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* Diavolo, BigBad of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'' can achieve this through his [[FightingSpirit Stand]], King Crimson. [[spoiler:Through a sub-Stand called Epitaph, Diavolo can peer at most 10 seconds into the future at will, allowing him to be forewarned of any incoming attacks. Activating King Crimson allows him to erase/skip a section of time up to a maximum of 10 seconds, and when combined with his precognition ability, allows him to maneuver himself out of the way of an attack that was fated to happen. Importantly, while Diavolo can outmaneuver fate, everyone else still undertakes their fated actions in those 10 seconds of time, but doesn't remember what happened in the erased time, leaving an enemy heavily disoriented and open to Diavolo's ([[MegatonPunch often fatal]]) counterattack.]] [[spoiler:[[DefiedTrope Giorno manages to overcome King Crimson's ability]] through [[StoryBreakerPower his evolved stand, Gold Experience Requiem, which cancels King Crimson's time erasure and overrides the future that Epitaph saw]]; [[ThisCannotBe Diavolo is in such disbelief that such a thing could be possible]] that he's left wide open in the face of GER's NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.]]

* ''Manga/FutureDiary'': Akise becomes this once he [[spoiler: obtains his "detective diary", a meta-diary which renders him immune to having his future changed by other Diary Holders. This immunity doesn't make him untouchable however, as he can be forced to change his own future, and can make miscalculations due to operating on incomplete information.]]

* ''Manga/FutureDiary'':
** Yukiteru Amano could not only change his own fate, but also the fate of others.
** Akise is a better example [[spoiler: once he obtains his "detective diary", a meta-diary which renders him immune to having his future changed by other Diary Holders. His immunity to fate makes even more sense when you learn he was mean to be TheWatcher, and not have his own fate beyond being an outsite agent of Deus. This immunity doesn't make him untouchable however, as he can be forced to change his own future for emotional reasons, and can make fatal miscalculations due to operating on incomplete information.]]

An interesting side of this trope is that it happens rather often to video game protagonists. Since all but the most linear games can't yet predict player's actions, this provides an opt-out for the writers of the story whenever there is a risk of a player going OffTheRails story-wise, or of fate- or foretelling-related FridgeLogic kicking in. As leading characters rather tend to be uncommon people, this also works to underline their uniqueness.

** Probably a trait of Irregulars. Certainly the protagonist Bam.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'', Professor Zoom boasts to Barry Allen as being able to do this as he's a living TemporalParadox. Batman ([[spoiler:Thomas Wayne]]) promptly shoves a sword through his chest, though later events would show Zoom was right, as he just comes back to life with all his memories.

* Diavolo, BigBad of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'' can achieve this through his [[FightingSpirit Stand]], King Crimson. [[spoiler:Through a sub-Stand called Epitaph, Diavolo can peer at most 10 seconds into the future at will, allowing him to be forewarned of any incoming attacks. Activating King Crimson allows him to erase/skip a section of time up to a maximum of 10 seconds, and when combined with his precognition ability, allows him to maneuver himself out of the way of an attack that was fated to happen. Importantly, while Diavolo can outmaneuver fate, everyone else still undertakes their fated actions in those 10 seconds of time, but doesn't remember what happened in the erased time, leaving an enemy heavily disoriented and open to Diavolo's ([[MegatonPunch often fatal]]) counterattack.]]

* Ginji in ''Manga/GetBackers'' might be this. One thing for sure, not even Makube X could predict what he would do.
* The Spiral Power in ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' is, as Viral puts it, the "[[HotBlooded burning blood]] that [[ScrewDestiny cuts through Fate]]".
* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' Inoue Orihime's powers are introduced as [[BarrierWarrior barrier abilities]] that cut, heal and shield. As an ActualPacifist she only heals and shields. Her powers are eventually revealed to ScrewDestiny by rejecting events - [[RealityWarper injuries are rejected as never having occurred rather than being healed]].
* In ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'', the BigBad is desperate to capture Escaflowne because it is the one thing his Fate Alteration Engine can't control the future of.
* Saiou from ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' is basically fated to win any duel he enters, which automatically gives him the best of all possible outcomes in his very luck based deck. That is, until he met Judai...

* ''Literature/ScrappedPrincess'': Pacifica Casull, a.k.a. the Providence Breaker. She's ''genetically engineered'' to be immune to fate, and [[spoiler:she manages to avoid the one fate she wasn't supposed to avoid]].
* Bellcross of ''Anime/HeroicAge'''s special power is "existence". He's punched his way out of a black hole he was trapped in, and was in one case attacked by a time traveler in tens of thousands of different timelines at various points. He survived in ''all of them''.
* Yukiteru Amano from ''Manga/FutureDiary'' could not only change his own fate, but also others' fate.

* An unusual variation of this exists in ''Manga/AnnCassandra'': Banjou is fated to die on his 20th birthday. Because there was a prediction of him dying on that specific day, he can't die before that day. This means that he can do all sorts of LeeroyJenkins-style stunts without worrying about dying, as fate warps itself around him to keep him alive. Knowing this, Banjou uses his reality-warping presence to protect the lives of people fated to die, often by using himself as a human shield against whatever is about to kill that person. Given that Ann Cassandra is about teenagers who can see the future and want to stop terrible things from happening, this power is quite relevant most of the time. (The reason this isn't a straight example is because while he is immune to death, he is NOT immune to getting hurt, and he spends almost half of the entire series either in the hospital or with bandages on his body.)

* In ''Literature/ChivalryOfAFailedKnight'', this is the Desperados' power. When a Blazer Awakens as a Desperado, they break the chains of fate, gaining power that dwarfs that of anyone still bound by fate. A normal Blazer needs to have strong faith in their own abilities to even defend against a Desperado's aura. [[spoiler:Ikki and Stella eventually awaken as Desperados.]]
* In ''Literature/GoblinSlayer'', the gods are intrigued by Goblin Slayer because he does not let them roll the dice to determine his fate. This is because he works very hard to leave absolutely nothing to chance in his quest to slay goblins. While Goblin Slayer is a SmallStepsHero so this usually doesn't have much of an effect on the world, there are exceptions. The Priestess was supposed to die in the TotalPartyKill caused by [[CriticalFailure a god's spectacularly bad roll]]. She had been written off when Goblin Slayer saved her. Likewise, on his very first job, he saved a village from goblins. [[spoiler:One of the girls in that village went on to become the greatest hero in the world with a happy childhood when the gods intended her to be a BrokenBird from a ruined hometown]].

* This is the reason ''WesternAnimation/MightyMax'' is chosen to fight Skullmaster: As [[TheChosenOne the Mighty One]], his destiny is so strong it overrides anyone else's, making him [[OnlyICanKillYou the only one who could possibly stop Skullmaster]].

* This is the reason ''WesternAnimation/MightyMax'' is chosen to fight Skullmaster: As [[TheChosenOne the Mighty One]], his destiny is so strong it overrides anyone else's, making him [[TheOnlyOneWhoCanDefeatYou the only one who could possibly stop Skullmaster]].

** Akise is a better example [[spoiler: once he obtains his "detective diary", a meta-diary which renders him immune to having his future changed by other Diary Holders. His immunity to fate makes even more sense when you learn he wasn't meant to exist, or even have a fate outside of acting as a artifical agent of Deus. This immunity doesn't make him untouchable however, as he can be forced to change his own future for emotional reasons, and can make fatal miscalculations due to operating on incomplete information.]]

** Akise is a better example [[spoiler: once he obtains his "detective diary", a meta-diary which renders him immune to having his future changed by other Diary Holders. His immunity to fate makes even more sense when you learn he wasn't meant to exist, or even have a fate outside of acting as a artifical agent of Deus. This immunity doesn't make him untouchable however, and he is still defeated due to making mistakes as a result of having incomplete information of one of the series center mysteries.]]

** Akise is a better example [[spoiler: Once he obtains his detective diary which renders him immune to having his future changed by other Diary Holders. His immunity to fate makes even more sense when you learn he wasn't meant to exist, or even have a fate outside of acting as a artifical agent of Deus.]]

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* Zig-zagged in ''Film/TheAdjustmentBureau'', where it's a toss-up as to whether the protagonists are defying their chosen fate, getting caught up in an earlier version of the plan for humanity, or everything that happens was as intended all along, with the titular Bureau's agents ''also'' being "adjusted" by their godlike boss The Chairman (who might actually ''be'' God, possibly). The Bureau believes that if too many people become immune to fate, the consequences are never good, although since it's their entire job to implement The Plan, that could be a self-serving mythology meant to justify their own actions.
* In ''Film/TerminatorGenisys'', John Connor comes to believe that he and all his family are subject to this, given that they're all displaced from their proper time anyway.