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*** Also, for those who haven't read the series, the Hork-Bajir are completely vegetarian. All the blades are for peeling bark and climbing trees. Great for their diet and (original) lifestyle, terrible because of [[Grand Theft Me|body-hijacking]] parasites and frightening anyone who hasn't seen them outside of their body-controlled, stormtrooper role.
* Will Parry in ''[[His Dark Materials]]'' may be the king of this trope. He is destined to be the bearer of the Subtle Knife, which can slice through the barriers between worlds. {{spoiler|Gaining it mutilated his left hand, the "sign of the Bearer". On top of this, '''every single time he uses it''', for good or ill, he creates a hole into which Dust drains out of the world, and through which more Spectres are unleashed. And then there's the little matter of what the Knife is rumored to be destined to be used for...}}
* Henry in ''[[The Time
** That last bit was actually averted in one of the [[Bruce Coville]] story collections; after the main character and her friend test a forward-only time machine they find with a teddy bear, it never shows up. The lead decides to try it anyway, over the nerd's objections it's not safe. He has a [[Eureka Moment]] on the staircase and rushes back to stop her, but it's too late and she's transported into space.
** If the Cosmos is sending him to his most memorable points of his life, it stands to reason that the Cosmos is aiming for the correct locale as well as the correct time. The problem of the earth's position in space is thereby averted.
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