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* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'': Niles and Daphne's [[HappilyMarried close marital bond]] is demonstrated during a game of Pictionary when she draws a circle on the board and Niles ''immediately'' guesses that her prompt was this opera.

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* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'': Niles and Daphne's [[HappilyMarried close marital bond]] is demonstrated during a game of Pictionary when she draws a circle on the board and Niles ''immediately'' guesses that her prompt was this opera. In another episode Niles builds a dragon kite with his father and suggests they name it Fafner after "Siegfried's fiery nemesis".
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* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'': Niles and Daphne's [[HappilyMarried close marital bond]] is demonstrated during a game of Pictionary when she draws a circle on the board and Niles ''immediately'' guesses that her prompt was this opera.
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* ''Literature/Emberverse''. Mike Havel mentions how he once sat through the whole boring performance because his girlfriend of the time was into it, musing on the things he used to do to get laid.

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* ''Literature/Emberverse''.''[[Literature/{{Emberverse}} Dies The Fire]]''. Mike Havel mentions how he once sat through the whole boring performance because his girlfriend of the time was into it, musing on the things he used to do to get laid.
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* ''Literature/Emberverse''. Mike Havel mentions how he once sat through the whole boring performance because his girlfriend of the time was into it, musing on the things he used to do to get laid.
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* In George C. Chesbro's ''The Beasts of Valhalla'', EvilutionaryBiologist Siegmund Loge (ha ha) is a fanatical Wagner fan.

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* In George C. Chesbro's ''The Beasts of Valhalla'', ''Literature/TheBeastsOfValhalla'', EvilutionaryBiologist Siegmund Loge (ha ha) is a fanatical Wagner fan.



* In Creator/JohnCWright's ''The Chronicles of Chaos'', there is banter mangling together ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' and ''Der Ring des Nibelungen''.
* Stephen R. Donaldson's ''The Gap'' series is literally a SpaceOpera, being an adaptation of the ''Ring'' InSpace.

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* In Creator/JohnCWright's ''The Chronicles of Chaos'', ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfChaos'', there is banter mangling together ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' and ''Der Ring des Nibelungen''.
* Stephen R. Donaldson's ''The Gap'' ''Literature/TheGap'' series is literally a SpaceOpera, being an adaptation of the ''Ring'' InSpace.



* In Nicholas Meyer's Literature/SherlockHolmes {{Pastiche}} ''The Seven Per Cent Solution'', Holmes (who adores Wagner), Dr. Watson, and Sigmund Freud all attend a performance of ''Siegfried''; Watson and Freud fall asleep.

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* In Nicholas Meyer's Literature/SherlockHolmes {{Pastiche}} ''The Seven Per Cent Solution'', ''Literature/TheSevenPerCentSolution'', Holmes (who adores Wagner), Dr. Watson, and Sigmund Freud all attend a performance of ''Siegfried''; Watson and Freud fall asleep.



* The novella ''Wälsungenblut'' ("Wälsung Blood", written in 1906) by [[UsefulNotes/DichterAndDenker Thomas Mann]] invokes ''Die Walküre'': Decadent Jewish twins [[PropheticName Siegmund and Sieglind]] Aarenhold decide to emulate the example of their namesakes after attending a performance of the opera.

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* The novella ''Wälsungenblut'' ("Wälsung Blood", ("Literature/WalsungBlood", written in 1906) by [[UsefulNotes/DichterAndDenker Thomas Mann]] invokes ''Die Walküre'': Decadent Jewish twins [[PropheticName Siegmund and Sieglind]] Aarenhold decide to emulate the example of their namesakes after attending a performance of the opera.
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* ''LightNovel/TrinityBlood'': Melchior von Neumann's favourite [[RobotGirl Auto-Doll]] is named Sieglinde.

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* In the beginning of ''Film/DasTestamentDesDoktorMabuse'', the film cuts from a fiery explosion (something that can be called a Feuerzauber in German slang) to Kommissar Lohmann humming ''Wotans Feuerzauber'' from the finale of ''Die Walküre'' and telling his secretary that this evening [[TemptingFate he at last has the time to attend a performance of that opera]]. Of course that is precisely the moment when the telephone rings...

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* In the beginning of ''Film/DasTestamentDesDoktorMabuse'', ''Film/TheTestamentOfDrMabuse'', the film cuts from a fiery explosion (something that can be called a Feuerzauber in German slang) to Kommissar Lohmann humming ''Wotans Feuerzauber'' from the finale of ''Die Walküre'' and telling his secretary that this evening [[TemptingFate he at last has the time to attend a performance of that opera]]. Of course that course, this is precisely the moment when the telephone rings...
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* ''Film/{{The New World|2005}}'' uses the opening of ''Das Rheingold'' as the ships reach North America with the Natives observing them.

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* Excerpts from this cycle are a recurring theme in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse.

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** Loki makes a clever use of his leitmotif, choreographing one of his fight scenes to it in ''Film/TheAvengers2012.''

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* In ''The Tomb of Sammun-Mak'', the second episode of ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxTheDevilsPlayhouse'', we find out that [[LittleMissBadass little]] [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy Amelia Earhart]] listens to "The Ride of the Valkyries" as a lullaby.
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* In the ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'' episode ''The Tomb of Sammun-Mak'', we know that [[LittleMissBadass little]] [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy Amelia Earhart]] listens to "The Ride of the Valkyries" as a lullaby.

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* In the ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'' episode ''The Tomb of Sammun-Mak'', the second episode of ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxTheDevilsPlayhouse'', we know find out that [[LittleMissBadass little]] [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy Amelia Earhart]] listens to "The Ride of the Valkyries" as a lullaby.
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* In ''[[VideoGames/WorldOfWarcraft World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King]]'', a staff called "Nibelung" can be found on one of the bosses in the Icecrown Citadel raid.

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* In ''[[VideoGames/WorldOfWarcraft ''[[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King]]'', a staff called "Nibelung" can be found on one of the bosses in the Icecrown Citadel raid.
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* ''Film/{{The New World|2005}}'' uses the opening ''Manga/TheLegendOfKoizumi'' features a [[StupidJetpackHitler reincarnated cyborg Wagner]] as one of ''Das Rheingold'' as the ships reach North America ThoseWackyNazis whom our heroes battle, complete with [[CallingYourAttacks attacks]] based on his operas.
* The ''Anime/YuGiOh'' character, Siegfried von Schroider, is derived from
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* The foundation for The World in the ''Franchise/DotHack'' series is based off of this and Norse mythology in general. Several characters also are references.
* ''LightNovel/TrinityBlood'': Melchior von Neumann's favourite [[RobotGirl Auto-Doll]] is named Sieglinde.
* ''Anime/PonyoOnTheCliffByTheSea'' also references the Ring. Ponyo's original name is Brunhilde, and like the character of the same name from the opera, she's a supernatural being who defies her father and falls in love with a human. In case someone thought all this is coincidental, the connection is further emphasized when her leitmotif is orchestrated as a pastiche of the "Ride of the Valkyries" during the climactic tsunami scene.
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* Excerpts from this cycle are a recurring theme in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse.
** Red Skull listens to ''Götterdämmerung'' as he's having his portrait painted in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger.''
** Loki makes a clever use of his leitmotif, choreographing one of his fight scenes to it in ''Film/TheAvengers2012.''
* ''Film/{{The New World|2005}}'' uses the opening of ''Das Rheingold'' as the ships reach North America with the Natives observing them.
* In a MusicalGag, the cavalry [[TheBlacksmith blacksmith]] in Creator/JohnFord's ''Film/SheWoreAYellowRibbon'' is named Wagner; when he appears, the soundtrack plays the [[ForgingScene smithying]] {{Leitmotif}} from the ''Ring''.
* In the beginning of ''Film/DasTestamentDesDoktorMabuse'', the film cuts from a fiery explosion (something that can be called a Feuerzauber in German slang) to Kommissar Lohmann humming ''Wotans Feuerzauber'' from the finale of ''Die Walküre'' and telling his secretary that this evening [[TemptingFate he at last has the time to attend a performance of that opera]]. Of course that is precisely the moment when the telephone rings...
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* In James Herriot's "All Creatures Great and Small" books, Siegfried Farnon got that name because his father was a fan of Wagner.
* In George C. Chesbro's ''The Beasts of Valhalla'', EvilutionaryBiologist Siegmund Loge (ha ha) is a fanatical Wagner fan.
* The main character of Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/TheCatWhoWalksThroughWalls'' also admits to cribbing the plot for one of his books from ''Der Ring des Nibelungen''.
* In Creator/JohnCWright's ''The Chronicles of Chaos'', there is banter mangling together ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' and ''Der Ring des Nibelungen''.
* Stephen R. Donaldson's ''The Gap'' series is literally a SpaceOpera, being an adaptation of the ''Ring'' InSpace.
* Creator/GeorgeBernardShaw’s ''The Perfect Wagnerite'' is an analysis of the ''Ring'' from a Socialist point of view. It was a big influence on Patrice Chéreau's ''Jahrhundertring'', the production for the centennial of the Bayreuth festival in 1979.
* In Nicholas Meyer's Literature/SherlockHolmes {{Pastiche}} ''The Seven Per Cent Solution'', Holmes (who adores Wagner), Dr. Watson, and Sigmund Freud all attend a performance of ''Siegfried''; Watson and Freud fall asleep.
* In ''[[Literature/TalesOfTheFiveHundredKingdoms The Sleeping Beauty]]'', the little bird warns Siegfried not to take the ring or mess with Bruunhilde, saying it will be his "[[DoomyDoomsOfDoom DOOM!]]" After a book's length of other adventures, Bruunhilde is awakened by a completely different prince, tells Wotan exactly what she thinks of him and the entire story, and informs him that she took the Ring back to the river maidens herself and put an end to the whole silly misunderstanding.
* In James Joyce's ''Literature/{{Ulysses}}'', Stephen Dedalus yells "Nothung!" as he destroys a lamp with his staff.
* Creator/TomHolt's comic fantasy novel, ''Literature/ExpectingSomeoneTaller'', is, ''very'' loosely, a sequel, set in modern times.
* The novella ''Wälsungenblut'' ("Wälsung Blood", written in 1906) by [[UsefulNotes/DichterAndDenker Thomas Mann]] invokes ''Die Walküre'': Decadent Jewish twins [[PropheticName Siegmund and Sieglind]] Aarenhold decide to emulate the example of their namesakes after attending a performance of the opera.
* In ''Literature/SoulMusic'' Susan, while doing her grandfather's Duty, has to visit a battlefield, where she meets a group of Valkyries in a scene that parodies the beginning of act 3 of ''Die Walküre''.


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* On ''Series/Kingdom2007'' during a ChaseScene involving Peter Kingdom's CoolCar and a guy on a bike. Lyle [[DiegeticSwitch puts on]] the "Music/RideOfTheValkyries."
* In the Münster ''Series/{{Tatort}}'' Professor Karl-Friedrich Boerne is a great admirer of Richard Wagner, which led him to give his diminutive assistant Silke Haller the nickname Alberich. In the course of later episodes she acquired a dog called Wotan, which belonged to a murder victim [[spoiler: who turned out to be Boerne's near-identical half-brother]], and it was revealed that she lives in ''Rheingoldweg'' ("Rhine Gold Way").
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* In the aftermath of the Enron disaster, the Firesign Theater compared the Enron story to "The Ring cycle," with hilarious results. A video of that show can be found on the DVD of ''Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.''
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* In the ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'' episode ''The Tomb of Sammun-Mak'', we know that [[LittleMissBadass little]] [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy Amelia Earhart]] listens to "The Ride of the Valkyries" as a lullaby.
* The ActionRPG ''VideoGame/OdinSphere'' is riddled through with Wagnerian references. There's even a character named Wagner!
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* In ''[[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime Adventure Time With Finn And Jake]]'', Billy's sword is called "Nothung".
* The ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short, ''WesternAnimation/WhatsOperaDoc'' (and its 1945 precursor, ''WesternAnimation/HerrMeetsHare''), although most of the music in them is actually ''not'' from the ''Ring''.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' had the episode "A Fright at the Opera," in which a performance of Wagner's work gets interrupted by a horde of real (if ghostly) Valkyries.
* In ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'', Mrs. Beakley is playing Brünhilde in an opera performance - which results in her being kidnapped by actual Vikings...
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* In the universe of ''Film/ArmyOfTheDead'' and ''Film/ArmyOfThieves'', the four safes conceived by locksmith Hans Wagner ([[ShoutOut of course]]) are named ''Rheingold'', ''Walküre'', ''Siegfried'' and ''Götterdämmerung''. Ludwig Dieter (Creator/MatthiasSchweighofer) even summarizes and philosophizes about the cycle's stories while opening the safes, and has several excerpts of it playing on his phone as he does so.

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* In the universe of ''Film/ArmyOfTheDead'' and ''Film/ArmyOfThieves'', the four safes conceived by locksmith Hans Wagner ([[ShoutOut of course]]) are named ''Rheingold'', ''Walküre'', ''Siegfried'' and ''Götterdämmerung''. Ludwig Dieter (Creator/MatthiasSchweighofer) even summarizes and philosophizes about the cycle's stories while opening working to open the safes, and has several excerpts of it playing on his phone as he does so.
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* ''Film/TheNewWorld'' uses the opening of ''Das Rheingold'' as the ships reach North America.

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* In the universe of ''Film/ArmyOfTheDead'' and ''Film/ArmyOfThieves'', the four safes conceived by locksmith Hans Wagner ([[ShoutOut of course]]) are named ''Rheingold'', ''Walküre'', ''Siegfried'' and ''Götterdämmerung''. Ludwig Dieter (Creator/MatthiasSchweighofer) even summarizes and philosophizes about the cycle's stories while opening the safes in the latter film, and has several excerpts of it playing as he does so.

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* In the universe of ''Film/ArmyOfTheDead'' and ''Film/ArmyOfThieves'', the four safes conceived by locksmith Hans Wagner ([[ShoutOut of course]]) are named ''Rheingold'', ''Walküre'', ''Siegfried'' and ''Götterdämmerung''. Ludwig Dieter (Creator/MatthiasSchweighofer) even summarizes and philosophizes about the cycle's stories while opening the safes in the latter film, safes, and has several excerpts of it playing on his phone as he does so.
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* In the universe of ''Film/ArmyOfTheDead'' and ''Film/ArmyOfThieves'', the four safes conceived by one Hans Wagner ([[ShoutOut of course]]) are named ''Rheingold'', ''Walküre'', ''Siegfried'' and ''Götterdämmerung''. Ludwig Dieter (Creator/MatthiasSchweighofer) even summarizes and philosophizes about the cycle's stories while opening the safes in the latter film, and has several excerpts of it playing as he does so.

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* In the universe of ''Film/ArmyOfTheDead'' and ''Film/ArmyOfThieves'', the four safes conceived by one locksmith Hans Wagner ([[ShoutOut of course]]) are named ''Rheingold'', ''Walküre'', ''Siegfried'' and ''Götterdämmerung''. Ludwig Dieter (Creator/MatthiasSchweighofer) even summarizes and philosophizes about the cycle's stories while opening the safes in the latter film, and has several excerpts of it playing as he does so.
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* In the universe of ''Film/ArmyOfTheDead'' and ''Film/ArmyOfThieves'', the four safes conceived by one Hans Wagner ([[ShoutOut of course]]) are named ''Rheingold'', ''Walküre'', ''Siegfried'' and ''Götterdämmerung''. Ludwig Dieter (Creator/MatthiasSchweighofer) even summarizes and philosophizes about the cycle's stories while opening the safes in the latter film.

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* In the universe of ''Film/ArmyOfTheDead'' and ''Film/ArmyOfThieves'', the four safes conceived by one Hans Wagner ([[ShoutOut of course]]) are named ''Rheingold'', ''Walküre'', ''Siegfried'' and ''Götterdämmerung''. Ludwig Dieter (Creator/MatthiasSchweighofer) even summarizes and philosophizes about the cycle's stories while opening the safes in the latter film.
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* In the universe of ''Film/ArmyOfTheDead'' and ''Film/ArmyOfThieves'', the four safes conceived by one Hans Wagner ([[ShoutOut of course]]) are named ''Rheingold'', ''Walküre'', ''Siegfried'' and ''Götterdämmerung''.

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* In the universe of ''Film/ArmyOfTheDead'' and ''Film/ArmyOfThieves'', the four safes conceived by one Hans Wagner ([[ShoutOut of course]]) are named ''Rheingold'', ''Walküre'', ''Siegfried'' and ''Götterdämmerung''. \n Ludwig Dieter (Creator/MatthiasSchweighofer) even summarizes and philosophizes about the cycle's stories while opening the safes in the latter film.
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* In the universe of ''Film/ArmyOfTheDead'' and ''Film/ArmyOfThieves'', the four safes conceived by one Hans Wagner ([[Music/RichardWagner of course]]) are named ''Rheingold'', ''Walküre'', ''Siegfried'' and ''Götterdämmerung''.

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