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In some versions, the serpent [[Here There Be Dragons|encircles the world]] or the [[Tree of Life]], and is tied to its fate.
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== Anime & Manga ==
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== Comic Books ==
* In "The Lord of the Mountains", an issue of ''[[Thorgal]]'', a ring that allows time travel takes the form of an Ouroboros.
* In ''[[Tintin (Comic Book)]] in the Congo'', Tintin makes a snake eat its own tail.
** It's apparently possible to create this in Real Life by feeding a snake's tail to itself. Snakes can't stop digesting once they've started, so this is a rather mean thing to do.
* In the [[G.I. Joe]] Reloaded short [[Alternate Continuity]], an ouroboros is the symbol Cobra carve in the place of one of their first attacks.
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* The final boss of ''[[Xenogears (Video Game)|Xenogears]]'' is Ouroboros, and its defeat probably represents the end of the 10000-year cycle of death and rebirth {{spoiler|Deus initiated in order to repair itself and fly off to destroy other planets.}}
* In ''[[Shin Megami Tensei Strange Journey (Video Game)|Shin Megami Tensei Strange Journey]]'', the boss of Sector Eridanus is Ouroboros. You have to fight her twice over, because at the first time, five demons are giving her energy to survive indefinitely. She's beaten at the second try, [[That One Boss|but who said that it'll be easy?]] {{spoiler|Then it turns out that defeating Ouroboros doesn't actually enable the Red Sprite to escape the Schwartzwelt...}} She appears as a silver serpent, her body in a vertical infinity symbol, tail in her mouth.
* In the [[Fallout New Vegas]] add-on ''Old World Blues,'' all the [[
== Webcomics ==
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