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Not to be confused with numbers relating to the prices of company stocks.
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=== Quotes
{{quote|''"[[He Who Fights Monsters]] should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."''|'''[[Friedrich Nietzsche]]''', ''Jenseits von Gut und Böse'' }}
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* Quoted word-for-word in ''[[The Dark Tower]]''.
* [[Terry Pratchett]]'s [[Discworld]]:
** ''[[Discworld/Thief of Time|Thief of Time]]''
** Mentioned again in ''[[Discworld/Going Postal|Going Postal]]''.
* [[Watchmen]].
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== [[Film]] ==
* One of it's most famous appearances (the first half anyway) is on Animal Mother's helmet in ''[[Full Metal Jacket]]''.
* ''[[The Hunt for Red October]]''. Red Oktober's political officer reads this quote from a book owned by Captain
** The original source is mentioned, as well as Oppenheimer's use of the quote.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* A mad necromancer in ''[[Baldur's Gate]]'' uses a number of quotes, including "I am death incarnate! Destroyer of worlds!" He also quotes Hannibal Lecter.
* ''[[God of War (series)|God of War]] II'' has an [[Easter Egg]]/experience bonus about a third of the way through the game, in the area with the ginormous horses chained to the island. [[Guide Dang It|By activating a few particular spots where nothing actually seems to happen,]] the last one by a tree on an island gives Kratos a huge experience
** And and in an arguably more epic case, in the end of ''Ghost of Sparta'', {{spoiler|Kratos stands alone in the Suicidal Cliffs from the first game, having finally killed Thanatos, but lost his brother and his mother, pretty much severing any ties to humanity he had. As he looks down the cliff he tried jumping from the first game, he wonders horrified "By the Gods, What have I become?" once again. The Grave Digger from the first game, who is actually Zeus in disguise, stops digging his brother's grave and answers "Death. The Destroyer of Worlds}}. If you played the other three games, you will be strucken by some massive [[Fridge Brilliance]] or [[Fridge Horror|Horror]]...
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== RPG ==
* The quote appears multiple times, literally or alluded in ''[[Mage: The Ascension]]'', both in the Oppenheimer acception (related to atomic bombs or experiments of similar disruptive power, like in the supplement The Fallen Tower: Las Vegas) and in the original Gita meaning (in Tradition book: Euthanatos Revised and in the metaplot-heavy Ascension campaign, in particular)
* ''[[Promethean: The Created]]'' makes ample use of this line as quoted by Oppenheimer, chiefly as regards the [[I Love Nuclear Power|Zeky]] — the section on "the Nuclear Promethean" in the corebook opens with Oppenheimer's quote including the quote from the Gita, and their chapter in ''Saturnine Night'' is entitled, "Destroyer of Worlds." [[Person of Mass Destruction|It's
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