[[foldercontrol]]

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
->In this world, is the destiny of mankind governed by some transcendental entity or law? Is it like the hand of God hovering above? At least it is true that man has no control, even over his own will.
-->-- '''Opening Narration''' [[spoiler:that in the end turns out to be [[BigBad Void]]]], ''{{Manga/Berserk}}''

->Once a prophecy appears, it's set;\\
There's absolutely no way to change it.\\
If we act according to the prophecy...\\
Everything will go great!\\
Hasn't it so far?
-->--''Akuyaku Concerto'' (aka ''Oingo Boingo Brothers ED''), ''Manga/StardustCrusaders''

-> No one can escape the fate that was chosen for them. \\
All that remains is the end, [[DoomedProtagonist where you will all perish]].
-->-- '''[[BigBad Diavolo]]''', ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind''

-> We are all slaves to fate. We cannot change what has already been written. I don't know who [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits they]] are, but they will now face a perilous journey, where many of them will lose their lives. \\
Still... are they all [[{{Determinator}} like this one]]? So willing to sacrifice everything for their friends? If so, [[TheAntiNihilist then perhaps their journey does have purpose]]. I can't wish for their safety, but I pray that they are [[TitleDrop sleeping slaves]]. Ones who will [[HeroicSacrifice find meaning when they awaken]].
-->-- '''Scolippi''', ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'' ([[{{Denouement}} Sleeping Slaves, part 2]])
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Comic Books]]
->'''Maggie's mother''': As soon as she saw you... she said [[ApocalypseMaiden you're the end of us...]] I couldn't make sense of that...\\
'''Abe Sapien''': I've heard all of this before. About me, about Hellboy. Hellboy ''died'' without bringing any of it to pass.\\
'''Maggie''': [[LostLanguage Arram yug...?]]\\
'''Maggie's mother''': ...She just says, [[ArmorPiercingQuestion "Are you sure?"]]
-->--''[[ComicBook/{{Hellboy}} Abe Sapien]]: The Garden (II)''

->'''Ah, the pity of it.'''\\
'''Do not think I am unmoved, my sons. I have lived these lives again and again, I have endured these futile quests and escalating sacrifices; the turmoil that drowns out all love and hope and meaning--'''\\
'''Until the heart stops and the last breath dies in the last dry throat. It is a tragedy. All of it.'''
-->-- '''{{God}}''', ''ComicBook/{{Lucifer}}''

->We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.
-->-- '''Dr. Manhattan''', ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}''

->You thought to change history, Charles Xavier. Yet, if you knew this is the way it was, you must have known it is the way it would be.
-->-- '''ComicBook/{{Galactus}}''', ''ComicBook/XMen'' 90

->"Like it or not you are a child of destiny[...]Haven't you wondered about the familiarity of this Khund attack? Before Glorith fouled history, this was young Valor's very next mission! He—you—vaporized this prototype craft![...]Despite your best efforts your flight here wasn't random. You're still at fate's mercy. You can't reject your destiny Valor. You're seizing it...whether you realize it or not."
-->-- '''Waverider''', ''ComicBook/{{Valor}}''

->'''Superman:''' Wh-What came over me? I... I almost killed him...! B-but that's insane! As Superman, I know I couldn't have done it! I can't change the past... and Luthor is still alive in my time!
-->-- '''ComicBook/{{Superman}}''', ''ComicBook/AMindSwitchInTime''

->If I return to Krypton, I will lose my super-powers again! Fate can't be changed! It's impossible for me to save Lyla or my parents! Earth needs me!
-->-- '''Superman''', ''ComicBook/SupermansReturnToKrypton''

->"Superman lives. Red solar radiation dissipated, returning his powers. I...feel a prisoner of my destiny-- the images I saw, the grasping hand of the Master Programmer-- the threatening gaze of his Angel of Death... There seems to be no way to alter that future."
-->-- '''Brainiac''', "ComicBook/BrainiacRebirth"
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Fan Works]]
->There is a prophecy, brother... '[[Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus Seven half-bloods shall answer the call]]'. It means that we will be forced to call upon them. Your mortal children will play a part in this fight. This is fated. Struggling against it is pointless.
-->-- '''Hestia''', ''Fanfic/SonOfTheWesternSea''
[[/folder]]


[[folder:Film - Animated]]
->'''Oogway:''' Look at this tree, Shifu. I cannot make it blossom when it suits me, nor make it bear fruit before its time.\\
'''Shifu:''' But there are things we can control. I can control when the fruit will fall. And I can control where to plant the seed. That is no illusion, master.\\
'''Oogway:''' Ah, yes. But no matter what you do, that seed will grow to be a peach tree. You may wish for an apple or an orange, but you will get a peach.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda1''

->''"Everyone comes to Zootopia thinking they can be anything they want. Well, you can't. You can only be what you are. Sly fox. Dumb bunny."''
-->--'''Nick Wilde''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Film - Live-Action]]
->''"Everything that's meant to happen does."''
-->--'''Angela Hayes''', ''Film/AmericanBeauty''

->'''Thor:''' We're fulfilling the prophecy.\\
'''Valkyrie:''' I hate this prophecy.\\
'''Thor:''' So do I. But we have no choice.
-->--''Film/ThorRagnarok''

->''"Dread it. Run from it. Destiny arrives all the same. And now it's here. Or should I say, ''I'' am."''
-->-- '''Thanos''', ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''

->''"He should have just accepted things as they are instead of trying to interfere with destiny. You see, you can't interfere with destiny. That's why it's destiny. And if you try to interfere, the same thing's going to happen anyway, and you'll just suffer."''
-->-- '''Tracy Flick''', ''Film/{{Election}}''

->''"Barry, this is inevitable. We can try a million times, and we're not gonna be able to fix this. No matter what we do... this world dies. Today."''
-->-- '''Barry Allen''' to his alternate self, ''Film/TheFlash2023''

->''"Can't stop what's coming."''
-->-- Tagline, ''Film/NoCountryForOldMen''

->'''John Connor:''' We took down Cyberdyne [[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay over ten years ago]]. We ''stopped'' [[RobotWar Judgment Day]]!\\
'''Terminator:''' You only postponed it. Judgment Day is inevitable.
-->-- ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines''

->'''Kronos:''' Percy Jackson! Your destiny was written long ago.\\
'''Percy Jackson:''' [[ScrewDestiny I write my own destiny]]!
-->-- ''Film/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'': ''Sea Of Monsters''

->''"Where there is death, there will always be death."''
-->-- '''Griffin''', ''Film/MenInBlack3''

->''"There's a theory in quantum physics... that time is immutable. It's like a river. You can throw a pebble into it... and create a ripple, but the current always corrects itself. No matter what you do, the river just keeps flowing in the same direction."''
-->-- '''Dr. Henry "Hank" [=McCoy=] / Beast''', ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast''

->''"No!...No, stop it, I won't say it!...No, I don't believe in fate...No...All right, I give, I give, I'll say it!! DESTINY! DESTINY! NO ES-CA-PING THAT FOR ME! DESTINY! DESTINY! NO ES-CA-PING THAT FOR ME!"''
-->-- '''Frederick Frakenstein''', ''Film/YoungFrankenstein''

->''"Not so hasty, young friend! No one can escape his destiny."''
-->--'''Professor Bulwer''', ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Literature]]
->I didn't fall in love with you. I walked into love with you, with my eyes wide open, choosing to take every step along the way. I do believe in fate and destiny, but I also believe we are only fated to do the things that we'd choose anyway. And I'd choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I'd find you and I'd choose you.
-->-- ''The Chaos of Stars'', by Kiersten White

->You see, everything's fixed. History is all worked out, from start to finish. What the facts actually ''are'' is beside the point; history just rolls straight over the top of them. You can't change anything because the changes are already part of it.
-->-- '''Cutwell''', ''Literature/{{Mort}}''

->''“One hundred and forty-three: do not try to avert prophecy, fulfill prophecy or in any way tinker with prophecy. Swallowing poison will lead to a quicker death and less ironic horror inflicted upon Creation.”''
-->--'''“Two Hundred Heroic Axioms”, author unknown,''' ''Literature/APracticalGuideToEvil''

->Destiny waits, a darkness latent in the texture of the summer wind. Destiny will betray you, crush your ideals, deliver you into the same detestable Bürgerlichkeit as your father, sucking at his pipe on Sunday strolls after church past the row houses by the river--dress you in the gray uniform of another family man, and without a whimper you will serve out your time, fly from pain to duty, from joy to work, from commitment to neutrality. Destiny does all this to you.
-->-- ''Literature/GravitysRainbow''

->Malachi shrugged. He never understood the need humans had to try and find the reason behind everything. Surely it was just an infinite cascade of reasons that led back whimsically into the first moments of time itself? What were they going to do, go back and fix things?
-->-- ''[[Literature/QuantumGravity Chasing the Dragon]]''

->Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.
-->-- ''Literature/SlaughterhouseFive''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
->Everything has its time and everything dies.
-->-- '''The Ninth Doctor''', ''Series/DoctorWho''

->I think certain moments in time are fixed. Tiny, precious moments. Everything else is in flux, anything can happen, but those certain moments, they have to stand. And this base, on Mars, with you, Adelaide Brooke, this is one, vital moment. What happens here, must always happen.
-->-- '''The Tenth Doctor''', ''Series/DoctorWho''

->Those things had to happen to me. That was my destiny. But you'll understand soon enough that there are consequences to being chosen... because destiny, John, is a fickle bitch.
-->-- '''Ben Linus''', ''Series/{{Lost}}''

->Whatever you do, you will always end up here. Whatever choices you make, whatever details you alter, we will always end up—here. I win. So, I win.
-->-- '''Lucifer''', ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''

->'''Clyde Bruckman''': How can I see the future if it didn't already exist?\\
'''Fox Mulder''': Then if the future is written, then why bother to do anything?\\
'''Clyde Bruckman''': Now you're catching on.
-->-- ''Series/TheXFiles'', "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose"

->Although [[AllTheMyriadWays multidimensionality suggests infinite outcomes in an infinite number of universes]], each universe can produce only one outcome.
-->-- '''Scully''', ''Series/TheXFiles'', "Synchrony"

->We all make our choices, and those choices - they put us on a road. Sometimes, those choices seem small, but they put you on the road. You think about getting off... but eventually, you're back on it... and nothing - ''nothing'' - can be done about that.
-->-- '''[[Characters/BreakingBadMikeEhrmantraut Mike Ehrmantraut]]''', ''Series/BetterCallSaul''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Music]]
->Hear me when I say, when I say, I believe\\
Nothin's gonna change, nothin's gonna change destiny\\
Whatever's meant to be will work out perfectly...
-->-- '''Music/AvrilLavigne''', "Keep Holding On"

->In the end, he could not escape the hands of fate.\\
...However, there is no need to pity him,\\
Because no one can escape. Not you, nor me...
-->-- '''Chronica''', ''[[Music/SoundHorizon Chronicle 2nd]]''

->Don't you know a hero on a quest can't bet on destiny\\
When every story's gory end is set up by yours truly?
-->-- '''[[WebAnimation/{{Hololive}} Calliope Mori]]''', "Dead on Arrival"
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mythology and Religion]]
->Say: "Nothing will happen to us except what Allah has decreed for us: He is our protector: and on Allah let the Believers put their trust."
-->-- ''Literature/TheQuran'' 9:51

->[[foldercontrol]]

[[folder: God ]]
, from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of His own will, freely, and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass: yet so, as thereby neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures; nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established.\\\
'''II.''' Although God knows whatsoever may or can come to pass upon all supposed conditions, yet hath He not decreed anything because He foresaw it as future, or as that which would come to pass upon such conditions.\\\
'''III.''' By the decree of God, for the manifestation of His glory, some men and angels are predestinated unto [[{{Heaven}} everlasting life]]; and others foreordained to [[{{Hell}} everlasting death]].\\\
'''IV.''' These angels and men, thus predestinated, and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed, and their number so certain and definite, that it cannot be either increased or diminished.
-->-- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_Confession_of_Faith Westminster Confession of Faith]], [[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Confession_of_Faith_of_the_Assembly_of_Divines_at_Westminster#Chapter_3 "Of God's Eternal Decree"]] (1686)
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Podcast]]
->'''The Oracle at Delphi''': I get that you wanna know your future in the broad sense of the word, but trust me, YouDontWantToKnow ''this'' future.\\
'''[[Theatre/OedipusTheKing Oedipus]]:''' Is it my future?\\
'''The Oracle at Delphi''': Well, yes, but you don't wanna know.\\
'''Oedipus:''' Well, if it's bad, I can avoid it, right?\\
'''The Oracle at Delphi''': That's...not how Greek Fatalism works.
-->-- ''[[https://www.mythpodcast.com/ Myths and Legends]]'' '''Episode 65: Motherlover'''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Theatre]]
->Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?
-->-- '''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Video Games]]
-> [[ResistanceIsFutile Resistance is futile]], Your fate is sealed.
-->-- '''Nine-Ball''', ''VideoGame/ArmoredCore''

-> ''Can't Escape from Crossing Fate!''
-->-- '''[[LargeHamAnnouncer Announcer]]''', ''VideoGame/BlazBlueCrossTagBattle''

->'''[[TheDragon Kaeden:]]''' [[{{Foreshadowing}} You cannot escape the coming onslaught...]]
->'''[[NonHumanSidekick Daxter:]]''' [[BadassBoast Bring it on, bug breath! I just stopped you, didn't I?]]
->'''Kaeden:''' No matter what happens, [[BigBad my master]] will be waiting for you and [[TheHero Jak]] outside...
->'''Daxter:''' Outside where?
->'''Kaeden:''' It's already written. The city will be ours...
-->-- ''VideoGame/{{Daxter}}''

->There are men who struggle against destiny and yet achieve only an early grave.\\
There are men who flee destiny, only to have it swallow them whole.\\
Then there are men who embrace destiny, and do not show their fear.\\
[[TheChosenOne These are the ones who change the world forever]].
-->-- '''Flemeth''', ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' extended "Destiny" trailer

->'''Ardyn:''' Loath though I am to serve the shadows and surrender to the scion of a usurper, so long as it brings the royal bloodline to an end... So long as I get my revenge... ...I will submit.\\
'''Bahamut:''' As thou shouldst. The fate bestowed upon a man cannot be changed.
-->-- ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV: Episode Ardyn'', "Submit to Fate" ending

->'''Narrator:''' The fate-abetting Prince perhaps believes it was through his own choice that he procured the Fated List of Minor Prophesies, but it was preordained.
->'''Zagreus:''' Oh no, not this determinism thing again...
-->--''VideoGame/{{Hades}}''

->''"I see you wish to start anew? Well, I’m not going to stop you, but I will ask you to reconsider. If you feel unhappy with the way things transpired, please own those feelings. Do not dwell on 'what ifs' and 'if onlys', for no one can change the past. If you feel angry, let that anger inform your future actions. But for now: Accept that what happened happened, and that we can only move forward from this fixed point in time."''
-->--'''Narrator''' if the player resets the game after [[spoiler:the [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption unavoidable]] EverybodyDiesEnding]], ''VideoGame/TheIllogicalJourneyOfTheZambonis''

->And I realized that I could never escape my terrible destiny. I had merely postponed it. History abhors a paradox.
-->-- '''Raziel''', ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKainSoulReaver2''

->Escaping from\\
your purpose\\
is\\
impossible.
-->--[[spoiler:'''The Batter''', Official Ending]], ''VideoGame/{{OFF}}''

->[[MeaningfulEcho You cannot escape your fate]].
-->-- '''The Dahaka''', ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaWarriorWithin''

->'''Artanis''': It seems fate has drawn us together once again, James Raynor.\\
'''Raynor''': I'd call it luck...\\
'''Artanis''': Luck is a concept that is purely human in origin. We protoss see the synchronicity of events and know there is a grander design behind them.
-->-- ''VideoGame/LegacyOfTheVoid''


->Do not be surprised. Everything in this world is dictated by the passage of fate. As all that exists is interconnected, time can flow only towards the inevitable. That is the vision of which I, the Monado, am the origin. That which will be, will be. This was all predestined. Ever since I came to reside within Shulk.
-->-- [[spoiler:'''Zanza''']], ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1''

->It is fate. Many have tried, but none have ever managed to escape its flow.
-->-- '''N, aka the [[spoiler:original Noah]]''', ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3''

-> Aeldari seers scryed desperately for a future that offered a glimpse of hope... but found only despair.
-->-- Narrator, ''VideoGame/BattlefleetGothicArmada2'' describing the result of [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Tyranids]] assaulting a [[PlanetSpaceship Craft World]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Webcomics]]
->No one can unmake the past. It already happened. There's no "undo." Similarly, the future already happened. We just haven't ''reached'' it yet.
-->-- '''Sarda the Sage''', ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater''

->GC: [=L1ST3N TH3 UN1V3RS3 W1LL 34T P4R4DOX3S FOR BR34KF4ST=]\\
GC: [=4ND SO W1LL TH1S G4M3=]\\
GC: [=G3T US3D TO 1T=]\\
GC: [=BY NOW YOU SHOULD R34L1Z3 TH1S WHOL3 M3SS W4S 4 B1G S3LF FULLF1LL1NG CLUST3RFUCK=]]]\\
GC: [=A HUG3 ORG14ST1C MOB1US DOUBL3 R34CH4ROUND=]
-->-- '''Terezi "[=gallowsCalibrator=]" Pyrope''', ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''

->EB: but what does that mean!\\
AG: It means what it sounds like! He's already here!!!!!!!!\\
AG: Here in our session, trying to hunt us down! Man, this should 8e elementary to you 8y now.\\
AG: No matter what you or I or any of us did, Jack's here now. That's the reality!\\
AG: And if I didn't stop you, it wouldn't have changed the reality for us here. We'd still 8e hiding on this rock, and he'd still 8e out there, sniffing around for us.\\
AG: He wouldn't just disappear! That's not how this time stuff works.
-->-- '''Vriska "[=arachnidsGrip=]" Serket''' explaining time to '''John "[=ectoBiologist=]" Egbert''', ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''

->CG: BUT WHAT ALL THESE LOFTY SYMBOLIC ALLUSIONS BOIL DOWN TO IS SOME GRANDER STATEMENT ABOUT WHAT YOU SEE HAPPENING HERE.
->CG: THAT YOU WERE ALWAYS THE KEY TO SEEDING YOUR OWN EXISTENCE THROUGH THIS GAME.
->CG: AND ANY HOPE THAT IT COULD HAVE PLAYED OUT DIFFERENTLY OR THAT YOU COULD HAVE AVOIDED THIS WHOLE MESS WAS ALWAYS JUST A RUSE.
-->-- '''Karkat "[=carcinoGeneticist=]" Vantas''' explaining the so-called "ultimate riddle" to John, ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''

->''"Against your will, you have become a slave, lashed by unseen chains to a story you cannot write and want no part in. You '''will''' lose yourself. Fate will warp you beyond recognition, Little Miss [[TheChosenZero Nobody]]."''
-->-- '''[[GodEmperor Nadia Om]]''', ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Web Original]]
->You're a fool, [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic Critic]], a damn fool! You can't change your destiny, you can only choose to meet it! And you will fail.
-->-- '''[[WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers Ma-Ti]]''', ''WebVideo/{{Kickassia}}''

->You're welcome to ''try'' to fight determinism, Steve, but my intuition is that you will fail.
-->-- '''Warren Specter''', [[http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Martian%20Dreams/Update%206/index.html Nakar's]] LetsPlay ''VideoGame/UltimaWorldsOfAdventure2MartianDreams''

->The Newton Twins were the first to try to force the machine to be wrong. Both their tickets said "Old Age," so they committed suicide. Ten times they tried, and ten times they failed.
-->-- ''Literature/MachineOfDeath'', "Vegetables"

->Scorpio - Saturn rising in your sign will subject you to the powerful force of Fate, which everybody knows is stronger by far than electromagnetism, gravity, or the nuclear strong and weak forces.
-->-- ''Website/TheOnion''

->'''Church''': I learned a very 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 fucking are, and you better get used to it Nancy. Quit your bitching.
-->-- ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue''

->''"If reputable prophecy dictates I will be defeated/killed by a certain person or event, I will not waste time trying to eliminate him or prevent it. I will enjoy my power for all its worth, as long as I can, meanwhile devoting reasonable energies in a search for new prophecies that will get me out of the first one."''
-->-- [[http://nift.firedrake.org/EEmpress.htm Guidelines for Evil Empresses]]

->''The first man stood alone\\
on the barren field\\
and in the distance he saw\\
the locked gate beyond which\\
his greatest shame was kept.\\
\\
He turned to the snake\\
who writhed on its belly\\
like a worm\\
and cursed it for its treachery.\\
\\
"You tricked me," the man said\\
"you led my hand astray\\
and now we are damned for it."\\
\\
The snake sighed.\\
"I gave you knowledge," it said\\
"and with that knowledge\\
you made the choice you made.\\
I could not make it for you."\\
\\
The man cried out\\
"All the same, trusting you was\\
my greatest mistake."\\
\\
"No," the snake said\\
"Your greatest mistake was\\
believing you had a choice at all."''
-->--''Website/SCPFoundation'', "The Way it Ends"
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Western Animation]]
->Me? I'm '''[[SuicidalOverconfidence inevitable]]'''.
-->-- '''[[FutureMeScaresMe Dark Danny]]''', ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom''

->Damage? Silly girl, there is no damage to your past. You cannot damage history, because history cannot be changed. [[StableTimeLoop I went back in time to steal this because history says it disappeared, and history says it disappeared because I went back to steal it.]] Past, present, future. It's all written in stone my dear, and nothing you do can change it.
-->-- '''Warp''', ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Real Life]]
->We have no specific destiny against which we can fight - for the fighting would be as much a part of the destiny as the final end.
-->-- '''Creator/HPLovecraft'''

->A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-->-- '''Creator/JeanDeLaFontaine'''

->''Aaedriike.''\\
It is written.
-->-- Tamil Proverb
[[/folder]]

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