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* The ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies'' episode "The Weirdo Zone" has Gonzo appearing in various parodies of Magritte paintings.

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* The ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies'' ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies1984'' episode "The Weirdo Zone" has Gonzo appearing in various parodies of Magritte paintings.
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* ''Manga/CandyAndCigarettes'': The assassin Henry Magritte wears a bowler hat and carries an apple, which is briefly in front of his face, just like ''The Son of Man'' by his namesake.
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* The faceless man on the back cover of the Music/PinkFloyd album ''Music/WishYouWereHere'' is a homage to Magritte.

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* The faceless man on the back cover of the Music/PinkFloyd album ''Music/WishYouWereHere'' ''Music/WishYouWereHere1975'' is a homage to Magritte.
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* The stand Wonder of U belonging to the main antagonist of ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureJojolion'' makes heavy use of Magritte's imagery, fitting for a stand that bends reality in odd ways.
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* ''Collective Invention'' (''Dolyeon Byeoni'') is a Korean film about a mutant fish-man. The English-language title is a reference to ''Collective Invention'', Magritte's painting of a mermaid that has a fish's face instead of a fish's tail.

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* ''Collective Invention'' (''Dolyeon Byeoni'') Byeoni'' - "mutant" in Korean) is a Korean film about a mutant fish-man. The English-language title is a reference to ''Collective Invention'', Magritte's painting of a mermaid that has a fish's face instead of a fish's tail.
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* ''ComicBook/DylanDog'': The classic story "Golconda!" (issue #41) features a homage to Magritte's painting with the same name by recreating it with the descent of the Man with the Bowler ("L'uomo con la bombetta"), who's a [[BlueAndOrangeMorality blue/orange-driven]] RealityWarper that commits a series of surreal killings.
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* In Manga/{{Jojolion}}, the character Satoru Akefu's design and ability are highly inspired by René Magritte, and especially The Son of Man, with a dapper outfit, bowler hat, and his head and face always blocked out by something. The cover art of Chapter 96 and Volume 23, both featuring Satoru, are a direct shoutout to another painting, Golconda.
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* In the ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'' novel ''Transit'', the Doctor has an encounter with a group of non-physical alien intelligences who take surreal humanoid forms like the subject of ''The Son of Man''.

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* In the ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'' novel ''Transit'', ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresTransit Transit]]'', the Doctor has an encounter with a group of non-physical alien intelligences who take surreal humanoid forms like the subject of ''The Son of Man''.
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* ''Series/{{QI}}'' episode "Portraits and Paintings" features Alan Davies dressed up as "The Son of Man," complete with a prop apple in front of his face when introduced.
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*The album cover of Music/{{Styx}}'s ''The Grand Illusion'' is an homage to Magritte's ''Le blanc-seing'' (''The Blank Signature'').
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* At the beginning of the ''Series/DoctorWho'' story "Terror of the Autons", the un-named Time Lord who warns the Doctor of the Master's arrival on Earth wears a bowler hat and business suit and levitates in mid-air, in an homage to ''Golconda''.
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* ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'': In "Panda's Art", Panda makes various paintings of Charlie based on famous paintings, including ''Son of Man''. When they talk in an ImagineSpot, the Son of Man Charlie asks "What's going on?" because he can't see due to the apple in front of his face.

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* ''Collective Invention'' (''Dolyeon Byeoni'') is a Korean film about a mutant fish-man. The English-language title is a reference to ''Collective Invention'', Magritte's painting of a mermaid that has a fish's face instead of a fish's tail.



* ''Film/TheThomasCrownAffair'': ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Son_of_Man The Son of Man]]'' is a stolen painting. The protagonist of the film uses numerous accomplices, all dressed like the subject of the painting, to confuse the police while he enters the museum to apparently return the painting he stole earlier in the film. The bowler-hatted men all carry identical briefcases full of copies of ''The Son of Man''.

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* ''Film/TheThomasCrownAffair'': ''Film/{{The Thomas Crown Affair|1999}}'': ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Son_of_Man The Son of Man]]'' is a stolen painting. The protagonist of the film uses numerous accomplices, all dressed like the subject of the painting, to confuse the police while he enters the museum to apparently return the painting he stole earlier in the film. The bowler-hatted men all carry identical briefcases full of copies of ''The Son of Man''.
* ''Film/{{Toys}}'' includes several references to Magritte's works.

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* ''Literature/GodelEscherBachAnEternalGoldenBraid'' includes a discussion of ''The Treachery of Images'' (the "this is not a pipe" painting). One character takes the pipe out of the painting and smokes it.
* In the ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'' novel ''Transit'', the Doctor has an encounter with a group of non-physical alien intelligences who take surreal humanoid forms like the subject of ''The Son of Man''.

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* The fifth series of ''Series/{{Taskmaster}}'' features a portrait of the host done in parody of ''The Son of Man''.


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* The cover art for Music/GaryNuman's album ''The Pleasure Principle'' is inspired by Magritte's ''The Pleasure Principle (Portrait of Edward James)''.
* Music/PaulSimon's song "Rene and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog after the War", from ''Hearts and Bones'', is named after a 1967 portrait of Magritte, his wife and their dog, and imagines what life was like for them at the time.


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* ''After Magritte'' by Creator/TomStoppard is about what happens to a group of people after they go to see an exhibition of Magritte's paintings, but is also "after Magritte" in the sense of "an artwork in the style of", beginning and ending with a surreal tableau.

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* ''Harvey's Box'', the fourth in the surreal ''VideoGame/CubeEscape'' series, includes an appearance by the inverted mermaid depicted in ''Collective Invention''.
* ''VideoGame/KentuckyRouteZero'': The forest in Act 2 includes a homage to ''Le blanc-seing'' (''The Blank Signature''), a painting of a woman riding a horse through a forest that does weird things with perspective.
* In ''VideoGame/MacGuffinsCurse'', a sword on display in the museum is captioned, "Ceci n'est pas une sabre".
* In ''VideoGame/PokerNight2'', Sam laments that he can't get Max to wear his beret anymore, and Max walks by wearing said beret and saying "ceci n'est pas un chapeau."

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* ''WebVideo/TheAutobiographyOfJaneEyre'', episode "Critical Examinations of Art": Adele does a portrait of her father in the style of ''The Son of Man'' while learning about modern art.


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* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'': The curator in "The Boy Wander" is the Son of Man with a [[Creator/PabloPicasso Picasso face]].
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* ''Film/TheExorcist'': The scene that was used on the poster and video cover where Father Merrin is standing in front of the [=MacNeil=] family's house at night is inspired by ''L' Empire des Lumières'' (''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Empire_of_Light The Empire of Light]]'').
* ''Film/TheThomasCrownAffair'': ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Son_of_Man The Son of Man]]'' is a stolen painting. The protagonist of the film uses numerous accomplices, all dressed like the subject of the painting, to confuse the police while he enters the museum to apparently return the painting he stole earlier in the film. The bowler-hatted men all carry identical briefcases full of copies of ''The Son of Man''.

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* Music/TheBeatles' company ''Apple'' was inspired by Magritte's work.
* ''La Chambre d' 'Écoute'' (''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Listening_Room The Listening Room]]'') was used as the album cover of ''Beck-Ola'' by Jeff Beck.
* The faceless man on the back cover of the Music/PinkFloyd album ''Music/WishYouWereHere'' is a homage to Magritte.
* Music/RogerDaltrey's album cover for ''One of the Boys'' was inspired by Magritte's ''La Reproduction Interdite'' (''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_to_Be_Reproduced Not to Be Reproduced]]'').
* The image of ''The Son of Man'' appears in Music/MichaelJackson's music video for "Scream".
* Music/{{Yes}}' music video to "Astral Traveller" features a man who walks away from the camera and is revealed to have a large picture of an apple floating in front of his face, like the subject of ''The Son of Man''.

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* The animated short film ''WesternAnimation/MonaLisaDescendingAStaircase'' is basically a collage of many paintings, one of which is Magritte's reverse mermaid, ''Collective Invention''.
* The ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies'' episode "The Weirdo Zone" has Gonzo appearing in various parodies of Magritte paintings.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E5TreehouseOfHorrorIV Treehouse of Horror IV]]" has a scene at an art gallery with the Simpsons inserted in to famous paintings, including Homer depicted as the ''Son of Man'' painting.
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