- CrossGen loved this trope.
- Sephie of Meridian. The Sigil was given to her father, who between the stress of receiving the Sigil and being poisoned by his brother, had a heart attack and died, passing the mark and its power on to her.
- The Path has another example of "inheriting the Sigil from a dead relative", in this case Obo-san's samurai brother who was killed in battle with one of the First.
- Green Lantern: Most Green Lanterns are chosen by their rings because of their ability to "overcome great fear." However, when Hal Jordan went crazynote and started killing the whole corps, Ganthet escaped with one special Green Lantern Ring and crashed on Earth. He passed it onto Kyle Rayner, who happened to find him, saying only "You will have to do." (However, later writers will sometimes imply that Rayner really was some kind of secret Chosen One of Ganthet's the whole time.) Also, there is the case of Frank Laminski, who stole a "special" Lantern Ring from the exiled Guardian of the Universe who originally created it. This was after being denied induction into the Green Lantern Corps. Laminski then became the first (known) Phantom Lantern.
- In every prophecy that describes him, Hellboy is the bringer of the Apocalypse. However, he chooses to fight for the good guys and routinely save the world, once responding to a lecture on his "true" destiny with an actual "Screw you!"
- In Kieron Gillen's Iron Man story The Secret Origin of Tony Stark a robot named 451 claims Tony Stark was genetically engineered before birth to be a genius and the man destined to make humanity a galactic power. Howard and Maria Stark didn't trust 451 and adopted Tony as a smokescreen while placing their Genius Cripple biological son Arno in seclusion.
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (1992): As a descendant of the Hyrule Knights, Roam is eligible to be the prophesied hero destined to stop the Great Cataclysm. Though it's Link who is the Chosen One, which Roam is quite miffed about. It doesn't stop him from helping defeat Ganon, though.
- Marvel Universe's Daimon Hellstrom aka Son Of Satan not only rejected his destiny as the Antichrist, not only worked as a superhero, but was actually ordained as a Christian priest!
- Tim Drake. He doesn't have any tragic backstory that eventually led him into the path of being a hero; he became a hero simply because he wanted to help and make a difference.
- Shazam! (2012): Unlike previous versions of Captain Marvel's origin, in this version Billy Batson is decidedly not pure of heart, and the Wizard rejects him, until Billy gives a speech about how there's no-one truly pure (kid's got issues). After hearing this, the Wizard decides to change the parameters of his search to someone who has the potential to be good, which Billy does qualify for.
- In The Transformers (IDW), it's strongly hinted that Optimus Prime of all people is this. When he got the Matrix of Leadership, he felt incredible pain like nothing else, which he took to be the Matrix's way of letting know the burden he would bear. But then, Rodimus briefly inherits the Matrix and notes that when he got it, he experienced the most wondrous, euphoric feeling ever. Optimus is deeply unnerved by the implications; that he was never really worthy of being Prime and that all he's doing is keeping the Matrix away from the real Chosen One.
- X-Men foe Juggernaut, a.k.a. Cain Marko, was not Cyttorak's first choice of being the avatar of his evil power. Xavier was the one Cyttorak wanted. Cyttorak didn't mind though, since Cain was a natural sociopath who didn't need much encouragement to wreak havoc with Cyttorak's power. It's only when Cain had a brief Heel–Face Turn that Cyttorak started to regret the situation.
- Y: The Last Man has Yorick, who is the only human male on the planet to survive the Gendercide, which causes many different groups to want to get their hands on him. Partway through, they all switch targets to the other last surviving male, Yorick's pet monkey Ampersand, when it turns out that he's the one with the original immunity, and Yorick just picked it up from him.
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