Prescience Is Predictable: Difference between revisions

* Though we never meet him, a central character in one of the ''[[Callahan's Crosstime Saloon|Callahans Crosstime Saloon]]'' stories, 'Fivesight,' has this in spades. He can see the future, but ''only'' the bad things, and he can do ''nothing'' to stop them from happening. Not the gruesome death of his lover's son, not their breakup, and not {{spoiler|his own death at the hands of the dumb kid she'd been planning to cheat on him with...}}

* An episode of ''[[The X-Files]]'' had a guy come from the future to [[Grandfather Paradox|kill himself before he can invent his Time Travel technology]], and evokes this reason in a [[Motive Rant]].

* In the ''[[Fringe]]'' episode "The Plateau," a man is shown deliberately setting a pen on a mailbox, which serves as the catalyst for a chain of events resulting in catastrophe. It later turns out the man was {{spoiler|the subject of an experiment that increased his cognitive abilities, allowing him to instantaneously calculate variables at a geometric rate, and resulting in his being able to both predict the future and also control it via chain reaction. Unfortunately, his mental speed eventually surpasses his ability to communicate with anything other than a supercomputer}}.