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* ''ComicBook/TheFlash'': 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 ''ComicBook/TheFlashRebirth'', 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]]'', though notably he still comes back from even this. 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 "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]].

* 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]]'', though notably he still comes back from even this. 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]].
* ContinuitySnarl/DonnaTroy, aka Wonder Girl. A founding member of the ComicBook/TeenTitans with a MultipleChoicePast as a result of so many {{retcon}}s that both in and out of universe nobody's really sure where she came from, not even herself. And of course, the Speed Force complicates things further thanks to Wally West knowing her with RippleEffectProofMemory despite her latest "origin" contradicting it.
* ComicBook/XMan from the ''Franchise/XMen'' franchise is one of the few survivors from the ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse timeline which no longer exists. This is discussed (in a maddened gabble) by Legion, who unwittingly created the Age of Apocalypse, in ''[[ComicBook/UncannyXMen2018 X-Men: Disassembled]]''.

* The Samaritan from ''ComicBook/AstroCity''. Came back through time from the future in order to prevent an apocalypse, and in successfully doing so managed to erase the timeline from which he came... meaning technically he's never going to be born.

* The 3rd Loki tried to do a HeelFaceTurn and failed, becoming King Loki, but their turning back to evil came too late to do the damage they wished for so they [[ComicBook/LokiAgentOfAsgard travelled to the past]] to put their younger self on the ''right'' path sooner. ''Unfortunately'' said younger self would rather burn virtually everything that belonged to their past selves (which may or may not count as dying, cats and boxes and all) so instead of King Loki they became Loki the God of Stories... making that future an alternate timeline and both of them this trope by virtue of temporal paradox and being goddamn confusing.
* 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 long as she stays in the extradimensional city of Chronopolis; she's rather bitter about it.

* Long before ''Series/DoctorWho'' returned to television, ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' had varios examples of this.

** Of particular note is [[spoiler:Walking Wake, the primal Paradox version of Suicune. Walking Wake is a particularly JustForFun/{{egregious}} instance of the paradoxical nature of the Paradox Pokémon as it's a Paradox of a Pokémon that, as far as we know, ''didn't exist until'' '''''much''''' ''later'' as the Legendary Beasts came about when they were revived by Ho-Oh after dying as completely different Pokémon in the Tin Tower fire.]]

* The art prep room ghost from ''WebAnimation/HololiveERROR: The Game'' [[AmbiguousSituation may or may not]] be one of these in-universe ([[WatsonianVersusDoylist out-of-universe]], it's just because the developers didn't want to injure the likeness of a ''hololive'' talent on-screen). Watchers of the motion manga would quickly realize that things simply ''don't match up'', and not just in appearance, because not only does [[spoiler:Mari Akagane]] not show up after her death, the deaths tied to the blood painting are associated with a simple curse there, ''not'' the ghost of the painter coming in and draining you of your blood to use as more paint. [[spoiler:As such, it is very likely that the game version was created by the Perfect World itself, but it then would've had to reconfigure itself after Shino Misora found out the truth about Mari and thus wouldn't need the overly-violent stand-in anymore. However, even after the ending of the motion manga, she is ''still there in the game'', suggesting that she somehow was unaffected. Shino even supports this, stating in "202 Accepted" that there is some kind of "error" in the new world.]]

-->-- '''Hades''' to '''Zagreus''', ''VideoGame/{{Hades}}''

* It's noted in ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' that the Titans break every known law of physics. They are lightweight so to allow their massive bodies to move and yet still have enough mass to rip through solid structures, their HealingFactor is supported by a bottomless reserve of organic material and energy, and despite eating humans whenever possible, they don't get any nutrition out of it.

* By definition, Servants in ''LightNovel/FateZero'' and ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''. They are the souls of heroes of mythical past given body to exist in this world. Since dead people are supposed to stay dead, the world will try to crush this contradiction, which means that Servants disappear if they aren't channeled with {{Mana}}. [[spoiler:Except those who get doused by the corrupted Grail's mud and consequently gain a physical body, like Gilgamesh (who, atypically, has enough of a colossal ego to resist the actual corruptive effects of such a transformation).]]

* ''LightNovel/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'', at the end of the Web Novel, [[spoiler:[[TheHero Rimuru Tempest]] reaches this point after becoming the WorldsStrongestMan and a full-on PhysicalGod, able to alter the past at will without compromising his own existence or the world resulting from his actions. He's able to TimeTravel to the point where his past self Satoru Mikami is fatally stabbed, stops the incident, and can completely get away with it to let his old self live a happy life without causing a massive GrandfatherParadox.]]

* ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'' introduced [[spoiler:Paradox Pokémon, which are supposedly past/future versions of contemporary {{mons}} brought to the current day by TheProfessor's TimeMachine. [[{{Foreshadowing}} The game itself points out that several aspects of their existence don't add up]], such as the fact that there were sightings of them before the time machine was even built, Roaring Moon is supposedly connected to Mega Salamence when [[SuperMode Mega Evolution]] has only existed for 3000 years, Brute Bonnet has the same Poké Ball pattern as Amoonguss despite coming from an era that predates humanity, Scream Tail (prehistoric Jigglypuff) ''predates multicellular life'', and the future mons apparently evolved (in the Darwinian sense, mind you) ''into robots''. It's implied that these {{mons}} never actually existed to begin with, and [[{{tulpa}} were created by the machine drawing from people's imaginations]] as a result of the MineralMacGuffin used to make it and the influence of [[SequelHook a mysterious third Legendary]] shown in Arven's book.]]

* ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'' introduced [[spoiler:Paradox Pokémon, which are supposedly past/future versions of contemporary {{mons}} brought to the current day by TheProfessor's TimeMachine. [[{{Foreshadowing}} The game itself points out that several aspects of their existence don't add up]], such as the fact that there were sightings of them before the time machine was even built, Roaring Moon is supposedly connected to Mega Salamence when [[SuperMode Mega Evolution]] has only existed for 3000 years, Scream Tail (prehistoric Jigglypuff) ''predates multicellular life'', and the future mons apparently evolved (in the Darwinian sense, mind you) ''into robots''. It's implied that these {{mons}} never actually existed to begin with, and [[{{tulpa}} were created by the machine drawing from people's imaginations]] as a result of the MineralMacGuffin used to make it and the influence of [[SequelHook a mysterious third Legendary]] shown in Arven's book.]]

* ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'' introduced Paradox Pokémon, which are supposedly past/future versions of contemporary {{mons}} brought to the current day by TheProfessor's TimeMachine. [[{{Foreshadowing}} The game itself points out that several aspects of their existence don't add up]], such as the fact that there were sightings of them before the time machine was even built, Roaring Moon is supposedly connected to Mega Salamence when [[SuperMode Mega Evolution]] has only existed for 3000 years, Scream Tail (prehistoric Jigglypuff) ''predates multicellular life'', and the future mons apparently evolved (in the Darwinian sense, mind you) ''into robots''. [[spoiler:It's implied that these {{mons}} never actually existed to begin with, and [[{{tulpa}} were created by the machine drawing from people's imaginations]] as a result of the MineralMacGuffin used to make it and the influence of [[SequelHook a mysterious third Legendary]] shown in Arven's book.]]

** The Cult of the Doomsday Clock from ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening''. A Left-Handed Legacy, they were born when a fight between two mage factions in a sensitive location ended up completely disrupting the time stream. They ''should'' have been wiped out of existence... but weren't. And now, they're not planning on leaving the timestream unless they can take everyone else with them...

* ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'' introduced Paradox Pokémon, which are supposedly past/future versions of contemporary {{mons}} brought to the current day by TheProfessor's TimeMachine. The game iteself points out that several aspects of their existence don't add up, such as the fact that there were sightings of them before the time machine was even built, Roaring Moon is supposedly connected to Mega Salamence when [[SuperMode Mega Evolution]] has only existed for 3000 years, Scream Tail (prehistoric Jigglypuff) ''predates multicellular life'', and the future mons apparently evolved (in the Darwinian sense, mind you) ''into robots''. [[spoiler:It's implied that these {{mons}} never actually existed to begin with, and [[{{tulpa}} were created by the machine drawing from people's imaginations]] as a result of the MineralMacGuffin used to make it.]]

* ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'' introduced Paradox Pokémon, which are supposedly past/future versions of contemporary {{mons}} brought to the current day by TheProfessor's TimeMachine. Several aspects of their existence don't add up, such as the fact that there were sightings of them before the time machine was even built, Roaring Moon is supposedly connected to Mega Salamence when [[SuperMode Mega Evolution]] has only existed for 3000 years, Scream Tail (prehistoric Jigglypuff) ''predates multicellular life'', and the future mons apparently evolved (in the Darwinian sense, mind you) ''into robots''. [[spoiler:It's implied that these {{mons}} never actually existed to begin with, and [[{{tulpa}} were created by the machine drawing from people's imaginations]] as a result of the MineralMacGuffin used to make it.]]

* ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'' introduced Paradox Pokémon, which are supposedly past/future versions of contemporary {{mons}} brought to the current day by TheProfessor's TimeMachine. Several aspects of their existence don't add up, such as the fact that there were sightings of them before the time machine was even built, Roaring Moon is supposedly connected to Mega Salamence when [[SuperMode Mega Evolution]] has only existed for 3000 years, Scream Tail (prehistoric Jigglypuff) ''predates multicellular life'', and the future mons apparently evolved (in the Darwinian sense, mind you) ''into robots''. [[spoiler:It's implied that these {{mons}} never actually existed to begin with, and [[{{tulpa}} were created by the machine drawing from people's imaginations]] as a result of the AppliedPhlebotinum used to make it.]]

* 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]] or a threat to TheMasquerade.

* ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'' introduced Paradox Pokémon, which are supposedly past/future versions of contemporary {{mons}} brought to the current day by TheProfessor's TimeMachine. Several aspects of their existence don't add up, such as the fact that there were sightings of them before the time machine was even built, Scream Tail (prehistoric Jigglypuff) ''predates multicellular life'', and the future mons apparently evolved (in the Darwinian sense, mind you) ''into robots''. [[spoiler:It's implied that these {{mons}} never actually existed to begin with, and [[{{tulpa}} were created by the machine drawing from people's imaginations]] as a result of the AppliedPhlebotinum used to make it.]]

* ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'' introduced Paradox Pokémon, which are supposedly past/future versions of contemporary {{mons}} brought to the current day by TheProfessor's TimeMachine. Several aspects of their existence don't add up, such as the fact that there were sightings of them before the time machine was even built, Scream Tail (prehistoric Jigglypuff) ''predates multicellular life'', and the future mons apparently evolved (in the Darwinian sense, mind you) ''into robots''. [[spoiler:It's implied that these {{mons}} never actually existed to begin with, and [[{{tulpa}} were created by the machine drawing from people's imaginations]].]]

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* This was already being done in ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' before the TV revival. Charlotte Pollard is a literal paradox person. When the Doctor saves her from the R101 where she was supposed to die, she becomes a living paradox and gateway for anti-time, meaning history starts breaking down.
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* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'': Near the end of the Season 16, The Reds and Blues decide to TimeTravel and prevent Wash getting shot in Season 15, and contracting brain damage. They succeed, but cause a RealityBreakingParadox that traps them in a loop of "Soft Time", forever reliving their lives up until that point. In Season 17, Donut learns that after the moment the paradox happened, Agent Washington is now two people in one body- a Wash who got shot and was treated, and one who ''wasn't'' shot and ''didn't'' get treated. This has resulted in Wash checking into a hospital for a gun wound that never happened, and when Donut finds him, is now constantly shifting between Sane/treated and Loopy/untreated. Luckily, confronting the LogicBomb stabilizes Wash's personality.

* ''TabletopGame/ChroniclesOfDarkness'':
** This is the whole point of ''TabletopGame/PrometheanTheCreated''. ''Reality itself'' rejects your existence and staying in one place for too long causes the location to decay.
** The Cult of the Doomsday Clock from ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening''. A Left-Handed Legacy, they were born when a fight between two mage factions in a sensitive location ended up completely disrupting the time stream. They ''should'' have been wiped out of existence... but weren't. And now, they're not planning on leaving the timestream unless they can take everyone else with them...

* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'': Silver, due to constantly {{Time Travel}}ing back and forth between the present and his own BadFuture while causing various changes in the timeline, ultimately ended up "decoupled" from time. On the plus side, this means he remembers what happens due to his various history-altering acts and he's immune to RetGone. On the bad side, he needs to figure out [[ButterflyOfDoom what changed due to his actions]] the hard way by combing through the "new" records of history.