History ReferencedBy / NorseMythology

** ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' includes Brynhildr from ''Anime/FatePrototype: Fragments of Sky Silver'' as a summonable Lancer class Servant, as well as as a [[WalkingSwimsuitScene swimsuit-clad]] [[TheBerserker Berserker]] class Servant as part of one of the game's summer events. On top of this, the game features a Norse myth inspired story chapter as the second chapter of the ''Cosmos of the Lostbelt'' storyline, titled "The Eternal Icy Fire Century, Götterdämmerung -- The Good Fellow of Everlasting Flame". The chapter's [[AlternateUniverse Lostbelt]] is based around a what-if scenario in which Odin, in a last-ditch effort to stop a Ragnarok that went ''horribly'' OffTheRails when Surtr decided to [[SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum burn everything on Earth before dying]] rather than "just" wiping out the Norse pantheon, sacrificed himself to seal away an empowered Surtr, leading to a world predominately run by Jötunn, with Skadi and the {{Valkyries}} as the only divine beings left to protect humanity. On top of this storyline, the game would introduce several new characters from Norse myth as summonable Servants.

*** Unlike Brynhildr, the oldest of the {{Valkyries}}, the rest of the group are summonable as a [[TheDividual singular]] Lancer class Servant, though only three of them are actually ever seen and useable: Ortlinde, Hildr, and Thrúd. Alongside Brynhildr, the three are a part of a singular HiveMind that allows them to share information.
*** Scáthach-Skadi, a fusion of the [[Myth/CelticMythology Celtic warrior-queen Scáthach]] and the Norse goddess Skadi, is summonable as a [[TheArchmage Caster]] class Servant, specializing in using the [[InstantRunes Primordial Runes]]. While her body takes the form of Scáthach, her mind is that of Skadi's, leading to some confusion among other Servants more familiar with former. Initially introduced as the main antagonist of the Götterdämmerung Lostbelt, she quickly shows herself to [[AllLovingHero genuinely love all living things]], and sees her action in the Lostbelt as [[IDidWhatIHadToDo the necessary actions to save as much life as possible]].

* [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] himself is a prominent superhero in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, and is usually a member of Franchise/TheAvengers.

** Donar Vadderung[[note]] which translates to Thor Father-King [[/note]] runs a mercenary company called Monoc Securities (which name itself referencing Odin) whose employees are hinted to be Valkyries; his office building has portals to strange realms on each floor, referencing Yggdrasil, and he has two raven-haired secretaries named Huginn and Muninn (Harry calls them "[[IncrediblyLamePun birdbrains]]"). Oh, and he has an eyepatch, and is a powerful magic user.

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* As its title would imply, ''Manga/RecordOfRagnarok'' has a heavy focus on Norse myth. The story follows the [[{{Valkyries}} Valkyrie]] Brunhilde, alongside her fellow Valkyries, in her mission to save humanity from extinction at the hands of the gods through the creation of Ragnarok, a tournament in which 13 human warriors battle 13 gods, with the human's victory meaning their continued existence. Among the gods fighting in the tournament, Thor acts as the first to participate, being portrayed as a [[BloodKnight battle-loving]] man whose [[VictoryIsBoring lack of real challenge has caused him to feel unfulfilled]]. Thor's opponent is the Chinese general UsefulNotes/LuBu, [[spoiler:with the battle ending in Thor's victory, giving the gods their first win in the tournament]]. Among other Norse gods, Odin and Loki are also set to participate in the tournament.

* Putting aside that ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' has probably met creatures from Norse mythology somewhere along the line, in ''The Storm and Fury'' he gets mistaken for both Thor (on account of his hammer-like fist) and Odin (as he's [[spoiler: recently given Baba Yaga his eye]]).

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''

** [[spoiler: Kris Kringle- i.e., ''Santa Claus himself'']] in ''Cold Days'' gives Harry a lecture about BecomingTheMask before winking at him hard enough that one of his eyes seems to disappear. [[spoiler: In future books he makes absolutely no bones about the fact that he is the same guy as Donar.]]
* ''Literature/AmericanGods'' has Mr. Wednesday, an American transplant of Odin, [[spoiler: As well as Loki, while the main character, "Shadow", is heavily implied to be Baldr.]]

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* Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}} had [[ArtifactOfDoom the Eye of Tyr]], a Norse Mythological artifact that could be used to control minds. The catch is that after using it you have to give it away. Wrestling/{{UltraMantis Black}} thought he could outsmart the curse. He couldn't. It led to the debut of Wrestling/DieBruderschaftDesKreuzes, which included Wrestling/{{Tursas}}, a 6'8, 376 lbs. WrestlingMonster with a Finnish [[HornyVikings Viking]] gimmick. One of the BDK's {{Finishing Move}}s, performed by Tursas, Ares and Wrestling/ClaudioCastagnoli, was called Ragnarök.

* The [[Literature/SpaceWolf Space Wolves]] of ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' are Vikings InSpace on giant wolves, so naturally they get a lot of this.

* ''Tabletopgame/YuGiOhCardGame'' has at least three archetypes, Nordic, Aesir, and Generaider, which is based on this mythology.

* ''VideoGame/StarcraftII'': While there are the obvious ones (units named Valkyrie, Thor, and Odin), [[VideoGame/StarCraftIIHeartOfTheSwarm Heart of the Swarm]] has a more subtle one: You find the Odin again, but this time it's piloted by a Dominion pilot. [[http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/File:Odin_SC2-HoTS_Head1.jpg A white-haired, one-eyed pilot with a braided beard.]]

** ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' includes Brynhildr from ''Anime/FatePrototype: Fragments of Sky Silver'' as a summonable Lancer class Servant, as well as as a [[WalkingSwimsuitScene swimsuit-clad]] [[TheBerserker Berserker]] class Servant as part of one of the game's summer events. On top of this, the game features a Norse myth inspired story chapter as the second chapter of the ''Cosmos of the Lostbelt'' storyline, titled "The Eternal Icy Fire Century, Götterdämmerung -- The Good Fellow of Everlasting Flame". The chapter's [[AlternateUniverse Lostbelt]] is based around a what-if scenario in which Odin, in a last ditch effort to stop Ragnarok, sacrificed himself to seal away Surtr, leading to a world predominately run by Jötunn, with Skadi and the {{Valkyries}} as the only divine beings left to protect humanity. On top of this storyline, the game would introduce several new characters from Norse myth as summonable Servants.
*** Sigurd is introduced as a summonable [[MasterSwordsman Saber]] class Servant. While ''Fate'' had previously introduced another character by the name of Siegfried, that character is more in line with the character's portrayal in [[Literature/{{Nibelungenlied}} Germanic folklore]], with the introduction of Sigurd [[DecompositeCharacter establishing the two as different people]]. While the Götterdämmerung Lostbelt initially presents Sigurd as an arrogant and [[BloodKnight battle-hungry]] man with seemingly no memory of Brynhildr, [[spoiler:it's eventually revealed that this is actually because [[DemonicPossession he's possessed by Surtr]]. Once he regains control of his body]], Sigurd is shown to actually be a [[NiceGuy genuinely nice]] KnightInShiningArmor who's very much in love with Brynhildr.

* The Ring of the Neibelung plays a prominent role in ''Anime/HarlockSaga''.

* In ''Anime/FatePrototype: Fragments of Sky Silver'', Brynhildr is summoned as the Holy Grail War's [[BladeOnAStick Lancer]] class Servant. This version of the character portrays her as a {{yandere}} whose signature weapon, her [[{{BFS}} gigantic spear]], is able to do more damage based on [[ThePowerOfLove how much she loves the opponent]], with her having particular affection for anyone who possesses traits that remind her of Sigurd.

** ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' includes Brynhildr from ''Anime/FatePrototype: Fragments of Sky Silver'' as a summonable [[BladeOnAStick Lancer]] class Servant, as well as as a [[WalkingSwimsuitScene swimsuit-clad]] [[TheBerserker Berserker]] class Servant as part of one of the game's summer events. On top of this, the game features a Norse myth inspired story chapter as the second chapter of the ''Cosmos of the Lostbelt'' storyline, titled "The Eternal Icy Fire Century, Götterdämmerung -- The Good Fellow of Everlasting Flame". The chapter's [[AlternateUniverse Lostbelt]] is based around a what-if scenario in which Odin, in a last ditch effort to stop Ragnarok, sacrificed himself to seal away Surtr, leading to a world predominately run by Jötunn, with Skadi and the {{Valkyries}} as the only divine beings left to protect humanity. On top of this storyline, the game would introduce several new characters from Norse myth as summonable Servants.

* As its title would imply, ''Manga/ShuumatsuNoWalkureRecordOfRagnarok'' has a heavy focus on Norse myth. The story follows the [[{{Valkyries}} Valkyrie]] Brunhilde, alongside her fellow Valkyries, in her mission to save humanity from extinction at the hands of the gods through the creation of Ragnarok, a tournament in which 13 human warriors battle 13 gods, with the human's victory meaning their continued existence. Among the gods fighting in the tournament, Thor acts as the first to participate, being portrayed as a [[BloodKnight battle-loving]] man whose [[VictoryIsBoring lack of real challenge has caused him to feel unfulfilled]]. Thor's opponent is the Chinese general UsefulNotes/LuBu, [[spoiler:with the battle ending in Thor's victory, giving the gods their first win in the tournament]]. Among other Norse gods, Odin and Loki are also set to participate in the tournament.
* ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' has "Ragna Blade" spell. Appropriately enough, it invokes the power of the creator deity living in primal Chaos and as such can harm or kill anything in the world, including Gods and Dark Lords providing "lesser" spells of WhiteMagic and BlackMagic. The [[http://kanzaka.wikia.com/wiki/Ragna_Blade#Incantation incantation itself]] fits well too.

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There's a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_mythology_in_popular_culture huge list]] in [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} That Other Wiki]].

** The blind 113-year-old (actually 111, but that's so ''juvenile''...) Miss Eumenides Treason and her ravens parallel Odin and ''his'' ravens Hugin and Munin: both pairs of aves are used by their respective owners for vision (For Odin it involves Hugin and Munin covering the entire world and Midgard during their flight, then reporting what they see to him. For Miss Treason it's more straightforward), and one raven rests on either shoulder of both the characters.

** The blind 113-year-old (actually 111, but that's so ''juvenile''...) Miss Eumenides Treason and her ravens parallel Odin and ''his'' ravens Hugin and Munin: both pairs of aves are used by their respective owners to see (For Odin it involves Hugin and Munin covering the entire world and Midgard during their flight, then reporting what they see to him. For Miss Treason it's more straightforward), and one raven rests on either shoulder of both the characters.

** The blind 113-year-old (actually 111, but that's so ''juvenile''...) Miss Eumenides Treason and her ravens parallel Odin and ''his'' ravens Hugin and Munin: both pairs of aves are used by their respective owners to see (for Odin it involves Hugin and Munin covering the entire world and Midgard during their flight, then reporting what they see to Odin, and for Miss Treason it's more straightforward) and both pairs rest on either shoulder of their respective owners.

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' has a trickster god called Hoki, who was banished from Dunmanifestin for "pulling the old exploding mistletoe trick". The gods wage war against the Ice Giants, and the final battle between them is the Teatime of the Gods.

* ''VideoGame/StarcraftII'': While there are the obvious ones (units named Valkyrie, Thor, and Odin), HeartOfTheSwarm has a more subtle one: You find the Odin again, but this time it's piloted by a Dominion pilot. [[http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/File:Odin_SC2-HoTS_Head1.jpg A white-haired, one-eyed pilot with a braided beard.]]

* ''VideoGame/TooHuman'' is explicitly a sci-fi CyperPunk update of Norse myth, with genetically-engineered super soldiers as the gods and a robot uprising taking the place of frost giants.

* A couple in ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'', despite drawing its mythos chiefly from Christianity (or at least Dante's version of it); the secret missions are called "Alfheim" and "Muspelheim" (some of the Nine Realms) and the main setting is a town called Vigrid (the name of the place Ragnarok is supposed to go down).

Next to the [[ReferencedBy/WilliamShakespeare Shout-Outs to Shakespeare]], (if not surpassing it) are the {{Shout Out}}s to Myth/NorseMythology as a whole. Maybe because everything sounds badass, [[RuleOfCool cool]] or just awesome by naming someone/something after a Norse deity such as Thor, Odin or Loki.

** ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'''s expansion ''Wrath of the Lich King'' takes this UpToEleven by introducing a whole host of titanforged characters named after Norse gods. Later, ''Legion'' introduces even more.

* The Galactic Empire in ''Anime/LegendOfGalacticHeroes'' uses plenty of Norse Mythology, from given names to the names of starships and planets. Their capital planet is named after Odin, and characters repeatedly talk about heading to Valhalla after they die in battle.