Doom in popular culture

The popularity of Doom has resulted in a large number of spin-offs and homages.

Spin-offs
A Doom novels based on Doom were written with permission of id Software by Dafydd Ab Hugh and Brad Linaweaver. The books, listed in order, are titled Knee Deep in the Dead, Hell on Earth, Infernal Sky and Endgame. All were published between June 1995 and January 1996 by Pocket Books. Some in the Doom community started calling the unnamed marine in the games "Flynn Taggart", after the main character of the novels, at least for a time. The first two books featured recognizable locations and situations from the first two games.

Additionally, a comic book was issued in May 1996, produced by Tom Grindberg of Marvel Comics as a giveaway for a video game convention, and original art from that project was put up for auction on eBay in April of 2004. It was criticized by some as having ridiculous dialogue and a poor story, as well as erroneous representations of some weapons from the game. In September of 2005, a member of the Doom community released an unofficial "dramatic rendition" of the lines from the comic, with music and sound effects, for comedic effect. Notable lines in the comic include "Now I'm radioactive! That can't be good!", "Sweet Christmas! Big-mouthed floating thingies! It's always something!", and the infamous "You are huge! That means you have huge guts!".

On January 31 of 2005, a board game resembling the classic Space Hulk was released, entitled Doom: The Boardgame.

There is also a Doom movie.

Strategy guides released in printed editions include:
 * Robert Waring: Killer Doom: Tips & Tricks, Brady Publishing
 * Jonathan Mao Mendoza: The Official Doom Survival Guide, ISBN 0-7821-1546-2
 * Rick Barba: Doom Battlebook: Secrets of the Games series, Prima Publishing, ISBN 1-55958-651-6

In games

 * In Jazz Jackrabbit 2, in the episode-selection screen, the player is allowed to try the shareware demo of the game. The episode screen is a parody of the Doom II box-art and even the text "Shareware Demo" is written using the Doom font. This is ironic since the game was released by Epic, the creator of Unreal and the biggest competitor of id's Quake franchise.


 * Duke Nukem 3D contains a reference to Doom: a slaughtered "Doom Guy" that causes Duke to say "Hmmmm, that's one Doomed space marine".


 * Quake 3 features the Doomguy as a playable character - he is referred to simply as "Doom". The same model, with a different skin, is used for the character "Phobos".


 * The PC release of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 features the Doomguy as a secret skater.


 * Numerous unofficial maps have been made by players of newer games that recreate maps from Doom and Doom II.


 * The PC game Muppets Inside features a Doom parody starring the Swedish Chef taking on giant killer vegetables with various kitchenware.


 * In the Simpsons game Virtual Springfield there is a minigame with a parody of Doom in which Apu fights off squishee-throwing bullies in his shop with a broom, shotgun and a weapon similar the BFG, causing them to explode in a bloody mess.

In fiction

 * 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.


 * In a Simpsons Comic, the nerds from Springfield University become rich after a computer game resembling Doom (but with Homer as the marine) is accidentally uploaded onto the Internet by Bart. The nerds reveal that the game was unfinished, and that they were going to add fantasy creatures, character progression and a plot.

In television

 * 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 driving his with 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 American TV Show Mystery Science Theatre 3000, Mike explains that in his job all he did was play Doom.

In music

 * The Dark Side of Phobos is a collection of arrangements from the game's soundtrack.


 * The Smashing Pumpkins credit id Software for the Doom rocket launcher sound effect which is used as a sample on the song Where Boys Fear to Tread off the album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. This sound effect points to the relationship between Doom and The Smashing Pumpkins in the SPISPOPD joke.


 * 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.