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=== [[Web Comic|Webcomics]] ===
* ''[[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."
 
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* In ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'', the second part of the quote was used.
* In ''[[Justice League: Crisis Onon 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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{{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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* 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.
 
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=== [[Music and Sound Effects]] ===
* 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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=== Tabletop Games ===
* In ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'', 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.
 
=== 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 4000040,000]] Dawn of War'', selecting a Chaos Marine squad may result in the response "We are legion" as the squad's aknowledgement of the player's selection - this is a double reference as following the Horus Heresy loyalist Space Marines were divided into Chapters, whereas Chaos Space Marines have retained their original designations of "Legions".
* 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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