Among the many noted video game voice actors and actresses are Maaya Sakamoto ( the Japanese voice for the Final Fantasy XIII character Lightning ), Tatsuhisa Suzuki ( the voice of Noctis Lucis Caelum in Final Fantasy Versus XIII ), Troy Baker ( English Snow Villers, Joel, Batman in Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes ), Steve Downes and Jen Taylor ( Master Chief and Cortana from the Halo series ), Nolan North ( Nathan Drake from the Uncharted games and Desmond Miles from the Assassin's Creed game series ), Liam O ' Brien ( the voice of Caius Ballad in Final Fantasy XIII-2 and War in Darksiders ), and Jonell Elliott ( the voices of Lara Croft from 1999-2003 ).

* Sergeant Myrmidon, a character from The Ballad of Halo Jones

In Alan Moore's and Ian Gibson's comic book series The Ballad of Halo Jones, the Rat King was a weapon of war, a super-intelligent collective of five rats with entwined tails who were able to communicate via a computer terminal.

* Moab, a fictional planet in the comic strip The Ballad of Halo Jones

*" The Ballad of Casey Jones " is a traditional song about railroad engineer Casey Jones and his death at the controls of the train he was driving.

On occasion, Hurt would use an open tuning and a slide, as he did in his arrangement of " The Ballad of Casey Jones ".

Space and Cerys Matthews released " The Ballad of Tom Jones ", a song about a fighting couple who are calmed down by listening to Jones ' music on the radio.

Casey Jones's fame can almost certainly be attributed to the traditional song, The Ballad of Casey Jones, recorded by Mississippi John Hurt, Pete Seeger, Furry Lewis, The Grateful Dead, and Johnny Cash, among others.

* Ballad of Casey Jones

Space are an English indie rock band from Liverpool, who came to prominence in the mid 1990s with hit singles such as " Female of the Species ", " Neighbourhood " " Avenging Angels " and " The Ballad of Tom Jones ".

#" The Ballad of Tom Jones "

Both Andrews and Spencer went on to form Sound 5, releasing the album ' No Illicit Dancing ' in 2000, as well as providing remixes for other artists such as UK band, Space ( The Ballad of Tom Jones ).

Newcombe's interest in cults like that of Jim Jones and Charles Manson is well known ( and made apparent by the band's name ), and songs such as " The Ballad of Jim Jones " ( from Thank God for Mental Illness ) and " Arkansas Revisited " ( from Bringing It All Back Home – Again ), which is a rework of Charles Manson's song " Arkansas " ( which appeared on the album Lie: The Love & Terror Cult ).

* The track " You Look Great When I'm Fucked Up " appears at the end of episode 5 ( series 1 ) of teen drama Skins, the track " Ballad of Jim Jones " also appeared in series 3, episode 10.

In the early 1960s, she appeared off-Broadway in Jean Genet's " Black on Black " ( with James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson ), and in " Brecht on Brecht ", in which she sang ( among other things ) " The Ballad of Barbara Schuman ".

Jones provided the original lyrics for " Ballad of the Gliding Swan " which Dylan rewrote in performance.

When the word ballad appears in the title of a song, as for example in The Beatles's " The Ballad of John and Yoko " or Billy Joel's " The Ballad of Billy the Kid ", the folk-music sense is generally implied.

Ballad is also sometimes applied to strophic story-songs more generally, such as Don McLean's " American Pie ".

" Ballad of the Green Berets " is a patriotic song in the ballad style about the Green Berets, an elite special force in the U. S. Army.

" Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888 " is a baseball poem written in 1888 by Ernest Thayer.

Thus C ' Mell (" The Ballad of Lost C ' Mell ") is cat-derived ; and D ' Joan (" The Dead Lady of Clown Town "), a Joan of Arc figure, is descended from dogs.

Thomas ' poetry is notable for its musicality, most clear in " Fern Hill ", " In Country Sleep ", " Ballad of the Long-legged Bait " and " In the White Giant's Thigh " from Under Milk Wood.

In addition, her 1985 album The Ballad of Sally Rose is an original concept album that includes many allusions to Parsons in its narrative.

There is also a Soviet movie The Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe ( Баллада о доблестном рыцаре Айвенго, 1983 ), directed by Sergey Tarasov, with songs of Vladimir Vysotsky, starring Peteris Gaudins as Ivanhoe.

Largely ignored upon its initial release, The Ballad of Cable Hogue has been rediscovered in recent years and is often held up by critics as exemplary of the breadth of Peckinpah's talents.

In the 2006 movie Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby starring Will Ferrell and Sacha Baron Cohen, Cohen's character is reading a copy of L ' Etranger while he is driving his NASCAR race car.

Hua Mulan () is a legendary figure from ancient China who was originally described in a Chinese poem known as the Ballad of Mulan ( 木蘭辭 ).

The character is inspired by the legendary Hua Mulan from the Chinese poem The Ballad of Mulan.

The " Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp ( Let It Roll )" composed by the former Beatle George Harrison is dedicated to him.

* Francis James Child collected fourteen variants in The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, but the summary of Child Ballad 39A is considered to be the earliest ( Another Child ballad, Burd Ellen and Young Tamlane has no connection with this ballad except for the similarity of the heroes ' names.

The song is named " The Ballad of Blaze Tracy.

The ballad type is classified as D 280 in The Types of the Scandinavian Medieval Ballad ; the variant from Västmanland that Dybeck reproduced is classified as SMB 133 G. It was recorded by Rosa Wretman in the beginning of the 1840s.

The Ballad of Peckham Rye, a 1960 novel by Muriel Spark, is set in Peckham.

The movie's theme song, " The Ballad of Thunder Road ", was later recorded by Mitchum and became a popular single record, although Mitchum's rendition is not the one in the film itself.

The word TWAIN is from Rudyard Kipling's " The Ballad of East and West " — "... and never the twain shall meet ..." — reflecting the difficulty at the time of connecting scanners and personal computers.

According to the notes by Cecil Sharp on a variant of the Ballad of Little Sir Hugh, the story is as follows:

Although Wilde is best known for his plays, fiction, and The Ballad of Reading Gaol, he also wrote poetry in a symbolist vein and was the first Irish writer to experiment with prose poetry.

A number of alumni have made meaningful contributions to arts and letters: Joel T. Headley ( 1839 ), author of numerous books about the Adirondack Mountains and early American history ; William James Stillman ( 1848 ), photographer and author ; Fitz Hugh Ludlow ( 1856 ), author of The Hashish Eater ; Andrea Barrett ( 1974 ), winner of the National Book Award ( for Ship Fever ) and the Pulitzer Prize for works of fiction ; and David Markson ( 1950 ), author of titles such as The Ballad of Dingus Magee.

Isobel Gunn's life has subsequently become the basis for a work of historical fiction by author Audrey Thomas, a documentary poem entitled The Ballad of Isabel Gunn by Stephen Scobie, and the subject of a documentary film entitled The Orkney Lad: The Story of Isabel Gunn, directed by filmmaker Anne Wheeler.

In 1976, Ballad of the Salt Sea was published in book format and was awarded the prize for best foreign realistic comic album at the Angoulême International Comics Festival.

The Ballad of Barbara Allen is one of the recurring themes in the comic strip Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron which appeared in Daniel Clowes ' Eightball ( issues 1-10 ).

Gabriel Benson, the author of Fade from Grace and The Ballad of Sleeping Beauty, continues to work at Beckett Entertainment pursuing projects in the comic book, film, and television industries.