The 15 Greatest Chosen Ones

In honor of the release of M. Night Shyamalan‘s Avatar: The Last Airbender, we have complied a list of the fifteen greatest chosen, prophesied, destined, or otherwise singled out heroes in science fiction and fantasy, whether they come from books, movies, television, or video games.  After all, Aang isn’t the only person to have a terrible path set before them by fate, and he won’t be the last.  Warning: we’re talking about ultimate destinies here.  Here there be spoilers.

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• Web Buzz: Number of Google results.
• Wikipedia Pageviews: How many times their Wikipedia page was viewed last month, courtesy of stats.grok.se.
• Degree of Success: To what extent our heroes (or villains) fulfilled the path that was laid out before them.

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Susana Polo

Susana Polo thought she'd get her Creative Writing degree from Oberlin, work a crap job, and fake it until she made it into comics. Instead she stumbled into a great job: founding and running this very website (she's Editor at Large now, very fancy). She's spoken at events like Geek Girl Con, New York Comic Con, and Comic Book City Con, wants to get a Batwoman tattoo and write a graphic novel, and one of her canine teeth is in backwards.

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