| “ | Now Duel Monsters shall perish and buried deep beneath it's ashes will be you three and all the monsters, and cards you hold so dear!. | „ |
| ~ Paradox |
Paradox is the main antagonist of Yu-Gi-Oh! 3D Bonds Beyond Time and the overarching antagonist of the Ark Cradle arc of Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's.
He is a time traveler aiming change his destroyed future by killing Pegasus J. Crawford and erasing the Duel Monsters card game from history.
The Paradox seen in the movie was an android replica given the memories of the real Paradox, who had died of old age before the events of the film. It is revealed in the Ark Cradle arc that the real Paradox was a founding member of Yliasteralongside Z-One, Antinomy, and Aporia. He is the only one of Z-one's comrades to not guard a Planetary Particle as he was defeated before then. Sherry LeBlanc replaces him as the third guard of a Planetary Particle.
He was voiced by Atsushi Tamura in Japanese and Sean Schemmel in English.
Biography[]
Paradox was one of mankind's last four survivors in an apocalyptic future, along with Z-one, Aporia and Antinomy. Unlike his fellow survivors, not much of his backstory prior to meeting the other survivors is shown.
Paradox eventually died of old age, followed soon after by Antimony and Aporia, leaving Z-one by himself. Prolonging his life via a life support machine, Z-one built androids with the appearance and memories of the deceased survivors and sent them to the past with the goal of changing the apocalyptic future.
The android based after Paradox was given the mission to kill Pegasus J. Crawford, as his death would cause Duel Monsters to be eliminated and therefore the future would never be destroyed by it. Paradox traveled to the Neo Domino City, during Yusei Fudo's time. He interrupted a Turbo Duel between Yusei, Crow Hogan and Jack Atlas. Yusei has just Summoned "Stardust Dragon", but Paradox absorbed it into a blank card. He showed Yusei the corrupt card, when confronted, before vanishing through time again.
He traveled further back in time to Venice, during Judai Yuki's time. Once there he started stealing cards from various classmates of Judai, including Sho Marufuji's "Cyber End Dragon and Johan Anderson's Rainbow Dragon. Causing massive destruction, Paradox attacked Judai with "Cyber End Dragon" and "Rainbow Dragon". "Elemental Hero Neos" protected Judai, so Paradox Summons "Stardust Dragon" to fight off "Neos". However, Yusei who has traveled back in time with help from the Crimson Dragon arrived and saved Judai. Paradox left and jumped back in time again.
This time, Paradox visited an event where Pegasus is giving cards to young children, in Yugi Muto's time where he stole Yugi's friends' monsters such as Seto Kaiba's "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" and Katsuya Jonouchi's "Red-Eyes Black Dragon". Paradox used "Cyber End Dragon," "Rainbow Dragon" and "Stardust Dragon" to attack the area, killing many people, including Pegasus and Sugoroku Muto. Yusei and Judai arrived in this time and recruit Yugi, who survived Paradox's attack to fight Paradox.
Yusei, Judai and Yugi traveled back in time to exactly thirty minutes before Pegasus' event and confronted Paradox before he could attack the crowd again. He faced them in a 3-on-1 Duel. Paradox used "Sin World" and his corrupt "Sin" counterparts of existing monsters. Yusei, Judai and Yugi managed to retrieve "Stardust Dragon" from him, and by combining it with their cards, they destroyed Paradox's "Sin Truth Dragon" and won the Duel, which destroyed Paradox in the process.
Deck[]
Paradox plays a "Sin" Deck, which focuses on sending monsters to the Graveyard to Special Summon their "Sin" version. He uses the Field Spell "Sin World" to add a random "Sin" monster from his deck to his hand every turn in exchange for skipping his draw phase. He stole Yusei's "Stardust Dragon", Sho's "Cyber End Dragon", Johan's "Rainbow Dragon", Jonouchi's "Red-Eyes Black Dragon" and one of Kaiba's "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" cards in order to summon their "Sin" versions, doing so during his duel against Yusei, Judai and Yugi. Paradox also possesses various Spell and Trap cards with "Sin" in their names to support his monsters. His signature monsters are "Sin Paradox Dragon" and "Sin Truth Dragon".
Relationships[]
Allies[]
Enemies[]
- Judai Yuki (post GX era)
- Yubel (post GX era)
- Daitokuji (post GX era)
- Yami Yugi (Duel Monsters era)
- Yusei Fudo (5DS era)
- Yugi Muto (Duel Monsters era)
- Pegasus J. Crawford (Duel Monsters era)
- Team 5DS (5DS era)
Trivia[]
- Paradox's name is derived from the concept of "paradox" in the theory of time. According to it; a paradox is created if the past is altered which then changes the future entirely. This references his mission of changing history by destroying the game of Duel Monsters to prevent his own terrible future from happening, which would have caused catastrophic and drastic changes to the future had he succeeded.
- Paradox is easily the most hypocritical duelist in the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise.
- Paradox could have simply killed Pegasus easily; prior to him ever visiting Egypt and meeting Shadi, thus; inspiring him to create Duel Monsters.
- The domino effect if he succeeded would have gone like this;
- Without Duel Monsters, the Legendary Dragons and Egyptian Gods wouldn't have been able to save the world from Dartz and the Great Leviathan.
- With no Egyptian God cards, the Pharaoh wouldn't have been able to unlock his memory and would have stayed trapped in the puzzle.
- Kaiba wouldn't have founded Duel Academy.
- Momentum would never have been invented.
- People born as a result of Duel Monsters bringing their parents together would have never been born.
- The domino effect if he succeeded would have gone like this;
- In Duel Links, he is the only character event that takes place in the Duel Monsters, GX, and 5D'S worlds at the same time.
- Paradox is the only member of the Iliaster's Four Stars of Destruction to not redeem himself.
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