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== [[Fan ~~Fiction~~]] ==

== [[Fan Works]] ==

* In the [[Daria]] fanfic ''The Thirteenth Man'' Mack develops godlike powers and is forced to fight another godlike being. When informed that his opponent cannot be defeated by any weapon made on Earth, Mack beats him to death with rocks from the moon.

* In the ''[[Daria]]'' fanfic ''The Thirteenth Man'' Mack develops godlike powers and is forced to fight another godlike being. When informed that his opponent cannot be defeated by any weapon made on Earth, Mack beats him to death with rocks from the moon.

* The ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' [[Peggy Sue]] fic ''[[I Am What I Am (fanfic)|I Am What I Am]]'' handles the Judge (see below) with "Unity", a battle axe of light that creates itself out of a pair of enchanted tomahawks.

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* Inverted in [[Tad Williams]]' ''[[Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn]]'', in which a trap of this nature is used to lure the ''heroes'' into becoming the villain's [[MacGuffin Delivery Service]] by means of a [[Prophetic Fallacy|prophecy purporting]] to offer the means to defeat the Storm King. Near the end, a [[Eureka Moment]] reveals the truth: the prophecy is actually written ''for the Storm King'', telling him how to return to power. Cue a massive, collective [[Oh Crap]] on the part of the heroes and a delicious [[You Are Too Late]] moment from the villains.

* In the ''[[Wheel of Time]]'' series, there are two seemingly contradictory prophecies surrounding The Stone of Tear, a massive fortress that has never been breached. The first says the Stone will never fall until the People of the Dragon come to it, while the second says the it will never fall until the Dragon Reborn wields Callandor, a "sword that is not a sword" which is housed within the Heart of the Stone. So why would the Dragon ever be allowed inside the Stone if it is destined to fall after his people come, but how can the Dragon gets his hands on Callandor without the fortress it's inside falling to people under his command? {{spoiler|By sneaking in. The Aiel, known historically as the People of the Dragon even though almost no one remembers that, raid it on the same night. Both prophecies are fulfilled at the same time: Rand takes Callandor, proving that he is the true Dragon Reborn, and the Aiel are able to capture the Stone, revealing them to be the People of the Dragon.}}

* In the [[Diablo]] [[Expanded Universe]] novel ''Demonsbane'', the [[Big Bad]] has a glyph on itself that makes it invincible to all living creatures. The twist, then, is that {{spoiler|the hero of the novel turns out to have been [[Dead All Along]].}}

* In the ''[[Diablo]]'' [[Expanded Universe]] novel ''Demonsbane'', the [[Big Bad]] has a glyph on itself that makes it invincible to all living creatures. The twist, then, is that {{spoiler|the hero of the novel turns out to have been [[Dead All Along]].}}

* [[Simon R. Green]] has used this trope at least twice, in ''Winner Take All'' and ''Shadows Fall''. Both times it's invoked [[Recycled Script|with the same loophole]], in that an entity foretold to be unstoppable by any foe, living or dead, {{spoiler|gets its ass handed to it by an undead hero}}.

* The mages who sealed the portal that contains Takhisis in the Dragonlance world mandated the a white (good) robed magic user, and black (evil) robed magic user and a kender had to work together for it to open, assuming good can't work with evil, evil with good, and nobody works well with kender.