Adamant - in Fiction and Popular Culture

In Fiction and Popular Culture

• Jack London's, White Fang: Part IV: The Superior Gods: Chapter 6: The Love-Master - "the fibre of him had become tough and knotty; when the warp and the woof of him had made of him an adamantine texture, harsh and unyielding;"
• In John Donne's Holy Sonnet I he states in line 14, "And thou like adamant draw mine iron heart".
• In the Medieval epic poem The Faerie Queene, Sir Artagel's sword is made of Adamant.
• In the travels of John Mandeville, he makes mention of a certain material upon which diamonds grow on his travels to India.
• In Mary Shelley's novella Mathilda, the author writes "It required hands stronger than mine; stronger I do believe than any human force to break the thick, adamantine chain that has bound me".
• In the 1950s movie Forbidden Planet the character 'Edward Morbius' refers to structures that the 'Krell Civilization' created that were made of 'Adamantine Steel'.
• In William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Helena says to Demetrius, "You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant!".
• In the Games Workshop game universe of Warhammer 40,000, adamantium used in the power armour and terminator suits of the Space Marines.
• In J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings it is said in the second verse of Bilbo's Song of Eärendil, regarding the appearance of Eärendil; "Of adamant his helmet tall". At the crowning of King Elessar, it is said that his crown "was adorned with jewels of adamant". Also, Nenya, one of the Three Rings of Power, was described as the Ring of Adamant, once again the Dark Tower Barad-dûr is described as being a tower of adamant crowned with iron.
• In the Marvel Comics' universe, adamantium is a metal alloy which, once forged, is effectively indestructible. The metal is costly to produce and exceptionally rare. It is typically portrayed within Marvel comic books as used to create weaponry such as bullets used by various covert agencies, a triangular shield used by the vigilante known as Battlestar, and the outer skin of some of the robotic bodies of the android Ultron. It is most famously known for being bonded to the skeleton and bone claws of the X-Men character Wolverine.
• Adiamante is an artificial material in the eponymous 1996 science fiction novel by L. E. Modesitt, Jr., used for the hulls of military spacecraft.
• In the Dungeons & Dragons game universe, adamantite is an ultra-hard, expensive, rare metal found only in meteorites and veins in magical areas, used to fashion high-quality weapons and armor.
• In R. A. Salvatore's Dark Elf books (based on the Dungeons & Dragons universe), adamantite is the preferred material for drow weaponry.
• In Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, Lord Asriel constructs an "adamant" fortress.
• In Mohandas K. Gandhi's autobiography, he reflects on the beauty of compromise in deciding not to fight for the right to wear a turban in the Supreme Court of South Africa. He states that "truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom".
• In Princess Ida, by Gilbert and Sullivan, the hardnosed princess's castle is called Castle Adamant.
• In the MMORPG RuneScape, adamant is a green colored metal smelted from one part adamantite ore and six parts coal. It is the second strongest metal in the free version of the game and is the second strongest metal that can be forged and smithed by players in both the free and member version. Adamantite is an ore found in various mining locations in small quantities. Once an adamant bars is smelted, it can be smithed to make armor and weapons.
• In Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (Part III), the base of the fictitious flying island of Laputa is made of Adamant.
• In Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom Sawyer's Aunt's resolve becomes "adamantine in its firmness".
• In Dwarf Fortress, a simulator game, adamantine is the rarest and most valuable mineral in existence. It can be used to forge the sharpest of weapons and strongest of armors. Unlike its common green in other accounts, adamantine in Dwarf Fortress is a very bright blue. It is nearly weightless, though this has caused improvements to the game's physics modelling to cripple adamantine warhammers and other blunt weaponry. Adamantine is also a trap for the proud. Dwarves following an adamantine vein will eventually dig too deep and unleash what's euphemistically called "Hidden fun stuff."
• In Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, there is an obtainable item called the 'Adamant Orb' which raises the dragon and steel type attacks of Dialga. The item looks more like a diamond gemstone rather than metal.
• In the MMORPG World of Warcraft, Adamantite is gathered from fairly uncommon veins in Outland, and used for productions of various weapons and armor, both uncommon, rare and epic.
• In the MMORPG, Maplestory, adamantium ore can be obtained by killing various monsters and be made into a bar of adamantium to upgrade weapons and armours into stronger substitutes
• In the MMORPG, Lineage II, adamantine is a rare material required to craft the highest grade weapons on game, Icarus and Dynasty weapons.
• In Kingdom Hearts, one of the shields you can equip to Goofy is called the "Adamant Shield"
• Final Fantasy also features armor made of adamant on occasion. In the fifth installment specifically it is a material from 'another world' able to contain great amounts of energy.
• In Ratchet & Clank, an armor is featured, and it is made of Adamantine - a metal that was to be said "the hardest in the galaxy".
• In the RPG expansion The Elder Scrolls III: Tribunal, adamantite is a usable substance that can be acquired, and forged (not by the player) into a protective armor.
• In the role playing game Exalted, adamant is a rare magical material used in some artifacts.
• In the Tales of Symphonia Game, the Eternal Ring that forges Dirk for Lloyd is made of Adamantine and sacred wood.
• In Patapon 2, you can use Adamantine from your Altar or inventory. This material can be forged and is similar to mithril.
• In the fantasy book series Fablehaven, Adamant is a very strong and light weight metal that has been magically enchanted.
• In the fiction book The Book of the Dead by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, Adamant is among various goods inside of an Egyptian tomb on display in the New York Museum of Natural History.
• In Meredith Ann Pierce's Darkangel Trilogy, the blade Adamantine was forged by the Ancients and is the only weapon that can kill a darkangel.
• In the Inuyasha dub the name Adamant Barrage is given to an attack that shoots diamonds at the opponent using the Tetsusaiga, the sword used by the title character. In the episode The Demon Protector of the Sacred Jewel Shard, a demon named Hosenki is covered in an armor made up of what is called adamantite. Kagome asks Myoga if he means diamond, but he doesn't know what she is talking about.
• In the videogame series Harvest Moon (series), an ore and item upgrade level is named 'Adamantite'. It is usually the highest-level upgrade.
• In the game Terraria, adamantite is a red ore you find near the end of the game. It can be made into adamantite bars (on a Mythril anvil), then into armor, drills, and other things.
• In the short story "Creatures of the Light." By Sophie Wenzel Ellis in Astounding Stories of Super Science, February 1930 it was referred to as; "Yet, for all his experience with hero worshippers to put an adamantine crust on his sensibilities, he grew warm-eared under the gaze of these two strangers"
• In The Sims Medieval, adamantle is one of the metals that can be mined and forged by a Blacksmith.
• In Naruto, adamantine is referred in name of techniques used by summoned character Monkey King Enma. Adamantine clearly mentioned for its hardness. In one technique Enma can transform into stick which is hard as Adamantine.