Doom in popular culture

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

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 slaughtered Doomguy, which incites Duke to say "Hmmmm, that's one doomed space marine".


 * Quake 2, as well as featuring a BFG once again (the '10K'), was also host to an Easter egg in which the Doom logo appeared in a room full of John Carmack-related paraphernalia.


 * 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". A female character wearing a strikingly similar helmet, known as "Crash", is referred to as Doom's former mentor.


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


 * 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.


 * The turn-based strategy game Master of Magic contains an artifact called The Idspispopd.

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

In other 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 music



 * 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.


 * The band Lollipop Lust Kill wrote a song titled "Knee Deep in the Dead" paying homage to the game.