Fate most commonly refers to destiny, a predetermined course of events.

Fate may also refer to:

  • Moirai or Fates, in Greek mythology
  • Time and fate deities, personifications of time and human fate in polytheistic religions

Fate franchise

Fate (franchise), a Japanese media franchise:

  • Fate/stay night, a 2004 visual novel and its adaptations
  • Anime television series based on the visual novel:
  • Fate/stay night, a 20062007 anime series
  • Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works (TV series), a 20142015 television series
  • Anime films:
  • Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works (film), a 2010 film
  • Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel, a film series that debuted in 2017
  • Light novels and manga:
  • Fate/Zero, a light novel series and its adaptations
  • Fate/Apocrypha, a light novel series and its adaptations
  • Fate/strange Fake, a light novel series
  • Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya, a manga series and its adaptations
  • Video games:
  • Fate/unlimited Codes, a 2008 fighting game for PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 2
  • Fate/Extra, a 2010 role-playing game for PlayStation Portable
  • Fate/Grand Order, an online free-to-play role-playing mobile game for Android and iOS
  • Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star, a role-playing game for PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Nintendo Switch and Microsoft Windows
  • Fate/Samurai Remnant, a 2023 action role-playing game for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and Windows

Film and television

  • Fate (1913 film), a 1913 silent short film
  • Fate (2001 film), a 2001 Turkish film
  • Fate (2008 film), a 2008 South Korean film
  • Fate: The Winx Saga, a live-action adaptation of Winx Club
  • The Fate of the Furious (2017 film), marketed as "F8" and sometimes pronounced "Fate"
  • "Fate" (In the Heat of the Night), an episode of In the Heat of the Night
  • Fate Testarossa, a character in the anime series Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha and its sequels
  • "Fate", a screenwriter whose credits include the documentaries War on Terror (2001), Info Wars (2004), and The War on Drugs (2007)

Literature

  • Fate (magazine), a magazine of paranormal phenomena
  • Doctor Fate, a succession of DC Comics sorcerer characters, first published in 1940
  • Fate (comics), a character associated with Doctor Fate, or the eponymous comics series
  • "Fate" (short story), a 1931 short story by P. G. Wodehouse

Music

  • Fate (Janacek) or Destiny, a 1907 opera by Leoš Janáček and Fedora Bartošová
  • Fate (band), a Danish heavy metal band with an eponymous 1985 album
  • Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven), nicknamed Fate

Albums

  • Fate (Dr. Dog album), 2008
  • Fate: The Best of Death, 1992
  • Fate (EP), by Prudence Liew, 1989
  • Fate, by Velvet Acid Christ, 1994

Songs

  • "Fate" (1953 song), written by Robert Wright and George Forrest for the musical Kismet
  • "Fate" (Bleak song), 2006
  • "Fate" (Chaka Khan song), 1981
  • "Fate" ((G)I-dle song), 2024
  • "Fate", by 8stops7 from Birth of a Cynic, 1998
  • "Fate", by Band-Maid from World Domination, 2018
  • "Fate", by Enhypen from Dark Blood, 2023
  • "Fate", by Kokia, 2010
  • "Fate", by Our Last Night from Age of Ignorance, 2012
  • "Fate", by Stray Kids from Hollow, 2025

Games

  • Fate (role-playing game system), Fantastic Adventures in Tabletop Entertainment, a 2003 generic rules system for role-playing games
  • Fate video game series published by WildTangent games:
  • Fate (video game), a 2005 computer action RPG
  • Fate: Undiscovered Realms, a 2008 stand-alone expansion to the original
  • Fate: The Traitor Soul, a 2009 second stand-alone expansion to the original
  • Fate: The Cursed King, a 2011 final instalment of the Fate series
  • Fate: Gates of Dawn, a 1991 computer role-playing game
  • FATE (Chrono Cross), a powerful entity in the video game Chrono Cross

People

  • Fate Echols (1938-2002), American football player
  • Hugh Fate (1929-2021), American dentist and politician
  • Mary Jane Fate (1933-2020), Alaska Native activist

Places

  • Fate, Texas, a city in the U.S.
  • Fate, Shulan, a town in Jilin Province, China

Other uses

  • Cell fate determination
  • Fate (political party), a defunct political party in Greece
  • Fate (company), an Argentine tire manufacturer
  • Feline arterial thromboembolism (FATE), a disease of the domestic cat in which blood clots (thrombi) block arteries
  • First American Transcendental Exhibition, an alternative name for Bhagavad-gita Museum
  • Focus assessed transthoracic echocardiography, a protocol for transthoracic echocardiography
  • Future Affordable Turbine Engine, a US Army program for improving turboshaft and turboprop engines

See also

  • F8 (disambiguation)
  • Fates (disambiguation)
  • Fatal (disambiguation)
  • Fatalism, a philosophical doctrine
  • Karma, a concept in Indian religions