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* [[Terry Pratchett]]'s [[Discworld]]:
** ''[[Discworld/Thief of Time|Thief of Time]]'' -- When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss shouldn't wave to you.
** Mentioned again in ''[[Discworld/Going Postal|Going Postal]]''.
* [[Watchmen]].
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== [[Web Comic|Webcomics]] ==
* [[Cry Havoc]] has it in the title, then uses parts of it once or twice in the dialog
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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== [[Theater]] ==
* In [[The Sixties|the 60s]] musical ''[[Hair (theatre)]]'', there's a song called "What A Piece of Work Is Man".<br />The lyrics are the entire quote ([[Gratuitous Iambic Pentameter|in iambic pentameter]]) from which the stock phrase is taken.
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** In fact many uses of this quote are [[Trope Codifier|actually quoting Oppenheimer]] [[Older Than They Think|quoting Gita]]. The meaning is frequently taken to be "I have the power!"... but that's [[Misaimed Fandom|not what Oppenheimer meant at all]]. The Bhagavad Gita is a dialogue between the god Krishna and the prince Arjuna, as Arjuna is about to go into battle against his cousins, his guru, the people who raised him, to secure the kingdom. Arjuna questions the rightness of such violence, and in response, Krishna transforms into his [[One-Winged Angel|terrible, multi-armed aspect]], telling him that doing his moral duty is more important than anything else. Oppenheimer felt that he had done a terrible thing, that "the world would not be the same", but he thought of it as [[I Did What I Had to Do|his duty]].
*** So on top of being a brilliant scientist, I guess Oppenheimer was psychic?
* As he watched sand turn to glass in the New Mexico desert, I bet Oppenheimer felt quite a bit like Arjuna.
** Imagine you are on the verge of a battle where your sacred and social duties oblige you to [[Moral Event Horizon|kill your siblings and mentors]]. Then imagine that your [[A Form You Are Comfortable With|comrade]] (who later reveals himself to be a [[Eldritch Abomination|thousand-mouthed devourer of civilizations]]) is telling you "go ahead and do it, they're going to die anyway".
== RPG ==
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{{quote|"Things are spinning around faster and faster, and threatening to go completely awry. Falcons and falconers. The center cannot hold."}}
* The middle book of [[Harry Turtledove]]'s ''American Empire'' trilogy (the second trilogy of his [[Timeline-191]]) chronicles the ominous ascent of the Freedom Party. It's called ''The Center Cannot Hold''.
* Joan Didion published a collection of essays in 1968 under the title ''Slouching Towards Bethlehem''. It's mainly about her experiences in California during the 1960s.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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* The first episode of ''[[Millennium (TV series)|Millennium]]''
* ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]''. Mohinder recites this at the end of the episode titled, appropriately, ''The Second Coming''.
** Bonus points for doing the ''whole'' poem, and not skipping the first two lines (as people are wont to do). See [[Battlestar Galactica]], below.
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'' ("The Plan"). The nonsense babbled by a [[Mad Oracle|Hybrid]] as they're about to nuke the 12 Colonies includes the line, "The centre holds; the falcon hears the falconer." (the actual Yeats line is "the centre cannot hold" and "the falcon cannot hear the falconer"). Presumably a statement that, for the Cylons at least, their plan is coming together, as opposed to things falling apart (which happens later on).
* The ''[[Angel]]'' episode "Slouching Towards Bethlehem".
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== [[Film]] ==
* Used in the film ''[[Dawn of the Dead (film)|Dawn of the Dead]]''
* In the [[Clint Eastwood]] film ''[[Pale Rider]]'', it is quoted near the beginning of the film, as Eastwood's character is shown riding into the camp.
** The title itself is likely a reference, though not a quote.
* Used several times in ''[[Tombstone]]'', either all or part.
== [[Literature]] ==
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* ''[[Cloak and Dagger (comics)|Cloak and Dagger]]'' (1983) has Cloak telling some drug dealer: "All of eternity is contained within my cloak of darkness! Abandon all hope if you chance to enter it!"
* Spoofed in an issue of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' comic book where Homer is sent to prison: "Abandon shivs all ye who enter here!"
* A ''TMNT'' comic involving the turtles fighting skeletal pirates
== Film ==
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* Referenced in ''[[Discworld/Thief of Time|Thief of Time]]'' with the line "We are Myria LeJean."
* Quoted in [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[IT]]'', when a character says she heard this quote from her sink during the 1957 incident.
** In fact, many of Stephen King's baddies ends up quoting that or just simply call themself Legion. Examples include [[The Stand|Randall Flagg]], [[Needful Things|Leland Gaut]], [[IT|Pennywise the Clown]], and many more. When [[The Dark Tower]] started to bind all the universes together many speculated that all these creature were in fact different aspects of one being. They were sadly [[Jossed]].
* Quoted in ''[[The Exorcist]]''.
** And is the title for the next novel by the same author.
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* In ''[[Millennium (TV series)|Millennium]]'' in the episode "The Judge", a serial killer employs delinquents and ex-convicts to brutally murder, and carry out his "justice". When arrested and interviewed by former FBI Agent Frank Black, he follows Frank's question of "What should I call you?" with "My name is Legion".
* "I am Legion, for we are many" is also quoted by one of the demons of the Seven Deadly Sins in ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]''.
* Legion appears in ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' in the episode "Legion". He is a being composed of many separate minds like the biblical text and also uses the biblical quote "My Name is Legion, for we are many".
* In the series ''[[Witchblade (TV series)|Witchblade]]'' a suspect named Edward Noland yells in the alley, "My name is Legion, for we are many."
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* The death metal band Arch Enemy made a song called "Nemesis" with the line "We are legion, Voice of anarchy This is revolution Creating new disorder"
* In a [[Black Sabbath]] song called "I" appears a line, "I am Legion, strength in numbers a lie, the number is one"
* The Demons & Wizards song "Crimson King" contains the line, "I am Legion."
* Breakage released a song entitled 'The 9th Hand' which contained the sample, "My name is Legion, for we are many."
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* In ''[[Time Splitters]]: Future Perfect'' the Prometheus model robots, from the robot wars level, say the phrase "We are legion."
* In ''[[Legacy of Kain]]: Soul Reaver'', Kain states: "But each of us is so much more than we once were. Do you not feel with all your soul how we have become like gods? And as such, are we not indivisible? As long as a single one of us stands, we are legion..." It is requoted in the ''Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2'' introduction movie.
* In the ''[[Command
* The Legion is the name of the alien race and main antagonists of the video game ''Epoch Star''. Whenever the player engages Legion forces, they will say, "We are the Legion, for we are many."
* When the player chooses to use the Chaos Space Marines in ''[[Warhammer 40000]] Dawn of War'', selecting a Chaos Marine squad may result in the response "We are legion" as the squad's aknowledgement of the player's selection - this is a double reference as following the Horus Heresy loyalist Space Marines were divided into Chapters, whereas Chaos Space Marines have retained their original designations of "Legions".
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