Paradox

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.

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. He is also able to create a breathable atmosphere on the moon for Ben, Gwen, and Kevin. Being unaffected by time, he is biologically immortal. 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.

At some point in his career, Paradox separated the pieces of the Map of Infinity (which could lead a person to the Forge of Creation), and hid them across the universe, disguising them as objects which would be difficult to obtain, in order to prevent the map from falling into the wrong hands.

In "Paradox", Ben and company 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' 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.

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 where he gets Ben out of his Alien X form. Following a brief argument with Azmuth, Paradox tells Ben, Gwen, and Kevin that the Forge of Creation is where Celestialsapiens are born. Paradox takes Ben and the team 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". During that time, there was a sighting of another universe near the Forge of Creation which did confuse Paradox. When Aggregor is defeated, Paradox returns to pick them up before the other Celestialsapiens wake up and returns the 10-year-old Ben back to his own time. He apperars in "Ben 10,000 returns".

It is possible that Paradox is inspired by the Doctor of the British television show Doctor Who, as they have similar traits, for instance their English accents and dislike of guns. Furthermore, Paradox at one point prevents Ben 10,000 from revealing the future to young Ben by saying "Spoilers", a line that The Doctor uses in similar situations.

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.

Paradox also appears as an NPC in "Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall" where he tells the players that they will have an encounter with Vilgax.

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