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* In ''[[As Good as It Gets]]'', Greg Kinnear's character gets his artistic groove back by drawing Helen Hunt.
* In ''[[As Good as It Gets]]'', Greg Kinnear's character gets his artistic groove back by drawing Helen Hunt.
* [[Barbie and the Diamond Castle]] features three muses of music (and one apprentice), although none of them are actually [[Informed Ability|shown inspiring anything]].
* [[Barbie and the Diamond Castle]] features three muses of music (and one apprentice), although none of them are actually [[Informed Ability|shown inspiring anything]].
* In [[Kim Newman]]'s [[Warhammer]]-set stories, his vampire heroine Genevieve serves as muse to Detlef Sierck, poet (he writes her a sonnet cycle titled "To My Unchanging Lady"), playwright (he meets her while preparing to stage the story of [[Drachenfels]], in which she features), actor, musician, and so on and so forth. Warhammer being a [[Crapsack World]], it doesn't work out so well, and she leaves him. Kim Newman being ultimately a rather romantic sort, she comes back in a more recent story, and they get a remarkably happy ending to a story featuring murder, mayhem, political chicanery, and ventriloquism.
* In [[Kim Newman]]'s [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]-set stories, his vampire heroine Genevieve serves as muse to Detlef Sierck, poet (he writes her a sonnet cycle titled "To My Unchanging Lady"), playwright (he meets her while preparing to stage the story of [[Drachenfels]], in which she features), actor, musician, and so on and so forth. Warhammer being a [[Crapsack World]], it doesn't work out so well, and she leaves him. Kim Newman being ultimately a rather romantic sort, she comes back in a more recent story, and they get a remarkably happy ending to a story featuring murder, mayhem, political chicanery, and ventriloquism.
* Does ''not'' happen with the sculptor in ''[[Jak and Daxter]]'' - while he does have a muse that apparently inspires him, instead of being a beautiful girl, it's a [[Pokémon]].
* Does ''not'' happen with the sculptor in ''[[Jak and Daxter]]'' - while he does have a muse that apparently inspires him, instead of being a beautiful girl, it's a [[Pokémon]].
** An ''adorable'' Pokemon.
** An ''adorable'' Pokemon.