| “ | Yes, Nicola! Fate is here! Fate is everywhere! In chess, Fate is the seventeenth piece...the piece that makes the play that decides the match! Fate is here because you, too, must pay a price! | „ |
| ~ Fate confronting Guido Nicola. |
Fate is the titular recurring protagonist of the horror comic series Hand of Fate. As his name suggests, he is the all-powerful embodiment of fate who determines the outcome of all mortals' lives, and often intervenes to punish evil-doers and ensure that his decrees are carried out.
What Makes Him Magnificent?[]
- He is all-knowing and has predetermined the fates of every mortal who has ever lived. Even the stories he doesn't appear in imply that he is shaping the events.
- He is the most powerful being in creation, being the master of the entire universe due to his control over fate and even commanding Death himself.
- His decrees are fair and give even the most evil of mortals a chance to avoid them by making different choices.
- While the fates shown in the series are all extremely cruel, most of the victims are irredeemable criminals who deserve what happens to them.
- Most of his decrees rely on his being a Batman Tactician who always knows everything that the target will do, as it is their efforts to avoid Fate that leads to their deaths. An example of this is "To Behold His Doom", where Stanley's attempts to escape an imminent plague by fleeing the country lead to him being exposed to said plague.
- Whenever he directly interferes in the lives of mortals, he shows himself to be extremely manipulative when ensuring that evil-doers suffer ironic deaths as he has decreed:
- In "The Clock Of Doom Strikes Loud", he lies to the greedy Carl Brandon that his fate is to be damned to Hell, leading to Brandon bringing about his real fate of being erased from history when he tries to turn his life clock back to before he was born.
- In "The Sorcerer's Spectacles", he baits Vernon Hutchins into looking into a mirror while wearing the titular spectacles and summoning evil spirits to kill him.
- In "Death Was The Bridegroom", Fate and Death work together and cause a black widow to murder her accomplice before luring her into damnation.
- In "Phantoms Of The Forgotten", he uses reverse psychology to trick George Crandall into summoning an undead sheriff to thwart his plans.
- His most magnificent gambit in "The Man Who Would Be Fate" sees him allowing the villainous Roger Dunning to usurp his position as Fate, knowing that Dunning's mortal mind can't cope with Fate's infinite knowledge and he will be overcome within seconds, allowing Fate to resume control of the universe for the rest of eternity.
What Makes Him A Baddie?[]
- He kills Guido Nicola by magically stopping his heart purely because he considers Nicola too arrogant to live.
- In "Dead Ringer", he causes a horrific plane crash that kills everybody on board except for one passenger.
- He punishes Hubert Newton, the aforementioned survivor, for impersonating a dead passenger by trapping him in a coffin and leaving him to be buried alive for twenty years before he finally dies.