History Main / TheChosenOne

--> '''Luz''': [[SarcasmMode A power of The Chosen One]]... [[BadPowersGoodPeople yeah, if they're a villain]]....

** Frey, Harry's ancestor and the First King of Asgard, was another chosen one, selected by the magic sword Van to wield it against [[spoiler: Surtur]]. Strange, who knew him, states that he was as happy about it as Harry is about his own destiny. But, like Harry, he felt that he had a duty to follow. And he did, even though it cost him his life.
* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/13663506?view_full_work=true Collateral]]'' has a pair of them created as a result of the [[WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug Ultimate Miraculous Power]] in order to end the actions of the [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Incubators ]] and save countless girls from across history, including Ladybug. [[spoiler: Their names are Madoka and Homura.]]

* ''Fanfic/GuardiansWizardsAndKungFuFighters'' has the Ben Shui Chosen One, [[spoiler: Jade]], the current reincarnation of the chi warrior Ben Shui, who was given the power to reincarnate by the Heart of Earth. In a later chapter, the spirit of a previous Chosen One, Joshua Norton, expresses the theory that they've been linked to the Earth in a way that causes the Chosen One of each age to be born as what is needed for that age instead of just reincarnating into people similar to the previous incarnations. For example, while Murasaki was a force against demons because her country needed her to fight the Oni, Rasputin was a politician and manipulator because that was the age of politicians and manipulators, etc.

** Shining Armor's story strongly suggests that he has a special destiny. [[BigGood Mother Deer]] and her followers later confirm this, explaining that [[spoiler: as he's ImmuneToFate, he's the only one who can lead [[ClockRoaches the Blank Wolf]] to destroy [[HumanoidAbomination Makarov]] and [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong remove his taint from the timeline]]]]. His story also invokes this for laughs, as the DarkIsNotEvil cult that rules Massailand becomes convinced that he's ''their'' Chosen One, and then that he isn't (in both case, because of their InsaneTrollLogic); Shining is worried that, given his [[WeirdnessMagnet luck]], they might be right the first time. It turns out [[spoiler:the ''actual'' thing he was chosen for was to be the PointOfDivergence between the BadFuture Dark World timeline and the main timeline, he was TheUnchosenOne for beating Makarov.]]

* ''Podcast/InterstitialActualPlay'' has [[spoiler: Ennora, Roxanne's Somebody]], who is even played with The Chosen playbook.

* In ''VisualNovel/ChaosHead'', [[spoiler: Takumi is chosen (or rather, created) for the sole purpose of suffering enough to awaken as a Gigalomaniac, then destroy Noah II which no one else is able to achieve.]]

* ''Webcomic/CharbyTheVampirate'': Both Charby and [[spoiler: Zeno]] are informed they are the chosen ones to their respective peoples.

* Creator/DinaMNealey, who has expressed her distaste for the trope and idea of a "Chosen One," parodies the trope in the first ''Erotic Adventures in Faerie'' comic, "Lady Vidia and the Chosen One," where a POVCam FeaturelessProtagonist is greeted and named "Chosen One" by Lady Vidia, who sets up what seems to be a story about a Chosen mortal saving the realm of Faerie... only for none of it to matter in the slightest; the POV character spends the entire comic being seduced, hypnotized, transformed and toyed with, taking no active part in the story and having absolutely no say or agency in anything that's going on. [[spoiler: It's even casually revealed that Faerie was already saved by someone else long ago, and that the "Chosen One" title is totally meaningless and just given to victims of Faerie abduction to make them feel more special.]]

* Any person who plays the game in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' gets their own title and "chosen" status, as demonstrated later in the strip with the Trolls' session. The series also justifies ''why'' Sburb players are {{The Chosen One}}s in the first place. [[spoiler: Someone in the session [[MindScrew will be responsible for the creation of the players]] through ectobiology and time travel shenanigans. In the kids' session, it was John, who also created the protagonists' guardians. Therefore, the players have to play Sburb [[StableTimeLoop so that they can be born, so that they can play Sburb]].]]
* A dark twist of this happens in ''Webcomic/{{Hooky}}''. The prophecy that involves either Dani or Dorian is not about saving the world, it's about which one will go bad and become the King of Witches. [[spoiler: Turns out it's about Dani.]]

* In the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'', every few centuries, when The Balance is threatened, the Tao requires a mortal to take up the magical jade sword Destiny's Wave, and become the Handmaid Of The Tao. The Handmaid is always a beautiful teenaged Chinese girl, but Chou Lee, the current Handmaid, was [[spoiler: chosen by the Tao, and transformed by the sword from a chubby white boy from Knoxville, Tennessee called Alex Farshine]].

** '''The Literally Chosen One''', like [[WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda Po]], who is actively chosen by another person to fulfill a specific role. This case may come with issues stemming from TheChooserOfTheOne being, as a person, potentially fallible -- so what if they chose ''wrong?'' This may be exacerbated if previously chosen Ones ended up as washouts, failures or outright villains.

-->-- '''[[Characters/StarWarsJediCouncil Mace Windu]]'''

->"''It's one thing to think that you're the center of the universe -- it's another thing entirely to have this confirmed by an ancient prophecy.''"
-->-- '''Creator/DouglasAdams'''

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' 3.5 Edition has the Favored Soul class, a character with an intuitive connection to a deity who can spontaneously cast divine spells. They are also automatically proficient with their deity's favored weapon, and gain bonuses to using it as they level up (traditional Clerics, on the other hand, may be able to summon self-wielding versions, but aren't proficient by default). They are also one of only two base classes in the game that has no weak saving throws.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'', you're a Chosen One-in-three hundred/one hundred/fifty, depending upon what Exalt you chose.

** Shining Armor's story strongly suggests that he has a special destiny. [[BigGood Mother Deer]] and her followers later confirm this, explaining that [[spoiler: as he's ImmuneToFate, he's the only one who can lead [[ClockRoaches the Blank Wolf]] to destroy [[HumanoidAbomination Makarov]] and [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong remove his taint from the timeline]]]]. His story also invokes this for laughs, as the DarkIsNotEvil cult that rules Massailand becomes convinced that he's ''their'' Chosen One, and then that he isn't (in both case, because of their InsaneTrollLogic); Shining is worried that, given his [[WeirdnessMagnet luck]], they might be right the first time. It turns out [[spoiler:the ''actual'' thing he was chosen for was to be [[ForWantOfANail the nail between the]] BadFuture Dark World timeline and the main timeline, he was TheUnChosenOne for beating Makarov.]]

** Alan's orange stick figure is named [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast "The Second Coming"]], but unlike The Chosen One, we don’t know where the name came from - Alan never even turned him into a named symbol. He also fits the role of hero much more cleanly than The Chosen One, being a FriendToAllLivingThings with a [[spoiler:[[SuperpoweredEvilSide Superpowered]] ''[[PlayingWith Good]]'' [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Side]]]], an ally to [[BigGood Alan]], and TheLeader of his group of friends; and he’s been on multiple adventures to save his friends and [[{{Cyberspace}} the internet]], even [[spoiler:singlehandedly defeating The Dark Lord]].

* In Myth/NorseMythology, Odin fathered the Vali specifically to avenge the death of Balder.