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** Sarda did this to himself. As a young wizard, he time-traveled back to the beginning of the universe, only to find that a White Mage had gotten there first. After living through all of creation being formed around him, Sarda planned to put that White Mage into a pocket dimension before she could go back in time to the universe' start...only for that pocket dimension to be the beginning of the universe.
{{quote|'''Sarda:''' So now I know how she got there ''and'' what it feels like when I utterly screw with someone's lifelong ambitions.}}
* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' Bun-Bun's whole adventure in [[Timeless Space]] was based off this trope. As [httphttps://adsarchives.sluggy.com/dailybook.php?datechapter=06020148#2006-02-01 Uncle Time put it], "Life's ''so'' much funner with the paradox rules turned off."
* In ''[[Homestuck]]'', only [[Time Master|Dave, the Knight of Time and Aradia, the Maid of Time]] get to go back in time and create [[Alternate Universe]]s. Everyone else, no matter how much they've screwed around with the timeline, can only make [[Stable Time Loop]]s, and the Trolls regularly insist that they've already lost the game and that [[You Can't Fight Fate]]. It probably helps that all in-universe timechanging items have built-in failsafes against causing paradoxes.
* How [[Time Travel]] works in [[Umlaut House]], as Volair explained to his future son [https://web.archive.org/web/20141228124932/http://maskedretriever.com/uh/d/20030624.html here]: