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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Corrector Yui]]'' [[The Reveal|discovers]] that {{spoiler|she's not really [[The Chosen One]]. Her best friend Haruna [[Missed the Call]]. [[Dark Magical Girl|Haruna herself]] is [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] by the [[Big Bad]], subliminally uses her power to [[More Than Mind Control|convince]] the Correctors to fight each other, ''and'' she's holding Yui's crush hostage. All without ''her'' real knowledge since Grosser [[Man Behind the Man|pulls the strings from behind]] as she "reunites" the Correctors, thinking she's sparing Yui from the dangers of being a Corrector}}. Yui witnesses all this in a matter of days. She [[Heroic BSOD|doesn't take this very well]], but eventually decides that becoming a hero was always her dream, [[The Unchosen One|and no amount of ordination can take that from her]]. {{spoiler|And not only she gets her Corrector status back, but she also manages to [["I Know You
* Midori Sugiura in ''[[Mai-HiME (manga)|Mai-HiME]]''. She may not have been the mastermind behind the Grand Plan to Cheat Destiny (the credit goes to Mashiro), but she was perhaps the only character who truly believed that fate was nothing next to determination, not to mention the only HiME who actively participated in the successful plan.
* In the second season of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh GX]]'', the hero is sought out by the villain for his power to ''defy'' destiny and overturn the results the villain sees in his premonitions. Despite several prophecies coming true (including one for the next season), the overall impression is that it's seeing or trying to see the future that robs one of power over their fate, and [[Your Mind Makes It Real]].
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* The reason that [[Adam Warlock]] can fight [[Thanos]] during the [[Infinity Gauntlet]] saga is because he stands outside the loop of destiny, and can therefore do things that no one else could.
* A sci-fi example in ''[[Paperinik New Adventures]]'': A time traveller warns about a major disaster that will destroy a large part of Duckburg, killing thousands - but the resident [[Time Police]] (supposedly the good guys) are doing everything in their power to make sure it goes down 'like it's supposed to'. After all, in their time, it's already happened. Obviously, Paperinik (Donald Duck's superhero alter ego) isn't going to take that lying down.
* The entire point of the series ''[[Lucifer (
* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|"Screw Destiny"]]- [[Green Lantern|Kyle Rayner]], November 2004
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'''Kain:''' Apparently so. But suppose you throw a coin enough times... ...suppose one day, it lands on its ''edge''. }}
*** Eventually, {{spoiler|Raziel travels to the supreme dimension to KILL the supreme being, and thus not only Screwing Destiny, but totally obliterating it.}}
* Subverted or played straight depending on which way you go in ''[[The
* Played straight in ''[[Odin Sphere]]'' with the characters all trying to avert the prophecy of end of the world. {{spoiler|Then it's subverted when they find the [[You Can't Fight Fate|world collapsing into chaos anyway]], but fulfilling the prophecy at least leaves ''some'' alive.}}
* Subverted in ''[[Makai Kingdom]]''. Badass freakin' overlord Zetta gets a prophecy from an oracle that says that his netherworld will be destroyed. In an attempt to Screw it, Zetta tracks down and consults the Sacred Tome, a [[Cosmic Keystone]] that contains the record of the Netherworld's reality, including (presumably) what would destroy it. When he discovers that the final page contains the sentence "Lord Zetta is stupid. His stupidity has doomed the netherworld to extinction", he burns the book in a fit of rage, [[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy|consequently un-recording his own netherworld and proving the prophecy right]].
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** Though if hints in ''[[Chrono Cross]]'' were any indication, their attempt to screw destiny altered the present time enough that {{spoiler|it screwed THEM over, got them all killed (except for Robo, but he dies near the end of the game), and turned Porre into a world superpower.}}
*** Fortunately, ''[[Chrono Cross]]'' solves this by having {{spoiler|Schala, who has been screwed by the cast of ''[[Chrono Trigger]]'''s screwing of destiny, screw destiny herself to make things better.}} Unfortunately, this makes things EVEN WORSE, and the game goes through several cycles of attempting to screw destiny and either making things even worse or going closer to the original fate before they FINALLY get everything back to the previous game's "destiny has been screwed" world status, accepting an unfortunate fate for themselves in the process and not even bothering to screw this one. Yes, the game is somewhat confusing, why do you ask?
* In ''[[The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind]]'', there are many ways to complete the main quest when you have broken the thread of destiny, that go from figuring out yourself what was the piece of information the NPC was going to give you, to sheer use of uber power.
** There is a possible aversion. Although it is not explored in the game, it is entirely possible that the Daedric Prince Azura, who worded the original prophecy, was also controlling pivotal events from behind the scenes.
** It is also worth noting that ''Morrowind'' is completely open-ended and contains more factions and sidequests than actual main plot, leaving the PC to walk off and Screw Destiny whenever he wants and still get perfectly good enjoyment out of the game.
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