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* Patterns created or noticeably inspired by Escher appear on the walls of various rooms in ''Film/{{Suspiria}}'', and the road the dance academy itself stands on is called Escherstrasse.
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* Patterns created or noticeably inspired by Escher appear on the walls of various rooms in ''Film/{{Suspiria}}'', ''Film/{{Suspiria|1977}}'', and the road the dance academy itself stands on is called Escherstrasse.
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* The end credits of ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' include a Penrose triangle and homages to ''Waterfall'', ''Relativity'', a tessellation, and Dr. Strange's character portrait in the style of ''Rind''.
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* ''VideoGame/TheBridge'' is the game that resulted when M.C. Escher met UsefulNotes/IsaacNewton and learned programming.
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* There's a scene in ''[[LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}} Owarimonogatari]]'' where the visuals show Ougi and Koyomi SuperDeformed in cat-filled cartoony versions of ''Another World'', ''Print Gallery'', ''Relativity'', and some sort of Tessellation.
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* ''The Wiki/SCPFoundation'' references the Penrose staircase of ''Ascending and Descending'' when a [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-085 living drawing]] is asked to walk it. She thinks it's neat, and asks why more stairways aren't like this.
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* ''The Wiki/SCPFoundation'' Website/SCPFoundation'' references the Penrose staircase of ''Ascending and Descending'' when a [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-085 living drawing]] is asked to walk it. She thinks it's neat, and asks why more stairways aren't like this.
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* In the Netherworld of ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'', the Lost Souls Nirvana is a pristine white version of M. C. Escher's ''Relativity'' stairways.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Illusions}}'' was based on elements of several Escher prints.
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* In ''Anime/YuriKumaArashi'' one of the walls of Yurika's office has an engraving that resembles Escher's ''Sky and Water I'', with a pattern that starts as a [[AnimalMotifs set of birds]] that turn into [[FlowerMotifs lilies]] as it goes downward.
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* The music video for "Break the Man" by Music/TearsForFears features animated CGI men marching through a landscape inspired by Escher's artwork.
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A long list of Escher in popular culture can be found in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._C._Escher_in_popular_culture this page]].
Commonly referenced works include ''Relativity'' (The One With All the Stairs), ''Another World'', ''Ascending and Descending'', and ''Waterfall''.
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[[folder:Advertising]]
* Look out for an animated version of ''Waterfall'' in [[http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pno6aYn3Eyo this Smarties commercial]].
* A commercial promo for Creator/{{Syfy}} has a lot of weird stuff going on inside a house, with one of them being a football pass among three people in a setting based on ''Relativity''.
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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* The first time we meet the Godhand in ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', they're in a ''Relativity''-esque dimension filled with multidirectional staircases and a shot that resembles ''Another World''.
* ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'' has the Maze card being able to make the case of ''Relativity'' real.
* There's a scene in ''[[LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}} Owarimonogatari]]'' where the visuals show Ougi and Koyomi SuperDeformed in cat-filled cartoony versions of ''Another World'', ''Print Gallery'', ''Relativity'', and some sort of Tessellation.
* An episode of ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' concludes with a fake show-within-a-show involving the character Kaere as a HotTeacher. Since she's teaching geometry, she's shown strolling through several famous Escher works.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* A strip in an early issue of Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}}'s ''Epic Illustrated'' is about a demonic architect boasting to a lady friend about the new house he's designed, which is finally revealed to be based on a mixture of ''Relativity'' and other works. The strip concludes with a dedication "to MCE" in the shape of Escher's own logo.
* ''ComicBook/SecretOrigins'' v.2 #10 (the famous issue containing multiple irreconcilable origins for ComicBook/ThePhantomStranger) had a cover based on ''Another World''.
* Mount Olympus in George Perez' run of the ComicBook/PostCrisis ''ComicBook/{{Wonder Woman|1987}}'' is based on ''Relativity''.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* ''ComicStrip/{{Bizarro}}'' has featured several homages to Escher, including [[http://bizarrocomics.com/2013/02/23/gulch-guffaw-gag/ Escher's Gulch]], [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xjZ0HGc9hVw/USkZ4Aj-HcI/AAAAAAAAJXo/7I8q_-6xd0I/s1600/EScher+Sunday+WEB.jpg Escher's Pub]], [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Wqo9IVCWV5E/SmHqXRkm4RI/AAAAAAAACqY/c9VaxIfaXSU/s1600-h/bz+Rapunzel+07-12-09+WB.jpg Escher's Rapunzel]], and [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Is2wHY0Hu8E/USkZyE6Q2hI/AAAAAAAAJXg/kRZ3lUtKU6Y/s1600/bz+ESCHER+01-31-97+WEB.jpg Escher messing with pedestrians]].
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[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
* ''Relativity'' is briefly seen in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'' during Homer's dream quest, with the stairs shaped like the inside of Homer's head.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* Escher's work ''Eye'' is seen in ''Film/DonnieDarko'', as a poster on Donnie's wall.
* Creator/ChristopherNolan [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B7ifky4QQU was inspired]] by Escher in ''Film/{{Inception}}'', which has two sets of ''Ascending and Descending'' (and hence [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_stairs Penrose stairs]])-inspired stairs: Arthur shows a fairly large one to Ariadne during her training and later makes good with an ass-kicking use of a second one in the second dream level's hotel.
* ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'': The [[Music/DavidBowie Goblin King's]] final chamber was clearly based on ''Relativity'', and Sarah has a print of ''Relativity'' in her room.
* During a fight/chase scene, several characters in ''Film/NightAtTheMuseumSecretOfTheTomb'' fall into a ''Relativity'' PortalPicture, causing the action to become more confusing with the inconsistent gravity of the place.
* Patterns created or noticeably inspired by Escher appear on the walls of various rooms in ''Film/{{Suspiria}}'', and the road the dance academy itself stands on is called Escherstrasse.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* In the Young Adult novel ''Literature/BeforeIFall'', it's revealed that the school bike Anna Cartullo likes M.C. Escher. Sam gives her a book of his drawings [[spoiler:on her final day.]]
* James Gurney's ''Dinotopia: Journey to Chandara'' features a university structure with an impossible staircase known as the [[http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.ca/2007/09/credit-to-mr-penrose.html Scholar's Stairway]] based on Escher's work.
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
** In ''Literature/GuardsGuards'', old-fashioned bookshops are said to be looking like "as though they were designed by M.C. Escher on a bad day".
** In ''Literature/MovingPictures'', the layout of the Library of Unseen University is described as "a topographical nightmare, [...] that would make M.C. Escher go for a good lie down, or possibly sideways."
* ''Literature/GodelEscherBachAnEternalGoldenBraid'' includes (along with many other references to Escher, as one might infer from the title) a dialogue in which the characters find themselves inside "Convex and Concave" and "Reptiles".
* In ''Literature/HalfWorld'', by Hiromi Goto, Melanie's mother keeps Escher prints on the wall. Later, when Melanie goes DownTheRabbitHole, to the magical realm Half World, the staircases go both up and down like Relativity.
* ''Literature/{{Protector}}'' by Larry Niven: Jack Brennan uses gravity generators to build ''Relativity'' inside his mad scientist-style castle.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E1Castrovalva Castrovalva]]'', involving a world of Escher-like recursion, is titled in homage to one of his earlier (non-paradoxical) works.
* The staircases in ''Series/SquidGame'' are actually inspired from ''Relativity''.
* ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}'' has the "Escher Vault," which is a room constructed like ''Relativity'', which is constantly changing at high speed. You need special equipment of [[SuperSpeed one kind]] or [[GogglesDoSomethingUnusual another]] to get through it. According to Mrs. Frederic, at least one Warehouse Agent has gotten lost in the room because they forgot to wear safety goggles when venturing inside and hasn't been seen since. It's called the Escher Vault because the man himself was an architect on that iteration of the Warehouse. His initial design involved it folding up like a tesseract and the model of it is an artifact.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Music]]
* The video for "Drive" by Music/{{Incubus}} is largely a ShoutOut to ''Drawing Hands''.
* Much of the graphics in the video for "Otherside" by Music/RedHotChiliPeppers.
* In Music/WeirdAlYankovic's ''White And Nerdy'', the titular white nerd raps that M.C. Escher is his favorite MC.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Theme Parks]]
* Ride/TheHauntedMansion at [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disney World]] now includes a "Relativity" room, complete with ghostly footprints appearing on the steps, usually at extreme angles to the direction of gravity.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Video Games]]
* In ''VideoGame/AdventureQuestWorlds'', the town of Mobius is the victim of the First Lord of Chaos: Escherion. The entire quest chain to confront him is filled with M.C. Escher references, fitting of a Lord of Chaos.
* ''VideoGame/TheBridge'' is the game that resulted when M.C. Escher met UsefulNotes/IsaacNewton and learned programming.
* In ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'', a sojourn through a place that appears to be outside reality, [[MindScrew or something]], features a tower with an endless staircase like that in ''Ascending and Descending''.
* Atari Games' ''Crystal Castles'' has one level with a looped staircase based on ''Ascending And Descending''.
* ''VideoGame/DantesInferno'' has a room evocative of "Other World".
* ''VideoGame/{{Dusk}}'': [=E2M5=] is named "The Escher Labs". The level starts unconspicuous enough, but soon degenerates in a MindScrew of epic proportions.
* ''VideoGame/{{Echochrome}}'' is a puzzle game based on the works of M. C. Escher. The [[AlienGeometries geometries]] are as weird as you might expect. In the game, you are allowed to "cheat" the laws of perspective because only the camera angle's perspective counts as "real". If there is a beam covering up a hole, the hole then ceases to exist. This is a necessary skill to guide the main character[[note]]You control the camera, not the player character[[/note]] to safety.
* Ipsen's Castle in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' seems to be based on ''Relativity''. Described as an architectural marvel, many rooms are upside down and in one room the visitor has to slide ''up'' a pole. While in Ipsen's Castle, weapons will do more damage the lower their attack power is.
* ''[[VideoGame/HyperRogue HyperRogue]]'' has graphics inspired by the hyperbolic tilings in the ''Circle Limit'' series.
* ''VideoGame/{{Illusions}}'' was based on elements of several Escher prints.
* A choice adventure in the ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' — more specifically, the Haunted Art Gallery — starts here, and all directions seem to be as if ''Relativity'' was providing directions (up, down, or sideways).
* In ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVII'', you have to get through a room shaped like ''Relativity'' in Archduke Fifi's manor.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' features the Oocca, which resemble the human-bird... things in ''Another World''. They can walk on walls, furthering the allusion when seen doing so in their city in the sky.
* The 78th level of ''VideoGame/{{Lemmings}}'' is titled "Tribute to M.C. Escher". The main solution to the level involves building a confusing zigzag stairway.
* ''VideoGame/MonumentValley'' has perspective and impossible paths as a major element of game play. One of the levels in the "Forgotten Shores" expansion pack is a recreation of ''Waterfall''.
* The Tain in ''{{VideoGame/Myth}}'' resembles M.C. Escher's "Double Planetoid".
* In ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryI'', when you navigate the Brigand warlock's maze, one of the comments you make is that M.C. Escher would love this place. The maze in question is somewhat reminiscent of ''Relativity'', but also of other Escher drawings.
* ''VideoGame/SagaFrontier'': Appropriately for the master of Space magic, Kylin's domain is full of AlienGeometries, [[http://lparchive.org/SaGa-Frontier/Update%2020/Apr%2013%202007%2009-54-24PM.jpg one room in particular]] that is extremely evocative of Escher's art style.
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[[folder:Web Animation]]
* The animated short ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhfhgbmZe9s Hallucii]]'' features Penrose stairs in an urban environment.
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[[folder:Web Comics]]
* The cover of volume 1 of ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge'' homages ''Relativity''. It's titled "This Campus is a Friggin' Escher Print".
* ''Webcomic/ExterminatusNow'': After a ScoobyDoobyDoors scene, [[http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/2014-07-13/comic/tangled-web/time-and-relative-dimensions/ this page]] features a replica of ''Relativity''.
* ''Flipside University'':
** On [[http://flapjackstudios.com/flipside-u-41.shtml the last page of chapter two]], a character remarks "This place is more confusing than an M.C. Escher painting."
** [[https://flapjackstudios.com/flipside-u-54.shtml Later]], Josh gets lost in a building that resembles ''Relativity''.
* ''Webcomic/QuantumVibe'' has [[Creator/AEVanVogt The Weapon Shop]] of [[{{Pun}} Escher]]. [[http://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=573 See it here]]. Justified in that it's on a low-gravity asteroid so the local gravity can be manipulated easily.
* In ''Webcomic/TalesOfTheQuestor'', one part of the Castle of Tir Na Nog in the [[TheFairFolk Fae]] realm resembles ''Relativity''. It becomes hilarious when a human boy [[http://www.rhjunior.com/tales-of-the-questor-0514/ subjected to it]] promptly loses his lunch.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* In the ''VideoGame/{{Furcadia}}'' contest dream "Puzzle Mansion", the stairway works like this.
* ''WebOriginal/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum HQ'' has Escher Rooms where gravity is weird.
* ''The Wiki/SCPFoundation'' references the Penrose staircase of ''Ascending and Descending'' when a [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-085 living drawing]] is asked to walk it. She thinks it's neat, and asks why more stairways aren't like this.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In one of the last episodes of ''WesternAnimation/CatDog'', one of Winslow's rooms hidden in [=CatDog=]'s house is directly based on ''Relativity''.
* In the second episode of ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'', Toots convinces Clara she's pregnant after her LesYay kiss with Foxxy, just so she can push her down a flight of stairs for laughs. When Clara "still smells pregnant," they next try the "M.C. Escher room," where Clara falls down the iconic set of circling stairs for like three minutes to kill her non-existent baby. Yes, it was [[BlackComedy that kind of show]].
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' referenced ''Relativity'' twice. Once Stewie obtained a copy while posing as Brian's college roommate; on another occasion Peter referenced "that rap video by MC Escher", prompting a cut to Escher dressed as Music/MCHammer doing an [[HollywoodToneDeaf incredibly bad rap song]] and dancing on the stairs.
-->'''Stewie:''' I think it's called... Crazy Stairs...
* One of the apartments Fry and Bender look at in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "I, Roommate" resembles ''Relativity''. Bender falls down, up, and across the stairs. Fry decides they don't want to pay for a dimension they won't be using.
* In 2002 ''[[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2002 He-Man and the Masters of the Universe]]'', part of Castle Grayskull's internal architecture appears to be based on ''Belvedere''.
* A version of ''Relativity'' appears in ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'', in the Lotus Temple.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'':
** In "Gaming the System", they made a section of their video game based on ''Relativity''.
** In "The Doof Side of the Moon", the same coaster goes through a ''Relativity'' room on four different tracks at the same time, as Phineas explains that it's 'the M.C. Escher Floor!'
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': One of the show's {{Couch Gag}}s is based on ''Relativity''.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhostCoastToCoast'', the title character tells Chuck D of Music/PublicEnemy that M.C. Escher is [[InUniverseFactoidFailure his favourite rapper]].
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Commonly referenced works include ''Relativity'' (The One With All the Stairs), ''Another World'', ''Ascending and Descending'', and ''Waterfall''.
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[[folder:Advertising]]
* Look out for an animated version of ''Waterfall'' in [[http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pno6aYn3Eyo this Smarties commercial]].
* A commercial promo for Creator/{{Syfy}} has a lot of weird stuff going on inside a house, with one of them being a football pass among three people in a setting based on ''Relativity''.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* The first time we meet the Godhand in ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', they're in a ''Relativity''-esque dimension filled with multidirectional staircases and a shot that resembles ''Another World''.
* ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'' has the Maze card being able to make the case of ''Relativity'' real.
* There's a scene in ''[[LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}} Owarimonogatari]]'' where the visuals show Ougi and Koyomi SuperDeformed in cat-filled cartoony versions of ''Another World'', ''Print Gallery'', ''Relativity'', and some sort of Tessellation.
* An episode of ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' concludes with a fake show-within-a-show involving the character Kaere as a HotTeacher. Since she's teaching geometry, she's shown strolling through several famous Escher works.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Comic Books]]
* A strip in an early issue of Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}}'s ''Epic Illustrated'' is about a demonic architect boasting to a lady friend about the new house he's designed, which is finally revealed to be based on a mixture of ''Relativity'' and other works. The strip concludes with a dedication "to MCE" in the shape of Escher's own logo.
* ''ComicBook/SecretOrigins'' v.2 #10 (the famous issue containing multiple irreconcilable origins for ComicBook/ThePhantomStranger) had a cover based on ''Another World''.
* Mount Olympus in George Perez' run of the ComicBook/PostCrisis ''ComicBook/{{Wonder Woman|1987}}'' is based on ''Relativity''.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* ''ComicStrip/{{Bizarro}}'' has featured several homages to Escher, including [[http://bizarrocomics.com/2013/02/23/gulch-guffaw-gag/ Escher's Gulch]], [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xjZ0HGc9hVw/USkZ4Aj-HcI/AAAAAAAAJXo/7I8q_-6xd0I/s1600/EScher+Sunday+WEB.jpg Escher's Pub]], [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Wqo9IVCWV5E/SmHqXRkm4RI/AAAAAAAACqY/c9VaxIfaXSU/s1600-h/bz+Rapunzel+07-12-09+WB.jpg Escher's Rapunzel]], and [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Is2wHY0Hu8E/USkZyE6Q2hI/AAAAAAAAJXg/kRZ3lUtKU6Y/s1600/bz+ESCHER+01-31-97+WEB.jpg Escher messing with pedestrians]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
* ''Relativity'' is briefly seen in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'' during Homer's dream quest, with the stairs shaped like the inside of Homer's head.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* Escher's work ''Eye'' is seen in ''Film/DonnieDarko'', as a poster on Donnie's wall.
* Creator/ChristopherNolan [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B7ifky4QQU was inspired]] by Escher in ''Film/{{Inception}}'', which has two sets of ''Ascending and Descending'' (and hence [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_stairs Penrose stairs]])-inspired stairs: Arthur shows a fairly large one to Ariadne during her training and later makes good with an ass-kicking use of a second one in the second dream level's hotel.
* ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'': The [[Music/DavidBowie Goblin King's]] final chamber was clearly based on ''Relativity'', and Sarah has a print of ''Relativity'' in her room.
* During a fight/chase scene, several characters in ''Film/NightAtTheMuseumSecretOfTheTomb'' fall into a ''Relativity'' PortalPicture, causing the action to become more confusing with the inconsistent gravity of the place.
* Patterns created or noticeably inspired by Escher appear on the walls of various rooms in ''Film/{{Suspiria}}'', and the road the dance academy itself stands on is called Escherstrasse.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Literature]]
* In the Young Adult novel ''Literature/BeforeIFall'', it's revealed that the school bike Anna Cartullo likes M.C. Escher. Sam gives her a book of his drawings [[spoiler:on her final day.]]
* James Gurney's ''Dinotopia: Journey to Chandara'' features a university structure with an impossible staircase known as the [[http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.ca/2007/09/credit-to-mr-penrose.html Scholar's Stairway]] based on Escher's work.
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
** In ''Literature/GuardsGuards'', old-fashioned bookshops are said to be looking like "as though they were designed by M.C. Escher on a bad day".
** In ''Literature/MovingPictures'', the layout of the Library of Unseen University is described as "a topographical nightmare, [...] that would make M.C. Escher go for a good lie down, or possibly sideways."
* ''Literature/GodelEscherBachAnEternalGoldenBraid'' includes (along with many other references to Escher, as one might infer from the title) a dialogue in which the characters find themselves inside "Convex and Concave" and "Reptiles".
* In ''Literature/HalfWorld'', by Hiromi Goto, Melanie's mother keeps Escher prints on the wall. Later, when Melanie goes DownTheRabbitHole, to the magical realm Half World, the staircases go both up and down like Relativity.
* ''Literature/{{Protector}}'' by Larry Niven: Jack Brennan uses gravity generators to build ''Relativity'' inside his mad scientist-style castle.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E1Castrovalva Castrovalva]]'', involving a world of Escher-like recursion, is titled in homage to one of his earlier (non-paradoxical) works.
* The staircases in ''Series/SquidGame'' are actually inspired from ''Relativity''.
* ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}'' has the "Escher Vault," which is a room constructed like ''Relativity'', which is constantly changing at high speed. You need special equipment of [[SuperSpeed one kind]] or [[GogglesDoSomethingUnusual another]] to get through it. According to Mrs. Frederic, at least one Warehouse Agent has gotten lost in the room because they forgot to wear safety goggles when venturing inside and hasn't been seen since. It's called the Escher Vault because the man himself was an architect on that iteration of the Warehouse. His initial design involved it folding up like a tesseract and the model of it is an artifact.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Music]]
* The video for "Drive" by Music/{{Incubus}} is largely a ShoutOut to ''Drawing Hands''.
* Much of the graphics in the video for "Otherside" by Music/RedHotChiliPeppers.
* In Music/WeirdAlYankovic's ''White And Nerdy'', the titular white nerd raps that M.C. Escher is his favorite MC.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Theme Parks]]
* Ride/TheHauntedMansion at [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disney World]] now includes a "Relativity" room, complete with ghostly footprints appearing on the steps, usually at extreme angles to the direction of gravity.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Video Games]]
* In ''VideoGame/AdventureQuestWorlds'', the town of Mobius is the victim of the First Lord of Chaos: Escherion. The entire quest chain to confront him is filled with M.C. Escher references, fitting of a Lord of Chaos.
* ''VideoGame/TheBridge'' is the game that resulted when M.C. Escher met UsefulNotes/IsaacNewton and learned programming.
* In ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'', a sojourn through a place that appears to be outside reality, [[MindScrew or something]], features a tower with an endless staircase like that in ''Ascending and Descending''.
* Atari Games' ''Crystal Castles'' has one level with a looped staircase based on ''Ascending And Descending''.
* ''VideoGame/DantesInferno'' has a room evocative of "Other World".
* ''VideoGame/{{Dusk}}'': [=E2M5=] is named "The Escher Labs". The level starts unconspicuous enough, but soon degenerates in a MindScrew of epic proportions.
* ''VideoGame/{{Echochrome}}'' is a puzzle game based on the works of M. C. Escher. The [[AlienGeometries geometries]] are as weird as you might expect. In the game, you are allowed to "cheat" the laws of perspective because only the camera angle's perspective counts as "real". If there is a beam covering up a hole, the hole then ceases to exist. This is a necessary skill to guide the main character[[note]]You control the camera, not the player character[[/note]] to safety.
* Ipsen's Castle in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' seems to be based on ''Relativity''. Described as an architectural marvel, many rooms are upside down and in one room the visitor has to slide ''up'' a pole. While in Ipsen's Castle, weapons will do more damage the lower their attack power is.
* ''[[VideoGame/HyperRogue HyperRogue]]'' has graphics inspired by the hyperbolic tilings in the ''Circle Limit'' series.
* ''VideoGame/{{Illusions}}'' was based on elements of several Escher prints.
* A choice adventure in the ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' — more specifically, the Haunted Art Gallery — starts here, and all directions seem to be as if ''Relativity'' was providing directions (up, down, or sideways).
* In ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVII'', you have to get through a room shaped like ''Relativity'' in Archduke Fifi's manor.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' features the Oocca, which resemble the human-bird... things in ''Another World''. They can walk on walls, furthering the allusion when seen doing so in their city in the sky.
* The 78th level of ''VideoGame/{{Lemmings}}'' is titled "Tribute to M.C. Escher". The main solution to the level involves building a confusing zigzag stairway.
* ''VideoGame/MonumentValley'' has perspective and impossible paths as a major element of game play. One of the levels in the "Forgotten Shores" expansion pack is a recreation of ''Waterfall''.
* The Tain in ''{{VideoGame/Myth}}'' resembles M.C. Escher's "Double Planetoid".
* In ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryI'', when you navigate the Brigand warlock's maze, one of the comments you make is that M.C. Escher would love this place. The maze in question is somewhat reminiscent of ''Relativity'', but also of other Escher drawings.
* ''VideoGame/SagaFrontier'': Appropriately for the master of Space magic, Kylin's domain is full of AlienGeometries, [[http://lparchive.org/SaGa-Frontier/Update%2020/Apr%2013%202007%2009-54-24PM.jpg one room in particular]] that is extremely evocative of Escher's art style.
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* The animated short ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhfhgbmZe9s Hallucii]]'' features Penrose stairs in an urban environment.
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* The cover of volume 1 of ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge'' homages ''Relativity''. It's titled "This Campus is a Friggin' Escher Print".
* ''Webcomic/ExterminatusNow'': After a ScoobyDoobyDoors scene, [[http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/2014-07-13/comic/tangled-web/time-and-relative-dimensions/ this page]] features a replica of ''Relativity''.
* ''Flipside University'':
** On [[http://flapjackstudios.com/flipside-u-41.shtml the last page of chapter two]], a character remarks "This place is more confusing than an M.C. Escher painting."
** [[https://flapjackstudios.com/flipside-u-54.shtml Later]], Josh gets lost in a building that resembles ''Relativity''.
* ''Webcomic/QuantumVibe'' has [[Creator/AEVanVogt The Weapon Shop]] of [[{{Pun}} Escher]]. [[http://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=573 See it here]]. Justified in that it's on a low-gravity asteroid so the local gravity can be manipulated easily.
* In ''Webcomic/TalesOfTheQuestor'', one part of the Castle of Tir Na Nog in the [[TheFairFolk Fae]] realm resembles ''Relativity''. It becomes hilarious when a human boy [[http://www.rhjunior.com/tales-of-the-questor-0514/ subjected to it]] promptly loses his lunch.
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* In the ''VideoGame/{{Furcadia}}'' contest dream "Puzzle Mansion", the stairway works like this.
* ''WebOriginal/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum HQ'' has Escher Rooms where gravity is weird.
* ''The Wiki/SCPFoundation'' references the Penrose staircase of ''Ascending and Descending'' when a [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-085 living drawing]] is asked to walk it. She thinks it's neat, and asks why more stairways aren't like this.
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* In one of the last episodes of ''WesternAnimation/CatDog'', one of Winslow's rooms hidden in [=CatDog=]'s house is directly based on ''Relativity''.
* In the second episode of ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'', Toots convinces Clara she's pregnant after her LesYay kiss with Foxxy, just so she can push her down a flight of stairs for laughs. When Clara "still smells pregnant," they next try the "M.C. Escher room," where Clara falls down the iconic set of circling stairs for like three minutes to kill her non-existent baby. Yes, it was [[BlackComedy that kind of show]].
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' referenced ''Relativity'' twice. Once Stewie obtained a copy while posing as Brian's college roommate; on another occasion Peter referenced "that rap video by MC Escher", prompting a cut to Escher dressed as Music/MCHammer doing an [[HollywoodToneDeaf incredibly bad rap song]] and dancing on the stairs.
-->'''Stewie:''' I think it's called... Crazy Stairs...
* One of the apartments Fry and Bender look at in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "I, Roommate" resembles ''Relativity''. Bender falls down, up, and across the stairs. Fry decides they don't want to pay for a dimension they won't be using.
* In 2002 ''[[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2002 He-Man and the Masters of the Universe]]'', part of Castle Grayskull's internal architecture appears to be based on ''Belvedere''.
* A version of ''Relativity'' appears in ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'', in the Lotus Temple.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'':
** In "Gaming the System", they made a section of their video game based on ''Relativity''.
** In "The Doof Side of the Moon", the same coaster goes through a ''Relativity'' room on four different tracks at the same time, as Phineas explains that it's 'the M.C. Escher Floor!'
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': One of the show's {{Couch Gag}}s is based on ''Relativity''.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhostCoastToCoast'', the title character tells Chuck D of Music/PublicEnemy that M.C. Escher is [[InUniverseFactoidFailure his favourite rapper]].
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