Doom in popular cultureedit

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In addition to the officially licensed spin-offs, the popularity of Doom has resulted in a large number of homages in other media.

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[edit] In games

Main article: Doom references in other games

[edit] In television

Stewie killing an imp
  • In an early episode of Friends, Chandler suggests playing Doom while using his laptop help Ross decide between Julie or Rachel.
  • In an episode of "The Simpsons", Homer is in a career consultant's office and the consultant is playing Doom.
  • The game was shown briefly during an episode of Family Guy (Season 4B, Episode 4, "PTV"). The opening credits for this show were done in the style of The Naked Gun, with Stewie Griffin driving his Big Wheel through various pop culture references. During this sequence, Stewie drives through the fifth level of Doom and rams an Imp, killing it.
  • In the TV Show Mystery Science Theater 3000, Mike Nelson explains that in his job all he did was play Doom. In a commercial for the episode "The Starfighters", Crow and Mike are playing Doom as Tom Servo introduces the next episode. Moreover, during the episode "Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell," Mike remarks that a particularly empty gothic-looking scene "is like playing Doom with no monsters or opponents."
  • Code Monkeys is a show on G4 which takes place in a 1980's game company. In an episode of the show called "Wrassle Mania" John Romero goes on a thirty second pitch meeting with Larrity (the company's boss). As they walk through the hall Romero explains the plot of Doom and Larrity makes fun of it. The hall they walk through is a parody of the actual gameplay of Doom.

[edit] In other fiction

Simpsons Comics homage to Doom called DUMB
  • Doom, as well as "Labyrinth of Death" (Лабиринт Смерти), a fictional virtual reality multiplayer game inspired by Doom ideas and images, is extensively featured in the Labyrinth of Reflections trilogy by Russian author Sergey Lukyanenko.
  • The film Naqoyqatsi includes a video clip from Doom (around the 1:11 mark).
  • In the film Wild Hogs, a police officer describes how he acquired his badge over the internet, noting that "for firearms training, they just told us to play Doom". After the large fight at the end of the film, he also says "wow, that was like, level twelve of Doom".
  • In the 12th issue of Concerned, a webcomic made with the Half-Life 2 engine, G-Man briefly mentions the Arch-vile to distract the main character, Gordon Frohman.

[edit] In music

  • Finnish grindcore band Rotten Sound's album Murderworks has a song called "Doom", which samples shotgun firing sounds as well as several imp and zombie sounds.
  • The song Wollt ihr das Bett in Flammen sehen? (English: Do you want to see the bed in flames?) by Rammstein samples the Doomguy's dying scream and shotgun reloading sounds.
  • The song "My Domain" on the Dark Nebula album Dreamfuel features samples of various speeches from Doom.
  • Lemon Demon's song "Bad idea" samples death sounds of zombies and demons, teleportation, the rocket launcher, and the super shotgun.
  • Manny Charlton, the guitarist of Nazareth, sent an untitled song on a cassette tape to id Software in 1995. John Romero would later call the song Blood On the Walls despite Doom being written all over the case. The liner said "For all the guys and gals at I.D. who came up with the coolest game this side of hell, kick some demon butt to this!!" and also said to 'distribute as shareware.'

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