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The references across media to Creator/DanteAlighieri's classic epic ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'', many of which relate to the famous line "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here".

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The [[ReferencedBy references across media media]] to Creator/DanteAlighieri's classic epic ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'', many of which relate to the famous line "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here".

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* In ''Film/JohnWickChapter3Parabellum'', Ernest quotes Dante to John Wick when they meet in a library. "Consider your origins. You were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge". [[HypocriticalHumor This doesn't stop him]] from trying to brutally murder John moments later.
* In ''Film/JohnWickChapter4'', [[KingOfTheHomeless The Bowery King]] opens the movie quoting him as he walks his way to John Wick punching a makiwara:
-->'''Bowery King:''' I am the way into the city of woe. I am the way into eternal pain. I am the way to go among the lost. Before me there were no created things but those that last forever— [[PunctuatedForEmphasis AS! DO! I!]] Abandon all hope, you who are about to enter here...[[SophisticatedAsHell you are now in the presence of the MOTHERFUCKING KING!]]

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* In **In ''Film/JohnWickChapter3Parabellum'', Ernest quotes Dante to John Wick when they meet in a library. "Consider your origins. You were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge". [[HypocriticalHumor This doesn't stop him]] from trying to brutally murder John moments later.
* In **In ''Film/JohnWickChapter4'', [[KingOfTheHomeless The Bowery King]] opens the movie quoting him as he walks his way to John Wick punching a makiwara:
-->'''Bowery --->'''Bowery King:''' I am the way into the city of woe. I am the way into eternal pain. I am the way to go among the lost. Before me there were no created things but those that last forever— [[PunctuatedForEmphasis AS! DO! I!]] Abandon all hope, you who are about to enter here...[[SophisticatedAsHell you are now in the presence of the MOTHERFUCKING KING!]]


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*''Film/ATripToMars'': When she and her dad watch her brother Avanti travel to Mars, Corona mentions according to ''Divine Comedy'' the planet belongs to those who dare risk their lives for their faith.
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** The ROM hack ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIVUnprecedentedCrisis'' has four new fiends that are also named for the Maelbranche.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' spin-off ''Daria's Inferno'' is all about the title character sitting in a classroom lecture about the book and, falling asleep, dreaming that she's been sucked into the story. The circles of Hell are replaced by iconic locations from Lawndale.
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* In ''Literature/WinLoseOrDie'', Franchise/JamesBond is up against the Brotherhood of Anarchy and Secret Terror, i.e. BAST, a name that is claimed to be shared by an ancient Egyptian demon. In response, [=MI6=] uses the names of demons from The Divine Comedy as codenames for their operatives.
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* ''VideoGame/WildARMs2'': It drew inspiration from ''Divine Comedy'', as the terrorist organization the party fights through the first arc is named "Cocytus" (the ninth and lowest circle of Hell), with its four main generals named after the concentric zones within: Caina, Antenora, Judecca, and Ptolomea.

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* ''VideoGame/WildARMs2'': ''VideoGame/WildArms2'': It drew inspiration from ''Divine Comedy'', as the terrorist organization the party fights through the first arc is named "Cocytus" (the ninth and lowest circle of Hell), with its four main generals named after the concentric zones within: Caina, Antenora, Judecca, and Ptolomea.
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* Creator/HenryWadsworthLongfellow wrote a sonnet cycle, ''Divina Commedia'', as he translated the Divine Comedy, bearing witness to the epic poem's influence on Italy and beyond.
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* In ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl'', Jack Sparrow says of two former crewmates that "The deepest circle of Hell is reserved for betrayers and mutineers."
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* ''Fanfic/RocketshipVoyager''. Captain Janeway is a FanOfThePast who salvages antique books from post-[=WW3=] Europe, including a damaged copy of ''Divina Commedia'' (''Inferno'' is "appropriately charred"). As in the VOY episode "Shattered", the first canto is quoted during a discussion with Chakotay.

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* ''Film/JohnWickChapter3Parabellum''. Ernest quotes Dante to John Wick when they meet in a library. "Consider your origins. You were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge". [[HypocriticalHumor This doesn't stop him]] from trying to brutally murder John moments later.

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* ''Film/JohnWickChapter3Parabellum''. ''Franchise/JohnWick'':
* In ''Film/JohnWickChapter3Parabellum'',
Ernest quotes Dante to John Wick when they meet in a library. "Consider your origins. You were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge". [[HypocriticalHumor This doesn't stop him]] from trying to brutally murder John moments later.
* In ''Film/JohnWickChapter4'', [[KingOfTheHomeless The Bowery King]] opens the movie quoting him as he walks his way to John Wick punching a makiwara:
-->'''Bowery King:''' I am the way into the city of woe. I am the way into eternal pain. I am the way to go among the lost. Before me there were no created things but those that last forever— [[PunctuatedForEmphasis AS! DO! I!]] Abandon all hope, you who are about to enter here...[[SophisticatedAsHell you are now in the presence of the MOTHERFUCKING KING!]]
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* ''VideoGame/LimbusCompany'': The game starts with the main character Dante being attacked by several fixers codenamed Lion, Wolf, and Panther, before being rescued by a man known as Vergilius, who works to guide him and the Sinners throughout the City aboard a bus driven by a girl named Charon.
-->'''Vergilius:''' We're setting off for the Inferno.
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* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': In [[Recap/SupernaturalS05E22SwanSong Swan Song]] Lucifer freezes a window with his breath, and states "Sorry if it's a bit chilly. Most people think I burn hot. It's actually quite the opposite." This seems a ShoutOut to Dante's ''Inferno'', which rather famously features a frozen Hell that gets colder the closer one gets to Lucifer at the center.

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* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': In [[Recap/SupernaturalS05E22SwanSong Swan Song]] "Swan Song"]] Lucifer freezes a window with his breath, and states "Sorry if it's a bit chilly. Most people think I burn hot. It's actually quite the opposite." This seems a ShoutOut to Dante's ''Inferno'', which rather famously features a frozen Hell that gets colder the closer one gets to Lucifer at the center.
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* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': While contemplating suicide in "Like Angels Put in Hell by God", Louis de Pointe du Lac brings up "Dante's Wood of the Self-Murdered."

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* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': While contemplating suicide in "Like "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E6LikeAngelsPutInHellByGod Like Angels Put in Hell by God", God]]", Louis de Pointe du Lac brings up "Dante's Wood of the Self-Murdered."
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* ''[[Literature/JoesWorld The Philosophical Strangler]]'' features a trip to local netherworld in (deliberately bad) verse, with a guide who is a snotty little jerk gloating over the residents who were mildly unpleasant to him when alive.
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* ''Series/TheXFiles'': [[TuckerIzation Virgil Incanto]]'s name comes from the first part of ''Divine Comedy'' divided into three long sections called 'cantos', where Roman poet Virgil is Dante's guide through the first two books ''Dante's Inferno'' and ''Purgatorio''.

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* ''Series/TheXFiles'': [[TuckerIzation [[{{Tuckerization}} Virgil Incanto]]'s name comes from the first part of ''Divine Comedy'' divided into three long sections called 'cantos', where Roman poet Virgil is Dante's guide through the first two books ''Dante's Inferno'' and ''Purgatorio''.



* TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons the Nine Hells Of Baator (the [Invoked] LawfulEvil plane) is obviously based off Dante's Hell. Curiously, Mount Celestia (the LawfulGood plane, which is one of the [[HeaVen Upper Planes,]]) is based off Dante's ''Purgatory'' instead of his Heaven, being a mountain with seven tiers.

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* TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons the Nine Hells Of Baator (the [Invoked] LawfulEvil plane) is obviously based off Dante's Hell. Curiously, Mount Celestia (the LawfulGood plane, which is one of the [[HeaVen [[{{Heaven}} Upper Planes,]]) is based off Dante's ''Purgatory'' instead of his Heaven, being a mountain with seven tiers.



* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'': The Prison Tower event is essentially ''Dante's Inferno'', where [[IronY Dantes plays the Vergil to the protagonist's Dante]].

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* ''Manga/CesareIlCreatoreCheHaDistrutto'': 16-year-old Cesare Borgia develops his political philosophy based, in large part, on Dante's ideas, particularly his involvement with the Holy Roman Emperor Heinrich VII. Volume 7 starts with Cesare staring at Heinrich's tomb in the Pisa Cathedral, and almost the entire book consists of flashbacks to conversations with one of his professors about Dante. And that has nothing on TheMusical adaptation (see "Theatre" below).




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* ''Theatre/CesareIlCreatoreCheHaDistrutto'' takes place about 170 years after Dante's death, but it features him as a character on stage. The students are reading the Divine Comedy in class, and sing a song about it, complete with DeathlyDiesIrae and the BoleroEffect. Dante appears on stage mid-way through the song, and sings excerpts from the work. Then, a vision-like scene of his interactions with the Holy Roman Emperor Heinrich VII, and the relevant scenes in ''Paradiso'', is shown. Cesare's philosophy builds largely on this (see notes on the source manga above). In the end, Dante appears to Cesare again, and at the climax of the story, they sing a debate duet over what kind of temporal power the church should hold. It ends with Dante commanding Cesare to become not a holy demon, but an emperor. Dante kneels, and tells Cesare that there could be a seat for him in Paradise, just like Heinrich VII. Yes, a duet between Dante and Cesare Borgia.
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* ''Series/TheXFiles'': [[{{Tuckerization}} Virgil Incanto]]'s name comes from the first part of ''Divine Comedy'' divided into three long sections called 'cantos', where Roman poet Virgil is Dante's guide through the first two books ''Dante's Inferno'' and ''Purgatorio''.

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* ''Series/TheXFiles'': [[{{Tuckerization}} [[TuckerIzation Virgil Incanto]]'s name comes from the first part of ''Divine Comedy'' divided into three long sections called 'cantos', where Roman poet Virgil is Dante's guide through the first two books ''Dante's Inferno'' and ''Purgatorio''.



* TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons the Nine Hells Of Baator (the [Invoked] LawfulEvil plane) is obviously based off Dante's Hell. Curiously, Mount Celestia (the LawfulGood plane, which is one of the [[{{Heaven}} Upper Planes,]]) is based off Dante's ''Purgatory'' instead of his Heaven, being a mountain with seven tiers.

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* TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons the Nine Hells Of Baator (the [Invoked] LawfulEvil plane) is obviously based off Dante's Hell. Curiously, Mount Celestia (the LawfulGood plane, which is one of the [[{{Heaven}} [[HeaVen Upper Planes,]]) is based off Dante's ''Purgatory'' instead of his Heaven, being a mountain with seven tiers.



* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'': The Prison Tower event is essentially ''Dante's Inferno'', where [[{{Irony}} Dantes plays the Vergil to the protagonist's Dante]].

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* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'': The Prison Tower event is essentially ''Dante's Inferno'', where [[{{Irony}} [[IronY Dantes plays the Vergil to the protagonist's Dante]].




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*''VideoGame/YsIXMonstrumNox'': One of the translated graffiti in Balduq reads "Abandon all hopes and dreams, ye who know what's good for you."



* Website/SCPFoundation: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-261 SCP-261's]] [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/experiment-log-261-ad-de experiment log]] contains (or contained): "Dante's". 750g package of biscuits with nine distinct circular, concentric layers. Packaging claims that contents "Taste like Hell!"

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* Website/SCPFoundation: [[http://www.scp-wiki.[[http://scp-wiki.net/scp-261 SCP-261's]] [[http://www.scp-wiki.SCP-261]]'s [[http://scp-wiki.net/experiment-log-261-ad-de experiment log]] contains (or contained): "Dante's". 750g package of biscuits with nine distinct circular, concentric layers. Packaging claims that contents "Taste like Hell!"



* ''Westernanimation/OverTheGardenWall'': The series is about the protagonists taking a journey throught the forest [[FableRemake resembles Dante's journey throught Hell]], but in a much LighterAndSofter tone.

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* ''Westernanimation/OverTheGardenWall'': The series is about the protagonists taking a journey throught through the forest that [[FableRemake resembles Dante's journey throught through Hell]], but in a much LighterAndSofter tone.

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