The Sumerian hero-king Gilgamesh has inspired several works in modern popular culture:
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Anime
Comics
- In the Marvel Comics universe, a character known as the Forgotten One claimed to have been the historical Gilgamesh.
- "Project Gilgamesh" attempts to create a supersoldier, but instead creates a villain named Bane, in The Animated Series.
- "Gilgamesh II", a four-issue limited series comic book published by DC Comics in 1989, featured an powerful being of unknown origin who discovers a wild brother, who then dies; the hero eventually becomes separated from humanity and, with only aliens for company, chooses to vanish into a void.
- "Gilgamesh Wulfenbach" is a character in Phil and Kaja Foglio's series of Girl Genius comics.
- "Gilgamesh" is an Argentinean comic book series by Robin Wood.
Fiction
Music
- "Gilgamesh" is a Japanese rock band.
- "Gilgamesh" were a British band 1972 - 1978. They released two albums "Gilgamesh" (1975) and "Another Fine Tune You've Got Me Into" (1978)
- Gilgamesh is the name of a Sydney (Australia) ska/punk band in the early to mid 1990s. They released an album called 'Land of the Long White Shaft' & an EP called 'Vulgar Display of Ass'. Both were independent releases.
- "The Tomb of Gilgamesh" is a song by Tourniquet from their album "Microscopic view of a telescopic realm", wherein Gilgamesh repents from his deeds.
TV and film
- "Gilgamesh" is also a character in TV series Warrior Princess.
- Darmok, an episode of The Next Generation is inspired by the tale of Gilgamesh.
- "Gilgamesh" is one of the answers in John Locke's crossword in the Lost episode Collision
- In The Series, Gilgamesh was rumored to be the first immortal ever recorded by a "watcher", and would be the sole reason behind the formation of the watcher organization.
Video games
Sumerian mythology | Mythology in popular culture