Anime & Manga
"If fate is a principle beyond human comprehension which capriciously torments man, then it is karma that man confront fate by embracing sorcery."
— Void, Berserk
"I will defeat Marik, it is my destiny."
— Yami Yugi, Yu-Gi-Oh!
Comic Books
Jon Osterman: It is here on Mars that we debate Earth's destiny.
Laurie Juspeczyk: Jon, please, I mean, this, just being here, it's giving me problems, okay? I can't take your predestination trip right now.
Jon: Why does my perception of time distress you?
Laurie: Why ask? You already know my answer: it's stupid. When I left you, when Nova Express attacked you, you were surprised. Why, if you knew it would happen?
Jon: Everything is preordained. Even my responses.
Laurie: And you just go through the motions, acting them out? Is that what you are? The most powerful thing in the universe, and you're just a puppet following a script?
Jon: We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings. We shall go up to the balcony. You can see the Nodus Gordii mountains from there.
Laurie: Well, what if I don't? [Jon ascends the stairs to the balcony] Huh? What if I just stay down here and screw all your predictions, huh? What happens then? Jon? [Laurie follows Jon up the stairs] I said "What happens then?"
Jon: This is where we hold our conversation. It commences when you surprise me with the information that you and Dreiberg have been sleeping together.
Laurie: Y—You know about me and Dan?
Jon: No. Not yet. But in a few moments you're going to tell me.
Laurie: Aaaaagh! Jon, what are you trying to do to me? When you're like this I can't even talk to you, let alone debate the what was it...
Jon: Destiny of the world.
Laurie: Destiny of the world. I mean, this is ridiculous. Why hold a debate when you already know the goddamned outcome?
Jon: Because...
Laurie: "Because that's how it happens!" I know, I know... Oh God... Listen, Jon, okay, I'll play it your way... but you have to help me understand. I mean, I can't tell the future...
Jon: There is no future. There is no past. Do you see? Time is simultaneous, an intricately structured jewel that humans insist on viewing one edge at a time, when the whole design is visible in every facet.
Laurie Juspeczyk: Jon, please, I mean, this, just being here, it's giving me problems, okay? I can't take your predestination trip right now.
Jon: Why does my perception of time distress you?
Laurie: Why ask? You already know my answer: it's stupid. When I left you, when Nova Express attacked you, you were surprised. Why, if you knew it would happen?
Jon: Everything is preordained. Even my responses.
Laurie: And you just go through the motions, acting them out? Is that what you are? The most powerful thing in the universe, and you're just a puppet following a script?
Jon: We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings. We shall go up to the balcony. You can see the Nodus Gordii mountains from there.
Laurie: Well, what if I don't? [Jon ascends the stairs to the balcony] Huh? What if I just stay down here and screw all your predictions, huh? What happens then? Jon? [Laurie follows Jon up the stairs] I said "What happens then?"
Jon: This is where we hold our conversation. It commences when you surprise me with the information that you and Dreiberg have been sleeping together.
Laurie: Y—You know about me and Dan?
Jon: No. Not yet. But in a few moments you're going to tell me.
Laurie: Aaaaagh! Jon, what are you trying to do to me? When you're like this I can't even talk to you, let alone debate the what was it...
Jon: Destiny of the world.
Laurie: Destiny of the world. I mean, this is ridiculous. Why hold a debate when you already know the goddamned outcome?
Jon: Because...
Laurie: "Because that's how it happens!" I know, I know... Oh God... Listen, Jon, okay, I'll play it your way... but you have to help me understand. I mean, I can't tell the future...
Jon: There is no future. There is no past. Do you see? Time is simultaneous, an intricately structured jewel that humans insist on viewing one edge at a time, when the whole design is visible in every facet.
— Watchmen
Fan Works
Marcy: (Broken Smile) We were meant to find the Box, we were meant for this moment, right here, right now! This is our destiny! It always has been!
— A Moth to a Flame, Chapter 5.
Film — Live-Action
"'D,' It is written."
"You know, I'm 1,500 years old. I've killed twice as many enemies as that. And every one of them would've rather killed me, but none succeeded. I'm only alive because fate wants me alive. Thanos is just the latest in a long line of bastards, and he'll be the latest to feel my vengeance – fate wills it so."
— Thor Odinson, Avengers: Infinity War
Literature
"Your destiny is one with Aquilonia. Gigantic happenings are forming in the web and the womb of Fate, and a blood-mad sorcerer shall not stand in the path of imperial destiny."
— Epemitreus in Robert E. Howard's "The Phoenix on the Sword"
Video Games
"I now realize why I was brought here. And I will accept this destiny of mine."
— Mafuyu Hinasaki, Fatal Frame
"Do not grieve... This...this was my destiny..."
— Minwu, Final Fantasy II
"Maybe you only balance the forces that work to quicken the end of this world. Even we who ride the currents of Time cannot see past Time's end… Wuldsetiid los tahrodiis. Those who try to hasten the end, may delay it. Those who work to delay the end, may bring it closer."
— Paarthurnax, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, regarding Alduin the World-Eater
"The Fates are cruel, Zagreus. You're bound to that place... same as your father. So they would have us say good-bye, for now. My heart soars, knowing you live. Then it breaks, that our time together was so brief."
— Persephone, Hades
Web Animation
Lear: But this was the design... I have given my life to it... God has brought me to this moment!
Shandala: Yes... but God has brought me to this one.
Shandala: Yes... but God has brought me to this one.
— Broken Saints, Chapter 24 - Act 5
Western Animation
"Like change, we must always welcome destiny."
— Yori, Kim Possible, "Big Bother"
