that any changes made in the past create a new timeline and leave the original future untouched. That is until ''Super'' introduces Time Rings allowing "acausal time travel" that do not create new timelines. Goku Black was created as the result of [[spoiler: Present Zamasu using the Super Dragon Balls to steal the body of Goku, before traveling to the future. However, while Beerus takes the liberty of destroying Zamasu in the present, Goku Black still exists in the future. Black explains wearing the Time Ring allows him to evade being erased from existence and preserve his own history. It gets even more complicated in Episode 67, where it's revealed Beerus' actions did create a Time Ring (and by extension a new timeline) after all]].

** Then there's the Zamasu native to Trunk's timeline, who also used the Super Dragonballs to wish for CompleteImmortality. Thus the trope becomes invoked again when [[spoiler: the two alternate Zamasus fuse, creating a being that simultaneously is and is not immortal. Emphasis on 'paradox' here, because "killing" this mortal/immortal being instead causes him to become a bodiless, metaphysical entity, [[EldritchAbomination a literal living paradox that merges with reality itself and threatens all of spacetime]].]]

* The AntiHero version of the Creator/DCComics character Chronos, Gabriel Walker, erased his own history to protect his mother from time-traveling enemies. Technically, he should not exist and has no "real" history to alter.

->''You were never supposed to live. Took all of Nyx's strength to circumvent what should have been a certainty. Now you cannot stay dead. Such is the wry humor of the Fates.''
-->-- '''Hades''' to '''[[spoiler:Zagreus]]''', ''VideoGame/{{Hades}}''