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== Video Games == |
== Video Games == |
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* 'The Heart of Darkness' from [[Legacy of Kain]]. In the first game, it was nothing more than an [[ |
* 'The Heart of Darkness' from [[Legacy of Kain]]. In the first game, it was nothing more than an [[1-Up|extra life]]/healing-potion with creepy graphics and a nifty description: "Torn from the chest of the greatest vampire to have ever existed, Janos Audron, the Heart of Darkness restores vampiric un-life. Life is precious, Janos discovered, as it was torn - throbbing and bleeding - from his own body." In the later games, it becomes an important Mac Guffin, since Janos Audron can be revived by putting the still-beating heart back into his chest. Raziel eventually {{spoiler|gets to watch his past self tear Janos' heart from his body, and later learns that Mortanius used the Heart of Darkness to resurrect Kain...by placing it inside him.}} |
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** Hilariously touched on during the outtakes of the Soul Reaver 2 voice sessions for mook dialogue for the scene for Janos: "Look at his black heart! How still it beats!....How it STILL beats!" |
** Hilariously touched on during the outtakes of the Soul Reaver 2 voice sessions for mook dialogue for the scene for Janos: "Look at his black heart! How still it beats!....How it STILL beats!" |
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* Subverted in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'''s expansion ''Wrath of the Lich King'', there's a questline where you find the eponymous Lich King's heart and there's a race to destroy it before he can get it back. Turns out {{spoiler|the Lich King destroys it himself anyway, since he sees it as his last shred of "human weakness"}}, but it is not beating: It's frozen. |
* Subverted in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'''s expansion ''Wrath of the Lich King'', there's a questline where you find the eponymous Lich King's heart and there's a race to destroy it before he can get it back. Turns out {{spoiler|the Lich King destroys it himself anyway, since he sees it as his last shred of "human weakness"}}, but it is not beating: It's frozen. |
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* [[Meat Loaf]]'s ''Bat Out Of Hell'' features the lines: "And the last thing I see is my heart,/Still beating,/Breaking out of my body,/And flying away,/Like a bat out of hell." |
* [[Meat Loaf]]'s ''Bat Out Of Hell'' features the lines: "And the last thing I see is my heart,/Still beating,/Breaking out of my body,/And flying away,/Like a bat out of hell." |
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* [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s song ''CNR'' paints the late actor Charles Nelson Reilly as a Chuck Norris-style [[Memetic Badass]] who, among other things, could "rip out your beating heart, and show it to you right before you died". |
* [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s song ''CNR'' paints the late actor Charles Nelson Reilly as a Chuck Norris-style [[Memetic Badass]] who, among other things, could "rip out your beating heart, and show it to you right before you died". |
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* [[Avenged Sevenfold]]'s song about murder, necrophilia, zombies, and love, "Little Piece of Heaven" includes this gem: |
* [[Avenged Sevenfold]]'s song about murder, necrophilia, zombies, and love, "Little Piece of Heaven" includes this gem: |
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{{quote|"Ripped her heart out right before her eyes/ Eyes over easy, eat it, eat it, eat it!"}} |
{{quote|"Ripped her heart out right before her eyes/ Eyes over easy, eat it, eat it, eat it!"}} |
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