History Main / GardenOfEden

--->'''Spock:''' No-one to my knowledge.[[note]]possibly an in-joke, as [[ExecutiveMeddling studio notes]] had complained about Spock's supposedly "Satanic" appearance.[[/note]]

** The Garden is also referenced in the episode "The Apple", where a race of innocent humanoids serve a "god", Vaal, a computer shaped like a serpent head. After Kirk and company save the day and destroy the false god, the knowledge of good and evil is then known by the inhabitants. Spock makes a reference and Kirk asks if there is anyone onboard who remotely resembles Satan. According to Chekov, the Garden was located just outside Moscow.
--->'''Spock:''' No-one to my knowledge.

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* ''VideoGame/AHouseOfManyDoors'': The ultimate objective of the game is to reach Eden, the mythical garden that grows golden apples which grant eternal life. But it harbors a dark secret: [[spoiler:Anyone who eats the apple destroys an entire world. Those that do eat the apple cannot leave the House, or they will lose their immortality. These revelations are what started the God War over dominance of the apples. Even worse, the shenanigans of the immortals who used these apples have inadvertently doomed the House, meaning they only have a few millennia or so until the House itself ''dies'', meaning that immortality isn't going to be as useful as they thought.]]
* The fourth level of ''VideoGame/DragonsLair II: Time Warp'' is set in the Garden of Eden, where Dirk has to deal with cherub guardians; not one but ''two'' serpents (one wants to eat him, the other tricks him into giving Eve the apple); a [[BigBeautifulWoman rather portly]] Eve who [[AbhorrentAdmirer has taken a liking to him]]; and the literal fall of Eden, which is floating in the sky until Eve bites the apple, upon which the entire garden plummets to the ground.
* The BigBad of ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' chooses the name "Eden", fitting their goal of trying to create [[WellIntentionedExtremist a paradise no matter the cost]].
* In ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'', It is an Isu city that contains a lot of advanced LostTechnology known as the Pieces of Eden. And much like the garden in the original Bible, Eden is also the home of Adam and Eve who are the first humans to rebel against their creators in the War of Unification and its successor conflict the Human-Isu War.
* ''VideoGame/TheTalosPrinciple'' is a WholePlotReference to the Garden of Eden story, starring robots and artificial intelligences torn by allegiance to Elohim (God) and temptation by [[MeaningfulName Milton]] (the serpent).
* ''VideoGame/CivilizationCallToPower'': The Eden Project wonder destroys the three most polluting cities in the world, leaving unspoiled countryside where they stood.
* The final dungeons of ''VideoGame/Persona5 [[UpdatedRerelease Royal]]'' and ''VideoGame/Persona5Strikers'' uses this as their motif. The former one is [[spoiler:Maruki's Palace, in which the Eden with cognitive patients living in blissful ignorance is how he views the final reality he created; devoid of all suffering and people's ambition which results in it.]] In the latter, [[spoiler:it's actually a Jail manifested by the [=EMMA=] app itself taking the form of its center tree and the Sephirot, which has been evolved into a Demiurge who drags masses of people to hand them their desires so they will no longer commit any crimes, and her creator, Kuon Ichinose also has the same philosophy as the aforementioned Maruki, albeit taken to more radical levels.]]
** Speaking of why Eden acts as the final dungeon for both instances in a row with similar mechanics, namely [[spoiler:overlaying onto the current reality to grant a selected group of people blissful ignorance,]] Atlus ''again'' did their research. for a Christian, the Garden of Eden is actually paradise. For a Gnostic? It's a [[spoiler:Jail of blissful ignorance]], created by the Demiurge to trap Adam and Eve so they can't turn against him. It's just the Snake foiling the Demiurge's plan by letting them eat the forbidden fruit.
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** Notably CainAndAble are among the more famous [=SCP=]s[[note]][[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-073 SCP-073]] and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-076 SCP-076]] respectively [[/note]] and Myth/{{Lilith}} is [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-336 SCP-336]] implying the Adam and Eve story to be true in the [=SCP=] universe.

** The Garden is also referenced in the episode "The Apple", where a race of innocent humanoids serve a "god", Vaal, a computer shaped like a serpent head. After Kirk and company save the day and destroy the false god, the knowledge of good and evil is then known by the inhabitants. Spock makes a reference and Kirk asks if there is anyone onboard who remotely resembles Satan.

** According to Chekov, the Garden was located just outside Moscow.

** The final cantos of Book I are set in Eden, which is imagined as a lush kingdom whose people are being plagued by a dragon. In the {{Allegory}} of the poem, Eden represents a just and pious society, while the dragon threatening it represents sin (especially {{Pride}}).

* The final dungeons of ''VideoGame/Persona5Royal'' and ''VideoGame/Persona5Scramble'' uses this as their motif. The former one is [[spoiler:Maruki's Palace, in which the Eden with cognitive patients living in blissful ignorance is how he views the final reality he created; devoid of all suffering and people's ambition which results in it.]] In the latter, [[spoiler:it's actually a Jail manifested by the [=EMMA=] app itself taking the form of its center tree and the Sephirot, which has been evolved into a Demiurge who drags masses of people to hand them their desires so they will no longer commit any crimes, and her creator, Kuon Ichinose also has the same philosophy as the aforementioned Maruki, albeit taken to more radical levels.]]

* ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' has a city called Eden that contains a lot of advanced Isu technology. And much like the garden in the original Bible, it's also the home of Adam and Eve who are the first humans to rebel against their creators in the War of Unification and its successor conflict the Human-Isu War.

** Speaking of why Eden acts as the final dungeon for both instances in a row with similar mechanics, namely [[spoiler:overlaying onto the current reality to grant a selected group of people blissful ignorance,]] Atlus ''again'' did their research. for a Christian, the Garden of Eden is actually paradise. For a Gnostic? It's a [[spoiler:Jail of blissful ignorance]], created by the Demiurge to trap Adam and Eve so they can't turn against him. It's just the Snake foiling the Demiurge's plan by letting them eat the forbidden fruit.]]

** The name "Eden" pops up in the episode "The Way to Eden", which is about a group of space hippies searching for the mythical paradise Eden. It turns out to be a FalseUtopia.

* ''Literature/LeftBehind2000'' has Chaim Rosenzweig refer to his synthetic fertilizer as The Eden Project, which would make barren lands fertile again for growing food.

* In ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'', the Garden Eden, along with the Klingon Qui'Tu and the Romulan Vorta Vor, is conflated with the Vulcan creation myth of Sha Ka Ree, a location from which all life originates and man's questions could be answered.

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* The name "Eden" pops up in the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "The Way to Eden", which is about a group of space hippies searching for the mythical paradise Eden. It turns out to be a FalseUtopia.
** The Garden is also referenced in the episode "The Apple," where a race of innocent humanoids serve a "god," Vaal, a computer shaped like a serpent head. After Kirk and company save the day and destroy the false god, the knowledge of good and evil is then known by the inhabitants. Spock makes a reference and Kirk asks if there is anyone onboard who remotely resembles Satan.
--->'''Spock:''' No one to my knowledge.

-->'''Spock:''' No one to my knowledge.