Judgement (Tarot Card) - Popular Culture

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• The first boss of The House of the Dead 2, a light gun game by Sega, takes its name from the Judgment card, and is depicted as an imp (Zeal) and a giant headless armored zombie wielding a battle axe as its puppet (Kuarl). It should also be noted that all of the bosses in the House of the Dead series derive their names from the Major Arcana. Kuarl was said to have been based on Curien's "The Chariot", and Zeal "The Hanged Man".
• In the Shin Megami Tensei: Persona video game series, the Judgment Arcana typically contains powerful personae of the Abrahamic mythos, such as Lucifer, Messiah and Satan. In both games it only appears towards the end of the story, and only once The Fool social link has been completed. It requires the player to make the appropriate decision not to end the game early, symbolising the protagonist's growth and awareness of his or herself and others. In Persona 3, it is the second SEES Social Link, activated after the protagonist and his or her companions choose to fight Nyx and the coming apocalypse. In Persona 4 it activates after the protagonist and his team mates choose not to act out of revenge and to seek the true culprit of the Inaba murders. It is also one of the most powerful arcanas in the game, probably, more powerful even the World Arcana.
• Jojo's Bizarre Adventure had a minor enemy stand Judgement, who masqueraded as a genie granting wishes to Polnareff, but actually controls clay golems that assume whatever form specified in the 'wishes'.
• In Saint Seiya Episode G series, Milos of Scorpion is depicted as The Judgement in the tarot cards version of the manga.
• In Episode 1 of the anime series "Kuroshitsuji II" (sequel to "Kuroshitsuji"), the Judgement card is featured during the intermission slides. Alois Trancy holds the card right side up, while Claude Faustus holds it upside down.
• In the SNES video game Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen, the Judgement Tarot card depicts a female angel pointing her trumpet down south and ready to blow her trumpet while hovering from a cloudy sky. On drawing the card after liberation of one of the towns, it increases the characters' HP by 2 points, and uses a pulsating blast of holy energy that also instantly pulverizes undead enemy units and damages said enemy units that have low alignment when used in battle.
• In the popular Indie Game The Binding of Isaac, all of the Major Arcana/Minor Arcana Tarot cards can be found and used during gameplay. Judgement, when used, will spawn a beggar.