Prophecies Rhyme All the Time: Difference between revisions

{{quote|'''Fates:''' In eighteen years, precisely, the planets will align ever so nicely...

Whenever characters are reading from an ancient prophecy or magical spell, it will rhyme, as if every ancient scroll and tome was written by Dr. Seuss. Even funnier, the translation makes it rhyme ''in English'', regardless of what culture it came from. It's like an attempt at [[Gratuitous Iambic Pentameter]], running headlong into [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]].

== Film ==

* The prophecy in ''[[The Dark Crystal]]''.

* From ''Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny'': "From where you came you shall remain \ until you are complete again". It was originally in Latin too.

* Played straight, subverted, ''and'' lampshaded in the film version of ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]: [[The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe]]''.

{{quote|'''Mr. Beaver:''' When Adam's flesh and Adam's bone/Sits at Cair Paravel in throne/The evil time will be over and done.

'''Mr. Beaver:''' You're kinda missin' the point. }}

** It twisted the history of and etymology of the English language so that it would rhyme.

* Spoofed in ''[[Good Omens]]'', as seen in the page quote.

* The two prophecies central to ''[[The Dark Is Rising]]'', each of which are some twenty lines long, read like this.

* The inscription of the One Ring in ''[[Lord of the Rings]]'': ''Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatulûk, agh burzum-ishi krimpatul,'' which rhymes "find them" with "bind them," and (depending on your definition of "rhyme") "them all" with itself. "One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them." Considering that Tolkien was explicitly invoking the [[Translation Convention]] for his work, this suggests that it's a rhyme in at least ''three'' languages (our English, the Black Tongue, and the Westron language the notional "real" text was translated from).

* Shows up in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' as Goombella spouts off lines from the legend of the titular door.

{{quote|To find the treasure of yore

that leads to the stones of yesterday. }}

== Western Animation ==

* ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'': "The Gem was born of evil's fire;/the Gem shall be His portal./He comes to claim, He comes to sire/The end of all things mortal."

* The [[Lighter and Fluffier|toned-down]] children's TV series of ''[[Watership Down]]'' turned [[Waif Prophet]] Fiver into an [[Oracular Urchin]] whose every prophecy [[Rhymes on a Dime]].

* Parodied in a live-action segment in the ''[[Super Mario Bros Super Show]]''. Luigi made his brother disappear. The spell to bring him back (according to the [[Guest Star]]) was something like "Ping-ping pear...wing-wing wear...make old Mario...Re-a-pear!"

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