History SelfFulfillingProphecy / ComicBooks

* ''ComicBook/CivilWarII'': This is a problem in the story, as many of Ulysses' visions towards the heroes seem to prove true because of the heroes' paranoid attempts to stop them, especially if they involve ComicBook/CarolDanvers. It's because Ulysses' visions work by extrapolating from the now, and Carol is the most prone to paranoidly jump on every one of them, which became a variable in his data pool. They got locked in a ''prophecy self-fulfilling feedback loop'' so to speak.

* In one issue of ''ComicBook/TheBeano'', [[MeaningfulName Fatty]] reads about a bean shortage in the paper. He promptly buys all the beans he can find and causes the shortage.
* A problem in ''ComicBook/CivilWarII''. Many of Ulysses' visions towards the heroes seem to prove true because of the heroes' paranoid attempts to stop them, especially if they involve ComicBook/CarolDanvers. It's because Ulysses' visions work by extrapolating from the now, and Carol is the most prone to paranoidly jump on every one of them, which became a variable in his data pool. They got locked in a ''prophecy self-fulfilling feedback loop'' so to speak.

* Comedic variant from ''Comicbook/CaptainBritain'':

* In the ''Comicbook/DoctorWhoTitan'' comic story "Weapons of Past Destruction" [[spoiler:the Unon's (a centaur race that decided to look after time after the time war) try to prevent the excroth, a technologically advanced race, from developing time travel which will somehow make them become the lect, a destructive race that will hunt the unon's, by destroying their entire planet. Unfortunately, some excroths survive and try to get their revenge by putting their bodies inside some tanks to kill the unon thereby becoming the lect]].
* ''Franchise/TheFlash'': ComicBook/EobardThawne was obsessed with superheroes in the 26th century when everyone has forgotten about them. Mainly the Flash (Barry Allen). Studying him to the point of knowing every recorded detail on his life, successfully replicated the experiment that gave Flash his powers, and traveled back in time to become The Flash's sidekick and best friend. Except in the Flash museum he saw an entry on Professor Zoom, a psychopath who was bent on destroying Barry and everything he loved. His identity? ''Eobard Thawne!'' Angry, he did what we all would've done: Ran ''further'' into the past to kill Barry's mother and frame his father. Constantly bullying the young Flash through the time barrier in the most petty ways imaginable [[note]]Tripping him down stairs, letting his dog out on the street so it can run away, blowing out his birthday candles before he could, making kids think he was weird in school[[/note]] before becoming a full blown supervillain.

* ''Franchise/GreenLantern'': This is how Hal Jordan got his ring. Green Lantern Abin Sur heard a prophecy from Qull that his ring would fail and he would die, setting off a chain of events that would lead to [[ComicBook/SinestroCorpsWar Sinestro turning evil and spreading chaos across the galaxy]]. When Sur went to Earth to investigate this prophecy, he was terrified of his ring failing; so much so that, with prodding from Atrocitus, he lost his belief in his own abilities and succumbed to fear, [[EmotionalPowers thus ensuring the ring would indeed stop working for him]]. This led to his death, Hal getting the ring, and everything else that came after.
* In the classic ''Comicbook/JudgeDredd'' storyline ''The Judge Child Quest'', the Judge Child makes predictions that make the people who hear them cause the accidents that they just heard predicted.

* A couple of ''Comicbook/SpiderMan'' stories deal with his TimePolice counterpart from the year 2211 and his arch-nemesis Hobgoblin 2211. It's revealed the Hobgoblin 2211 is really [[spoiler: his daughter Robin, who, while researching breaks in the "multiverse" throughout history, and how to stop them from continuing to destroy reality, is arrested by her father for things she is innocent of now, but will do in the future (namely murder and screwing around with reality), and placed in a virtual reality prison/paradise. Her boyfriend, however, attempts to free her by using a virus to shut down the computer she's attached to, which also drives her completely insane as her mind is affected by the virus. Now nuts, she then dons a dimensional/time traveling suit and goes on a rampage through time and reality, erasing people (usually Spider-Men) from existence with RetCon bombs. As a result, not only do her father's attempts to stop her from becoming the Hobgoblin directly cause her to do so, but she herself becomes the cause of the very breaks in reality that she had discovered (though that's less a prophecy than merely [[StableTimeLoop an ironic turn]])]].

* ''Comicbook/XMen'':

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': During UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age of Comic|Books}}s the reason ComicBook/{{Circe}} kept attacking Diana was that a prophecy claimed Diana would be her doom. Diana ends up accidentally unmaking Circe's immortality while defending herself from the witch, something she'd have had no reason to do otherwise, given that Diana hadn't even ''approached'' Circe before she started attacking her.

* ''ComicBook/SupermansPalJimmyOlsen'': One issue has Jimmy helping a scientist who has a psychic transmitter that might prove reincarnation. To his horror, he discovers that all his past incarnations were close to one of history's great men (Julius Caesar, Richard the Lionheart, and Abraham Lincoln) and somehow brought about their deaths. Concluding that he has to separate from Superman to protect him, he crashes a helicopter on an island that Superman knows the Superman Revenge Squad booby-trapped. Superman refuses to be deterred, and in the process of trying to get his guilt-stricken friend to listen, he gets hit by a kryptonite beam, apparently killing him. Luckily, it turned out Superman was momentarily PlayingPossum to get Jimmy to stop running and hear him out.

* In the classic ''Comicbook/JudgeDredd'' storyline ''The Judge Child Quest'', the Judge Child makes predictions that make the people who hear them cause the accidents that they just heard predicted.

** The example of the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk stands out particularly. Ulysses has a vision of a mindless Hulk on a hero-killing rampage. Carol takes a massive team of heroes to confront a supposedly depowered Bruce about whether he actually is depowered, which ends with Bruce getting shot in the head. So, no more Hulk? Nope. A few months later, HYDRA brings Bruce back to life, and the trauma of dying ([[ComicBookDeath again]]) has created a new mindless Hulk, who goes on the rampage Ulysses saw.