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12	->''"At last, this is the death I saw!"''
13	-->-- '''Kilrogg Deadeye''''s final words, ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft: Warlords of Draenor''
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15	A specific PortentOfDoom, in which a character has foreseen the circumstances under which they are going to die, whether by natural means or foul play. The character may also predict when and where the exact time and location of their death will be.
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17	However, while in some cases the character may know that it's their own demise they're predicting, other times they may not be aware.
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19	The character's death may be forecast through some incident, phrase, item, or {{dream\|ingOfThingsToCome}} that will later become a ChekhovsGun or MeaningfulEcho. The IncurableCoughOfDeath is often a giveaway clue.
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21	The MagicalNegro or TheOmniscient might wind up doing this at some point, although it's not a constant or necessary factor of either character. It may also be a consequence of the MentorOccupationalHazard.
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23	Depending on the circumstances, and if they knew what those circumstances would be, the character's response to this knowledge will vary. They may GoOutWithASmile and FaceDeathWithDignity. Or they may decide that PrescienceIsPredictable since they already know how they're going to die anyway. Or they may GoMadFromTheRevelation.
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25	Compare YouCantFightFate, where a person resigns themselves to the fate outlined for them, and PropheciesAreAlwaysRight, which is...[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin well]]. Also see YourDaysAreNumbered, where they know they don't have long to live (but they may or may not know how long they have, and the prediction is the result of a force or circumstance outside of themselves).
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27	Not the same as the SelfFulfillingProphecy, WhodunnitToMe or ThanatosGambit or to be confused with PsychicGlimpseOfDeath. Not to be confused with NotHowImDyingDeclaration, though there can be overlap.
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29	NOTE: A character foreseeing or predicting ''someone else's'' death is not this trope. The character has to be predicting their own death.
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31	'''As a {{Death Trope\|s}}, all examples, by their very nature, will be treated as spoilers.'''
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33	!!Examples:
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38	* ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'': Mary Magdalene knew from birth that she would die because of her contract with Chrono.
39	* In ''Manga/{{Clover}}'', people with powers are known as ''Clovers'', with the number of cloves indicating how powerful they are. [[TheChanteuse Oruha]] is categorized as a lowly "one-leaf clover" because her only power is the ability to [[BlessedWithSuck predict her own death]].
40	* ''Manga/SPYxFamily'': PlayedForLaughs in Mission 40, which kickstarts with Bond having a vision of him dying [[LethalChef due to eating Yor's cooking]]. He spends the rest of the chapter going to help Loid in his mission so he can come home early and make dinner instead to save himself.
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44	* ''ComicBook/BatmanBlackAndWhite'': In "Fortunes", a murdered fortune teller apparently foresaw her own death, leaving a message about it that is found along with her body. [[spoiler:It turns out she faked her death, and left the message as part of an effort to throw investigators off the scent.]]
45	* ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'':
46	** In ''Convergence: Adventures of Superman #1'', Pre-Crisis Supergirl sees her life and death at the hands of the Anti-Monitor while in the Phantom Zone, and it haunts her for the rest of the story.
47	** In ''Convergence: The Flash #2'', Barry Allen learns the circumstances of his death from Creator/{{Tangent\|Comics}} Superman.
48	* In ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', the Monitor is aware that Harbinger will betray and kill him and incorporates her treachery into his plans.
49	* In ''ComicBook/TheDarkKnightStrikesAgain'', the ComicBook/MartianManhunter J'onn J'onzz is a powerless shadow of his former self. He tells the Question that he can still sometimes glimpse the future, which is why he knows that he is going to die that night. And it will be by fire, something he's always known since childhood. Though the Question tries to convince him he can ScrewDestiny, J'onn's prediction comes to pass.
50	* In the ''ComicBook/{{Diabolik}}'' comic ''Presaggio Di Un Delitto'', a woman finds she can foresee Diabolik's crimes and helps the police against him, all the while she feels someone will soon die at his hands; but only at the end does she realise that it was her own death she saw.
51	* In ''ComicBook/{{Smax}}'', a powerful dragon has such precise visions of the future he can send a message to a woman through an anagram that someone who met the dragon once heard him say. The woman, Robyn, happens to build a giant ballista with a giant bolt made of ColdIron, the one thing that could kill the dragon. The dragon gets distracted chasing Smax right into it, and takes the iron right in the heart. His final words are "I ''knew'' this would happen!"
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55	* ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheLackOfLambSauce'': In Chapter 81, Arjuna has a [[DreamingOfThingsToCome nightmare]] that ends with being encased in "bright, killing green" light. While her initial assumption is that three of her co-members of the VoiceOfTheResistance will die, the ambush that transpires two chapters later ends with Arjuna lying dead on the ground, [[spoiler:while one of the co-rebel friends she thought would die is [[{{Brainwashed}} mind-controlled]] to obey his evil father's expectations for him.]]
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59	* ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' has 2014 Thanos view a recording of his future self dying at Thor's hands. As this Thanos is at a point where he lacks the capacity to understand why people struggle and/or sympathize with others, it inspires him to go out of his way to follow the time-traveling Avengers back to the prime timeline, so as to avert his demise and try to repeat what his future self achieved.
60	* In ''Film/BigFish'', the main character knows how he will die because he looked into a witch's eye. Later he escapes a scrape as he announces "This isn't how I die!" Subverted in that he actually ''doesn't'' know, since he made up the whole story, but has his son make up his own story of how he died at his deathbed.
61	* Played with in ''Film/BlackRobe''. Chomina has a vision of the place where he is going to die, but he doesn't realize this until he's there and actually dying. He then expresses regret that he never realised this, as he could have been a fearless warrior if he had.
62	* The 1982 Jamaican film ''Film/{{Countryman}}'' has one minor character do this, though he himself isn't aware he's predicting his own death. The foreshadowing is done through a chart on the cycle of life which he's teaching to the village children from early in the film, which portrays a mule-drawn dray-cart as one of its most significant illustrations of death. He's later beaten to death by corrupt cops and his body is taken back to the village on a very similar cart.
63	* Any protagonist doing this is what kicks off the plots of the ''Franchise/FinalDestination'' series. The deaths of a small group of people is avoided as a result, but then Death gets mad...
64	* An interesting case in ''Film/FourFliesOnGreyVelvet'': [[spoiler: Roberto Tobias repeatedly has dreams about himself being decapitated. In the end it is revealed that it was not himself who he saw in the dreams, but his wife, who turns out to the villain and is indeed decapitated.]]
65	* In ''Film/{{Krull}}'', Rell, like all cyclopes, knows when he will die.
66	* In ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions'', the Oracle foresees her death / assimilation by the rogue Agent Smith, as evidenced by her calm, unsurprised demeanor when he finally arrives at her current place of residence.
67	* In ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009'', Watson claims to have met a man in India who accurately predicted the circumstances of his death, including the number of bullets and where they hit him.
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71	* ''Literature/TheAreasOfMyExpertise'' has an actuary at a gathering of them finish his drink, then set his glass on the table upside-down. The other actuaries subsequently shun him. It's revealed that doing this means that actuary has used their tables to predict the date and circumstances of their own death, something they are forbidden to do.
72	* The Hungarian novel ''The Book of Fathers'' is about twelve generations of a Hungarian family, where the firstborn son has an ability to see into the past of his ancestors, or into the future. Nándor Csillag, who lived in the first half of the 20th century, once has a vision of how his life will end; choking to death with many others in semidarkness. He couldn't understand it. Because he was of Jewish descent, eventually he was gassed to death in Auschwitz.
73	* A characteristic of witches and wizards in ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', witches usually use their visions to get their affairs in order while wizards prefer to empty their wine cellars and run up a ton of debts. Both have a tradition of "going away parties" which are like wakes, except that the guest of honour is still there. Exactly how long in advance seems to vary as well, some of them only seem to have a few days' notice.
74	* Vanyel, the protagonist of the ''Literature/LastHeraldMageTrilogy'', has recurring prophetic dreams about his death in a duel with an evil sorcerer. His final fight doesn't go exactly as foreseen, but it follows the major notes (and series readers already know Van is DoomedByCanon).
75	* Creator/RobertAHeinlein's short story "Life-line". Professor Pinero builds [[AppliedPhlebotinum a machine that can electronically predict the exact date and time of a person's death]]. He writes down when his own death will occur and seals it inside an envelope. When he's murdered, the envelope is opened and the prediction turns out to be correct.
76	* In ''Literature/MethuselahsChildren'' [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld Lazarus Long]] mentions meeting a scientist who had a machine that could predict when one died, when Lazarus used it the inventor didn't give him his result and said the machine was obviously malfunctioning.
77	* ''Literature/MindstarRising'': Psychic soldier Greg Mandel recruits a fellow Mindstar Brigade veteran who can see the future, and notes how this trope has turned what was once an efficient officer to a prematurely aged spinster. It's not that she ''has'' seen her death, but the constant fear of doing so if she looks too far into the future.
78	* In ''Literature/MobyDick'', Queequeg saw his own death in the bones he cast--probably a link to the later death of everyone when the ship sank.
79	* ''Planet of the Damned'', by Creator/HarryHarrison. Ihjel, a psychic agent of the Cultural Relationships Foundation, recruits the protagonist because he's seen that he will be killed on his next mission. [[MentorOccupationalHazard He's shot dead the moment they land on the planet]], leaving the totally inexperienced protagonist to SaveTheWorld.
80	* In ''Literature/SlaughterhouseFive'', Billy Pilgrim is unstuck in time and thus has experienced his own death several times "beforehand" - so he isn't really surprised when he is shot after one of his speeches.
81	* [[PsychicChildren Jojen Reed]] from ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' is heavily implied to have done this - he was blessed with symbolic visions of the future, and throughout the series, he repeatedly tells Bran and his sister that "this is not the day he dies."
82	* In the {{Novelization}} of ''Franchise/StarWars'': ''Literature/RevengeOfTheSith'', Anakin and Dooku are in the middle of their lightsaber duel and Dooku has Anakin on the ropes when Palpatine starts shouting encouragement to Anakin, telling him to use his fear and anger as his weapons against Dooku. It is at this point when Dooku realizes that he's a DeadManWalking.
83	* ''Literature/WarriorCats'':
84	** At the beginning of ''[[Literature/WarriorCatsTheNewProphecy Twilight]]'', a cat is informed by Star Clan of their impending death. [[spoiler:It's later revealed to be Cinderpelt, who dies defending a cat giving birth from badgers.]]
85	** Toward the end of one of the ExpandedUniverse novels, it is mentioned that medicine cat Goosefeather predicted that he would die on the day of the first snowfall, and he did.
86	** Flametail spends all of ''Night Whispers'' having terrifying visions about falling through ice into darkness. This turns out to predict his own death, drowning after he [[DangerThinIce falls through the ice over the lake]].
87	* In ''Literature/WhoFearsDeath'', when doing the test in order to learn the Four Mystic Points, Onyesonwu experiences being stoned to death. Later she realizes that it was her death she saw and sure enough, in one of the last few chapters, she is stoned to death.
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91	* Centauri of ''Series/BabylonFive'' have prophetic dreams of their deaths. The first time they meet, Londo recognizes G'Kar as the one who will kill him (but doesn't realize that [[spoiler:it will be a MercyKill]]).
92	* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' had an episode in season 7 with a girl who told Buffy she was going to die at a certain point. Buffy saved her from a demon worshipping cult that was going to sacrifice her...only for her to die from a heart problem.
93	* ''{{Series/The Chosen\|TVSeries}}'': Jesus spends the entire series aware of the date He's walking towards, and indirectly acknowledges or references His impending death in conversation from time to time from the very beginning of the series onwards.
94	* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
95	** The 2009 specials had the Doctor receiving a prophecy of his "[[TheNthDoctor death]]" from Carmen (''"[[ArcWords He will knock four times]]"''), but he doesn't find out what it means until [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime "The End of Time"]].
96	** In ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E8HumanNature "Human Nature"]]'', a boy named Timothy Latimer steals and opens a pocketwatch from his teacher John Smith, (actually, an amnesiac Doctor who took on a human disguise to hide from some aliens, who needs the watch to restore his original form and memories) only to be greeted with a horrifying vision of him in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI next year, where he's on the battlefield with a wounded fellow soldier, looks at the same watch, and looks up [[ImpendingDoomPOV to see a mortar shell land directly on top of him]]. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E9TheFamilyOfBlood At the end of the next part]], the now-revived Doctor gives him the depleted but mechanically-functional pocketwatch. One year later, he's on the battlefield in the exact same spot as his vision, looks at the watch, and manages to move himself and his comrade out of the way, enabling him to survive.
97	** A rather interesting variation occurs in Series 6, in which the Doctor invites his younger self and three others to see his own death, but he's the only one of the four that doesn't see it. For the rest of the first half of the season, Amy and Rory know exactly when, where and how the Doctor is going to die, but they can't tell him (lest they make it fixed in his timeline too, preventing him from escaping it). He doesn't find out about his death until [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E6TheAlmostPeople "The Almost People"]] and the full circumstances surrounding it until [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E8LetsKillHitler "Let's Kill Hitler"]].
98	** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor "The Name of the Doctor"]], it's revealed that the Eleventh Doctor has been aware of this for some time, knowing both the location and guessing at some of the circumstances of the Doctor's eventual death at Trenzalore. Note that this isn't actually the death of his ''Eleventh'' incarnation, but rather the ultimate fate of the ''Doctor'' himself. He freely admits that this is something that cannot be avoided and that he will ''[[YouCantFightFate always]]'' die at Trenzalore in one last final battle. [[spoiler:The swirling energy that comprises his timestream and serves as his "corpse" makes this point even more obvious.]]
99	** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E8TheHauntingOfVillaDiodati "The Haunting of Villa Diodati"]]: It turns out the Doctor knows an old Time Lord trick that can make someone appear dead by sending their mind forward in time to the point of their eventual death. She does this to [[spoiler:Creator/PercyByssheShelley in order to release a Cyberman AI called the Cyberium from his body without killing him]].
100	* A variation in ''Series/FlashForward2009'': at the start of the series, everyone on Earth blacks out for 2 minutes, almost all of them [[{{Futureshadowing}} experiencing a vision of themselves six months into the future]]. However, one of the main characters -- FBI agent Demetri Noh -- doesn't experience anything, which leads him to the terrifying conclusion that it's because [[YourDaysAreNumbered he'll be dead before then]]. His arc for the rest of the series is involved in determining whether the visions of the future [[YouCantFightFate are preordained]] or if there's a reason why he didn't see anything other than death, [[SelfFulfillingProphecy consequently putting his life in even more danger]].
101	* ''Series/{{Godless}}''. Frank Griffin is constantly claiming to have foreseen his own death and is fearless in situations that appear to be his end. He will calmly tell people "I have seen my end, and this ain't it." [[spoiler:When he tries it one last time after having been shot by Roy Goode, Roy replies “You saw wrong”, and shoots Frank in the head.]]
102	* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In "What Will the Neighbors Think?", Mona Bailey has visions of her death after receiving her telepathic powers. She sees herself falling out of the window of her third floor apartment. Considering that everyone is thinking about killing her, she assumes that she will be murdered and takes steps to ensure that all of the other residents turn on each other before this can happen. [[spoiler: All of the other residents, that is, except for her husband Ned. He was the only one who knew that she had become telepathic and was able to control his thoughts to prevent her from finding out that he planned to kill her. Unable to cope with the revelation or the voices in her mind which she thought had gone, Mona [[DeathByIrony jumps out the window to her death]]. It turns out that the voices had actually gone and Ned had used a tape to trick her.]]
103	* ''Series/PaperGirls'': A variation as Mac assumes she must have "escaped" the town. But when she runs into her grown brother, she learns she actually died when she was 16.
104	* ''Series/{{Sliders}}'' had an episode with a world where 10% of the population has psychic powers. Around the mid-point of the episode, the top psychic in the country, the Grand Oracle (played by Music/IsaacHayes) tells his top two aides (one of whom is Wade's LoveInterest for this episode) he will die of a brain hemmorage in 12 hours, and must choose one of them to be his successor.
105	* In the ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' episode [[Recap/StarTrekDiscoveryS2E12ThroughTheValleyOfShadows "Through the Valley of Shadows"]], [[TheCaptain Captain Pike]] encounters a time crystal that shows him a FateWorseThanDeath -- specifically, a training accident that leaves him completely paralyzed and confined to a mechanized wheelchair.
106	* On ''Series/TheXFiles'', in the episode "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose", Peter Boyle played a man who could accurately predict the manner of someone's death, including his own.
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110	* Music/SydBarrett's album ''Music/{{Barrett}}'' has a song called [[spoiler: "Effervescing Elephant". The elephant in this song predicts he will die in June because of a roaming tiger. While the jungle animals flee the tiger assures them he will not hurt one of them, but prefers something that is less scant to chew on, namely the elephant, who is then eaten by him.]]
111	* At the beginning of the Music/{{KISS}} song "Detroit Rock City" the protagonist hears a news broadcast about a man killed in a head-on collision with a delivery truck. By the end of the song he suffers the same fate.
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115	* Both the subject and in the title of [[Creator/WilliamButlerYeats William Butler Yeats's]] 1918 poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death", the opening lines of which are, "I know that I shall meet my fate / Somewhere among the clouds above".
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119	* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons:'' The ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' setting introduced bruja, [[WickedWitch hags]] who underwent a FaceHeelTurn and now try to quietly help others. One story explaining this is that a coven of hags was trying to peer into the future, cursed with knowledge of their terrible deaths, and filled with "a disconsolate compassion for all things mortal."
120	* Members of the House of Ariadne who wish to reach its highest Attainment in ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'' must seek out a symbol of their own deaths. What they aren't told beforehand is that this inevitably requires 48 hours of constant walking. Any who claim to have seen this symbol before the 48 hours are up are thrown out of the Legacy.
121	* In the background of ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', both the [[SuperPrototype Primarchs]] with precognition had visions of their own deaths long before they happened, and both let them happen. The [[WingedHumanoid angelic Sanguinius]] willingly went to fight his traitorous brother Horus despite knowing he couldn’t win as he saw it as his duty. The [[TheDreaded brutal Konrad Curze]] on the other hand let the Imperial Assassin M'Shen kill him as he believed that doing so would justify his vicious and heretical actions.
122	* ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheForsaken'': Members of the Lodge of Death are told the exact date, time, and circumstances of their deaths as they complete the initiation. They are absolutely forbidden to tell anyone else this information, but knowing when their time will come makes them NotAfraidToDie and absolutely impossible to supernaturally scare.
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126	* In ''{{Theatre/Agamemnon}}'', Cassandra knows she (and Agamemnon) will die by the hands of Clytaemnestra, as she was cursed by Apollo. But alas, Main/YouCantFightFate, so she can't do anything but walk towards her doom.
127	* The events of ''{{Theatre/Ride The Cyclone}}'' are kicked off due to The Amazing Karnak-- a mechanical FortuneTeller designed to predict the time, place and manner of peoples' deaths, foreseeing that his own death will occur in just over an hour via a rat who will soon chew through his power cable. Knowing this, he chooses to use the last of his power to grant a group of teenagers (who died in an accident he predicted but failed to warn them of) the opportunity to express their hopes and dreams- and for one of them, [[BackFromTheDead a second chance at life.]]
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131	* William Bishop, the PlayerCharacter of ''VideoGame/AceCombatAssaultHorizon'', has been plagued by recurring {{Psychic Dreams\|ForEveryone}} of his own death for months by the time the game starts -- in fact, the very first level is actually this specific dream, where he is shot down over Miami by a RenegadeRussian plane with a sharkmouth paintjob on it. [[spoiler:Subverted late in the game, when the scene Bishop dreamed of actually occurs in reality and he is saved in the last moment by his wingman TakingTheBullet for him.]]
132	* This comes up in ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar: Dark Crusade'' during some BossBanter, when it turns out that some threats are ineffectual against {{Seers}}, doubly so if they're SpaceElves.
133	-->'''Brother-Captain Davian Thule:''' We will send you back to your craftworld in a tomb!\
134	'''Farseer Taldeer:''' I have known my death for ten of your lifetimes, captain. Don't think to scare me with it.
135	* In the opening of ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'' Uriel Septim states that he is aware of his own imminent death and is powerless to prevent it moments before it happens.
136	* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'':
137	** There's a Dark Brotherhood assassin named Gabriella who claims to have foreseen the circumstances of her own death. She's eventually killed when the Imperial bodyguard, the Penitus Oculatus, raid the sanctuary where she lives, but since she doesn't share any of the details of her prediction, it's left vague as to whether or not that's how she expected to die.
138	** After the death of Kodlak Whitemane during the Companion Questline, his journal reveals that he had long since been plagued by dreams of Tsun barring the Harbingers before him from entering Sovngarde because of their Lycanthropy, letting Hircine drag them to his hunting grounds for all eternity. When it came to his turn, he saw the Dragonborn step in and fight alongside his spirit, ultimately freeing his soul from the Daedric Prince's clutches and allowing him to enter the Nordic afterlife. It turns out this was the real reason he took the Dragonborn under his wing and placed such trust and faith in them.
139	* Implied in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII'' that [[TheMedic Minwu]] knew he was going to die, if not ''exactly'' when he did, then the general idea of it.
140	* The boss Soulcage in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' uses this as a boast shortly before you fight it, although you end up killing it anyway and proving its prediction wrong.
141	-->'''Soulcage:''' I have seen the end of my thousand year life, and it is not now. You cannot stop me. It is futile even to try.
142	* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2'': It is said that the Seer of Paddra (aka Yeul) always knew her fate -- right down to the exact time and circumstances (usually the result of a vision), but was unable to change it -- for fear of bringing a worse one upon her people.
143	* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'', it is strongly implied that Aerith's connection to the planet and the Arbiters of Fate let her be acutely aware of how and where she is fated to die. [[spoiler:In a dream-vision she warns Cloud not to fall in love with her, while striking the same prayer pose she held when Sephiroth killed her in the original ''Video/FinalFantasyVII''.]]
144	* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' has this happen twice in different games:
145	** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar'', Father Claud knew that he'd die either at the Battle of Barhera or around that time. He decided that, since he couldn't change his fate, he'd rather use the time he had left fighting against the Lopto Sect.
146	** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', Queen Mikoto of Hoshido foresaw her own death (though not ''exactly'' how she'd perish), yet carried on being her usual self. She died in an HeroicSacrifice to save her child, the PlayerCharacter, few later.
147	* In ''VideoGame/KingdomsOfAmalurReckoning'', Agarth realized being a Fateweaver wasn't all it was cracked up to be when he foresaw his own ultimate fate of being the main ingredient of an ettin's stewpot. He got ''very'' drunk that day. When he accompanies the Fateless One during an early quest, they encounter an ettin. Agarth tells the Fateless One to go on ahead, convinced that this is the day he will die. The Fateless One then demonstrates the power to ScrewDestiny by slaying the ettin, averting Agarth's fated end.
148	* Mobius The Timestreamer from the VideoGame/LegacyOfKain series has the ability to know every single event from the past to the future, including when and how he dies.
149	* In ''VideoGame/Persona3'', the forced awakening of Chidori's Persona gave her foreknowledge of her own death. The knowledge sent her catapulting over the DespairEventHorizon and made her susceptible to Takaya's nihilistic preaching, leading to her recruitment into Strega.
150	* In ''VideoGame/WarCraft'':
151	** Nozdormu, as part of his powers as the ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft's'' Aspect of Time, was given foreknowledge of the exact time and manner of his death. In fact, he oversees the players' killing his future self at the end of the End Time instance. Chromie reveals this knowledge of their death is shared with the rest of his flight: They all know the time of their 'true' death, and use it as a measuring stick for how bad the flow of time has been disturbed; if they find a timeline where they die sooner or later than intended, they know something has been tampering with time in an unacceptable manner.
152	** The chieftains of the Bleeding Hollow clan undergo a ritual in which they carve out one of their eyes and receive a vision of their death. Knowing the circumstances of their death they can lead without fear even against foes that would usually concern them. Kilrogg in particular anticipated that final battle. Then Kilrogg grants a vision of how players will die as part of his fight: Outnumbered against an endless army of Burning Legion demons as Azeroth burns, dying as Khadgar casts his last spell. The player is empowered by the vision as it is proof that Kilorgg will not kill them.
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156	* Rika Furude in ''[[VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry Higurashi]]'' tells Akasaka in the Time Killing Chapter that she will be killed around the Cotton Drifting festival of 1983. She knows this due to the GroundHogDayLoop.
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160	* Quite a few characters from ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}'', specifically Aradia!bot right before she exploded, seemed to know they were going to die soon. Somewhat subverted though because in ''Homestuck'', DeathIsCheap.
161	* The Oracle in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' is able to foresee the time and circumstances of his own deaths, and hires a wizard and a cleric to teleport to the place where he died at very specific times and cast a resurrection spell on him. If he foresees himself being murdered, he'll also manipulate circumstances to screw with whoever carried out the murder.
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165	* Soviet gymnast and 1978 World Champion Elena Mukhina[[note]]her full story is on the [[TrainingFromHell/RealLife Training From Hell: Real Life page]][[/note]], while training for the 1980 Olympic Games, told her coaches that she would surely break her neck attempting the complicated roll-out floor skill the Thomas salto. Two weeks before the Games and less than a month after her twentieth birthday, Elena's prediction came true; the exhausted, starved, overworked, and still-injured gymnast underrotated the salto, snapping her neck and rendering her instantly quadriplegic. She died of complications from her accident in 2006. She later said that her first thought as she lay on the floor was, [[TearJerker "Thank God, I won't have to go to the Olympics."]]
166	* Apparently, soldiers of UsefulNotes/TheNapoleonicWars had psychic tendencies.
167	** Marshal Jean Lannes told Doctor Lannefranque, who was tending to the wounded in the aftermath of the first day of the Battle of Essling (21 May 1809), that he had a feeling that he would need Lannefranque's services soon, and that whatever the issue, it would he his last battle. On the evening of the next day, he was brought in with both legs shattered by a cannonball and died of gangrene nine days later.
168	** On the morning of 6 July 1809, General Antoine Lasalle found his pipe and alcohol vials broken and was in a sombre mood for the whole day. In the evening, took a stray bullet to the head.
169	** General Thiébault, who recounts the anecdote about Lasalle, also gives a near-fatal example: during the siege of Genoa, he had to bring an order to Colonel Mouton, who replied "That's a [[PrecisionFStrike f...]] suicidal order you're bringing." He carried it out nonetheless, and was brought back grievously wounded.
170	** On the morning of 1 May 1813, Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bessières burnt all of his wife's letter and refused to eat at first; but when his aides-de-camp finally convinced him to have something, he muttered: "If I am to die today, I do not want to die on an empty stomach." A few hours later...
171	** On 22 May 1813, General Géraud Duroc, one of Napoleon's most devoted men, sounded particularly defeatist as he told his friend Marshal Marmont: "Napoleon's thirst for battle is endless... He will get us all killed!" He was eviscerated by a cannonball and died at dawn on the next day.
172	* In the UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar, Union colonel Edward Cross, noted for always wearing a red bandana on the battlefield, instead led his men wearing a black bandana at Gettysburg, having had a premonition of his own death. When his superior promised him a promotion as he rode by, Cross somberly replied that this was his last battle. Cross was mortally wounded in the fighting.
173	* Mikey Welsh, former bassist for Music/{{Weezer}}. On September 26, 2011, Welsh posted an ominous [[https://twitter.com/MikeyWelsh71/status/118305899923259392 tweet]] wherein he mentioned having a dream about dying in his sleep of a heart attack in Chicago on the following weekend. He later sent out a tweet correcting the time of his predicted death to two weeks after that date. On October 8, 2011 (precisely two weeks later), Welsh's Facebook page announced that he had been found dead in a Chicago hotel room. The cause of death was, sure enough, a heart attack (possibly the result of a heroin overdose).
174	* 137 is roughly the inverse of the fine structure constant, and when quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli saw it on his hospital room, he said to a colleague "I will never get out of here alive." He was right (although it wasn't voodoo, but undiagnosed pancreatic cancer).
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