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* In ''[[Angel]]'', the prophecy that {{spoiler|Angel will kill his son}} turns out to be a demonic fake. The demon in question spent the last few hundred years perverting it so that the real prophecy wouldn't come true. ''Both versions'' end up happening.

** Slightly subverted on ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' though; the prophecy about Buffy says she's going to die to free The Master - she does, she recovers, and is more or less prophecy-free from there on out.

* Similarly, ''[[Babylon 5]]'' is full of prophecies, and Narns are the only species with no telepaths. When Narn Ambassador G'Kar yells in the first season that one night, the Centauri will awaken to find the Narn's teeth at their throat, it's clearly just ambassadorial bluster...that also happens to come true, {{spoiler|near the very end of the show}}.

** Played straighter with all the other prophecies—whether via Centauri death-dream, Vorlon vagueness, [[Stable Time Loop]], or whatever Lorien's deal was, they all get taken utterly seriously, met with trepidation and some degree of fatalism by all parties involved.

* Abed from ''[[Community]]'' makes several predictions weeks to hours in advance about [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|actions, conversations, and menstruation cycles]] of the rest of the study group. Every last one is shown on screen or implied to be correct.

* In ''[[Lexx]]'' the time prophets could see into the distant past and because [[Eternal Recurrence|time is cyclic]] in the two universes it meant they could effectively predict the future. One of them predicted that His Divine Shadow would wipe out the [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Brunnen-G]] and [[Genocide Backfire|then one of them]] would end his reign. Sure enough, the Shadow destroyed the Brunnen-G and reanimated one warrior as an undead assassin, only for said warrior to regain his free will and fulfill his destiny 2,008 years later.

 

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