User:BoomerDay/Professor Paradox

Professor Paradox
In-story stats
Known ability	Space-time manipulation
Formal name	Unknown
Gender
Age	Unknown

Professor Paradox is a scientist from 1952 who was working on a time-travelling experiment with his assistant Hugo at the military base Los Soledad during the Cold War. However, during a test of his time tunnel, Hugo damaged the controls, destabilizing it and sucking Paradox into the event horizon. His body didn't age, and he didn't need to sleep or eat, just exist. Being trapped in the time stream, alone, for untold millennia drove him insane, but that eventually became boring so he regained his sanity. He learned everything there is to learn about time, allowing him to finally escape.

Character History

In "Paradox", Ben, Gwen and Kevin had their first encounter with Paradox (Which, due to his time-travelling nature, was not his first encounter with them). They helped him battle a time monster, later revealed to be Paradox's assistant, Hugo, who had been transformed by the same accident. The present-day Hugo agreed to travel with Paradox, but has not been seen since. The enhanced version of Ben 10: Race Against Time states that Paradox also stopped Eon prior to the events of the movie. In "War of the Worlds", Paradox retrieved Azmuth from the Highbreed-ravaged Galvan, and assisted in battling the Highbreed. In "Time Heals", Paradox warned Gwen against travelling back in time to prevent the accident that turned Kevin into a monster. When Gwen refused to heed his warning, creating a nightmarish alternate timeline, Paradox pointed her towards solving it. When the timeline had been put right, Paradox paid the group a visit, making sure everything was alright.

Paradox been described as a calm, free-going man; he talks much like a stereotypical scientist, with dialogue requiring higher knowledge to understand completely. In his first appearance, Ben tried to capture Paradox (not knowing whether he was an enemy or not) but he always "teleports" to a place a few meters away. Ben asks how he does that and the calm Paradox just said: "It's called walking". He really likes gumballs possibly because they virtually don't age. He also has a habit of getting events that haven't happened yet (from the perspective of the viewer and those he's talking to) and those that have (from his perspective) mixed up, due to his travels through time. His calm personality also makes it difficult to tell when he's joking or not, such as telling Kevin that if his replacement car (factory new from the past) comes in contact with anything else from the same year it'll explode like antimatter.

In the Ben 10: Ultimate Alien episode "Ultimate Aggregor", Paradox informed the team that Aggregor was using his old time travel equipment to achieve his goals. He also gave Kevin advice concerning the future, telling him that things would get worse before they got better, and to try to remember who his friends were. He also warned Ben "not to lean against the coronal reduction barrier", but doubted that he would listen. In "The Forge of Creation", Paradox appears to help the team to go to the Forge of Creation, which is outside the universe, but is unable to stay with them as the Celestialsapiens there have "placed a restraining order on their home".

In "Ben 10 Alien Force: Vilgax Attacks", Paradox appears before Ben, Gwen, and Kevin during Vilgax's alien invasion stating that now would not be a good time to use Alien X. After Ben's visit from Azmuth, Paradox arrives and rewinds time so that Ben could head to the different planets and destroy the energy cores before Vilgax can use them for his invasion on Earth. Paradox even gets Ben, Gwen, and Kevin off of Anur Phaetos. When Vilgax and Psyphon were about to fire the Null Void Cannon on Ben, Paradox arrives telling Ben that now is the time to use Alien X.

Evolved Human Abilities

As a result of his time spent in the event horizon of a wormhole, Paradox can control time through will alone. He can teleport to any location, both in time and space, and slow down or speed up time as he pleases without reason, and being unaffected by time, he is biologically immortal. He is also able to create a breathable atmosphere on the moon for Ben, Gwen, and Kevin. His actual name is unknown as he himself forgot it over the millennia, the file with the information censored every aspect of the professor's personal life, name included; he is given the name "Professor Paradox" by Gwen because his experiment was listed as the Paradox Project. He seems to get confused about events occurring as a result of his traveling through time, mixing up events that haven't happened yet (from Ben, Gwen, and Kevin's perspective) with those that have.