That "whoa" moment?

[Skyblade]

For me the first big whoa moment was Chrono Trigger. When Crono sacrifices himself against Lavos for the team, and I really thought he was dead. Didn't expect to be getting him back.

Especially considering it is a bootstrap paradox (logically closed causality cycle) and not a grandfather (illogical erasure) paradox, meaning what you saw "dying" always was the doll.

Hm ... what would be one "woah" moment ... probably when the Pyramid Heads in Silent Hill 2 kill themselves.

I do not believe that qualifies as a Bootstrap Paradox.

The idea of the Bootstrap Paradox is that the paradox could not have been triggered without its own input.

Example: In Terminator, a T-800 is sent back to kill John Conner, fails, and is found by scientists, who then use it's leftover pieces to build Skynet. According to Niles Tyson in Terminator 2, a lot of their ideas would not have been had without the pieces they found.

If we take that to be true, then without the T-800 jumping back in time, there would have been no Skynet to build the T-800 in the first place. It's a self-causing paradox that cannot exist except in the stable state.

There is no true paradox in the Chrono replacement. Since the moment itself, and all that derives from it, is unchanged, no paradox develops, and the replacement occurs completely within the realm of basic causality. Just, with time travel.