->''"Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable."''
-->-- '''Natalie Clifford Barney'''

->''[Chigurh flips a quarter from the change on the counter and covers it with his hand]''\\
'''Anton Chigurh:''' Call it.\\
'''Gas Station Proprietor:''' Call it?\\
'''Anton Chigurh:''' Yes.\\
'''Gas Station Proprietor:''' For what?\\
'''Anton Chigurh:''' Just call it.\\
'''Gas Station Proprietor:''' Well, we need to know what we're calling it for here.\\
'''Anton Chigurh:''' You need to call it. I can't call it for you. It wouldn't be fair.\\
'''Gas Station Proprietor:''' I didn't put nothin' up.\\
'''Anton Chigurh:''' Yes, you did. You've been putting it up your whole life, you just didn't know it. You know what date is on this coin?\\
'''Gas Station Proprietor:''' No.\\
'''Anton Chigurh:''' 1958. It's been traveling twenty-two years to get here. And now it's here. And it's either heads or tails. And you have to say. Call it.
-->-- ''Film/NoCountryForOldMen''

->''"[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot Look again at that dot]]. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there, on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."''
-->-- '''Carl Sagan'''

->''"Blame your fate."''
-->-- '''Kratos Aurion''', ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia''

->''"There are no choices. Nothing but a straight line. The illusion comes afterwards, when you ask 'Why me?' and 'What if?'. When you look back and see the branches, like a pruned bonsai tree, or forked lightning. If you had done something differently, it wouldn't be you, it would be someone else looking back, asking a different set of questions."''
-->-- '''Max Payne''', ''VideoGame/MaxPayne''

->''In the two years since then, Viltry had been unable to shrug off the idea that he should be dead already. He was living on borrowed time. His tutor at the scholam had drummed into him the concept of Fate's wheel. He'd said that it spun at the Emperor's right hand. It spun for balance, for symmetry. What was given would be taken, what was loaned would be paid back. A life saved was only a life spared.''
-->-- ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 -- Double Eagle''

->''"Fate guides the willing, but drags the unwilling."''
-->-- '''Cleanthes''' (c. 330- c. 230 BC)

->''"Why fight a battle you cannot win? To oppose the will of the Galaxy... is to deny the universe, the source of life... indeed, to deny life on this planet!"''
-->-- '''Sabata''', ''VideoGame/{{Boktai}}''

->'''Church:''' I learned a valuable lesson in my travels, Tucker. No matter how bad things might seem--\\
'''Caboose:''' They could be worse.\\
'''Church:''' Nope, no matter how bad they seem, they can't be any better, and they can't be any worse, because that's the way things [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] are, and you better get used to it, Nancy. Quit yer bitching.
-->-- '''Church''', after a long time-travel experience, tells this to his teammates, ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue''

->''"The All-Father wove the skein of your life a long time ago. Go and hide in a hole if you wish, but you won't live one instant longer. Your fate is fixed. Fear profits a man nothing."''
-->-- '''Herger the Joyous''', ''Film/TheThirteenthWarrior''

->'''Vista:''' I feel like there's two ideas and they're playing tug of war with my head. Yeah. One part of me, it's like... I want us all to stay together. Aegis died. Gallant died. Battery died. Velocity died. Dauntless died. Browbeat left, Armsmaster retired and Shadow Stalker went to jail. And now even after it’s all over, Triumph gets hurt?\\
'''Mrs. Yamada:''' I think I'd feel pretty spooked, after all that. It's a lot of people to be losing, in the space of a month.\\
'''Vista:''' I just... [[TheHeart I want to do what I can to keep us together]]. Keep people fighting. But...\\
'''Mrs Yamada:''' But what?\\
'''Vista:''' The other part of me? The colder part that's being very logical, very rational? It says that won't happen. We won't stay together. Can't. One by one, horrible things will happen to us. My friends will die, and if they're lucky, they'll die fighting. And I'm somehow okay with it. What does it really matter when the world’s supposed to end in two years?
-->-- ''Literature/{{Worm}}''

->''"Can you feel it, Mister Anderson? Closing in on you? Oh, I can. I really should thank you for it -- after all, it was your life that taught me the purpose of ''all'' life. The purpose of life is to end."''
-->-- '''Smith''', ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions''

->''"You're gonna learn that there ain't much in this life that you got control of. Whether you're putting yourself in harm's way because that's the way the Skipper wants it done, or you're staying away from your kids because of a stupid court order and a malicious bitch of an ex-wife. There ain't that much control in anything."''
-->-- '''Phil Bell''', ''Videogame/GrandTheftAutoIV''

->''"Every day I find myself recollecting the day that I had selected [[BotanicalAbomination that tree]]. I have since realized that [[NighInvulnerable the difficulties involved in the removal of it]] should have repeatedly discouraged me. And had I been discouraged, the families of those children would not be experiencing the anguish that they currently have.\\
Perhaps I never had the opportunity to select another tree. Perhaps I was meant to select that tree regardless of my persistent character. Perhaps we are all trollies, forced to follow the path of the track to each of our destinations. I take solace in that thought."''
-->-- '''John D. Rockefeller, President of the United States''', ''WebVideo/TheMonumentMythos''

->''"Interestingly enough, the way the story sees this mirrors exactly what Miguel's mother told him in the scene from [[ComicBook/SpiderMan2099 the comics]] that I started the video with. As [[AbusiveParents awful of a person]] as she is, [[JerkassHasAPoint her criticisms of Miguel were valid]]: he doesn't care, and all he does is tear everything down.''

->''"Put in terms of the ideas we've been talking about, if you're really all about the fix-it life, if you're really trying to restore the past, then your only resource will be destruction. Because you cannot truly bring back what's lost; you can only erase what's new, and that's what will cause you to fail. Miguel solves every problem by undoing, by destroying, by tearing down. If [[TrappedInAnotherWorld anomalies]] are the problem, send them back home. If [[ScrewDestiny Miles]] is the problem, shut him down. If [[DefectorFromDecadence Gwen]] is the problem, get rid of her. And if it feels like everything around you is the problem, [[HeWhoFightsMonsters then destroy everything around you]]. As is, he can only exist [[KnightTemplar by destroying what is otherwise trying to move forward]], and in that sense, he is a vampire. Sucking life (i.e. growth, newness, change) from everything around him, and he is a predator: instead of human hands which can manipulate the environment and do things, build things, he has claws which cannot do any of that, they can only tear down what's already there.''

->''"You can see an aspect of this even in his humor-- [[NotSoAboveItAll and he is funny, by the way]]-- but it's sarcasm, it's insult humor. What few funny moments he has are essentially [[KickTheDog tearing others down, making you feel dumb]]. So the story makes Miguel fail because you cannot be a hero if all you can do is destroy. To adapt one of the greatest lines ever in superhero fiction, [[Film/TheDarkKnight 'You either die the good guy or see yourself live long enough to become the bad guy.']] That is what the story is telling Miguel over and over again with his mom in the comics, and through [[ArcWords the good guy/bad guy motif]] that's all over the movie.''

->''"And we also have Miguel's mom's second issue: he doesn't care. [[PrinciplesZealot If you're living so much in the past, you will find it hard to care about, to value the present.]] Simple as that. If the past is setting a standard for a world that is changing and it cannot meet those ideals, then everything is falling short of what it should be, it's all broken, none of it is good enough, [[DespairEventHorizon none of it really matters]]. And that is also how he failed: if he had shown more care, if he had not forced the suffering on so many of his Spider-Society members, [[BrokenPedestal they wouldn't have turned against him]]."''
-->-- '''[[https://youtu.be/pHXgp46Qskg?feature=shared Schnee]]''' [[DeconstructedCharacterArchetype deconstructs]] this trope in regards to Miguel O' Hara from ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse''
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