Paradox
1) a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
2) a self-contradictory and false proposition.
3) any person, thing, or situation exhibiting an apparently contradictory nature.

In the caricature, the “paradox” situation, the plot, the thought expressed, are an important component of the semantic picture, which helps to focus attention on the problem or more acutely reveal the comic.
M. Valiakhmetov