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* In ''The Particolored Unicorn'' by John De Cles, all unicorns love to show off--some speak Sanskrit, some recite poetry--in order to be impressive pets. Lifesaver, the titular unicorn, speaks in iambic pentameter. As with the Etrigan example above, he drops it at one point in his excitement.

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* In ''The Particolored Unicorn'' by John De Cles, all unicorns love to show off--some speak Sanskrit, some recite poetry--in {{poetry}}--in order to be impressive pets. Lifesaver, the titular unicorn, speaks in iambic pentameter. As with the Etrigan example above, he drops it at one point in his excitement.
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* ''WebVideo/DeathBattle'': Galactus and Unicron begin speaking in iambic pentameter halfway through their battle as they power up to their godlike, galaxy-sized forms.

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* ''WebVideo/DeathBattle'': ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'': Galactus and Unicron begin speaking in iambic pentameter halfway through their battle as they power up to their godlike, galaxy-sized forms.
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* ''WebVideo/DeathBattle'': Galactus and Unicron begin speaking in iambic pentameter halfway through their battle as they power up to their godlike, galaxy-sized forms.
-->'''Unicron:''' Beg not for mercy; behold black'nd sky/Against mine Chaos, even ''gods'' will die!
-->'''Galactus:''' Galactus heeds your challenge, hears your call/His word shall bring destruction to it all.
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Who always have [[UsefulNotes/PoetryForms poetic forms]] in mind.\\

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Who always have [[UsefulNotes/PoetryForms [[MediaNotes/PoetryForms poetic forms]] in mind.\\
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* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': The opening lines of one of the trailers are in iambic tetrameter, one of Tolkien's favorite meters.
-->'''Galadriel:''' We thought the war at last was ended\\
'''Gil-galad:''' Today, our days pf peace begin.\\
'''Galadriel:''' We thought our joy would be unending. We thought our light would never dim.
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%%* Rokumonsen in ''VideoGame/ArmoredCoreVIFiresOfRubicon'' loves kabuki theater, which leads him to belt out his threats against 621 in haiku.

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%%* * Rokumonsen in ''VideoGame/ArmoredCoreVIFiresOfRubicon'' loves kabuki theater, which leads him to belt out his threats against 621 in haiku.

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%%* ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'' wouldn't be itself without this.

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%%* Rokumonsen in ''VideoGame/ArmoredCoreVIFiresOfRubicon'' loves kabuki theater, which leads him to belt out his threats against 621 in haiku.
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''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'' wouldn't be itself without this.
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* A [[AllThereInTheManual supplemental comic]] for the most recent [[ComicBook/TheTransformersMegaseries comic incarnation]] of the {{Transformers}} explains [[TheScrappy Wheelie's]] habitual rhyming as due to being stuck on an uninhabited planet alongside an alien with a translation device that only works reliably in rhyme. After several centuries of that, Wheelie's still rhyming by force of habit. Unless something scares him badly enough, that is.

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* A [[AllThereInTheManual supplemental comic]] for the most recent [[ComicBook/TheTransformersMegaseries comic incarnation]] of the {{Transformers}} Franchise/{{Transformers}} explains [[TheScrappy Wheelie's]] habitual rhyming as due to being stuck on an uninhabited planet alongside an alien with a translation device that only works reliably in rhyme. After several centuries of that, Wheelie's still rhyming by force of habit. Unless something scares him badly enough, that is.
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* From [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules Herc's book]] [[CharacterizationMarchesOn onwards]] / [[ComicBook/ChaosWar Chaos King]] speaks in {{Haiku}} / [[RuleOfCool for added coolness]].

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* From [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules Herc's book]] [[CharacterizationMarchesOn onwards]] / [[ComicBook/ChaosWar Amatsu-Mikaboshi, the Chaos King]] King,]] speaks in {{Haiku}} / [[RuleOfCool for added coolness]].
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* Creator/LewisCarroll's "Hiawatha's Photographing" is a parody of Creator/HenryWadsworthLongfellow's narrative poem "The Song of Hiawatha". It's preceded by an introduction which is written as normal text, but stealthily follows the same meter as both poems (trochaic tetrameter).

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* Creator/LewisCarroll's "Hiawatha's Photographing" is a parody of Creator/HenryWadsworthLongfellow's narrative poem "The Song of Hiawatha".''Literature/TheSongOfHiawatha''. It's preceded by an introduction which is written as normal text, but stealthily follows the same meter as both poems (trochaic tetrameter).
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* ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'' wouldn't be itself without this.

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* %%* ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'' wouldn't be itself without this.

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