Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34260455-20180121205150/@comment-34260455-20180121212226

Aaronbill3 wrote: The second version of Paradox we see is the same Paradox at a different point in his timeline. Presumably from our perspective it's a past version of Paradox. That makes sense. I was under the impression that this was, as Ben put it, a "parallel Paradox" from a timeline where he failed to stop Hugo. If this is the same Paradox though, and he hasn't failed yet, why would he be brooding on the Moon?

Interacting with your own timeline is an incredibly dangerous idea, who knows how your future self will influence you and how that might change the path you take. It would be a bad idea if we assume this is the same Paradox.

Disregarding dialogue, it probably is the same Paradox based on the events of "And Then There Was Ben". All other possible versions of Paradox would've been erased along with the Chronosapien Time Bomb, and since the accident in the 1960's happened before the events that Paradox and No Watch Ben "rebooted", that would leave only one Paradox to wander the Multiverse.

It'd also explain why Paradox was absent during the Time Bomb's explosion: that Paradox was from the Prime timeline, and was erased by the. The version No Watch Ben meets must be a  "No Watch Paradox".