History SelfFulfillingProphecy / VideoGames

* ''VideoGame/Tekken7'' reveals that the entire series stems from one of these. [[spoiler:Heihachi's wife Kazumi had predicted that Heihachi would bring the world to ruin, so she married him in order to get close to him and kill him before that happens. Unfortunately, her repeated attempts on his life ended up breaking Heihachi's heart, leading to her death at her husband's hands and Heihachi's hatred for Kazuya, and the rest was history. It gets far worse with ''VideoGame/Tekken8'' revealing the entire reason that Kazumi was sent after Heihachi by the Hachijo clan—to prevent the Mishima bloodline from [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt bringing ruin to the world]] that ''[[Tekken6 Azazel]] the [[GodOfEvil Rectifier]]'' (whom the Hachijo clan worshiped) wished to bring about. And with Kazuya summoning Azazel to defeat and absorb the beast before Angel Jin's purification destroyed the Devil Gene within himself and Kazuya, it is needless to say that the Hachijo clan themselves brought about the ruin of the world they envisioned under their god Azazel.]]

* ''VideoGame/Tekken7'' reveals that the entire series stems from one of these. [[spoiler:Heihachi's wife Kazumi had predicted that Heihachi would bring the world to ruin, so she married him in order to get close to him and kill him before that happens. Unfortunately, her repeated attempts on his life ended up breaking Heihachi's heart, leading to her death at her husband's hands and Heihachi's hatred for Kazuya, and the rest was history. It gets far worse with ''VideoGame/Tekken8'' revealing the entire reason that Kazumi was sent after Heihachi by the Hachijo clan—to prevent the Mishima bloodline from bringing ruin to [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the world]] that ''[[Tekken6 Azazel]] [[GodOfEvil the Rectifier]]'' whom the Hachijo clan worshiped wished to bring about, and with Kazuya summoning Azazel to defeat and absorb the beast before Angel Jin's purification destroyed the Devil Gene within himself and Kazuya, it is needless to say that the Hachijo clan themselves brought about the ruin of the world they envisioned under their god Azazel.]]

* ''VideoGame/Tekken7'' reveals that the entire series stems from one of these. [[spoiler:Heihachi's wife Kazumi had predicted that Heihachi would bring the world to ruin, so she married him in order to get close to him and kill him before that happens. Unfortunately, her repeated attempts on his life ended up breaking Heihachi's heart, leading to her death at her husband's hands and Heihachi's hatred for Kazuya, and the rest was history.]]

* ''The Ringed City'' DLC from ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'' reveals that the Undead Curse was the result of one of these; [[spoiler:Gwyn loathes the Dark, fearing that it is a destructive and chaotic force that will destroy his peaceful Age of Fire. Thus, he creates the Darksign as a "seal of fire" and brands the pygmies, the bearers of the Dark Soul, with it to limit their access to the Abyss and its power. Because of this, the pygmies' descendants, humans, never learned how to control the Dark inherent within themselves (Humanity), causing it to manifest as either the Curse (in those with too little Humanity) or as an all-consuming power that drives those who have it to animalistic insanity (in those with too much Humanity). Thus, the Dark becomes the chaotic and destructive force Gwyn feared it was, leading to the Cycle of Light and Dark, the destruction of Gwyn's kingdom, and ultimately the ruination of the world, and he has only his own paranoia to blame for it. The original pygmies had perfect control over the Dark Soul and wanted nothing more than to happily ''serve'' Gwyn and the other gods of Anor Londo. He screwed himself big time.]]

* There's a complicated StableTimeLoop example in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', related to Squall's defeat of Ultimecia. Everyone in the game's setting is aware of a prophesized sorceress who will attempt Time Compression (absorbing all of time into herself to become a god, basically), but be defeated by the Legendary [=SeeD=]. Because of this, sorceresses were persecuted- which led one sorceress, Ultimecia, to decide LetMeBeEvil and attempt Time Compression so [=SeeD=] couldn't defeat her. Her meddling with the timestream in pursuit of this goal led the people of the past to ''find out'' what Ultimetia was trying, which was the ultimate source of both the prophecy itself and the anti-magic ChildSoldiers known as [=SeeD=], one of which was Squall. Ultimetia not only brought the prophecy's fulfillment on herself, she's also the reason the prophecy and her own torment even existed.

** Freya from ''VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4'' has received a vision that his son Baldur will die a pointless death, so fearing for her son's life, she blessed him with [[NighInvulnerability invulnerability to all threats]] ([[MemeticMutation physical or magical]]), [[FeelNoPain immunity to pain]] and [[CompleteImmortality inability to die]]. Unfortunately, it led Baldur to live a completely miserable life where for 100 years, he is [[SenseLossSadness completely unable to enjoy any sort of sensation]] such as eating, snow or women, which ended up turning him completely AxCrazy and insane. In the end, once his immortality is removed, Kratos has no choice but to kill him since he tries to kill his mother in revenge for making his life miserable, inadvertently fulfilling the vision that Freya desperately attempted to avoid in the first place.

*** [[{{Jerkass}} Heimdall]] is a particular example in that the Norns predict that, because he intends to kill Atreus, Kratos will in turn [[PapaWolf kill him in order to protect his son]]. When Kratos and Heimdall finally meet, however, Kratos goes out of his way to [[DontMakeMeDestroyYou offer Heimdall mercy]]; this only serves to [[DontYouDarePityMe infuriate Heimdall]], who vows to kill Atreus in order to spite Kratos in retribution. This, combined with his refusal to surrender, ultimately forces Kratos to actually kill him, which leaves him [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone positively rattled]].

* Two concurrent prophecies in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', stemming from Squall's defeat of [[BigBad Ultimecia]], each of them related to the other in a "chicken and egg" scenario:
** It is known that, in the future, a Sorceress will rise to conquer the world and attempt {{Time C|rash}}ompression to attain godhood. Therefore, future societies persecute potential Sorceresses. When Ultimecia is finally born, this persecution plants the seeds of unending hatred within her, causing her to lash out and devastate the world.
** Ultimecia is aware that she is destined to be defeated by the Legendary [=SeeD=]. Therefore, she attempts Time Compression so she can [[GodhoodSeeker absorb all reality and all time]] and escape death. Her meddling with the timestream to accomplish this goal inspired people in the past to create [=SeeD=], the ''very organization'' that raises anti-Sorceress child soldiers - and also caused Edea and Cid to intentionally groom Squall to become the [=SeeD=] destined to defeat Ultimecia.

* ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}} 7'' reveals that the entire series stems from one of these. [[spoiler:Heihachi's wife Kazumi had predicted that Heihachi would bring the world to ruin, so she married him in order to get close to him and kill him before that happens. Unfortunately, her repeated attempts on his life ended up breaking Heihachi's heart, leading to her death at her husband's hands and Heihachi's hatred for Kazuya, and the rest was history.]]

* ''Franchise/DragonAge'':
* This is a running theme of the Mage/Templar conflict. Magic is certainly dangerous, and [[DemonicPossession Abominations]] are no joke to deal with. But when Templars crack down on mages for what they ''might'' do by taking them from their families, imprisoning them in Circles, and abusing authority over them, some mages desperate to escape will turn to BloodMagic and demon summoning because it's a quick way to get the power they need, which in turn drives further crackdowns, which makes mages even ''more'' likely to run away, and so on.

* ''VideoGame/{{Summoner}}'': When he was a child, the game's protagonist, Joseph, attempted to save his village from raiders by using his newfound Summoner powers to call forth a demon, only to lose control of it and watch helplessly as the demon destroyed both the bandits ''and'' village. Horrified by this, Joseph vowed to never use his powers again. Years later, [[BigBad Murod, the Emperor of Orenia]], hears a prophecy that a Summoner will bring his reign to an end. [[DoomedHometown Every action]] [[TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive he thus takes]] to stop this prophecy from happening only results in making the prophecy happen, by undoing Joseph's RefusalOfTheCall and thus giving him a reason to start using his powers again. [[NiceJobFixingItVillain Even Joseph can't help but call Murod out for it before their final showdown]]; Had he simply done ''nothing'', Joseph would've spent the rest of his days toiling away in peaceful ignorance as a nobody farmer, without ever knowing Murod even existed.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Summoner}}'', Emperor Murod hears a prophecy that a Summoner will put an end to his reign. Every [[DoomedHometown action]] he thus [[TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive takes]] to stop this prophecy from happening results in making the prophecy happen, by undoing Joseph's RefusalOfTheCall. Had he sat on his throne doing nothing, Joseph would've lived his life as a farmer on another continent, never even learning of Murod's existence.

* Vito Scaletta spends most of ''VideoGame/MafiaII'' in the life of crime as he doesn't want to become like his alcholic deadbeat father who is indebeted to loan shark before he died. What follows is Vito, after making his way up in Falcone's organization, losing his fortune, house and his relationship with his sister strained. [[spoiler:What's worse is that Vito ends up becoming indebeted to the same loan shark that his father borrowed money from.]] As such, all of Vito's actions ended up making the same mistakes like his father, eventually forcing him to move to another city.

** The quarian-geth conflict exemplifies this trope. To wit: synthetic servants gained sentience and start asking their creators things like "Does this unit have a soul?" The creators panic, expecting the synthetics to rise up and destroy them, and try to shut them down preemptively. Synthetics fight back, resulting in creators getting kicked off their homeworld. Centuries later, most quarians - including Tali'Zorah, the race's representative in Shepard's crew - still maintain the geth would have turned on them anyway and wiping them out was the only option... until the geth's own representative Legion showed up and demonstrated the geth were not really the ruthless, conquering machines the galaxy thinks they are.\\\
The whole mess becomes even more ridiculous in the third game when it's revealed that the geth [[spoiler:''didn't even try to fight back against the quarians initially''. They started fighting to defend the minority among their creators who didn't want to shut them down from the other, synth-hating quarians. The quarians were always their own worst enemy]]. This conflict, referred to by the geth as the Morning War, became a cautionary tale to the other races, who took the exact ''wrong'' message from it and made this Self-Fulfilling Prophecy law throughout the galaxy.

** The [[spoiler: Reaper harvest]] is the same situation writ large. A race of {{Precursors}} believed that [[spoiler: there was a RobotWar inevitable any time an organic species invented sentient A.I.]] [[spoiler: To try and solve this problem, they created[[note]]or rather, they created their own A.I. who created[[/note]] the Reapers, giant sentient MechanicalLifeforms who go around wiping out organic races every few million years, which only completely ensures that more organics-vs-synthetics conflicts are inevitable]]. Ironically, the GoldenEnding to the geth[=/=]quarian conflict[[note]]Only achievable if both Tali and Legion are alive by that point[[/note]] suggests that organic/robotic peace '''is''' possible.

* The backstory of ''VideoGame/VermintideII'' reveals that the elf Kerillian received a prophecy that the human city of Ubersreik would play a key role in the downfall of the elven people, and that she ambushed a major military convoy en route to reinforce the city in an attempt to prevent this. Unfortunately, what Kerillian did not know was that the true enemy were not the humans but the Skaven, and that destroying Ubersreik was one of the lynchpins of their entire invasion plan. By substantially weakening Ubersreik, Kerillian allowed the skaven to overwhelm it much sooner than they otherwise would have. This in turn lets the skaven accelerate their time tables and invade elven territory much more easily.

** Freya from ''VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4'' has received a vision that his son Baldur will die a pointless death, so fearing for her son's life, she blessed him with [[NighInvulnerability invulnerability to all threats]] ([[MemeticMutation physical or magical]]) and [[CompleteImmortality inability to die]]. Unfortunately, it led Baldur to live a completely miserable life where for 100 years, he is [[SenseLossSadness completely unable to enjoy any sort of sensation]] such as eating, snow or women, which ended up turning him completely AxCrazy and insane. In the end, once his immortality is removed, Kratos has no choice but to kill him since he tries to kill his mother in revenge for making his life miserable, inadvertently fulfilling the vision that Freya desperately attempted to avoid in the first place.

** Freya from ''VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4'' has received a vision that his son Baldur will die a pointless death, so fearing for her son's life, she blessed him with invulnerability to all threats ([[MemeticMutation physical or magical]]) and [[CompleteImmortality inability to die]]. Unfortunately, it led Baldur to live a completely miserable life where for 100 years, he is [[SenseLossSadness completely unable to enjoy any sort of sensation]] such as eating, snow or women, which ended up turning him completely AxCrazy and insane. In the end, once his immortality is removed, Kratos has no choice but to kill him since he tries to kill his mother in revenge for making his life miserable, inadvertently fulfilling the vision that Freya desperately attempted to avoid in the first place.

** Freya from ''VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4'' has received a vision that his son Baldur will die a pointless death, so fearing for her son's life, she blessed him with complete immunity to all pain and inability to die. Unfortunately, it led Baldur to live a completely miserable life where for 100 years, he is completely unable to enjoy any sort of sensation such as eating, snow or women which ended up turning him completely AxCrazy and insane. In the end, once his immortality is removed, Kratos has no choice but to kill him since he tries to kill his mother in revenge for making his life miserable, inadvertently fulfilling the vision that Freya desperately attempted to avoid in the first place.
** In ''[[VideoGame/GodOfWarRagnarok Ragnarok]]'', the Norns reveal [[spoiler:the AwfulTruth that ''all'' prophecies are self-fulfilling, as there's no such thing as fate; just the wisdom to predict how people will react, and the consequences of people refusing to change their ways when given warnings. So Zeus was always fated to be overthrown by his son... because, in his paranoia over the prophecy, he ''mistreated'' these sons until one of them snapped. Kratos overthrew Olympus despite all his efforts to avoid fate because he refused to change the thing that would ''lead'' him to destroy Olympus- his vengeful desire to blame the gods for his pain (though to be fair, they did cause a lot of it, but even then it's clear that none of the original trilogy would've happened if it wasn't for Kratos's poor life choices). And Baldur died a meaningless death because Freya, whose FatalFlaw is her selfishness, "[[BlessedWithSuck blessed]]" him with invulnerability (and SenseLossSadness) and refused to take it back because she feared his predicted death- which resulted in him going insane and antagonizing Kratos and Atreus, prompting Kratos to do what he does best, giving Baldur a truly meaningless death because Kratos didn't ''want'' to get involved (only being provoked when Baldur threatened to kill Atreus) and the whole damn thing could've been avoided had Freya dropped the overprotectiveness.]] The bright side is that the reveal ultimately prompts Kratos to truly ScrewDestiny simply by becoming a better person, [[spoiler:averting the prophecy of his death and fulfilling a new one where he becomes a truly beloved protector deity]].

The whole mess becomes even more ridiculous in the third game when it's revealed that the Geth [[spoiler:''didn't even try to fight back against the Quarians initially''. They started fighting to defend the minority among their creators who didn't want to shut them down from the other, synth-hating Quarians. The Quarians were always their own worst enemy]]. This conflict, referred to by the Geth as the Morning War, became a cautionary tale to the other races, who took the exact ''wrong'' message from it and made this Self-Fulfilling Prophecy law throughout the galaxy.

** The [[spoiler: Reaper harvest]] is the same situation writ large. A race of {{Precursors}} believed that [[spoiler: there was a RobotWar inevitable any time an organic species invented sentient A.I.]] [[spoiler: To try and solve this problem, they created[[note]]or rather, they created their own A.I. who created[[/note]] the Reapers, giant sentient MechanicalLifeforms who go around wiping out organic races every few million years, which only completely ensures that more organics-vs-synthetics conflicts are inevitable]]. Ironically, the GoldenEnding to the geth / quarian conflict[[note]]Only achievable if both Tali and Legion are alive by that point[[/note]] suggests that organic/robotic peace '''is''' possible.

* This is a running theme through the ''Franchise/DragonAge'' series. Mages are heavily restricted to the point of being effectively imprisoned by the Chantry and Templars out of fear for what they might do without those restrictions, especially turning to blood magic and making deals with or being possessed by demons. Many of the mages who turn to blood magic do so specifically because of those restrictions, with blood magic being one of the only ways they can fight back.
* Done twice in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII''.
** First, everyone accuses the Qunari of being militaristic heathens who want to do nothing but convert everyone in Kirkwall to the Qun, even when the Arishok makes it perfectly plain that converting people is the last thing on his mind. In the end, [[spoiler:the Arishok snaps and launches a war on Kirkwall, turning him into the monster many accused him of being]].

** Done a second time with Knight-Commander Meredith. In Act III of the story, the mages believe that Meredith is slowly going crazy trying to uproot BloodMagic from her ranks, even when it's clear that most of the mages just want to be left alone. When Meredith starts ''quickly'' going crazy because of her red lyrium sword and begins killing ''every'' mage, regardless of the reason, the mages turn to BloodMagic just to survive Meredith and the templars, making Meredith's paranoia end up causing exactly what she was so paranoid about.

** In ''[[VideoGame/GodOfWarRagnarok Ragnarok]]'', the Norns reveal [[spoiler:not only the AwfulTruth that ''all'' prophecies are self-fulfilling, but also that there is no such thing as "fate", only predictable people's actions and the consequences of said actions: Freya's FatalFlaw is her [[ItsAllAboutMe selfishness]] so, when she learned from the Norns that Baldur would die a pointless death, she did all in her power to protect him. These efforts resulted in Baldur becoming obsessed with revenge, making it necessary to put him down. And, wouldn't you know it, "putting down gods" is precisely what Kratos always does. And because all three of these people were unwilling to change to any meaningful extent, the prophecy wrote itself.]]

** Done a second time with Knight-Commander Meredith. In Act III of the story, the mages believe that Meredith is slowly going crazy trying to uproot BloodMagic from her ranks, even when it's clear that most of the mages just want to be left alone. When Meredith begins killing ''every'' mage, regardless of the reason, the mages turn to BloodMagic just to survive Meredith and the templars, making Meredith's paranoia end up causing exactly what she was so paranoid about.

* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsX'', the leaders of the five Unions, the Foretellers, try their best to prevent the events written in the Book of Prophecies written by their Master, detailing a Keyblade War and darkness devouring the light, from coming to pass. However, with the idea of a traitor in their midst, one of them having information he was instructed not to divulge to the others, and each of the Foretellers making rash decisions in regards to their roles given to them by their Master, misunderstandings led to a major rift between all five of them. With mistrust in one another, they all decided to collect Lux to keep the balance of power, until the inevitable battle between the Unions and the prophecy fulfilled. If the Master hadn't written the Book of Prophecies and given it to them in the first place, they likely wouldn't have put themselves in the situation that led to the Keyblade War. This is not helped by the fact that the Master's unpredictable mannerism, eccentric nature, and sometimes questionable logic all give the impression that he may have been deliberately manipulating his students into fulfilling his own Prophecy.

** The Norns reveal in ''[[VideoGame/GodOfWarRagnarok Ragnarok]]'' that [[spoilers:''all'' prophecies are self-fulfilling. But they also reveal that there is no such thing as "fate", only predictable people's actions and the consequences of said actions: Freya's FatalFlaw is her [[ItsAllAboutMe selfishness]] so, when she learned from the Norns that Baldur would die a pointless death, she did all in her power to protect him. This resulted in Baldur becoming obsessed with taking revenge upon his mother, making it necessary to put him down. And, wouldn't you know it, "putting down gods" is precisely what Kratos always does. And because all three of these people were unwilling to change to any meaningful extent, the prophecy wrote itself.]]

** Kratos himself breaks the cycle after getting his revenge. [[spoiler: By killing himself at the end of the game]] ... [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4 Or did he?]]]]

** The quarian-geth conflict exemplifies this trope. To wit: synthetic servants gained sentience and start asking their creators things like "Does this unit have a soul?" The creators panic, expecting the synthetics to rise up and destroy them, and try to shut them down preemptively. Synthetics fight back, resulting in creators getting kicked off their homeworld. Centuries later, most quarians - including Tali'Zorah, the race's representative in Shepard's crew - still maintain the geth would have turned on them anyway and wiping them out was the only option... until the geth's own representative Legion showed up and showed the geth were not really the ruthless, conquering machines the galaxy thinks they are.///

** This is the quarian-geth conflict. Robot servants start asking their creators things like "Does this unit have a soul?" The creators panic, expecting the robots to rise up, and try to shut them down. Robots fight back, creators get kicked off their planet. Centuries later, most quarians - including their representative in your party - still maintain the geth would have turned on them anyway and wiping them out was the only option...until Legion shows up. The whole mess becomes even more ridiculous in the third game when it's revealed that the Geth [[spoiler:''didn't even try to fight back at first''. They only initially fought to defend the Quarian minority who didn't want to shut them down from the other Quarians. The Quarians were always their own worst enemy]]. This "Morning War" became a cautionary tale to the other races, who took the exact wrong message from it and made this Self-Fulfilling Prophecy law throughout the galaxy. One sidequest in the first game involves an AI who self-destructs rather than talk to you, even if you try and negotiate.
** The [[spoiler: Reaper Cycle]] is the same situation writ large. The {{Precursors}} believed that [[spoiler: an organics vs. RobotWar was inevitable any time an organic species invented sentient A.I.]] [[spoiler: To solve this, they created[[note]]or rather, they created the Catalyst who created[[/note]] the Reapers, giant sentient cyborgs who go around wiping out organic races every few million years, thus ensuring that an organics vs. RobotWar IS inevitable]]. Ironically, the GoldenEnding to the geth / quarian conflict suggests that organic/robotic peace IS possible.

* ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIV'' has a version of this in that Fou-lu (who was his own empire's KingInTheMountain) is promoted as the "Dragon of Doom who will destroy the empire" among the soldiers of the empire he founded. [[spoiler: This is done explicitly by the empire as they have no intention of giving the throne back to the GodEmperor they summoned 600 years ago.]] After being the target of multiple and increasingly extreme efforts by his nation to kill him, Fou-lu finally [[KillEmAll snaps]] when [[spoiler: a woman who rescued him from a previous attempt at deicide and who developed a romantic relationship with him is tortured and ultimately used as the warhead in a Curse Nuke ''specifically because of her connection with him'']]... causing the whole "Dragon of Doom" thing to become a self-fulfilling prophecy as he decides that HumansAreTheRealMonsters and that the best course of action is to KillEmAll.

* In ''VideoGame/PathOfExile'', fulfilling one is done as a game mechanic. The player can pay a Silver Coin to Navali to seek a prophecy, which says something along the lines of "You will do [something]" or "You will encounter [something]". For the first kind, there is nothing that will actively make you fulfill that prophecy, so you can TakeYourTime to do it, but as long as you do what it says, the prophecy will give you some kind of reward. The second type will automatically happen at some point, and are unavoidable as long as you continue playing the game (and in the right area, if it says so).