- "I'll teach you to beat up yester-me!"
- ― Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)
- "Reverse Flash: I ran a long way from the future to hurt you, Barry. But this timeline? It’s all wrong.
Flash: So go back to your own time. Reverse Flash…
Reverse Flash: You think I haven’t tried? Your Regime buddies killed one of my ancestors--and now I’m trapped in a paradox! I can never go home… but at least I can hurt you." - ― Eobard Thawne/Reverse Flash to Barry Allen/Flash (Injustice 2; Video Game) about how his ancestor being killed causes him to remain trapped in a paradox
- "Kyle Reese: What do you want with us?
John Connor: I’m offering us a future together, a family.
Kyle: And if we refuse?
John: Then you die.
Sarah Connor: You can’t kill us we're your parents. Without us you’re never born.
John: Says who? You know what I think? We're marooned the three of us. We’re exiles in time. You see I can kill you, for there truly is no fate." - ― John Conner/T-3000 (Terminator; Genisys) insisting that killing his parents won’t effect his existence
The power to exist even when one's ancestors are killed in past. Variation of Paradox Immunity. Sub-power of Temporal Paradox Immunity.
Also Called[]
- Ancestral Paradox Defiance
- Grandfather Paradox Immunity
- Temporal Existence Maintenance
- Time Paradox Immunity
- Time Traveling Murder Immunity
Capabilities[]
The user is able to exist even when history is changed: for example, if someone were to go back in time and kill the user's ancestors, the user exists still as if their ancestors' murder did not happen at all. If they were killed by someone in the past via time travel, they will still be alive in the present. Normally this will cause others user knows to completely forget about them like they did not exist before, though sometimes the user can make it so that a few people, or even everyone they know would still know who they are as if they do exist.
Depending on the universe's rules, the Ancestor Paradox may not occur because they created a new timeline, or the affected timeline adapted itself to make the paradox possible.
Associations[]
- Acausality
- Event Manipulation
- Identical Kinship
- Immortality
- Mortal Physiology
- Past Manipulation
- Reality Anchoring
- Speedster Physiology
- Superior Human Physiology
- Time Travel
- Transcendent Physiology
Limitations[]
- While the user can still exist, they may be unknown to everyone else due to the change in history.
- May have to go back in time to fix one's own life.
- Immunity Bypassing/Immunity Negation/Immunity Removal are the perfect counters.
- May be unable to undo the changes in history.
Known Users[]
- Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash (Arrowverse)
- Speedsters (DC Comics)
- Flashes
- Barry Allen
- Jay Garrick (Earth-2)
- Wally West/Kid Flash
- Rever Flashes
- Professor Zoom
- Flashes
- Origami Tobiichi (Date A Live); originally
- Time Lords (Doctor Who)
- The Doctor
- Faction Paradox (Doctor Who)
- Time Travellers (Dragon Ball series)
- Future/Mirai Trunks
- Goku Black (Dragon Ball Super)
- Stewie Griffin (Family Guy)
- Phillip J. Fry (Futurama)
- Time Travellers (Marvel Comics)
- Deadpool
- Nathan Summers/Cable
- SCP-682: The Hard-to-Destroy Lizard (SCP Foundation); as a Constant
- Terminator (The Terminator); via Bootstrap Paradox Existence
Known Users[]
- Time Machine (Dragon Ball series)
- Time Rings (Dragon Ball Super)
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