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* ''[[Baccano (Light Novel)|Baccano]]'' has a notable example. {{spoiler|Ronnie, the demon with the immortality elixir,}} has this power, noted its drawbacks, and ''turns it off''.
* [[Knight Templar]] slash [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] Enrico Pucci seeks to invoke this in Part 6 of ''[[Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Jojo's Bizarre Adventure]]''. His belief is that if mankind already knows what their futures hold for them, there will be no more reason for war or suffering, since all the uncertainty will be taken out of life. In order to pull this off, Pucci {{spoiler|''resets all of existence'' by speeding up time to the point of the universe's destruction and recreation. However, he stops just short of a full cycle in order to finish off [[Tagalong Kid|Emporio Alnino]], the only one of the good guys who wasn't [[Killed Off for Real]]. [[Hoist By His Own Petard|This is Pucci's undoing]], as Emporio pulls out an [[Eleventh
* This is what Eriol claims was Clow Reed's motivation for setting events in motion to pass his powers on to ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura (Manga)|Cardcaptor Sakura]]''. ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'' and ''[[XXX Holic]]'', however, present an [[Reality Warper|altogether]] [[Power Incontinence|different]] [[Undead|reason]].
* Narumi Kiyotaka from the ''[[Spiral]]'' manga, even more obviously ''bored'' in the prequel Spiral: Alive. It is hinted that the events of the manga happen because he was just too bored, and stated to be the reason he acts like an idiot and does ridiculous things such as dressing up in furry costumes: to spice things up in his boring life. Although his ability to predict ''everything'' is presented more as a form of incredibly high intellect than a supernatural ability to see the future, he is still considered a "god" by everybody else. {{spoiler|Ayumu eventually outwits and defeats him}}, but Kiyotaka is so enigmatic it can be argued he ''knew'' and in fact ''arranged'' this outcome. There's no way to know for sure.
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*** He doesn't even know ''what'' Rincewind is anymore. He's had so much happen to him.
** It's mentioned that entities like gods and demons are technically timeless, but in practice live from day to day because it's so confusing otherwise. Death may do this as well, though to a lesser degree.
* Though we never meet him, a central character in one of the ''[[
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