Basic Trope: A character who is destined to do something that no one else can do.
- Straight: Hiro is the one who has to defeat Emperor Evulz.
- Exaggerated: Nobody can even touch Emperor Evulz except Hiro.
- Downplayed: Hiro has a slight advantage when fighting Emperor Evulz.
- Justified: The world is stated to be governed by fate.
- Inverted:
- Subverted:
- The Chosen Many
- Hiro tries to reject the prophecy...
- Hiro tries to do as the prophecy foretells, only for him to fail spectacularly at it.
- There is no prophecy, it turns out to be an unproven superstition. Hiro may not even get to defeat Evulz.
- While there may only be one bearer of the title of Chosen One anybody may be appointed to it after his death. There were several other chosen ones who ultimately died heroically or otherwise.
- Double Subverted:
- The Chosen Many treat Hiro as 'first among equals' for whatever reason. And out of all these people, Hiro is the one who defeats Evulz in the end.
- ...But he can't.
- Hiro later manages to end up defeating Evulz anyway.
- Events happen in such a peculiar way that Hiro winds up defeating Evulz, which may mean they're more than just coincidence.
- Parodied:
- Hiro is the chosen one... the one chosen to close the toilet seat, that is.
- Hiro is fated to accidentally defeat Evulz through a hilariously convoluted chain of events.
- Zig Zagged:
- The show's Myth Arc revolves around whether or not Hiro is the chosen one. Sometimes it seems like he is, sometimes there's evidence of other people being the right person, sometimes it seems like there's no need for a Chosen One... And so on, and so forth.
- Hiro was part of a list of possible candidates to be the chosen one, all of them were competent enough to defeat Evulz. At the moment of the truth, Hiro got selected just by pure luck.
- Averted: Nobody is the chosen one.
- Enforced: "How can we make the main character stand out? I know, make him the chosen one."
- Lampshaded:
- "Well I can't defeat Emperor Evulz anyway. Hiro is the one supposed to do it."
- "As the Chosen One, I'll be the one to defeat you, Emperor Evulz. Or should I call you Fluffy?"
- Invoked: Hiro is labelled as the chosen one to motivate him into becoming a better person both morally and in combat, with the added bonus that Emperor Evulz focuses more on him than other threats.
- Exploited: Emperor Evulz doesn't bother fighting seriously anyone but Hiro, as he's the only true menace to him.
- Defied: Hiro hates being the chosen one, instead he tries to live a normal life.
- Discussed:
- "Hiro isn't pulling around his weight, yet I can tell he has potential."
- "Why don't we make Hiro think he's the chosen one? He'll probably work harder then."
- Conversed: "I think this character will defeat the Big Bad. He is the chosen one after all."
- Implied: They aren't entirely sure why Hiro succeeded when others who were stronger, smarter, and more determined failed. But nobody else had as much success wielding the Sword of Light.
- Deconstructed:
- The Chosen One doesn't seem to be the best candidate.
- The pressure of being the Chosen One drives Hiro into depression.
- Or instead of angsting about it, the prophecy goes to Hiro's head, and it greatly inflates his ego, much to everyone's annoyance.
- There was no chosen one. The prophecy was made up.
- Being a person that is not the Chosen One would suck. Those who assist the Chosen One are not given any credit of their own despite their importance in paving way for the Chosen One's victory, merely known as "the Chosen One's companions". Moreover, others who are not chosen are disincentivised to excel due to the belief that the Chosen One could do everything and solve any problem, leaving them highly vulnerable to disaster, especially when the Big Bad is involved.
- Hiro gets all of the super-special training and magical blessings, sets out to strike down Emperor Evulz, and is promptly struck dead by a random freak accident through no fault of his own.
- Reconstructed:
- And then he surprises everyone either by being more competent than he first appears or by managing to rise to the occasion. After all, there had to be a reason he was chosen over all the others.
- But he still manages to overcome his problems when the need is great enough and defeat the evil.
- Hiro then notices it's having this effect, and takes steps to tone it down. After all, even though he is destined to save the world, he doesn't want to be lonely.
- ...But then it turns out that the prophecy was really referring to anyone and anyone could be the chosen one of they believe.
- Played for Laughs: Due to being the chosen one, Hiro thinks he's invincible and ends up getting his [censored] handed to him in many different and hilarious ways.
- Played for Drama: Hiro, knowing he's "the Chosen One," grows to expect so much of himself so soon that he grows to hate himself when he realizes he doesn't have Hard Work Hardly Works on his side.
You must go back to The Chosen One, for it is your destiny.
