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An epigraph (from the Greek epi-, "on" or "over", and gráph�, "writing", meaning "writing upon" or, more colloquially, "inscription") is the quotation of a line, excerpt or poetry done at the beginning or (more rarely) at the ending of a work, segment or chapter. Frequent in literature, shows up occasionally otherwise. In written works, epigraphs are often used to make the reader look in a certain direction while reading, or as instructions on how to receive the work. In Speculative Fiction, it is often used to do an Encyclopedia Exposita. Can also be used for an As the Good Book Says... effect. Super-Trope to Dictionary Opening. See also Pretentious Latin Motto. |
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Parodied in Adventure Time, where the episode "Ocean of Fear" Book Ends with omninous epigraph-style quotes about fear from Pat McHale... one of the show's staff members, effectively giving the show an epigraph from itself. | |
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inFAMOUS has these on loading screens that come up, usually when the day changes. The themes are on the (potentially destructive) nature of power. For example: | |
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Each chapter of Watchmen ends with one of these, which is alluded to in the title of the chapter. The final epigraph to the collected edition was chosen both as a reference to a graffito in the series, and for its being used as another epigraph (to the Tower Commission report on the Iran-Contra Scandal). | |
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In Gundam 00: A Wakening of the Trailblazer, The Stinger ends with the words of Albert Einstein, "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved through understanding." | |
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The War of the Masters: Several of the authors are major music geeks in addition to Trekkies, and nearly every story uses multiple songs as epigraphs. Some also cite Fictional Documents such as K'Ragh's memoir Foolish Notions. A Good Compromise borrows "Sacrifice" from the soundtrack of RWBY volume 2. The lyrics are seemingly being used to refer to the Dominion. "The Only Way to Go" uses the Brantley Gilbert song "One Hell of an Amen," whose chorus also provides the story's title. "Remembrance of the Fallen" uses a line from Matt Stover's Revenge of the Sith novelization: |
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Wonder Woman (1942): Issue 322 closes with a relevant quote from William Shakespeare's Richard II. | |
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Wonder Woman (1987): Each issue of the "Challenge of Artemis" arc begins with a quote tying in to the story about to unfold. | |
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The Infinity War: "And when you look into the abyss, the abyss also look into you" - Friedrich Nietzsche. The Magus even became aware of it when it got all powerful. | |
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The ending of Tears of the Sun, a movie centering around Navy SEALs helping a group of refugees escape genocide-ridden Nigeria, has a quote attributed to (but probably not written by) Edmund Burke before the ending credits start: "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." | |
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"Flaihhsam s'Spahkh" uses verses 27-19 of the Epic Poem "Horatius" by Lord Thomas Macaulay, which was also used in the Rihannsu novels (see Literature). | |
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Devil May Cry 5: The prologue cutscene starts with an excerpt of William Blake's "A Poison Tree": | |
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The Phantom of the Opera (1989) opens with a quote from St. Jean Vitius of Rouen about making a Deal with the Devil. The guy in question actually never existed. | |
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Uncharted 4: A Thief's End features a quote from the pirate Henry Avery. | |
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Bleach starts each tank�bon with a small illustration of a character and a short poem that seems to be written in the voice of that character. | |
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Project Freelancer Phase One: Genesis mixes quotes from books, movies, and tv shows with journal entries from the Freelancers. The authors are particularly fond of Dresden Files quotes. | |
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Monster is epigraphed by a passage from Revelationnote Chapter 13, Verse 1-4 which coincides with the plot. | |
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Every episode of Grimm begins with a quote. Usually from a fairy tale, but as the series went on they started having to widen their sources a bit. | |
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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain follows up its audio-only introduction of the Third Boy at the start of the game with a quote from Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran: | |
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Iron Chef always begins with a quote from French epicurean Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin: "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are." | |
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Each episode of Harukanaru Toki no Naka de - Hachiyou Shou has the ending sequence start with a tanka poem taken from Kokin Wakashuu books. | |
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Horseshoes and Hand Grenades and all stories in that universe have quotes/poem verses that fit with the events within the chapter. | |
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"Last Rights" has the first two verses and chorus of "Say the Same" by Hoobastank. | |
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"Shakedown Shenanigans" uses a line from Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series that apparently appears on the Bajor's dedication plaque. | |
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Most Uncharted games begin with a quote from a famous real-life explorer, whose historical adventures are relevant to the respective game's storyline. Click to open each article to read the quotes: Uncharted: Drake's Fortune opens with a quote from Sir Francis Drake. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves continues the tradition with a quote from Marco Polo. Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception has a quote attributed to T. E. Lawrence's portrayal in Lawrence of Arabia. Uncharted 4: A Thief's End features a quote from the pirate Henry Avery. Uncharted: Golden Abyss contains a line from a letter by Francisco Vázquez de Coronado about Marcos de Niza. |
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Every time you boot up an X-Universe game, you're treated to a quote from somebody like Arthur C. Clarke or Albert Einstein. | |
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Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri: It uses Genesis 3:24 over the opening movie to great effect: There's a video here. Alpha Centauri also has quotes for each tech and facility. Most of them are fictional quotes from the faction leaders, while there are literary or other references sprinkled in. |
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Lost Cities: Each chapter begins with a quote from Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, another work about fantastical cities, in some way relevant to the themes of the city described within it. | |
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Meet the Robinsons ends with a quote from Walt Disney showing source of the film's arc motto "Keep moving forward." | |
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Tales Series: Tales of Phantasia: "If there is evil in this world, it lurks in the hearts of men." Tales of Hearts opens with the in-universe "Sleeping Beauty" nursery rhyme. |
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Metro: For all sections, such as "If I Had A Hammer (Part One)": | |
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Before the title screen, Eternal Darkness has the first stanza from The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe. | |
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Anon (2018) opens with lines from a 19th century poem expressing how the poet wants to be invisible even to God, reflecting on everybody's memories in the film being recorded by law. | |
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Wonder Woman: Wonder Woman (1942): Issue 322 closes with a relevant quote from William Shakespeare's Richard II. Wonder Woman (1987): Each issue of the "Challenge of Artemis" arc begins with a quote tying in to the story about to unfold. |
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Steps Trodden Black opens with an excerpt from The Road Not Taken, from which it takes its title. | |
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Beating The King of Fighters XIII with Ash Crimson ends with the Pippa Passes poem by Robert Browning, which was also used as Arc Words in Neon Genesis Evangelion: "God's in His Heaven, All's right with the world!" | |
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A Mother's Touch has a quote relating to the subject matter of the chapter. For example, the second chapter talks about how people with privilege lack smarts and heart, reflecting how Yoko is going to put Sylvio and Reiji across the wringer for their stupidity. | |
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The Dream Master opens with "When deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake." (The Bible, Job IV, 13-14). | |
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A Delicate Balance: Every chapter starts with a quote from a John Donne poem, which also serve as chapter titles. | |
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The opening credits sequence of The Breakfast Club includes a four-line quotation of the song "Changes" by David Bowie. | |
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Every episode in Cowboy Bebop ends with the phrase, not quoted from another source, "See you, space cowboy". | |
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One of the trailers for End of Evangelion opens with a quote from Milton's Paradise Lost — namely, verses 146-150 from book 2. | |
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Every chapter of Old West is initiated with short verses borrowed from various country songs in order to either capture the chapter's mood or describe certain characters. | |
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Total Drama: Chapter 1 of Courtney and the Violin of Despair begins with a morality ballad from the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, Patience, emphasizing Courtney’s good nature and the fact that she totally does not deserve what’s about to happen to her. Chapter 2 of Legacy begins with a quote from the Shakespeare play, Richard II. In Total Drama Island by Gilbert and Sullivan, all of the episode plot summaries start with a verse or verse fragment that fits the episode's tone or major events. |
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The chapters from Robert J. Defendi's podcast Death by Cliché are all prefaced by gag quotes attributed to the author, often mocking the action of the chapter they precede, (particularly those with many SaidBookisms), or complaining about having to do so many chapter quotes. | |
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At several points in Final Fantasy XII, there will be a quote from a book written by the character Ondore, who also functions as a narrator upon the larger plot of the game. This also extends to its setting prequel, Final Fantasy Tactics, which feature quotes from a Saint Ajora Glabados, the inspiration for the game's Corrupt Church. | |
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A Good Compromise borrows "Sacrifice" from the soundtrack of RWBY volume 2. The lyrics are seemingly being used to refer to the Dominion. | |
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Hazbin Hotel: The pilot ends by showing a quote from Lotte Reiniger: | |
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The Ten Tailors Of Weston Court opens with a quote from George "Beau" Brummell regarding the tailor John Weston: | |
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Eversion was originally created for a contest for games inspired by passages from H. P. Lovecraft's notebook. Accordingly, the game opens with the chosen passage (which alludes to the character's eponymous power): | |
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Every episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars starts with an epigraph relating to the moral the characters will need to learn in the style of the "a-galaxy-far-far-away font" used in the films. Though, a lot of the time, it's just flowery-sounding nonsense. (The exception is the four-part "Siege of Mandalore" finale arc.) | |
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Three A Nightmare on Elm Street films open with a quote: Dream Warriors opens with Edgar Allan Poe's "Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them." The Dream Master opens with "When deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake." (The Bible, Job IV, 13-14). Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare opens with two quotations; first one is Friedrich Nietzsche's "Do you know the terror of he who falls asleep? To the toes he is very terrified, because the ground gives the way under him, and the dream begins..." and the second one comes from Freddy himself ("Welcome to prime time, bitch.") |
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In Civilization IV, every technology has a quote with it from The Bible to Oscar Wilde to Sputnik 1. Narrated (mostly) by Leonard Nimoy. | |
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Chapter 1 of Courtney and the Violin of Despair begins with a morality ballad from the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, Patience, emphasizing Courtney’s good nature and the fact that she totally does not deserve what’s about to happen to her. | |
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Higurashi: When They Cry contains one or several poems signed Frederica Bernkastel in the beginning, the middle or the end of the arc. They are cryptic but often contains clues or show the emotions that Rika, the true protagonist goes through. Sadly, they were not present in the anime version but the ones found in the novels and the manga can be found here. | |
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Tales of Phantasia: "If there is evil in this world, it lurks in the hearts of men." | |
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Ma'at: The first chapter has what's effectively one, as the protagonist is singing a song that's its first lines: | |
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Mad Max: Fury Road ends with a (fictional) quote from The First History Man: "Where must we go... we who wander this Wasteland in search of our better selves?" | |
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Do the Right Thing ends with two quotes to underline the conflict of the movie: one by Martin Luther King Jr., arguing that violence is never justified, and one by Malcolm X arguing that violence in self-defense is justified. | |
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From Bajor to the Black has the first four lines of Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'", neatly summing up Eleya's original reason for joining the Bajoran Militia. | |
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Evil Easter 3 opens with a quote from religious historian Mattias Gardell that "national socialism could be defeated with garlic". The quote is (purposely) taken out of context, as the text the quote is taken from is critical to the idea of Ghostapo occult nazi conspiracies. | |
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One episode of The X-Files opens with a quote from William Shakespeare's Henry IV: "For nothing can seem foul to those that win." | |
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Every episode of Wilfred begins with a quote, with one word highlighted to reveal the episode's title and theme. | |
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A Thing of Vikings has each chapter open with an epigraph sourced from a fictional work from the future of the alternate history, which give painless exposition on some element of foreshadowing or worldbuilding, with the framing for each being as varied as textbooks, to a Norse-flavored Wiki, to military dossiers on the dragon breeds. | |
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The original version of A Change in the Weather contained quotations from Eric Bogle songs — "A Change in the Weather" at the beginning, and "Katie and the Dreamtime Land" at the end. | |
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"The Only Way to Go" uses the Brantley Gilbert song "One Hell of an Amen," whose chorus also provides the story's title. | |
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"Solaere ssiun Hnaifv'daenn" uses a line from The Qur'an, appropriate considering the primary viewpoint character is Lieutenant Commander Jaleh Khoroushi, an Iranian Muslim: | |
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The Equalizer opens with a quote incorrectly attributed to Mark Twain: "The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why." | |
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Every issue of Immortal Hulk begins with a quote that relates thematically to the events of the issue. | |
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The Ancient Art of War opens each match with a quote from Sun Tzu. | |
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Most of the tracks on Sabaton's The Art of War album have relevant quotes from the book of the same name either at the start or the end of the song. | |
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An Adventure in Space and Time, which dramatizes the making of Doctor Who from its inception to the departure of William Hartnell in 1966, opens with a recreation of one of The BBC's channel idents from the 1960s, with the continuity announcer reciting Hartnell's line from "The Aztecs" stating that "you can't rewrite history, not one line." | |
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Barbie movies frequently have an inspirational quote at the end of the credits, usually credited to Barbie herself. | |
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The Hagakure is quoted throughout the gangster flick Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai starring Forrest Whitaker as a gangster hitman, using title cards. | |
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Doom (2016) opens with an excerpt from a fictional, quasi-biblical text describing the Doom Slayer's previous bloody exploits throughout Hell: | |
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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire opens somewhat obviously with Robert Frost's 'Fire and Ice', in it's entirety. | |
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Uncharted: Golden Abyss contains a line from a letter by Francisco Vázquez de Coronado about Marcos de Niza. | |
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The mid-credits of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse features a quote from the late Stan Lee: "That person who helps others simply because it should or must be done, and because it is the right thing to do, is indeed without a doubt, a real superhero." | |
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...Or is He Both? does this at the start of each chapter to emulate Immortal Hulk. | |
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XenoGears: The opening recites a passage from Revelation 22:13; "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last". | |
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Spectre has "The dead are alive", before opening on a parade during DÃa de Muertos in Mexico, where James Bond follows the trail of a villain. | |
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Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception has a quote attributed to T. E. Lawrence's portrayal in Lawrence of Arabia. | |
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown opens with an Arthur C. Clarke quote: | |
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In all three parts of The Heart Trilogy, the chapters are initiated with quotes. The epigraphs of Heart of Fire are riddles and their answers. The ones of Heart of Ashes are all somehow dragon-related, covering various works. In Heart of the Inferno, all the epigraphs are borrowed from Tolkien's Legendarium. | |
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The Love and Creed of Sae Maki begins with Aristotle's famous I Just Want to Have Friends quote; "For without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods". | |
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Macross Plus ends with the words, "Dedicated to you, our future pioneers..." | |
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The Boondocks: "Return of the King" starts with an epigraph quoting Martin Luther King Jr., which is about how he wanted the next generation of black Americans to understand that the privileges they'll have in the future, did not come without sacrifice; but only to be followed by a dismissive anonymous reply of "Whatever, nigga". It's pretty important to the overall message. "Stinkmeaner: Begun the Clone War Has" opens with the famous "He who fights monsters" quote from Friedrich Nietzsche's book Beyond Good and Evil. Likewise it's also relevant to the episode's theme, which involves our protagonist Robert almost becoming exactly like his archnemesis Stinkmeaner. |
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Dragon's Dogma starts with a quote from Henri de Régnier. The delightful and ever-novel pleasure of a useless occupation. It plays with the idea of the New Game Plus option. It's also a reference to the ever repeating cycle of the Arisen becoming the Seneschall and existing to provide life to the world only to be replaced by the next Arisen. | |
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Occurs several times in The Elder Scrolls. The first (The best techniques are passed on by the survivors) and the third (Each event is preceded by prophesy; but without the Hero there is no event). | |
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The Abyss opens with a title card with a quote by Friedrich Nietzsche's "...when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you." | |
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IT-HE Software has these on the pages for Thief and Elder Scrolls: Oblivion walkthroughs. Quotes from various sources also pop up frequently in the middle. | |
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The Fountain opens with a quote from Ode to Aphrodite by Sappho: | |
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The Hurt Locker begins with this quote from Chris Hedges: "The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug." | |
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Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion opens with this cryptic poem: | |
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Paradoxus: The prologue opens with a bit of dialogue between two Named by the Adaptation, OC Stand-Ins who by the time the fanfic takes place, are both long dead —Hellis, nymph of the sun, and Nótt Skoð, nymph of time and the void. They are talking about how You Can't Fight Fate, a Central Theme of the fic. Their inclusion also serves two establish three facts that are mostly reread bonuses. One, the Great Dragon's nymphs are going to be of key relevance throughout the plot. Two, it reaffirms that time travel kickstarts the plot but also foreshadows that it's part of the reason why things are the way they are. And three, it brings attention to an important detail, that Nótt's reincarnation (aka Morrigan, Daphne's daughter) is an important behind-the-scenes player. Unlike the prologue's, the first chapter's introductory quote is not attributed to any character and it's much more straightforward in its connection to the fanfic's plot and Central Theme. It crystallizes every important character's hopes that going back in time would solve their problems. Trisha and Altalune are determined to save their mom from an untimely death, Sylvanas wants to protect her people while staying away from her hellish afterlife, and Aen'da seeks an ally against the Burning Legion. The second chapter begins with another unattributed quote that makes reference not to the central theme but to the main characters' wants throughout the plot. They all wish to preserve all the fragile, loved things or people they lost in a previous timeline thanks to the chaos brought by the Burning Legion. In Trisha, Altalune, and Stacy's cases, it's their mothers. For Galadwen, the aim is to prevent as much destruction as possible by eradicating the demons with a united elven front. The third chapter's introductory quote that it's indeed Bloom's encounter with Galadwen that sets the events of the plot—they are two who were fated to meet. It makes Galadwen aware of Eudora already making moves on the Magix dimension and makes her realize the true Aspect of Fire is not a bonafide elf but a fairy carrying a Titan-like deity's power. Chapter 04: Subverted in the sense that all chapters prior, the prologue included, open with a quote or bit of dialogue. This one doesn't, implying that the meaning of the third chapter's epigraph still applies. Since Bloom already met Galadwenl, the only other relevant thing that happens is Galadwen's accidental bond with Trisha through her mother. In other words, the "starting point" might be not what it seems at first glance. The fifth chapter's opening line aptly describes the Oðrsson sisters' The Determinator attitude toward the Legion's invasion and their mother's demise. They are unwilling to resign to their and the dimension's doomed fates without their most powerful guardian fairies; they also rebel at the thought of their destroyed family. It also shows that, given how much they've lost and been through, the sisters would rather die with a bang while trying to improve their situation than just accept it all quietly. |
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In Total Drama Island by Gilbert and Sullivan, all of the episode plot summaries start with a verse or verse fragment that fits the episode's tone or major events. | |
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AMV Hell 3 parodies the then-recent Kill Bill epigraph with "At Least I Have Chicken"... still credited as an old Klingon proverb. Future installments would have epigraphs of their own, presented in the same style. | |
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Mega Man X8 ends with a quote from Dr. Light: "Humans and robots living together in harmony and equality. That was my ultimate wish." | |
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Medal of Honor: Vanguard, a game about the US Paratroopers in World War Two, opens with this quote from General Dwight D. Eisenhower: 'I do not believe in the Airborne Division.' | |
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Tony Kushner's Angels in America: The published script of Millenium Approaches begins with this one: And part two, Perestroika, begins with this one: |
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Tiberium Wars: Each chapter starts with a suitable quotation — most are from sources in-universe, but the very first is a famous line by Robert Heinlein about the importance of the military. | |
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The Meteor, the Stone and a Long Glass of Sherbet begins by quoting the final paragraph of "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost. | |
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Uncharted 2: Among Thieves continues the tradition with a quote from Marco Polo. | |
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Sailor Nothing uses quotes from The Hagakure. | |
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The first episode of Garth Marenghis Darkplace cuts to a King Lear quote about 5 minutes in. In the middle of a scene. For no reason. | |
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Tales of Hearts opens with the in-universe "Sleeping Beauty" nursery rhyme. | |
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Nope starts with a passage from the Book of Nahum: "I will cast abominable filth at you, make you vile, and make you a spectacle." | |
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TV Tropes, of course, includes quotes at the beginning of most articles. | |
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Every chapter of Star Impact ends with a fictional in-universe quote, each of which Title Drops the chapter's name: | |
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Layers of Fear starts with an excerpt from The Picture of Dorian Gray, | |
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Disco Elysium: The first lines of the game are taken from R.S. Thomas's poem "Reflections", which was also the source of the game's Working Title, No Truce With The Furies. | |
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The Son of the Emperor: At the start of each is chapter is a quote, usually from a historical figure. | |
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Bait and Switch: The author started using these beginning with "The Universe Doesn't Cheat". From Bajor to the Black has the first four lines of Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'", neatly summing up Eleya's original reason for joining the Bajoran Militia. "The Universe Doesn't Cheat" opens with two lines from the refrain of James Taylor's "Never Die Young", in something of a reference to Eleya's approach to the "Kobayashi Maru": The second verse and part of the chorus of U2's "Sunday Bloody Sunday" were added to Reality Is Fluid retroactively, referring to the fic's minor theme of the Cycle of Revenge. "To Absent Friends" favors the first two verses of James Taylor's "Fire and Rain." "Shakedown Shenanigans" uses a line from Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series that apparently appears on the Bajor's dedication plaque. "Last Rights" has the first two verses and chorus of "Say the Same" by Hoobastank. |
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Jojo Rabbit has a poem from Rainer Maria Rilke before the credits roll: "Let everything happen to you / Beauty and terror / Just keep going / No feeling is final." | |
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Ralph Vaughan Williams's Sinfonia Antartica has quotations preceding each of its five movements. These are sometimes recited. (Which is wrong, because the composer explicitly instructed that they should be printed in the programme to be read silently by the listeners, and because recitation destroys the attacca transition into the fourth movement.) | |
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"To Absent Friends" favors the first two verses of James Taylor's "Fire and Rain." | |
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The Total War series tends to feature epigraphs in its loading screens. | |
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God of War III: The game opens with a quote by Greek philosopher Plato: "The measure of a man is what he does with power". | |
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Peace Forged in Fire opens part 2 with the final verse and chorus of P!nk's "Try." | |
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The Prince of Egypt features three verses about Moses, sourced from the Book Of Deuteronomy, the New Testament and The Qur'an, at the very end of the credits. | |
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Peace of Mind, Piece of Heart: Every chapter begins with one of these. | |
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Stray has one for most of its chapters. A variation on "What can change the nature of a man?" from Planescape: Torment is the most common, but the story also uses quotes from The Waste Land, Evangelion, and other works. | |
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Cyberjack, the cheesy Michael Dudikoff sci-fi action movie about a bunch of terrorists storming a building to steal a computer super-virus, opens with a quote by, of all people, Stephen Hawking. | |
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A variation of sorts exists in some Call of Duty games. Upon most player deaths, the game usually displays a quote about the more sobering realities of warfare (or the cost of a modern piece of military equipment). | |
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Curses begins by quoting Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. | |
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Deus Ex has one for each ending. For example, becoming a Deus est Machina results in the Voltaire quote "If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent Him.". | |
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"Remembrance of the Fallen" uses a line from Matt Stover's Revenge of the Sith novelization: | |
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The Wire has an epigraph to each episode, always a quote from later in that episode, usually with an ironic subtext in hindsight. | |
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Instead of the usual intro from Haru and Gatchmon, the final two episodes of Digimon Universe: App Monsters opens with a quote about the dangers of Artificial Intelligence, with Episode 51 starting with a quote from Stephen Hawking and the finale starting with a quote from Clive Sinclair. Both quotes are read out loud by Haru. | |
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The 2010 remake of True Grit begins with Proverbs 28:1, "The wicked flee when none pursueth." | |
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Criminal Minds usually begins and ends with an epigraph read by whichever character the episode focuses on. | |
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The House by the Cemetery ends with a quote "No one will ever know whether the children are monsters or the monsters are children", which is falsely attributed to the writer Henry James (film's director Lucio Fulci actually came up with it). | |
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Each Andromeda episode begins with a (fictional) quote. | |
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Jigsaw begins by quoting T. S. Eliot's "Gerontion". | |
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Death Stranding opens on an excerpt from Kobo Abe's Nawa which explains the concept of the stick and rope being tools to ward off bad things and bring good things closer, respectively. | |
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At the beginning of "Episode 2: Memory" of Code 7, S.O.L.I. recites the first stanza of Queen Mab by Percy Bysshe Shelley. | |
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In the collected editions of The Sandman (1989), each story arc is preceded with two quotes. The first one reads as something deep and profound; the second a pithy, less serious comment on the same topic — from the story itself. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! The Falsebound Kingdom starts with a quote attributed to "Alexander Irvine, philosopher". However, this doesn't seem to be a real person, but is more likely an in-universe relative of Scott Irvine, the game's Big Bad- especially since, at the end of the game, Scott's last words tie back to the epigraph. | |
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Dream Warriors opens with Edgar Allan Poe's "Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them." | |
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Jaune Arc, Lord of Hunger: At the start of every chapter is a quote pulled from Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords which relates to the story's events. | |
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Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare opens with two quotations; first one is Friedrich Nietzsche's "Do you know the terror of he who falls asleep? To the toes he is very terrified, because the ground gives the way under him, and the dream begins..." and the second one comes from Freddy himself ("Welcome to prime time, bitch.") | |
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All first season episodes of Millennium (1996) save for the pilot have a literary quote intertitle between The Teaser and act one. The practice was mostly dropped after that, but with the occasional return. | |
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"The Universe Doesn't Cheat" opens with two lines from the refrain of James Taylor's "Never Die Young", in something of a reference to Eleya's approach to the "Kobayashi Maru": | |
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It uses Genesis 3:24 over the opening movie to great effect: | |
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Children VS Wizards opens with a quote from political scientist and philosopher Oleg Matveychev about what it means to be a Russian, thereby setting up the story's main theme. | |
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Doom: Doom (2016) opens with an excerpt from a fictional, quasi-biblical text describing the Doom Slayer's previous bloody exploits throughout Hell: At the beginning of the final level of Doom Eternal's main campaign as the Slayer jets off to defeat the Icon of Sin, the following passage, apparently from the same fictional text, is displayed over the loading screen. This is in contrast to all of the previous pre-level blurbs, which contained information to the player about what was to come in the level: At the end of The Ancient Gods: Part Two, the Doom Slayer has finally killed Davoth, the Dark Lord, and thus every demon outside of Hell, but Post-Victory Collapses afterward, as his power was drawn from Davoth all along. After being interred in a coffin that resembles the one that he was awoken from, the screen fades to black and displays the following text, pulled from the previous game's opening epigraph, to show that his twenty-eight-year war against Hell is finally over: |
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SOMA opens with a quote from Philip K. Dick. | |
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X-COM: XCOM: Enemy Unknown opens with an Arthur C. Clarke quote: The expansion pack XCOM: Enemy Within replaces it with a quote by R. Buckminster Fuller: |
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Each chapter of The New Age of Monsters starts with a short text that is taken from an in-universe news article or book. They mostly serve to provide some backstory for the individual kaijus and as exposition for the world in general. | |
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The Great Beauty starts with a quote from Journey to the End of the Night. | |
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Dimension X's "Universe": At the start of this episode, which was based on Robert A. Heinlein's Universe, an in-universe holy book is quoted. The scripture is also cited about four minutes later in the story, a Creation Myth that describes how everyone has a place in the world. | |
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Chapter 2 of Legacy begins with a quote from the Shakespeare play, Richard II. | |
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Issue #5 of The Monster of Frankenstein has a quote from Creedence Clearwater Revival song "Bad Moon Rising" in its first page, foreshadowing the werewolf business to come. | |
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Every run in Suzerain starts with quote by Nazım Hikmet Ran from his short poem titled "You": | |
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Lady Bird opens with a Joan Didion quote: "Anybody who talks about California hedonism has never spent a Christmas in Sacramento." | |
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At the beginning of the final level of Doom Eternal's main campaign as the Slayer jets off to defeat the Icon of Sin, the following passage, apparently from the same fictional text, is displayed over the loading screen. This is in contrast to all of the previous pre-level blurbs, which contained information to the player about what was to come in the level: At the end of The Ancient Gods: Part Two, the Doom Slayer has finally killed Davoth, the Dark Lord, and thus every demon outside of Hell, but Post-Victory Collapses afterward, as his power was drawn from Davoth all along. After being interred in a coffin that resembles the one that he was awoken from, the screen fades to black and displays the following text, pulled from the previous game's opening epigraph, to show that his twenty-eight-year war against Hell is finally over: |
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Drunkard's Walk: Each chapter of every story in the cycle starts with one or two relevant quotes, their sources ranging from modern pop music to ancient Greek philosophers. | |
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Broken Saints has an apropos quote at the beginning and end of each of the 24 chapters. The exception is in Chapter 24, which also has one at the beginning of each act. | |
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Frontier (2016): Every episode is preceded by a quote that sounds like it could have been made by an 18th-century writer commenting on the nature of power, perseverence, or man's soul, but invariably turns out to be someone rather unexpected for a historical drama, like Beyoncé. | |
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Uncharted: Drake's Fortune opens with a quote from Sir Francis Drake. | |
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Kyon: Big Damn Hero: At the start of each chapter there are extracts of self-help books on being a hero, some poetry, or texts that are implied to be from future documents/books. | |
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In To the Stars each chapter starts with one or two excerpts from in-universe works such as history books, instructions, documentations, documentaries etc. etc, that are relevant to the chapter. And one Shout-Out to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. | |
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The Master Kadoc & Caster arc of P1 Crypters concludes with the Alt Text featuring the final lines from Faust: Second Part of the Tragedy as Kadoc successfully summons Anastasia. | |
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Hollow Knight begins with a quote from an in-universe poem, Monomon the Teacher's Elegy for Hallownest: | |
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The Passion of the Christ: To bring context to the brutality that is about to be shown, the movie displays this abbreviated quote from Isaiah 53:5: "He was wounded for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities; by His wounds we are healed." | |
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The beginning of Conan the Barbarian (1982) has Nietzsche's Stock Quote "That which does not kill us makes us stronger." | |
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The Tree of Life opens with a quotation from Job 38:4-7: "Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation ... while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?" | |
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Flufferverse: Every chapter of each fic begins with at least one literary quote. | |
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