Fate and Prophecy Tropes

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See also Seekers and Seers.

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Character Tropes

• Blind Seer
• The Chosen One
  • The Chooser of The One
  • The Chosen People
  • The Chosen Wannabe
  • The Chosen Many
  • The Chosen Zero
  • The Poorly Chosen One
  • It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
  • The Unchosen One
• Externally Validated Prophecy
• Fainting Seer
• The Fatalist
• Immune to Fate
• Instant Oracle: Just Add Water!
• Junkie Prophet
• Mad Oracle
• Multiple-Choice Future

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• Mystical Waif
• Non-Linear Character
• Not So Omniscient After All
• The Omniscient
• Omniscient Hero
• Oracular Urchin
• Precrime Arrest
• Prescience by Analysis
• Seers
• Waif Prophet

Other Tropes

• Because Destiny Says So
• Birthmark of Destiny
• Chronoscope
• Comet of Doom
• Cosmic Lottery Winner
• Crystal Ball
• Dead Man's Hand
• Dreaming of Things to Come
• Either/Or Prophecy
• Failed Future Forecast
• Flashback
• Flash Sideways
• Loves Me Not
• Magic 8-Ball
• Magic Mirror
• Magpies as Portents
• Misfortune Cookie
• Nice Job Breaking It, Herod!
• No Man of Woman Born
• Ouija Board
• Poke in the Third Eye
• Pre-emptive Declaration
• Prescience Is Predictable
• Prophecies Are Always Right
• Prophecies Rhyme All the Time
• Prophecy Armor
• The Prophecy
• Prophecy Pileup
• Prophecy Twist
• Prophetic Fallacy
• Psychic Dreams for Everyone
• Red String of Fate
• Screw Destiny
• Scry vs. Scry
• Self-Defeating Prophecy
• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

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• Sliding Scale of Free Will vs. Fate
• Tarot Troubles
• There Are No Coincidences
• Tomes of Prophecy and Fate
• Vagueness Is Coming
• Video Games and Fate
• When the Planets Align
• Winds of Destiny, Change
• You Already Changed the Past/You Cannot Change The Future
• You Can't Fight Fate

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