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{{quote|''"There never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got for eating it."''|''[[Good Omens]]''}}
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** Some have also proposed the passionfruit. On the one hand, it just ''sounds'' so much more tempting than a plain old apple. On the other, it makes a clever call forward to Jesus, who had to basically [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]] in the garden.
* Idunn's golden apples in [[Norse Mythology]] granted one immortality. For a while, anyway. If the gods don't continue munching those apples, they get old. This aspect was explored in a tale involving Loki and the frost giant Thiazi.
* Greek myth has all food in the underworld serve similar to Biblical [[Forbidden Fruit]], and of course only fruit become story-relevant. Eating it dooms you to never being able to leave; Hades tricks Persephone into becoming his wife this way. She ate between three and seven pomegranate seeds and has to spend that same number of months out of the year with Hades, the rest she spends above ground with her [[Overprotective Dad|Overprotective]] <s>dad</s>
* Chinese myth, in ''[[Journey to the West]]'', features ''peaches'' of immortality, but they take several centuries to ripen.
* The poisoned apples in "[[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (novel)|Snow White]]".
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[Earthbound]]'': Various late-game [[NPC
** It also had inventors [[Gadgeteer Genius|Apple Kid]] and [[Bungling Inventor|Orange Kid]].
* ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 4'': Who's the older woman eating an apple? {{spoiler|EVA}}, of course.
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