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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One	comment	So you're The Chosen One. The Messianic Archetype. The one foretold by prophecy that everyone has been waiting for. Secret knowledge and power awaits! The world will change, and it's all because of you, baby. But wait! The Chosen One does not have it easy, oh no. Far from it. There are rules to be followed and intense training to undergo, and danger lurks around every corner. The Big Bad and The Dragon are out there, actively searching for you, trying to hunt you down before you grow too powerful. In fact, if they haven't already tracked down and killed everyone you ever knew, you may have to leave it forever behind anyways to fulfill your destiny. And sometimes your destiny isn't all that it's cracked up to be either. A Messianic Archetype must always remember that No Good Deed Goes Unpunished. A hero may find themselves with a Wound That Will Not Heal, discover that their unique power has a terrible price (especially if they can't control it!), a Sadistic Choice presented by the villains, they may be called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice, or they find out they're really destined to destroy the world or become its new Big Bad. Even if they survive, they may end up with serious mental issues relating to their work. The list goes on and on. Simply put, it sucks to be the Chosen One. Often presented as a deconstruction of the standard Messianic Archetype/Chosen One tropes. Named for this Basic Instructions strip. Strongly related to Being Good Sucks and Blessed with Suck, and often leads to I Just Want to Be Normal, or even Refusal of the Call. Can be made worse if mixed with Missed the Call, where it's revealed that the "chosen one" was the wrong guy, meaning they went through all that crap for nothing. Compare The Perils of Being the Best. More positive works and reconstructions might use this to allow a Chosen One to earn a happy ending, but this is relatively rare. When others can see how much being the chosen one sucks, they may express Sympathy for the Hero.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_11d152d0	comment	Garion in the Belgariad complains about this so often, "Why me" is practically his catchphrase. It's even lampshaded multiple times. Ironically, the Prophecy driving the whole Chosen One business sets out to make sure that its instruments get rewarded, and so Garion picks up a kingship, a loving wife, and Babies Ever After. The "why me" part is mainly adolescent angst, which his friends tell him repeatedly to get over - and in the second series, by which time he's in his late twenties, when someone else comes out with it he cracks up laughing and explains that he always used to complain about this and never got a straight answer.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_12e3da65	comment	Gabriel Belmont from Castlevania: Lords of Shadow. Gabriel loses everything and everyone important to him in the course of fulfilling his God given destiny. Even after becoming Dracula to spite God, God still considers him his chosen champion so he can't even find escape in death. To emphasize how much it sucks for him, he spends most of the sequel trying to get his hands on the one weapon that can permanently kill him just so he can stop being the chosen one.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_135f4195	comment	Dune: Paul Atreides is said to be the Kwizatz Haderach, the culmination of a ten-thousand year Bene Gesserit breeding program showing up a generation early. He can see the future, the Fremen almost immediately begin bowing and scraping before him, and he has a number of mental and martial abilities from the training preparing him for this. However, he is horrified of his visions of his zealous followers starting a universe-spanning jihad in his name, and the only reason they follow him is because the Bene Gesserit deliberately shaped myths and legends to bail one of their number (by a twist of fate, his mother) out of trouble if she ever needed it. Unfortunately, he knows that this is a necessity to prevent humanity's extinction. The sequel, Dune Messiah, shows how it really affected him emotionally as he earns many enemies, goes blind after a failed assassination attempt, and foresees that his beloved concubine would die giving birth to their twins. In the end, he walks into the desert as he couldn't bear to continue his role, and leaves behind his empire and his children. His son takes up the mantle instead, following the path to the end and accepting how horrible it is.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_1619d68e	comment	Tree of Aeons: The summoned heroes, chosen to defeat the demon king, are granted great power by the gods. But the [hero] class also comes with embedded compulsions, pushing them to fight demons regardless of what the most sensible strategy is. Not that they would have much choice, anyway, because their explosively fast levelling also makes them shine steadily brighter, like a beacon, to the demon king's senses, so a battle is inevitable. Those same compulsions also help them to brush aside the violence and gore that they must wade through in order to win — until the demon king is dead, at least, after which they're mostly left to their own devices, now riddled with trauma, and There Are No Therapists. Many of them turn to alcoholism, promiscuity, founding ill-fated unstable empires, or otherwise failing to really cope. Oh, and they can return to their home worlds by dying, but they lose their powers and memories if they do, and as long as their compulsions are active, they can't properly think about that option.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_16fc4335	comment	In Heralds of Valdemar, Vanyel Ashkevron summed this trope up very nicely when he said "A glorious destiny will get you a glorious funeral". Despite having a glorious destiny, he didn't get a glorious funeral, or any funeral for that matter. There wasn't enough left of him to bury.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_18b424d6	comment	Shirley in Tales of Legendia. Has no friends, spends most of the game getting kidnapped, her first friend takes the bullet for her, and then she turns out to be a kind of Dark Messiah, is brainwashed by the entire ocean and almost commits genocide on land-dwelling humans.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_1a7918e3	comment	Ark from Terranigma. It turns out that returning life to the surface world requires the destruction of his own, himself included. The real kick to the balls is the implication that his past incarnations have been doing this since the dawn of time.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_1c25db94	comment	In Suikoden: Ted preceded everyone in the above trope. He acquires the Soul Eater Rune, is forced to runaway from the witch Windy for the next 300 years, gets his rune stolen from him 150 years after he fled from his village, and commands the Soul Eater to eat his soul just so that he won't accidentally command the soul to return the Rune back to him. Tir McDohl, son of The Empire's greatest general, forced to run for his life from the Evil Sorceress trying to steal the MacGuffin from him. In the process, he was recruited into the La RÃ©sistance and eventually became its leader... AFTER said leader DIED in front of him AFTER she has expressed that she might've liked him a lot as a friend. As you lead the Resistance to victory, your Battle Butler died trying to protect you, then the defeated generals pull off a My God, What Have I Done? after pretty much crossing the Moral Event Horizon while under More than Mind Control, so you don't pretty much have a choice but to recruit them. Then you will have to kill your own father to protect your castle, and then you have to see your best friend suffer a Fate Worse than Death. And if you haven't recruited all 108 Stars of Destiny, then your Battle Butler would be Killed Off for Real. Regardless of the status of his Battle Butler afterwards, it left him so shell-shocked that he didn't even want to be there when The Republic was inaugurated, because he doesn't want the Soul Eater to take any more lives. Oh, and he had to deliberately avoid the young hot ninja chick that has been heavily crushing over him, just so she can avoid the fates of these people. If that doesn't suck, I don't know what does.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_1c649ab3	comment	The Rising of the Shield Hero: While he, at first, didn't mind being chosen as the Hero of the Shield, Naofumi immediately thought he drew the short end of the stick after realizing that the King and the people of the kingdom didn't have too much respect for the bearer of the title, and that was before they frame him for a crime he didn't commit. Once he learns that he's stuck with being the Shield Hero until either he dies or the Waves are completely stopped, he decides to just say "Screw It!" and find ways to become strong enough to handle the Waves by himself. After a while time, he learns that while Melromarc was prejudiced against the Shield Hero because of the king's prejudice against demi-humans, the neighboring countries, especially those that have a significant Demi-Human population would treat whoever was chosen to bear the title with reverence and respect because the Shield Hero championed for equality between all races and was especially kind to Demi-Humans.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_1f140feb	comment	The Silmarillion: Turin is the The Chosen One, prophesied to be the one to finally kill Morgoth in the final battle. However, most readers would probably conclude that it isn't worth it. The quick summary of everything bad that happened to him was (in some close semblance of order): his father and all his father's friends marched off to a war in which almost all died, and he never saw or heard from his father again; his sister and many of the people he knew who were still there died in a plague; he got sent away from his mother to a kingdom with no humans and never sees his mother again; he banishes himself from said kingdom; he gets a band of friends/subordinates who all die; he accidentally kills his best friend, he gets his new home city-state sacked and his love raped and killed; he marries and gets pregnant his new sister he doesn't know about, who he thinks dies just after he found out she was his sister, following which he kills himself in despair after possibly going insane and talking to his sword. And that isn't even going into what happened to the rest of his family.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_1f630f72	comment	In Dark Souls III. Prince Lothric was designated at birth to be the one to Link the Flame, but he grew to resent his role due to everyone knowing that he would be the one to do it and thus never being allowed any sort of choice or say in the matter. This eventually caused him to become disillusioned and misanthropic to the whole affair, to the point where he decides to just let the Age of Dark come, rather than submit himself and his brother to the Flame again.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_223c2a48	comment	In Breath of the Wild, both Link and Zelda learned about their destinies years in advance, and it's implied they both became pretty messed up because of this. Link drew the Master Sword at age twelve, 5-6 years before it was actually needed. By the time the story takes place, he's stopped expressing himself (and in some translations, developed selective mutism) to cope with the massive amounts of attention and pressure this brought down on him. His life after the Calamity is no picnic, either; he wakes up with total amnesia, is promptly told he's the only one who can defeat the evil force inhabiting the castle, and then has to deal with people not recognizing him and making his job harder, people recognizing him and unloading a century of misplaced anger on him, and a Doomsday Cult trying to assassinate him. And depending on what order the player finds his memories in, he may spend much of the game convinced that the princess he's trying to rescue openly despises him. Zelda had it just as bad. From an early age, she was put under massive pressure to awaken her sealing powers to combat the Calamity, complete with vicious gossip when said powers didn't develop as expected and the interests she actually enjoyed being constantly devalued in favor of more training. All of this led to her becoming deeply insecure and trying to compensate by pushing herself far beyond her limits in various ways, including an incident where she nearly drowned herself by meditating in a freezing spring until she passed out from exhaustion. On top of this, the same Doomsday Cult was actively trying to assassinate her and came very close to succeeding on at least one occasion. Then, when the Calamity finally came, she had to deal with her family and friends dying when she might have been able to save them if she had her powers, and finally she watched Link suffer fatal wounds while protecting her and die in her arms.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_23185c00	comment	Allie, from Steven Spielberg's Taken, who just wants to be a normal little girl.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_23e1c5d9	comment	In Tales of Eternia, Reid is a chosen one in that he can bear Fibril... but he's not the only one who can do so. Ras, Shizel, and Meredy (albeit not integrated into the gameplay or fully explained in text) can, too. Unfortunately? Nereid's Fibril can make you possessed by Nereid himself, and invoking Seyfert's Fibril before undergoing all of the trials? You die.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: Homer Simpson experiences this in the episode "Homer the Great". At first it's nice being the Chosen One of the Stonecutters, but then he gets bored with it due to the lack of any challenge-everyone constantly sucks up to him and lets him win whatever games they play.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_265fb4f1	comment	Hyrule Warriors has Link, an army recruit undergoing basic training, suddenly be promoted to one of the army commanders, with all the stress and pressure that comes with that. Then he learns that the war he's fighting started because a sorceress went Yandere for the Spirit of the Hero and will do anything to make him hers, including resurrecting an evil that was supposed to be destroyed for good. Once the war starts going well for the good guys, Link becomes a bit too confident, which is promptly used to lure him into a trap and costs the army a crucial victory. Then he takes a massive beating courtesy of Ganondorf and loses the Triforce, leading to an all-out confrontation in a Hyrule remade in Ganondorf's twisted image. Earn Your Happy Ending, indeed.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_269e6264	comment	Tahniya Dogoro in The Path to War. Being the chosen one left her isolated, emotionally stunted and with more than a few serious regrets due to the things she did to "prove herself." She doesn't take well to being called 'Chosen One' either, refused an elaborate home and angrily rebuffed the idea of her sister's twins being given names themed after her own. It's a wonder she never says "I just want to be normal."
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_275410b1	comment	In Murderess, the protagonist Lu definitely thinks so, enough to help Hallwad, a boy she meets on the Myles Mountains about halfway to the Refugee Camp, rescue his sister and simply stop her journey in the middle to move in with Cleareye Fullmoonnight, a Moondaughter she meets in the Myles Forest after crossing the mountains. Her Trickster Mentor 'Hat Lad' calls her out on this, emphasising in no uncertain terms how incredibly important her mission is.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_291e9857	comment	Dark Souls: This is probably the most prominent trope in the game because Continuing is Painful. Sure, you're effectively immortal and will return to life after being killed, but all this means is that you will be dying repeatedly, each time horribly. You'll also watch as your friends and allies die and go hollow one by one. In Dark Souls III. Prince Lothric was designated at birth to be the one to Link the Flame, but he grew to resent his role due to everyone knowing that he would be the one to do it and thus never being allowed any sort of choice or say in the matter. This eventually caused him to become disillusioned and misanthropic to the whole affair, to the point where he decides to just let the Age of Dark come, rather than submit himself and his brother to the Flame again.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_2a8943c0	comment	In Miraculous Ladybug, Ladybug and Chat Noir have the power to create and destroy respectively, but they cannot tell anyone, lest Hawk Moth and Mayura find out.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	Heroes has multiple Chosen Ones across the series and none of them are happy about getting superpowers. Well, except one, but he got over it after some laser-guided Deus Angst Machina. Joy.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_2d644371	comment	A lot of games in the Tales Series fit this trope. Even when it's played straight in that it's not entirely a bad thing, there's still a catch: In Tales of Symphonia: Colette. Chosen at birth for her genetic compatibility with the Big Bad's dead big sister, she goes through one painful transformation after another, in between kidnappings which are also connected to her status. Not to mention the psychological trauma and self-esteem issues that come from knowing since about age six that she'd one day be expected to make a Heroic Sacrifice to save the world. Zelos has most of Colette's psychological issues, compounded by Parental Abandonment - his father, the previous Chosen One of his world, committed suicide, and his mother was murdered in front of his eyes when he was about eight; the murderer was The Mistress of Zelos's father, who was targeting Zelos so that Zelos's half-sister could become the Chosen instead. Her last words to him were "You should never have been born", after which he decided that being the Chosen One was the only reason his life had value at all. And then the reveal comes that Martel isn't a real goddess...is it any wonder he's a Death Seeker unless Lloyd can convince him he's worthwhile? Shirley in Tales of Legendia. Has no friends, spends most of the game getting kidnapped, her first friend takes the bullet for her, and then she turns out to be a kind of Dark Messiah, is brainwashed by the entire ocean and almost commits genocide on land-dwelling humans. In Tales of Eternia, Reid is a chosen one in that he can bear Fibril... but he's not the only one who can do so. Ras, Shizel, and Meredy (albeit not integrated into the gameplay or fully explained in text) can, too. Unfortunately? Nereid's Fibril can make you possessed by Nereid himself, and invoking Seyfert's Fibril before undergoing all of the trials? You die. Estelle is the Child of the Full Moon in Tales of Vesperia. Must be neat to have powerful healing artes, right? Well, Phaeroh wants her dead and views her as a poison to the world, and using her powers on an Entelixea will cause them to go crazy and eventually kill them. Even if she can turn them into spirits. Veigue didn't know how to control his Ice Force in Tales of Rebirth when he was "chosen" to gain its powers. So during an outburst of yelling "CLAAAAIIIIRRRREEE!", he froze her. (This actually became somewhat of a running gag; a Tales DVD shows him shouting, "CLAAAAIIIRRRREEEE!" and covering the screen in ice; and several fans were disappointed this wasn't integrated into Tales of Graces.) So you're a reincarnation of a heavenly being in Tales of Innocence? Your past life is literally going to come back to haunt you. Tales of the Abyss has Luke fon Fabre (both original and replica models), who is informed that he is a chosen hero Because Destiny Says So, but not what the consequences of his actions will be. Because of his ignorance, he destroys a city and starts a war, all in accordance with the ancient prophecy that controls the world, and he has to deal with the consequences for the rest of the game. Tales of Xillia sees Milla Maxwell, the Lord of Spirits, focus on her mission to destroy a tyrannical king and his doomsday device. Except being a Determinator gets her crippled, and later killed, by her staunch refusal to abandon her goal. And then it turns out she's not really the Lord of Spirits after all, just conditioned to believe she was. And that tyrant of a king? He's an Anti-Villain who only wanted to protect his kingdom from people seeking to usurp it. Finally, at the very end of the game, she does get to become the true Lord of Spirits, at the cost of having to leave behind everyone in the human world she's grown to care about.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_2dfb1427	comment	Baldur's Gate: The Player Character has this trope in spades, particularly if s/he is good-aligned. Not only is s/he the child of an evil murder god, s/he also is fated to be a Doom Magnet as a result. Not to mention the fact that lots of people are trying to kill them, and that, in the second game, s/he eventually develops a Superpowered Evil Side. This is made slightly better in Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal. While you are the subject of a prophecy that says that the Bhaalspawn will cause massive destruction to the Sword Coast, a celestial being offers a different interpretation. As it turns out, the prophecy doesn't speak of you, but of your failure to stop your more destructive half-brothers and -sisters.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_35e05f2a	comment	RWBY: Every generation, there is a single person who is tasked with protecting humanity from a secret Ancient Evil and guiding them towards an equally secret destiny. As a Farm Boy, Oscar always wanted to be special... he just didn't want to be this special. When other people learn the Awful Truth about what's really going on in the world, they have the option of running away from it all. Oscar is the only person who can't. Ozma was tasked by the God of Light to help humanity achieve harmony by The Day of Reckoning; if he fails, humanity will be destroyed. His soul, Aura and memories constantly reincarnate into a new person whenever his previous body dies, passing into Oscar from Ozpin at the end of Volume 3. On top of Ozma's extraordinary powers, Oscar also inherits the emotional baggage of countless lifetimes spanning thousands of years; people who had issues with Ozpin, see him as a suitable proxy to satisfy their grudges; people who want Ozpin's advice, see him as nothing more than an access point to reach the person they really want. Oscar also faces the possibility of permanently losing his own identity through merging with Ozma; he therefore fears disappearing as a person in his own right and becoming nothing more than another one of Ozma's endless lives.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_366a284d	comment	In Fist of the North Star, being a good guy SUCKS. The world is such a cruel, dark place that the only ones who truly enjoy their lot are the rotten ones, while the heroes must fight their own despair as well as the bad guys. Part of the reasons so many Manly and Tender Tears are shed in the series. In particular, being the chosen heir of Hokuto Shinken dooms you to a life of hardship, and in Kenshiro's time, there are THREE men, including him, worthy of succession.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_36773e28	comment	Dragon From Ash gives this viewpoint to Velandryn Savani when he's revealed as the Dragonborn. As a Dunmer forced to become a Nord messiah, he's saddled with powers his country loathes, a non-negligeable part of the people he's intended to protect hates him for belonging to the "wrong" race and several important officials want to use him as a political pawn. He will also have to fight dragons in spite of being terrified of dying or losing his identity every time he absorbs their soul. For all his smugness, several of his allies cannot help but pity him.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_390e5c71	comment	Life has gotten progressively worse for each successive generation of Ohmsfords and Leahs in the Shannara series. Bonus points to Walker Boh, of The Heritage of Shannara who's attempted Refusal of the Call destroys his life and sees him railroaded into serving as the chosen one.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_399615d7	comment	A Protector's Pride: Ichigo is not amused that the fate of the world is always in his hands.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter. He gets to be a wizard! Yay! Unfortunately for him, he doesn't get to be a normal wizard. As "the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord", the fight against Voldemort systematically gets him ostracized by his school and society, makes him face traumatic tasks pretty much every year, and results in the deaths of his godfather, his grandfather-substitute, one of his favorite teachers, his future brother-in-law, several of his classmates and his pet owl. Oh, and himself, almost.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_3c912cc2	comment	Estelle is the Child of the Full Moon in Tales of Vesperia. Must be neat to have powerful healing artes, right? Well, Phaeroh wants her dead and views her as a poison to the world, and using her powers on an Entelixea will cause them to go crazy and eventually kill them. Even if she can turn them into spirits.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_3fe6b4fb	comment	Luke himself warns in the New Jedi Order novel Destiny's Way that just because someone is a chosen one or has a special destiny doesn't mean they'll have an easy life or a burden free life. He not only is referring to his own father, but is foreshadowing what will happen to Jacen in the coming years.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_3ff7bfc4	comment	Nehemiah is particularly hysterical to read, because he ends practically every other chapter by pointing out to God that he's gone through a lot of angst to lead the rebuilding of Jerusalem and he'd better be getting a proper blessing for his trouble.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural: Those who are capable of being angelic vessels can expect to be hijacked, leaving everyone they love, if they consent to possession by an angel. If they are possessed by a powerful angel, they will be left an empty damaged husk unless the angel bothers to heal them (which they generally aren't inclined to do). And just in case you're thinking, "Don't give consent then! Problem solved!", just remember there don't seem to be any rules on how they get consent. Being a prophet seems to involve upsetting visions of the future and, in Kevin Tran's case, a lot of unwanted attention from angels, demons and Leviathans.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_43628937	comment	Sasha in Greek Ninja is definitely not thrilled with her fate...
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_43f52aa9	comment	The Champion of Cyrodiil in Oblivion doesn't have it much better. The Champion actually fails his/her mission to stop Mehrunes Dagon's invasion and has to watch as the other Chosen One, whom s/he has been helping and protecting throughout the main questline, sacrifices himself to save the world. The Champion is later tapped to be the successor of the Daedric Prince of Madness, Sheogorath, which entails leaving Cyrodiil behind and gradually going insane as mad gods are wont to do.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_44fe781e	comment	Neon Genesis Evangelion: Shinji Ikari, who hates his role as the savior of Tokyo 3 throughout the series. The few times he does get a little bit cocky about it, he is swiftly and cruelly brought back down to earth. Later his classmate Toji is asked to become the Fourth Child and spends a fair amount of time angsting about it considering that his younger sister is hospitalized as a result of a battle between an Angel and Shinji's Eva Unit. By this point he's also become friends with Shinji and knows firsthand all the crap he goes through.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_462d4aa5	comment	In The Saga of Avatar Korra, Korra is kidnapped by the Red Lotus because she was the Avatar. They took her away from her family and put her through a Training from Hell regiment for fourteen years. She never made friends nor did she ever know when her birthday was during that time. It was not until after she escaped from the Red Lotus and entered Republic City she was finally able to become friends with anyone besides her loyal polar bear dog Naga.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_468bebb0	comment	This is without a doubt the belief of Discworld's most inept wizard, Rincewind. He's the favorite of Lady Luck, which makes him despised by her rival, Fate. As a result of being their Cosmic Plaything, not even Death knows when Rincewind will actually die.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_46aac2a3	comment	Elden Ring: Malenia was chosen as the champion of the Outer God of Scarlet Rot while she was in the womb. What this means for Malenia herself is that she's infected with a disease that causes both Body Horror and Mind Rape, infects everything she gets close to, and cannot be cured. By the time you meet her, she's lost more body parts than not to the Rot, despite wearing Unalloyed Gold prosthetics and armor to hold it back. The status does come with the potential to become a true goddess by releasing the Rot, but Malenia would really rather be rid of it and absolutely hates being worshiped as the Goddess of Rot.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_48d37237	comment	Broken Age: Vella is the latest maiden to be chosen as a Human Sacrifice to appease Mog Chothra, an Eldritch Abomination that will destroy her village if he is not given a maiden every fourteen years. Being chosen is considered the highest honor, but Vella has gotten it into her head that maybe she doesn't want to be fed to a giant monster, an idea that earns her mockery from everyone in all the neighboring villages. Shay is the fourteen year old appointed captain of the Bossanostra, a spaceship with the goal of finding a new home for the people of his dying planet. While Shay is told repeatedly by the ship's computer that he is the most important person on the ship, Shay himself has no real control over the mission, and the computer has the overriding urge to keep Shay safe at all costs, so the it keeps him safe by not letting Shay do anything dangerous at all, and after fourteen years it's gotten so boring that Shay is partially Driven to Suicide.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_4be1bdd0	comment	Isaac, the player character of the first Golden Sun game, is chosen directly by The Wise One to make the hard decision of whether Alchemy is restored to the world or not, which isn't the black-and-white situation it initially seems to be. And the fate of his Disappeared Dad hangs in the balance... and Isaac is nearly forced to knowingly murder him himself to confirm a choice that he can't ever be sure was the right one.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_4c095a1f	comment	The Transformers After the events of Transformers: The Movie, Hot Rod becomes Rodimus Prime, and while he does his job to defeat Unicron, a few episodes into the series afterwards, and he becomes more and more disgusted with having the Matrix of Leadership, and all the duties of being leader of the Autobots, to the point that when the Matrix is stolen by the Decepticons, he says they can have it!... Until the Decepticon who stole it starts to actually melt from having it in his chest. Rodimus is then Resigned to the Call and takes it back.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_4d2a48c1	comment	Mako Mermaids: An H₂O Adventure: As a descendant of the merman king, Zac's moonspells always have the same effect of drawing him to the artifacts made be mermen in ancient times to use as weapons against mermaids and his moonspelled personality always wants to use them regardless of what he actually wants. It's not until late into the second season that he starts getting a handle on the moonspell and refusing to let those weapons fulfill their purpose.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_4f7a49d9	comment	Oh, how true for the four in The Keys Stand Alone: The Soft World. Although seemingly four of many "Chosen Ones" brought over to fight the Black Tower, they're not professional adventurers like everyone else and resent how everyone expects them to act heroically at the drop of a hat. George eventually loses his temper and yells at a teenager trying to get them to rescue her 8-year-old sister; later he decides to give up his shapeshifting ring once the Black Tower is down and they can go home, because "as long as I have it, as long as we have it, we're gonna be someone's slaves."
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_52e8fba	comment	In the books, she gets over it later when she's able to go between Oz and Kansas as she pleases, and even more so when she is brought to Oz for good. Em and Henry are put up with a nice farm in Munchkin Country while Dorothy becomes Ozma's champion, heir, and possibly girlfriend.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_53405f6d	comment	So This is Ever After: Arek says, multiple times, that he wishes that the prophecy did not exist or that the one who the prophecy talks about wasn't him, due to the fate saying that he should be the one to kill The Vile One and, therefore, forcing him to marry so that he won't end up vanishing.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_53bd0aaf	comment	With Strings Attached. Ya think, with a title like that?
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_56e10d85	comment	Tolkien's Legendarium: The Lord of the Rings: Frodo Baggins was "chosen" to destroy the One Ring and thus save Middle-earth, but the journey is far from being an easy one. Before it's over, he's been critically wounded twice (by the Lord of the Nazgul and by Shelob), lost a finger (when Gollum bites it off to get the Ring), and permanently scarred by the burden of carrying the Ring. Things turn out pretty well for Aragorn, who is the heir to the throne of Gondor and Arnor — but first, he has to spend some sixty-seven years Wandering the Earth, separated from his lady-love (and knowing that if she does marry him, she will be doomed to die like a Man rather than live forever as an Elf), always in disguise, always working to oppose Sauron's agents (and not always succeeding) and build up the forces of freedom against the inevitable day when Sauron's armies will go on the attack. The Silmarillion: Turin is the The Chosen One, prophesied to be the one to finally kill Morgoth in the final battle. However, most readers would probably conclude that it isn't worth it. The quick summary of everything bad that happened to him was (in some close semblance of order): his father and all his father's friends marched off to a war in which almost all died, and he never saw or heard from his father again; his sister and many of the people he knew who were still there died in a plague; he got sent away from his mother to a kingdom with no humans and never sees his mother again; he banishes himself from said kingdom; he gets a band of friends/subordinates who all die; he accidentally kills his best friend, he gets his new home city-state sacked and his love raped and killed; he marries and gets pregnant his new sister he doesn't know about, who he thinks dies just after he found out she was his sister, following which he kills himself in despair after possibly going insane and talking to his sword. And that isn't even going into what happened to the rest of his family.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_57bad31c	comment	Zig-zagged in My Huntsman Academia. Izuku is incredibly grateful and happy to be the inheritor of One For All as it finally gave him the opportunity to pursue his dream of becoming a Huntsman at the greatest Huntsman Academy in the world. His adventures have given him a plethora of friends he could have only dreamed of prior to coming to Beacon and he gets to meet and learn from people he's idolized his entire life. But at the same time, One For All's backlash hurts and he has to be extremely careful when using it to avoid incapacitating himself in the middle of a life-or-death situation. Izuku also has to keep the nature of his new Semblance a secret, which eats away at him internally and contributes to his Heroic Self-Deprecation as his new friends praise him for how earnest he is. That guilt only lends to the crushing weight of his responsibilities as the leader of Team MNVW and his duties as the next Symbol of Peace and Hope, which make him privy to even more dark and dangerous secrets that he has to keep under wraps. While he will always appreciate the opportunity he's been given, it's clear that Izuku doesn't have his work cut out for him.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_5908ee91	comment	Being the Dragonborn in Skyrim means every major cosmic power either wants to kill you, use you, or both. Daedric Prince Hermaeus Mora is particularly interested in Dragonborn, and arranges events that eventually force the Dragonborn to act as his new champion.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_59215319	comment	The whole playable cast of Persona 2 gets it bad across both games of the duology, Tatsuya in particular. Turns out being caught in a Book of Job-style contest between two powerful (and otherwise evenly-matched) gods of humanity's creative and destructive sides, each trying to see which of their respective domains is stronger in humanity, just completely sucks. And that's before one of them decides to kick over the table when things don't go his way.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_5921531a	comment	The protagonist of Persona 3 also has it pretty bad. After finding out about the Dark Hour, he/she joins a group dedicated to stopping it. Only to find out that they were unwittingly played in order to bring about The End of the World as We Know It. Also, thanks to being at the wrong place at the wrong time, the harbinger of this end turned out to be locked inside of him/her. This results in him/her having to make a sadistic choice. The first option is to erase everyone's memories of the fact that the end of the world is coming, but allowing all of them to live their last days happily. The other option is to keep everyone's memories intact allowing them to futilely fight against the coming end. This first leads to a Nonstandard Game Over/Bad End. The protagonist only succeeds with the second option by performing a Heroic Sacrifice that results in him/her becoming a Barrier Maiden.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_5f3bd79a	comment	In Perfection Is Overrated, Midori laments having to send Mai, Natsuki, and Nao back in time to ensure that the greatest tragedies in their lives happen in order to avert a Temporal Paradox without any help, understanding how difficult it is. She wonders why the fate of the world rests solely in the hands of the Himes, who are not the ideal people for the job, but later wonders if they were chosen because they were imperfect.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_60b9f111	comment	The titular chosen one of Wynonna Earp has had little but misery because of who she is. She accidentally killed her father when she was a child, she was institutionalized for talking about demons that actually exist, she had to Mercy Kill her sister, she gave up her newborn child to protect her from the previously mentioned demons... It would be faster to name the good things that have happened to her.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_618df4ed	comment	Seventh Son: Being destined to be a witch-hunter is pretty hard on Tom since he doesn't think he can handle burning witches alive. This only gets harder and more complicated when he falls in love with a half-blood witch, and then discovers he is one himself!
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_6a8aff51	comment	The Heralds in The Stormlight Archive. Sure, they are immortal, worshipped, immensely powerful and impossibly skilled, with magic powers that essentially make them war gods, but whenever there's no Desolation on Roshar, they must go to Braize and let themselves be tortured by literal embodiment of Divine Rage before one of them breaks and they're sent back to fight in a Desolation. No wonder the story starts with them saying "screw this" and walking away.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_6aaf56f7	comment	So you're a reincarnation of a heavenly being in Tales of Innocence? Your past life is literally going to come back to haunt you.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_6b85085e	comment	In Mortal Kombat Liu Kang is given a case of this in the new timeline starting with Mortal Kombat 9 where he dies in a dispute with Raiden and is revived as a Revenant Zombie. His past self also gets some in Mortal Kombat 11 where he has to forgo a relationship with Kitana as they guide the timeline in his tower ending.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_6c5e0560	comment	Fushigi Yuugi. If you're the priestess, sure everyone bows down to you, you get to make any wishes you want, and you have a harem of bishounen at your beck and call. But, you have to use your wishes for the good of others (not yourself, with the possible exception of a wish to get home safely). Everyone expects you to know what you're doing, when you don't. You can't have sex or even a relationship with any member of your bishie harem as long as you're the priestess (because Sex Is Evil and will destroy your Virgin Power, and Love Makes You Stupid, or at least distracted and biased.) And worst of all, you are a Virgin Sacrifice to be Fed to the Beast; the very god who grants your wishes will devour your soul unless you can pass the Secret Test of Character.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_6f734712	comment	In the ten years of Smallville, Clark never seemed to be happy even for a moment regarding his destiny.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_71434aed	comment	Near the end of OneShot, you and Niko find out that the only way that Niko can return home to their world is by smashing the lightbulb that's supposed to save this world, thus dooming it forever. And even worse, they leave it up to you to decide whether or not you allow a lost little kid to get back to their family and thus leave an entire world to rot in darkness for the rest of its life or trap said kid in a world that is allegedly doomed anyway to push the doom part a bit back. Have fun.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_72262aee	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender: Aang has enormous pressure put on him at the age of twelve. Because he was unable to handle the responsibility of being the Avatar and ran away, his entire race got wiped out, and the Evil Overlord terrorized the world for 100 years. In addition to that, he blames himself for two more crushing defeats. Basically, his entire life was planned out for him, and even his closest friends and past lives take it for granted that he's going to forsake his values and kill the Fire Lord. He doesn't, in the end, but still. Its Sequel Series The Legend of Korra shows that even for Korra, who Jumped at the Call, the challenges of being the Avatar can get to her. When she gets poisoned in season 3, it absolutely destroys her mentally because her self-identity was so reliant on her status as the Avatar.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_7381ab3c	comment	The Life and Times of Juniper Lee: Juniper is chosen as her generation's Te Xuan Ze: the magical protector of the barrier between the human and monster world. At first, it's a job she takes in stride, even though she has to occasionally ditch her friends and keep it a secret from them. But then comes the real rub; she can't leave her hometown ever, as there is a barrier keeping her from leaving. The only way out is for her successor to take the reins. And as Juniper is still a child, it'll be a while before that happens. To say the least, she doesn't take this discovery well. Her grandmother Jasmine got it worse than her. Her son didn't become the Te Xuan Ze so she had to wait until Juniper was born and awakened her powers. And the reason she travels the world is both to make up for all the time she lost as Te Xuan Ze AND to find a way to free Juniper from the barrier.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_73ba6dae	comment	The Witch's Throne: Technically, all girls that awaken as Witches are The Chosen One. The only problem is, that's definitely not something they want to be.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_747dc664	comment	Fangbone! doesn't shy away from showing how hard it is to have to guard one of Venomous Drool's parts. Fangbone himself has to be on guard 24/7, can hardly do anything without a monster showing up to take the Toe of Evil from him, and is forced to live in a completely different world where he has very little idea of who he can trust. One episode "The Keeper of Toe" shows examples of the fates of Drool-Keepers who end up getting caught (eaten by monsters, getting turned inside-out, getting your head turned into a goat's and covered in butter), and in the case of Wargrunt, former keeper of Drool's elbow, how easy it can be to become corrupted by using the magic of Drool's body parts.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_74f7210c	comment	The Legend of Zelda: In Breath of the Wild, both Link and Zelda learned about their destinies years in advance, and it's implied they both became pretty messed up because of this. Link drew the Master Sword at age twelve, 5-6 years before it was actually needed. By the time the story takes place, he's stopped expressing himself (and in some translations, developed selective mutism) to cope with the massive amounts of attention and pressure this brought down on him. His life after the Calamity is no picnic, either; he wakes up with total amnesia, is promptly told he's the only one who can defeat the evil force inhabiting the castle, and then has to deal with people not recognizing him and making his job harder, people recognizing him and unloading a century of misplaced anger on him, and a Doomsday Cult trying to assassinate him. And depending on what order the player finds his memories in, he may spend much of the game convinced that the princess he's trying to rescue openly despises him. Zelda had it just as bad. From an early age, she was put under massive pressure to awaken her sealing powers to combat the Calamity, complete with vicious gossip when said powers didn't develop as expected and the interests she actually enjoyed being constantly devalued in favor of more training. All of this led to her becoming deeply insecure and trying to compensate by pushing herself far beyond her limits in various ways, including an incident where she nearly drowned herself by meditating in a freezing spring until she passed out from exhaustion. On top of this, the same Doomsday Cult was actively trying to assassinate her and came very close to succeeding on at least one occasion. Then, when the Calamity finally came, she had to deal with her family and friends dying when she might have been able to save them if she had her powers, and finally she watched Link suffer fatal wounds while protecting her and die in her arms. Hyrule Warriors has Link, an army recruit undergoing basic training, suddenly be promoted to one of the army commanders, with all the stress and pressure that comes with that. Then he learns that the war he's fighting started because a sorceress went Yandere for the Spirit of the Hero and will do anything to make him hers, including resurrecting an evil that was supposed to be destroyed for good. Once the war starts going well for the good guys, Link becomes a bit too confident, which is promptly used to lure him into a trap and costs the army a crucial victory. Then he takes a massive beating courtesy of Ganondorf and loses the Triforce, leading to an all-out confrontation in a Hyrule remade in Ganondorf's twisted image. Earn Your Happy Ending, indeed.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_78fbf83e	comment	Duran from Agarest Senki. To the point he's a cynical Death Seeker and Deadpan Snarker. Avoids being Wangst because he doesn't advertise it to the world and he's already resigned to his fate.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_792239e5	comment	In Tales of Symphonia: Colette. Chosen at birth for her genetic compatibility with the Big Bad's dead big sister, she goes through one painful transformation after another, in between kidnappings which are also connected to her status. Not to mention the psychological trauma and self-esteem issues that come from knowing since about age six that she'd one day be expected to make a Heroic Sacrifice to save the world. Zelos has most of Colette's psychological issues, compounded by Parental Abandonment - his father, the previous Chosen One of his world, committed suicide, and his mother was murdered in front of his eyes when he was about eight; the murderer was The Mistress of Zelos's father, who was targeting Zelos so that Zelos's half-sister could become the Chosen instead. Her last words to him were "You should never have been born", after which he decided that being the Chosen One was the only reason his life had value at all. And then the reveal comes that Martel isn't a real goddess...is it any wonder he's a Death Seeker unless Lloyd can convince him he's worthwhile?
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_7a9eec32	comment	Chloe, from The Nine Lives of Chloe King is a good example. Like Buffy, she just wants to be normal (though the main difference between them is that Chloe said she wanted to be special in the first place, so there's a bit of Be Careful What You Wish For mixed in too).
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_7e22b6b0	comment	This is made slightly better in Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal. While you are the subject of a prophecy that says that the Bhaalspawn will cause massive destruction to the Sword Coast, a celestial being offers a different interpretation. As it turns out, the prophecy doesn't speak of you, but of your failure to stop your more destructive half-brothers and -sisters.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_7f2f5e71	comment	In The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (2016), Link is forced to go on a perilous quest before he even learns that the Master Sword will reject him and revoke his Plot Armor if Link starts enjoying it too much. To add insult to injury, the Hero's Shade then informs him that The Call will not stop toying with him even in death.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_7f49dfdb	comment	Similar to above, the Protagonist from Devil Survivor. For him, being The Chosen One means being fated to fight a series of terrifyingly powerful demons in a contest for power that will make him a target of Heaven and the demons if he goes too far out of line... not to mention being personally responsible for the lives of everybody in the lockdown.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_7fc78282	comment	The Lord of the Rings: Frodo Baggins was "chosen" to destroy the One Ring and thus save Middle-earth, but the journey is far from being an easy one. Before it's over, he's been critically wounded twice (by the Lord of the Nazgul and by Shelob), lost a finger (when Gollum bites it off to get the Ring), and permanently scarred by the burden of carrying the Ring.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_84986bf9	comment	RuneScape: Zanik is the goblin war god Bandos' Chosen Commander, the goblin who will lead all the goblins to victory in a huge war. There's just one catch: Zanik is of the Dorgeshuun, a group of pacifist cave goblins who renounced Bandos after he ordered them to partake in a battle they had no chance of winning for no reason. There's an entire quest series devoted to Zanik basically telling Bandos to fuck off. And that's not even getting into the part where being the Chosen Commander means Bandos basically uses you as a puppet to get around the Edicts of Guthix preventing him from physically entering Gielinor, thus allowing him to directly command his armies once more and wage war on the entire realm. The player character themself is chosen by Guthix to become the World Guardian, immune to the powers of gods, with the destiny of preventing divine oppression or God Wars from plaguing Gielinor. This means the rest of the gods are now targeting you, either for mind games or for murder.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_85a5a3b9	comment	In Transformers: Prime, once he learns he's been chosen by the Matrix to be the next Prime Smokescreen seems to want the position less and less as the series progresses (not that he wanted to be a Prime in the first place, he just wanted to be a great soldier). He ultimately rejects it, using the opportunity to restore Optimus to full strength instead.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_86814ea1	comment	Final Fantasy XV: Being born into the line of the Kings of Lucis is a pretty sweet gig on the surface; access to immense magical power, wealth, and an arsenal of mystical weapons you can summon from thin air. The catch? All of the king's powers are Cast From Life Span, with the power they extend to their subjects drawing on that same finite source. Upon death, the king's soul is bound up within the Ring of the Lucii in a sort of limbo world to lend power to the kings to follow, with only the souls of other deceased kings for company. The situation worsens with the protagonist's father, who has to maintain a magical barrier around his whole city to keep monsters at bay (exacerbating the whole Cast from Life Span deal). The protagonist himself, essentially the Chosen One of the Chosen Ones, gets to live about twenty years before being locked in crystal stasis for a decade, and once free, he gets roughly another night or two before he has to endure a brutal Heroic Sacrifice to save the world from eternal darkness. Heavy hangs the head that wears the crown indeed. As bad as Noctis has it, Episode Ardyn reveals Ardyn himself has it far, far worse. He is also technically The Chosen One... chosen by the gods to effectively become Satan. The process of breaking him down into a man willing to burn Eos to the ground involves forcing him to absorb countless daemons and become a Humanoid Abomination, getting his younger brother to betray him, killing his fiancÃ©e right in front of him, sealing him away for 2000 years, yanking his vengeance away at the last possible second, and then telling him right to his face he's nothing but a pawn.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_879bff8f	comment	Chikane of Destiny of the Shrine Maiden was tired of her and her beloved being caught in a continual reincarnation loop, so she decided to subvert it and set up a Batman Gambit to make sure it never happens again. Sure, they get reincarnated again, but it's not as bad as before in Shattered Angels.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_885e1bec	comment	Defied in Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_8a013e44	comment	In Yu-Gi-Oh! BAM, during an incident when you are brainwashed, you wonder if your ability with BAM is a gift or a curse, as all this fighting seems to be happening because of you.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_8ba4613a	comment	Death Note: Light Yagami: He wasn't exactly chosen, it was pure luck. But according to Ohba Tsugumi, the creator, Light would have become a great detective and worked side-by-side with L himself on many cases had he not touched the Death Note. Fans even calculated that he would have lived a long life, to somewhere in his eighties. As it was, he goes batshit insane, gets many people including his own father killed (and his sister became a vegetable, great job Light), and he dies in his early twenties. L qualifies as well. Thanks to his smarts, he's the only one able to threaten Light's killing spree during the first arc, and ends up dead. Oops. All of the children at Wammy's. While the orphanage certainly seems like a better choice than some others, they are being raised and groomed to succeed a highly intelligent, enigmatic detective. Near and Mello, L's successors. They probably both suffered through the trials that Wammy's put them through to deem them worthy of succeeding the Century's Greatest Detective. Look how they turned out. Mello is quite obviously not mentally stable, has a massive inferiority complex, and winds up dead. Near is completely isolated from society with only his subordinates for company, unable to interact with and understand others (or at least having a lot of trouble with it), in part thanks to his upbringing. He ends up inheriting the mantle of L, and, as a result, having to shoulder the pressure of living up to the world's expectations.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_8ec33a86	comment	Xenoblade Chronicles 1: Shulk is the only Homs on Bionis able to wield the Monado without harming himself. It turns out it comes at a cost: Namely, he slowly converts his body to be an avatar for Jerkass God Zanza to commit Grand Theft Me.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_8f99cb4c	comment	American Dragon: Jake Long has a dragon assigned to protect every country. And our hero is, uh...the American one. And it leads to getting chased by a dragon-crazy teacher, training taking most of his childhood, nearly getting killed multiple times, and losing his dragon-hunting girlfriend through a time change. One episode has him shifting the burden to his little sister Haley, who is initially very eager to accept it. In one week she's a stressed out bundle of nerves because she's sleep deprived and falling behind in school. Jake, on the other hand, is having the time of his life as a normal kid.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_9096e12c	comment	Ben in CarnivÃ le is an avatar of Light, but he doesn't really like or trust most of the people around him (and vice versa). Also not helping him is the fact that his healing touch power has to be offset by other things/people dying.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_909b004d	comment	Optimus Prime in IDW's run of The Transformers has a bad case of this. The first true matrix bearer in millions of years, he often laments the burden he carries and the responsibility he feels he has in the war that devastated their world. Add that when the Matrix of Leadership joined with him - it hurt. He interpreted it as the Matrix warning him of the burden he was accepting.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_90c73dda	comment	Animorphs: Congratulations, plucky pre-teens! You've been given the ability to shape shift into any animal! Sounds like fun, right? Just make sure you don't accidentally get trapped as a bird or caterpillar or something. Oh, and you have to fight alien invaders, but you can't tell anybody, not even your parents or the cops, because they might actually be under alien control. So enjoy risking life and limb fighting an increasingly violent guerrilla war as your innocence is shattered and you question your every moral value. By the end of it, every one of the animorphs - at least those who got out alive - have become hardened soldiers up to their necks in PTSD. Yay. The alien who gave them the morphing powers and the knowledge of the invasion felt bad about saddling them with this burden, but he believed that humanity deserved a fighting chance and knew from past experience that human children could accomplish a lot. Said alien was also chosen by the same godlike being who chose the Animorphs to be his gamepieces in a cosmic chess game with an Eldritch Abomination. The alien was forced to abandon a happy and peaceful life, spent the rest of it in a war, and suffered an excruciating death. All so that he would be in the right place and time to meet the future Animorphs.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_90d45233	comment	Gregor in The Underland Chronicles has a bad case of this. He's fated to fulfill several prophecies which make the series go from mildly darker than standard High Fantasy to bad. Really bad.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_90f42a9b	comment	In The Wheel of Time, the Dragon Reborn is the Chosen One, destined to wield massive power and battle the Dark One in the Last Battle. Unfortunately, he's doomed to go insane and destroy the world, too. A lot of people aren't exactly looking forward to his appearance. He'd be perfectly happy to go home and not fulfill his destiny, except the pattern of fate is literally woven around him, so there's no escape. And lots of people think he's a fake and want to kill him, or think he's real and want to kill him, or at least control him. And that's just the good guys, we haven't even gotten to the actual villains of the series, who include his past incarnation's Psycho Ex-Girlfriend and a dozen other extremely powerful sorcerers who hate his guts. Being the Chosen One really, really sucks. Specifically, he's fated to die in the Last Battle. He goes from struggling to find a way around that destiny to realizing he's done so many terrible things that he doesn't deserve to, or want to. Being the Chosen One involves some miserable realpolitik.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_9114c8e5	comment	Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth: The cult at the beginning, Jack's time in the asylum, his mission to Innsmouth... all of this was set up by the Great Race of Yith to put him in the right place at the right time so he could kill two imprisoned Flying Polyps which were about to break free. In the end, while the Yith did help him on his quest, they do not cure his psyche, instead leaving him to die in a mental institution.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_914ba844	comment	Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. She's a scared young girl who just wants to get home, and the task of saving Oz ends up falling on her just so the Wizard doesn't have to do it himself. note This is not just a Wicked-influenced comment: even if you still read the Witch of the West as a pure villain, it seems awfully manipulative of the Wizard to use a farm girl to dispose of her. In the books, she gets over it later when she's able to go between Oz and Kansas as she pleases, and even more so when she is brought to Oz for good. Em and Henry are put up with a nice farm in Munchkin Country while Dorothy becomes Ozma's champion, heir, and possibly girlfriend.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_924ce7d9	comment	Michael Rhodes in Birthright is supposedly fated to destroy God-King Lore and free the world of Terrenos from his tyranny. The pressure of a duty that he never chose in the first place, the resentment of being taken from his home (which also lead to his family being split apart) and the horrors of the war ultimately push him to perform a Faceâ€“Heel Turn, side with Lore and betray his comrades just to return to Earth. Making things worse is that he isn't the first, implying that he's entirely expendable as the Chosen One. Then it turns out that he was never really The Chosen One at all. The prophecy was referring to Lore, who had already saved Terrenos in the past and became a villain later. Making all the crap Mikey went through even more pointless.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_928a8b2b	comment	The real name of Alfred Montbank in The Death Gate Cycle is Coren, which is Sartan for 'Chosen' or 'To Choose'. The day he emerges from suspended animation and realizes that every other member of his community died while he was asleep - that he was chosen to live when everyone else was not - he comes to hate that name very, very much.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_93a3145d	comment	Ash tends to have this view in Army of Darkness. No matter how many times he defeats them, the deadites keep coming back and destroy his attempts at a normal life. Admittedly, its often his own fault. Even when defeating the main threat of a story, he almost always forgets some crucial detail that allows the Necronomicon to survive and cause trouble later.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_959e88d	comment	In Dragon Quest XI, the main character is the reincarnation of a great hero called the Luminary, who banished the darkness once before and is prophesied to do so once again. Which meant he was at the top of evil's hit-list from the day he was born, and monsters razed a kingdom to the ground to try and get to him when he was a baby. This, in turn, gets another kingdom out for his blood, as the king blames him for the presence of the monsters. Most people don't even know of the Luminary, only this "Darkspawn" villain that the king's forces are hunting.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_960062b7	comment	My Hero Academia: Each wielder of One For All has to face numerous perils in their mission to defeat All For One. The first seven wielders were short-lived and just managed to pass on One For All before their deaths. The eighth hero, All Might actually defeated All For One, sustaining crippling injuries in the process. Sadly, All Might learnt too late that he failed to kill All For One and was forced to entrust the responsibility to his successor, Midoriya. Midoriya underwent through so many hazards in his first year at high school alone, while simultaneously training to control One For All.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_97a52d9a	comment	Kagerou-Nostalgia sucks for everyone, including our reincarnated heroes. So far they haven't actually managed to save anyone, while losing their leader and suffering betrayal from one of their own.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_9988ccac	comment	One of the main themes of The Empirium Trilogy is how much being the subject of a prophecy messes with your life. Having incredible powers don't mean much if you can't use them freely, and everyone has different ideas about how they should and shouldn't be applied. Despite how much grief her father gives her for being powerful, Rielle takes pride in being able to summon split the sea, control a shadow dragon, and summon fireballs all without the need of a casting, but everyone expects her to use these abilities to protect crown and country. She would love to reveal in her abilities as much as she wants, but she can't without potentially destroying someone or something. It's why Corien's words of devotion and his promise that he will never fear her are so appealing. Before finding out about her heritage, Eliana had an incredibly useful healing ability, but deep down it always worried her. After learning that she's the daughter of the infamous Blood Queen, she comes to hate and fear her powers. Unfortunately, the world needs her now more than ever and a big part of that is accepting who she really is, up to and including her powers.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_9ab32c13	comment	Pony POV Series: In the Finale Arc, the Cutie Mark Crusaders are informed by Phobia that they are the ones who have to save the world this time. They complain about it at first, pointing out that they are only children and they barely made it out of the Wedding Arc with their lives, but suck it up and press forward.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_9b213348	comment	EXTRAPOWER: V carries in him an ore heart that can transform him into the demon god Vezerga. While this sounds like a sweet deal, as his Vezerga form is raw ferocious power, the demons of Malice seek to kill him and retrieve his heart to use its power for themselves. He lives his life fighting off demons on a regular basis, and has lost the life of his sister Victoria before the events of EXTRAPOWER: Giant Fist. The pressure of this generational "gift" has led him to beg the magma majin Magma-O to accept his heart into Magma-O's volcano by the time of EXTRAPOWER: Attack of Darkforce, destroying the heart and his own life in the process. Magma-O claims that too much doubt remained in V's eyes to accept his request just yet, and that the family inheritance that is V's ore heart ensures a powerful defender to protect the Earth. It's certainly not a burden that V ever asked for.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire It becomes increasingly clear that Bran Stark was chosen for something by the supernatural powers up North. To actually get him there, destiny has robbed him of his ability to walk (and with it his dreams of knighthood), his home, his family, and likely his very humanity. Jon Snow suffers on the Wall, losing everything important to him over the course of the story, and Dany spends her first 13 years on the run with her abusive brother before being sold into marriage/slavery
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_9d7caa30	comment	Gary and His Demons has the titular protagonist bemoan the fact that he is chosen to be a demon slayer and is waiting for his replacement.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_9f2c5485	comment	In PokÃ©mon 2000 Ash flat out states this after they find out the Exact Words of the legend "and thus the earth shall turn to ash" don't refer to The End of the World as We Know It, but to the person who can save it.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_9fa025d	comment	In Mother 3, even with there technically being two Chosen Ones here, it still applies. While Lucas isn't necessarily name-dropped as the Chosen One, the fact that he's the only person (besides the Masked Man) who can use PK Love and pull the 7 Needles to awaken the dragon as was prophesied hints at it. And the Magypsies flat out point out that fact too. As such, Lucas definitely fits this trope, given all the traumatizing things that happen to him as he goes on his journey. Same goes for the Masked Man, AKA Claus, for the same reasoning as mentioned above, him being forced to become the Masked Man and commit atrocities in the name of Porky being the worst of it.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_a20a409b	comment	In Revenge of the Teapot Hero, this is an overarching plot point. The protagonist, Kyrie, is just the latest in a long line of "heroes" chosen by the gods and granted a super-natural [gift]. There can be only one "hero" at a time, and a new one won't be chosen until the current one dies. All the previous [heroes] had a [gift] obviously useful in combat and were sent into battle over, and over again until they died. Kyrie has it even worse because her [gift] is boiling water, so she's sent home and is given a day to enjoy her friends and family before her home village is burnt to the ground, everyone slaughtered just to get at her and make it look like the act of random bandits.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_a402df55	comment	Riou and Jowy become the Bearers of the Bright Shield and Black Sword Runes in Suikoden II. The Runes are two halves of the True Rune of Beginning. The Bearers are inevitably driven into circumstances where they must fight each other to the death to reunite the Rune. Even worse, the Runes always choose best friends as their Bearers. The Runes force best friends to kill each other.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_a402df62	comment	Lazlo en Kuldes from Suikoden IV ends up with a True Rune that is just as sucky as the Soul Eater. The Rune of Punishment drains its bearer's lifeforce each time it is used. Eventually, the Rune will consume its bearer and trap them inside it forever which is what happens to Lazlo in the bad ending. Worse, the Bearers inevitably find themselves in situations where they have no choice but to use the Rune's power. Fortunately, there is one way to avoid this: the Rune governs atonement and forgiveness. An act of extreme forgiveness by the Bearer can shift the Rune into its forgiveness phase, in which it no longer feeds on the Bearer to use its powers. If Lazlo recruits the other 107 Stars of Destiny, he gets an opportunity to recruit and forgive his former friend turned enemy Snowe (the last Star of Destiny) for his earlier betrayal at the beginning of the game. Forgiving Snowe completes the gathering of the 108 Stars of Destiny and is a strong enough act of forgiveness to shift the Rune of Punishment.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_a4ff8e01	comment	Fate/Grand Order: Both of the Avalon le Fae in the British Lostbelt: Artoria Caster and Morgan have absolutely MISERABLE lives. The former spent her childhood living in a barn, was ordered to kill the man who raised her, was hated and shunned for being from Avalon, was traumatized upon watching Woodwose burn down Tintagel, forced to shoulder the immense fear and responsibility of saving Britain from Morgan, had to watch as the unrepentant Fae gleefully murdered Morgan, any innocents they could find, and each other, and from the beginning was destined to die forging Excalibur as her final duty until Muramasa did it for her. The latter? Tried COUNTLESS times to save the Fae (who remained completely ungrateful each and EVERY TIME), has her innocence ruthlessly crushed when all her friends were murdered, grew incredibly cold and bitter and oppressed her former tormentors for 2,000 years ruling alone, unintentionally neglected her adoptive daughter Baobhan Sith, and lost her kingdom, her daughter, and her life with one last act of betrayal, and posthumously had all of her work undone when Faerie Britain was destroyed by Vortigern. It's NOT a surprise these two have some unresolved issues.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_a5549ed0	comment	The Bible: In fact one possible interpretation of the Bible is that the meaning of life is Died Happily Ever After. Abraham is asked to kill his own son. It was a test and God stepped in at the last instant to intervene, but he thought so. Job is a literal Cosmic Plaything who loses his family and property. Moses never actually lives to see The Promised Land. And knowledge of this trope is why Moses did his best to talk his way out of becoming The Leader of the Chosen People, burbling excuses as fast as they occur to him—"but I don't speak Hebrew", "but they won't believe me", "but Pharaoh won't listen"—until he's this close to getting smited. But he sure was right about Pharaoh, after all he'd grown up with the guy. Hosea is chosen by God to speak to the Israelites, who have descended into corruption and idolatry. Part of this entails marrying a prostitute who runs away from him and has to be bought back from some other dude (as an object lesson from God to His people), and giving a "No More Holding Back" Speech to people who just won't listen. Jeremiah, whose namesake book, besides being a collection of his messages, chronicles the hardships a prophet of God has to go through. He has been jeered on, humiliated, imprisoned, and disrespected throughout his career. As much as he wanted to vent his frustrations at God for giving him so sordid a task, ultimately he decides to man up and carry on, because somebody had to warn the Jews against moral decadence. Nehemiah is particularly hysterical to read, because he ends practically every other chapter by pointing out to God that he's gone through a lot of angst to lead the rebuilding of Jerusalem and he'd better be getting a proper blessing for his trouble. Most of all, Jesus... "Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done." is a quote from an actual prayer of Jesus (Luke 22:42). One interpretation is that Jesus felt dying impaled as a criminal and a blasphemer was a heavy load to bear and an affront to God. The gospel states in the next few verses that God sent an angel to comfort him. So really, even God knew It Sucks to Be the Chosen One and tried to make it a little easier on him. Another interpretation is that Jesus simply understands that being in human form and slated to die a gruesome death is just going to suck, despite being God himself. But his Heroic Willpower is quite strong, as noted in "(Dad's) will be done," not his own. The Virgin Mary has to watch her Son be humiliated and killed... and there's not a damned thing she can do about it.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_a81325d3	comment	In the Final Fantasy series: Final Fantasy X. Tidus who has been placed in the position of stopping Sin by both his own father and the Fayth. He eventually finds out that permanently killing Sin means he will die too. He does not share this knowledge to the others until the very end. In the sequel he gets revived and gets a happy ending with Yuna. Final Fantasy XIII. So you're a Pulse l'Cie? Congratulations - the government of Cocoon hates you. You have to fulfill your Focus, or else you'll be turned into a Cie'th, Body Horror personified, and will be unable to think of anything but your task...or you might even turn into a living tombstone. And your reward should you complete that Focus? Immortality...as a crystalline statue. Unless, that is, the fal'Cie need you, in which case you can be continuously de-crystallized and crystallized again to complete whatever Focuses they want you to do... Focuses which are never fully explained to you. Have fun. Fang and Vanille in particular were given a rather terrible Focus. It was so bad, Vanille couldn't even bring herself to do it. The Warrior of Light in Final Fantasy XIV is chosen by Hydaelyn to be the world's protector by blessing them with her power and unlocking their latent Echo ability, which makes them immune to being tempered by the primals. Thanks to the Warrior of Light's "gifts" and powerful strength, they never get a moment's rest due to everyone wanting their help (primals or otherwise) and big name leaders (mainly those from the Scions and the Grand Companies) are always seeking them out for the bigger operations, especially when it involves the Garlean Empire. The Warrior of Light basically has no say in anything since there's almost no one else in the world who has the same abilities or blessed powers that they possess. This gets touched upon in the early Dark Knight job quests where the Warrior of Light secretly resents having to be everyone's heroic errand boy and wish they could just say screw it to everything and just go on their own adventure without having to be at everyone's beck and call. Final Fantasy XV: Being born into the line of the Kings of Lucis is a pretty sweet gig on the surface; access to immense magical power, wealth, and an arsenal of mystical weapons you can summon from thin air. The catch? All of the king's powers are Cast From Life Span, with the power they extend to their subjects drawing on that same finite source. Upon death, the king's soul is bound up within the Ring of the Lucii in a sort of limbo world to lend power to the kings to follow, with only the souls of other deceased kings for company. The situation worsens with the protagonist's father, who has to maintain a magical barrier around his whole city to keep monsters at bay (exacerbating the whole Cast from Life Span deal). The protagonist himself, essentially the Chosen One of the Chosen Ones, gets to live about twenty years before being locked in crystal stasis for a decade, and once free, he gets roughly another night or two before he has to endure a brutal Heroic Sacrifice to save the world from eternal darkness. Heavy hangs the head that wears the crown indeed. As bad as Noctis has it, Episode Ardyn reveals Ardyn himself has it far, far worse. He is also technically The Chosen One... chosen by the gods to effectively become Satan. The process of breaking him down into a man willing to burn Eos to the ground involves forcing him to absorb countless daemons and become a Humanoid Abomination, getting his younger brother to betray him, killing his fiancÃ©e right in front of him, sealing him away for 2000 years, yanking his vengeance away at the last possible second, and then telling him right to his face he's nothing but a pawn.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_ab59a0ce	comment	In Trollhunters, the Amulet of Daylight - an Ancient Artifact created by the wizard Merlin - chooses someone to take up the mantle of trollhunter, the inspirational hero to all of troll-kind and maintainer of both the troll-world and human-world (by proxy). The trollhunter has no actual say in the matter, forced to take up the role up until their death. As the trollhunter, they must "heed the call" whenever it calls for them. "Heed the call" can be anything as minor as taking care of one troll's gnome infestation or deliver something through the mail, but usually it involves life-threatening situations. Should they try and get rid of the amulet, it will simply appear back to them, but it must be retrieved if it is stolen. These problems are even worse when it falls towards the current trollhunter James "Jim" Lake Jr., who is not only the first human trollhunter, but he is a mere teenager who had no fighting experience before he was chosen. Being a human using a device designed for trolls, it takes getting used to for Jim to have control over its activation. As a human, he is considerably weaker than most trolls. As a teenager, he has many responsibilities in his personal life and school life, his duties straining his relationship with his mother and causing him to fall so far behind that he winds up missing over a month in school. By the end of Season 3, he was forced to abandon his human life and allow himself to be turned into a troll by Merlin just so he would be physically strong and durable enough to take on Gunmar and Morgana.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_aba7ffb9	comment	In The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel, anybody who is chosen to pilot a Divine Knight will be forced to go to wars that they don't have any reason to do so. Rean, the protagonist, feels the burden late in the game that during the epilogue, many characters thought that he had lost the fire that he had months ago.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_afbc40fb	comment	Prayer of the Faithless: The Vergio Oracles lost their clairvoyant powers, but Serra Cadmus is the only one who regained her powers. Unfortunately, Oracles cannot refrain from announcing their prophecies, and the one she gives is "Fear the Revenant: The Vanguard of Ruin," which causes human civilization to panic about the end days. In order to quell this panic, Emperor Daigo orders her execution, so Serra has no choice but to flee Vergio and take her chances with the Fog.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_b183827e	comment	Jeremiah, whose namesake book, besides being a collection of his messages, chronicles the hardships a prophet of God has to go through. He has been jeered on, humiliated, imprisoned, and disrespected throughout his career. As much as he wanted to vent his frustrations at God for giving him so sordid a task, ultimately he decides to man up and carry on, because somebody had to warn the Jews against moral decadence.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_b5a2b326	comment	The Nerevarine in Morrowind definitely gets the cosmic short end of the stick. While all of the Chosen Ones in The Elder Scrolls series have to endure many hardships to accomplish their goals, none of the others get infected with a horrible mutating disease as part of their divine mission (though the Nerevarine is able to eventually remove the negative aspects of it). It also sucks because everyone around the Nerevarine is trying to manipulate him/her: the Emperor, the Tribunal, Azura, Dagoth Ur, everyone. And in the end, the Nerevarine saves Tamriel from the threat of Dagoth Ur, but at the same time unintentionally sets in motion Morrowind's destruction. In Oblivion, it is mentioned that the Nerevarine apparently took an expedition to Akavir, and hasn't been heard from since. The Nerevarine's story essentially ends with him/her the Ageless hero of a land that has been destroyed, most of his/her accomplishments rendered moot, and having vanished off the face of Tamriel entirely.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_b63f3408	comment	The Great Power of Chninkel: Invoked again and again throughout the story. J'on considers himself unfit for the role bestowed on him by God, has to travel half the world and nearly gets killed multiple times to fulfill his destiny, cannot consummate his love for his female companion G'wel, and is eventually executed by his own people. Even worse, the Almighty Creator saw him fit to die only so that it could attain eternal worship for itself.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_b66371ca	comment	The Trow from The Bard's Tale have a few songs about how much it sucks to be the chosen one. And considering the situations in which they sing themOne when you find a dead chosen one and loot his armorTwo when you find a prison full of Chosen Ones, it's appropriate. Though played around with for the Bard himself — he is also a Chosen One, yet despite the repeated insistence of the Trow Band he actually ends up in the position to fulfil the prophecy, not die and get riches or alternatively stop a demon princess from ravaging the world and end up no worse off than he was at the start of the story, thanks to having more combat competence than farmboys and having the power of the save function on his side.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_b88725ab	comment	The role of Goddess was forced onto Max on his birthday in Magical Boy, specifically the day he decided to come out to his parents as trans. Because the Goddess is an exclusively feminine role to take, he is forced to have his hair up, his face covered in make-up and wear a frilly dress whenever he has to take on his duty (which he has no real say in whether he wants to fulfill it or not). If he does not fulfill his destiny, then the world will be overrun with emotion-eating monsters, leading to The End of the World as We Know It. When he is not powered-hp, his zealous-to-the-point-of-obnoxious mother tries reminding him of his destiny every chance she gets, ignoring his coming out and trying to enforce his assigned gender onto him so that he may be a "proper lady."
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_b89bf586	comment	In Ninjago, Lloyd Montgomery Garmadon turns out to be the prophesied Green Ninja. This is great — he possesses all the elemental powers of creation. The downside? He has to fight and defeat his dad (whom he loves and who loves him back), he has to grow up quickly (literally), and villains seek to steal his powers. And there are more reasons why his life sucks — the others just aren't related to him being The Chosen One.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_b9821fa9	comment	The Dark Crystal: After the Garthim raid the Podling village and capture a bunch of Podlings to enslave them at the castle, Jen comes to think it all happened because of himself and his quest to restore the Crystal, and throws the shard of the Crystal away in a fit of anger. Then he and Kira find the shard in the middle of ancient Gelfling ruins the next morning, Jen reads the prophecy on a wall and comes to terms with it, seconds before the Skeksis Chamberlain enters the scene.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_b9cbc95b	comment	Veigue didn't know how to control his Ice Force in Tales of Rebirth when he was "chosen" to gain its powers. So during an outburst of yelling "CLAAAAIIIIRRRREEE!", he froze her. (This actually became somewhat of a running gag; a Tales DVD shows him shouting, "CLAAAAIIIRRRREEEE!" and covering the screen in ice; and several fans were disappointed this wasn't integrated into Tales of Graces.)
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_b9cc7496	comment	Dogma. For Bethany, being Jesus Christ's ultimate descendant requires that you (a) contract a condition that leaves you barren (b) have your husband leave you (c) hang around with two stoners who want to get into your pants, and ultimately (d) become a single mom as a result of immaculate conception. Jesus, himself, had a pretty terrible situation. As the Metatron points out, he, as The Voice of God, had to tell this 12 year old, who only wanted to play and be like his friends, that he was the Savior of his people, but the very people whom he came to save would be the ones to kill him. And, he couldn't even hear it directly from his own father because his human heart and mind would explode. Jesus apparently still felt some of this even after growing up and accepting his destiny. Rufus mentions that Jesus often seemed happiest just listening to people talk about all the unimportant little things going on in their lives. Bethany speculates it was because not having anything important to talk about was a luxury Jesus never had.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_bc3e398b	comment	In Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, John Connor definitely seems to fit this - he and his family are constantly in danger, and he has intermittent bouts of I Just Want to Be Normal, plus at least one possible suicide attempt.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_c024336	comment	The Road You Choose goes out of its way to show the toll that constantly having to save world takes on Ash and how he feels that he has no choice in the matter. It's explained that it is always Ash's choice to act, with his role more accurately being 'One Who Chooses', and that he does so because he believes it is the right thing to do. However, there are lines that Ash proves he will not cross, being willing to endanger the entire world to keep Giovanni from killing Misty.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_c2463c55	comment	Final Fantasy X. Tidus who has been placed in the position of stopping Sin by both his own father and the Fayth. He eventually finds out that permanently killing Sin means he will die too. He does not share this knowledge to the others until the very end. In the sequel he gets revived and gets a happy ending with Yuna.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_c29f1036	comment	The Prince of Egypt: Moses really wished that God choose someone else to "free his people", as he watches his home Egypt crumble by the 10 plagues, and he has to stand against his adopted brother.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_c29f3831	comment	In Future Robot Daltanious, Kento Tate is revealed to somehow be the descendant of the final Heliosian Emperor, Palmillion, and thus thrusted with the responsibility of managing the fallen empire's Alien Prince affairs as well as piloting the titular Humongous Mecha. Kento expresses on multiple occassions that he hates this responsibility.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_c488a57d	comment	In Chicory: A Colorful Tale, the position of being the wielder is desirable due to the ability to inherit the Brush and color the world with it, in fact, the tradition of choosing a worthy wielder started to prevent people from taking the brush with violence. The position had ended up being unbearable for Chicory to inherit, given her strained relationship with her predecessor, Blackberry, and all of the stress and self-doubt she has held within her ends up becoming the breaking point that unleashes the corruption onto the world. A previous wielder, Cardamom, had quickly passed over his position as wielder to Blackberry because he found the position to be too stressful. It also shows that Pizza isn't fully satisfied with being the wielder nor has it resolved all of their inner feelings and conflicts during the game. During the game, the corruption manifests those very forms of self-doubt of Chicory and Pizza onto them as well. It turns out that the Brush itself carries all of the suppressed emotions of every wielder in history, and in the end, the protagonists create their own brushes and destroy the original Brush, so in the end, anyone has the potential to create their own brush to color the world, not just one chosen wielder.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_c51f9990	comment	Job is a literal Cosmic Plaything who loses his family and property.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_c5e5ebcc	comment	Consequences of Unoriginality takes the time to point out that all those monsters the Chosen One has to fight come from somewhere—in this case, they spontaneously come into being to murder and torture innocent ponies to make Emeris appear to defeat them as the world forces him into the role of a Gary Stu.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_c62995ba	comment	Child of the Storm has Harry, as per canon, express this on more than one occasion, mixed with a grudging acceptance of the fact that he is The Chosen One. But he has issues, ones that explode in an extensive Motive Rant in chapter 28 of the sequel, inspired by his being dragged into the Triwizard Tournament, that being the metaphorical straw that breaks the camel's back. Why? Because he can take his lumps (of which there have been many) if he chose to involve himself, if he chose to step up and fight, which he frequently does, to protect the innocent or for a higher cause. That's just the price of doing business. But this? This is just a game, supposedly to boost international cooperation but with shallower motives (Karkaroff and Maxime are both inclined to try and get one up on the legendary Dumbledore), and more to the point, one Harry did not choose to involve himself in.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_cc32f7c3	comment	Black Sabbath's "Black Sabbath" is about a guy who gets chosen...to go to Hell!
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_cce5a834	comment	In Mortal Kombat: The Movie, this is why Liu Kang left his home. He couldn't bear the responsibility of saving Earthrealm to the point he grew cynical about the whole prophecy. His brother being killed gives him enormous guilt for abandoning his home and he initially joins the tournament only to get revenge on Shang Tsung, which Raiden warns will only bring an end to him and the world.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_cd93cf5f	comment	Birdy the Mighty: Decode sees Shyamalan, who's actually a deconstruction of The Chosen One, give such a speech how such people might feel about it.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_ce67d43a	comment	Tales of Xillia sees Milla Maxwell, the Lord of Spirits, focus on her mission to destroy a tyrannical king and his doomsday device. Except being a Determinator gets her crippled, and later killed, by her staunch refusal to abandon her goal. And then it turns out she's not really the Lord of Spirits after all, just conditioned to believe she was. And that tyrant of a king? He's an Anti-Villain who only wanted to protect his kingdom from people seeking to usurp it. Finally, at the very end of the game, she does get to become the true Lord of Spirits, at the cost of having to leave behind everyone in the human world she's grown to care about.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_cedb9b60	comment	In Hit List, Link and Zelda both get this. Zelda has prophetic warnings from Nayru, which would be helpful if she had any context or idea how to prevent them and if she could get people to help without looking insane explaining it. Link, meanwhile, has to fight Ganondorf alone, more or less (Zelda's there but can't help much), ultimately being stabbed in the stomach and nearly dying pushing Ganondorf out a window.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_cf5c0f55	comment	Pretty much every hero in the Suikoden series: In Suikoden: Ted preceded everyone in the above trope. He acquires the Soul Eater Rune, is forced to runaway from the witch Windy for the next 300 years, gets his rune stolen from him 150 years after he fled from his village, and commands the Soul Eater to eat his soul just so that he won't accidentally command the soul to return the Rune back to him. Tir McDohl, son of The Empire's greatest general, forced to run for his life from the Evil Sorceress trying to steal the MacGuffin from him. In the process, he was recruited into the La RÃ©sistance and eventually became its leader... AFTER said leader DIED in front of him AFTER she has expressed that she might've liked him a lot as a friend. As you lead the Resistance to victory, your Battle Butler died trying to protect you, then the defeated generals pull off a My God, What Have I Done? after pretty much crossing the Moral Event Horizon while under More than Mind Control, so you don't pretty much have a choice but to recruit them. Then you will have to kill your own father to protect your castle, and then you have to see your best friend suffer a Fate Worse than Death. And if you haven't recruited all 108 Stars of Destiny, then your Battle Butler would be Killed Off for Real. Regardless of the status of his Battle Butler afterwards, it left him so shell-shocked that he didn't even want to be there when The Republic was inaugurated, because he doesn't want the Soul Eater to take any more lives. Oh, and he had to deliberately avoid the young hot ninja chick that has been heavily crushing over him, just so she can avoid the fates of these people. If that doesn't suck, I don't know what does. Riou and Jowy become the Bearers of the Bright Shield and Black Sword Runes in Suikoden II. The Runes are two halves of the True Rune of Beginning. The Bearers are inevitably driven into circumstances where they must fight each other to the death to reunite the Rune. Even worse, the Runes always choose best friends as their Bearers. The Runes force best friends to kill each other. Lazlo en Kuldes from Suikoden IV ends up with a True Rune that is just as sucky as the Soul Eater. The Rune of Punishment drains its bearer's lifeforce each time it is used. Eventually, the Rune will consume its bearer and trap them inside it forever which is what happens to Lazlo in the bad ending. Worse, the Bearers inevitably find themselves in situations where they have no choice but to use the Rune's power. Fortunately, there is one way to avoid this: the Rune governs atonement and forgiveness. An act of extreme forgiveness by the Bearer can shift the Rune into its forgiveness phase, in which it no longer feeds on the Bearer to use its powers. If Lazlo recruits the other 107 Stars of Destiny, he gets an opportunity to recruit and forgive his former friend turned enemy Snowe (the last Star of Destiny) for his earlier betrayal at the beginning of the game. Forgiving Snowe completes the gathering of the 108 Stars of Destiny and is a strong enough act of forgiveness to shift the Rune of Punishment.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_d3e3e38a	comment	In She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Adora at first enjoyed having the power of She-Ra, but after various set backs, she began to become overwhelmed by her responsibilities and her perceived failures. She seems to adopt this mind set in season 3 after she learns of the fact she was stolen from another world and Light Hope tells her she doesn't have any choice in her destiny. Then in season 4, she is completely horrified to learn that She-Ra is the conduit for the Heart of Etheria, a weapon that the First Ones made to destroy countless other worlds.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_d7aab7c1	comment	Usagi of Sailor Moon considered her being Sailor Moon this, especially during the latter half of the first season and the first half of R. When she finds out she's the long lost Moon Princess, Princess Serenity, it's just after finding out her crush had just been possibly killed and was just kidnapped by the enemy. By the time the first season reaches its end, she makes a dying wish to be normal again and she gets it... only to lose it when new foes appear.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_d8bda674	comment	Kamui Shirou of X1999's destiny is to determine the fate of the world. But his entire life is not pretty. He watches his mother burned to death and is vaguely told by her to go back to Tokyo to decide his own fate. After arriving in Tokyo, it turns out that his childhood friends, Fuuma and Kotori, are also affected where the former is fated to be the other Chosen One and the latter is destined to die by either one of them. After Kamui makes his decision to protect his friends, Fuuma automatically becomes his polar opposite and kills Kotori right in front of him. It gets worse from there as Kamui realizes that he has to fight his friend to save the world.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_d9c602eb	comment	In the Imaginationland story, in South Park, Butters is the key to stop the evil characters. He doesn't care for the role, and once everything is over, his parents ground him because he was supposed to be helping his mother clean the basement instead of saving all of imagination. In the "Pandemic" two-parter, Craig learns he's the one predicted by the Incans to save the world from the onslaught of the giant guinea pigs, but he wants no part of it and repeatedly attempts to walk away. The Incans predicted that too and engineered things so Craig fulfilled the role anyway.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_db30cf92	comment	In Warrior Cats, StarClan might tell you you can't have a mate or kits, or maybe the magical powers you have alienate cats around you, maybe you don't get to be a warrior at all, maybe all the cats you love will die, but regardless, it tends to suck.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_dda7f303	comment	Kyrian in Dark Heart. He found out that he was a hero of prophecy destined to destroy the evil god Vraxor, but only after Vraxor's army slaughtered his family and nearly killed him too. It's implied that the grief and trauma left him less than fully sane.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Buffy would be an obvious example, especially in season one. As early as the first episode she knows how much it sucks to be the Slayer: kicked out of school, losing friends, going out behind her mother's back, etc. By season seven, however, she and Faith conclude that being hot chicks with superpowers does take the edge off it.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_e2cb4c1	comment	Doctor Strange is the Sorcerer Supreme, and as such one of the single most powerful humans in existence. Unfortunately, this pits him against many Eldritch Abominations even more powerful than he is and malevolent in the extreme.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_e4578280	comment	Unicorn: Warriors Eternal: Emma certainly seems to think so. The latest reincarnation of the Sorceress Melinda, one of the titular Warriors, Emma's life was completely upended when Destiny came for her on her literal wedding day. Now she's fully expected to give up her body to a woman she knows nothing about for the nebulous reason of saving the world. Worse, she's been driven away from her beloved fiance Winston, whilst having to deal with the advances of another of the warriors named Eldrid, Melinda's reincarnated elven lover. It's hard not to understand when she declares "I hate you" to the heroes.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_e5608c8d	comment	In The Successors, Princess Aurora is frustrated that she and her sister were chosen to rule Equestria due to the enormous responsibility it brings, and the burden it puts on her to keep the nation together.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_e583c143	comment	Castle Swimmer: The Beacon (or Kappa as he prefers to be called) was created by the God of the Surface to fulfill the prophesies of the various merfolk kingdoms but they frequently turn out differenly than the recipients expected, leaving Kappa jaded with the whole thing but he has no choice since he's compelled to go to each kingdom and can't physically leave till it has been fulfilled. It's especially bad with the most recent one as he's fated to be killed by the prince of the sharks to save their people from a curse, or at least that's what everyone was led to believe.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_e6267766	comment	The Star Wars Legends continuity doesn't have it much better. Jacen Solo, in order to prevent a dark man from rising to the throne and plunging the galaxy into war, has to turn to the dark side, torture his cousin and padawan into a Sith apprentice and assassin, and lose not only his life but his very soul and the approval of everyone close to him. Luke himself warns in the New Jedi Order novel Destiny's Way that just because someone is a chosen one or has a special destiny doesn't mean they'll have an easy life or a burden free life. He not only is referring to his own father, but is foreshadowing what will happen to Jacen in the coming years. And then the Dark Man (Darth Krayt) rises to the throne and plunges the galaxy into war anyways..
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_ea91a4bf	comment	Daggerfall shows us how much it sucks to be the Unchosen One. Due to some completely random coincidences, The Agent gets sent by the Emperor to Daggerfall on a seemingly minor mission, but find themselves in the middle of a massive political Gambit Pileup with heaps of Black-and-Gray Morality. Just for doing what they're told, the various factions are constantly sending assassins after the Agent, and they quickly learn directly or implicitly that few people are actually trustworthy around the Iliac Bay. In Morrowind, we learn that all of the morally gray outcomes are canonical due to a Time Break, including the Dummied Out ending where the Numidium kills the Agent and obliterates their immortal soul because they are unworthy.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_eb2a8f44	comment	Ash vs. Evil Dead: Over the course of the series, it's repeatedly shown just how traumatized Ash is from the events of the films, even after thirty years, and the new string of Deadite fighting he has to do in the present doesn't help. He finally hits his breaking point in the Grand Finale — in light of the literal end of the world, he breaks down, slipping into a Heroic BSoD, getting drunk, and ranting about how he never wanted to be The Chosen One in the first place.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_eb6802b4	comment	Final Fantasy XIII. So you're a Pulse l'Cie? Congratulations - the government of Cocoon hates you. You have to fulfill your Focus, or else you'll be turned into a Cie'th, Body Horror personified, and will be unable to think of anything but your task...or you might even turn into a living tombstone. And your reward should you complete that Focus? Immortality...as a crystalline statue. Unless, that is, the fal'Cie need you, in which case you can be continuously de-crystallized and crystallized again to complete whatever Focuses they want you to do... Focuses which are never fully explained to you. Have fun. Fang and Vanille in particular were given a rather terrible Focus. It was so bad, Vanille couldn't even bring herself to do it.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_ee829854	comment	House of Anubis: Joy, who was merely believed to be the chosen one, was kidnapped from the school and forced to stay in her house, with no ability to talk to her friends, being trained to build the Cup of Ankh and help Victor and the teachers gain immortality, while being hunted by a psychopath who also wanted to use her to become immortal. Even after getting back to the house and discovering that she's a normal girl after all, she suffered from her life being uprooted and changed while she was gone, and proved to still have flashbacks about the ceremony two years later. Nina, the real chosen one, starts getting controlled and tormented by a Ghastly Ghost who puts curses on her and her friends in order to make her find the Mask of Anubis. It then turns out that this mask can be used to enter the afterlife and reign as a god, and that the ghost's true plan involves stealing Nina's body to live in the afterlife forever. Eddie, the Osirian, got a dose of this in season 3 when he started to receive odd visions from the House and became the leader of Sibuna while the fate of the world was about to be threatened. His desperation to protect his friends proved to be something he couldn't quite live up to, and in the Touchstone of Ra, he was forced into a Heroic Sacrifice to save his friends from Ra's wrath.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_ef661e97	comment	While Ibuki in Street Fighter is mostly a side character, in her own comic named after her it is revealed she was a chosen infant who would become a great ninja. After she was stolen from the Geki clan by Enjo, the current leader of her village group she has to live knowing and defending herself from the evil Geki clan who's ninjas who easily out size her want to kidnap her and make her work for them.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_f06707a7	comment	The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant: Thomas Covenant actually felt and acted this way long before things actually started to suck for him.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_f10619d8	comment	Tales of the Abyss has Luke fon Fabre (both original and replica models), who is informed that he is a chosen hero Because Destiny Says So, but not what the consequences of his actions will be. Because of his ignorance, he destroys a city and starts a war, all in accordance with the ancient prophecy that controls the world, and he has to deal with the consequences for the rest of the game.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_f186f924	comment	Horizon Zero Dawn: The circumstances of Aloy's birth that made her the Chosen One also made her an outcast within the Nora tribe, and as a result, she was raised her entire life by an adoptive father, Rost, who was himself also an outcast. As a result, she has little love for the Nora. When they finally accept her as the Chosen One and start worshiping her after she saves them from an Eclipse raid and returns from her journey into All-Mother Mountain (a.k.a. ELEUTHIA-9) with the knowledge of her goal to destroy HADES, she gives them a short but sweet "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_f2041376	comment	Charmed (1998) Despite having three Chosen Ones, still fills the trope. The Halliwell sisters may receive magic powers, but their lives are frequently in danger, they have to lie to their loved ones and continually struggle to balance their witch duties with their personal lives. Piper's desire for a normal life is used against her more than once in particular. The show deconstructs it a couple of times. One episode has the sisters given the option to give up their powers and they're initially willing to - until they end up nearly losing an innocent, ultimately deciding that the hardships are worth it if they can still protect people. And when they try to fake their deaths and go into hiding, they struggle with trying not to get involved in demon attacks.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_f3e1f424	comment	Arthur clearly feels this way in Merlin, and is constantly telling Merlin that he has no idea what it feels like. While he does have good reason to take this viewpoint, (and to be fair the trope does apply to him), it applies to Merlin much more.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_f5c74709	comment	The Silerian Trilogy: Josarian, after becoming the Firebringer, is betrayed by his closest relative and then eaten alive by a monster. Also, his soul cannot move to the afterlife until the monster's maker is killed.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_f7942c87	comment	Takato from the Tamers Forever Series can strongly attest to this. At first, he's happy in his role as the OmniTamer, but soon comes to realize that being the vessel of Chaos comes at a terrible cost.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_f88e66d6	comment	Mighty Max: Max certainly feels this way many a time about his status as the Mighty One. It's especially annoying when the world needs saving right in the middle of his vacations, or as he's playing baseball. Comes to a head in both season finales when he gets to watch his friends die trying to help him achieve his destiny.
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_fb8392fb	comment	Hosea is chosen by God to speak to the Israelites, who have descended into corruption and idolatry. Part of this entails marrying a prostitute who runs away from him and has to be bought back from some other dude (as an object lesson from God to His people), and giving a "No More Holding Back" Speech to people who just won't listen.
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Brave New World (Pokémon) (Fanfic) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Death And Ker (Fanfic) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Persona 3 Momento Umbrae (Fanfic) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Pride Lands Generations (Fanfic) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Repercussions (Fanfic) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Sailor Moon: Between the Lines (Fanfic) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
The Ash Connection (Fanfic) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
The Emperor And The Goddess (Fanfic) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
The Fiery Blush Of Dawn (Fanfic) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
The Louhearst Expedition (Fanfic) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
The Crimson Garment (Fanfic) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Dune (2021) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Firefox / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Masters of the Universe / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Mortal Kombat: The Movie / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
The Last Temptation of Christ / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Turbo Kid / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Star Wars Legends (Franchise) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Hiraheishi Wa Kako O Yumemiru / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Carry On / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Dark Heart / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Hiraheishi wa Kako o Yumemiru / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
If It’s for My Daughter, I’d Even Defeat a Demon Lord / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Mark Of The Fool / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Medallion / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Perelandra / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Reborn to Master the Blade / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Shandril's Saga / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Shannara / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Sword of Shadows / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
The Chronicles Of Jonathan Tibbs / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
The Empirium Trilogy / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
The Last Dragonslayer / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
The Sight / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
The Silerian Trilogy / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
The Silmarillion / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
The Vampire Diaries / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
The Winter Queen Contingency / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Wings of Fire / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
PandoraH-M	seeAlso	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
ScaleWars	seeAlso	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Birdy the Mighty (Manga) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Karakuridouji Ultimo (Manga) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (2016) (Manga) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Twin Star Exorcists (Manga) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Gays in Capes (Podcast) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
SAYER (Podcast) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Video Game Edition Series (Roleplay) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
A Korean Odyssey / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Ash vs. Evil Dead / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Flash Gordon (2007) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
House of Anubis / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
inFAMOUS / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Power Rangers Dino Force Brave / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
The Shannara Chronicles / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Hunter: The Reckoning (Tabletop Game) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Brand (Theatre) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
I Lombardi Alla Prima Crociata (Theatre) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
The Rite of Spring (Theatre) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal (Video Game) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth (Video Game) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Chicory: A Colorful Tale (Video Game) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Dark Souls (Video Game) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Dragon Nest (Video Game) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Love of Magic (Video Game) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Mortal Kombat 9 (Video Game) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Mother 3 (Video Game) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
OneShot (Video Game) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Prayer of the Faithless (Video Game) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Tales of Legendia (Video Game) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Tales of Symphonia (Video Game) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
The Hex (Video Game) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
The Longest Five Minutes (Video Game) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana (Video Game) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Chaos;Head (Visual Novel) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Smash King (Web Animation) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Society of Virtue (Web Animation) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
I'm a Marvel... And I'm a DC (Web Video) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
The Unexpectables (Web Video) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Transplanar RPG (Web Video) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Whispered Faith (Web Video) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Basic Instructions (Webcomic) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Castle Swimmer (Webcomic) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Dragon Sanctuary (Webcomic) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
MAG-ISA (Webcomic) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Secret of Mana Theater (Webcomic) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Skin Deep (Webcomic) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
The Witch's Throne (Webcomic) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Class of the Titans / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Fangbone! / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Gary and His Demons / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Metalocalypse: Army of the Doomstar / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Minoriteam / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
The Prince of Egypt / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Trollhunters / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow (Video Game) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Tales of Eternia (Video Game) / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One

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