time travel paradox theme
There is an apparent contradiction, or logical contradiction associated with the idea of time and time travel. Typically, temporal paradoxes fall into two broad groups: consistency paradoxes exemplified by the grandfather paradox, and causal loops.
4 total · 2 major · 2 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: Tenet (2020) | major | The story ended with the Protagonist concluding that he was somehow the mastermind behind the very organization that he was recruited to join in a seeming violation of causality. The Protagonist scratched his head over causal loops at several points in the film. |
| rd1988e7x03 | major | The story began and ended with some nonsense about Lister being his own father. |
| movie: Happy Accidents (2000) | minor | A physicist named Tab argued that time travel was impossible owing to the circular causation paradoxes it engenders. |
| movie: The Time Machine (2002) | minor | A despondent Alexander realized that any attempt to save his fiancée Emma would result in her death through other circumstances. The Morlock leader explained that this was owing to some manner of temporal paradox or another. |