Time Paradoxal Resistance

Brief Summary
Time Paradoxal Resistance (and possibly immunity) is defined as the ability to be unencumbered by paradoxes in time.

The most popular example of this is the Grandfather Paradox. In this paradox, a time traveler travels back in time and kills his grandfather before he married his grandmother. By killing his grandfather, his father was never born, and thus, the time traveler himself, was never born. But by not being born, he never time traveled back to kill his grandfather, and thus, was born anyway--so he time traveled back to kill his grandfather anyway. The cycle continues infinitely.

However, someone who has Time Paradoxal Resistance won't be effected by his grandfather's death, and would remain regardless of what happened in the past. What would normally create a paradox is merely a small happening in the past to the user.

Universal Difference
It is overwhelmingly common to mistake Time Paradoxal Resistance/Immunity for Acausality.

Causality defines just about everything that has happened, is happening, and can happen--the effect. So logically, transcending cause and effect (on your level/dimension or reality) means transcending just about everything on it. Because if the cause is receiving an attack, the effect is being harmed. A "true acausal" who exists outside of causality and the natural flow of cause and effect is essentially invincible seeing as no matter the cause, they will not be affected.

Just because someone's present self sticks around after their child self dies, doesn't mean they can survive having their existence being turned into the cause of their non-existence, or ignore cause and effect being reversed so a spear always hits them in the heart.

Known Users

 * Dimentio (Super Mario Bros.)