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Fiction about patricide

  • Silent Hill 2 (2024 video game)In Silent Hill 2, a man gets a letter from his wife, who died three years earlier. He goes to Silent Hill, Maine.
  • Assassin's Creed IIIAssassin's Creed III went on sale in North America on the 30th of October 2012 with a secret that its own advertising kept from players. Every promotion showed Connor, a half-Mohawk Assassin. The game itself, however, opened with Haytham…
  • God of War IIIEarly in God of War III, the sea god Poseidon dies at the hands of the Spartan Kratos, and the oceans pour across Greece. He is only the first of many gods to fall. This 2010 action-adventure game, made by Santa Monica Studio for the…
  • BioShockBioShock, a first-person shooter released in 2007, hides its sharpest trick inside a polite request: "Would you kindly." The phrase sounds harmless. In the game it carries a hidden weight, and it changes what the player believes about…
  • The Brothers KaramazovDostoevsky died less than four months after The Brothers Karamazov finished publication.
  • Han SoloHan Solo was first written as a green-skinned alien with gills. George Lucas's earliest draft gave him no nose.
  • Castlevania (TV series)Castlevania's Dracula tries to kill all of Wallachia after his human wife is burned at the stake.
  • Silent Hill 2In Silent Hill 2, James Sunderland gets a letter from his wife, who died three years ago.
  • Oedipus RexIn Oedipus Rex, a king vowing to catch a murderer is the killer. Sophocles' play opens with Thebes dying of plague.
  • Sekiro: Shadows Die TwiceIn Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, you win by breaking an enemy's balance, not draining health. Then one killing blow lands.
  • It (2017 film)The 2017 horror film It kept its young cast away from Bill Skarsgård, the actor who played Pennywise the Dancing Clown. Sophia Lillis, who played Beverly Marsh, explained the plan to Rolling Stone. "We actually weren't allowed to see him…
  • Castlevania: Symphony of the NightCastlevania: Symphony of the Night is a 1997 action role-playing game made by Konami for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn. Its most talked-about moment is a trick of architecture. Deep into the adventure, the entire castle turns upside…
  • Code GeassCode Geass is a Japanese anime television series produced by the studio Sunrise, and its premise rests on a single dangerous gift. The gift is called Geass, and it is the power of absolute obedience. Whoever receives it can issue a command…

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