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

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== [[Film]] ==

{{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).

== [[Literature]] ==

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

* [[Watchmen]].

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* 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.]]}}

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

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

 

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* 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| '''Batman:''' There is a difference between you and me. We both looked into the abyss, but when it looked back at us... you blinked. }}

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== [[Film]] ==

* "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.

* 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!"

 

== [[Live Action Television]] ==

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

 

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== [[Video Games]] ==

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

 

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== [[Western Animation]] ==

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

 

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

* Mr. Newberry starts the quote in ''[[Grosse Pointe Blank]]'', but loses his train of thought halfway through and opts to go get a beer instead.

 

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

** Mike also spoofed the line in ''[[Riding With Death]]'': "I am become Death, destroyer of small radios."

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

** 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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* ''[[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.]]

 

== [[Film]] ==

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

 

== [[Literature]] ==

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

* The novel ''Things Fall Apart'' by Chinua Achebe is a reference to this poem.

* Astrid ominously remembers this quote in Michael Grant's ''Hunger'', after the adult-less city of teenagers and children is devolving into a ''[[Lord of the Flies]]''-esque situation.

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

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

** Bonus points for doing the ''whole'' poem, and not skipping the first two lines (as people are wont to do). See [[Battlestar Galactica]], below.

* ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'' ("The Plan"). The nonsense babbled by a [[Mad Oracle|Hybrid]] as they're about to nuke the 12 Colonies includes the line, "The centre holds; the falcon hears the falconer." (the actual Yeats line is "the centre cannot hold" and "the falcon cannot hear the falconer"). Presumably a statement that, for the Cylons at least, their plan is coming together, as opposed to things falling apart (which happens later on).

== [[Video Games]] ==

* 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.]]

 

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* 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.

** The title itself is likely a reference, though not a quote.

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

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

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* 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.

 

== [[Music and Sound Effects]] ==

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

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

 

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== [[Literature]] ==

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

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

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

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

 

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== Comic Books ==

* A ''TMNT'' comic involving the turtles fighting skeletal pirates

 

* 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.

 

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== Film ==

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

 

== Literature ==

* Quoted in [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[IT]]'', when a character says she heard this quote from her sink during the 1957 incident.

** In fact, many of Stephen King's baddies ends up quoting that or just simply call themself Legion. Examples include [[The Stand|Randall Flagg]], [[Needful Things|Leland Gaut]], [[IT|Pennywise the Clown]], and many more. When [[The Dark Tower]] started to bind all the universes together many speculated that all these creature were in fact different aspects of one being. They were sadly [[Jossed]].

* Quoted in ''[[The Exorcist]]''.

** And is the title for the next novel by the same author.

* 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.

 

== Live Action TV ==

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

 

== Music ==

* "My Name is Legion" is a song by Electric Hellfire Club from the album "Witness The Millennium". There is a line stating, "My name is Legion: for I'm many".

* The death metal band Arch Enemy made a song called "Nemesis" with the line "We are legion, Voice of anarchy This is revolution Creating new disorder"

* The Demons & Wizards song "Crimson King" contains the line, "I am Legion."

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

* In ''[[Mass Effect]]'', the Character Sovereign (the vanguard of a race of sentient machines bent on wiping out all organic life) declares "We are Legion."

** In ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'' this is also how the geth squadmate Legion receives its [[Appropriated Appellation]] - upon being asked its name, it replies simply "geth," and futher explains that it is a robotic platform containing slightly more than eleven hundred individual geth. This prompts the ship's AI to pipe up with the quotation, and the construct immediately recognizes and acknowledges Mark 5:9 as an appropriate metaphor for its state of existence.

 

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== Western Animation ==

* 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.