History Main / Fortuneteller

* ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'' features a student named [[MellowFellow Yasuhiro Hagakure]] who's talent involves fortune telling. Despite having an accuracy of only 30%, a majority of his predictions have come true throughout the game.

'''Sokka:''' But, you didn't read my palms or anything.\\

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* ''Literature/{{Kane}}'': Boree from ''Dark Crusade'' is a part of a carnival troupe. She uses cards and both times we see her trying to tell Erill's fortune, she looks scared and refuses to tell the girl what she's seen--and before the end of each day, something very bad happens to Erill.

* ''Pinball/TheTwilightZone'' has the Camera.[[note]]From the episode "A Most Unusual Camera" in the original television series[[/note]] Making the shot yields a reward, along with a print of what the Camera will reward the next time it is hit.

* At the start of the ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}''-based anime ''Anime/PersonaTrinitySoul'', the main character runs into a fortune teller who gives him a rather dire prediction. The fortune teller then lifts his head, causing his hood to fall back and showing the audience it's Igor, a recurring character in the ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'' games.
* In ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'', Ryou Fujibayashi practices fortune telling (using playing cards) as a hobby. Most of the time, she's not too accurate, but she takes comfort from this, explaining that it would feel constricting if the future was set in stone. In the visual novel, she can get a deck of actual tarot cards, at which point she suddenly becomes more accurate...

* One of the early stories in ''Manga/YuGiOh'' had a student claim he could see the future (by way of pre-written fortunes hidden under his cloak). When defeated, we see the kind of prediction he gave out, such as "There will be an earthquake". In Japan.
* Sartorius/Saiou from''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' is a genuine example, using a Tarot themed deck to accurately predict the future.
* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'': Mohammed Avdol of worked as one in his hometown of Cairo before meeting Joseph Joestar. He doesn't do much fortune telling in the story itself, but it helps set up its use of TarotMotifs.

* ''Literature/CharlieWilsonsWar''. Greek-American CIA agent Gust Avrakotos is freaked out when he stops at a random Mediterranean beach and meets a old Gypsy woman who tells him he's in danger (Gust was being targeted by a left-wing terrorist group at the time). The old woman makes him a good luck charm that the secretly superstitious Gust carries with him wherever he goes.

* Merlon and his family from the ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' series.

* There's one in ''VideoGame/LegendOfMana'': a fruit lady, who wears fruit on her head, sits in a giant fruit, and tells the future by spinning around the fruit. So yeah.

** ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIf...'' uses a character generating device that has shades of traditional fortune-telling.

* ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'' had one, named Madame Clairvoya. WHO WAS A GHOST. Booohooo!

* In ''VideoGame/PrincessMaker2'', one shows up once in a while. And an avaliable ending features the daughter of the game [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-xyfSsixsA becoming a teller too.]]

* Madame Bwahstrella is a mechanical fortune-teller Rabbids in ''VideoGame/MarioPlusRabbidsKingdomBattle''.

* The VisualNovel VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc features a student named [[MellowFellow Yasuhiro Hagakure]] who's talent involves fortune telling. Despite having an accuracy of only 30%, a majority of his predictions have come true throughout the game.

%%* Xia Xia from ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'' delivers an Arabic rendition of this trope.

* ''Film/BloodRansom'': Jeramiah and Crystal go to see a fortune teller about how to cure Crystal's vampirism. The way is to have Crystal drink holy water with Roman's blood mixed into it.

* A Fortune Teller serves in the anime of ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'' to further the plot of a gag episode where Chrono gets a fever...[[spoiler:and to foreshadow the anime's DownerEnding]].

* [[Manga/SailorMoon Sailor Mars/Rei Hino]]'s [[ThePsychoRangers counterpart]] in the second arc of the manga, Koan, impersonates one of this for a school festival, reading only horrible, doomed futures, contrasting with a similar stand run by Rei, a girl with actual [[{{Seers}} future seeing abilities]]. In the last season of the anime Rei herself pretends to be one for another festival, but in a more positive fashion since she offered more of moral support and helpful advices rather than inventing stuff.

* Mohammed Avdol of ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'' worked as one in his hometown of Cairo before the events of the Part. He doesn't do much fortune telling in the Part itself, but it helps set up its use of TarotMotifs.

* ComicBook/MadameXanadu
* In ''ComicBook/{{Maus}}'', Anja visits a fortune teller, portrayed as a [[AnimalStereotypes gypsy moth]].
* Charity, the HorrorHost of Creator/DCComics' ''Forbidden Tales of Dark Mansion'', who later became Mason O'Dare's girlfriend in ''Comicbook/{{Starman}}''.

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: In #29 some "Irish Gypsies" come to town and the Holliday Girls go to have their palms read by the traveler's fortune teller.

* Madame Zoo Doo in ''ComicStrip/{{Shoe}}'' reads a crystal ball and other divining tools for the other Treetops residents, all of them birds like herself.

** A fortune teller at a Renaissance fair told Lisa her future in episode "Lisa's Wedding". She was quite young and good-looking and used a crystal bowl. She however says she likes predicting embarrassing future.

* In ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'', you can visit a fortune teller in Termina, who will have a unique fortune for [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters all forty-five of your possible party members]]... with the exception of Kid and Harle, who get the same reading.

* In the [[Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon animated Disney version]] of ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood'', Robin masquerades as a Gypsy fortuneteller (complete with crystal ball) to trick Prince John.

* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' goes with the theory that Professor Trelawney is a much more gifted seer than she or anyone else realises - not only is her Second Prophecy completely accurate, her Tarot Reading in chapter 66 of the first book has similarly come to pass and referred to as significant well into the second book. Her main problem, as Draco observes, is that she not only tries to force her gift, but pickle it. While some of the cards and their interpretations could simply be smart cold reading, some of them are disquietingly accurate, greatly disturbing Harry.

* In ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'', the goat Soothsayer of Gongmen City, who served Lord Shen's parents, narrates the opening of the film. She also delivered the warning that, [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom to her horror and regret,]] led Shen to commit genocide against the pandas, killing Po's mother (though not his father, as it turned out). Throughout the film, she maintains to Shen that her warning that his doom will come at the hands of "a warrior of black and white" (Po) will come true if he keeps on his current path. Unusually, she keeps trying to persuade Shen to turn aside and redeem himself, preventing the prophecy from coming about, and honestly cares about him (she's implied to have been his [[IncrediblyLamePun nanny]], too - something which probably explains why Shen puts up with her ServileSnarker tendencies).

* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': In TheMovie GrandFinale, Mrs. Davis uses playing cards to tell Miss Brooks' fortune. [[spoiler: She's actually using fortune telling as a guise to blab secrets trusted to her care.]]

* It's something of a RunningGag in the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' books that Sybil Trelawney models herself on this stereotype. Characters like Firenze tend to be very scornful of her "fortune telling" (with good reason, as out of thousands of her predictions, only two were true prophecies). Trelawney's abilities are - understandably - mocked for both her theatricality and her small number of prophecies made; she turns out to be TheCassandra and the prophecies she made came true. It's also hinted throughout that a lot of her lesser prophecies are, when stripped of their theatricality, actually quite accurate, suggesting that she really does have a gift, she just has a tendency to try and force it (or, in later books, pickle it). In the films she's more of a GranolaGirl or TheDitz.

* Courtney Milan's ''Proof By Seduction'' features one as the heroine, in a BelligerentSexualTension rivalry with a scientist who wishes to disprove her supposed "gifts." (She's using her perceptiveness about people, rather than any real supernatural gift, and is portrayed sympathetically even though she later [[spoiler: decides to give up her fortune-telling, feeling that she is taking advantage of emotionally vulnerable clients]]).

* It's possible to visit a fortune teller at the carnival in ''VideoGame/BaldursGate''. If you ask her to read your fortune, she figures out you're a [[spoiler: Bhaalspawn]], gives you a refund, [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere and runs]].

* ''Literature/KitWilliamsMasquerade'': During his travels, Jack Hare comes across the Penny Pockets Lady. In exchange for a penny, she'll let someone choose from the many pockets of her apron and give them a small gift which usually has some importance for their future. Unfortunately Jack, being a hare, has no penny, but she's still willing to answer a question for him.

* ''Anime/IlSolePenetraLeIllusioni'' has the main character work as a fortuneteller, alongside three others. They all use tarot, because tarot is kind of [[TarotMotifs the show's thing]].

-->"I see the many paths of your future! Seven years of torment await you! Pain, disease and death--[[DeathIsCheap lots of death!]] You shall suffer the agony of unrequited love, the machinations of [[FatalAttractor deceitful women]], and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking you won't get promoted either!]]"

* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3109 Monique fantasizes about being a gypsy fortuneteller.]]
* In ''Webcomic/MonsieurCharlatan'', [[http://monsieur-charlatan.com/archive/page-22/ Isidore asks whether she's going to read his palm when she demands to see his hands.]]

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* ''Film/LiveAndLetDie''. Solitaire has the ability to see the future by reading tarot cards, [[VirginPower but only so long as she retains her virginity]].

* In ''VideoGame/PrincessMaker 2'', one shows up once in a while. And an avaliable ending features the daughter of the game [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-xyfSsixsA becoming a teller too.]]

->'''Aunt Wu:''' [[BornUnlucky Your future is full of struggle and anguish, most of it self-inflicted.]]\\