Aladdin is pulled into Jafar's plans because he is "the Diamond in the Rough", the only one who can enter the Cave of Wonders and reach the Genie's lamp.
Odette from Barbie of Swan Lake has a magical destiny to save the inhabitants of the Enchanted Forest from Rothbart's reign of terror.
Elina from Barbie Fairytopia has "the rainbow in her eye", which marks her for a great destiny.
Subverted in Barbie & The Diamond Castle: Alexa and Liana are just two regular women who happened to stumble across Melody's mirror. Then it's played straight when the girls seek shelter in a Big Fancy House, and the inhabitants of the manor say that a prophecy foretold Liana and Alexa's arrival, and by fate's decree it belongs to them. Turns out it was a trap set by Lydia, and they really are just regular people going on this adventure because it's the right thing to do.
The Detention Kids from The Book of Life. For some reason, La Muerte as Mary-Beth, tells them they're not like other kids and need to hear Manolo's story.
Kung Fu Panda has the fat panda Po chosen as the Dragon Warrior by Master Oogway, seemingly just for bursting into the arena via fireworks. Seen as a decision marked by senility and coincidence by his disciple Shifu, Oogway nonetheless genuinely believes Po is more worthy than any of the highly trained Furious Five. It takes a while, but everyone realizes that the turtle's choice is absolutely right. The sequels expand on this by revealing that Po becoming the Dragon Warrior was to also serve as a vehicle to help him on his path towards his true destiny: first to save China from Lord Shen, then to help panda-kind recover the lost art of chi mastery and defeat Oogway's brother-in-arms-turned-archnemesis Kai. In the short term, the fact that he is just some fat guy with more enthusiasm than training gives him a leg up on the current bad guy thanks to Kevlard rendering his best attacks (which had earlier defeated every other Dragon Warrior candidate at once) useless.
The LEGO Movie deconstructs this trope. It initially describes the savior of the world as the 'Special' by some magical prophecy, but the prophet's last words are that he made up the prophecy, leading Emmet, the main character, to sacrifice himself for others to be inspired to prevent Lord Business from carrying out his masterplan to glue the entire world together. Emmet ultimately uses the power of the same words said to him to convince Business himself that he's also worth something and doesn't need to gain superiority over others in order to feel better about himself.
However, this also serves as a very good reconstruction. Vitruvius made up the prophecy to give people hope, which it does. Emmet's sacrifice causes him to become interesting and extraordinary, and the only thing he needed to become the Chosen One out of many ordinary people was to be told that he was.
Vitruvius: All this is true, because it rhymes.
The Lion King II: Simba's Pride makes use of this when referring to the cub Kovu, who was Scar's 'chosen one' as heir to the throne of the Pride Lands.
In The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue it is prophesied by Nicodemus that Timothy, the younger son of Jonathan Brisby would like his father step up to protect the rats of Thorn Valley from the wrath of NIMH who seeks to destroy them and their young civilization. The rats and their allies spend the better part of their time reinforcing this notion and preparing Timothy to take up his father's place as their protector, grooming him from childhood to fulfill this vague task before eventually being forced to do battle with NIMH itself. Interestingly, such a prediction was never mentioned in the original film and created exclusively for the sequel.
Cale from Titan A.E. is the only one able to operate the ultimate Treasure Map to Mankind's salvation.
Cale: For your information, I happen to be Humanity's last great hope. Preed: I weep for the species.
Arguably a subversion since Cale wasn't initially chosen to do anything but keep the Treasure Map, it and him being key parts of an emergency backup plan.
In the documentary Abducted in Plain Sight a sexual predator spins an obviously untrue story that his twelve-year-old victim is a human/alien hybrid and The Chosen One who must have his child. The naive girl believes him for years.
Jake from Avatar is chosen by the tribal goddess Eywa and is the first human welcomed into the tribe.
Jarrell: Why can't someone choose me to go to the Bahamas?
Harry Potter: The whole 'chosen one' angle is played up more here than the book. It's also pointed out that Voldemort creates a chosen one as much as the prophecy does.
Played with in the 2006 remake of The Initiation of Sarah. The villains assume that the powerful Magical Girl Sarah is the girl of prophecy that they need to sacrifice to complete their evil ritual. It is actually Sarah's Muggle sister, Lindsey.
The main character in Kung Pow! Enter the Fist is called "Chosen One". He's important because he has a sentient, talking tongue.
Master Tang: He told me that there will be a Chosen One. Ling's Father: (flashes back) There will be a Chosen One.
In The Last Starfighter, the eponymous hero has earned his way into the elite group of soldiers who are the last hope against the massive enemy fleet. However, he refuses the call and just wants to go home. On his way home, all the other soldiers are killed by a saboteur and he is forced to become the Last Starfighter.
In Lazer Team, Adam has spent 38 years being trained to be the Champion of Earth, chosen by Colonel Emory to wear the Suit of Power that is scheduled to be delivered to Earth in 2015. Then, on the day the suit is set to arrive, a bunch of losers accidentally shoot down the spacecraft and decide to try on the different pieces of the suit, causing it to bond with them. No wonder Adam is pissed. Those four idiots have just taken away his entire life's purpose. All he can do is to try to train them to use the suit, but their sheer incompetence and inability to work together (at least, at first) only confirms to him that he is the only one, who can save Earth. He changes his mind after seeing the team successfully fight off alien agents. He ends up willingly acting as their coach during the final battle and then performs a Heroic Sacrifice in order to give them a chance to succeed. He dies in the knowledge that his purpose is finally fulfilled.
The baby boy in Legion is supposed to be the second coming.
In The Mummy Returns, Rick O'Connell is suddenly revealed to be the chosen one, even though the first film never made any mention of a prophesied chosen one, and every other character was a reincarnation of some ancient Egyptian/ninja. Same thing happened in The Chronicles of Riddick, but without the Egyptian/ninjas.
In The Never Ending Story, Bastian is the one chosen to stop The Nothing. It seems this calling was given to him the moment he opened the book and began reading.
The book makes it clear this happens all the time.
Zachary Small was the protagonist and Chosen One of Neverwas, which means that Gabriel Finch, rightful king of Neverwas, expects Dr. Zachary to free Finch from the mental institution he's been relegated to.
Discussed in Oh, God!. Jerry himself wonders why the Big G would ask a store manager to spread His word. God tells him it has nothing to do with personal preference, and its all about chance.
Jerry Landers: Why me? God: Why not you? Jerry Landers: You mean there's no special... God: Life is a crap shoot, like the millionth customer that crosses the bridge gets to shake hands with the governor. You thought I picked you because you're better than everyone? Jerry Landers: I'm not? God: You're better than some but not as good as others, but you crossed the bridge at the right time.
The titular character in The Sorcerer's Apprentice is the Prime Merlinian, a sorcerer whose potential is equal to that of Merlin himself. Like Merlin, Dave is supposed to be able to do magic without a ring (or cane in Horvath's case). However, he lacks training in order to use this power and still needs Merlin's ring at first. He's also a physics genius, which is, apparently, a side effect of him being a sorcerer, and uses a combination of science and magic to defeat the Big Bad.
In Star Wars, Anakin Skywalker is the Jedi's prophesied Chosen One, born of a "miraculous" conception via the Force, who will destroy the Sith and bring balance to the Force, though he goes through several movies of beingThe Dragon before doing a Heel–Face Turn and fulfilling his destiny by hurling the Emperor to his death. He remains extremely lucky and unusually skilled the whole time, consistent with a standard Chosen One package.
It could be said that the Skywalker bloodline itself becomes Chosen, as Anakin, Luke, and Leia all brought balance to the Force and peace to the galaxy with their descendants continuing their legacy in Star Wars Legends.
In Star Wars Legends the Sith had their own Chosen One prophecy, the Sith'ari. It was originally intended to foreshadow Darth Bane in stories set before the Rule of Two was in effect, but it became something of a Running Gag that every major Sith character except Bane, including ones who lived millennia after the prophecy was fulfilled, thought it was them.
Reri in Tabu is referred to as this word-for-word. It's a very bad deal for her, because she has been chosen to be a sort of Tahitian vestal virgin who can never be touched by a man—and she's in love.
In The Thirsty Dead, Laura is a dead ringer for a portrait of a woman prophesied to be the cult's 'Chosen One'.
Subverted in Willow, where a baby girl is prophesized to be the one to bring about the evil Bavmorda's downfall, but what actually happens is that all the people trying to protect her end up defeating the evil queen while she's still a baby. This happens in no small part due to a healthy dose of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy on the Big Bad's behalf. The sequel novels go on to further deconstruct this; there are actually several mutually exclusive prophesies about her, all of which are fulfilled thanks to Timey-Wimey Ball shenanigans.
Jack Black's character in Year Onethought he was the chosen one.
