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The Muse
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In Greek Mythology, there is a subset of spirits/goddesses under the guidance of Apollo known as muses. These entities exist to seek out creative people and inspire them to create great works of art. In a sense, this posits that all great works of art are linked to the divine and their creators are merely vessels for which divine forces can channel their energy. This concept is often invoked by many real-life creators by attributing a real-life person special to them as their "personal muse." Usually occurs with a female muse for a male creator, but the inverse (or a combination thereof) is not too uncommon. If said woman is an actress, she'll be cast in the main female role in every one of the director's movies, at least until their relationship breaks down. Of course, art often mirrors life in this regard, and many fictional artists have muses of their own—sometimes, in fact, literal Muses from classical Greek mythology. The magazine Strange Horizons mentions among a List of stories we've seen too often "Creative person meets a muse (either one of the nine classical Muses or a more individual muse) and interacts with them, usually by keeping them captive." Neil Gaiman has commented in his online journal: "I have a fairly good memory, and don't recall ever reading any captive-muse-for-someone-with-writer's-block stories before I wrote mine." This would make Gaiman's story (detailed below) the Trope Codifier, at least for the supernatural version of the trope. Not incidentally, the same story provides a codifying example of Muse Abuse. Not to be confused with the British rock band Muse. Or Muse Abuse, although it often follows. See also Manic Pixie Dream Girl. For someone who functions as the opposite and is also the artist's love interest, see Love Makes You Uncreative. When athletes need inspiration, it is often rallied by pom squads. |
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Deconstructed in Malcolm & Marie, where Marie is Malcolm's muse, but she feels alienated from his work and hurt by how he uses her life story. | |
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In The Dreamer issue #11, Beatrice's voice teacher invokes this as the reason why Beatrice is singing particularly well during their session, with a Gender Flip. | |
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Daisy Jones & The Six: Daisy gets frustrated when her boyfriends keep referring to her as their muse because she wants to be known for her own songwriting and singing abilities. When she shows one boyfriend some lyrics he tells her he's going to use them, without even pausing to consider that she might want to record the song. | |
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Grimm: One episode has an artist whose muse, his ex-girlfriend, actually is a Muse. note Men fall in love with her easily and become obsessive Yanderes. A Wesen of the same kind was also said to be the muse of Vincent van Gogh. | |
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Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti: The Tahitian woman Tehura to French Post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin. | |
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Coda (2019): Helen slowly becomes an anchor and inspiration to the elderly and depressed pianist Henry. As he tells her late in the film, he'll be playing for her. | |
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In As Good as It Gets, Greg Kinnear's character gets his artistic groove back by drawing Helen Hunt. | |
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The premise of Castle is mystery novelist Richard Castle shadowing NYPD homicide detective Kate Beckett for, among other reasons, inspiration as she serves as his muse for a series of thrillers starring a main character based on her. Just don't actually call her a muse: | |
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Jennie for Eben in Portrait of Jennie | |
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Cynara: Poetry in Motion: Byron (a poet) and Cynara (a sculptor) both inspire each other while they practice their art as they're falling in love. | |
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Dante doesn't invoke the muses until the second part of The Divine Comedy, but at the beginning of Paradiso, the third part, he invokes all nine plus Apollo himself. | |
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Discworld In the novel Unseen Academicals, Glenda inspired Mr Nutt to write a love poem (which he then gives to his friend Trev to give to Glenda's friend Juliet). Juliet herself inspires the painting "Beauty Arising from the Pease Pudding Cart Attended by Cherubs Carrying Hot Dogs and Pies" (It Makes Sense in Context - although even within the story no-one without context knows what the hell it's supposed to be about.) In Soul Music it's suggested by the Band a couple of times that Susan might be Buddy's Muse. Since his music is coming from Somewhere Else, and she's trying to stop it, she really isn't. |
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The Thebaid begins with the author asking the Goddesses of Song to decide how to tell the story of Thebes and where in its long history to begin. | |
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In Alex & Emma the eponymous Alex is a writer suffering from writer's block. It's hinted that his ex, Polina, was his muse and breaking up with her caused the block of inspiration. However, as he gets to know Emma, we see her slowly take over as his muse, eventually inspiring the lead character in his new novel. | |
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Throughout his Confessions, Augustine calls upon God to give him the words to do justice to the truth and grace He provided to him. | |
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In Grojband, Trina Riffin serves as an unwitting one to the band. Due to Corey's inability to come up with lyrics, he and his friends turn to Trina's diary entries for inspiration, often by trying to rile Trina up enough for her to write in her diary. | |
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In the novel Unseen Academicals, Glenda inspired Mr Nutt to write a love poem (which he then gives to his friend Trev to give to Glenda's friend Juliet). Juliet herself inspires the painting "Beauty Arising from the Pease Pudding Cart Attended by Cherubs Carrying Hot Dogs and Pies" (It Makes Sense in Context - although even within the story no-one without context knows what the hell it's supposed to be about.) | |
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Daisy Jones & The Six: Defied. Daisy hates that her boyfriends keep using her as inspiration. She doesn't want to be the muse, but to be recognized as an artist and person in her own right. | |
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The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Muse" is about an energy being who claims to be a muse and latched onto Jake Sisko, drawing out his creativity while simultaneously draining his mental energy. The same muse claims to have inspired other artists who produced profound works at the expense of shorter lives. | |
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In The Pirates of Penzance, one song calls out Euterpe (or possibly Calliope, but probably not Erato) by (English) name. | |
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Crashing (UK): Colin is Melody's muse. Perhaps parodied, in that the roles are inverted from their usual from—the hot younger woman is the artist, and the plain-looking middle-aged man is the muse. | |
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In the book Sacré Bleu Bleu is the Muse of Painting and has inspired, among others, Vincent van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Joseph Turner and pretty much the entire Impressionist movement. However her inspiration comes with a price. | |
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The titular Irisu of Irisu Syndrome! is Uuji's muse. He sketched before he met her, but having someone else who appreciated his (extremely morbid) art inspired him to create more- especially more sketches of dead cats, the subject matter she most liked. As you might expect, things go wrong. And then- in the True Ending- right again. Maybe. | |
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In My Roommate is a Cat, a stray cat inspires the main character with the idea for his new novel. | |
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Alex Bale's SpongeBob Conspiracy series has a twisted example with the... thing inside Alex's house, as it gives him the ideas for the many theory videos in exchange for fresh meat. And he's not the only one with a Muse... | |
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Alan Wake: Barbara Jagger to Thomas Zane | |
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Subverted (after a fashion) in The Picture of Dorian Gray: Dorian himself is the muse for the painter Basil Hallward, which at once turns the concept of a muse on its head (he's a man!) and doesn't (Basil is gay, and Dorian is beautiful and ravenously bi). | |
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In Winter Begonia, Shang Xirui is this to Du Qi, who will proudly proclaim to anyone that will listen that he writes plays for Shang Xirui and Shang Xirui only. | |
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In The Elder Scrolls series, Sheogorath, the Daedric Prince of Madness, has creativity and the arts under his domain. According to legend, he gave mortals the gift of music after hearing a woman comment on the beauty of a songbird's song... by killing her and fashioning the first instruments out of her body parts. | |
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Alexander Pope refers now and then to a muse in The Rape of the Lock, which was based on the tussle over the haircut of his friend Arabella Fermor. | |
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Pokémon has a a Pokémon based on the artistic muse; the Pokédex entries for the Generation V mon Meloetta state that many famous songs have been inspired by itsnote in spite of a very feminine appearance, it has No Biological Sex melodies. | |
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In Cooking With Wild Game, Asuta becomes Ai Fa's chef as a way of repaying her for saving his life (and funding his initial culinary experiments). Since no one in her village can cook half as well as he can, this arrangement works out well for everybody. | |
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Homer invokes the Muse (probably Calliope) at the start of both The Iliad and The Odyssey. | |
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Does not happen with the sculptor in Jak and Daxter - while he does have a muse that apparently inspires him, instead of being a beautiful girl, it's a Pokémon. An adorable Pokemon. | |
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In Cheer!, the artist Tselsebar's Author Avatar is frequently beset by an Anti-Muse, who hits him with a hammer and prevents him from getting the ideas to make new comics. He later does get an actual muse which, despite the Anti-Muse complaining that her job was too easy earlier, has her calling the muse a "hussy" and demanding "her" Tselsebar back. | |
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Oglaf: One hapless poet attracts a no-nonsense Brawn Hilda of a muse who adds an entirely literal dimension to "inspiration strikes." | |
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In the Rainbow Magic series, the Magical Craft Fairies make and inspire art. | |
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In The Secret World, the 2013 Halloween story mission "The Death Of Dr Armitage" reveals that horror writer Sam Krieg actually has a muse in the form of the eponymous entity. A Humanoid Abomination that perpetuates his existence through works of fiction, Armitage offers artistic inspiration to struggling writers in exchange for a cameo appearance in their stories: of course, the "inspiration" actually takes the form of a hideous glimpse of the true nature of the universe, and it's heavily implied that the good doctor is connected to the Filth in some way, but the inspiration he offers really does work. For good measure, Armitage claims to have served as a muse to H. P. Lovecraft, hence the character's appearance in The Dunwich Horror. | |
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In Peanuts, Lucy wants to be this to Schroeder. And note that she did inspire at least one of his compositions — "The Fussbudget Sonata". | |
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Nero: In De Ring van Petatje Nero starts writing poetry in an insane asylum and is visited by a literal muse with wings and a toga. Though she is a subversion of this trope: an obese bespectacled woman, with nevertheless a good heart. | |
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There's a literal muse in Dogma, a magical stripper played by Salma Hayek. And she will not be happy if you try to credit her with Home Alone. Azrael, the story's villain is revealed to be a former muse who was sent down to hell for refusing to fight against Satan. |
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At the core of Californication is the dysfunctional relationship between Hank Moody, a writer and barely-functional sex addict and alcoholic, and Karen, the muse behind most of his creative output and the mother of his child. He genuinely loves Karen, but the show is a tragic case of Failure Is the Only Option because he's too self destructive to make things work and he needs the On Again Off Again nature of their relationship to truly be creative. The second and sixth seasons explore the idea further through the characters of Lew Ashby and Atticus Fetch, rock stars who have similarly troubled relationships with their muses, and Faith, who is something of a professional muse. |
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Barbie & The Diamond Castle features three muses of music (and one apprentice), although none of them are actually shown inspiring anything. | |
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Shakespeare in Love, wherein the playwright's titular romance allows him to iron out the wrinkles in his play-in-progress (working title: Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter). | |
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Dan Simmons's Illium opens with an invocation to the Muse by the narrator, since it's based partially on the Iliad. The invocation starts out by mirroring the opening of the Iliad, but degenerates into a vicious rant against the Muse, who is an actual character in the story and something of a bitch. | |
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In Mr. Holland's Opus, Mr. Holland is inspired by student Rowena and begins writing music again. | |
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In the Doctor Who Meta Fic setting This Time Round, most of the Author Avatar characters have a Muse; a supernatural being trained at the Muse Academy who basically acts as a sort of advisor. | |
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In Free Soul, Keito's creation Angie is this to her. | |
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Don't Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro: The title character eventually becomes this for her Senpai. She sometimes poses for his drawings, and it definitely helps that Senpai finds her both gorgeous and captivating to begin with. It's also implied that the Arts Club President was also this for him before Nagatoro showed up. | |
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The Achilleid begins with Statius praying for Apollo himself to inspire him and does so by appealing to his previous experience writing epic poetry. | |
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The World According to Garp: Garp's eventual wife Helen is the one who inspires him to become a novelist. | |
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The Sandman (1989): In Calliope an aspiring writer captures one of the bona fide, Classical Mythology Muses. He imprisons her, and while raping her, is gifted with fantastic inspiration, and he soon becomes a renowned, and extremely wealthy, writer. Unfortunately for him, this particular muse is the former lover of The Dreamlord, Morpheus, and when she calls to him for help, he sympathizes with her plight. Needless to say, the author is soon 'convinced' to release his captive... and the Dreamlord takes appropriate revenge. | |
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Happens literally in Xanadu: a struggling artist is inspired by (and falls in love with) an authentic Greek Muse (goddess). | |
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In Soul Music it's suggested by the Band a couple of times that Susan might be Buddy's Muse. Since his music is coming from Somewhere Else, and she's trying to stop it, she really isn't. | |
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And she will not be happy if you try to credit her with Home Alone. | |
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In The Silver Codex, Hanlowa is the Muse of Horror, who works with Xarissa. | |
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Sherlock Holmes: Dr. Watson is supposed to just be Sherlock's biographer, but the way he writes his stories makes Holmes come off more as his muse than an object of a simple biography. | |
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Interview with the Vampire (2022): "In Throes of Increasing Wonder...": Lestat de Lioncourt's First Love Nicolas was the inspiration behind the song that he wrote which plays in his music box from France. "Like Angels Put in Hell by God": On the sleeve of the phonograph record of "Come to Me", Lestat's first composition in a century, his Valentine Day's message is "For Louis, My Muse!" Louis de Pointe du Lac is Lestat's Second Love. |
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The writer's muse in Film, Film, Film is rather unreliable in her appearance. | |
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Christine to the Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera. | |
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In Gravity Falls, it turns out Bill Cipher posed as a muse to the Author in order to trick him into building an inter-dimensional portal that would let him and his "hench-maniacs" through to Earth so they could take over our dimension. | |
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In Sunday in the Park with George, Georges' relationship with Dot is like this: but he's also increasingly distant and cold to her, so she eventually leaves him. That doesn't stop him from making her the star of his most famous painting. | |
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