Here's an interesting one: Chrono Trigger. For those who don't know, it's a game about time travel where the heroes go back and forth through time (from prehistoric times to the apocalyptic future) in an attempt to prevent the destruction of the world in the future by a giant cosmic horror space virus of doom called Lavos.
The game is a bit inconsistent about paradoxes. There's the scene early on where Marle's sudden appearance in the past and eerie resemblance to one of her ancestors stops a rescue mission for that ancestor, causing her never to be rescued and thus Marle's ancestors to never be born, so she winks out of existence. Rescuing her ancestor brings her back.
However, then the heroes spend the rest of the game screwing around with all sorts of things through time without any consequences to themselves whatsoever. The biggest one is the paradox of them going to the future and finding out about the world's destruction. You win the game by destroying Lavos and preventing the planet from burning, but that also means there would be no future where they could find out about what was going to happen. And yet, nothing bizarre happens*. Robo/Prometheus/R-66Y even gets to go back home to a bright and happy future and meet his girlfriend again and presumably function happily ever after* even though he shouldn't even exist.
My in-game explanation, taken from the campfire scene and some other things, was that the planet ('the Entity') was dying and in its death throes from the Lavos infection ripping it apart to fly off to the stars to infect more worlds, it was having flashbacks to key moments in its history. And since we're talking about a planet-sized consciousness that spans tens of millions of years, it could actually send up to three people between those memory points and protect them from the usual effects of all the crazy changes they were making with the timeline. As for why Marle winked out of existence: that may have been something more than it could protect her from, or the planet did it intentionally. I lean towards the latter. Notice how she didn't vanish immediately but only after Crono arrived to see her. Almost like something wanted him to know the stakes and what was going on.
*Unless you count Chrono Cross, which I don't, because it didn't happen, goddamnit.
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SDNW4 Nation: The Refuge And, on Nova Terra, Al-Stan the Totally and Completely Honest and Legitimate Weapons Dealer and Used Starship Salesman slept on a bed made of money, with a blaster under his pillow and his sombrero pulled over his face. This is to say, he slept very well indeed.