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* ''[[Slayers]]'' has "Ragna Blade" spell. Appropriately enough, it invokes the power of the creator deity living in primal Chaos and as such can harm or kill anything in the world, including Gods and Dark Lords providing "lesser" spells of [[White Magic]] and [[Black Magic]]. The [http://kanzaka.wikia.com/wiki/Ragna_Blade#Incantation incantation itself] fits well too.
* ''[[.hack]]'' in Liminality mentions the ''[[The Ring of the Nibelung]]'' from Wagner's opera as the source of the power of the World.
* Among the [[Crossover Cosmology]] members in ''[[Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?]]'' is Freya, who is shown to be the most beautiful of the goddesses in the setting, being able to enrapture followers of other pantheons' goddesses of beauty with just a glance.
== Comic Books ==
* The [[Marvel Comics]] characters Thor and Loki. Thor is [[In Name Only]] - they didn't even get his hair colour right - while Loki has his evil side turned [[Up to Eleven]] and his good side minimized.
* Bill Willingham's ''[[Elementals (comic)|Elementals]]'' also had a Thor, who was portrayed as being closer to the Eddas than Marvel's Thor was. It was also mentioned that this Thor survived Ragnarok, which humans called [[World War II]]... and he was quick to explain to the team's Jewish member that what his worshippers did had nothing to do with him.
* The Danish series ''[[Valhalla]]'', which uses the Eddas as starting points for the story arcs.
== Fan Works ==
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== Literature ==
* ''Norse Mythology'', by [[Neil Gaiman]] - a remarkably faithful retelling of the eddas.
* ''[[American Gods]]'', also by Neil Gaiman. Its protagonist undergoes a quest remarkably similar to one of Odin's, and [[In Name Only]] versions ([[justified]] in-story; Gaiman knew exactly what he was doing) of two of the Norse gods appear as major characters.
* In [[John Myers Myers]]' ''[[Silverlock]]'', the tramp freighter Shandon is traveling on at the very beginning is mentioned in passing to have been named the "Naglfar". When it sinks, his adventure begins, and it's the first of dozens, if not hundreds of references to literature and mythology scattered through the book.
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== Music ==
* ''[[Ride of the Valkyries]]'', from ''[[The Ring of the Nibelung]]''
== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[In Nomine]]'' has various non-Abrahamic gods in The Marches (an ethereal area that is not Heaven, Hell, or the mortal realm). The Norse pantheon is described as surviving heaven's attempt to destroy the "pagan" goods relatively intact - of the major deities, only Thor is listed as having been vanquished. The ''Ethereal Player's Guide'' states that the game's version of Odin is more powerful than any celestial being short of an Archangel or a Demon Prince.
== Theatre and Opera ==
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* Two of the attacks in ''[[Phantom Dust]]'' are called Thor's Hammer and Gungnir. Bonus points for Gungnir being one of the most accurate attacks in the game, as never missing was an attribute of its namesake.
* ''[[Max Payne (series)|Max Payne]]'' and ''[[Alan Wake]]'' both have elements, the first having a psychotic boss being obsessed with mitology, and the second features a heavy metal band composed by two wacky old men also revolving around Norse mythology. Sam Lake sure loves vikings.
* ''[[Valhalla (video game)|Valhalla]]'' was set in Asgard and Midgard.
== Web Comics ==
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