But it’s also hilarious how one day Paradox got tired of being insane. Like it was a mood he found exhausting after running out of ways to express madness.
I like to think that that also suggests that paradox didn't want to bore the trio with the details before where paradox started. That, and he likely knew that the trio would be asking questions, that and the creators and/or writers likely didn't want the episode to be longer then it needed to be.
Always funny when you think "hmm i wanna watch that one scene from that one show again" and then you go and see someone uploaded that scene like a month prior. Nobody else thought of it before in the many years since the show aired. Funny.
Well, his power is that he is outside the timeflow and so he is unaffected by it. Then, he had all the time in the world to learn how spacetime works and how to bend it to his will.
@@andreimilitaru8144 I don't think it's really "bending" time, more like, it's like he said, technically he just walks from one spot to another, but in actuallity it's like moving from one point of timeline to another point, like when you're editing a video
The part I love most about this is that, he wasn't bestowed his godlike powers by some higher being. He's technically just an ordinary human who got smart enough to develop them on his own. He literally facts and logic'd himself into divinity.
@@xen3588 well if you are stuck in a dimension where you just exist and don't need any sustenance you can do what he did at first then begin to understand the fundamentals of the space time continuum and break it down into it's key components and understanding it at a higher level or under level depending on the time and dimension
Not gonna lie, that’s actually a horrific fate that he had to deal with. Being stuck doing nothing for such a long time can drive anyone to a painful amount of insanity.
I actually don’t know the exact amount of time, I suffered a bad injury that had me bound to a hospital bed. I was hooked up to many things. I remained there for however long it was. I was released into a covid world. From one bed to another, I just layed there slowly losing my mind. Can confirm, just existing day to day and nothing else is quite terrible. I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.
I imagine with unlimited time and virtual immortality, anyone that is mad or goes mad from the initial shock of the experience would naturally come full circle back to sanity. I.e. the human mind is capable enough to correct itself if the proper resources are available. With time and sustainability of the body, what couldn't the mind accomlish?
@@ianr.navahuber2195100,000 years though? I mean, even 100 feels like 20 lifetimes to imagine it, someone is going to learn something to be sane again in 100,000.
Paradox’s origin operates off of the same principle as the phrase “give a monkey a typewriter and with enough time he’ll eventually write a complete work of Shakespeare.” It’s my favorite part of his character.
What really amazes me is how bored he must have been to bore himself out of insanity. It’s really simply put from his perspective with words, but in reality I’m sure it was unfathomably maddening and boring outside the space time continuum.
This scene depicts the power of boredom so well. No matter how bad of a trauma you are suffering or how good your life is going. Eventually there will come a time when you will get bored with it and move on. It's just that for some people that duration is shorter and people like those are easily bored with stuff and move to new ones. In other cases it's longer for other people, and they just die before that time comes. But not with Paradox as he was out of the time stream which made him virtually immortal, and he had time to get bored with that insanity. That's why people say time heals everything, but it's just people getting bored by the same emotions.
So many different ways to tell a story, but that's what makes them so interesting, you can never predict how they're going to turn out. (Professor Paradox).
@@ianr.navahuber2195 on a side note, a Ben 10 “What if?” miniseries would be really interesting. We’ve already seen a few episodes like this, like when Gwen got the omnitrix, and Ben 23. But I’d love to see more parallel universes within the Ben 10 omniverse.
Paradox defines maturity at its finest, when you are immature you deal with impactful situations with "insanity" things are hard to comprehend and you just go ape mode and do stuff you'll regret. But after you deal with this stuff to much you get bored, and then you mature, now learning from your mistakes
I wonder if Professor Paradox liked his nickname so much that he did a little time altering so that anytime someone wanted to say his name they just refer to him as "Paradox" and kept his real name a mystery forever.
The agreed theory is that this was the origin of his nickname, and since time is non-linear for him, people were calling him paradox before he was even given the nickname. This is likely him realising that this is the origin of the nickname and just goes along with it
I love the idea that gaining complete understanding of a fundamental law and piece of reality allowed him to gain control of it. Its the literal saying knowledge is power put into effect
"Within reason" I feel like this is probably a lie because I don't think it is within reason that he later goes into whatever plane contains the consciousnesses of alien x
There's a reason, if Ben was stuck inside the debate pocket dimension of Alien X, then how would the future events will play out like how they were meant to be.
within reason is a self referential statement. He can do it, if its reasonable to him, because he understands ALL of spacetime. If it has space, or time passes, he can be there. That dimension might be an "Alternate" space, but it still latches and connects to mainline reality, thus it fundamental properties must be in line and he can jump to it.
Huh. if you think about it, this is kinda Dr. Manhattan's origin story except Professor Paradox has already gotten over the "being dettached from Humanity" part and is already at the part of being at peace with himself and going full observant of time occasionally helping
He spent 100,000 years just existing. He spent 2000-3000 years insane, but then became sane due to boredom and just learnt everything about space and time for 97,000 years. He was probably able to escape due to his knowledge 😂
What about meeting Arceus? A human achieving the power of spacetime on their own, outside of being a Pokemon granted with the ability to control either phenomenon by the Alpha.
when i was a kid, i loved this character so much i thought paradox was his own show, could not find it for years, i am most likely going to watch ben 10 because of this one scene. the line about " at first I went mad of course, but after a few millennia i got board with that too, and went sane, very sane"
This show tripped me the fuck out as a kid. Swear to god, it was such a mood. I already loved the first show, but this was superior in every way. Just far more intriquing writing. Especially the first season, where they're still searching for Max. It's so, down to earth, chilling. Perfect mood for a five year old.
I was looking for this clip for a long time because I love Paradox and couldn't find it, so when I got a copy of this episode in good quality I decided to upload it so no one has to go and look very hard for it again
He was essentially in something like Hell. Imagine knowing that you’re literally going to be stuck somewhere for all of eternity. Might aswell crack a book and get comfy I guess
I miss David McCallum. He was also Ducky on NCIS. He was a good man. Professor Paradox is my 2nd favorite role he played. He also voiced Alfred in Son of Batman & Batman vs. Robin.
@@johndoherty487 yes, if you have infinite time, you can figure out the entire existence, person who knows addition can solve a multiplication problem if given a lot of time
@MageBurger He could've done it by bleeding himself to death by tearing his arm apart with his teeth. It sounds painful, but after a couple hundred years I bet any kind of emotion would be welcomed.
@@vermillionpengu2978 5 months have passed, are you still in our time stream? Edit: i saw a penguin, that looked like your profile picture, who appeared in my bathroom, but then i blinked and it was gone. Not you, i presume?
Whats interesting about the expiremnt that made professor paradox in the first place is that the technology that exploited the property of quartz to distort time and space is a well known phenomenon for other alien races, enough to be used as portals to connect vast distances, due to humanity's little experience with it and perhaps wholly unlikely of instances, the small miscalulation on professor paradox's part is a the only one that ever happened, despite the technology being well understood and messed with by other alien races. Basically humanity fucked up so badly that they made a time god out of what is essentially sand.
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"At first I went mad, but after a few millennia I got bored of that too, and then I went sane , very sane " that's a badass line
But it’s also hilarious how one day Paradox got tired of being insane. Like it was a mood he found exhausting after running out of ways to express madness.
Somehow being very sane is scarier than insanity
@@finnheisenheim8274 I get you some became insane because of that
i play games with the name "the sane hatter" sometimes, and i need to start quoting that.
@@finnheisenheim8274 because the more sane you become, the closer you are to going mad.
David McCallum, the voice of Professor Paradox, has recently passed away. Thank you for a timeless voice role. 😢
OHHHH NO WONDER THE REBOOT HAS NO PROFESSOR PARADOX DAMNN
RIP 🙏
@@boooooo8376to be fair. they met prof. paradaox when ben was a teenager, not when he was a kid
Thanks for those wonderful words and that exceptional pun in respect for his death!😭😭😭😭😭
He was also the car in the replacements with this exact same voice as well. Gosh he really was timeless
"I went insane, then i got bored and became sane again"
Joker: Wait, you can do that?
Paradox : Only if you can try.
Some people say that the joker is "super sane"
@@Kolbeck64 who? Harley?
@@christiannguyen1266 no, i think it was a doctor or psychologist in arkham who couldn't figure out what was joker's condition
@@Kolbeck64 The doctor was Harley I think
"We'll start in the middle" Best way to show how complicated paradox perspective of time is
To be fair, the beginning of his story would be his birth
@@MarshallLeeA Or the assembling of the atoms that started his bloodline or even the beginning of existence itself
@@MarshallLeeA This joke just get older with time...
@@TheLostWill agreed thats his begging
I like to think that that also suggests that paradox didn't want to bore the trio with the details before where paradox started. That, and he likely knew that the trio would be asking questions, that and the creators and/or writers likely didn't want the episode to be longer then it needed to be.
Always funny when you think "hmm i wanna watch that one scene from that one show again" and then you go and see someone uploaded that scene like a month prior. Nobody else thought of it before in the many years since the show aired. Funny.
I uploaded it because I couldn't find it in high quality!
But it's two months
@@MateoAbadia Thank you
@@MateoAbadia you dropped this 👑
Me 2 holy crap😫😫
I love how his whole power is being so smart he found out how to control time
Well, his power is that he is outside the timeflow and so he is unaffected by it. Then, he had all the time in the world to learn how spacetime works and how to bend it to his will.
He’s the literal definition of knowledge is power
@@andreimilitaru8144 Or, as Ben Describes in this same scene shortly after: "He has a Map in his head."
@@andreimilitaru8144 I don't think it's really "bending" time, more like, it's like he said, technically he just walks from one spot to another, but in actuallity it's like moving from one point of timeline to another point, like when you're editing a video
@@themajor2190 idk, hes definitely capable of more than just time travel though
Imagine getting bord of going insane like bruh this man
it is what made Paradox one of my favorite characters!
He became SUPER sane
I love that line so much
@@youngmultiverser9311 hypersanity
The joker should try having a conversation with him ! :d
The part I love most about this is that, he wasn't bestowed his godlike powers by some higher being. He's technically just an ordinary human who got smart enough to develop them on his own. He literally facts and logic'd himself into divinity.
He's basically a guy who had all the time in the universe to study all the secrets there are to reality, it's awesome
this is debatable, but im not gonna get into that…
@@xen3588 well if you are stuck in a dimension where you just exist and don't need any sustenance you can do what he did at first then begin to understand the fundamentals of the space time continuum and break it down into it's key components and understanding it at a higher level or under level depending on the time and dimension
@@damiandavis612 pretty much what I do too and get a better understanding of it
@Jacob Rivera yes since the only thing you could do in a pocket dimension that has nothing but time is time to study
Not gonna lie, that’s actually a horrific fate that he had to deal with. Being stuck doing nothing for such a long time can drive anyone to a painful amount of insanity.
then a painful amount of sanity.
True that's crazy
Read The Jaunt by Stephen King, basically the same thing, terrifying
Abuse drugs and/or alcohol while getting increasingly estranged from friends and/or family. It will feel like a few thousand years.
I actually don’t know the exact amount of time, I suffered a bad injury that had me bound to a hospital bed. I was hooked up to many things. I remained there for however long it was. I was released into a covid world. From one bed to another, I just layed there slowly losing my mind. Can confirm, just existing day to day and nothing else is quite terrible. I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.
I love how his character is just “because I wanted to, so I did and I will”
For some reason I remember this scene very vividly from when I was a kid
same bro me too. I watched it in hindi when I was a kid. He had a deep voice in the hindi dub and it made his presence dominating.
Probably because it's such an interesting backstory for a side character. I came back here after watching a Ground Hog day clip.
I imagine with unlimited time and virtual immortality, anyone that is mad or goes mad from the initial shock of the experience would naturally come full circle back to sanity. I.e. the human mind is capable enough to correct itself if the proper resources are available. With time and sustainability of the body, what couldn't the mind accomlish?
We became a lot more advanced since modern medicine significantly extended human life, so you're totally right imo!
@@MateoAbadia i think it would depend from person to person though. so props to paradox for being among the ones to go sane after going insane
@@ianr.navahuber2195100,000 years though? I mean, even 100 feels like 20 lifetimes to imagine it, someone is going to learn something to be sane again in 100,000.
Paradox’s origin operates off of the same principle as the phrase “give a monkey a typewriter and with enough time he’ll eventually write a complete work of Shakespeare.” It’s my favorite part of his character.
But in this case he doesn't have the "typewriter" how's he gonna learn?
He is a scientist man
Bro know time and reality so it would be no hard for him
I mean his typewriter was actually his small knowledge@@kronicst
@@asifiqbal436 oh okay i forgot that, thanks for telling me.
@@kronicst thanks for replying man 💜
@@asifiqbal436 no problem man, always nice to see someone happy
Imagine being so down horrendous you get bored of being insane.
What really amazes me is how bored he must have been to bore himself out of insanity. It’s really simply put from his perspective with words, but in reality I’m sure it was unfathomably maddening and boring outside the space time continuum.
One of the best characters in the franchise
Absolutely
The dr Who of Ben 10!
Agree
I would say the best
One of the best characters in fiction I would say
So basically this is what would happen if the Doctor had a kid with the TARDIS.
Bro😂
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Man paradox. Imagine going insane and living long enough to just get over it.
Fun fact, the man who voiced paradox , is the actor who plays duckey in NCIS
I didn't realize this until today
This scene depicts the power of boredom so well. No matter how bad of a trauma you are suffering or how good your life is going. Eventually there will come a time when you will get bored with it and move on. It's just that for some people that duration is shorter and people like those are easily bored with stuff and move to new ones. In other cases it's longer for other people, and they just die before that time comes. But not with Paradox as he was out of the time stream which made him virtually immortal, and he had time to get bored with that insanity. That's why people say time heals everything, but it's just people getting bored by the same emotions.
So many different ways to tell a story, but that's what makes them so interesting, you can never predict how they're going to turn out.
(Professor Paradox).
it would be so interesting if the narrator telling those "comic book what if" in original series was paradox
@@ianr.navahuber2195 Indeed it would be.
@@ianr.navahuber2195 That can make a good cartoon theory.
@@ianr.navahuber2195 on a side note, a Ben 10 “What if?” miniseries would be really interesting. We’ve already seen a few episodes like this, like when Gwen got the omnitrix, and Ben 23. But I’d love to see more parallel universes within the Ben 10 omniverse.
My favorite quote
Paradox defines maturity at its finest, when you are immature you deal with impactful situations with "insanity" things are hard to comprehend and you just go ape mode and do stuff you'll regret. But after you deal with this stuff to much you get bored, and then you mature, now learning from your mistakes
That was beautifully said💕
You can't do stuff you'll regret, when there's literally nothing to do.
Professor Paradox is sent to heaven because David McCallum passed away.
He is just in another universe!
Rest in Peace, David MaCallum. I’ll always remember you as Professor Paradox.
I love how it is cannon to the Ben 10 universe that the US government tried to use time travel to destroy the Soviet Union
I wonder if Professor Paradox liked his nickname so much that he did a little time altering so that anytime someone wanted to say his name they just refer to him as "Paradox" and kept his real name a mystery forever.
maybe...we know he forget his real name centuries ago so um who knows right?
The agreed theory is that this was the origin of his nickname, and since time is non-linear for him, people were calling him paradox before he was even given the nickname. This is likely him realising that this is the origin of the nickname and just goes along with it
Ducky lived a far more interesting life than even he let on, it seems. RIP David McCallum.
I love the idea that gaining complete understanding of a fundamental law and piece of reality allowed him to gain control of it. Its the literal saying knowledge is power put into effect
"Within reason"
I feel like this is probably a lie because I don't think it is within reason that he later goes into whatever plane contains the consciousnesses of alien x
I think that was an exception to prevent Ben from making a mistake that might result in the end of the universe.
There's a reason, if Ben was stuck inside the debate pocket dimension of Alien X, then how would the future events will play out like how they were meant to be.
He said that because he is not allowed to stay near celestialsapiens
Well hes not meant to be there There are rules just like I could drive-through a mall but I'm not meant to
within reason is a self referential statement. He can do it, if its reasonable to him, because he understands ALL of spacetime. If it has space, or time passes, he can be there. That dimension might be an "Alternate" space, but it still latches and connects to mainline reality, thus it fundamental properties must be in line and he can jump to it.
Damn I'm getting serious Doctor Who vibes about that character...
rest in power Mr McCallum
The writer of UAF, Dwayne McDuffie, was a huge fan of doctor who, and based Paradox off of him.
Hes the Dr. Who your GF tells you not to worry about.
The concept of regaining your sanity through sheer boredom is equally hilarious and awesome
If only David McCallum was timeless like Professor Paradox, but he’ll be remembered forever.🙏
Rest in peace, David McCallum 😢
It still disturbs me that he went insane and then just went like "sigh... alright, im bored. What should i do now?" Its creepy when you think about it
I wasn’t really a fan of this episode when I watched it but paradox became one of my favorites after a while
Huh. if you think about it, this is kinda Dr. Manhattan's origin story except Professor Paradox has already gotten over the "being dettached from Humanity" part and is already at the part of being at peace with himself and going full observant of time occasionally helping
Rest in Peace, David McCallum.
R.I.P. David McCallum
RIP David McCallum
Paradox is definitely my favorite episode in UAF, it's such a good Doctor Who story with that nice Ben 10 flavor :)
Rest in Peac David McCallum: Illya Kuryakin, Dr. Mallard and Professor Paradox among others.
Professor Paradox is definitely an interesting character
Paradox became the dream Of any scientist in the World, having the knowledge Of multiverse, time and space including
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Pretty much what I want to even who study science all the time
He’s a voice actor played Alfred in the new 52 animated universe
Rest in peace to David McCallum. He was an awesome actor!
I cant take him seriously, thats Dr Mallard. RIP
Rest in peace David McCallum.
He spent 100,000 years just existing.
He spent 2000-3000 years insane, but then became sane due to boredom and just learnt everything about space and time for 97,000 years.
He was probably able to escape due to his knowledge 😂
It never really expanded on what Paradox did to piss-off Bellicus and Serena, so much to make them agree to erase the Professor. I want to know.
In loving memory David McCallum
He’s way wiser than Azmuth!
"if azimuth is the smartest guy in 5 galaxies than why he can't bend timespace and paradox can?"
I wonder what happen if Professor paradox met Palkia and Dialga
What about meeting Arceus? A human achieving the power of spacetime on their own, outside of being a Pokemon granted with the ability to control either phenomenon by the Alpha.
when i was a kid, i loved this character so much i thought paradox was his own show, could not find it for years, i am most likely going to watch ben 10 because of this one scene. the line about " at first I went mad of course, but after a few millennia i got board with that too, and went sane, very sane"
This show tripped me the fuck out as a kid.
Swear to god, it was such a mood. I already loved the first show, but this was superior in every way. Just far more intriquing writing. Especially the first season, where they're still searching for Max.
It's so, down to earth, chilling.
Perfect mood for a five year old.
Such a good era for kids tv
Rest in peace david MaCallum
Bro wasn't granted his abilities he was smart enough to figure it out on his own
Ducky went from being an NCIS M.E. to time travelling hero.
Wait a tic! That’s Ducky?! How’d I never realize it was the Man from UNCLE.
RIP David McCallum ❤
My guy went so insane that he became sane. Not sure if that’s reassuring or more terrifying then him just being insane.
Yep Professor Paradox is literally Doctor Who in Ben 10! 😂😂😂
RIP Professor Paradox
Imagine how horrifying it is just to exist for 100 thousand years doing nothing it would make anyone crazy.
but then he became sane because he was bored of being crazy bro
Dude just math'd himself into becoming a god and he talks about it so casually
Why is it whenever the ink tank posts a new breakdown I get recommended clips from that episode from like 5 months ago makes no sense
I was looking for this clip for a long time because I love Paradox and couldn't find it, so when I got a copy of this episode in good quality I decided to upload it so no one has to go and look very hard for it again
When people who go crazy go to the looney bin but when this guy goes mad he just gets bored of it and decides to become a god
Rip David McCallum
RIP DAVID MCCALLUM
Rip David MaCallum
Dedicated to David McCallum.
He was essentially in something like Hell. Imagine knowing that you’re literally going to be stuck somewhere for all of eternity. Might aswell crack a book and get comfy I guess
Hello I'm sad today cause Professor Paradox voice actor David McCallum has die
I miss David McCallum. He was also Ducky on NCIS. He was a good man. Professor Paradox is my 2nd favorite role he played. He also voiced Alfred in Son of Batman & Batman vs. Robin.
he got bored of insanity and regained sanity. a man among men
Rip who the voice of professor paradox, now you can time traveling to heaven 🙏🏻🕊️
this is why exams have time limit and life has age limit
So we all don't become time master Genuses?
@@johndoherty487 yes, if you have infinite time, you can figure out the entire existence, person who knows addition can solve a multiplication problem if given a lot of time
one of the most memorable characters from the entire series
Okabe also went insane, from Steins;Gate.
Maybe Ben 10 is an AU of Steins;Gate
Explained better than Marvels explanation on time
He seems like a mix of Dr who and Richard Feynman.
Props to him for not killing himself. I think I would've done it after a couple of years, maybe a decade or so.
@MageBurger He could've done it by bleeding himself to death by tearing his arm apart with his teeth. It sounds painful, but after a couple hundred years I bet any kind of emotion would be welcomed.
@MageBurger Nah man, don't worry.
El psy kongroo
@@vermillionpengu2978 5 months have passed, are you still in our time stream?
Edit: i saw a penguin, that looked like your profile picture, who appeared in my bathroom, but then i blinked and it was gone. Not you, i presume?
How ? He lived unaffected by the timeflow without the need of air, or sleep
Can't believe Professor Paradox died
He's still alive in another timeline! RIP! 😢
David McCallum passed away
Rest well David McCallum, you've made Ilya, Ducky and Paradox household names
He looks like Joker without makeup
No wonder his actors voice sounds so familiar he plays Dr. Mallard in NCIS
Not only that...he was also responsible for that SICK sample behind Dr. Dre's "The Next Episode"
Nothing like staying isolated to become a lunatic them return to sanity very sane
Do you know the professor Paradox Was inspired by doctor who
That’s honestly terrifying… his backstory gives me chills
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One of the best characters ever made
I love to see the joker 100,000 years in there
This is a good Profesor
He went so insane he just got bored of it 😂
This man was bored of being insane.... hahahaha what a legend
This man literally got bored with being insane
Legend
Paradox is such a Chad he managed to go sane
dude must have solved string theory
Whats interesting about the expiremnt that made professor paradox in the first place is that the technology that exploited the property of quartz to distort time and space is a well known phenomenon for other alien races, enough to be used as portals to connect vast distances, due to humanity's little experience with it and perhaps wholly unlikely of instances, the small miscalulation on professor paradox's part is a the only one that ever happened, despite the technology being well understood and messed with by other alien races. Basically humanity fucked up so badly that they made a time god out of what is essentially sand.
I like the implication that with limitless time a normal human is capable of learnkng how to bend time and space to their will
Paradox the only person who knows more than Azmuth
“I can go anywhere and anywhen I want, within reason”.
Celestialsapiens:👀
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