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{{quote|The surest way to guarantee that you won`t win is to assume that you will.|''[[Brad Bird]]''}}
The most common prophecy in fiction is a [[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy]]
Generally, a single person knows that something terrible will happen in the next 24 hours...unless that person can use her special knowledge to prevent it. More rarely, a person will accidentally thwart a good prophecy by trying to force it, or the prophecy will simply fail [[For Want of a Nail]]; the prophecy itself is the nail.
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== Webcomics ==
* [[Dominic Deegan]]'s second sight shows the unaltered future: What the future will be if he doesn't do something specially to change it. In fact, later on when he gets a vision of doom for his friends, Dominic takes it as a ''good''
** One early example example is in the first story arc. He is looking for a cure to a curse and his vision directs him to the home of the person who cursed him, which has a potion to remove it. When he gets there that person's daughter undoes the curse herself. He wonders why he didn't see that coming, and realizes a moment later that his vision was of the unaltered future in which she had already hung herself.
* In [[Homestuck]], Terezi has the power to see the consequences of certain actions. For example, in a doomed timeline {{spoiler|she lets Vriska go, which results in the deaths of every troll excluding Vriska and Aradia, and Vriska might not have lived much longer. She foresees these consequences in the alpha timeline. However, since she knows that in the alpha timeline, she and Karkat have to live for at least another two hours, she kills Vriska before that can happen.}}
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