History Main / ImmuneToFate

* Diavolo in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'' can do this through his [[FightingSpirit Stand]], King Crimson. [[spoiler:He is first able to see up to ten seconds into the future using his sub-Stand, Epitaph. Then, activating King Crimson's power, he locks everyone into acting out his prediction, while he himself can move freely outside of what he saw in his vision.]]

* ''Literature/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'': After becoming a True Demon Lord, [[spoiler:Gabiru]] eventually obtains the [[RealityWarper Ultimate Skill]] [Pierrot Star]. One of the most powerful abilities of this Skill is "Rewrite Fate", allowing him [[HourOfPower once a day]] to turn even the worst possible outcome against him into a total victory, ignoring even other causality-manipulating Skills. Crossing over into WindsOfDestinyChange, he can also actively inflict this on others (friend or enemy) once a day per person as well, which allows him to do something like say, shut down an opponent's HealingFactor to prevent them from surviving a wound they otherwise would be able to.

* ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'':
** After the events of the Eclipse, Guts has vowed to ScrewDestiny and RageAgainstTheHeavens, occupied by the [[BigBad God Hand]] who control and use fate to their advantage. While he didn't die the day he was fated to (thanks to a combination of being improbably badass and the timely intervention of the Skull Knight), he hasn't fully broken from the reins of fate yet, as the Brand of Sacrifice is still trying (and failing) to "correct the mistake" fate made by drawing demons to him at night to kill him.
** It's hinted in Guts's BackStory that his birth was somehow a surprise even to fate itself. Summed up in his {{Leitmotif}} "Blood and Guts":
--->Robbed of a mother′s love at birth, left to drown in blood, he was to die beneath her corpse. \\
Meant to rot in a cesspit of despair, born to die as a waste of air. \\
Raised as a child one shorn of fate, in a fit of rage, he knows a violent destiny. \\
Will await only life by sword shall reign, and he never to death be slain.
* Pacifica Casull, a.k.a. the "Literature/ScrappedPrincess", 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]].

* A reinterpretation of Creator/DCComics' ''ComicBook/ChallengersOfTheUnknown'' indicates they have this ability, a result of their living in "borrowed time" (they survived a fatal plane crash). Indeed, the entire Luck Lords crisis started in the first place [[spoiler:because Destiny of the Endless noted blank spaces in his book, leading to growing corruptions to the timeline he was unable to track. Horrified, he cast it away, hoping the blanked out people would be able to restore the missing bits. While the Challengers were successful in stopping the crisis, when handing back the tome, they noted that as a result of the adventure, their fifth member had been likewise blasted out of the book's scope, giving them hope for her survival.]]

** More literally, there is Coin the Sourcerer from ''Literature/{{Sourcery}}'' -- according to Death, [[AC:Sourcerers make their own destiny. They touch the world lightly.]]

* The entire Kender race (most notably Tasselhoff Burrfoot) in the ''Literature/{{Dragonlance}}'' series. Elves, Humans, and Ogres were created by the gods at the beginning to embody light, balance, and darkness, respectively. Kender, and related races such as dwarves and gnomes, were created by the Graygem, an ArtifactOfDoom containing the essence of pure Chaos. Needless to say, all three have the potential to massively screw up the timeline, with kender being the most likely because they're naturally adventuresome and impulsive.

* It is stated in ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'' that Men are free to make their own choices outside of the Great Music (i.e. Fate) while other races (Ainur, Elves, Dwarves etc.) have their Fates determined by it. Then again, Tolkien is an UnreliableNarrator and Túrin Turambar's story suggests ''heavily'' otherwise...

* Most people in the [[Literature/AeonLegionLabyrinth Aeon Legion]] universe have a connection with fate. Those with a strong connection are the movers and shakers of history and are called [[TheChosenOne Qadar]], but there are those without a connection to fate are called nulls. [[{{Seers}} Sybil]] cannot see them very well with precognition. A null's influence on events is [[TheUnchosenOne usually]] negligible.

* In the epilogue of the ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' novel ''[[Literature/ThousandSons Ahriman: Unchanged]]'', Ahriman visits the MadOracle Menkaura and asks him to read his future. Menkaura tries, only to quickly—and painfully—discover that the paths of Ahriman’s potential futures are now hidden by thorns and shadows, making it impossible to predict his actions. It’s implied that Ahriman gained this ability [[spoiler:when Tzeentch, who had previously ordered the Changeling to kill Ahriman, decided to spare his life instead]].
* Creator/GeorgeZebrowski’s "Literature/FoundationsConscience": The final appearance by [[PosthumousCharacter Hari Seldon]], where he [[AllAccordingToPlan reveals the end of his millennia-long Plan]], has him explaining that he hopes that humanity will take advantage of the new galactic civilization to become "a rational intelligence which would be immune to psychohistorical prediction".

--> '''Jordan Cross''': You ''don't'' have an end like other people. [[{{Immortality}} It's like you live]] ''[[{{Immortality}} forever.]]''

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* From Myth/GreekMythology, King Admetus (see Euripides' ''Theatre/{{Alcestis}}''). It's not so much that he's immune to fate, it's just that he got fate drunk so it would give him a pass on the day he was supposed to die by getting someone to take his place.

* '''''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}''''' has the "Temporal Inertia" advantage, basically making a character immune to death by fate (among other things).

* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance''

* Pacifica Casull, a.k.a. the "LightNovel/ScrappedPrincess", 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.]]

* In ''LightNovel/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 ''LightNovel/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]].
* ''LightNovel/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'': After becoming a True Demon Lord, [[spoiler:Gabiru]] eventually obtains the [[RealityWarper Ultimate Skill]] [Pierrot Star]. One of the most powerful abilities of this Skill is "Rewrite Fate", allowing him [[HourOfPower once a day]] to turn even the worst possible outcome against him into a total victory, ignoring even other causality-manipulating Skills. Crossing over into WindsOfDestinyChange, he can also actively inflict this on others (friend or enemy) once a day per person as well, which allows him to do something like say, shut down an opponent's HealingFactor to prevent them from surviving a wound they otherwise would be able to.

* Both ComicBook/{{Thanos}} of Titan and his good counterpart [[ComicBook/Warlock1967 Adam Warlock]] have been remarked on as being outside the purview of Order and Chaos, and thus in some sense outside of fate. In Warlock's case this may be because he changed history [[spoiler: by killing himself, thus preventing himself from becoming an evil god. He got better, though.]]

* ''LightNovel/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'': After becoming a True Demon Lord, [[spoiler:Gabiru]] eventually obtains the [[RealityWarper Ultimate Skill]] [Pierrot Star]. One of the most powerful abilities of this Skill is "Rewrite Fate", allowing him [[HourOfPower once a day]] to turn even the worst possible outcome against him into a total victory, ignoring even other causality-manipulating Skills. He can also inflict this on others (friend or enemy) once a day per person as well, which allows him to do something like say, shut down an opponent's HealingFactor to prevent them from surviving a wound they otherwise would be able to.

* ''LightNovel/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'': After becoming a True Demon Lord, [[spoiler:Gabiru]] eventually obtains the [[RealityWarper Ultimate Skill]] [Pierrot Star]. One of the most powerful abilities of this Skill is "Rewrite Fate", allowing him [[HourOfPower once a day]] to turn even the worst possible outcome against him into a total victory, ignoring even other causality-manipulating Skills.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'': [[spoiler: Takes this to a meta level. The "Arbiters of Fate", the weird spectral things encountered at several points in the story, turn out to be literal agents of fate, interfering with events to make sure fate goes on its plotted course, the plot of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''. Eventually, the heroes kill the Arbiters, allowing them the freedom to move in different directions than the original game.]]

* It is stated in ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'' that Men are free to make their own choices outside of the Great Music (i. e. Fate) while other races (Ainur, Elves, Dwarves etc.) have their Fates determined by it. Then again, Tolkien is an UnreliableNarrator and Túrin Turambar's story suggests ''heavily'' otherwise...

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''

** Some people such as some witches can tap the [[NarrativeCausality power of the story]] to either bind people to a certain destiny or - where this trope comes in - to change it.

* 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 (who might actually be God, possibly).

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E16TheWatersOfMars "The Waters of Mars"]] provides a particularly chilling {{deconstruction}} of the trope: while the Doctor himself is immune to Fate (with the exception of his death, though he can usually avoid that by regeneration or FakingTheDead,) his human allies are not.

** A sufficiently powerful time mage can do this retroactively, fulfilling the requirements of fate to satisfy the magical aspects of curse spells and gaesa, then erasing the timeline in which the conditions were fulfilled, allowing them to reap the benefits of screwing destiny without suffering the horrible consequences. Similarly, advanced prime mages can eventually counter or dispel essentially anything, including destinies laid by non-mage supernatural creatures.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' has ''legions'' of these. The Underworld, the Wyld, Malfeas, and Autochthon are all outside Fate. Of them, Autochthonians are the only ones who would feel at all guilty about disrupting Fate by walking in Creation - one charm submodule lets them become part of Fate just to avoid screwing things up. Everyone else considers it a job perk.
** It's worth noting, however, that [[YouCantFightFate Fate doesn't take this lying down.]] If something from outside Fate spends enough time in Creation or Yu-Shan, where Fate ''does'' hold sway, they'll eventually get integrated into Fate by [[CelestialBureaucracy the Pattern Spiders.]] That, or [[TheMenInBlack the Sidereal Exalted]] will pay them a visit.

* One of the Fan Made Pantheons for TabletopGame/{{Scion}} is Myth/ArthurianLegend. Arthurian legend is well known for their YouCantFightFate theme. However, the highest level of the Pantheon perks is that you can ScrewDestiny. It takes a lot of the equivalent of mana to do so, but you can stop anything fated to happen, including the Apocalypse for a few minutes.

* One of the Fan Made Pantheons for {{TabletopGame/Scion}} is Myth/ArthurianLegend. Arthurian legend is well known for their YouCantFightFate theme. However, the highest level of the Pantheon perks is that you can ScrewDestiny. It takes a lot of the equivalent of mana to do so, but you can stop anything fated to happen, including the Apocalypse for a few minutes.

* ''Videogame/GodOfWar'': It's implied that Kratos is not bound by fate. Even when the Sisters of Fate try to prevent him from killing Zeus in the [[VideoGame/GodOfWarII second game]], he simply kills ''them'' before going to war with Olympus. And even though he was foretold to be the instrument of Olympus' downfall, said prophecy only comes true because he ''wanted'' it to come true -- he didn't even try to avoid it. In ''Videogame/GodOfWarPS4'' he starts mucking up the prophecy of Ragnarok [[spoiler:by killing Baldur centuries before his foretold death, which triggers Fimbulvetr, the winter that precedes Ragnarok ahead of schedule.]] It is also worth noting that [[spoiler:he and Atreus end up killing Magni and Modi, the sons of Thor who in the original myths were destined to survive Ragnarok. Whether this is also the case in the games is not confirmed, though Modi's horrified disbelief at Magni's death implies it is.]] This is then {{deconstructed}} in ''VideoGame/GodOfWarRagnarok'' when Kratos learns he's "immune" to fate because [[spoiler:predetermined fate ''doesn't actually exist'' in this universe. The most the gods can do is predict the future and then retroactively meddle with the past as the Sisters of Fate did, hence why they ended up having to ultimately fight Kratos rather than just declare "you die" and he drops dead. This also means all of Kratos' screw-ups really do have no one to blame but himself.]]

* In ''Series/{{Fringe}}'', [[spoiler:Peter Bishop]] proves to be a bit of a temporal wildcard due to some very unusual circumstances. [[spoiler:After the main timeline's Peter Bishop dies of illness as a child, his father Walter Bishop interprets some important instructions given by a time-traveler ("The boy is important. He has to live.") to mean that Michael is a LivingMacGuffin who must survive in some way, which becomes a sort of SelfFulfillingProphecy. Walter Bishop invents technology that allows him to travel to a parallel universe, where he kidnaps an alternate version of his son who would have died of the same illness in order to cure him. It is later revealed that Walter misinterpreted the time traveler's instructions and almost caused a {{ClassX-5}} in the process, but Peter proves instrumental in saving ''both'' timelines because his unexpected survival makes him a sort of ButterflyOfDoom that the {{BigBad}}s are unable to stop. The title of the series' final episode, "An Enemy of Fate" is a nod to this trope.]]

* From Myth/GreekMythology, king Admetus (see Euripides' ''Alcestis''). It's not so much that he's immune to fate, it's just that he got fate drunk so it would give him a pass.

%%* FinalFantasyVIIRemake [[spoiler: Takes this to a meta level. The "Arbiters of Fate", the weird spectral things encountered at several points in the story, turn out to be literal agents of fate, interfering

* It's implied that Kratos from the ''Videogame/GodOfWar'' series is not bound by fate. Even when the Sisters of Fate try to prevent him from killing Zeus in the [[VideoGame/GodOfWarII second game]], he simply kills ''them'' before going to war with Olympus. And even though he was foretold to be the instrument of Olympus' downfall, said prophecy only comes true because he ''wanted'' it to come true -- he didn't even try to avoid it. In ''Videogame/GodOfWarPS4'' he starts mucking up the prophecy of Ragnarok [[spoiler:by killing Baldur centuries before his foretold death, which triggers Fimbulvetr, the winter that precedes Ragnarok ahead of schedule.]] It is also worth noting that [[spoiler:he and Atreus end up killing Magni and Modi, the sons of Thor who in the original myths were destined to survive Ragnarok. Whether this is also the case in the games is not confirmed, though Modi's horrified disbelief at Magni's death implies it is.]]

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' features a fourth edition epic destiny for revenants called Free Soul with this as its schtick. You have won freedom from the goddess of fate, be it by arms or charms, and are now immune to the laws of death and destiny. It comes with nifty powers that pretty much let you roll saves as you see fit.

* One of the Fan Made Pantheons for {{TabletopGame/Scion}} is the King Arthur mythology. The King Arthur stories are well known for their YouCantFightFate theme. However, the highest level of the Pantheon perks is that you can ScrewDestiny. It takes a lot of the equivalent of mana to do so, but you can stop anything fated to happen, including the Apocalypse for a few minutes.

** Emily, the computer program who's also a living ignition weapon, is totally able to throw off Hwaryun's abilities to see destinies and paths.

* In ''LightNovel/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]].

* Both ComicBook/{{Thanos}} of Titan and his good counterpart [[ComicBook/{{Warlock}} Adam Warlock]] have been remarked on as being outside the purview of Order and Chaos, and thus in some sense outside of fate. In Warlock's case this may be because he changed history [[spoiler: by killing himself, thus preventing himself from becoming an evil god. He got better, though.]]

Compare and contrast with WindsOfDestinyChange, which is about the ability to change fate rather than ignore it entirely.

* ''VideoGame/Timespinner'' enforces this with the way its setting's time travel works; Lunais' clan regularly trains Time Messengers who use the titular time machine to go back in time when disasters occur and warn the clan about them. When they use the Timespinner, however, [[RetGone they are erased from history]]. This means they're allowed to do things that radically alter time, fate, and prophecy as a result, but it ''also'' means [[HeroicSacrifice their original timeline is erased, leaving them stranded in one where they were never born, and their friends and family aren't familiar with them]].

* Sartorious 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 Jaden...

** After the events of the Eclipse, Guts has vowed to ScrewDestiny and RageAgainstTheHeavens, occupied by the [[BigBad God Hand]] who control and use fate to their advantage. While he didn't die the day he was fated to (thanks to a combination of being improbably badass and the timely intervention of the Skull Knight), he hasn't fully broken from the reigns of fate yet, as the Brand of Sacrifice is still trying (and failing) to "correct the mistake" fate made by drawing demons to him at night to kill him.

* Diavolo in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'' can do this through his stand King Crimson. [[spoiler: He is first able to predict the future up to ten seconds using Epitaph. Then activating King Crimson's power he locks everyone into acting out his prediction, while he himself can move freely outside of what he saw in his vision.]]

* ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'': After the events of the Eclipse, Guts has vowed to ScrewDestiny and RageAgainstTheHeavens, occupied by the [[BigBad God Hand]] who control and use fate to their advantage. While he didn't die the day he was fated to (thanks to a combination of being improbably badass and the timely intervention of the Skull Knight), he hasn't fully broken from the reigns of fate yet, as the Brand of Sacrifice is still trying (and failing) to "correct the mistake" fate made by drawing demons to him at night to kill him.

* Diavolo in ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo'' can do this through his stand King Crimson. [[spoiler: He is first able to predict the future up to ten seconds using Epitaph. Then activating King Crimson's power he locks everyone into acting out his prediction, while he himself can move freely outside of what he saw in his vision.]]