History Main / YouCantFightFate

* Subverted in the crossover Comicbook/{{Spawn}} / Comicbook/WildCATs, where future versions of Grifter and Zealot (the former being the original's future self but the latter being a new Zealot) are sent into the past to slay Spawn to prevent him becoming a ruthless dictator known as the Ipsissimus. When they fail to kill him, the present [=WildC.A.T.s=] and Spawn agree to go with them into the future to defeat the Ipsissimus, but it turns out this was part of a predestination paradox, as the Ipsissimus uses the opportunity to give Spawn the medallion that corrupted him and caused him to turn evil to begin with. When back to the present, the influence stats, and Spawn starts EvilGloating... until the future [=WildC.A.T.s=] realize their mistake and make a last attempt to modify a minor action in the past. This causes Spawn to recognize future Zealot as an adult version of his widow's daughter Cyan, come back to his senses and hand the medallion to her, thus preventing the future.

* ''Fanfic/BreathOfTheWild'' is novelized adaptation of [[Videogame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild game]] that adapts the main game, and both DLCs. However, [[spoiler: Impa]] gets [[spoiler: her]] own arc centering on obtaining [[spoiler: the Frog Spirit of Kindness, a fourth heroic spirit.]] During this time, Tutsuwa Nima reveals to her [[spoiler: that the Great Calamity was inevitable because it was part of a LongGame by the Goddesses meant to destroy Demise's curse once and for all.]]

* The ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]'' episode "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS2E13Epilogue Epilogue]]" (also a FullyAbsorbedFinale for ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'') has former CADMUS leader [[Characters/SuicideSquadComics Amanda Waller]] explaining to Terry how her branch engineered his entire life to be the next Batman, from arranging for him to be conceived with Bruce Wayne's DNA instead of his actual father's, to setting up the DeathByOriginStory of his parents. The assassin they contracted for that purpose refused to go through with it, leaving the [=McGinnis=] family alive. Fate had other plans, however and Terry's father was later murdered by Derek Powers, coincidentally around the same time that Terry met the aged Bruce Wayne and managed to connect the dots about his identity as the former Batman. On the other hand, the very same episode emphasizes the choice Terry had in becoming who he is and how he's grown, considering the vast number of psychopathic or self-destructive nut-jobs CADMUS also ended up creating. It may have been fate that turned Terry into Batman, but it's Terry himself that became a hero.

* ''Fanfic/TheInfiniteLoops'': ''Belief'' that this is true is a possible cause of Setsuna Syndrome, wherein the person attempts to {{Railroad|ing}} canon events into place. This usually places them at odds with most other loopers, who tend to cause severe timeline changes out of boredom.

* In ''Literature/HalfPrince'' a different kind of fate takes place when it comes to [=NPCs=] in Second Life. The game is programmed for things to happen, which is explored in a rather sad tale when Prince meets two [=NPCs=] on the Eastern Continent. Prince has to complete a quest by taking Kenshin the demon lord to see his game-programmed lover, but they find her grave. Even though the game was programmed for this to happen, because Kenshin developed a conscience it made it a very sad experience for him, because to kenshin it was as if she really did exist and she'd waited for him until the end of her days.

** In ''ComicBook/SupermansReturnToKrypton'', Superman accidentally time-travels and ends up in pre-destruction Krypton. Albeit depowered, he sets out to prevent future tragedies, but he's unable to get the Science Council listen to his father, he can't build an evacuation fleet, he can't stop Brainiac from stealing Kandor, and he can't save his family. Then Superman's launched into space due to a weird accident, and instead of flying back to Krypton he reluctantly accepts he can't change the past and travels back to his own time.

** In ''ComicBook/AMindSwitchInTime'', Superman swaps minds with his Superboy self. While in the past, Superman escapes from still another [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]]'s deadly trap. Nonetheless, Superman's patience at last has been exhausted, and he actually considers to get rid of young Lex "before [he grows] up to be an even greater menace", but he's talked down by Smallville's chief cop. Feeling ashamed, Superman reminds himself once again he can NOT change the past.

* In the eponymous song by Diane Warren, a guy (?) sings about how his ex-lover will eventually come back to him, because they're soulmates. It's left ambiguous whether this is actually true, or the delusion of a crazed stalker.

* The classic ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E18CauseAndEffect Cause and Effect]]'' makes a point of this trope when Dr Crusher [[DefiedTrope very deliberately tries to avoid breaking her glass]] in the next loop but just ends up breaking it another way.

** Recent events show that [[spoiler:even Jack Rakan has a hard time, given Fate's [[RealityWarper abilities]].]]

* The theme in ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', where the BigBad seems to control fate, while Guts and the Skull Knight are people who "struggle against fate/causality." Guts' power to do this stems from surviving his fated time of death on the day he was born (as well as again during the living hell that was the Eclipse). [[spoiler: It is very much implied that '[[ScrewDestiny whatever]]' Griffith did before or even during the Eclipse, some factor will ''always'' happen to [[MoralEventHorizon make him say yes]]. ]][[spoiler: The recent events imply that even the 'struggling' is a part of a [[LongGame much greater plan by the Godhand]], as Griffith (sorry, Femto) managed to usher a HellOnEarth as well as an Utopia.]]

** In ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' Gohan muses on whether the dark future Trunks comes from is inevitable, voicing his concerns to his father Goku by citing how the Androids were supposed to kill his friends and then one day kill Gohan himself. Goku notes that the future is far from set since his own death detailed in Trunks' timeline has been prevented thanks to the antidote which cured his heart virus. Though despite the future not being ruined by Androids some small echoes of the future do come true [[spoiler:Goku dies sacrificing himself to stop Cell, and Cell cripples Gohan's left arm echoing the future Gohan who had his left arm blasted off in a battle with the androids. Fortunately, both are fixable in this timeline.]]

* Present throughout ''ComicBook/BoosterGold'', but particularly in the issue where he tries to keep Barbara Gordon (ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}) [[ComicBook/TheKillingJoke from getting shot by]] ComicBook/TheJoker. He tries and fails to stop the event from happening multiple times before accepting that there are some things he isn't capable of changing because of solidified time (i.e. changing the past purposely, already extremely dangerous in "normal" cases, becomes impossible because certain events are too important to change, such as preventing Barbara Gordon from being crippled, thus preventing her from becoming ComicBook/{{Oracle}}, or saving ComicBook/BlueBeetle, preventing the Max Lord[=/=]ComicBook/{{Checkmate}} conspiracy from being revealed).

* Subverted in the crossover Comicbook/{{Spawn}} / Comicbook/{{WildCats}}, where future versions of Grifter and Zealot (the former being the original's future self but the latter being a new Zealot) are sent into the past to slay Spawn to prevent him becoming a ruthless dictator known as the Ipsissimus. When they fail to kill him, the present Wildcats and Spawn agree to go with them into the future to defeat the Ipsissimus, but it turns out this was part of a predestination paradox, as the Ipsissimus uses the opportunity to give Spawn the medallion that corrupted him and caused him to turn evil to begin with. When back to the present, the influence stats, and Spawn starts EvilGloating... until the future Wildcats realize their mistake and make a last attempt to modify a minor action in the past. This causes Spawn to recognize future Zealot as an adult version of his widow's daughter Cyan, come back to his senses and hand the medallion to her, thus preventing the future.

* The "Marvel NOW" restart of the ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' reveals this for ComicBook/DoctorDoom: [[spoiler:Ben Grimm had carried the guilt of altering Victor Von Doom's work -- something that Reed Richards had caught and tried to warn Victor about -- and, when he had the chance to stop Victor from performing his experiment thanks to the wonders of time travel, he takes it only to be stopped by dozens of other Dooms watching his birth. Reed gets Ben to calm down and allows the experiment to continue. As he later ruefully tells Ben, "Doom is inevitable."]]

** He first learned this lesson as ComicBook/{{Superboy}} when, after having just discovered he ''could'' time travel, he went back to prevent Lincoln's assassination. Against all likelihood, he bumps into the ''adult'' Comicbook/LexLuthor, who had simply been time traveling to take a break from the stresses of supervillainy. The encounter with Luthor delays Supes so he can't stop Booth's bullet. When Luthor realizes that he has inadvertently helped kill Lincoln, [[EvenEvilHasStandards even he is aghast,]] and he goes home, badly shaken.

** In ''ComicBook/AMindSwitchInTime'', Superman swaps minds with his Superboy self. While in the past, Superman escapes from still another ComicBook/LexLuthor's deadly trap. Nonetheless, Superman's patience at last has been exhausted, and he actually considers to get rid of young Lex "before [he grows] up to be an even greater menace", but he's talked down by Smallville's chief cop. Feeling ashamed, Superman reminds himself once again he can NOT change the past.

** In ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'', Franchise/TheFlash Barry Allen and the original Supergirl find out they'll die [[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths battling the Anti-Monitor]] if they leave ComicBook/{{Brainiac}}'s domed cities. They become convinced that their deaths are inevitable but they find comfort in knowing they'll help save the universe.

* Averting this was the goal of the original ''Comicbook/DaysOfFuturePast'': ComicBook/KittyPryde was sent back in time to prevent the assassination of Senator Kelly, which would result in a sequence of events leading to the virtual extermination of mutants. Kitty succeeds in saving Kelly's life, but she returns to the future to discover that nothing had changed. It turns out, the "future" was a completely different universe altogether (Earth-811), and because of the laws of time travel in the Marvel Multiverse that one cannot alter their own reality's past, her actions were only able to prevent the same catastrophe from befalling the main Marvel Universe (Earth-616).

** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': Hippolyta learns that Wonder Woman is prophesied to die, so she arranges ''ComicBook/TheContest'' and rigs it so that her daughter is stripped of the title and ComicBook/{{Artemis}} becomes the new Wonder Woman. In the end this ensures that [[ProphecyTwist both Diana and Artemis die]]. ([[DeathIsCheap They get better]]).

* ''Franchise/StarWars'' as a whole. In [[Film/ThePhantomMenace Episode I]], we find out that Anakin Skywalker (just a kid by then) is TheChosenOne, destined to bring balance to the Force by destroying the Sith. At the end of Episode III, he does the opposite thing: he joins the Sith Lord, and helps him to destroy all the Jedi order as Darth Vader. [[Film/ANewHope Episodes IV]], [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack V]] and [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi VI]] follow, and in the end Darth Vader kills the Sith Lord and dies shortly after... and thus the prophecy takes place: the Sith are no more, thanks to the actions of Anakin Skywalker.[[note]]And yet, it's the ultimate PyrrhicVictory. When Episode I began, there was a Jedi order of hundreds of members. By the end of Episode VI, all that remains is just a half-trained kid and a potential Jedi woman with no training at all.[[/note]]

* The 2002 adaptation of ''Film/{{The Time Machine|2002}}''. Dr. Alexander Hartdegen creates a time machine to try to prevent his girlfriend from getting killed. She was mugged in Central Park, so they stop by a flower stand instead. But while Alexander is buying her flowers, she gets run over by a carriage. No matter how many times he travels back and does things differently, she always dies. This is later revealed to be because if she doesn't die, he'll never build the time machine in the first place, which would be a TemporalParadox.
* ''Film/{{Triangle}}'': [[spoiler:It's implied that the only way for Jess to escape the time loop is by accepting that she can't change her son's death in the car accident. She refuses every time, so she is doomed to relieve the time loop forever.]]
* {{Discussed|Trope}} in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast''. Hank theorizes that the flow of reality eventually corrects itself, so one can't change the future by changing events in the past. At it seem {{averted|Trope}} when Xavier decides to ScrewDestiny and succeeds. However ''Film/{{Logan}}'' suggests this trope may ultimately be played straight: Though set in the "Good Future" timeline, mutants are ''still'' apparently gone.

* A major theme of ''Literature/TheLicaniusTrilogy''. Due to the pre-destined nature of events, even seeing an Augur's vision of the future will not enable anyone to change what is destined to happen. It's a series-spanning debate whether this means life is meaningless or whether free will isn't required for meaning.

* This is a primary theme of the ''Literature/{{Wolfsangel}}'' cycle. The main characters are bound to play their roles in the birth and death of Odin and Fenris across many reincarnations. [[spoiler:This is due to Odin, who is trying to fight/delay his fate by having his destiny play out on Earth; once the cycle of deaths is broken, the Norns will set Ragnarok in motion and end the era of the Norse gods for good. A HopeSpot appears in ''Lord of Slaughter'' with a way to break the cycle at last, [[UpToEleven but even with the Norns themselves pushing for it]], things do not go as planned.]]

* Creator/IsaacAsimov's "Literature/DreamingIsAPrivateThing": [[{{Creators}} Dreamers]], like Hillary, might try to stop working, but it can't last. It is their destiny to create stories and entertainment for other people to enjoy.
--> "This is our job, not our life. But not Sherman Hillary. Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he'll dream. While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream. We don't hold him prisoner, our contract isn't an iron wall for him. His own skull is his prisoner, Frank." -- Jesse Weill.

* ''Series/TheFlash2014'': Played with. Towards the end of Season One, Eddie Thawne breaks up with Iris West after learning that Iris will marry her best friend Barry Allen in the future, and not him. However, the revelation itself was not the exact reason why he broke up with Iris, so much as the fact that it forced him to confront what he knew all along, but didn't want to admit -- that Barry's feelings for Iris were not unrequited, and that ultimately, she loved Barry more than she did him. Iris did not react well to this at ''all'', and her immediate reaction was ScrewDestiny. Eddie did come around to her way of thinking eventually, and they got engaged as a result. Unfortunately, it was played depressingly straight in the Season One finale after Eddie commits HeroicSuicide to stop [[BigBad Eobard Thawne]]. Ultimately, Eddie and Iris weren't meant to be.

* In ''Series/ThatsSoRaven'', Raven Baxter's visions of the future will ''never'' be prevented. Most of the time she's the one causing them to happen in the first place.
** This also occurs in the SequelSeries ''Series/RavensHome'' with her son Booker Baxter-Carter. He also cannot prevent future events from happening. BlessedWithSuck rolled with ItRunsInTheFamily.

* Number Five in ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy'' time travels to 2019 in order to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong prevent the apocalypse]] he found when he time traveled as a child. Unfortunately, all his and his siblings' attempts to stop the apocalypse [[spoiler: just lead to the apocalypse happening anyway. Then they cause a new one when they time travel to the 1960s. Oops]].

*** Many people see ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' as the same thing: The party resolves to fight fate by saving their world and escaping the curse of the L'cie (turning to crystal or turning into a monster), [[spoiler:however while they do save their home, they are only saved from the curse by the intervention of one of the Gods (Who's intervention causes the events of the sequel to take place). ]]

** In the fourth game, Rean and Class VII [[spoiler:defeat Arianrhod, but attempt to use Valimar's power to keep her alive and recruit her. Like with the Nameless One, Arianrhod is fated to die according to the Black Records, and sure enough, defeating her makes her vulnerable to being ambushed and killed by Rufus.]]

** As of the end of Act IV, [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003842 Rose has had it with this fate bullshit]]. Incidentally, she knows she can't wantonly alter the timeline because [[http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004804 she knows it will just create an offshoot.]] [[AndIMustScream Which is something she's had personal experience with.]]
-->''Our otherworldly antagonists have assured us of our inevitable failure repeatedly, while the gods whisper corroboration in my sleep. I believe them now. [[spoiler:I just blew up my first gate]]. I'm not sure why I did it, really. I'm not playing by the rules anymore. I will fly around this candy-coated rock and comb the white sand until I find answers. No one can tell me our fate can't be repaired. We've come too far. I jumped out of the way of a [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] burning tree, for God's sake.''

* The ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]'' episode "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS2E13Epilogue Epilogue]]" (also a FullyAbsorbedFinale for ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'') has former CADMUS leader ComicBook/AmandaWaller explaining to Terry how her branch engineered his entire life to be the next Batman, from arranging for him to be conceived with Bruce Wayne's DNA instead of his actual father's, to setting up the DeathByOriginStory of his parents. The assassin they contracted for that purpose refused to go through with it, leaving the [=McGinnis=] family alive. Fate had other plans, however and Terry's father was later murdered by Derek Powers, coincidentally around the same time that Terry met the aged Bruce Wayne and managed to connect the dots about his identity as the former Batman. On the other hand, the very same episode emphasizes the choice Terry had in becoming who he is and how he's grown, considering the vast number of psychopathic or self-destructive nut-jobs CADMUS also ended up creating. It may have been fate that turned Terry into Batman, but it's Terry himself that became a hero.

-->'''Goliath:''' If I did not fear the damage you would do to the time stream, I would leave you here.\\

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': After some TimeTravel, Mojo Jojo chucks a young Utonium into the town volcano. However, the [=PPGs=] have travelled as well, and not only do they save Utonium, it turns out that this incident is what got him into science...[[StableTimeLoop and eventually led to the PPGs' creation.]]

** In a way, Raven kind of retroactively says ScrewDestiny. She realizes the [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt prophecy]] only came true because she let it ([[SelfFulfillingProphecy having given up fighting because she thought it wouldn't go any good]]), and then turns the DeusExMachina UpToEleven.

* Episode 4 of ''WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021'' depicts [[TheLostLenore Christine Palmer's]] death like this, as no matter how much Doctor Strange tries to rewind time and save her, she will always end up dying in ''some'' way. For example, they successfully make it to the award ceremony without getting into a car crash, but she gets a fatal heart attack. Or they choose not to go to the ceremony at all and spend the night at a diner, but a robber comes in and shoots her. All the various ways Christine died has led Strange to attempt forbidden magic to change this fixed point in time. [[spoiler: [[FallenHero It ends badly]]. ''[[RealityBreakingParadox Very]]'', '''''[[ApocalypseHow/ClassX4 VERY]]''''' [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone badly]].]]

** Carnymancers can make bargains with fate to chance a person's destiny. One carnymancer had a girlfriend who was destined to die in a fire, he changed her fate to be that she would kill herself, thinking that this would make her effectively immortal for as long as she wanted to live. Both prophecies came true, but not in the way he expected. Since her fate made it impossible for anybody to kill her, she became overconfindent and ended up killing herself by refusing to escape from a fire, mistakenly thinking it couldn't hurt her.

** Theoretically, one could prevent a prophecy by killing the person that the prophecy is about, but on the occasions when somebody actually had the opportunity to do this, they were to scared to try because they believed that fate would retaliate by sending somebody worse to fulfil the prophecy.

* It didn't matter what Rean and Class VII did in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel III'' despite their best efforts. There is no way to [[spoiler:prevent the Nameless One from dying just like according to the Black Records prophecy and unleashing the curse all over Erebonia and the continent. What's worse is that [[CosmicPlaything Rean]] does the deed ''himself'' when he loses it in his UnstoppableRage]].

* In ''Fanfic/GuardiansWizardsAndKungFuFighters'', this is why [[{{Seer}} Miss Kimber]] lets Tarakudo take the Oni mask in her possession — she's already foreseen that he's going to end up with it, so there's no point in trying to prevent the inevitable.

* The ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' films, as a whole, are an example of this. In [[Film/TheTerminator the first movie]], Sarah Connor learns that the fate of her unborn child, John, is to lead the remaining humans against the machines AfterTheEnd; [[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay the second movie]] is all about Sarah and John trying to stop the end from happening, and seemingly succeeding. However, both continuities which AlternateContinuity explain that Sarah's actions did not prevent, but only ''delayed'' the rise of [=SkyNet=] and the nuclear holocaust, from 1997 when it was originally supposed to happen, until 2004.
** Then there's Skynet's attempts to avert it's own destruction by repeatedly sending Terminators back in time to stop John Connor from being born or kill him. Not only does it's Terminators never succeed, they are indirectly responsible for multiple attempts to prevent the existence of Skynet. Worst of all, The Sarah Connor Chronicles shows by sending him into the future that even if John Connor wasn't a factor there would still be a Resistance there fighting Skynet anyway, so killing John Connor wouldn't have actually made a difference.

** Running tally: [[spoiler:Joffrey is dead, Tommen's fate is largely dependent on her own (outlook not good), and Myrcella is surrounded by people who, while they don't wish her harm, will use her to gain power. Sansa Stark is being groomed for rulership by Littlefinger, Margaery Tyrell isn't dead yet, and there's Dany Targaryen. ''And'' she has begun to alienate Jaime--also her younger brother, if only by minutes--while Tyrion yet lives]].
** On the other hand, The Stallion That Mounts the World, a prophesied warrior destined to become the greatest of kings and lead the Dothraki across the sea died, stillborn. Unless the prophecy actually referred to Dany and the ones speaking got it wrong. Given that this is apparently the case with Stannis and Melisandre, it's quite possible.

* Despite the main premise of ''Series/TwelveMonkeys'' being using time travel to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong change history and prevent a global pandemic]], it becomes increasingly clear over the course of the series that the protagonists are stuck in a massive StableTimeLoop, with all their attempts to change history only enabling the timeline they're trying to avert. In this, they're NotSoDifferent from their enemies, the Army of the 12 Monkeys, who are also aware of the time loop they're all trapped in and are trying to break it as well (though it their case, they want to [[TimeCrash destroy time itself]] to do so). [[spoiler:In [[GrandFinale the end]], the heroes do succeed in their goal, breaking the loop and [[CosmicRetcon creating a new timeline]] where the plague, the 12 Monkeys, and [[BigBad the Witness]] never existed.]]

* In ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyZombies'', this is essentially what ends the Aether arc in ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps4''. ''3'' seemed to end the story on a neat, paradox-free StableTimeLoop, but ''4'' clarifies that [[RealityEnsues such means any actions taken within the loop do nothing but prolong the cycle, and as such are meaningless]]. [[spoiler:The Apothicons may lose the Great War to the Keepers but, as pointed out in this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYOGJ2_SChw review of Tag Der Toten]], they will ''always'' put the MPD and Divinium into countless realities, kicking off the events of the mode from "Nacht" to "Revelations" before starting again, and there's nothing Primis can do about it. The Apothicons lose the battle, but always win the war.]] Both Richtofen and Monty believe in this trope via a deep fear of life after death, and as such keep the cycle going; [[spoiler: it takes Nikolai taking over and realising this folly to finally break the cycle via the killing of Primis and their alternates, plunging the multiverse into the Dark Aether and closing the loop for good]].

* The ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7621766/1/The-Gaikohima-Invasion The Gaikohima Invasion]]'' has a variation of this in Chapter 3, where Kurumu and Mizore, while [[GracefulLoser having accepted that Tsukune ended up with Moka]], decide to ask Yukari and Ruby if there was ever a possibility that one of them could have ended up with him instead. They're given looks at various alternate universes and timelines, but regardless of which one they see, only one of two outcomes happens, that Tsukune either ends up with Moka, or with no one. Basically, if Tsukune falls in love, it's always with Moka.

** [[spoiler:Not '''every''' time. Kotori's FamousLastWords to her fellow dreamseer Kakyou explicitly said that "the future is still undecided", which in the anime turned out to be true via Kamui [[TakeAThirdOption taking a third option]] and going through a HeroicSacrifice. The manga, eh, is something else.]]

* Miyuki Tezuka/Kamen Rider Raia from ''Series/KamenRiderRyuki'', a psychic who claims his visions are always accurate, believes this. [[spoiler:When he foresees the death of his friend Shinji Kido/Ryuki, however, he lies and tells Shinji that he foresaw his own death. During a later battle, Miyuki [[TakingTheBullet takes the metaphorical bullet]] for Shinji, averting his own prediction but turning his lie into a SelfFulfillingProphecy.]]