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* The novel ''Things Fall Apart'' by Chinua Achebe is a reference to this poem.

* ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian'' opens with this {{epigraph}}.

* Sofia Rikkin whispers the sentence before her father's speech in ''Film/AssassinsCreed'' (2016).

* ''Comicbook/CloakAndDagger'' (1983) has Cloak telling some drug dealer: "All of eternity is contained within my cloak of darkness! Abandon all hope if you chance to enter it!"

* A ''ComicBook/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|Mirage}}'' comic involving the turtles fighting skeletal pirates.
* In ComicBook/TheSandman issue, "Hope in Hell", Morpheus goes to hell to reclaim one of his artifacts of power. When he ends up in a shapeshifting/reality-warping contest of wits with the demon who has his property, he tricks the demon into becoming a universe-ending force and beats him by becoming "Hope" (the only thing that can remain after such a force). The assembled devils and demons agree that Morpheus has won the duel and even allow him safe passage out after he threatens to remove the only hope remaining to those in hell (specifically the ability to dream of ''heaven'').

* In ''Film/GhostRider'', when Blackheart reads the contract of San Venganza, he absorbs all 1,000 of the damned souls who signed their names to the contract. After the process is complete, he proclaims, "My Name... Is Legion, For We Are... Many."

* Darian Ashoka, the male lead in Joseph Michael Linsner's ''Dawn: Lucifer's Halo'', at one point misquoted Hamlet's speech, jokingly saying, [[IncrediblyLamePun "The paramour of animals,"]] not "the ''paragon'' of animals".

* The soundtracks for ''VideoGame/{{Halo|Combat Evolved}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Halo 3}}'' have songs titled "On a Pale Horse" and "Behold a Pale Horse" respectively.

* [[VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations]] features a long-barreled Colt Python called the "Pale Rider." It also appears in the sequel.

* ''TabletopGame/PrometheanTheCreated'' makes ample use of this line as quoted by Oppenheimer, chiefly as regards the [[ILoveNuclearPower 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." [[PersonOfMassDestruction It's]][[PelagianVillain quite ]][[MaddenIntoMisanthropy appropriate.]]

* ''Literature/GoodOmens'' has Adam "slouching hopefully towards Tadfield" at the end of the book.

* The poem is quoted in both ''ComicBook/XFactor 70'' and ''ComicBook/IncredibleHulk 425'', both written by Creator/PeterDavid.

** Mike also spoofed the line in ''Film/RidingWithDeath'': "I am become Death, destroyer of small radios."

* In ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'', the Arcade Mode ending for Noob Saibot has him use this quote verbatim as he reimagines himself as "[[GrimReaper Death]]" with help from the Sands of Time.

* Used several times in ''Film/{{Tombstone}}'', either all or part.

* In the Creator/ClintEastwood film ''Film/PaleRider'', it is quoted near the beginning of the film, as Eastwood's character is shown riding into the camp.
** The title itself is likely a reference, though not a quote.

* Referenced in the ''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..."

* Subverted in ''{{Webcomic/Sinfest}}'' in a [[http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-07-20 charming way]].

* On ''Series/{{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 RealLife example below).

* The first episode of ''Series/{{Millennium}}''

* In ''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".

-->'''Kate''': Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster.\\

** ''Series/Batwoman2019''. Kate Kane gives the quote to her evil twin sister Alice (citing Bruce Wayne of Earth-99) after Kate violates the ThouShaltNotKill rule due to Alice's manipulations.

* Creator/AgathaChristie's novel ''The Pale Horse''.'

* Creator/FrederickForsyth wrote a book about a troop of mercenaries in Africa called ''Literature/TheDogsOfWar''.

* ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian'' opens with the quote.

-->'''Mob Banker''': Criminals in this town [[EvenEvilHasStandards used to believe in things: honor, respect.]] Look at [[you]]. What do you believe in, huh? WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IN!?\\
'''The Joker:''' ''(shoves a grenade between banker's teeth)'' I believe whatever doesn't kill you simply makes you... ''(DramaticUnmask)'' ''stranger.''

->''"Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war."''
-->'''Creator/{{Shakespeare}}'s''' ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar''

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* "Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war" is used by General Chang in ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'' as he's kicking the ass of Enterprise with his cloaked Bird of Prey.
* Creator/KevinCostner delivered this line in ''Film/ThePostman'' (film version only).
* Lord Humongous of ''Film/TheRoadWarrior'' clearly references this quote, in his sort of pretentious way, as he reproaches the town he's laying to by saying "Look at what you have done! You have made me unleash my dogs of war!"
* Drama teacher Mrs. Henscher uses this in ''WesternAnimation/ParaNorman'' to rally an [[TorchesAndPitchforks angry mob]]. They turn out to be less interested in Shakespeare than she assumed.
-->'''Mrs. Henscher:''' ({{beat}}) Let's tear 'em apart!

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* Used as the {{Epigraph}} for one chapter in ''Literature/WatershipDown''. Needless to say, war ensues. And a dog.
* Creator/FrederickForsyth wrote a book about a troop of mercenaries in Africa called ''Literature/TheDogsOfWar''.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''. Having gained sentience and somehow the ability to exit the holodeck, Professor Moriarty holoprogram gives this quote to explain it.

* Said word by word by Buck in ''WesternAnimation/IceAge3DawnOfTheDinosaurs'', when the herd doesn't listen to his warnings and continues to enter the dinosaur world.