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* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode "I See A Funny Cartoon In Your Future" has the girls looking for a crooked fortune teller. Blossom finds a tarot card, which she then announces that the crime is the work of a "[[IncrediblyLamePun tarot-ist]]."

* Averted in an episode of ''Series/{{Castle}}'', when a VictimOfTheWeek had a song with the lyric "Death, she draws near." After talking with his daughter, who was a fan of the victim, Castle learns that she was into Tarot and using "Death" to mean "change," more specifically, a person who had enabled her to change her life for the better.

* An anthology of ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' short stories had one character doing a reading involving "The King of Anchors", "Hiroshima", "Little Nell", and the like. Justified because said character was Delirium.

* Used in one episode of ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'', using accurate descriptions from the major arcana. As with most fortune telling aspects in serials, they're generally true until the end - specifically until they lie about the meaning of one of the readings.

** Mollymauk is a part-time fortune teller in the circus he works for, and uses tarot cards at multiple points through the campaign, and though he mostly uses them for cold readings and telling people what he feels they need to hear, they can be very accurate on occasion. Occasionally played for laughs, like when Jester asks him to give her a reading while they're in the cart on the way to their next destination... and she pulls the Chariot.

** In the second episode of [[Anime/SailorMoon the 90s anime]], a [[MonsterOfTheWeek youma]] fortuneteller had the ability to make the Devil appear anywhere in the layout she liked and had an unlimited supply of them. Magic is presumably involved. Her tarot divination business was {{muggle}} bait; she used the Devil card to brainwash some of Usagi's classmates, including Umino, into becoming delinquents so as to suck their LifeEnergy. Also a rare instance of the card's proper meaning (temptation) being used, even more surprising considering this is the 90s anime. Those possessed by the card became completely free from society's restraints and did whatever they wanted. This is the infamous episode where Umino flips Haruna's skirt.

** Mollymauk is a part-time fortune teller in the circus he works for, and uses tarot cards at multiple points through the campaign, though he mostly uses them for cold readings and telling people what he feels they need to hear. Occasionally played for laughs, like when Jester asks him to give her a reading while they're in the cart on the way to their next destination... and she pulls the Chariot.

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* While it is unclear just what cards turned up in her reading, ''VideoGame/SonicCD'' has Amy discover that Sonic will be on Little Planet via tarot cards.

* ''Website/{{TED}}'': The Tarot Card riddle has the protagonist's family lineage cursed to play a card game against Fate every 23 years, having their soul claimed if they are defeated by her. The card that Fate always offers her opponent to take before explaining the game's rules is The Tower, a portent of doom. Indeed, [[spoiler:accepting this card makes it impossible to beat her at the game]].

* Played for laughs in ''Radio/{{Ectoplasm}}'', where Lord Zimbabwe's Tarot pack contains the Jack of Getting Run Over and the King of Piles. [[spoiler:Then, at the end of the episode, the GirlOfTheWeek [[DiabolusExMachina does get run over.]]]]

* In the movie version of ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'', Film/JamesBond uses a tarot deck consisting of nothing but ''The Lovers'' to seduce Solitaire. Played straight when Solitaire reads of James Bond's arrival in the cards.
-->'''Solitaire:''' A man comes. He travels quickly. He has purpose. He comes over water. He travels with others. He will oppose. He brings violence and destruction.

* Bakura in ''Anime/YuGiOh'' reads Pegasus' fortune, using Duel Monsters cards in the same fashion. When he reveals the last card, [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Doma_the_Angel_of_Silence Doma the Angel of Silence,]] he [[spoiler:kills Pegasus and takes his Millennium Eye]].

* ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'' has Guybrush Threepwood draw ''five Death cards in a row'', which terrifies the fortuneteller so much that she begins screaming he's a devil; Guybrush, meanwhile, is more confused than anything, saying how there should be only one and asking if she's dealing from the bottom. Sure enough, in as foretold in the voodoo prophecies, Guybrush dies on Blood Island... for the purposes of insurance fraud. [[spoiler:He later uses the cards themselves to cheat at poker.]]

** Although Max's reading is amateurish and inaccurate, the real meaning of these cards for him is also true. The Tower card is his past, with all the dead family and ruined life. The Devil is his present, a fight with his enemies. Death is his future, meaning an epiphany and finally getting rid of his massive guilt complex (at least, until the second game).

* Averted in ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryIV'', which actually had pretty accurate Tarot readings (It even used some of the Minor Arcana cards!). However, it did create a fictional Void card to show the influence of the [[EldritchAbomination Dark One]], which becomes more and more common as the game progresses, to the point where the gypsy is drawing nothing but Void cards near the end. From the LetsPlay:

* ''[[Series/{{Charmed1998}} Charmed]]'': Shortly before Phoebe and Cole's wedding they give Paige a tarot deck as a bridesmaid's gift. She does a reading for them and draws The Lovers, "Despair" and Death. Despair appears to be a subtitute for the 3 of Swords, the image shown is of a man with three blades piercing his chest. Unfortunately the series proceeds to play the Death card as a portent of doom. In the following episodes the sisters learn Cole is evil and Phoebe turns her back on good to be with him.

* ''TabletopGame/Pathfinder'' has its own variant tarot referred to as the Harrow deck, most commonly found in Varisia. It has six suits that correspond to the game's six basic attributes (Hammers for Strength, Keys for Dexterity, Shields for Constitution, Tomes for Intelligence, Stars for Wisdom, and Crowns for Charisma), and one card of each suit that corresponds to each of the 9 [[Character Alignments classical moral stances]]. This renders a 54 card deck usable for both portents and a gambling game called Towers. Certain classes have abilities that use or rely on harrow cards, and cards appearing and vanishing from the standard set is a plot point in some adventures.

* In an alternate ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' universe, alt-Gwynn offers to read the "main" Torg's fortune. She gasps and declares that "Death is near!" before revealing the spread: The "Death" card, followed by the "Is Near" card. Later, they attempt to play blackjack with the deck (which prophecies that Gwynn's robes will chafe forever) This actually turns out to be a CerebusRetcon. Near the climax of that arc, Gwynn's robes start chafing... and the story takes a very dark turn.

* ''WebAnimation/{{Nijisanji}}'': Uki Violeta from the EN branch, who is a member of the unit Noctyx, used to be a professional Tarot reader in real life, and he has released a [[https://youtu.be/NJxk5b1R-xA Tarot reading]] stream where he's reading the cards for his fellow [=VTubers=] from the EN branch, including all of Ethyria.

* ''Series/{{LOST}}'': In his backstory Hurley won the lottery, but was then hit by a string of bad luck that left him thinking the money he'd won was "cursed". His father takes him to a psychic who does a tarot reading and, naturally, pulls the Death card. When she starts talking about doing a "cleansing" to remove the darkness around him Hurley realises that his father paid her off to try and ease his mind.

* ''WebAnimation/{{Nijisanji}}: Uki Violeta from the EN branch, who is a member of the unit Noctyx, used to be a professional Tarot reader in real life, and he has released a [[https://youtu.be/NJxk5b1R-xA Tarot reading]] stream where he's reading the cards for his fellow [=VTubers=] from the EN branch, including all of Ethyria.

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* Hochin Meiru also does Tarot reading in her introductory episode of ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV''. As a MythologyGag, she actually uses the Arcana Force monsters used by Sartorius in ''GX'' instead of regular tarot cards.

%%*Past, Five of coins, upright, Seven of daggers, upright, Lord/king of Wands?, reversed. *Present
Ten of swords, upright, Ten of wands,reversed, Seven of wands, reversed. *Future, Wheel, The Tower, Death.