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* ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry:'' Among the many, ''many'' Shakespeare quotes Chang rattles off, he gets out a "our revels now have ended". Chancellor Gorkon drops a "brave new world" in an earlier conversation, and given he's also an aficionado of the bard (the Trope Namer for InTheOriginalKlingon), it's probably a deliberate reference from him.
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* In the ''Series/DoctorWho''/''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' crossover ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresAllConsumingFire All-Consuming Fire]]'', Watson uses the "brave new world" line straight, to describe a future "that has such people" as Franchise/BerniceSummerfield.

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* In the ''Series/DoctorWho''/''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' crossover ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresAllConsumingFire All-Consuming Fire]]'', Watson uses the "brave new world" line straight, to describe a future "that has such people" as Franchise/BerniceSummerfield.Literature/BerniceSummerfield.
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* In ''Film/ItsAlwaysFairWeather'', Jackie Leighton, to put Ted Riley off (as well as to comment on how Riley's reunion with two old army friends didn't go well), tells him, "Most friendship is fading, most loving mere folly." She claims it's from ''The Tempest'', but Riley points out it's actually from ''Theatre/AsYouLikeIt'', which impresses her.
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*''Anime/LucyMayOfTheSouthernRainbiw'': The Princeton's cat is named Prospero.
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* ''Heavily'' referenced throughout ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrangeBeforeTheStorm'', starting from the episode names ("Awake", "Brave New World", and "Hell is Empty") all being quotes from the play. It comes up most directly with Blackwell's production of the play in "Brave New World", starring Rachel as [[GenderFlip Prospera]] and [[spoiler:Chloe as Ariel (after Juliet cannot make it in time due to the fire)]].
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* ''Literature/TheSchizogenicMan'': In one of the alternate timelines, Heron watches a play on TV, where an actor sings a version of "Ariel's Song" with many of the words changed.
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* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'': In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S1E3TheArchitectsOfFear The Architects of Fear]]", scientist Allen Leighton undergoes SanitySlippage while his colleagues transform him into a fake alien, leading to this line:
-->'''Allen:''' I am Callahan... uh, Cal... Caliban... with a Ph.D!
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* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'': Dream of the Endless commissions this play be written in exchange for Shakesphere's skill as a playwright. He later implies that it is an allegory for [[spoiler: his planned suicide.]]

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* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'': ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'': Dream of the Endless commissions this play be written in exchange for Shakesphere's Shakespeare's skill as a playwright. He later implies that it is an allegory for [[spoiler: his planned suicide.]]
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* In ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', Zaphod wants to trip the light fantastic with Questular.

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* In ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy2005'', Zaphod wants to trip the light fantastic with Questular.



* ''Videogame/{{Fahrenheit}}'': Lucas Kane is shown reading an assortment of books, one of these happens to be ''Tempest''.

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* ''Videogame/{{Fahrenheit}}'': ''VideoGame/{{Fahrenheit}}'': Lucas Kane is shown reading an assortment of books, one of these happens to be ''Tempest''.

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* A plot point in the ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6TheSeries'' episode, "Big Problem". A monster who was attacking various locations in the city growled out such cryptic comments as "All the Devils are here", "This thing of darkness I acknowledge as mine" and "What's past is prologue." Honey Lemon realized these were quotes from ''The Tempest'', which helped the team uncover the monster's identity and the reasons for his attacks.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' did it with "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E21ThreeMenAndAComicBook Three Men and a Comic Book]]", Martin Prince also paraphrases Prospero's line when he touches the pages of the comic book "Radioactive Man # 1":

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* ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6TheSeries'': A plot point in the ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6TheSeries'' episode, "Big Problem". A monster who was attacking various locations in the city growled out such cryptic comments as "All the Devils are here", "This thing of darkness I acknowledge as mine" and "What's past is prologue." Honey Lemon realized these were quotes from ''The Tempest'', which helped the team uncover the monster's identity and the reasons for his attacks.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' did it with ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E21ThreeMenAndAComicBook Three Men and a Comic Book]]", Martin Prince also paraphrases Prospero's line when he touches the pages of the comic book "Radioactive Man # 1":


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* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS1E09CrisisPoint Crisis Point]]", Vindicta quotes ''Theatre/TheTempest'' before invading the ''Cerritos''.
-->'''Vindicta:''' Hell is empty and all the devils are here. [...] Our revels now are ended.\\
'''Ransom:''' [[LampshadeHanging Is she quoting "The Tempest"?]]
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* The plot of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamTheWitchFromMercury'' takes a lot of cues from the play, featuring a character named after Prospero who makes use of a machine known as the Aerial to carry out a revenge against a man who ruined their life.

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* The plot of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamTheWitchFromMercury'' takes a lot of cues from the play, featuring a character named after Prospero who makes use of a machine known as the Aerial to carry out a revenge against a man who ruined their life. Part of the revenge plot is to have Lady Prospera's daughter marry the daughter of the man who ruined their lives.
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* ''Film/ForbiddenPlanet'' takes the basic exile structure.

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