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* The basis of ''[[Mirai Nikki]]'', where the titular diaries allow knowledge of the future, and all diary holders are forced to fight to the death.
* The manga ''[[Un Cassandra]]'' consists of the protagonists trying to [[Screw Destiny]] when they learn of upcoming disasters (including one protagonist's death) while another tries to assert [[You Can't Fight Fate]] by subverting their attempts at every turn.
* ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]'' has two rival factions of [[Time Travel|time travelers]], with Mikuru and "Sneering Bastard" as representatives. The latter frequently expresses annoyance at the [[Stable Time Loop
* ''[[Vision of Escaflowne]]'' is concerned with a battle of
* ''[[Gundam Wing]]'' features a
* ''[[Aiki]]'' has a case of the martial artist version, in which Joukyuu, who is supposed to be a master of analysis, surrenders a fight against a similar stylist because he knows that he would lose.
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*** Actually, if one pays attention to various pieces of dialogue spoken by Leto II throughout the book, one discovers that Siona is actually seeing the horrifying future that Leto has been trying to prevent during his reign. It is mentioned early in the book that the Ixians had been working on developing an intelligent hunter-seeker. Well, if they're going to do that, why not apply it to other machines as well? Apparently, somewhere along the line the shit hit the fan, and [[It Got Worse]]. Much ''much'' worse. ({{spoiler|The seeking machines would be there, the smell of blood and entrails, the cowering humans in their burrows, aware only that they could not escape, while all the time, the mechanical movement approached, nearer and nearer and nearer, louder... LOUDER!}}).
* In ''[[His Dark Materials]]'', all the factions have people who can read alethiometers, though Lyra has the ability to read it with greater speed and accuracy than the others, and [[Chaotic Good|she's working on neither side]].
* In ''[[Mistborn]]'', Allomancers can see a few seconds into the
* In ''[[Good Omens]]'' Crowley (a demon) points out that while, yes, prophesies say that God will win in their final conflict, there are also those that say the devil wins. Naturally, all of the prophets that say the former are already on God's side and all that say the latter are on Lucifer's side, suggesting that both should be taken with a grain of salt.
** Aziriphale (an angel) claims that all these predictions are just propaganda, and if there were no uncertainty, there wouldn't be any point to the war between Heaven and Hell in the first place.
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