Elysium in popular culture
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  • Sounds of Elysium 008 - Sunny Lax 2010 Mix (Progressive Trance)
  • Elysium
    Elysium (Stratovarius album)
    Elysium is the thirteenth studio album by power metal band Stratovarius, released on January 12, 2011 through Victor Entertainment and on January 14, 2011 through Edel Music .-Background:...

     is the title of Finnish power metal band Stratovarius
    Stratovarius
    Stratovarius are a Finnish power metal band that formed in 1984. Since their formation they have released 13 studio albums and one live album. Along with Helloween, Blind Guardian, Rhapsody of Fire and Gamma Ray, Stratovarius are considered one of the leading groups of the power metal and symphonic...

    's 2011 album.
  • Elysium is referenced in progressive metal band Symphony X
    Symphony X
    Symphony X is an American progressive metal band from Middletown, New Jersey.Founded in 1994 by guitarist Michael Romeo, their albums The Divine Wings of Tragedy and V: The New Mythology Suite have given the band considerable attention within the progressive metal community...

    's song The Odyssey, which is largely based around the adventures of Odysseus.
  • The American deathcore band Chelsea Grin has a track titled "Elysium" on their album "Desolation of Eden"
  • A song by the American rock band, Clutch
    Clutch (band)
    Clutch is an American rock band from Germantown, Maryland, formed in 1990. The band's first release was an EP entitled Pitchfork, which debuted in October 1990. Their first studio album, Transnational Speedway League, was released three years later in 1993. To date, Clutch has released nine studio...

    , in their song "Burning Beard", features the following lyrics: "The power of the Holy Ghost comes to town / Shadow of the New Praetorian / Tipping cows in fields Elysian / Saturnalia for all you have / The seven habits of the highly infected calf"
  • A song by the British Hip-Hop group Rhyme Asylum
    Rhyme Asylum
    Rhyme Asylum is a currently unsigned London hip hop group formed in 2002 by MCs Possessed, Psiklone, Skirmish and Plazma, who did not return for the second album...

     titled 'Iller Instinct' contains the lyric

"I hope this beat's flame resistant, when I come off the top I've lost the plot like books with pages missing. I won't break tradition, I'm keeping it real, plant seeds of destruction in the Elysium fields."
  • A song by former Glasgow metal band Lithium
  • "Elysian Fields" is the title of a song by the metal band Megadeth
    Megadeth
    Megadeth is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California which was formed in 1983 by guitarist/vocalist Dave Mustaine, bassist Dave Ellefson and guitarist Greg Handevidt, following Mustaine's expulsion from Metallica. The band has since released 13 studio albums, three live albums, two...

     from their album Youthanasia
    Youthanasia
    Youthanasia is the sixth studio album by American heavy metal band Megadeth, released on November 1, 1994 through Capitol Records. A remixed and remastered version, featuring several bonus tracks, was released in 2004....

    . It is about souls sentenced to eternal damnation fighting to storm heaven.
  • The song "Reeses Pieces, I Don't Know Who John Cleese Is?" by I Set My Friends On Fire has a lyric:"Those Elysian smiles I thought I'd keep forever!"
  • "Elysian Fields" is a song by Irish Post-Rock band God Is An Astronaut
    God Is an Astronaut
    God Is an Astronaut are an instrumental/post-rock band from the Glen of the Downs, Co. Wicklow, Ireland.-History:After forming in 2002, God is an Astronaut took the inspiration for its name from a famous quote in the movie Nightbreed...

     from the album A Moment of Stillness. This song is an Instrumental
    Instrumental
    An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics or singing, although it might include some non-articulate vocal input; the music is primarily or exclusively produced by musical instruments....

  • "Elysian Fields
    Elysian Fields (band)
    Elysian Fields is a Brooklyn, New York based band founded in 1995 by co-composers Jennifer Charles and Oren Bloedow . Their music has been sometimes described as "noir rock", due to its sultry, dark and mysterious inflections, be it sonically or lyrically...

    " is a New York City-based rock band formed in 1995.
  • Mary Chapin Carpenter's album 'Between Here and Gone' contains the song 'Elysium', where, following a long personal journey, paradise is found in the heart of her soulmate.
  • Elizium
    Elizium
    Elizium, Fields of the Nephilim's third studio album, was released in October 1990 by Beggars Banquet Records. The record peaked at number 22 in UK album charts.-Crowley's speech:...

     is the title of an album by Fields of the Nephilim
    Fields of the Nephilim
    Fields of the Nephilim are an English gothic rock band formed in Stevenage, Hertfordshire in 1984. The original line-up consisted of vocalist Carl McCoy, saxophonist Gary Whisker, Tony Pettitt on bass, guitarist Paul Wright and drummer Alexander "Nod" Wright...

    . The album contains track-titles such as '(Paradise Regained)' and lyrics including "over to the window, where the night has become Elizium for the sleepless souls" and references to "some kind of Heaven" (from 'At the Gates of Silent Memory'); whilst an overall theme of voyages towards a blissful afterlife/otherworld dominates the entire album.
  • Elysium is the title of a dance and happy hardcore music track by Scott Brown (DJ)
    Scott Brown (DJ)
    Scott Alexander Brown is a Glasgow-born Scottish DJ and music producer, now living in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. Brown produces and plays a variety of genres commonly called rave. Although he is most associated with bouncy techno, his music ranges from happy hardcore, through hard trance, to...

    . The chorus line lyrics have potential links to interpersonal, spiritual, and higher-order concepts or ideologies.
  • The track, Elysium
    Elysium (I Go Crazy)
    "Elysium " is the 5th single by Liverpool Dance trio Ultrabeat. It was released in 2006 and played throughout the summer of that year...

    , by Scott Brown has remixed by Trance/House group Ultrabeat
    Ultrabeat (UK band)
    Ultrabeat are an English electronic music group from Liverpool, England consisting of producer and vocalist Mike Di Scala and producers Ian Redman and Chris Henry. Formed in 2002, Ultrabeat first emerged with their single "Pretty Green Eyes" which reached No. 2 in the UK Singles Chart...

     with additional lyrics and the BPM reduced. That version has then been remixed back into happy hardcore by Scott Brown.
  • Elysium is a song by the Band LostAlone
    LostAlone
    LostAlone are a British rock band from Derby, Derbyshire and have been active since 2005. The band currently consists of Steven Battelle , Alan Williamson , and Mark Gibson ....

    .
  • "Devoured Elysium" is a song by Vital Remains
    Vital Remains
    Vital Remains is an American death metal band from Providence, Rhode Island formed in 1988.- History :Created in 1988 by guitarist Paul Flynn, Vital Remains' first line-up consisted of guitarist Butch Machado, vocalist Mike Flynn, bassist Tom Supkow, and drummer Chris Dupont. Searching for better...

     from their album Dechristianize, released in 2003.
  • Portishead has a song entitled Elysium on their 1997 self-titled album.
  • Wings Of Severance has a song called Elysium on their self-titled album.
  • The Velvet Teen
    The Velvet Teen
    -History:The Velvet Teen was founded by Judah Nagler and Logan Whitehurst as a side project from their other bands, Tin Circus and Little Tin Frog. Judah and Logan recorded the EP Comasynthesis, which had a prominent electronic sound, in 2000...

    's second full-length album was entitled Elysium.
  • In the movie Gladiator, "Elysium" is the name of the song played during Maximus's death. The film shows the character walking through fields of crops. It is ambiguous whether this is supposed to be Elysium or his family farm, it is likely that it represents both.
  • The video to the song "It Means Nothing" by the Stereophonics shows the spirits of the dead in white robes walking through fields of crops to be taken away in hot air balloons
  • David Gray
    David Gray (musician)
    David Gray is an English singer-songwriter. He released his first studio album in 1993 and received worldwide attention after the release of White Ladder six years later...

    's song The One I Love
    The One I Love (David Gray song)
    "The One I Love" is a song by David Gray. It was released in August 2005 as the first single from Life in Slow Motion. The song was produced by famed producer Marius de Vries and is Gray's second-highest achievement on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at #8...

     has the lyrics "Don’t see Elysium, Don’t see no fiery Hell"
  • Hardcore band named Elysia from Sacramento, California
  • A song titled "Elysium" appears on the album Wonderful by British 90's band Madness
  • A song titled "Elysium" appears on Phoenix, Az rock band Vayden's album - "Children of Our Mistakes"
  • An indie/rock band from Britain is called "Elysium"
  • A death-metal Band from Germany called "Elysium"
  • A punk-metal band from Tampa, Florida is called Elysium
  • A rock band from Newton, IA is called Elysium.
  • The line "As the sands slowly turn to Elysian Fields" is featured in the song "Sahara" by Finnish metal band Nightwish
    Nightwish
    Nightwish is a Finnish symphonic metal band from Kitee, Finland. Formed in 1996 by songwriter and keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen, guitarist Emppu Vuorinen, and former vocalist Tarja Turunen, Nightwish's current line-up has five members, although Tarja has been replaced by Anette Olzon and the...

  • The line "and cross the river of styx, you will reach elysian fields" is featured in the song "Into the light" by the Hardcore metal band John Doe.
  • The Alaskan metal/post-hardcore band 36 Crazyfists has a song entitled "Elysium" featuring Killswitch Engage singer Howard Jones on their 'Rest Inside the Flames' album.
  • The phrase "Why is it called Elysian Fields when love builds only grief" is featured in the song "The Seer", by Finnish soprano Tarja Turunen
    Tarja Turunen
    Tarja Soile Susanna Turunen Cabuli is a Finnish singer-songwriter and composer. She is a full lyric soprano and has a vocal range of three octaves....

    , in the album My Winter Storm
    My Winter Storm
    My Winter Storm is the second solo album by Finnish singer Tarja Turunen, and the first to consist mainly of new and original songs specifically written by or for Turunen...

    .
  • Polish blackned/death metal band Behemoth
    Behemoth (band)
    Behemoth is a Polish blackened death metal band from Gdańsk, formed in 1991. They are considered to have played an important role in establishing the Polish extreme metal underground, alongside bands such as Vader, Decapitated, Vesania and Hate....

     mentions an Elysium in their song "Conquer All" in the line "Mightiest self! Cast out ov thy Elysium with blood ov nazarene." And in the song "as above so below" they reference it in the line "art thou nephilim child are you looking for thy elysium here." In addition to the songs before, in the song "Be Without Fear", a line follows "materialize the ashes ov Elysium burned".
  • Swedish pop singer and former A*Teens band member Amit Paul
    Amit Paul
    Amit Paul is an Indian singer from Shillong, Meghalaya. His career started by being runner up in the Indian Idol season 3. He has become a budding Playback Singer in the Hindi Film Industry.-Early years:...

     has a song entitled "My Elysium" on his debut solo album "Songs in a Key of Mine."
  • UK Hardcore DJ Scott Brown has a song entitled "Elysium+", found on many Hardcore compilations.
  • Canadian progressive death metal band Into Eternity have a song titled "Elysium Dream" on their 2002 album Dead or Dreaming
    Dead or Dreaming
    Dead or Dreaming is the second full-length studio album by Canadian melodic death metal and progressive metal band Into Eternity. It was released by DVS Records in 2001 and re-released by Century Media Records on 3 September, 2002.-Track listing:...

    .
  • A metalcore band called Elysion Fields is from Antioch, Illinois(myspace.com/elysionfieldsband)
  • Swedish melodic death metal Arch Enemy's song "Dead Bury Their Dead" off of the first CD of Wages of Sin, contains the line ... "..I walk through Elysian Fields... the light is shining.. on me!"
  • A sideband of Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart called "the Lovemongers" recorded a song called "Elysian"
  • Charlotte Church
    Charlotte Church
    Charlotte Maria Church is a Welsh singer-songwriter, actress and television presenter. She rose to fame in childhood as a classical singer before branching into pop music in 2005. By 2007, she had sold more than 10 million records worldwide including over 5 million in the United States...

    's song "Dream a Dream" from her album of the same name contains the line "We will see... Elysium".
  • A progressive power metal band Into Eternity's song titled "Elysium Dream".
  • A song by singer/songwriter, Davis Howley, entitled "Our Elysium".
  • An album by singer / songwriter, Azam Ali, entitled "Elysium for the Brave
    Elysium for the Brave
    Elysium For The Brave is singer/songwriter Azam Ali's second album.-Track listing:#"Endless Reverie"#"Spring Arrives"#"In Other Worlds"#"Abode"#"Forty One Ways"#"The Tryst"#"From Heaven To Dust"#"I Am A Stranger In This World"#"In This Divide"...

    ".
  • Bristol metalcore band Evita have a song titled "The Elysium Fields"
  • The Branford Marsalis Quartet 1999 album, Requiem, has a song titled "Elysium". The album is the last recording made by the quartet's pianist Kenny Kirkland. Marsalis writes, "This record represents first takes of most of the songs and, unfinished as it is, it is a documentation of what, for me, was one of the most challenging and enduring musical relationships I have ever experienced." Presumably, the title is intended to speak of Kirkland's afterlife experience.
  • A Progressive Death-Thrash band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is called "Slaughter of Elysium"
  • U.K. band Madness included a song "Elysium" on their 1999 album "Wonderful".
  • Sound Horizon
    Sound Horizon
    Sound Horizon, abbreviated by fans as Sanhora , is a Japanese musical group with composer Revo as the leader. They call themselves the "fantasy band" and have released their works that closely resemble suites.-History:...

    's albums Elysion ~Rakuen e no Zensōkyoku~ and Elysion ~Rakuen Gensō Monogatari Kumikyoku~.
  • "West of the Fields" -the final song on the R.E.M.
    R.E.M.
    R.E.M. was an American rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1980 by singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry. One of the first popular alternative rock bands, R.E.M. gained early attention due to Buck's ringing, arpeggiated guitar style and Stipe's...

     album Murmur
    Murmur
    Murmur usually means:*Murmur , a soft-sounded and quiet utterance/talking "under your breath" so it is hard to understand what the speaker is saying*Breathy voice, a type of phonation in speechIt can also refer to:-Medical:...

     features the lyric 'dream now- of Elysium' in the first verse of the song. The song then equates dream states with being beyond the land of the dead.
  • Kelley Polar
    Kelley Polar
    Kelley Polar, born Michael Kelley, is an alternative dance vocalist and producer.Originally a classical violist from Providence, R.I., he studied at the Oberlin Conservatory and then at Juilliard, where he collaborated with Metro Area's Darshan Jesrani and Morgan Geist on tracks like "Miura",...

    's song "Roseband" has repeated line, "And all around us was Elysium"

Television

  • In the fourth season of the anime Sailor Moon
    Sailor Moon
    Sailor Moon, known as , is a media franchise created by manga artist Naoko Takeuchi. Fred Patten credits Takeuchi with popularizing the concept of a team of magical girls, and Paul Gravett credits the series with "revitalizing" the magical-girl genre itself...

    , the guardian of dreams, Helios
    Helios
    Helios was the personification of the Sun in Greek mythology. Homer often calls him simply Titan or Hyperion, while Hesiod and the Homeric Hymn separate him as a son of the Titans Hyperion and Theia or Euryphaessa and brother of the goddesses Selene, the moon, and Eos, the dawn...

    , resides in Elysion. In the manga version of that plotline, Elysion is equally important to the arc.
  • In Doctor Who
    Doctor Who
    Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...

    , Davros
    Davros
    Davros is a character from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Davros is an archenemy of the Doctor and is the creator of the Doctor's deadliest enemies, the Daleks...

    , creator of the Daleks, was said to have been lost at the Gates of Elysium during the first year of the Time War
    Time War (Doctor Who)
    The Time War, more specifically called The Last Great Time War, is a conflict within the fictional universe of the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...

    , when his command ship was swallowed by the Nightmare Child.
  • In the third and fifth seasons of the anime Digimon
    Digimon
    , short for , is a Japanese media franchise encompassing digital toys, anime, manga and video games. The franchise's eponymous creatures are monsters of various forms living in a "Digital World", a parallel universe that originated from Earth's various communication networks.-Conception and...

    , Dukemon has an attack called "Final Elysium", where he fires a red beam from his Shield.
  • In the Hades arc of both the anime and manga of Saint Seiya
    Saint Seiya
    , also known as Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac or simply Knights of the Zodiac, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masami Kurumada and serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1986 to 1991, and adapted into an anime TV series by Toei Animation from 1986 to 1989.The story follows...

    , the bronze saints infiltrate Elysion to rescue Athena from Hades.
  • In the fifth season episode "Lineage" of the television show "Angel" Wesley Wyndam-Pryce
    Wesley Wyndam-Pryce
    Wesley Wyndam-Pryce is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel...

     uses the word Elysium as a password to enter his high secure vaults within his office.
  • In the final episode of the British sitcom Green Wing
    Green Wing
    Green Wing is a British sitcom set in the fictional East Hampton Hospital. It was created by the same team behind the sketch show Smack the Pony, led by Victoria Pile, and stars Tamsin Greig, Stephen Mangan and Julian Rhind-Tutt....

    , Martin hears that Mac will be going to "Elyssian Fields", which he thinks is a place in Dorset
    Dorset
    Dorset , is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The county town is Dorchester which is situated in the south. The Hampshire towns of Bournemouth and Christchurch joined the county with the reorganisation of local government in 1974...

    . He later learns that it actually means that he is going to die.
  • In the anime series Spawn (season 3, episode 2), the Elysium Fields were mentioned by the bounty hunter Jade, asking Spawn to kill her so she would die in battle and have peace in the Fields instead of going to Hell for sparing HellSpawn.
  • In the fourth season of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica
    Battlestar Galactica
    Battlestar Galactica is an American science fiction franchise created by Glen A. Larson. The franchise began with the Battlestar Galactica TV series in 1978, and was followed by a brief sequel TV series in 1980, a line of book adaptations, original novels, comic books, a board game, and video games...

    , it is shown that the Fields of Elysium are part of the Colonial religion's teachings about the afterlife. Colonial religion is heavily influenced by real-world Greek mythology.
  • In Xena Warrior Princess and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
    Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
    Hercules: The Legendary Journeys is a television series, filmed in New Zealand and the United States. It was produced from 1995, and was very loosely based on the tales of the classical Greek culture hero Heracles...

     the Elysian Fields was a wide, open garden centered around a tower. There is a crack in this dimension to access Tartarus.
  • In the episode "Last Call" of the television show Dead Like Me
    Dead Like Me
    Dead Like Me was an American-Canadian comedy-drama television series starring Ellen Muth and Mandy Patinkin as grim reapers who reside and work in Seattle, Washington. Filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, the show was created by Bryan Fuller for the Showtime network, where it ran for two seasons...

    , the reaper Mason is sent to "Elysian Lake" to reap a man. The man dies after being struck by lightning while swimming in the lake.
  • In the episode "Hammer of the Gods" in the fifth season of the television show Supernatural
    Supernatural (TV series)
    Supernatural is an American supernatural and horror television series created by Eric Kripke, which debuted on September 13, 2005 on The WB, and is now part of The CW's lineup. Starring Jared Padalecki as Sam Winchester and Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester, the series follows the brothers as they...

    , Sam and Dean are lured to the Elysian Fields Hotel by a group of pagan gods.

Films

  • In Gladiator (2000 film)
    Gladiator (2000 film)
    Gladiator is a 2000 historical epic film directed by Ridley Scott, starring Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Ralf Möller, Oliver Reed, Djimon Hounsou, Derek Jacobi, John Shrapnel and Richard Harris. Crowe portrays the loyal Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius, who is betrayed...

     Maximus: "Three weeks from now, I will be harvesting my crops. Imagine where you will be, and it will be so. Hold the line! Stay with me! If you find yourself alone, riding in the green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium, and you're already dead!"
  • Phantom of the Opera (2004 film), In the opening scene of "The Masqurade" Andre sings the line "Of Elysian Peace." in reference to the Phantom's 3 month absence.
  • In Mister Roberts (1955 film), the ship The USS Reluctant, was sent to the "Limbo Islands", specifically to Elysium Island for liberty. The capitol of the island is "Elysium City". Elysium is the largest of the Limbo Islands. It is often referred to as the Polynesian paradise. Vanilla, sugar, cocoa, coffee, phosphates and rum are the chief exports.
  • In The Man from Elysian Fields (2001 film), Mick Jagger plays a high priced male escort
  • In the 2009 science fiction thriller Pandorum
    Pandorum
    Pandorum is a 2009 German-British science fiction thriller film written by Travis Milloy, directed by Christian Alvart and produced by Paul W.S. Anderson. The film stars Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster. Filming began in Berlin in August 2008. Pandorum was released on September 25, 2009 in the United...

    , Elysium is the name of the ill-fated starship on which the film takes place. In the film, the Elysium is a large sleeper ship
    Sleeper ship
    A sleeper ship is a hypothetical type of manned spaceship in which most or all of the crew spends the journey in some form of hibernation or suspended animation. There is currently no known technology that allows for long-term suspended animation of humans....

     built in Earth orbit and designed for a 123-year one way journey to a fictional planet called Tanis. The Elysium carries 60,000 colonists in suspended animation along with substantial specimens of Earth's biosphere to assist in colonization of Tanis. The ship is piloted by flight teams who rotate on two year duty shifts where they are awake and montior the ship's systems. The Elysium is powered by an unspecified form of nuclear power.
  • District 9
    District 9
    District 9 is a 2009 South African science fiction thriller film directed by Neill Blomkamp. It was written by Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell, and produced by Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham. The film stars Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, and David James...

     director Neill Blomkamp
    Neill Blomkamp
    Neill Blomkamp is an Afrikaner-Canadian film and advertisement writer and director. Blomkamp employs a documentary-style, hand-held, cinéma vérité technique, blending naturalistic and photo-realistic computer-generated effects. He is best known as the co-writer and director of critically acclaimed...

    's new science fiction film titled Elysium
    Elysium (film)
    Elysium is an upcoming 2013 American science fiction film written and directed by Neill Blomkamp. The film stars Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, and Wagner Moura. Elysium is scheduled to be released on , 2013.-Premise:...

    , is due to be released sometime in 2013.

Games

  • In earlier editions of the Dungeons & Dragons
    Dungeons & Dragons
    Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. . The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997...

     role playing game, Elysium is the outer (spiritual) plane of absolute and purist good alignment - also referred to as Neutral Good
    Neutral good
    In economics, neutral goods are goods that have a demand that is not dependent to the income.Examples of neutral goods include prescription medicines for people with medical conditions, such as insulin for diabetics...

     - without any partisan regard towards law (as with the Seven Heavens
    Mount Celestia
    In Dungeons & Dragons, the fantasy role-playing game, Mount Celestia or more fully, the Seven Mounting Heavens of Celestia, or even the Seven Heavens is a lawful good-aligned plane of existence...

    ) or chaos (as with Olympus/Arvandor/Arborea
    Arborea (Dungeons & Dragons)
    In Dungeons & Dragons, fantasy role-playing game, Arborea or more fully, the Olympian Glades of Arborea, is a chaotic good-aligned plane of existence...

    ).
  • In God of War: Chains of Olympus
    God of War: Chains of Olympus
    God of War: Chains of Olympus is an action-adventure game developed by Ready at Dawn and released by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation Portable in March 2008....

    , the Elysium Fields is accessed through a portal in Persephone's garden, and sits at the bottom of the pillar that holds the world above Hades.
  • In the Game Rise of the Argonauts
    Rise of the Argonauts
    Rise of the Argonauts is a 2008 third-person action adventure video game developed by Liquid Entertainment and published by Codemasters for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360...

     in a re-telling of the Classic "Jason and the Golden Fleece" in RPG form, Elysium is where the virtuous are sent and Jason must obtain the fleece to bring his Wife back from the Dead.
  • The expansion Titan Quest: Immortal Throne
    Titan Quest: Immortal Throne
    Titan Quest: Immortal Throne is an action RPG developed by Iron Lore Entertainment. It is the first expansion pack to the 2006 RPG hit, Titan Quest...

     takes place in the Greek underworld, with one significant section taking place in Elysium itself. The player must defend Elysium from the enemy daemon army and is aided by several well known Greek heroes.
  • In the Atari 2600 game No Escape, the Greek hero Jason must escape the Temple of Aphrodite with the Golden Fleece.
  • Elysium is the domain of Persephone, the goddess of Life, in Sacrifice.
  • In Megaman Legends 2 Elysium is the name of an artificial planet where the ancient humans lived for thousands years.
  • In RuneScape
    RuneScape
    RuneScape is a fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game released in January 2001 by Andrew and Paul Gower, and developed and published by Jagex Games Studio. It is a graphical browser game implemented on the client-side in Java, and incorporates 3D rendering...

    , an Elysian Spirit Shield is available to players.
  • In Vampire: The Masquerade
    Vampire: The Masquerade
    Vampire: The Masquerade is a role-playing game. Created by Mark Rein·Hagen, it was the first of White Wolf Game Studio's World of Darkness role-playing games, based on the Storyteller System and centered around vampires in a modern gothic-punk world....

     Elysium is the status of a place or a meeting, where vampires are not allowed to harm each other, hence carrying weapons and using disciplines is prohibited.
  • In Aion: The Tower of Eternity, the name of the angelic faction is "Elyos," and their homelands are called "Elysea."
  • In Mass Effect
    Mass Effect
    Mass Effect is an action role-playing game developed by BioWare for the Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows by Demiurge Studios. The Xbox 360 version was released worldwide in November 2007 published by Microsoft Game Studios...

    , Elysium is a human colony in the Skyllian Verge.
  • In L.A. Noire
    L.A. Noire
    L.A. Noire is a 2011 crime video game developed by Team Bondi and published by Rockstar Games. It was released for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows. It was released as a 3-disc game for the Xbox 360 console, which prompts the player to switch to another disc at certain points in the...

    , Elysian Fields is an antagonistic organisation involved with property development.
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