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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*Positive]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20130510202139/http://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."
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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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** 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".
▲* 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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* 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.
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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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=== Fan Works ===
* 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
=== Film ===
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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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