Paradox ending

Paradox endings are a series of multiple endings unique to Final Fantasy XIII-2. They are scenes which can be viewed by making certain choices at different stages of the game.
Paradox endings have no effect on the main story. To access most paradox endings, the Paradox Scope Fragment Skill is required to be active. Witnessing all paradox endings and the secret ending unlocked after obtaining all 160 fragments earns the player the "Anomalous" achievement/trophy.
Director Motomu Toriyama said that the different scenarios featured in the paradox endings could be be integrated into the story of Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII.Paradox Endings may influence the story of Lightning Returns
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==List of paradox endings==
===Transcript: A Giant Mistake===
"Transcript: A Giant Mistake" : By destroying Atlas at full power, without first resolving the paradox affecting Bresha Ruins, Serah and Noel end up on the Archylte Steppe at the time when an army of Atlases were deployed during the war and turned Gran Pulse into a wasteland. It is implied that Noel and Serah die battling a pair of Atlases in an attempt to stop Cocoon's fall in the turmoil.
===Transcript: Vanille's Truth===
"Transcript: Vanille's Truth" : If Serah and Noel defeat Caius Ballad in Oerba 200 AF before he could fulfill his role, they arrive to an alternate timeline before the events of Final Fantasy XIII. Following a woman's voice, they find a crystallized Vanille in Oerba, lamenting for leaving Fang during the War of Transgression. Serah resolves to help find the crystallized Fang for Vanille.
===Transcript: Mischievous Mog's Marvelous Plan with Flan===
"Transcript: Mog's Marvelous Plan with Flan" : If Noel and Serah defeat Royal Ripeness without resolving the paradox affecting Sunleth Waterscape, they unknowingly call a temporal backlash that results with not only Flan taking complete control of Cocoon, but giving rise to another evil flan that threatens the world to make monsters the dominant species.
Arriving to the Sunleth Waterscape ??? AF, Noel and Serah use a spell to disguise themselves as Microchu and Miniflan to move unnoticed while Mog prepares a poisonous pudding to kill the evil flan. The track for this on Final Fantasy XIII-2: Original Soundtrack is called "Mischievous Mog's Marvelous Plan with Flan".
===Transcript: Test Subjects===
"Transcript: Test Subjects" : After defeating the Proto fal'Cie Adam, Serah and Noel are captured and used in the creation of Subjects Alpha and Beta to serve as guards in Augusta Tower and later enforcers in the upcoming Eden Restoration Project, though the AI notes in its report that the two do act more human than the other copies.
===Transcript: The Future is Hope===
"Transcript: The Future is Hope" : In Academia 4XX AF, Alyssa is about to give Noel and Serah an artefact that would have sent them into Caius's trap. Snow appears with the Guardian Corps and exposes the plot while revealing Caius to be the one causing the paradoxes. He takes Serah and Mog on Shiva to stop Caius while Noel stays behind to keep Hope safe from his upcoming assassination in three days time.
===Transcript: Beneath a Timeless Sky===
"Transcript: Beneath a Timeless Sky" : Destroying Caius in the Void Beyond before his purpose in the timeline ended, Serah ends up in a era of New Bodhum in a state of entropy by time being stopped. Reunited with Noel and Mog, they find Yeul can live in this timeless world. With Serah providing morale, the group looks for a way out of New Bodhum ??? AF.
===Transcript: Heir to Chaos===
"Transcript: Heir to Chaos" : If he kills Caius in the Dying World, Noel takes his place as the new Guardian of Time, floating through the Historia Crux with the Heart of Chaos inside him. He inherits Caius's memories and resolves to save both Yeul and Serah from their mutual fate.
===Transcript: Fate and Freedom===
"Transcript: Fate and Freedom" : Serah remains in her eternal dream with Lightning, Snow, and the members of NORA in New Bodhum 00X AF. As a result, she has all but forgotten Noel and Mog, whose absence yet prevents her world from being truly perfect.
===Transcript: The Goddess is Dead===
"Transcript: The Goddess is Dead" : Though defeated and seemingly killed with the destruction of the Heart of Chaos, a revived Caius sits on Etro's Throne in the Void Beyond and explains how Serah and Noel had unknowingly played into his plan. With Goddess Etro no more and time nullified in every timeline, Caius unleashes a flood of chaos within the Void Beyond into Gran Pulse and creates a new world without the goddess now that he and Yeul are free from their respective curses.
This ending is the secret ending, unlockable after collecting all 160 fragments, which plays after the canon ending once it has been unlocked.
==References in Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII==
In Transcript: Vanille's Truth, Vanille narrates:
The story of Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII concentrates on Lightning's mission as the savior and her task of freeing people's souls from their burdens, which tie them to the dying world of Nova Chrysalia. The story ends with the destruction of the old one and birth of a new one.
In Transcript: Mischievous Mog's Marvelous Plan with Flan, Mog narrates:
In Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, the Moogle Village deep within a forest in the Wildlands has moogles tend to their lives with little worry about the outside world.
In Transcript: Test Subjects, Serah, Noel, and Mog are mere puppets controlled by Augusta Tower's AI, but for a brief moment they break up from their robot-like demeanor where their soul "manifests" and they act more humanly, remembering about their promises. In Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, Bhunivelze struggles to control humanity's souls, whose humanity prevents him from fully controlling mankind.
In Transcript: The Future is Hope, it is said that if Hope is gone there will be no future. In Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, Hope's artificial Cocoon is used to save the souls of the dead who were melted into the Chaos and lead them to the new world, as well as his role as Bhunivelze's puppet in being forced in creating the deity's ideal future before being discarded once his purpose to the god ends.
In Transcript: Beneath a Timeless Sky, Caius is defeated and the timeline exists no more, Yeul approaches Serah, Noel, and Mog, and they seek for other survivors. In Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, Yeul is brought back to the world with her countless past incarnations due to the lack of normal time passage. After the world's end the final incarnation of Yeul is allowed to join Noel and his friends in the exodus to the new world.
In Transcript: Heir to Chaos, Noel narrates:
In Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, Noel is tormented with the events of Serah's death and his inability to save the future which he sought to protect. The long life he has lived resulted in a near nervous breakdown, and resulted in his obsession with a vision from an Oracle Drive that promised him a happy future should he fulfill the prophecy.
In Transcript: Fate and Freedom, the shown world represents Serah's dream of all her loved ones reunited and living like a big happy family. The ending of Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII shows that Serah's dream has came to fruition with the birth of the new world.
In Transcript: The Goddess is Dead, Caius commands the chaos. In Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, Lightning learns that Caius has become a vessel of Chaos as a result of the Yeuls' need for him.
==Gallery==
Paradigm ending.jpg|Monsters fighting in "A Giant Mistake".
FFXIII2 The Future is Hope2.png|Snow, Serah and Mog about to fly off in "The Future is Hope".
FFXIII-2 Caius on Etro's Throne.png|Caius sits on Etro's Throne in "The Goddess is Dead".
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==References==
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Category:Gameplay in Final Fantasy XIII-2