My name is Legion

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• "My name is Legion" is a quotation from the Gospel according to Mark. In Chapter 5, we are told that Jesus and his disciples encounter a man possessed by a multitude of demons. On seeing Jesus approaching, the afflicted man

"ran and worshipped him, And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not. For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit. And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many "(Mark 5:6-9).

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• My Name is Legion is a 1976 compilation of three stories by Roger Zelazny.

• My Name is Legion is a 1999 crime novel by Sheila Martin Berry.

• My Name is Legion is a 2004 novel by A. N. Wilson.

• Legion is the main antagonist to Acclaim's Shadow Man. Their role in the game was trying to harness the power of the dark souls and bring about Apocalypse or The End of All Things. They were stopped by Michael LeRoi aka Shadow Man and in the end, died a horrible fate.

• "My Name is Legion" is a song by Electric Hellfire Club from the album "Witness The Millennium". There is a line "My name is Legion: for I'm many".

• Legion is the villain in Stephen King's story Storm of the Century
• Randall Flagg, the villain in Stephen King's The Stand, refers to himself as Legion and has a trace memory of being kicked into a herd of pigs by Jesus.

• Legion is mentioned in the film The Exorcism of Emily Rose

• "We are Myria LeJean" is used to introduce this character in Terry Pratchett's Thief of Time. She is a manifestation of an auditor, a being which will be destroyed if it shows any sign of individuality. "Myria" is easily associated with "myriad", and "LeJean" with "legion", alluding to this bible passage.

• In the video game series Castlevania Legion is a recurring boss. He is usually presented as a round orb with countless naked man-like bodies covering him.

• In the video game based on the popular tabletop wargame Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War, one of the quotes spoken by Chaos Space Marines is "We are legion!"

• Legion appears in the British Television series 'Red Dwarf' in the Episode 'Legion'. He is a being composed of many separate minds like the biblical text and also uses the biblical quote "My Name is Legion for we are many".

• "Our name is Legion, and we are Many" is from Daniel Defoe's "Legion's Memorial," delivered to the British House of Commons on May 14, 1701, in which Defoe defends the right to petition, claiming to represent 200,000 petitioners.^[1]

(see also: Legion (demon))

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1. ^ Smith, Norman B.: "'Shall Make No Law Abridging. . .': An Analysis of the Neglected, but Nearly Absolute, Right of Petition", University of Cincinnati Law Review (54):1153 (1986).