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== Anime and Manga ==

* In ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'', {{spoiler|Akio}} and {{spoiler|Anthy}} feed {{spoiler|[[Disposable Fiance|Kanae]]}} an apple pin-cushioned by forks. It is strongly implied that {{spoiler|they're poisoning her}}, and the apple also obviously stands for {{spoiler|Anthy's swords of hate}}. One of the background music tracks, which plays during Akio and Anthy's {{spoiler|familial bonding}} is called "Fruit of Sin", as well. Make of that what you will.

* At the end of the [[Fullmetal Alchemist (anime)|2003 anime version]] of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', Riza is shown peeling apples and feeding them to the recovering Roy Mustang; in the end credits, they're in a marketplace where she is ostensibly buying more apples.

* ''[[Mawaru Penguindrum]]'', another [[Kunihiko Ikuhara]] work, features the apple motif heavily, although it has yet to play a huge part in the story except for the fact that Ringo's name essentially means "apple".

 

== Fan Works ==

* ''[[Death and Ker]]'' is rife with apple symbolism, including allusions to Eris's apple of discord, [[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (novel)|Snow White]]'s poisoned apple, and the golden apples of immortality tended by the Hesperides. During one confrontation, Minako is even tempted with an apple.

* In [[DC Nation]], the apple of desire was passed around during the Olympics plot. Jesse Quick sees a world where her father's still alive. Donna Troy saw a world where she was reunited with her family, Titans and Terry Long. It is enough to shock Donna into realizing that she really wants to be with her living family and {{spoiler|give up her dead children to Persephone's care so she can return to the Titans}}.

 

== Film ==

* 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.

 

== Literature ==

* In [[Tanith Lee]]'s ''[[The Dragon Hoard]]'', Jasleth gets a (short-lived) job in an apple orchard, hoping to find that one of the apple trees bears magic apples or is an enchanted princess. Much later, he encounters a grove of magic fruit trees that grow fruit made of gold; the varieties mentioned include oranges, plums, damsons and, inevitably, apples.

 

* In ''[[Angel]]'' this is invoked by Eve, who offers Angel an apple to represent the power Wolfram and Hart offers. He takes a bite out of it.

** Holtz also offers Wesley a slice of apple when Wesley comes to betray Angel.

* ''[[Once Upon a Time (TV series)|Once Upon a Time]]'': Regina Mills (otherwise known as Snow White's evil stepmother) had a carefully cultivated and tended apple tree in her back yard. Emma takes a chainsaw to one of its branches when Regina goes over the line harassing her.

* ''[[Boardwalk Empire]]'': [[Al Capone]], first introduced in the pilot as a young, childish thug under the watch of Johnny Torrio, undergoes a maturation process during the first season that ends with a scene where he guns down a rival [[Mook]], takes an apple from the fallen and eats it. By the next season, he shows contempt at the idea of being anything but a gangster.

 

== Mythology and Religion ==

* In ''[[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.

 

== Theatre ==

* ''[[Shin Megami Tensei I]]'': To pass Cerberus to get to Tokyo Destiny Land, you need a golden apple. {{spoiler|If you fused Pascal with a demon to make Cerberus, it will be a reunion. Regardless if you fused pascal or not; Cerberus will join your party}}

* ''[[Minecraft]]'' sports both regular and golden apples; the latter will heal you fully and grant regeneration for half a minute.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* In ''[[Erstwhile]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20130902080618/http://www.erstwhiletales.com/fcd-08/#.T2-C6dm6SuI the king stops for an apple.]

* In ''[[No Rest for The Wicked (webcomic)|No Rest for The Wicked]]'', [http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/01-01.html September can't have them], a [[Snow White]] [[Shout-Out]].

 

== Western Animation ==

** Also, when Nergal Junior poses as Mrs. Butterbean to get revenge on Sperg for bullying him, he eventually stuffs all the apples Sperg used to bribe the teacher into his mouth, while saying "How you like them apples" and breaking out into a wicked [[Slasher Smile]].

*** It ''does'' get fought over, for those very powers, when [[Schmuck Bait|'entrusted']] to the three leads in one episode.

 

== Real Life ==

 

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