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{{examples}}
== "He who fights monsters..." ==
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* Quoted word-for-word in ''[[The Dark Tower]]''.
* [[Terry Pratchett]]'s [[Discworld]]:
** ''[[
** Mentioned again in ''[[
* ''[[Watchmen]].''
=== [[Live
* 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".
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* Used in the box art (but not in it's entirety) for the ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' expansion ''Wrath of the Lich King''.
=== [[Web
* ''[[Something
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* In ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'', the second part of the quote was used.
* In ''[[Justice League: Crisis
{{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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* [[Frederick Forsyth]] wrote a book about a troop of mercenaries in Africa called ''The Dogs of War''.
=== [[Live
* ''[[The West Wing]]'' episode "The Dogs of War."
* ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' episode "The Dogs Of War"
=== [[Music]] ===
* [[Pink Floyd]] have a song called "''The Dogs of War''," though it could be a reference to the Forsyth example.
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* In later versions of ''[[Worms]]'', a worm team using the Thespians sound pack will sometimes say this at the start of a round.
=== [[Web
* ''[[Cry Havoc]]'' has it in the title, then uses parts of it once or twice in the dialog
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* The speech is quoted during the Other World theater performance in ''[[Coraline (animation)|Coraline]]''.
=== [[Live
* ''[[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]".
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* The fifth book in the ''[[Skulduggery Pleasant]]'' series is called ''Mortal Coil''.
=== [[Live
* 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.
=== [[Music
* [[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.
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{{quote|''"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."''|''[[Bhagavad Gita]]''}}
This is an unusual and idiosyncratic translation of the original line made famous by scientist [[wikipedia:J. Robert Oppenheimer|J. Robert Oppenheimer]], who read the ''Bhagavad Gita'' in the original Sanskrit and is thought to have penned that version of the line. The original Sanskrit is "''kalo'smi loka-ksaya-krt pravrddho''" meaning "I am Time grown old to destroy the world" or "I am all powerful Time, destroyer of all the worlds."
=== [[Comic Books]] ===
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** The original source is mentioned, as well as Oppenheimer's use of the quote.
=== [[Live
* ''[[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]].
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* On ''[[Fringe]]'', Walternate uses it after comparing what he is trying to do {{spoiler|by using the machine to destroy our universe}} to what Oppenheimer did (see [[Real Life]] example below).
* ''[[Andromeda]]''. Dylan Hunt uses this quote when he kills 100.000 Nietzscheans.
=== [[Tabletop Games]] ===
* 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.]]▼
=== [[Video Games]] ===
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* As he watched sand turn to glass in the New Mexico desert, I bet Oppenheimer felt quite a bit like Arjuna.
** 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".
=== 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]][[Pelagian Villain|quite]][[Madden Into Misanthropy|appropriate.]]
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* 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]].
* The poem is quoted in both ''[[X-Factor (comics)|X-Factor]]'' 70 and ''[[Incredible Hulk]]'' 425, both written by [[Peter David]].
* 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.
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* 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.
=== [[Live
* ''[[Babylon 5]]'' (by G'Kar about the coming of the Shadows)
* The first episode of ''[[Millennium (TV series)|Millennium]]''
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* The ''[[Angel]]'' episode "Slouching Towards Bethlehem".
=== [[Music]] ===
* Referenced in Bright Eyes' 'Four Winds'
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* 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.
=== [[Web Original]] ===
* 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.
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* [[Agatha Christie]]'s novel ''The Pale Horse''.
=== [[Live
* 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.
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* 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..."
=== [[Music
* 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 film)|Dawn of the Dead]]'' remake.
* 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''.
* Referenced in "[[
{{quote|"It wasn't by eliminating the impossible that you got at the truth, however improbable..."}}
=== [[Live
* 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.
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* 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."
=== Live
* David Rossi of ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' quotes this in the original Italian in one of his first episodes. (Not as an epigraph. In conversation.)
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* 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.
* The title character of the fanfic cycle ''[[Legion's Quest]]'' by Ed Becerra is known as this because of the [[Freak Lab Accident]] which "smeared" him across all his counterparts in other universes, letting him access their abilities and distributing any damage and other ill effects he suffers across their infinite number -- effectively reducing it to nothing.
=== Film ===
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=== Literature ===
* Referenced in ''[[
* 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]].
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* 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
* 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".
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* 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."
=== Religion and Mythology ===
* The original comes from an incident in [[The Bible]] where Jesus is recorded exorcising a demon-possessed man. In the course he asks the man's name and the demons say, "Legion for we are many". "Legion" is Roman for infantry division. Thus literally it is closer to "my name is Big Red One." For the effect it draws metaphorically it is like, "My name is Waffen SS."
=== Tabletop Games ===
* In ''[[Warhammer
=== Video Games ===
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* In the ''[[Command & Conquer]] 3: Tiberium Wars'' expansion pack, Kane's Wrath, the player plays the role of an AI called LEGION who, in the third act of game is ordered to command army of cyborgs. Kane states (a double entendre): "You are LEGION"
* The Legion is the name of the alien race and main antagonists of the video game ''Epoch Star''. Whenever the player engages Legion forces, they will say, "We are the Legion, for we are many."
* When the player chooses to use the Chaos Space Marines in ''[[Warhammer
* In ''[[Animal Crossing]]: City Folk'', while playing hide and seek with townsfolk, after finding one, they might say "We are legion, for we are many." Given the otherwise idyllic nature of the games, this is a little disturbing.
* 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."
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