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* The ''[[Death Note]]'' is a book that when you write someone's name in it, they die. If you write in how they are to die, provided it's feasible they will die in that manner and time, otherwise they die of a heart attack by default.

* ''[[Mirai Nikki]]'' features journals which contain the future entries of characters, allowing them to see what they'll experience in the future, and react to them. The journals change as they do things. Most of these journals take the form of diaries entered into cellphones, though one woman has hers on a scroll.

* '''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'' has "The Universe of the Four Gods", which is type 2. While Miaka and Yui continue their adventure, people in our world can read, what is happening in this moment in Four God's dimension.

* Zetta becomes a type III book in ''[[Makai Kingdom]]''.

 

== Comic Books ==

* ''[[The Sandman]]'': Destiny, the eldest of the Endless, only intervenes when the Book of Destiny tells him to.

{{quote|Destiny continues to walk... He is holding a book. Inside the book is the universe.}}

* In the [[Dragon (magazine)]] comic ''Libram X'', the eponymous tome is both [[Tomes of Prophecy and Fate|the accurate self-writing log]] and can be written (one magic quill is included in the kit). Which naturally explains why [[MacGuffin|everyone and their dogs tried to find it]] all this time.

* ''Once In a Blue Moon'' has sort of a [[Timey-Wimey Ball|timey-wimey]] twist: Aeslin goes back to Avalon because of something she sees about to happen in the magic book, but the writer of the book in Avalon doesn't write that part until ''after'' it happens.

 

== Films -- Live-Action ==

* ''[[Makai Kingdom]]''. The Sacred Tome [[Tomes of Prophecy and Fate|predicts the future with absolute certainty]], and whatever is written in it BECOMES the truth. 'Badass Freakin' Overlord' Zetta is pissed off because the tome claims that he will destroy his own Netherworld through foolishness and arrogance, so he burns it. This causes the entire world to collapse, and he has to quickly transform HIMSELF into the Sacred Tome to prevent a total collapse, though his own Netherworld still bites it, thus [[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy|proving the prediction true]]... Most of the gameplay basically centers around using the powers of the Zetta-Tome, by having various characters write 'wishes' into it, thus making them come true.

* ''[[Wizardry]]'' Dark Savant Trilogy (''VI'', ''VII'', ''8'') has the Cosmic Forge, a pen and Tome Of Fate. Anything written in it will become true, albeit [[Jackass Genie|not as the writer expects]]. If written pages are torn out, history itself will be [[Retcon|Ret Conned]]. [[Multiple Endings|One of the endings]] in ''8'' {{spoiler|has you doing exactly that in an attempt to [[Ret-Gone]] the Dark Savant, but since the process is not instantaneous, you must fight him anyway. After you defeat him, you quickly write down every bit of history you can recall.}}

* A non-book example happens in ''[[Persona 2]]'': rumors become true if enough people hear about them (this is due to a demon dicking with humanity.) No writing needed, just word of mouth. Mostly this results in [[Urban Legends]] becoming true, but at one point the player characters themselves take advantage of it.

 

 

== Western Animation ==