chosen one
Noun
Meaning
chosen one (plural chosen ones)
(authorship, informal) A character in a narrative work who is predestined to save the world or do some other grand and heroic accomplishment; one who is predestined to become the one
Many of these fantasy novels feature a main character portrayed as a chosen one who will save everyone else.
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Examples
In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the slayer.
It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God's finger crushes against the wall.
The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.
What if the chosen one misunderstands what he's been chosen for?
[He] saw that a peculiar expression had come into his nephew's face; an expression a little like that of a young hindu fakir who having settled himself on his first bed of spikes is beginning to wish that he had chosen one of the easier religions.
I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I'm learning how to deal with it. That's why I've chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel.