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Time Travel Paradoxes
The movie's entire plot is a model example of a predestination paradox, wherein Bill and Ted are entrusted with the means to dramatically improve the entire universe of the future by a citizen (Rufus) of that very future. Near the end of the movie, Ted solves the problem of breaking into the jail by exploiting this paradox, demonstrating an unexpected (probably to himself as well) level of temporal insight. Knowing that time travellers (themselves) in the future world can provide aid to those in their current situation (as Rufus does originally), they resolve to help themselves break into the jail by stealing Ted's dad's keys from a couple of days ago and leaving them where they will be found at the exact moment of the resolution. This accordance with the Novikov self-consistency principle, suggests that there was never any possibility for Bill and Ted to fail.
Rufus never says what his name is. Instead, Bill and Ted tell their past selves to "listen to this dude Rufus". This is an example of an ontological paradox, in which predestined events necessitate prerequisite information to appear from nothing. This is similar to the film Back to the Future, in which Chuck Berry learns Jonny B. Goode from Marty McFly, who learned it from Chuck Berry.
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