History Main / ForeseeingMyDeath

* 137. [[note]]Unless you're a physicist and already know, you're probably [[{{Pun}} dying]] to know what this is about. 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 never get out her alive." He was right (although it wasn't voodoo, but undiagnosed pancreatic cancer).[[/note]]

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* 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]].

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* 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.

* ''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.

** 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"]].
** 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]].

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* ''Planet of the Damned'', by Creator/HarryHarrison. Ihjel, an 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.

* Played with in ''Film/BlackRobe''. Chomina has a vision of the place where he is going to die, but he doesn't realise 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.

* 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.

* ''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 tells him that he saw wrong and shoots Frank in the head.]]

** 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 HeroicSactifice to save her child, the PlayerCharacter, few later.

* ''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.]]blows his brains out.]]

* ''Planet of the Damned'', by Creator/HarryHarrison. Ihjel, an agent of the Cultural Relationships Foundation, recruits the protagonist because he's seen that he will be killed on his next mission. He's shot dead the moment they land on the planet, leaving the totally inexperienced protagonist to SaveTheWorld.

* ''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 tells him that he saw wrong and shoots Frank in the head.

* ''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 tells him that he saw wrong and

* ''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 tells him that he saw wrong and blows his brains out.]]

->At last, this is the death I saw!
-->--'''Kilrogg Deadeye''''s final words, ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft Warlords of Draenor''

* Centauri of ''Series/BabylonFive'' have prophetic dreams of their deaths. Londo recognizes G'Kar as the one who kills him the first time they meet (but doesn't realize that it was a MercyKill).

* In ''Film/SherlockHolmes'', 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.

* ''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, Roy tells him that he saw wrong and blows his brains out.]]

* ''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, Roy tells him that he saw wrong and blows his brains out.]]

** 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 bis 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.