User blog:Firekong1/Paradoxes

Paradoxes may seem bizarre, but they can be easily solved by studying them closely and determining their origin. Although paradoxes no longer exist in the multiverse and beyond, their presences have been documented using complicated and advanced technology. In order for paradoxes to occur, they must first branch off from a newly formed loop of existing time, otherwise, they will never even exist in the first place.

There is no such thing as a self created paradox, only a self-sustaining paradox. A paradox/time loop cannot create itself, since it must be a repeated continuation of the original timeline, which was inverted to form a paradox. However, all paradoxes must come to an eventual end, and the cycle will eventually break and end sooner or later in a variation of the loop. And this will end all the original events that started in the first place.

Therefore, this ensures that no paradoxes will ever come into existence in that original timeline/universe in the (first place) ever again. To better clarify this statement, let's look at some examples of paradoxes, how they originate, and how to end them:

The Terminator
One example occurs within the terminator series. In the franchise, starting with the first movie, John Connor sent Kyle Reese back in time to protect his mother from Skynet so that he could be conceived and become born. Likewise, Skynet sent one of its terminators back in time to allow Skynet to exist and to prevent the conception (and thus the birth) of John Connor. After John's mission had been achieved and Skynet's had failed (mostly), it was revealed that John Connor and Skynet both not only originate from paradoxes, but are also paradoxes themselves.

You see, Connor sent Reese back in time to protect his mother, but that led to his conception. Connor was born in 1985, whereas Reese was not born until 2003. John was born before his father. Skynet was created by a remaining piece of terminator technology being reverse engineered, which would lead to the inception of Skynet in the future. In other words (and in a way), they were created by themselves. But Connor and Skynet had to have originated from sources other than themselves in order for them to even exist in the first place.

As a theory, Connor may have originally had another man as his father for him to exist in the first place to send Kyle Reese to secure his existence. Skynet also had to be created by a source other than itself so that it could understand that it needed to preserve itself to exist in the future. However, as much as is known, the original father of John Connor and the original creator of Skynet are (if anything, currently) unknown.

Marvel Zombies
Another example occurs within a universe of the Marvel comic series, Marvel Zombies. It all begins with a normal, untouched reality, which is swiftly changed by a zombie outbreak that happened out of nowhere. A few moments before the outbreak began, a zombified version of the sentry had appeared via punching his way through reality, where he arrived and crashed into the middle of the city. The avengers investigate, and when they arrive and confront the sentry, the immediately become infected, and infect the rest of the superhero community. The end result occured with the extinction of all life on earth (and later the entire universe). Many events transpire, and forty five years pass.

When the last remaining zombies of that earth arrive back to the planet from space to feast on the remaining humans, they go through a brief battle, before finally being teleported away by one of the humans using a dimensional transporter. They find themselves transported into a random, new reality, untouched by the zombies. More events transpire, and eventually that reality also falls to the infection. When the last remaining zombies are killed (save for one), the watcher of that universe devises a plan to send the sentry (who was the only remaining zombie) back in time to the original reality that we saw at the beginning of the entire series, thus starting the outbreak (and all events which occurred afterwards) to happen all over again. The peculiar thing is this: If the sentry was the one who started the outbreak in the beginning, and all the events that happened led to him ultimately being brought back in time to the reality where he started the infection in the first place, then how did the zombie outbreak (and indeed, the virus itself) originate and occur in the first place?

The original events we saw take place may have well simply been merely a perspective of the infected denizens, who were doomed to relive the same events over and over, without even realizing it. So for the original outbreak to have occurred, it must have either been a sentry from another reality or even another caped hero who must have started the outbreak in the first place. In the watcher's monologue about the original zombie universe, he mentions that a caped hero arrived to that reality and began the events that we saw.

The original patient zero was never specified, so it's likely that it was another caped superhero from yet another alternate reality who started the outbreak: Superman. Like the Sentry, Superman is a caped hero who has the power of flight, super strength, durability, and is basically the most powerful being in the universe. A version of Superman from a reality that succumbed to the hunger may have started the original outbreak in the beginning, with all the events transpiring afterwards up to the Watcher devising sending the Sentry back in time. This plan may have come out of misjudgment by the Watcher confusing Superman for the Sentry/the Sentry for Superman. However, by doing this, the Watcher also directly causes the destruction of his universe and his result to come up with the same plan of sending the Sentry back in time (which originally stemmed from him misidentifying the Sentry) over and over again.