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* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Cinder Fall uses a PowerParasite Grimm to steal part of Amber's Fall Maiden powers. While Cinder is mostly just after the power, the Maidens have a key role in the fight against the BigBad Salem. Since Cinder is ''working'' for Salem, this lets Salem undermine the efforts against her. Pyrrha Nikos was supposed to get the rest of Amber's power, but Cinder brutally murders her to claim it for herself, then kills Pyrrha. Cinder even has the gall to claim that the power was hers by right the entire time, and Pyrrha was promised something that was never hers. It's later revealed that Cinder wants the power of all four Maidens, and she seeks out the Spring and Winter Maidens to consume their power. [[spoiler:The Spring Maiden, Raven, is able to fight her off and nearly kills her. The Winter Maiden, Fria, is able to repel her and gift the powers to Penny, who later gives them to Winter.]] Cinder is so obsessed with becoming the true Maiden that she'll prioritize gaining the power over Salem's plans, something that nearly gets her killed more than once.
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* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Cinder Fall uses a PowerParasite Grimm to steal part of Amber's Fall Maiden powers. While Cinder is mostly just after the power, the Maidens have a key role in the fight against the BigBad Salem. Since Cinder is ''working'' for Salem, this lets Salem undermine the efforts against her. Pyrrha Nikos was supposed to get the rest of Amber's power, but Cinder brutally murders her to claim it for herself, then kills Pyrrha. Cinder even has the gall to claim that the power was hers by right the entire time, and Pyrrha was promised something that was never hers.

* ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}'': Dunban presents a subversion. Although he is the first one to wield [[SwordOfPlotAdvancement the Monado]], he wasn't TheChosenOne and was managing to force its use through sheer HeroicWillpower. Once the true chosen one (Shulk) shows he can use it much more fluently, Dunban is fine with him wielding it from then on. [[spoiler: After being killed, Shulk ends up having the Monado stolen from him by one of the deity figures of the game, Zanza, who plans on resetting the universe upon obtaining both Monados. In this case, TheChooserOfTheOne was merely using TheChosenOne to his own end. Upon being revived, Shulk manages to pull a ScrewDestiny by finding his ''own'' Monado and taking out Zanza once and for all.]]

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* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Cinder Fall uses a PowerParasite Grimm to steal part of Amber's Fall Maiden powers. While Cinder is mostly just after the power, the Maidens have a key role in the fight against the BigBad Salem. Since Cinder is ''working'' for Salem, this lets Salem undermine the efforts against her. Pyrrha Nikos was supposed to get the rest of Amber's power, but Cinder brutally murders her to claim it for herself, then kills Pyrrha. Cinder even has the gall to claim that the power was hers by right the entire time, and Pyrrha was promised something that was never hers.
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* ''Fanfic/TheDesertStorm'': In ''Tarot'', Sian unknowingly steals Obi-Wan's destiny as Maul's Arch-Enemy by being the one to cut off his limbs and get him excommunicated from the Sith in retaliation for nearly killing Qui-Gon. Unlike most examples of this trope, Ben (secretly a future version of Obi-Wan from the canon timeline) is relieved to learn that his younger self will never have to deal with becoming the target of Maul's undying vengeance.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Cinder Fall used a PowerParasite Grimm to steal part of Amber's Fall Maiden powers. While Cinder was mostly just after the power, the Maidens have a key role in the fight against the BigBad Salem. Since Cinder is ''working'' for Salem, this lets Salem undermine the efforts against her. Pyrrha Nikos was supposed to get the rest of Amber's power, but Cinder brutally murdered her to claim it for herself, then killed Pyrrha. Cinder even had the gall to claim that the power was hers by right the entire time, and Pyrrha was promised something that was never hers.

* ''ComicBook/RobynHood: I Love New York'': Robyn has her status as the prophesied "Child of Darkness" stolen by another archer, thanks to a ritual and a drop of our heroine's blood. Normally, this would be a relieve for Robyn, since then she would avoid getting constantly harassed by members of the Dark Horde that want her to turn to evil, and bring their organization to a complete dominion of the Five Realms. That, and get rid of all the guilt that knowledge brings to her. The problem is, the woman that has done this is definitely evil, is totally on board with making said prophecy true, has a personal vendetta against Robyn, and is planning to harm many of her loved ones along the way. She manages to beat the pretender by the end of the story, but is left unclear if the ritual has been undone.

* ''ComicBook/RobynHood: I Love New York'': Robyn has her status as the prophesied "Child of Darkness" stolen by another archer, thanks to a ritual and a drop of our heroine's blood. Normally, this would be a relieve for Robyn, since then she would avoid getting constantly harassed by members of the Dark Horde that want her to turn to evil, and bring their organization to a complete dominion of the Five Realms. That, and get rid of all the guilt that knowledge brings to her. The problem is, the woman that has done this is definetly evil, is totally on board with making said prophecy true, and has a personal vendetta against Robyn. Planning to harm many of her loved ones along the way. She manages to beat the pretender by the end of the story, but is left unclear if the ritual has been undone.

* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaLegendsOfAwesomeness'': [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. In "Challenge Day" Master Shifu tells everyone in town that today is 'Challenge Day' when anybody who can beat the Dragon Warrior before sundown can assume the title. Po spends most of the day fending off challengers until he finally loses to Hundun after sheer exhaustion from spending most of the day doing nothing but fighting, losing his title to Hundun. It's subverted in that there is no such thing as a 'challenger day'; it was something Shifu made up in order to try and humble Po and make him realize not to take his title for granted. Unfortunately, losing his title ends up putting Po into a TenMinuteRetirement over being depressed about it and Hundun, upon realizing it wasn't real, proceeds to lock Shifu up and start to abuse his fake title around town. Po eventually realizes that protecting the town is far more important than a title, and proceeds to deal payback to Hundun for the sake of the town.

Depending on the circumstances, this can be used to humble a chosen one whose status has gone to their head a bit ''too'' much, forcing them to go on a personal journey of development in order to regain their status. In rarer cases, it can be ''TheHero'' who takes away chosen status from a less than worthy chosen one.

--->'''Big Mac:''' How did you even wrest the power from Slaanesh?\\

* ''Fanfic/TheInfiteLoops'':

-->--''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI''

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* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Cinder Fall used a PowerParasite Grimm to steal part of Amber's Fall Maiden powers. While Cinder was mostly just after the power, the Maidens have a key role in the fight against the BigBad Salem. Since Cinder is ''working'' for Salem, this lets Salem undermine the efforts against her. Pyrrha Nikos was supposed to get the rest of Amber's power, but Cinder brutally murdered her to claim it for herself, then killed Pyrrha. Cinder even had the gall to claim that the power was hers by right the entire time, and Pyrhha was promised something that was never hers.

* In ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia,'' Sir Nighteye accuses Midoriya of being this, as All Might picked him instead of Mirio, a more experienced and powerful candidate who Nighteye had been grooming to succeed All Might as the Symbol of Peace. [[spoiler:Following Overhaul's defeat and Mirio sacrificing his Quirk to protect Eri, Midoriya is inclined to agree and tries to give One For All to Mirio as Nighteye wanted, but Mirio flatly refuses.]]

* In the series ''ComicBook/RobynHood: I Love New York'', the titular character has her status as the prophesied "Child of Darkness" stolen by another archer, thanks to a ritual and a drop of our heroine's blood. Normally, this would be a relieve for Robyn, since then she would avoid getting constantly harassed by members of the Dark Horde that want her to turn to evil, and bring their organization to a complete dominion of the Five Realms. That, and get rid of all the guilt that knowledge brings to her. The problem is, the woman that has done this is definetly evil, is totally on board with making said prophecy true, and has a personal vendetta against Robyn. Planning to harm many of her loved ones along the way. She manages to beat the pretender by the end of the story, but is left unclear if the ritual has been undone.

* In ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', Captain Sisko has become the Emissary of the Prophets, somewhat reluctantly. In the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E17Accession Accession]]", a Bajoran poet from 200 years ago named Akorem Laan comes through the wormhole and claims to be Emissary, not entirely against Sisko's wishes. Sisko begins to regret giving up the title when Akorem institutes policies that go against Federation standards.

* Jacob manages, in ''Literature/{{Genesis}}'', with the help of his mother Rebecca, to take his father Isaac's blessing instead of Esau, who had to receive it as the older brother. He later had to flee his wrath.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}'', Dunban presents a subversion. Although he is the first one to wield [[SwordOfPlotAdvancement the Monado]], he wasn't TheChosenOne and was managing to force its use through sheer HeroicWillpower. Once the true chosen one (Shulk) shows he can use it much more fluently, Dunban is fine with him wielding it from then on. [[spoiler: After being killed, Shulk ends up having the Monado stolen from him by one of the deity figures of the game, Zanza, who plans on resetting the universe upon obtaining both Monados. In this case, TheChooserOfTheOne was merely using TheChosenOne to his own end. Upon being revived, Shulk manages to pull a ScrewDestiny by finding his ''own'' Monado and taking out Zanza once and for all.]]
* In ''VideoGame/DragonQuestXI'', TheHero [[spoiler: ends up having their Luminary powers stolen by Mordegon. In a case of GameplayAndStoryIntergration, the luminary branch of their skill tree ends up locked off until they can end up getting it back.]]
* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'' [[TheRival Riku]] briefly manages to steal the [[SwordOfPlotAdvancement Keyblade]] away from Sora once he lands in Hollow Bastion. [[spoiler: This is actually a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] because Riku ''really was'' the Keyblade's[[note]]Well, ''[[UniquenessDecay that specific Keyblade]]'' at any rate[[/note]] original wielder, but his heart ended up falling to darkness and Sora became the next worthy one by virtue of being the one closest to him. In essence, it's ''Sora'' who ultimately pulled this trope.]]
* The entire plot of ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII'' revolves around an ancient wizard named Jon Irenicus trying to hijack your PlayerCharacter's destiny as one of mortal children of Bhaal to succeed your father as the next God of Murder. Notably, Irenicus cares very little about the Bhaalspawn free-for-all, but needs Bhaal's power to exact his personal agenda, and [[spoiler:actually succeeds in stealing the divine part of your soul (and, with it, your birthright) half-way through the game (though you take it back from him in the finale)]].

* WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} - Cinder Fall used a PowerParasite grimm to steal part of Amber's fall maiden powers. It's not just the power she was after, it was the job of being one of the maidens who could beat the BigBad. Pyrrha Nikos was supposed to get the rest of the power but Cinder brutally murdered her and then killed Pyrrha to get the rest of the fall maiden powers.

* In ''WesternAnimation/LegendOfKorra'', [[spoiler: Unalaq]] manages to do this indirectly by virtue of merging with the EvilCounterpart spirit of the spirit that empowers the Avatar and [[spoiler: killing said spirit in question, thus [[{{Depower}} Depowering]] the Avatar.]]
* [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaLegendsOfAwesomeness''. In "Challenge Day" Master Shifu tells everyone in town that today is 'Challenge Day' when anybody who can beat the Dragon Warrior before sundown can assume the title. Po spends most of the day fending off challengers until he finally loses to Hundun after sheer exhaustion from spending most of the day doing nothing but fighting, losing his title to Hundun. It's subverted in that there is no such thing as a 'challenger day'; it was something Shifu made up in order to try and humble Po and make him realize not to take his title for granted. Unfortunately, losing his title ends up putting Po into a TenMinuteRetirement over being depressed about it and Hundun, upon realizing it wasn't real, proceeds to lock Shifu up and start to abuse his fake title around town. Po eventually realizes that protecting the town is far more important than a title, and proceeds to deal payback to Hundun for the sake of the town.

* In the series ''ComicBook/RobynHood: I Love New York'', the titular character has her status as the prophesied "Child of Darkness" stolen by another archer, thanks to a ritual and a drop of our heroine's blood. Normally, this would be a relieve for Robyn, since then she would avoid getting constantly happy rased by members of the Dark Horde that want her to turn to evil, and bring their organization to a complete dominion of the Five Realms. That, and get rid of all the guilt that knowledge brings to her. The problem is, the woman that has done this is definetly evil, is totally on board with making said prophecy true, and has a personal vendetta against Robyn. Planning to harm many of her loved ones along the way. She manages to beat the pretender by the end of the story, but is left unclear if the ritual has been undone.

How they go about it can happen in many ways. Maybe they used some dark magic ritual to unbind whatever gives the chosen one their status and bind it to their own. Maybe they pulled a GrandTheftMe with the chosen one. Maybe they did something to themselves to convince TheChooserOfTheOne that they're more worthy than the current chosen one. Or maybe they managed to be the chosen one in combat and took the title that way.

And on the non-power stealing end, sometimes, they may have managed to [[FakeUltimateHero convince most of the world they're the true chosen one]] and discredited the real chosen one in some way.

In any case, expect the chosen one to go through a lot in order to regain their status or, in some cases, [[TheUnchosenOne prove being chosen wasn't what made them a hero]].

* In ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia,'' Sir Nighteye accuses Midoriya of being this, as All Might picked him instead Mirio, a more experienced and powerful candidate who Nighteye had been grooming to succeed All Might as the Symbol of Peace. [[spoiler:Following Overhaul's defeat and Mirio sacrificing his Quirk to protect Eri, Midoriya is inclined to agree and tries to give One For All to Mirio as Nighteye wanted, but Mirio flatly refuses.]]

!!This Trope contains the following examples:

See, obviously, TheChosenOne. When the chosen one keeps trying after losing their status, they can end up pulling a ScrewDestiny and become TheUnchosenOne. TheChooserOfTheOne is often common to this trope, but not always.

* In the series ''ComicBook/RobynHood: I Love New York'', the titular character has her status as the prophesied "Child of Darkness" stolen by another archer, thanks to a ritual and a drop of our heroine's blood. Normally, this would be a relieve for Robyn, since then she would avoid getting constantly harased by members of the Dark Horde that want her to turn to evil, and bring their organization to a complete dominion of the Five Realms. That, and get rid of all the guilt that knowledge brings to her. The problem is, the woman that has done this is definetly evil, is totally on board with making said prophecy true, and has a personal vendetta against Robyn. Planning to harm many of her loved ones along the way. She manages to beat the pretender by the end of the story, but is left unclear if the ritual has been undone.