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** Of course, Anakin's ability to see the future seems more like a curse than a blessing in [[Star Wars|Episode 2: Attack of the Clones]] and by [[Star Wars|Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith]] we know it's more of a curse than a blessing.
*** Well, prescience plus [[Genre Blindness]] is a curse. Doesn't the GFFA have stories about [[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy|self-fulfilling prophecies]]?
** There's a [[Star Wars/Fanfic Recs|fan fic]], "[https://web.archive.org/web/20100610083324/http://boards.theforce.net/the_saga/b10476/22761239/p1/?0 The Sith Who Brought Life Day], where an officer trying to figure out the identity of the pilot who destroyed the Death Star looks at some of Luke's records. He'd taken a hand-eye coordination test and caused the computer to crash.
{{quote|At least according to the record, he'd been hitting the correct response buttons in the milliseconds after the trigger stimuli algorithm had been run, but ''before the actual images appeared onscreen'', and the computer had not been able to handle near-simultaneous input and output. He'd crashed the thing three times before he'd evidently [[Cover-Blowing Superpower|decided to slow down a little and let the program catch up]].}}
* General Buford makes a speech about what will happen at [[Gettysburg]] if he allows the Confederates to take the high ground before the Union infantry arrives. Though this is due to being [[Genre Savvy]] as a result of decades of experience as a professional soldier rather than any superpower, he does reference the trope.
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* The Dunyain from [[The Second Apocalypse]] can't technically see the future, but they can read their opponents' expressions and body language and predict their actions before they perform them.
* [[Twilight|Alice Cullen]] uses her clairvoyance against other vampires, both for fighting and playing chess.
* The title device in [[Fred Saberhagen]]'s ''The Mask of the Sun'' could do this for the wearer. When the main character put it on for the first time, it showed him a vision of shifting two pieces of furniture. He did so, and the bad guys who burst in soon afterward stumbled over the items in their new positions, giving him the opportunity to escape. The mask also showed him, '''months''' in advance, how to get out of a certain prison cell, although it wasn't until he was locked in that he realized what that image had been about.
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* Averted in [[Dominic Deegan]] during a [https://web.archive.org/web/20110812161416/http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2011-05-23 fencing class.]
* Foreshadow in ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'' is a crimefighter who occasionally partners with [[The Cowl|Battlecat]], battling organized crime in New Orleans. He's an almost unbeatable hand-to-hand combatant due to his ability to see just far enough into the future to know what they will do. He's even used this power to dodge bullets. The Eye of God, an expert swordsman and member of the super-terrorist group known as "The Mujahedin", can do the same thing. One wonders what a fight between Foreshadow and the Eye of God would be like.
* {{spoiler|The Girl}} of ''[[A Girl and Her Fed]]'' has this power.
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