Starting with the world situation in 2000 following the Twilight War, players controlled one or more countries and guided them through 300 years of development, including the discovery of faster-than-light space travel, colonization of other Earthlike planets, and contact with a variety of sentient aliens.

Whereas Twilight 2000 was set in the immediate post-World War III era, with characters representing soldiers trying to survive, characters in Merc 2000 are mercenaries working for or against government forces in a world where the " Twilight War " involving nuclear weapons did not occur.

The Merc 2000 rulebook details the game world, gives additional rules and equipment that will be more useful in mercenary campaigns than Twilight 2000 ones.

The Big Bad of Season Eight is a being named Twilight who is bent on destroying magic in the world.

Beaumont wrote many scripts for the Twilight Zone, including an adaptation of his own short story, " The Howling Man ", starring John Carradine, and the hour-long " The Valley of the Shadow ," in which a newspaper reporter stumbles upon a cloistered technological Utopia, disguised as an ordinary small town in the middle of nowhere, which refuses to allow its startlingly-advanced science discoveries to be given to the outside world, citing humanity's previous misuse of another scientific formula E = mc2 as their cautious rationale.

Later, Cartwright auditioned for the role of Ethel, a girl who becomes trapped in a cartoon world in the third segment of Twilight Zone: The Movie.

Streamline, in being the first company dedicated to making anime accessible to the English speaking world, was notable for releasing a wide variety of anime that fit in a wide variety of genres, many of which do not fit completely in any genre such as Twilight of the Cockroaches.

This, in combination with the criminal activities of rogue Slayer Simone Doffler, the destruction of Sunnydale and the machinations of the villain Twilight has forced the Slayers into retreat as the whole world now views them as terrorists.

Another map of the world by Bernard Morris was published in Twilight Zine No. 4 and reprinted in the book An Atlas of Fantasy ( compiled by Jeremiah Benjamin Post ) in 1979.

The Elder Edda states that the giants would cross Bifröst, a great rainbow, at the Twilight of the Gods, breaking it with their weight and so destroying the world.

These ads were typically played with the theme song of Twilight Zone saying "... men marrying men, women marrying women ... What kind of world does Terry Anderson want?

It will shortly become a refuge for a man who knows he will die in this world if he doesn't escape ... into the Twilight Zone.

* Link's Crossbow Training, a shooting video game created for the Wii Zapper, using the world and assets of Twilight Princess as a basis.

On the Manhunter home world of Biot, in sector 3601, Henshaw is holding captive several assumed-to-be-dead Green Lanterns, most of whom appeared to die during the Emerald Twilight saga.

Like Yam and Hadad, he and Thor ( son of Odin ) slay each other at the end of the world ( Ragnarök or Twilight of the Gods ).

" There's probably not a bigger Twilight Singers fan in the whole world than Scott Ford ," Dulli says.

The Taper has been host to world premiere productions of many notable plays including The Shadow Box ( 1975 ), Zoot Suit ( 1978 ), Children of a Lesser God ( 1979 ), Neil Simon's I Ought To Be In Pictures ( 1980 ), Lanford Wilson's Burn This ( 1987 ), Jelly's Last Jam ( 1991 ), Angels in America ( 1992 ), Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 ( 1993 ), David Henry Hwang's revised version of Flower Drum Song ( 2001 ), August Wilson's Radio Golf ( 2005 ) and the musical 13 ( 2007 ).

He is well known as a player in the original Twilight Zone ( 1959 to 1964 ), especially in the episode " It's a Good Life " ( November 1961 ), where he played a child who terrorizes his town with his psychic powers.

One example is an episode of The Twilight Zone, " The Mighty Casey ", concerning a baseball player who is actually a robot.

( Twilight of the Gods ) is the last in Richard Wagner's cycle of four operas titled Der Ring des Nibelungen ( The Ring of the Nibelung, or The Ring for short ).

The German title of the book by Friedrich Nietzsche Twilight of the Idols, written in 1888 and published in 1889, is Götzen-Dämmerung, a pun on the title of Wagner's opera.

Moncton is mentioned several times in the 1961 Twilight Zone episode " The Odyssey of Flight 33 ", in which the lost aircraft desperately tries to contact Moncton Air Traffic Control, as well as the air traffic control in Gander and Boston.

In the Prose Edda, and a single poem in the Poetic Edda, the event is referred to as Ragnarök or Ragnarøkkr ( Old Norse " Fate of the Gods " or " Twilight of the Gods " respectively ), a usage popularized by 19th century composer Richard Wagner with the title of the last of his Der Ring des Nibelungen operas, Götterdämmerung ( 1876 ).

Ocarina of Time is " of the first contemporary non-dance title to feature music-making as part of its gameplay ", using music as a heuristic device and requiring the player to utilise songs to progress in the game — a game mechanic that is also present in Majora's Mask and, in different forms, The Wind Waker, Oracle of Ages, Spirit Tracks, Twilight Princess, and Skyward Sword.

In the Wii version of Twilight Princess, Link is right-handed due to the " mirroring " used to accommodate the right-handed control scheme, which flips the entire game world's layout from that of its Nintendo GameCube counterpart.

This GDW role-playing game is a clear rules-descendent of Twilight: 2000 and Striker, using ten-sided dice.

Zora government is apparently monarchical, either ruled by a king,, or queen, such as Queen from Twilight Princess.

In Twilight Princess, after one is killed, Link can use their puddles as potions or lantern fuel, depending on the type of ChuChu.

In Twilight Princess, there is a golden cucco that you must use to fly across gaps to enter to the Sacred Grove.

Twilight 2000 is a role-playing game set in the aftermath of World War III ( the " Twilight War ").

The manufacturer of the game, Game Designers ' Workshop ( GDW ), which is now owned by Tantalus, extended the timeline of Twilight 2000 to create the background history for the science fiction game 2300 AD ; by doing so the rather depressing post-nuclear environment of Twilight 2000 is mitigated by the outcome in which the Earth rebuilds itself and begins to colonize space.

Merc 2000 is an alternative setting for the Twilight 2000 role-playing game by Game Designers ' Workshop.

The future of the Twilight 2000 brand is unclear.

They are later revived by a mystic named Eli with the spiritual aid of Callisto, who by that time had become an angel ; Callisto also makes Xena to conceive a daughter after the resurrection, and this child is prophesied to bring about the Twilight of the Olympian gods ; this girl was named Eve.

In a final confrontation, the Twilight comes to pass when Xena kills most of the gods on Olympus to save her daughter, and is herself saved by Ares when he gives up his immortality to heal the badly injured and dying Eve and Gabrielle.

* 3-way split 7 " ( with The Twilight Singers, Jeff Hanson ) ( 2003, Devil In The Woods ) AmAnSet's song: " Hard To Find ( Reprise )"

A gel-like creature called " Zol " appears in The Legend of Zelda ; it splits into two Gels when attacked, like Purple Chus in " Twilight Princess ," which split into two smaller Chus when attacked.

Merlin plays a modern-day villain in Roger Zelazny's short story " The Last Defender of Camelot " ( 1979 ), which won the 1980 Balrog Award for short fiction and was adapted into an episode of the television series The Twilight Zone in 1986.

In his book, Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy, Chris Hayes has attributed what he calls the ' Fail Decade ' — which includes 9 / 11, the Enron scandal, the invasion of Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, the subprime crisis and the Great Recession — to the deterioration of America's meritocratic system into one of plutocracy.

" Gramma ", a short story made into a film in the 1980s anthology horror show The New Twilight Zone, mentions Lovecraft's notorious fictional creation Necronomicon, also borrowing the names of a number of the fictional monsters mentioned therein.

Twilight 2000s success as a game can be attributed in part to its manner of presenting a military background and setting, without hemming the players into a military's command structure.

After the strike ended, the producers of the new Twilight Zone needed to create more episodes to be able to sell the series into syndication with a complete 65-episode package.

Its insights into what it is to be human go far beyond genre, and is all the more surprising because, having read his short stories-which range from competent but simplistic, to having classic Twilight Zone twists ( he was a major contributor to the original TV series ) there is nothing within those short stories that suggests the supreme majesty of the existential masterpiece I Am Legend was aborning.

Serling depicts a similar scenario in " The Twilight Zone: Walking Distance ," which shows a young child is carving his name into a carousel modeled after the one in Recreation Park.

Close Encounters with the Religious Right: Journeys into the Twilight Zone of Religion and Politics.

In 1985, McCammon's story " Nightcrawlers " was adapted into an episode of The New Twilight Zone.

The storyline feeds into the " Twilight " and " Last Gleaming " arcs of Buffy Season Eight, concluding Season Eight in 2011 ; Spike comes into possession of a spaceship, which follows him into his Buffy comic debut.

Several years later, Serling adapted this and other episodes into short stories for a book, Stories From the Twilight Zone.

" I Shot an Arrow into the Air " is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

While Carol Serling was having good luck nearby, he became enslaved by a merciless one-armed bandit, an incident he would turn into one of his first Twilight Zone episodes.

Five weeks into The Twilight Zones second season, the show's budget was showing a deficit.

Five weeks into The Twilight Zones second season, the show's budget was showing a deficit.

Both Ed and Vinnie are young again — or rather, Ed has retreated 20 years into his own past to relive his life and to set things right ... in the Twilight Zone.

Nietzsche credits Sallust in Twilight of the Idols for his epigrammatic style: " My sense of style, for the epigram as a style, was awakened almost instantly when I came into contact with Sallust " and praises him for being " compact, severe, with as much substance as possible, a cold sarcasm against ' beautiful words ' and ' beautiful sentiments '.

Twilight is divided into three segments according to how far the sun is below the horizon in segments of 6 °.

Damon Knight's short story " To Serve Man " ( previously adapted into an episode of The Twilight Zone ) had a similar theme of deceptively friendly aliens secretly cultivating humans for food.

In the " Retreat " ( 2009 ) story arc, Warren and Amy assist Twilight in tracking Buffy and Willow's movements through their use of magic, forcing the group into hiding in Tibet, where they learn to suppress their abilities, leading to an all-out brawl between Twilight's military forces and Buffy's depowered Slayers.

The Twilight Saga also features shapeshifters that can transform into wolves and have inhuman strength, speed, body temperature and aging process.

It also contains the novelette " Paladin of the Lost Hour ", which won a Hugo award for best novelette and was later converted by Ellison into an episode of the television series The New Twilight Zone.