History Main / GardenOfEden

* The Magolor Epilogue from ''VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLandDeluxe'' contains a few allusions to the Garden of Eden. [[spoiler:The [[PlotCoupon Fruit Fragments]] Magolor needs to collect turn out to be the slices of an enormous [[VideoGame/TeamKirbyClashDeluxe Gem Apple]], which the [[BigBad Master Crown]] takes control of to transform into a [[BotanicalAbomination cyclopean monster resembling a huge, flying apple tree]]. It's a fitting metaphor for [[ForbiddenFruit what the Crown represents]]: limitless power at the cost of having your soul devoured and used to fuel the Crown's [[OmnicidalManiac appetite for destruction]].]] To emphasize this motif, the "Ethereal Altar" where Magolor begins his quest [[spoiler:and eventually slices the Master Crown in half at the end]] is known in Japanese as "エデンの間" (''Eden no Ma'', lit. "Eden's Room").

** The name "Eden" pops up in the episode "The Way to Eden", which is about a group of space hippies searching for the mythical paradise Eden. It turns out to be a FalseUtopia. Although Spock strongly encourages the hippies to continue to look for the real Eden, or make it themselves.
** The Garden is also referenced in the episode "The Apple", where a race of innocent humanoids serve a "god", Vaal, a computer shaped like a serpent head. After Kirk and company save the day and destroy the false god, the knowledge of good and evil is then known by the inhabitants. Spock makes a reference to the Garden Of Eden - according to Chekov, the Garden was located just outside Moscow - and Kirk asks if there is anyone onboard who remotely resembles Satan.
--->'''Spock:''' No-one to my knowledge.[[note]]An in-joke, as [[ExecutiveMeddling studio notes]] had complained about Spock's supposedly "Satanic" appearance.[[/note]]

* As crazy as this may sound, it ''may'' have been a (semi-) real place. A site called "Gobekli Tepe" was unearthed in what's today Turkey (right near the border it shares with modern-day Syria). It featured stone henges that predate Stonehenge, and indeed ''farming''. The henges were decorated with depictions of animals (which may be totemic animals, or possibly clan sigils showing which family each one belonged to). People gathered there to celebrate something, as evidenced by large amounts of wild animal bones that showed signs of butchering and cooking, and even vats for the production of ''beer''. Now, what does all this have to do with Eden? Well, besides being located in the right place (between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, with two tributaries), the animals referenced could be those on the henges. The story, being a JustSoStory, may also reflect the hardship of the transition from a ''relatively'' easy hunter-gatherer lifestyle to a farming lifestyle (to produce enough food and drink for a growing population), and all of its challenges: more wear and tear on the body, social stratification, living in closer quarters, patriarchy, etc.

* The final dungeons of ''VideoGame/Persona5 [[UpdatedRerelease Royal]]'' and ''VideoGame/Persona5Strikers'' uses this as their motif. The former one is [[spoiler:Maruki's Palace, in which the Eden with cognitive patients living in blissful ignorance is how he views the final reality he created; devoid of all suffering and people's ambition which results in it.]] In the latter, [[spoiler:it's actually a Jail manifested by the [=EMMA=] app itself taking the form of its center tree and the Sephirot, which has been evolved into a Demiurge who drags masses of people to hand them their desires so they will no longer commit any crimes, and her creator, Kuon Ichinose also has the same philosophy as the aforementioned Maruki, albeit taken to more radical levels.]]
** Speaking of why Eden acts as the final dungeon for both instances in a row with similar mechanics, namely [[spoiler:overlaying onto the current reality to grant a selected group of people blissful ignorance,]] Atlus ''again'' did their research. for a Christian, the Garden of Eden is actually paradise. For a Gnostic? It's a [[spoiler:Jail of blissful ignorance]], created by the Demiurge to trap Adam and Eve so they can't turn against him. It's just the Snake foiling the Demiurge's plan by letting them eat the forbidden fruit.

* In ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'', it is an [[{{precursors ancient Isu]] city that contains a lot of advanced LostTechnology known as the Pieces of Eden. And much like the garden in the original Bible, Eden is also the home of Adam and Eve who are the first humans to rebel against their creators in the War of Unification and its successor conflict the Human-Isu War.

* ''VideoGame/AHouseOfManyDoors'': The ultimate objective of the game is to reach Eden, the mythical garden that grows golden apples which grant eternal life. But it harbors a dark secret: [[spoiler:Anyone who eats the apple destroys an entire world. Those that do eat the apple cannot leave the House, or they will lose their immortality. These revelations are what started the God War over dominance of the apples. Even worse, the shenanigans of the immortals who used these apples have inadvertently doomed the House, meaning they only have a few millennia or so until the House itself ''dies'', meaning that immortality isn't going to be as useful as they thought.]]

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* In ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'', It is an Isu city that contains a lot of advanced LostTechnology known as the Pieces of Eden. And much like the garden in the original Bible, Eden is also the home of Adam and Eve who are the first humans to rebel against their creators in the War of Unification and its successor conflict the Human-Isu War.

* Comes up occasionally in the ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'':