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* The opening credits for the Disney film ''Film/TheHauntedMansion2003'' feature three tarot cards representing the tale of Master Gracey and his lost love: The Lovers, Death, and the Three of Swords (which represents loss and sorrow)..
* ''Film/TheHolyMountain'': The Tarot is a major theme throughout the entire film.



* In ''Film/MoulinRouge'', each of the [[MsFanservice gorgeous prostitue-dancers]] employed by the titular nightclub has a different theme to their costume. One of them, Tarot, is appropriately wearing a dress covered in Tarot symbols.
* ''Film/TheNinthGate'' includes extensive Tarot imagery, both for actual characters and situations. For example, a minor character is killed and his body is found looking exactly like the Hanged Man, (also reflecting one of the illustrations in the book) while [[spoiler:Balkan]]'s death occurs in a Tower ravaged by flame after he becomes too proud, and numerous characters are analogs of various cards, including: Boris Balkan as the Magician, Baroness Kessler as the High Priestess, Mrs. Telfer as, depending on your interpretation, either the Empress or a new, younger High Priestess, Vargas as Death, (his entire family, estate, everything around him is physically dead, and it's when the main character examines his copy of the book that he starts going from just doing a job to being interested in what's really happening) and perhaps also the Hermit, while Corso is the story's Fool with HiddenDepths... ''really'' hidden depths in some interpretations. [[spoiler:(Like the one that says that Corso is actually Satan and has undergone a GambitRoulette and MemoryGambit to return to heaven. The book is supposed to "raise the devil" and so it does, by showing him the way back home)]]. (For a bonus, the knapsack Corso which one character remarks on and notes that he seems to take it everywhere even mirrors the one the Fool traditionally carries).
* ''Film/NowYouSeeMe'': [[AncientTradition The Eye]] first contacts the horsemen by giving them tarot cards -- The Lovers (Daniel), The High Priestess (Henley), The Hermit (Merritt), and Death (Jack). [[spoiler: This extends to [[MoleInCharge Dylan]], the "[[TheManBehindTheMan fifth horseman]]", who Thaddeus repeatedly calls "The Fool" -- particularly right before the big reveal. His actual card is the King of Swords. This represents him being a man with an idea, and not being afraid to hurt his victims.]]



* The opening credits for the Disney film ''Film/TheHauntedMansion2003'' feature three tarot cards representing the tale of Master Gracey and his lost love: The Lovers, Death, and the Three of Swords (which represents loss and sorrow).
* ''Film/TheNinthGate'' includes extensive Tarot imagery, both for actual characters and situations. For example, a minor character is killed and his body is found looking exactly like the Hanged Man, (also reflecting one of the illustrations in the book) while [[spoiler:Balkan]]'s death occurs in a Tower ravaged by flame after he becomes too proud, and numerous characters are analogs of various cards, including: Boris Balkan as the Magician, Baroness Kessler as the High Priestess, Mrs. Telfer as, depending on your interpretation, either the Empress or a new, younger High Priestess, Vargas as Death, (his entire family, estate, everything around him is physically dead, and it's when the main character examines his copy of the book that he starts going from just doing a job to being interested in what's really happening) and perhaps also the Hermit, while Corso is the story's Fool with HiddenDepths... ''really'' hidden depths in some interpretations. [[spoiler:(Like the one that says that Corso is actually Satan and has undergone a GambitRoulette and MemoryGambit to return to heaven. The book is supposed to "raise the devil" and so it does, by showing him the way back home)]]. (For a bonus, the knapsack Corso which one character remarks on and notes that he seems to take it everywhere even mirrors the one the Fool traditionally carries).
* ''Film/TheHolyMountain'': The Tarot is a major theme throughout the entire film.
* ''Film/NowYouSeeMe'': [[AncientTradition The Eye]] first contacts the horsemen by giving them tarot cards -- The Lovers (Daniel), The High Priestess (Henley), The Hermit (Merritt), and Death (Jack). [[spoiler: This extends to [[MoleInCharge Dylan]], the "[[TheManBehindTheMan fifth horseman]]", who Thaddeus repeatedly calls "The Fool" -- particularly right before the big reveal. His actual card is the King of Swords. This represents him being a man with an idea, and not being afraid to hurt his victims.]]
* In ''Film/MoulinRouge'', each of the [[MsFanservice gorgeous prostitue-dancers]] employed by the titular nightclub has a different theme to their costume. One of them, Tarot, is appropriately wearing a dress covered in Tarot symbols.



* The music video for the Church's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWRK0Prfpv8&feature=related "Almost With You."]]
* The figure with the lantern on the cover of ''Music/LedZeppelin IV'' is The Hermit.



* The music video for Music/TheChurch's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWRK0Prfpv8&feature=related "Almost With You."]]
* Spanish HeavyMetal band Dark Moor has an album named ''Tarot'', most of whose songs are named after Major Arcana -from example, "The Star", "Death", or "The Moon"-



* Spanish HeavyMetal band Dark Moor has an album named ''Tarot'', most of whose songs are named after Major Arcana -from example, "The Star", "Death", or "The Moon"-
* The Replacements mention tarot cards in their song 'Alex Chilton'

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* Spanish HeavyMetal band Dark Moor has an album named ''Tarot'', most of whose songs are named after Major Arcana -from example, "The Star", "Death", or "The Moon"-
* The Replacements mention tarot cards in their song 'Alex Chilton'figure with the lantern on the cover of ''Music/LedZeppelin IV'' is The Hermit.



* Music/TheReplacements mention tarot cards in their song 'Alex Chilton'



* Charles Ludlam's experimental play ''Theatre/TheGrandTarot'' is not only is peopled by characters from the Major Arcana of the Tarot deck (the High Priestess and the Magician are the main romantic couple, with the BetaCouple of the Emperor and Empress), but the play has a number of scenes that correspond to the cards in the deck, which in the first incarnations of the play would be shuffled to determine the order of the scenes.



* Charles Ludlam's experimental play ''The Grand Tarot'' is not only is peopled by characters from the Major Arcana of the Tarot deck (the High Priestess and the Magician are the main romantic couple, with the BetaCouple of the Emperor and Empress), but the play has a number of scenes that correspond to the cards in the deck, which in the first incarnations of the play would be shuffled to determine the order of the scenes.



* ''VisualNovel/HeartOfTheWoods'' has Major Arcana assigned to each of the four main characters in their profiles. Madison is The Moon, Abigail is The Sun, Tara is The Fool, and Morgan is The Hanged Man.



* ''VisualNovel/HeartOfTheWoods'' has Major Arcana assigned to each of the four main characters in their profiles. Madison is The Moon, Abigail is The Sun, Tara is The Fool, and Morgan is The Hanged Man.



* ''Webcomic/NotQuiteDailyComic'' repeatedly employs Tarot imagery, and has [[http://www.truefork.org/Art/comic/cindex.php?88 one]] reading.
* Parodied in ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', where AlternateUniverse Gwynn uses "Tarot for Dummies." When she lays down three cards they say, in order, "Death" "Is Close" "Oh No!"
** [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20091206 Recently]] the Sunday bonuses started showing the characters as cards. Though [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20100103 The Hanged "Man"]] is given the standard interpretation of death.



* A ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''-themed tarot deck was one of the prizes in the [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/14293468/homestuck-adventure-game Kickstarter project]]. Catalogued [[https://imgur.com/a/kTz8F here]].



* A ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''-themed tarot deck was one of the prizes in the [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/14293468/homestuck-adventure-game Kickstarter project]]. Catalogued [[https://imgur.com/a/kTz8F here]].



* ''Webcomic/NotQuiteDailyComic'' repeatedly employs Tarot imagery, and has [[http://www.truefork.org/Art/comic/cindex.php?88 one]] reading.



* Parodied in ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', where AlternateUniverse Gwynn uses "Tarot for Dummies." When she lays down three cards they say, in order, "Death" "Is Close" "Oh No!"
** [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20091206 Recently]] the Sunday bonuses started showing the characters as cards. Though [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20100103 The Hanged "Man"]] is given the standard interpretation of death.



* In ''Roleplay/TheGamersAlliance'', the necromancer [[AntiHero Razravkar]] encounters the witch [[TheFairFolk Befana]] who reads his fortune from her tarot cards.



* The short-lived webseries ''Webseries/TheHangedMan'' featured a cult called the Dead Hand and its titular villain, who used a tarot motif to commit serial killings in the city of San Angeles.



* In ''Roleplay/TheGamersAlliance'', the necromancer [[AntiHero Razravkar]] encounters the witch [[TheFairFolk Befana]] who reads his fortune from her tarot cards.
* The short-lived webseries ''Webseries/TheHangedMan'' featured a cult called the Dead Hand and its titular villain, who used a tarot motif to commit serial killings in the city of San Angeles.



* The Vamps in the "Stakes" arc on Season Seven of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' are named after cards in the Major Arcana - The Fool, Empress, Hierophant and the Moon. The exception is the Vampire King, whose name is analogous to The Emperor, yet whose design [[spoiler: and desire to escape the chains of fate and the endless cycle of fighting, death and rebirth that comes with being a vampire]] evokes The Devil as well.



* The Vamps in the "Stakes" arc on Season Seven of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' are named after cards in the Major Arcana - The Fool, Empress, Hierophant and the Moon. The exception is the Vampire King, whose name is analogous to The Emperor, yet whose design [[spoiler: and desire to escape the chains of fate and the endless cycle of fighting, death and rebirth that comes with being a vampire]] evokes The Devil as well.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E5MagicDuel "Magic Duel"]], Twilight Sparkle levitates a number of Fluttershy's creatures above herself in the infinity shape, matching up to the Magician card, which certainly fits the spellcasting prodigy she is to a T, but also subtly references the cunning and trickery that she used to defeat Trixie in the titular duel.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E5MagicDuel "Magic Duel"]], [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicTwilightSparkle Twilight Sparkle Sparkle]] levitates a number of Fluttershy's creatures above herself in the infinity shape, matching up to the Magician card, which certainly fits the spellcasting prodigy she is to a T, but also subtly references the cunning and trickery that she used to defeat Trixie in the titular duel.
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* ''Film/ChooseLove'': Cami visits a psychic who tells her that she will have three suitors corresponding to The Magician, The Fool, and the Knight of Swords. Cami later associates these cards with Paul, Rex and Jack respectively.
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The Tarot (pronounced "TA-row" –- rhymes with "sparrow") is a very popular motif in the UrbanFantasy, OntologicalMystery, and {{Horror|Tropes}} genres. It can be used by references or as an item in the setting itself. And, of course, [[TheMerch it can be merchandised for fun and profit.]]

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The Tarot (pronounced "TA-row" –- rhymes with "sparrow") is a very popular motif in the UrbanFantasy, OntologicalMystery, and {{Horror|Tropes}} genres. It can be used by references or as an item in the setting itself. And, of course, [[TheMerch it can be merchandised for fun and profit.]]
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-> ''The tarot will teach you how to create a soul.''

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The Tarot (pronounced "TA-row" – rhymes with "sparrow") is a very popular motif in the UrbanFantasy, OntologicalMystery, and {{Horror|Tropes}} genres. It can be used by references or as an item in the setting itself. And, of course, [[TheMerch it can be merchandised for fun and profit.]]

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The Tarot (pronounced "TA-row" –- rhymes with "sparrow") is a very popular motif in the UrbanFantasy, OntologicalMystery, and {{Horror|Tropes}} genres. It can be used by references or as an item in the setting itself. And, of course, [[TheMerch it can be merchandised for fun and profit.]]
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* The album cover for the Music/TenaciousD's SelfTitledAlbum is designed after the Devil, signifying how the band is not afraid to tackle violent and sexual themes.

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* The album cover for the Music/TenaciousD's SelfTitledAlbum is designed after the Devil, signifying how the band is not afraid to tackle violent and sexual themes.

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