His backstory is actually closer to the historical Macbeth than the Shakespearean version, and he's probably the most Anti Villainous of the major antagonists. In Disney's Gargoyles, Macbeth is a recurring character.Dan Vs.: In "Ye Olde Shakespeare Dinner Theatre", the trio of tech ladies working at the theatre seem to be modeled after the witches from Macbeth.Several parts are quoted verbatim, and the end result is surprisingly faithful despite the satire. Housepets!: The arc 'Let's Imaginate Macbeth' is, as the title implies, a performance of the play with Max as Macbeth as one of many Imaginates throughout the comic.Hark! A Vagrant: "The Scottish Play" pokes fun at the play, mostly by having people seriously underact to the main characters being completely over the top and for the bard playing safe politically with his current monarch.In Mass Effect, after the success of his all-elcor production of Hamlet, the same director announces his next project will be Macbeth, with the role of Macbeth being played by a krogan.Star Fox 64 has the planet Macbeth, which according to the official Nintendo Player's Guide has its own Birnam Wood, though Andross had most of it cleared away in order to build his weapons factory.The witch from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past sings/chants a couple of the three witches' lines while "making mushroom brew.".In The Curse of Monkey Island, a character decides to rewrite various Shakespeare plays to better suit the local pirates' tastes, mangling not only famous Shakespeare quotations but entire plotlines, resulting in lines such as "Spot, ye blasted dog, get out of me bloomin' garbage! Out, Damned Spot!!".In Princess Ida, Melissa claims her mother could not say that the three girl students are men because "'are men' stuck in her throat," spoofing a line from Macbeth II.ii.If you know what saying "Macbeth" in a theater entails, it should be no surprise that things go downhill for Hamilton after this. Later in the same song, his wife encourages him to "Screw his courage to the sticking place", but in a twist, she's trying to get him to do something productive and mentally healthy. In Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton likens his political career to the plot of this play in a letter to his sister-in-law. Featuring several heirs secretly vying for the throne, violent Scottish clans, a miner's strike broken up by government-sent orcs, tree-men shifting themselves to attack the castle, a Stock Ness Monster, and Out, Damned Spot! being a command given by Lady Mc Death to her two-headed hellhound, Spot. An early WarhammerFantasy campaign was a Whole-Plot Reference, appropriately named " The Tragedy Of Mc Death".The Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Conscience of the King" starts with Captain Kirk and his friend watching a performance of Macbeth.She performs some "highlights" from the play in the dining room, including the famous "Out, damned spot!" Despite the entire crew agreeing that she's the worst actress they've ever seen, they tell her she was amazing to make her feel better, causing her ego to swell. In The Love Boat episode "Tell Her She's Great," Isaac's Aunt Tanya's husband pressures her to play Lady Macbeth in a local production.Probe's " Black Cats Don't Walk Under Ladders (Do They?)": Marty Corrigan misquotes one of the lines when Sabrina Stillwater enters his dressing room "By the pricking of my thumbs, something rancid this way comes".Horatio Hornblower: In "The Duchess and the Devil", when Archie is breaking the news to Horatio that the Duchess of Wharfedale is actually an actress impersonating a noblewoman, he says she has more claim to be Lady Macbeth than to be a duchess.The third season had an episode involving the Scottish Play and its related superstitions.the first episode was basically the last act of Richard III crossed with Macbeth, complete with three witches. The original series had a lot of Shakespearean references the end credits even list "Additional dialogue - William Shakespeare".In Counting to D, Sam, Kaitlyn, and Eli make a video acting out a scene from Macbeth for their English class, with Kaitlyn as Lady Macbeth, Eli as the doctor, and Sam as the maid.In the Star Trek: Enterprise Relaunch novel Patterns of Interference, human colonists name a planet of walking trees "Birnham", and its star "Dunsinane".Lydia replies, "Mom took me to see Macbeth. In Call Me Sunflower, Sunny asks Lydia if she's ever seen Hamlet.In There's More Than One Way Home, Anna thinks that Alex washes himself like Lady Macbeth.As the cauldron bubbled, an eldritch voice shrieked, "When shall we three meet again?".Īnother voice said, in far more ordinary tones, "Well, I can do next Tuesday."
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