History Main / PropheciesAreAlwaysRight

*** Another one occurred in "Empire" when Vader tells Luke that he had foreseen the two of them managing to "end this destructive conflict" and "bring order to the galaxy" as father and son. Vader clearly thought this meant WeCouldRuleTogether, and could even have been lying to sway Luke to his side, but the pair ''do'' manage to end the war and bring peace to the Galaxy by killing the Emperor.

*** Another one occurred in "Empire" when Vader tells Luke that he had foreseen the two of them ruling the galaxy as father and son but it might have been a lie to try to get Luke to join him.

** Yoda does warn that "always in motion is the future", so prophecies made by Jedi (or Sith) should never be taken as absolute. As circumstances change, so too do the foretold events. And moreover, what you ''think'' a prophecy foretells and what it ''actually'' foretells aren't necessarily the same thing.

** Glorfindel prophesied that the Witch-King would not fall by the hand of any man; and he is indeed killed instead by a woman.

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': The ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes transport three Leaguers into the future, knowing that "incomplete records" indicate that one of the three won't make it back alive. The subversion comes in when all three heroes ''do" survive the mission, but one of them [[IChooseToStay chooses to stay in the future of her own volition]].

* ''Anime/MaiOtome'': The legend of the Tragic Meister had almost nothing to do with the actual events that led to Mai Tokiha's disappearance; the real story was considerably less tragic, to say the least. However, the same series includes a straight example of this trope (although if the characters knew the circumstances under which the legend of the Guiding Star was fulfilled, it would definitely have quite a few eyebrows raised).

* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': In "The Seer," Kelvin the Labradoodle is able to predict the future, and from what the story suggests, he's always right. He correctly prophesizes Mittens's imminent karmic meeting with Bolt, among other things.

See also SelfFulfillingProphecy, where the ''knowledge of'' a prophecy spurs the actions that (whether intentionally or not) ultimately fulfill it. Contrast SelfDefeatingProphecy, where knowing the prophecy allows people to make it false.

* ''Fanfic/{{HERZ}}'': Subverted. SEELE was fully confident on their victory because they thought that it was prophesized in the Dead Sea Scrolls. So that in order to stop them the Children came up with a scheme was not written in the _Scrolls. Secret organization's GEIST's leader remarked that prophecies may be broken.

-->'''Kelvin''': It’s a gift. I get these nagging sensations in my gut and my bones, and I see apparitions from the future. Among other things, I predicted Pluto would be demoted to a dwarf planet, Kosovo would declare its independence from Serbia, and Carrie Underwood would win ‘American Idol.’ Haven't missed with a single prophesy yet.

* Similarly, in Verdi's opera ''A Masked Ball'', King Riccardo of Sweden visits the gypsy fortuneteller Ulrica, who foretells that he will be murdered by the man whose hand he will shake. In an attempt to disprove the prophecy, Riccardo shakes the hand of his best friend and secretary Renato. In this case, however, it turns out to be a SelfFulfillingProphecy: [[spoiler: Riccardo is in love with Renato's wife Amelia, and Renato, erroneously believing his wife to be faithless, [[MurderTheHypotenuse shoots Riccardo at the titular masked ball]]]].

** Prophecy in the series also often has the twist of becoming true because of people directly acting to fulfill or avoid the fulfillment of the For example, Cersei Lannister's predicted future by Maggie the Frog has been eerily accurate. It's beginning to become implied that the things Cersei does in fear of the prophecy are, in actuality, directly fulfilling the things that have yet to come which she fears most.

* ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji'': Subverted. The Dead Sea Scrolls's prophecies were a reliable guide... until the moment of [[spoiler:Third Impact, when they went completely wrong due to the meddling of the ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' gods]].

* In ''Series/RedDwarf'' Season VIII, the crew come across Cassandra, a computer that can supposedly predict the future with 100% accuracy. The thing is, while she can predict the future perfectly, she can also lie about what she sees.

* Subverted on ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' though; the prophecy about Buffy says she's going to die to free the Master--she does, technically, but is revived by {{CPR|CleanPrettyReliable}}, and is more or less prophecy-free from there on out.

** The 'Always' part of the trope is, however, averted, because it's mentioned that Agnes Nutter is the only prophet in human history to have 100% accurate prophecies (which is speculated as the reason [[CassandraTruth why her book didn't sell). While other famous prophets of human history such as St. John, Nostradamus and St. Malachi had some seer-abilities, they were muddled by Heaven and\or Hell sending some interferences into their 'mental channels', by the prophets themselves often developing substance abuse habits to cope with the flood of information they recieve from the future, and prophets prioritizing rhyming and meter over total accuracy when writing their visions down. So most prophecies include some element of the truth, but also some major inaccuracies. Save for Agnes Nutter.

-->-- '''[[HistoricalDomainCharacter Robert]] [[PhonyPsychic James]] Lees''', ''Comicbook/FromHell''

* Similar to ''Toy Story 2'' above, in ''Disney/WreckItRalph'', King Candy [[spoiler: (aka Turbo)]] refuses to let Vanellope race because he thinks her actions will cause ''Sugar Rush'' to be unplugged. In ''Disney/RalphBreaksTheInternet'', Vanellope does exactly that!

* Touched upon in the ''Literature/{{Foundation}}'' series by Creator/IsaacAsimov:
** In ''Literature/TheEncyclopedists'', long-dead Hari Seldon appears during the 50th anniversary of colonizing Terminus via hologram. He announces that the Encyclopedia Foundation is a fraud, and that Terminus was actually founded as the next Galactic Empire. He also points out that they're already in the middle of their first socio-political crisis, and the solution to their problem is "obvious". Which the resolution of the story proves right.
** Played with in ''Literature/FoundationAndEmpire''. Before his death, Seldon recorded several messages about what will happen to the Foundation--and arranges for the messages to be played just ''after'' the events he foresees have taken place. The main effect is to reassure the Foundation that everything is on track. But Seldon is unable to foresee the threat posed by the (mutant) Mule--so when the Foundation watches Seldon's new message, expecting to hear a prophecy about the war they're fighting against the Mule's new Empire, they hear instead a completely wrong prophecy about a Foundation civil war (that never happened, since the factions involved all saw the Mule as a greater threat).

* Played with in ''Literature/FoundationAndEmpire''. Before his death, Foundation founder Hari Seldon records several messages about what will happen to the Foundation--and arranges for the messages to be played just ''after'' the events he foresees has taken place. The main effect is to reassure the Foundation that everything is on track. But Seldon is unable to foresee the threat posed by the (mutant) Mule--so when the Foundation watches Seldon's new message, expecting to hear a prophecy about the war they're fighting against the Mule's new Empire, they hear instead a completely wrong prophecy about a Foundation civil war (that never happened, since the factions involved all saw the Mule as a greater threat).