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When someone is pushed dangerously close to the [[Despair Event Horizon]], they may prefer this trope's opposite: [[Resigned to the Call]].
 
Likewise, sometimes a '''Screw Destiny''' can turn out to be a [[You Can't Fight Fate]] in disguise, since the character's attempt to beat fate [[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy|ultimately turns out to be what]] ''[[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy|fulfills]]'' [[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy|it]] (ala Oedipus Rex, the moral of which is that while Man can't beat fate, at least he doesn't have to ''look'' at it). Or it in can turn out to be a [[Self-Defeating Prophecy]], where the disaster could never have been averted if the supposed doom hadn't prompted the character to try.
 
[[Winds of Destiny Change]] and [[Immune to Fate]] are about having the ability to screw destiny as a superpower; the former is changing the odds to favor you instead while the latter is just being flat out [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|immune to fate]].
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