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Films — Live-Action

  • The title character of Terri is seen reading the book.
  • Ultraman Gaia: The Battle In Hyperspace: The novel is referenced directly in the movie, which compares the hero Gamu Takayama (Ultraman Gaia's human host) being transported from a world where the Ultramen exists to the reality where the show is merely fictional as similar to Gulliver's travels to Liliput.

Literature

  • Isaac Asimov's Words of Science and the History Behind Them: The entry for "Phobos" describes how Jonathan Swift's fictional book, Gulliver's Travels, postulated that Mars would have two moons before they had been seen in 1877.
  • In I Think I Love You, Bill feels like Gulliver when he attends a David Cassidy concert, surrounded by screaming fans who threaten to push him off his feet.
  • The Story Of A Bad Boy: In chapter 5, when Tom Bailey gets to the Nutter House, he narrates this...
    But what a place it is to sit of an afternoon with the rain pattering on the roof! What a place in which to read Gulliver's Travels [...].
    • In chapter 6, Tom Bailey says he imagined himself to fight a foe who shrank so small he treated Tom like the "Liliputians showed Captain Lemuel Gulliver".
Video Games
  • Animal Crossing: Gulliver, a seagull, gets his name from this story. Gulliver is a sailor who travels around the world and can often be found washed up on the beach of the player's island.
  • Grimms Notes: Gulliver was a playable character, and the Yahoos were Elite Mooks.

Webcomics

  • Unsounded: Lemuel Adelier takes his given name from Gulliver's Travels, as confirmed by the author here.

Western Animation

  • Classic Disney Shorts: The short Gulliver Mickey is a parody of the story, with Mickey reading the book at the beginning and then telling his nephews a story about him being shipwrecked on an isle of little people.
  • Gravity Falls: The episode "Golf War" has the Liliputtians, tiny people with golf ball heads who control the balls in a mini golf course. At one point, they tie Pacifica to the ground like Gulliver.
  • My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "The Parent Map", Sunburst refers to The Houyhnhnm's Guide to Magical Arcana.

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