Destiny Manipulation

Basic

Absolute

Destiny Manipulation
Destiny of the Endless (DC/Vertigo Comics)
Power/Ability to:	Control the destiny/fate of anything.

" I know what it's like to lose. To feel so desperately that you're right, yet to fail nonetheless. It's frightening, turns the legs to jelly. I ask you to what end? Dread it. Run from it. Destiny arrives all the same. And now it's here. Or should I say, I am."

― Thanos (Avengers: Infinity War)

The transcendent power to perceive and manipulate the predetermined fate of events, people, or reality. Sub-Power of Causality Manipulation. Base version of Absolute Destiny Manipulation. Opposite to Freedom.

Also Called

• Canon Events (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse)
• Destiny Control
• Fate Control/Manipulation/Bending/Alteration
• Predestination
• Predetermination

Capabilities

The user can perceive, shape, and manipulate destiny/Fate, allowing them to affect reality and events in various ways, both open, logical, possible, impossible, unimaginable, and hidden. Many users have an object that is the physical manifestation of this power, common forms being Book or Spindle and a cutting tool.

Applications

• Action Inducement
• Chosen One Link
• Destiny Aspect Manifestation
• Destiny Assignment
  • Path Maker
  • Prophetic Protection
  • Destiny Chosen
• Destiny Enchantment
• Destiny Negation
• Destiny Perception
  • Reality Awareness
  • Reality Clarification
  • Reality Perception
• Epiphany Inducement
• Fate Denial
• Higher Consciousness
  • Omnipresence
• Inevitable Event Creation
• Nigh Omniscience or Omniscience
  • Solipsistic Manipulation
• Obstacle Manipulation
• Probability Manipulation
• Purpose Manipulation
• Quantum String Manipulation
  • Creation
  • Destruction
  • Immortality
• Time Manipulation
  • Event Manipulation
• Universal Irreversibility
• Threads of Fate Manipulation
• Red String Manipulation

Variations

• Causality Manipulation
• Cycle Manipulation
• Destiny Magic
• Destiny Severing
• Destiny Weaving
• Fate Embodiment
• Future Manipulation
• Meta Fate Manipulation; advanced version
• Prophecy Manipulation

Associations

• Almighty Law Creation
• Author Authority
• Destiny Chosen: Capable of choosing these people through manipulation.
• Destiny Weaponry
• Narration
• Node Manipulation
• Order Manipulation

Limitations

• May not work on a Living Anomaly.
• Coincidence Nullification limits this power.
• Users of Cosmic Otherness are immune.

Known Users

See Also: Because Destiny Says So and Winds of Destiny, Change.

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

• Vanessa Enoteca (Black Clover); via Rouge/Red Thread of Fate
• Users of The Almighty (Bleach)
  • Yhwach
  • The Soul King
• Ryo Asuka/Satan (Devilman)
• Giorno Giovanna (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part V: Golden Wind/Vento Aureo); via Gold Experience Requiem
• Tooru (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part VIII: JoJolion); via Wonder of U
• Souta Hatate (Kanojo ga Flag wo Oraretara)
• Slow (Karakuri Dôji Ultimo)
• Oginome Momoka (Mawaru Penguindrum)
• Lay Glanzudlii (Misfit of Demon King Academy); via Evansmana
• Users of Izanagi and Izanami (Naruto)
• Sul (Oban: Star Racers)
• Drosselmeyer (Princess Tutu)
• The Supreme Deity (The Seven Deadly Sins); via Perpetual Reincarnation Curse
• Users of Food Luck (Toriko)
• Zahard (Tower of God)

Comics/Cartoons

• Sonic (Archie’s Sonic the Hedgehog)
• Destiny (DC/Vertigo Comics)
• The Three (DC Comics)
• Joseph Meach/Composite Superman (DC Comics)
• Novisor (Among Us Logic)
• Phasir (Aladdin)
• Mata Nui (Bionicle)
• The Fates (Disney's Hercules)
• The Writers of Destiny (Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu)
• Starlight Glimmer (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)

Mythology/Folklore

• Shai (Egyptian Mythology)
• Sisters of Fate (Greek Mythology)
• Moros (Greek Mythology)
• Fates (Mythology)
• Norns (Norse Mythology)
• Muhen (Philippine Mythology)
• Daniel (Semhamaphores)

Tabletop Games

• The Kalih (Anima: Beyond Fantasy)
• Chaos Meister Users (Anima: Beyond Fantasy)
  • Omega, as the Lord of Infinity.
• True Fae and Changelings (Changeling: The Lost)
• Tzeentch (Warhammer 40000)
• Sidereals (Exalted)
• Mages using the Sphere of Entropy (Mage: The Ascension)
• Mages with the Fate Arcanum (Mage: The Awakening)

Television

• Willow Rosenberg (Buffy, the Vampire Slayer)
• Angels of Destiny (Charmed)
• Bad Wolf (Doctor Who)
• Atropos (Supernatural)
• The Bureau (The Adjustment Bureau)
• Time Variance Authority (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

Video Games

• The Great Rabbit (Armed & Delirious/Dementia/Granny/GrannyX)
• Ithereal (Diablo)
• Theresa (Fable Trilogy)
• Whispers (Final Fantasy VII Remake)
• Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII Remake)
• Aerith Gainsborough (Final Fantasy VII Remake)
• Astrologians (Final Fantasy XIV)
• Sisters of Fate (God of War)
• Elysia/Herrscher of Origin (Honkai Impact 3rd)
• Herrscher of Origin/Raiden Mei (Honkai Impact 3rd)
• The Fateless One (Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning)
• Users of Kronika’s Hourglass (Mortal Kombat)
  • Kronika
  • Fire God Liu Kang
• The Force/Gentle Pull (Super Mario Galaxy)
• Remilia Scarlet (Touhou Project)
• Sagume Kishin (Touhou Project)
• Clutho (Valkyrie Crusade)
• Lachesis (Valkyrie Crusade)
• Atropos (Valkyrie Crusade)

Literature

• Fate (Discworld)
• Users of Beyond (JORGE JOESTAR); must believe in the ability
  • Tsukumojuku Kato; formerly
  • Jorge/George Joestar
  • Jorge/Joji Joestar
  • Dio Brando
• StarClan (Warriors)
• Coil (Worm); to a limited degree

Web Original

• The Vision (Fear Mythos)
• Khahrahk/Harak/Khnith-hgor/Shormaush Urdal/Son of the Third Brood/The Devourer of Worlds/The Dread/Devourer/The Crimson Monarch/The King who Rose from the Bleeding/Lord of the Throne of Despair/Defiler of Worlds/Rapist King/Proskellion/SCP-001 - Tufto's Proposal - The Scarlet King (SCP Foundation)
• Yulü, Yama and Kshitigarbha/The All-Death/The Great Death/The Small Death/The Three Lords of Death/The Brothers Death (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-0001 - Meta Ike's Proposal - The Solution (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-1440 - The Old Man from Nowhere (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-666-J/Dr. R████████ J███ I█████ Gerald (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-4239-1/Mr. Destiny (SCP Foundation)
• Sylver Arialdi (Amor de Otro Mundo)

Known Objects

• The Destiny Stone (Aladdin: The Animated Series)
• Evansmana (Misfit of Demon King Academy)
• Kronika’s Hourglass (Mortal Kombat)
• The Cards of Fate (SCP Foundation); formerly
• Millennium Puzzle (Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Gallery

Amenhotep (Anima: Beyond Fantasy), lords of gods and keeper of The Book of Destiny.

Through his power, The Almighty, Yhwach (Bleach) can not only see all possible outcomes to any event, but also control which ones will actually occur.

The Soul King (Bleach), the original owner of The Almighty, and who's powers surpass even Yhwach.

The Three (DC Comics) aka: The Kindly Ones, The Hecatae, the Erinyes; the Fates; the Three Witches; the Norns; the Three-in-One; Moirae; Eumenides; the Furies; Parcae; Fortuna; the Charities.

Joseph Meach/Composite Superman (DC Comics) possesses Star Boy and Light Less' destiny control.

The Fates (Disney's Hercules)

Bad Wolf Entity (Doctor Who) manipulated her own destiny to cause her creation.

Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII Remake) by unknown means, gained the power over the Whispers (Causality) to manipulate Destiny.

The Izanagi technique (Naruto) allows the user to control their state of existence, escaping unfavorable outcomes and rewriting the results, Thus, they can alter their destinies.

Due to the fate altering aspect being abused, Izanami (Naruto) was designed to decide fate, by trapping the abuser in an infinite loop, until they accept their fate and cease using it.

Dr. R████████ J███ I█████ Gerald (SCP Foundation)

The Cards of Fate (SCP Foundation) are a set of playing cards SCP-1440 won from the Great Death that were capable of manipulating fate until SCP-1440 overused them to prevent several deadly conflicts (wars, revolutions, etc.), rendering them powerless.

The Three Brothers Death (SCP Foundation)

The Scarlet King (SCP Foundation)

Remilia Scarlet (Touhou Project)

Sagume Kishin (Touhou Project) can reverse any situation by talking about it, causing the opposite of however she speaks about a situation/event to occur no matter what.

Tooru (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) can manipulate a concept called "calamity" - a force of negative energy that gives a series of inevitable bad occurrences to a person, even if they haven't made any mistakes.

Videos

Doctor Who - Complete Bad Wolf Speech