1 | ''You were always going to read this category description.'' |
2 | |
3 | See also {{Seekers}} and {{Seers}}. |
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5 | [[index]] |
6 | |
7 | !!Character Tropes |
8 | * ApocalypseMaiden: An innocent character is destined to bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt just by existing. |
9 | * BlindSeer: A character who is physically blind, and yet they can see more than we can, e.g. into the future. |
10 | * TheChosenOne: The ancient prophecy says that only a certain person can save the world. |
11 | ** TheChooserOfTheOne: The one that decides who TheChosenOne is. |
12 | ** TheChosenPeople: A specific civilization or nationality is chosen by a higher power as its favorite, often for a higher purpose. |
13 | ** TheChosenWannabe: The character is envious of the actual [[TheChosenOne Chosen One]] and wants to replace them. |
14 | ** TheChosenMany: TheChosenOne, but there's several of them. Alternately, a superpowered individual discovers an organization of similarly-powered individuals. |
15 | ** TheChosenZero: TheChosenOne is a loser. |
16 | ** ThePoorlyChosenOne: Where TheChosenOne fails at being the Chosen One. |
17 | ** ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne: Being TheChosenOne comes with more problems than perks. |
18 | ** TheUnchosenOne: A character decides to save the world despite not being marked as TheChosenOne. |
19 | * ExternallyValidatedProphecy: When a character makes a prediction about the future which is not fulfilled in the work, yet an audience aware of history knows will be fulfilled. In other words, a CallForward to real life. |
20 | * FaintingSeer: An oracle/seer has a dramatic negative reaction to the future they see. |
21 | * TheFatalist: A character who believes everything that happens is destined to happen and there is no way to escape it |
22 | * ImmuneToFate: [[ScrewDestiny Screwing Destiny]] as a superpower. |
23 | * InstantOracleJustAddWater: The Dehydrated Oracle immerses themself nearly or completely in water, and through contact with the liquid is gifted with visions of the future. |
24 | * JunkieProphet: A character relies on drug-tripping hallucinations or other trance-induced behaviours to see the future. |
25 | * MadOracle: A character who can see the future, but seems to have terrible mental health. |
26 | * MagicalSeventhSon: Being the seventh son of a seventh son is an omen of supernatural powers or greatness. Often this power is being a seer. |
27 | * MultipleChoiceFuture: There are multiple, equally-probable futures. |
28 | * MysticalWaif: A fragile young woman infused with plot-relevant magical powers. |
29 | * NonLinearCharacter: A character that is both in and out of time. |
30 | * NotSoOmniscientAfterAll: A character doesn't know everything, to the great surprise of themselves or people around them. |
31 | * TheOmniscient: A character who knows everything. |
32 | * OmniscientHero: The main character knows everything. |
33 | * OracularUrchin: A young person who makes mysterious comments that imply or indicate they know the future, or at least more than they should. |
34 | * PrecrimeArrest: Someone gets arrested for a crime that they would commit in the future. |
35 | * PrescienceByAnalysis: Predicting the future with probability, statistics, and mathematics and science in general. |
36 | * {{Seers}}: People who can see into the future, past and to faraway places. |
37 | * WaifProphet: A weak and/or sickly (either physically or mentally) character who can see into the future. Usually but not exclusively female. |
38 | |
39 | !!Other Tropes |
40 | * BecauseDestinySaysSo: Fate is accepted as objective fact. |
41 | * BirthmarkOfDestiny: TheChosenOne has a mark that means they're the Chosen One. |
42 | * CheatedDeathDiedAnyway: Narrowly avoiding death in one incident, then getting killed in a totally separate incident shortly thereafter. |
43 | * {{Chronoscope}}: A device that allows its user to view past and future events. |
44 | * CometOfDoom: A comet in the sky signals—or perhaps causes—a truly momentous event. |
45 | * CrystalBall: Crystal balls are used for magical purposes, typically for seeing things, and especially the future. |
46 | * DeadMansHand: A poker hand with two aces, two eights, and any other unmatched card. Usually a PortentOfDoom. |
47 | * DreamingOfThingsToCome: A character has prophetic dreams of a future event. |
48 | * EitherOrProphecy: A prophecy specifies two possible outcomes to an event. |
49 | * FailedFutureForecast: A work makes a prediction about the future that doesn't come to pass. |
50 | * FateDrivesUsTogether: The main couple meets by repeatedly bumping into each other. |
51 | * FlashSideways: A [[{{Flashback}} suddenly resurfacing memory]] which comes from the character's AlternateSelf in an AlternateUniverse. |
52 | * ForeseeingMyDeath: A character has foreseen the circumstances under which they are going to die. |
53 | * HijackedDestiny: A character manages to steal TheChosenOne's status away from the proper chosen one. |
54 | * {{Horrorscope}}: A character reads something in their horoscope in the news so unbelievably horrifying that they will resort to doing anything or everything to prevent it from coming true. |
55 | * LovesMeNot: A character does something (usually plucking flower petals) to determine whether someone loves them, alternating between saying the love interest "loves [them]" and "loves [them] not" with each turn. |
56 | * Magic8Ball: A popular toy used for fortune telling. |
57 | * MagicMirror: A mirror with magical powers that can do more than reflect one's image. |
58 | * MagpiesAsPortents: The association of certain numbers of magpies with good or bad luck, and the rituals for warding the bad luck off. |
59 | * MisfortuneCookie: The slip of paper in a fortune cookie tells the character something demotivational or otherwise grim. Could serve as {{Foreshadowing}}. |
60 | * NiceJobBreakingItHerod: A villain tries to kill a child who is destined to defeat them. This often [[SelfFulfillingProphecy backfires]]. |
61 | * NoManOfWomanBorn: A seemingly-impossible prophesized condition is ultimately met through ExactWords or LoopholeAbuse. |
62 | * OuijaBoard: A board game that is seen as a mystical device which can be used to communicate with spirits. |
63 | * PokeInTheThirdEye: A character messes with people who are trying to scry against them. |
64 | * PortentOfDoom: An omen of ill-fate. |
65 | * PreemptiveDeclaration: Character declares a future action as if done in past tense, before [[SelfFulfillingProphecy actually doing it]]. |
66 | * PrescienceIsPredictable: Perfect knowledge of the future makes life boring or depressing. |
67 | * PropheciesAreAlwaysRight: Prophecies are always correct, and are neither lies nor jokes. |
68 | * PropheciesRhymeAllTheTime: Prophecies all come in verse. |
69 | * ProphecyArmor: A character destined to die from a specific circumstance [[PlotArmor cannot die from anything else]]. |
70 | * TheProphecy: A prophecy that drives the plot. |
71 | * ProphecyPileup: When two or more prophecies overlap. |
72 | * ProphecyTwist: A prophecy technically comes true, [[ExactWords but not in the way it seemed like it would]]. |
73 | * PropheticFallacy: A prophecy that is incomplete or otherwise doesn't give those who see it all the information. |
74 | * PsychicDreamsForEveryone: DreamingOfThingsToCome? Oh, that's normal, everyone gets those. Even those that don't have PsychicPowers. Especially those that don't have PsychicPowers. |
75 | * RedStringOfFate: Character knows another character is their soulmate because a plot device (invisible red string, birthmarks, timers, etc.) connects to them. |
76 | * ScrewDestiny: Character decides to go against their written fate. |
77 | * ScryVsScry: When dueling {{Seers}} start [[OutGambitted trying to counter]] [[XanatosSpeedChess each other's plans]]. |
78 | * SelfDefeatingProphecy: The very existence of prophetic foreknowledge initiates [[ScrewDestiny the alteration of the future]]. |
79 | * SelfFulfillingProphecy: A prophecy fulfilled by attempts to prevent it from happening. |
80 | * SlidingScaleOfFreeWillVsFate: Sliding scale determining how much free will characters really have in a work. |
81 | * StrangelySpecificHoroscope: A character's horoscope for the day literally predicts what's going to happen to them. |
82 | * TarotTroubles: Tarot card readings hint at [[PortentOfDoom terrible dangers]]. |
83 | * ThereAreNoCoincidences: A character [[GenreSavvy does not believe]] that [[ContrivedCoincidence strange things just happen]]. |
84 | * ThreadsOfFate: Powerful and supernatural threads that can represent or even wield cosmic forces like destiny and fate, often to the point where cutting one can end a person's life. |
85 | * ThreadOfProphecySevered: A prophecy fails to come to pass due to something involved in it going wrong. |
86 | * TomesOfProphecyAndFate: A book of prophecies that can be used to predict the future. |
87 | * TwistingTheProphecy: Knowingly fulfilling a prophecy in a way that creates a favourable outcome. |
88 | * VaguenessIsComing: Something bad is coming, but... what, exactly? |
89 | * VideoGamesAndFate: Video games where the strictly linear gameplay is justified in-story, by way of reference to fate, destiny or mind control. |
90 | * WhenThePlanetsAlign: As the orbits of planets and/or other celestial objects cross paths, wacky stuff begins to happen. |
91 | * WindsOfDestinyChange: The ability to alter probability or luck. |
92 | * YouAlreadyChangedThePast[=/=]YouCannotChangeTheFuture: A character goes [[TimeTravel back in time]] to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong, only to discover that the "changes" they're making to the past were what "already" happened anyway. |
93 | * YouCantFightFate: Characters are unable to prevent what's been foretold. |
94 | |
95 | [[/index]] |
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