Paradox

Paradox's History

Paradox was one of the survivors of the "Meklord Emperor" genocide along with Z-one and Antinomy, who eventually discover a fourth survivor, Aporia. Together, the four of them had conducted many experiments in order to prevent the genocide, succeeding in granting Z-one eternal life thanks to a life support system they created. However, Paradox alongside Antinomy and Aporia eventually died from natural causes and were placed in capsules, leaving Z-one the only survivor.[2]

The death of the original Paradox.

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Paradox Linework.

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A robotic copy of Paradox's younger self was created by Z-one, and programmed with his original self's hatred of Duel Monsters for bringing about the end of the world. Paradox was charged with killing the game's creator, Maximillion Pegasus, and given a Duel Runner capable of traveling into the past to assassinate him. If Pegasus was killed before recreating the Shadow Games as Duel Monsters, this would effectively rewrite the future; thus, the Meklord Emperor Genocide that destroyed Paradox's world would never have occurred.

However, Paradox decided to go about this in a different manner; rather than simply kill Pegasus, he decided to kill him at a large public Duel Monsters' event, to scare the populace into thinking that the game was the cause and make its popularity drop. If successful, this would cause a domino effect on the timeline, wiping Duel Monsters' influence from history. Paradox was aware there may be negative consequences, but believed it was necessary, as many great evils had threatened the world by using Duel Monsters.