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** Though given that this is [[Complete Monster|Johan we're talking about]] he probably didn't mean for it to be a [[Pet the Dog]] moment.
* The [[Superpower Lottery|Devil's Fruit]] from ''[[One Piece]]'' include banana and pineapple shaped fruits, but no apples so far.
* Near the beginning of ''[[Animatrix]]'' the Earth-wide crisis following the creation of AI is shown by the image of apple devoured by worms from inside.
* ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'': Rather than her usual snack food, Kyouko is eating (and offering) apples when she's explaining her backstory to Sayaka.
* In the [[Zelda Manga]] of ''[[A Link to The Past]]'' done by Himekawa, Link wants to be an apple farmer.
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* Gurgi from ''[[The Black Cauldron]]'' loves his "Munchings And Crunchings".
* Titular character of ''[[Fantastic Mr. Fox]]'' is eating an apple shortly before getting trapped in a cage, along with his wife, which sets off the plot of the film. At the end, he eats a genetically modified apple that has stars on it.
* In the 2009 ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]'' film Kirk produces and eats an apple with great satisfaction as he breezes through his ([[Take a Third Option|rigged]]) Kobayashi Maru in a nod to ''[[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan|The Wrath of Khan]]''.
* Averted in ''[[Labyrinth]]'' when the Goblin King makes a magical peach to seduce Sarah from her quest.
* King Leonidas in ''[[300|Three Hundred]]'' munches an apple while supervising his men, as they search through piles of dead enemy soldiers after a battle, [[Leave No Survivors|killing survivors]].
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* In ''[[Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom]]'', [[Girl of the Week]] Willie Scott is [[Foreign Queasine|disgusted by the dinner]] served at the temple and refuses to eat, despite being obviously hungry. Retiring for the night, the [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]] between Willie and Indy is heightened by Indy appearing with a big juicy apple that Willie devours with lust.
* In ''[[Animal House]]'', Donald Sutherland's shady, [[Teacher-Student Romance|student-romancing]] English professor is shown lecturing on ''[[Paradise Lost]]'' from a [[Satan Is Good]] perspective, and then biting into an apple.
* Truly bizarre [[B-Movie]] ''The Apple'' has [[Louis Cypher|Mr. Boogalow's]] temptation of the female lead to stardom represented by an [[Special Effects Failure|oversized prop apple]].
* In the commentary for ''[[Eve's Bayou]]'', the director and writer points out that even she thought her use of Eve and the apple and Eve and the snake were a little [[Anvilicious|heavy handed.]]
* In ''[[Tron: Legacy]]'', Clu sees his reflection in a silver apple, recalls his creation by Flynn (who he has come to passionately hate), and loses his temper.
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* In ''[[Treasure Island]]'', Jim overhears the pirates planning mutiny while trying to get an apple from the ship's barrel.
* The front cover of ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' has someone holding an apple, representing that Edward and Bella are each other's [[Forbidden Fruit]].
** There is also the Hackey Sack Apple of [http://pics.livejournal.com/cleolinda/pic/000acxq2 I See What You Did There] in the movie.
* The quote from ''[[Good Omens]]'' above, in which Adam Young's mischievous apple-scrumping is directly (and not disapprovingly) compared to that other Adam. (Not to mention that the actual serpent from the Garden is one of the main characters of the book.)
** The phrase is also literally uttered by Hastur (to Crowley, the aforementioned serpent, so possibly as a lampshade.)
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** In fact, Judaism presents in the [[The Talmud|Talmud]] a rather large selection of possible contenders for the original fruit, stating that God deliberately did not identify it in the Bible so as not to cause a backlash against it (the fruit, after all, wasn't at fault here). The candidates include commonly known fruits in the Middle East (not apples), such as figs, dates, pomegranates, etrogs (a citrus fruit kind of like a giant, sweet lemon), and ''wheat.''
** Some say that given the climate of the supposed garden and the location scholars had given, the fruit was probably a pomegranate, making it even cooler because then it's ripped right from Persephone's tale.
*** This would have some added symbolism, including the legend that the pomegranate has 613 seeds, the same as the number of laws in the Torah.
** Fun fact: Carl von Linne, the creator of the Linnaean species naming system, was convinced that the [[Forbidden Fruit]] was a ''banana''. Considering one interpretation of the whole "temptation" bit (and trust us, [[Dirty Old Man|Carl Von Linne]] ''would'' make that connection) that actually makes a [[Freud Was Right|strange amounts of sense]].
** [[Hieronymus Bosch]], the Dutch painter, liked to use exotic (to him) oranges for his Forbidden Fruit. Probably partly because Oranges are called Sinaasappel (Chinese Apple) in Dutch.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* In ''[[Warhammer 40000|Warhammer 40,000]]'', Leman Russ is looking for apples from the Tree of Life to get the Emperor back on his feet. He's been looking for ten damn millenia.
* In ''[[Changeling: The Lost]]'' goblin fruits are usually worth finding, if a bit horrifying to consume.
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** In an interesting twist {{spoiler|Adam}} refuses to take the apple from {{spoiler|EVA}}. And he's the baddy while she tries to turn him back to the Light Side.
* In ''[[Elasto Mania]]'', the goal of every level is to collect all the apples, then touch the flower to end the level.
* The battles with Whispy Woods in the ''[[Kirby]]'' games and the Green Greens stage in ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]''.
* In chapter 7-3 of ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'', Peach takes a bite of an apple that tastes so good it causes her to fall into a 100-year sleep. Mario manages to wake her up by feeding her one that tastes terrible.
* In the ''[[Assassin's Creed]]'' games, the Apple is a relic created by [[Abusive Precursors|Those Who Came Before]]. It tempts those who seek it with great knowledge and powers over the minds of people at the cost of individual freedom.
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* And of course there's the apocryphal story of [[wikipedia:Isaac Newton#Apple analogy|Isaac Newton]] either witnessing the fall of an apple or (in some versions) being hit on the head with it, inspiring the theory of gravity.
* [[wikipedia:Johnny Appleseed|Johnny Appleseed]]. What most people don't realize is that the apples he grew weren't fit to eat, and were instead used to make hard cider, which was very valuable in the frontier, where its high alcohol content made it easy to store and safer to drink than water in many cases.
* Apple Computer is so named partly to be ahead of Atari in the phone book, and partly because of the long association of the fruit with intelligence and rational enquiry (from Eve through to Newton). Before Apple came along, however, the fruit had something of a negative association in computing, as a cyanide-laced apple was Alan Turing's chosen means of death (he was a fan of Snow White).
* The "other" company to use Apple, [[The Beatles]]' Apple Corps, was inspired by a [http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=herrajuntero.wordpress.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fherrajuntero.files.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F10%2Faurevoirlejeudemourre.jpg&sref=http%3A%2F%2Fherrajuntero.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F10%2F04%2Fgranny-smith-rene-magritte-etcetera%2F Rene Magritte painting], and the name was [[Just for Pun]] ("apple core").
* Bringing a whole new meaning to giving an apple to a teacher, physicist and "father of the atomic bomb" [[wikipedia:J. Robert Oppenheimer|J. Robert Oppenheimer]] (unsuccessfully) tried to poison his tutor with an apple covered in toxic chemicals.
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