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Sometimes the hand of fate must be forced free#

All the events of the film that conspire to bring about his doom are things that he directly or indirectly set into motion.

Also worth noting is that as an albino peacock, Shen himself is a black-and-white warrior.

Shen assumes that Po is looking for revenge for the deaths of his parents and his entire people, when as far as Po knows, he's only there because Shen stole a bunch of pots and took over a city on the other end of China and has no external reasons for vengeance.

Extra irony points because Po, the one destined to defeat him, doesn't even know that Shen EXISTS until a week before he fights him.

So he could fight fate, he just tried to fight the wrong part of it.

The Soothsayer does acknowledge that this will only happen if Shen continues on his current path.

"One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it.".

In the end, his efforts to change his fate became the very beginning of his downfall (Shen's parents banished him for it) and sets up the chain of events that will fulfill this prophecy.

In Kung Fu Panda 2, the antagonist peacock Shen ordered the massacre of the entire panda population in China because of the prophecy that he will be brought down by a warrior in "black and white".In any case, expect An Aesop about how there's no use crying over spilt milk and that it's important to move on. There might be an explanation involving some form of the grandfather paradox where the time traveller can't change that particular event because it's what led them to time travel in the first place thus if they succeeded they would never have started time traveling, which of course means that their loved one or hometown wouldn't have been saved. This is more common with Time Travel stories, where a time traveller tries to Set Right What Once Went Wrong (saving one particular loved one, hometown, etc.) but find that no matter how hard they try and how many times they time travel back, their attempts to do so still result in their loved one or hometown being gone. Everything does change, except for the one thing that the characters actually want to change.If it's the specific subtrope where a character cheats death only to die in a separate, but equally cruel and unusual, circumstances, that's Cheated Death, Died Anyway. Usually this involves a Prophecy Twist, where the prophecy hinges on some Ambiguous Syntax or metaphor that make it technically true. The event comes true but not quite as expected.

Sometimes the hand of fate must be forced free#

An Aesop usually follows about free will being stronger than destiny. In such situations, they usually conclude that fate only said something bad would happen, not that they couldn't eventually right it. Sometimes, the heroes still manage to put right the wrong the prophecy promises. There is only one possible future, and if you think otherwise, it's because you were destined to take a different path. One technical term for the Time Travel version of this trope is the predestination paradox, a concept very popular with the Ancient Greeks, who believed you cannot change the future. Depending on the mood of the series, the final fulfillment of the prophecy may or may not be a Downer Ending. The event comes true exactly as expected.This trope will usually turn out one of three ways:

It's as old as Oedipus Rex, used by Shakespeare and Tolkien, and still fresh at least as recently as the mid-80s sitcom! ( Often it happens because of those attempts). A character gains knowledge of an event that is about to happen whether by prophecy or time travel and they attempt to change it, but it comes true anyway.