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This quote is hardly ever used together. Instead, the first and second parts often appear alone.

 

* Referenced in the [[Jim Carrey]] version of ''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas (film)|How the Grinch Stole Christmas]]'':

{{quote|'''The Grinch''': The nerve of those Whos. Inviting me down there - on such short notice! Even if I wanted to go my schedule wouldn't allow it. 4:00, wallow in self pity; 4:30, '''stare into the abyss'''; 5:00, solve world hunger, tell no one; 5:30, jazzercize; 6:30, dinner with me - I can't cancel that again; 7:00, wrestle with my self-loathing... I'm booked. Of course, if I bump the loathing to 9, I could still be done in time to lay in bed, stare at the ceiling and slip slowly into madness. But what would I wear?}}

* Put on screen before the director's cut of ''[[The Abyss]]''; they wanted it on the theatrical cut, but another movie had just used it (the commentary didn't say which).

 

* Quoted word-for-word in ''[[The Dark Tower]]''.

* [[Terry Pratchett]]'s [[Discworld]]:

** Mentioned again in ''[[Discworld/Going Postal|Going Postal]]''.

 

* The second part of the quote is used at the end of the pilot episode of ''[[Criminal Minds]]'', "Extreme Aggressor." Five seasons later, the quote is ([[Continuity Nod|deliberately]]) reused in its entirety at the beginning of the aptly named 100th episode "100."

* Referenced in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' finale, "The Parting of the Ways".

{{quote|'''{{spoiler|Rose}}''': [[Big Damn Heroes|I looked into the TARDIS...]] [[My Skull Runneth Over|and the TARDIS looked into me.]]}}

 

* Used in the ''[[Baldur's Gate]]'' series.

* Used in the box art (but not in it's entirety) for the ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' expansion ''Wrath of the Lich King''.

 

* ''[[Something Positive]]'' [http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp03032009.shtml applies it to the internet]: "Battle not with stupid, lest ye become stupid, and when you gaze into the Internet, the Internet gazes also into you."

 

* In ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'', the second part of the quote was used.

* In ''[[Justice League Crisis On Two Earths]]'', Batman alludes to the second part when he point out the difference between him and his Evil Counterpart:

 

 

{{quote|''"Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war."''|'''[[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]'s''' ''[[Julius Caesar (theatre)|Julius Caesar]]''}}

 

* "Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war" is used by General Chang in ''[[Star Trek]] VI: The Undiscovered Country'' as he's kicking the ass of Enterprise with his cloaked Bird of Prey.

* [[Kevin Costner]] delivered this line in ''[[The Postman (film)|The Postman]]'' (film version only).

* Lord Humongous of [[Mad Max|The Road Warrior]] clearly references this quote, in his sort of pretentious way, as he reproaches the town he's laying to by saying "Look at what you have done! You have made me unleash my dogs of war!"

 

* Used as the [[Epigraph]] for one chapter in ''[[Watership Down]]''. Needless to say, war ensues. And a dog.

* [[Frederick Forsyth]] wrote a book about a troop of mercenaries in Africa called ''The Dogs of War''.

 

* ''[[The West Wing]]'' episode "The Dogs of War."

* ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' episode "The Dogs Of War"

 

* [[Pink Floyd]] have a song called "''The Dogs of War''," though it could be a reference to the Forsyth example.

 

* [[Disturbed]], ''Indestructible''. The band's singer has been known to open concerts with the phrase as well.

 

* ''[[American McGee's Alice]]'': Cheshire says, "Time to raise some havoc. The dogs of war are loose!" when Alice finds her first ragebox.

* ''[[Dragon Fable]]'' has "Cry havoc and let loose the togs of war (I'm sure you'll find some use for them)" on a letter the hero recieves along with a bunch of creatures [[Captain Obvious|called togs]].

* In later versions of ''[[Worms]]'', a worm team using the Thespians sound pack will sometimes say this at the start of a round.

 

 

* Megatron used the phrase in an episode of ''[[Beast Wars]]''.

* [[Archer]] mangled this when about to go on a RAMPAAAGE.

 

 

{{quote|''"What a piece of work is man!"''|'''[[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]''', ''[[Hamlet]]'' }}

 

* Darian Ashoka, the male lead in Joseph Michael Linsner's ''Dawn: Lucifer's Halo'', at one point misquoted Hamlet's speech, jokingly saying, [[Incredibly Lame Pun|"The paramour of animals,"]] not "the ''paragon'' of animals".

 

* Appears at the end of ''[[Withnail and I]]''

** Not really doing it justice - Withnail recites the entire soliloquy. Turns out he's a pretty good actor.

* The speech is quoted during the Other World theater performance in ''[[Coraline (animation)|Coraline]]''.

 

* ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]''. Captain Picard gives the full quote as part of his [[Patrick Stewart Speech]] in "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V--v5Ba_cx8 Hide and Q]".

 

 

 

{{quote|''"Shuffle off this mortal coil."''|'''[[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]''', ''[[Hamlet]]'' }}

 

* There's a ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' novel called ''Mortal Coils''.

* The fifth book in the ''[[Skulduggery Pleasant]]'' series is called ''Mortal Coil''.

 

* The phrase is used verbatim in the dead parrot sketch from ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''.

* ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' has a three-parter episode titled "This Mortal Coil", "Be All My Sins Remember'd" and "Spoils of War" in the fourth season. The first two are Hamlet quotes from the same scene, same act.

 

* [[Duran Duran]] used the phrase in their hit, "Breath After Breath".

* "This Mortal Coil" is a series of albums from the British indie label 4AD.

* There's a band called This Mortal Coil.

 

* There's a "Vortal Coil" chapter in ''[[Half-Life]] 2'', a reference to this phrase.

* Ascension, in ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'', works this way.

** The Council also says "I don't suppose you'd bugger off this mortal coil, would you?" when you're able to ascend.

 

 

{{quote|''"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."''|''[[Bhagavad Gita]]''}}

 

 

* Used in an ''[[All-Star Squadron]]'' story, quoting Oppenheimer as below; see [[Person of Mass Destruction]] for details.

 

* 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 Ramius—it's used to imply that the latter might have gone insane and intends to start [[World War III]]. Oppenheimer is specifically mentioned as giving the quote.

** The original source is mentioned, as well as Oppenheimer's use of the quote.

 

* ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' uses "I am Become Death" as an episode title.

* Parodied in ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' with [[Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds]].

* ''[[Andromeda]]''. Dylan Hunt uses this quote when he kills 100.000 Nietzscheans.

 

* 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 boost—while the camera turns skyward to observe "Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds" writing itself in the clouds. This Troper actually found the combination of the quote, the atmosphere, and everything else to be kind of creepy.

** 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]]...

 

* Reportedly said by J. Robert Oppenheimer after witnessing the first nuclear bomb test.

** 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]].

** 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".

 

* 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]][[Pelagian Villain|quite]][[Madden Into Misanthropy|appropriate.]]

 

 

 

 

* At least one issue of a [[Batman]] mini-series is subtitled ''The Widening Gyre''.

** Batman also has an entire miniseries with the same title, written by [[Kevin Smith]].

* Keith Giffen's last arc on ''[[Justice League of America|Justice League Europe]]'', the individual issue titles were taken from Yeats' "Second Coming", at least the first stanza: "Turning and Turning", "The Widening Gyre", "Things Fall Apart", et cetera.

 

* In ''[[Neon Exodus Evangelion]]'', the two chapters "Ceremony of Innocence" and "The Blood-Dimmed Tide". The entire poem is also quoted in its entirety as the trailer for Chapter 2-8, Dies Irae.

 

* ''[[The Island of Doctor Moreau]]'' (1996)

* ''[[Cthulhu (film)|Cthulhu]]'' (2007). The sheriff quotes this to the protagonist (accused of raping and murdering a child) claiming to be the round beast himself. As it turns out, there are far worse [[Fish People|beasts out there]].

 

* [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[The Stand]]''

* Loki quotes extensively from the poem in ''[[American Gods]]'', in the scene at the geographical center of the United States.

* 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.

 

* ''[[Babylon 5]]'' (by G'Kar about the coming of the Shadows)

* The first episode of ''[[Millennium (TV series)|Millennium]]''

* The ''[[Angel]]'' episode "Slouching Towards Bethlehem".

 

* Referenced in Bright Eyes' 'Four Winds'

 

* The inspiration of the title of the [[Interactive Fiction]] work ''[[Slouching Towards Bedlam]]''. The full quote appears in [[Multiple Endings|at least one of the endings.]]

* In ''[[Wing Commander (video game)|Wing Commander]] IV'', [[General Ripper|Admiral Tolwyn]] quotes from the first verse, in a discussion about how the post-war Terran Confederation seems to be falling apart without an enemy for humanity to focus on.

 

* Stephen Reyes of ''[[Shadow Unit]]'' quotes the line "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold," and the other characters fill in the next few lines for him.

 

 

{{quote|''"And behold, a pale horse, and he who sat on it, his name was Death. And Hell followed with him."''|'''The [[Book of Revelation]]'''}}

 

* 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.

* Used several times in ''[[Tombstone]]'', either all or part.

 

* [[Piers Anthony]]'s novel ''On A Pale Horse'' is named after the quote from Revelation.

* Appears in [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[The Stand]]''.

* [[Agatha Christie]]'s novel ''The Pale Horse''.

 

* The title of the episode "The Fourth Horseman" in ''[[Stargate SG-1]]''.

* In the episode "Lord John Marbury" of ''[[The West Wing]]'', Bartlet is trying to remember this quote as he feels it pertains to the India-Pakistan crisis. Lord John comes out with it at the end of the episode all on his own, simultaneously tying up the loose end that was left dangling for him and signifying his character's worthiness to be adopted into POTUS's crack team of allusion ninjas.

* Referenced in the ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' episode "Death Takes A Holiday", where the demon Alistair tells Sam and Dean he got the magical sickle from "a friend" who "doesn't actually ride a pale horse, but he does have three amigos..."

 

* Used in the [[Johnny Cash]] song "When the Man Comes Around."

** Which is in turn used for the climactic gunbattle between the FBI and the Terminator in ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'' "What We Beheld", and the title montage in the ''[[Dawn of the Dead 2004]]'' remake.

* The soundtracks for ''[[Halo]]'' and ''[[Halo 3]]'' have songs titled "On a Pale Horse" and "Behold a Pale Horse" respectively.

 

 

{{quote|''Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.''|'''[[The Bible]] (King James Version)''' -- [[The Four Gospels|John]] 15:13.}}

 

* Bagheera in [[Disney Animated Canon]]'s ''[[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|The Jungle Book]]'' quotes this (or a version of it) {{spoiler|regarding Baloo's assumed [[Heroic Sacrifice]] after the battle with Shere Khan.}} (This scene is not in [[The Jungle Book (novel)|the book]].)

 

* A version of this quote is used in the lyrics of the Thrice song "For Miles":

{{quote|And there's no greater love

Than that one shed his blood for his friends. }}

 

* The Reverend in ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' quotes the line [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20020331.html at the funeral of] [[Anyone Can Die|one major character]].

 

 

{{quote|''"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."''|''[[Sherlock Holmes]]''}}

 

* Quoted by Spock in both ''[[Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country]]'' and ''[[Star Trek (film)|XI]]'' (and attributed by him, in the former, to "an ancestor of mine"!)

 

* Discussed in ''The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul''.

* Referenced in "[[Discworld/Feet of Clay|Feet of Clay]]"

{{quote|"It wasn't by eliminating the impossible that you got at the truth, however improbable..."}}

 

* Data referenced this line in the ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' episode "Lonely Among Us". Somewhat lampshaded in that Data had just absorbed all of Doyle's [[Sherlock Holmes]] novels and was essentially channeling the famed detective.

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'': The kid from the Silurian two-parter of the 2010 season.

 

* Said by Godot in ''[[Phoenix Wright]]: Trials and Tribulations''.

 

* Used by [[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron|Jimmy Neutron,]] complete with official Holmes attire, during a search for Sheen's missing Ultra Lord action figure

 

 

{{quote|''"Abandon hope, all ye who enter here."''|''[[The Divine Comedy|Inferno]]'' by Dante, written on the gates of Hell}}

 

* ''[[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

 

* In ''Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical'', there is the chant "Open the gate and abandon hope! We're the ghosts of the kids that got hooked on dope"

 

* This quote in full is the opening line to the novel ''[[American Psycho]]''.

* Used in [[Piers Anthony]]'s ''Bio Of A Space Tyrant'', where a character named Hope uses "Abandon '''Hope''', All Ye Who Enter Here" as a message to himself.

* In ''[[Bunnicula|Howliday Inn]]'', Howard spots a sign outside pet hotel Chateau Bow-Wow, and Chester sarcastically asks if it says "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."

 

* David Rossi of ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' quotes this in the original Italian in one of his first episodes. (Not as an epigraph. In conversation.)

 

* Spoofed in the ''[[XXXenophile]]'' short "Demonstration of Affection". The main character uses magic to enter hell. A [[Can't You Read the Sign?|background sign]] reads "Abandon all dope, ye who enter. A drug-free hell is a happy hell".

 

 

 

{{quote|''"I am Legion, for we are many."''|[[The Bible]] ([[The Four Gospels|Gospel of Mark]], 5:9)}}

 

* In ''I Am Legion'', Legion is a child who is able to control the minds of men.

* In ''[[Spawn]]'', the hero Spawn absorbs the souls of thousands of murdered people, who thereby become Spawns themselves, and he utters the phrase, "I am Legion, for we are many."

* In ''[[New Mutants]]'', Professor Xavier's son Daniel, a mutant with several distinct personalities, each one controlling a separate mutant power, calls himself Legion in reference to this quote.

 

* ''[[I Am Legend]]'' (2007), starring Will Smith, the third movie based on the 1954 novel of the same name by [[Richard Matheson]].

* In ''[[Ghost Rider (film)|Ghost Rider]]'', when Blackheart reads the contract of San Venganza, he absorbs all 1,000 of the damned souls who signed their names to the contract. After the process is complete, he proclaims, "My Name... Is Legion, For We Are... Many."

 

* 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 ''The Taking'' by [[Dean Koontz]], an extra-terrestrial being utters the lines "Yimaman see noygel, see refacull, see nod a bah, see naytoss, retee fo sellos. "My name is Legion, is Lucifer, is Abbadon, is Satan, eater of souls.

 

* In the series finale of ''[[Angel]]'', Marcus Hamilton uses the quote, "We Are Legion. We are Forever." to describe himself.

* 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".

* In the series ''[[Witchblade (TV series)|Witchblade]]'' a suspect named Edward Noland yells in the alley, "My name is Legion, for we are many."

 

* The Greek band Rotting Christ has a song on its album "Genesis" entitled "Under The Name of Legion."

* The black metal band Marduk wrote a song entitled "Legion" using the line "My name is legion, for we are many in here."

* Breakage released a song entitled 'The 9th Hand' which contained the sample, "My name is Legion, for we are many."

 

* In ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'', the race of undead alien robots called Necrons have a quote in their Codex source book: "Their number is legion, their name is death". The warriors of Thousand Sons legion of Chaos Space Marines, essentially possessed suits of armour, have a special rule called "we are legion", indicating their lack of individuality. Chaos Daemons have a daemonic gift called "we are legion", which represents the daemon having multiple souls trapped inside its body, and allows it to fire at multiple targets.

 

* In ''[[Manhunt]] 2'', a gang named The Legion, sometimes say "Our Name is Legion, for we are many", this can also be heard in the beginning of one of the trailers for the game.

* In ''[[Time Splitters]]: Future Perfect'' the Prometheus model robots, from the robot wars level, say the phrase "We are legion."

* In ''[[BioShock (series)]] 2'': Father Wales, when locking one of the doors in Siren Alley, shouts 'We are Legion' before summoning a horde of splicers.

 

* Anonymous intentionally mutated this to become their heralding phrase: "We are Anonymous. We are Legion."

 

* The title of the episode "Legion" from ''[[Gargoyles]]'' is an allusion to the Biblical quotation. The episode features a cyborg (Coldstone) possessed by multiple spirits of dead Gargoyles.

* The third season premiere of ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' is titled "I Am Legion". The episode sees the first appearance of the multi-villain team, the Legion of Doom. Also, during the episode, [[Lex Luthor]] appears to be sharing his body with Brainiac – effectively making him possessed.