History YouCantFightFate / AnimeAndManga

* ''Almost'' in place (and maliciously so) in ''Anime/SteinsGate''. Every world line has Attractor Fields which will prevent anyone from changing established pasts, [[spoiler: especially the timing of deaths, which is why Okabe keeps failing to save Mayuri in the Alpha world line and Kurisu in the Beta world line]]. However, changes to the events surrounding the development of time travel itself can alter the path of history into another world line. [[spoiler: Additionally, TrickedOutTime allows Okabe and Suzuha to [[ScrewDestiny alter events and enter the Steins;Gate world line]] by only changing what wasn't witnessed.]]
** Returns in the "sequel" ''Anime/SteinsGateZero'' only this time Okabe actually figures out how to exploit it in his own favor. [[spoiler: While he's running for the Time Leap Machine in the year 2025, his friends act as decoys to interfere with the enemy tracking them down, banking on the fact that he saw them alive up to the year 2036 to keep them alive. Much later, the heroes are trying to send Mayuri and Suzuha back in time to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong, but unfortunately, a missile is destined to be launched at them to prevent them from changing the future. Okabe manages to alter events enough that the time machine leaves just before the missile destroys it, and to make sure it sticks, he observes the event to make sure the Attractor Fields prevent it from being changed.]]

* In ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', it's possible to fight Fate. But look out, he can [[TakenForGranite turn people to stone]] and his {{power level|s}} is around 3,000, so...what? [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Wrong Fate? Oh. Um...never mind, then]].
** Recent events show that [[spoiler:even Jack Rakan has a hard time, given Fate's [[RealityWarper abilities]]]].
** And in the most recent chapter, it turns out [[spoiler:''there are six of him'', two of which are unaccounted for. And they can be brought back from the dead due to their nature as constructs]]. Unless your last name is Springfield, it seems, you really ''can't'' fight Fate. Even then...
*** Right now? [[spoiler:Five of the Fates have already been defeated. The only one standing is the original, and he and Negi '''are''' fighting their last and more definitive duel.]] So it seems that ''you STILL can fight Fate''.
*** However, the other five have all been [[JokerImmunity resurrected]]...again.
*** Update! [[spoiler:You don't even '''need''' to fight Fate anymore. [[HeelFaceTurn He's on Negi's side]]. Unless you mean [[UnwantedHarem having Fate as your romantic rival for]] [[EvenTheGuysWanthim Negi]], that is.]]
** Asuna Kagurazaka in the first anime's [[GeckoEnding alternate]] [[OvertookTheManga story]] was doomed to die on her 15th birthday due to a DealWithTheDevil so the demons would stop following her and bringing destruction wherever she went. The series' lead's DisappearedDad attempted to save her and was promptly [[DroppedABridgeOnHim crushed under a bridge]]. [[spoiler:She has to die and comes back in time to break the deal. And not before Negi has a HeroicBSOD upon seeing her death.]]

** ''Manga/PhantomBlood'': Will Zeppeli subverts this in that he's given more or less the exact circumstances of his death, but makes no move to avert it because his death will help achieve his ultimate goal. Instead, he demands to know the manner of his death so he can plan on how to live from then on.
** ''Manga/BattleTendency'': When Joseph asks why Lisa Lisa can't destroy the Red Stone of Aja so the Pillar Men can't use it, she replies that an ancient prophecy from the Hamon clan predicts that the Red Stone is integral to the defeat of the Pillar Men. This ends up being correct. [[spoiler:Esidisi separating himself from the group to steal the Red Stone allows Joseph to defeat him. Also, without the Red Stone, Lisa Lisa wouldn't have been able to bargain a duel with Kars and Wamuu. Finally, while the Red Stone was used by Kars to become the ultimate life form, it's also thanks to the Red Stone that the Earth rejects Kars, dooming him to float through space for eternity.]]
** ''Manga/StardustCrusaders'': Boingo's Stand, Thoth, takes the form of a comic book that predicts the immediate future. These predictions are boasted by Boingo as being 100% absolute. While this is true, they are also highly prone to {{Prophecy Twist}}s; especially if someone actively tries to avoid the predictions of the book. For example, when Boingo's brother Oingo is about to be caught planting a trap that Thoth has prophecised will blow up Jotaro, he uses his Stand to transform himself ''into'' Jotaro to escape detection and ends up being the one who is injured in the trap. [[spoiler:However, one of Thoth's predictions shows Jotaro's face being split in half with "blood everywhere". While this doesn't happen immediately, 22 years later, Jotaro is killed by Enrico Pucci's Stand Made in Heaven. The scenario? His face is split in half.]]
** ''Manga/DiamondIsUnbreakable'': Yoshikage Kira's Killer Queen tertiary ability: Bites the Dust, uses this in combination with GroundhogDayLoop. It causes somebody to explode, rewinding time by one hour. When it gets to the point in time where Bites the Dust originally activated, fate sets in motion and the target dies again, as their fate of dying is set in stone even if nothing directly causes it. [[spoiler: It's eventually turned against Kira himself by Hayato Kawajiri, the young boy he used as the host for Bites The Dust. Hayato was the only one aware of time being continually looped, allowing him to use his knowledge of the events to come to set the stage for Kira’s defeat.]]
** ''Manga/GoldenWind'':

*** [[BigBad Diavolo]]'s Stand, King Crimson, seemingly [[AvertedTrope Averts]] this: while his sub-Stand Epitaph shows him events set up to a few seconds in the future that are ''fated'' to happen, his main ability allows him to change the outcome of those predictions by erasing the time between the present and the predicted future from everyone but himself's perception and repositioning himself in advantageous spots. However, WordOfGod later confirmed in an explanation for the [[spoiler:universal reset]] in ''Manga/StoneOcean'' that any seeming change in fate ''is already set in stone'' and as such ''fated to happen''. Diavolo can also weaponize this: if Epitaph's vision shows him doing a certain action, such as killing someone, skipping time will cause said event to happen on its own, as it was fated to happen. [[spoiler: Diavolo is ultimately defeated by Gold Experience Requiem, who traps Diavolo in an infinite loop of agonizing deaths, making it so not even the truth of Diavolo’s own ultimate fate and final death will ever be known to him.]]
** ''Manga/StoneOcean'':

*** [[spoiler: The anime adaptation drives the irony home even further. In it, Emporio [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech points out that,]] for all his talk of accepting destiny, Pucci was the only one in the story who didn’t choose to do so. His enemies, by comparison, despite not knowing what the future held, stuck to their convictions and moved forward, leading to Pucci’s defeat. And the kicker? Pucci, due to dying before Made In Heaven could complete the time acceleration cycle, caused the universe to be completely reborn anew, causing humanity’s fate to be definitively changed.]]
** ''Manga/JoJolion'': [[spoiler:Tooru]] describes his own Stand's power as a manifestation of a "flow", as everything exist in an endless sequence of cause-and-effect. In short, his power manipulates fate so that anyone who pursues Wonder of U or its user is fated to be met with Calamity, and there is nothing that can be done to fight the negative repurcussions of such Calamities. Only things that exist outside the chain of causality appear to be able to override Wonder of U's vice grip on destiny.

* ''Almost'' in place (and maliciously so) in ''[[Anime/SteinsGate Steins;Gate]]'': every world line has Attractor Fields which will prevent anyone from changing established pasts, [[spoiler: especially the timing of deaths, which is why Okabe keeps failing to save Mayuri in the Alpha world line and Kurisu in the Beta world line]]. However, changes to the events surrounding the development of time travel itself can alter the path of history into another world line. [[spoiler: Additionally, TrickedOutTime allows Okabe and Suzuha to [[ScrewDestiny alter events and enter the Steins;Gate world line]] by only changing what wasn't witnessed.]]
** Returns in the "sequel" ''VisualNovel/SteinsGateZero'' only this time Okabe actually figures out how to exploit it in his own favor. [[spoiler: While he's running for the Time Leap Machine in the year 2025, his friends act as decoys to interfere with the enemy tracking them down, banking on the fact that he saw them alive up to the year 2036 to keep them alive. Much later, the heroes are trying to send Mayuri and Suzuha back in time to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong, but unfortunately, a missile is destined to be launched at them to prevent them from changing the future. Okabe manages to alter events enough that the time machine leaves just before the missile destroys it, and to make sure it sticks, he observes the event to make sure the Attractor Fields prevent it from being changed.]]
* ''{{Anime/Superbook}}'':

** ''Manga/DiamondIsUnbreakable'': Yoshikage Kira's Killer Queen tertiary ability: Bites the Dust, uses this in combination with GroundhogDayLoop. It causes somebody to explode, rewinding time by one hour. When it gets to the point in time where Bites the Dust originally activated, fate sets in motion and the target dies again, as their fate of dying is set in stone even if nothing directly causes it. [[spoiler: It's eventually turned against Kira himself by Hayato Kawajiri, the young boy he used as the host for Bites The Dust. Hayato was the only one aware of time being continually looped, allowing him to use his knowledge of the events to come in them set the stage for Kira’s defeat.]]

** ''Manga/DiamondIsUnbreakable'': Yoshikage Kira's Killer Queen tertiary ability: Bites the Dust, uses this in combination with GroundhogDayLoop. It causes somebody to explode, rewinding time by one hour. When it gets to the point in time where Bites the Dust originally activated, fate sets in motion and the target dies again, as their fate of dying is set in stone even if nothing directly causes it. [[It's eventually turned against Kira himself by Hayato Kawajiri, the young boy he used as the host for Bites The Dust. Hayato was the only one aware of time being continually looped, allowing him to use his knowledge of the events to come in them set the stage for Kira’s defeat.]]

*** [[The anime adaptation drives the irony home even further. In it, Emporio [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech points out that,]] for all his talk of accepting destiny, Pucci was the only one in the story who didn’t choose to do so. His enemies, by comparison, despite not knowing what the future held, stuck to their convictions and moved forward, leading to Pucci’s defeat. And the kicker? Pucci, due to dying before Made In Heaven could complete the time acceleration cycle, caused the universe to be completely reborn anew, causing humanity’s fate to be definitively changed.]]

* In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', fate is described as an unbreakable law of nature. Several people and Stands predicting the future are always correct, at least technically because ProphecyTwist still applies. Fate is so strong that a fated event may happen on its own even if time manipulation is used to remove its cause. However, the series presents it in a better light because: 1. the heroes' struggle still has a meaning as despite their destinies, they all make a conscious choice to fight evil at the risk of their lives; 2. sometimes, good is meant to triumph at the end.

** ''Manga/DiamondIsUnbreakable'': Yoshikage Kira's Killer Queen tertiary ability; Bites the Dust, uses this in combination with GroundhogDayLoop. It causes somebody to explode, rewinding time by one hour. When it gets to the point in time where Bites the Dust originally activated, fate sets in motion and the target dies again, as their fate of dying is set in stone even if nothing directly causes it.

*** [[BigBad Diavolo]]'s Stand, King Crimson, seemingly [[AvertedTrope Averts]] this: while his sub-Stand Epitaph shows him events set up to a few seconds in the future that are ''fated'' to happen, his main ability allows him to change the outcome of those predictions by erasing the time between the present and the predicted future from everyone but himself's perception and repositioning himself in advantageous spots. However, WordOfGod later confirmed in an explanation for the [[spoiler:universal reset]] in ''Manga/StoneOcean'' that any seeming change in fate ''is already set in stone'' and as such ''fated to happen''. Diavolo can also weaponize this: if Epitaph's vision shows him doing a certain action, such as killing someone, skipping time will cause said event to happen on its own, as it was fated to happen.

* In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', fate is described as an unbreakable law of nature. Several people and Stands predicting the future are always correct, at least technically because ProphecyTwist still applies. However, the series presents it in a better light because: 1. the heroes' struggle still has a meaning as despite their destinies, they all make a conscious choice to fight evil at the risk of their lives; 2. sometimes, good is meant to triumph at the end.

** ''Manga/DiamondIsUnbreakable'': Yoshikage Kira's Killer Queen tertiary ability; Bites the Dust, uses this in combination with GroundhogDayLoop. It causes somebody to explode, rewinding time by one hour. When it gets to the point in time where Bites the Dust originally activated, fate sets in motion and the target dies again.
** ''Manga/GoldenWind'': Scolippi is all but built off of this. He believes that everybody is a "sleeping slave" of fate, in that everybody is at its mercy, but not everyone is aware of the consequences. His Stand, Rolling Stones, also puts the concept into motion, in that it seeks out anybody who's about to die in the oncoming future and chisels itself into a stone recreation of their scene of death. However, it also offers a MercyKill in that, if anyone decides to grab onto Rolling Stones, it will provide them with an instantaneous, yet painless death.
*** [[BigBad Diavolo]]'s Stand, King Crimson, seemingly [[AvertedTrope Averts]] this: while his sub-Stand Epitaph shows him events set up to a few seconds in the future that are ''fated'' to happen, his main ability allows him to change the outcome of those predictions by erasing the time between the present and the predicted future from everyone but himself's perception and repositioning himself in advantageous spots. However, WordOfGod later confirmed in an explanation for the [[spoiler:universal reset]] in ''Manga/StoneOcean'' that any seeming change in fate ''is already set in stone'' and as such ''fated to happen''.

* In ''LightNovel/DateALive'', Origami Tobiichi's parents were killed five years prior by what was considered to be a Spirit, and at one point, [[spoiler: after being turned into a Spirit herself]], she traveled back in time with Kurumi's help to try and save them, [[spoiler: only for it to be revealed that it was [[StableTimeLoop her own present self's actions that accidentally killed her parents]]]]. Later, [[spoiler: after Shido goes back in time and manages to prevent the deaths of Origami's parents, Origami's past is considerably altered]]. However, [[spoiler: it turns out that Origami's parents ended up dying anyway a year after in a traffic accident]].

* Discussed in ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD''. Ddraig tells Issei a rivalry with Vali is inevitable, since Issei possesses Boosted Gear (read: [[EmpathicWeapon Ddraig himself]]) and Vali wields Divine Dividing, which houses Albion. When questioned, though, Ddraig admits this isn't certain, past generations have had one wielder die before meeting the other (Issei was asking because he [[FirstEpisodeResurrection narrowly avoided being an example]]); it's only extremely likely since wielders of such powerful Sacred Gears tend to make a lot of noise and attract each other, and the two dragons will encourage the rivalry, since they were sealed into their current forms mid-fight. [[spoiler:Ultimately it's completely subverted when it becomes obvious that the once-DivineConflict has boiled down to a centuries-old pissing match, and Albion and Ddraig eventually reconcile, removing the driving force of the rivalry.]]

* In the Laplace's Demon arc of ''LightNovel/RascalDoesNotDreamOfBunnyGirlSenpai'', Sakuta gets caught in a GroundhogDayLoop with a girl who has a crush on him, Tomoe Koga. Koga is "rolling the dice" to try to find an iteration of a month of July where Sakuta falls for her, but he's already in love with Mai. He finally gets her to give it up and accept that she's just going to have to deal with the angst of an unrequited crush for a while, and the loop ends.

*** [[BigBad Diavolo]]'s Stand, King Crimson, seemingly [[AvertedTrope Averts]] this: while his sub-Stand Epitaph shows him events set up to a few seconds in the future that are ''fated'' to happen, his main ability allows him to change the outcome of those predictions by erasing the time between the present and the predicted future from everyone but himself's perception and repositioning himself in advantageous spots. However, WordOfGod later confirmed in an explanation for the [[spoiler:universal reset]] in ''Manga/StoneOcean'' that any seeming change in fate ''is already set in stone'' and as ''such fated to happen''.

* ''LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'':
** Subverted in the first episode. As the credits begin to roll, Catarina discovers to her horror that despite her efforts to prevent Keith from feeling lonely in the future (which indirectly leads to her death), Keith has instead forced himself into isolation for an entirely different reason. As the episode appears to conclude with the lesson that destiny can't be changed no matter what, [[ScrewDestiny Catarina takes a literal axe to that notion]] and chops down Keith's door, falls to her hands and knees and begs forgiveness for causing Keith pain. The episode then ends with the two becoming closer than ever and revealing its true premise: Catarina has ''already'' changed her fate, but she's [[WrongGenreSavvy too dense to realize it!]]
** Fate has it that EventFlags in ''Fortune Lover's'' continuity will play out no matter what: Catarina will always be exposed for her crimes against Maria, Mary's green thumb will always be complimented by Alan, Maria will always be bullied, and so on. However, what changes is the ''actors'' in each scene. Catarina often bumbles into saying things other characters were meant to say to someone important before they could, or doing things other characters were supposed to do. This ultimately ends up making it so that more negative scenes are changed in Catarina's favor, since she's often being a genuinely nice person to others, as opposed to the in-game version of Catarina, who was an ass.

* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'': This hits [[IJustWantToBeFree present Eren]] particularly hard, to the point he crosses the DespairEventHorizon and falls straight into VillainProtagonist territory to fulfill what his future self has revealed to him while desperately hoping on some level there's another way, but finding none and thus [[BecauseDestinySaysSo doubling down on what he believes he needs to do]]. But in the end, [[ShaggyDogStory his attempts to secure a better fate for his people end up becoming futile]]]].

* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'': One of the biggest plot twists/revelations that only gets revealed by around the endgame is that [[spoiler:nearly everything that happens has been orchestrated by the hand of ''[[TheHero Eren Yeager]]'', using the power of the Attack Titan to access and manipulate the memories of ''every'' holder of its power in order to nudge events so that everything would reach the point he would be able to trigger [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt The Rumbling]]. This trope comes into effect for every Attack Titan holder who finally realizes this. This hits [[IJustWantToBeFree present Eren]] particularly hard, to the point he crosses the DespairEventHorizon and falls straight into VillainProtagonist territory to fulfill what his future self has revealed to him while desperately hoping on some level there's another way, but finding none and thus [[BecauseDestinySaysSo doubling down on what he believes he needs to do]]. But in the end, [[ShaggyDogStory his attempts to secure a better fate for his people end up becoming futile]]]].

** Will Zeppeli, from Part 1, subverts this trope in that he's given more or less the exact circumstances of his death, but makes no move to avert it because his death will help achieve his ultimate goal. Instead, he demands to know the manner of his death so he can plan on how to live from then on.
** Two of the Stands, Bohemian Rhapsody and Under World, actually manage to turn this into a ''weapon''. Bohemian Rhapsody fates people to re-enact stories that they have particular attachments to. This turns downright ugly, or even ''fatal'', if the character they're most like met an unpleasant and/or deadly end. Under World, meanwhile, fates people to live through an unearthed memory of their current location (which its Stand user uses to trap the heroes in the memory of a crashing airplane). Under World is a little more flexible because Donatello's victims aren't necessarily incorporated into the memory like Bohemian Rhapsody incorporates victims into stories. This means it's possible to circumvent the bad portions of a memory, as long as you wouldn't keep the memory from repeating its original form.
** A third (and notably dangerous) example is Yoshikage Kira's Bites the Dust, which uses this in combination with GroundhogDayLoop. It causes somebody to explode, rewinding time by one hour. When it gets to the point in time where Bites the Dust originally activated, fate sets in motion and the target dies again.
** Boingo's Stand, Thoth, takes the form of a comic book that predicts the immediate future. These predictions are boasted by Boingo as being 100% absolute. While this is true, they are also highly prone to {{Prophecy Twist}}s; especially if someone actively tries to avoid the predictions of the book. For example, when Boingo's brother Oingo is about to be caught planting a trap that Thoth has prophecised will blow up Jotaro, he uses his Stand to transform himself ''into'' Jotaro to escape detection and ends up being the one who is injured in the trap. [[spoiler:However, one of Thoth's predictions shows Jotaro's face being split in half with "blood everywhere". While this doesn't happen immediately, 22 years later, Jotaro is killed by Enrico Pucci's Stand Made in Heaven. The scenario? His face is split in half.]]
** This trope is the main driving force behind Enrico Pucci's actions in Part 6. After experiencing the loss of his sister due to a separated-at-birth incestuous misunderstanding between her and Pucci's brother, he plummeted into despair, and through the wisdom of [[GreaterScopeVillain DIO]], Pucci believed that fate was a cruel mistress, and that for everybody to be truly happy, they should know their fate in full and come to accept it. Of course, given that humanity as a whole functions independently from each other, this comes across as a case of UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans. [[spoiler:Ultimately, however, Pucci does come out victorious for a while, with everybody in the new universe created by Made in Heaven's time acceleration not being in control of their bodies, but knowing exactly what they're about to do ahead of time. Though, Pucci ends up becoming HoistByHisOwnPetard, as this knowledge of fate allows Emporio, whom he failed to kill during his TotalPartyKill, to kill Pucci through oxygen poisoning via borrowing the Weather Report Stand, declaring that fate ultimately favors the side of good.]]
** Scolippi from Part 5 is all but built off of this trope. He believes that everybody is a "sleeping slave" of fate, in that everybody is at its mercy, but not everyone is aware of the consequences. His stand, Rolling Stones, also puts the concept into motion, in that it seeks out anybody who's about to die in the oncoming future and chisels itself into a stone recreation of their scene of death. However, it also offers a MercyKill in that, if anyone decides to grab onto Rolling Stones, it will provide them with an instantaneous, yet painless death.