You Can't Fight Fate: Difference between revisions

[[File:futurerefusedtochange.jpg|link=Chrono Trigger|frame| And you're ''still'' hungry.]]

 

 

A prophecy (or in [[Time Travel]], something that is known to have happened in the past) comes true despite all attempts to prevent it ([[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy|and often because of those attempts]]).

** Of course, in ''Revolutions'', Neo tells the Oracle about the Architect's warnings, and she {{spoiler|responds that the Architect is full of crap and can't predict the future worth a damn. Guess what? Zion is not destroyed, and the war comes to a permanent end.}}

*** {{spoiler|Trinity dies,}} though.

* Played rather frustratingly in [[Tim Burton]]'s ''[[Alice in Wonderland (film)|Alice in Wonderland]]'', in that every character tells Alice she can't fight fate, and despite her numerous attempts to [[Screw Destiny]], the White Queen, who has the power but refuses to slay the Jabberwocky on principle, passive-aggressively guilt trips Alice into doing it for her.

** Ironically, being railroaded into [[Took a Level in Badass|taking a level in badass]] like this ultimately gives her the self-confidence to [[Screw Destiny]] back in the "real" world.

* This trope was done in ''The Ned Zone'', one of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]] Treehouse of Horror'' episodes where Ned can foretell people's deaths, and has a vision showing himself killing Homer. {{spoiler|He believes he's managed to avert the vision, but then has another vision of Homer causing an explosion at the nuclear power plant that destroys the town. In the course of stopping Homer from causing the explosion, he ends up fulfilling the original prediction, but Homer manages to cause the explosion anyway.}}

* ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' spent several episodes of the fourth season dealing with Raven's prophecied role as the instrument by which [[The End of the World as We Know It|her father would enter and end the world]]. Despite hers and her friends' efforts of preventing it, she ''does'' become the portal for Trigon to get to Earth and destroy it...[[Reset Button|they just fix it afterward]].

* An episode of ''[[Jacob Two Two]]'' starts with Jacob accidentally destroying his older brother's priceless, never-been-played Beatles record, and discovering a time machine that will let him go back to when he broke it. But every single time he tries to fix it, things turn out ''worse'', culminating in their ''[[Disaster Dominoes|entire house being destroyed]]'' (along with the record). Jacob finally gives up trying to save the record, and uses the time machine one last time to recreate the original incident (where just the record is broken and nothing else). And then he happens upon another copy of ''I want to Hold Your Hand''. Yay! {{spoiler|And then Daniel accidentally breaks that copy, too.}}

* In ''[[Futurama]]'' Fry kills his own grandfather, but turns out to be his own grandfather after all (explaining his unusual brain structure, or lack thereof), so the Futurama timespace seems to be either impossible to change, or self-correcting.