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* In the first episode of ''Series/TheWitcher2019'' Geralt dismisses a prophecy for not rhyming.
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That foreign-language PropheciesRhymeAllTheTime is one of the most blatant forms of either ConvenientlyPreciseTranslation (if the characters actually translate it or use TranslatorMicrobes) or TranslationConvention (if they don't). In [[RealLife reality]], it's hard work to translate a rhyme in one language into a rhyme in the other, not the kind of thing that you could easily do on the fly.
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That foreign-language PropheciesRhymeAllTheTime prophecies rhyme all the time is one of the most blatant forms of either ConvenientlyPreciseTranslation (if the characters actually translate it or use TranslatorMicrobes) or TranslationConvention (if they don't). In [[RealLife reality]], it's hard work to translate a rhyme in one language into a rhyme in the other, not the kind of thing that you could easily do on the fly.
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* Literary: Averted in the ''[=DragonCrown=]'' War series by Creator/MichaelStackpole. In the first, a prophecy is made in Elven, then translated into English. It doesn't rhyme in the slightest, in either language, nor was it expected to.
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* Literary: Averted in the ''[=DragonCrown=]'' War series by Creator/MichaelStackpole. In the first, a prophecy is made in Elven, then translated into English. It doesn't rhyme in the slightest, in either language, nor was it expected to.
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* Thankfully averted in ''Literature/WarriorCats''. The prophecies NEVER rhyme. They may be (seemingly deliberately) obtuse and delivered like clockwork when the main characters are done fulfilling the last one, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking but at least they don't rhyme]].
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* Similarly lampshaded in an issue of Creators/{{DC}}'s old ''ComicBook/ForgottenRealms'' comic, in which a character coming out of a trance and wondering what happened is laconically informed that he was just "spouting prophetic poetry. ''Bad'' prophetic poetry, at that."
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* Similarly lampshaded in an issue of Creators/{{DC}}'s Creator/DCComics's old ''ComicBook/ForgottenRealms'' comic, in which a character coming out of a trance and wondering what happened is laconically informed that he was just "spouting prophetic poetry. ''Bad'' prophetic poetry, at that."
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* Parodied in a live-action segment in the ''Series/SuperMarioBrosSuperShow''. Luigi made his brother disappear. The spell to bring him back (according to the GuestStar) was something like "Ping-ping pear... wing-wing wear... make old Mario... Re-a-pear!"
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* Parodied in a live-action segment in the ''Series/SuperMarioBrosSuperShow''.''Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow''. Luigi made his brother disappear. The spell to bring him back (according to the GuestStar) was something like "Ping-ping pear... wing-wing wear... make old Mario... Re-a-pear!"
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** Also, ''All that is gold does not glitter'', about the return of the King (though that was more of a hopeful poem than a prophecy as such).
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** Lampshaded in [[Recap/GravityFallsS2E10NorthwestMansionMystery an earlier episode]]:
-->'''Dipper''': Pacifica! The ghost is turning everyone into wood and... started rhyming for some reason.
-->'''Dipper''': Pacifica! The ghost is turning everyone into wood and... started rhyming for some reason.
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* In ''TableTopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', the ''divination'' spell is described as giving answers sometimes in the form of a "cryptic rhyme". The (3rd edition) ''Dungeon Master's Guide'' gives some advice on how to handle this:
--> Cryptic rhymes are often difficult to come up with in the middle of the game. One trick is to create a rhyme ahead of time that can fit just about any question, such as "If X is the seed you sow, reap you will Y and know," where X is an action and Y is the result. Or "If into X fate doth thee send, thou wilt find Y in the end," where X is a place and Y is a result or consequence such as "danger" or "treasure".
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* In ''TableTopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', the ''divination'' spell is described as giving answers sometimes in the form of a "cryptic rhyme". The (3rd edition) ''Dungeon Master's Guide'' gives some advice on how to handle this:
--> Cryptic rhymes are often difficult to come up with in the middle of the game. One trick is to create a rhyme ahead of time that can fit just about any question, such as "If X is the seed you sow, reap you will Y and know," where X is an action and Y is the result. Or "If into X fate doth thee send, thou wilt find Y in the end," where X is a place and Y is a result or consequence such as "danger" or "treasure".
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* Similarly lampshaded in an issue of Creators/{{DC}}'s old ''ForgottenRealms'' comic, in which a character coming out of a trance and wondering what happened is laconically informed that he was just "spouting prophetic poetry. ''Bad'' prophetic poetry, at that."
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* ''Anime/{{Pokemon 2000}}'': "Disturb not the harmony of fire, ice, or lightning, lest these titans wreak destruction upon the world in which they '''clash'''. Though the water's great guardian shall arise to quell the fighting, alone his song will fail; thus the Earth shall turn to '''ash'''." Et cetera.
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* ''Anime/{{Pokemon 2000}}'': 2000}}'' (dub only): "Disturb not the harmony of fire, ice, or lightning, lest these titans wreak destruction upon the world in which they '''clash'''. Though the water's great guardian shall arise to quell the fighting, alone his song will fail; thus the Earth shall turn to '''ash'''." Et cetera.
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* Not all of what's written in the Book of Prophecies in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsX'' rhyme, but the prophecy foretelling the end of the world does.
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* Not all of what's written in the Book of Prophecies in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsX'' rhyme, rhymes, but the prophecy foretelling the end of the world does.
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and righteously cast off her cursed pall.\\
That she with wrathful wyrmking at her side\\
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and righteously cast off her Her cursed pall.\\
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* When Sophia the Goddess is freed from her imprisonment in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' one of her followers recites a prophecy for her return.
-->'''Demiurge''': With scales in hand, the Goddess shall arise\\
and righteously cast off her cursed pall.\\
That she with wrathful wyrmking at her side\\
might judge then bring balance unto all.
* Not all of what's written in the Book of Prophecies in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsX'' rhyme, but the prophecy foretelling the end of the world does.
--> "On that fated land, a great war shall transpire.\\
Darkness will prevail and the light expire."
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and righteously cast off her cursed pall.\\
That she with wrathful wyrmking at her side\\
might judge then bring balance unto all.
* Not all of what's written in the Book of Prophecies in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsX'' rhyme, but the prophecy foretelling the end of the world does.
--> "On that fated land, a great war shall transpire.\\
Darkness will prevail and the light expire."
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* ''Anime/YuGiOh'' is an {{egregious}} user of this trope; all of the prophecies rhyme, even if they're translated from ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. ''[[WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries Yu-Gi-Oh!]] [[TheMovie The Abridged Movie]]'' [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] this with Yugi actually asking if the prophecy was written by Dr. Seuss.
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* ''Anime/YuGiOh'' is an {{egregious}} JustForFun/{{egregious}} user of this trope; all of the prophecies rhyme, even if they're translated from ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. ''[[WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries Yu-Gi-Oh!]] [[TheMovie The Abridged Movie]]'' [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] this with Yugi actually asking if the prophecy was written by Dr. Seuss.
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* ''Literature/HarryPotter''[='=]s Prophecy famously averts this trope, which Hermione finds surprisingly underwhelming in ''Fanfic/TheParselmouthOfGryffindor''. Leading to this bit of dialogue:
-->'''Hermione:''' "Blah. That doesn't evenr rhyme."
-->'''Dumbledore:''' "''Miss Granger!''"
-->'''Hermione:''' "Sorry. Sorry. That was uncalled for."
-->'''Hermione:''' "Blah. That doesn't evenr rhyme."
-->'''Dumbledore:''' "''Miss Granger!''"
-->'''Hermione:''' "Sorry. Sorry. That was uncalled for."
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* Every prophecy in ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' and the sequel series, ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'', rhymes, except for one conspicuous aversion in ''The Son of Neptune, which is, naturally, lampshaded''. As it turns out, with [[MoreDakka enough dakka]], one can ignore all the traditions one wants.
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* Every prophecy in ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' and the sequel series, ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'', rhymes, except for one conspicuous aversion in ''The Son of Neptune, Neptune'', which is, naturally, lampshaded''.lampshaded. As it turns out, with [[MoreDakka enough dakka]], one can ignore all the traditions one wants.
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* Literary: Averted in the ''[=DragonCrown=]'' War series by MichaelStackpole. In the first, a prophecy is made in Elven, then translated into English. It doesn't rhyme in the slightest, in either language, nor was it expected to.
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* Every prophecy in ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' and the sequel series, TheHeroesOfOlympus, ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'', rhymes, except for one conspicuous aversion in ''The Son of Neptune, which is, naturally, lampshaded''. As it turns out, with [[MoreDakka enough dakka]], one can ignore all the traditions one wants.
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* ''Anime/{{Pokemon 2000}}'': "Disturb not the harmony of fire, ice, or lightning, lest these titans wreak destruction upon the world in which they '''clash'''. Though the water's great guardian shall arise to quell the fighting, alone his song will fail; thus the Earth shall turn to '''ash'''." Et cetera.
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** However, in "Hush," Buffy has a prophetic dream when an OracularUrchin [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHIjoHpEa5g sings a song]] about the incoming [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters of the Week]].
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* "When WesternAnimation/GravityFalls and earth becomes sky, beware [[BigBad the beast]] [[{{Cyclops}} with just one eye]]!"
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* Every prophecy in ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' and the sequel series, TheHeroesOfOlympus, rhymes, except for one conspicuous aversion in ''The Son of Neptune''. Neptune, which is, naturally, lampshaded''. As it turns out, with [[MoreDakka enough dakka, dakka]], one can ignore all the traditions one wants.
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* ''Fanfic/TheLastSon'': [[ComicBook/XMen Irene Adler's]] prophecy regarding [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Superman's]] fate reads as follows:
--> "All of you now, from near and from far, mark well the Child that comes from the Star! Great power he has, which no man can match, the dark he will fight, and swiftly dispatch. Death will fall from the sky, with unquenchable fire, but the Child will strive on, and shall never tire. Monsters shall rise, in a world full of hate, yet the Child will bring light, to challenge this fate. Another will come, with might equal to he, but he will still win, in ways we can't see. And all around him, mutantkind shall unite, to drive back the dark, in a terrible fight. And hope shall be gone, as victory seems far, but hope shall return, with the Child of the Star."
--> "All of you now, from near and from far, mark well the Child that comes from the Star! Great power he has, which no man can match, the dark he will fight, and swiftly dispatch. Death will fall from the sky, with unquenchable fire, but the Child will strive on, and shall never tire. Monsters shall rise, in a world full of hate, yet the Child will bring light, to challenge this fate. Another will come, with might equal to he, but he will still win, in ways we can't see. And all around him, mutantkind shall unite, to drive back the dark, in a terrible fight. And hope shall be gone, as victory seems far, but hope shall return, with the Child of the Star."
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*Lampshaded to hellangone in ''Fanfic/TheKeysStandAlone: The Soft World''. Right from the start the four encounter a poem carved in a wall. John immediately sneers at how bad it is, and complains that if it's meant for them, he does ''not'' want to be communicated to that way. They soon run into more poems and lines of poetry, all bad (“Hooray, more shitty poetry!” John cries at one point). When they find out that the gods wrote some of this stuff, John sniffs, “Well, now we know they ain't the gods of poetry.”)
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* Parodied by Portentia the oracle in ''Literature/TheSecretsOfDroon''. She'd ''like'' to give her prophecies as rhyming riddles, but she's not very good at it. From her second appearance onward, her presentation gets much better.
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Susan isn't really a snarker at first; she starts out as rather dour and serious.
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