Gustave Doré in popular culture:
Anime & Manga
- Chainsaw Man: Makima has a print of Lucifer's fall from Paradise Lost framed in her apartment. The anime adds another Doré print to her office, this one from The Divine Comedy.
- Robert Crumb is a fan of his work and used Doré's illustrations of the Bible as an inspiration for his own illustration of the Book of Genesis.
- His illustrated Bible appears anachronistically in Amistad, when its given to the captive Africans by American Christians. This was in 1841, when Doré was only nine years old, long before he created it.
- Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice: the painting
◊ Lex Luthor has in his living room is inspired by Doré's Paradise Lost (1866). - Beauty and the Beast (1946) took much of its atmosphere from Doré's illustration work.
- The fairy tale forest in The Company of Wolves was inspired by Doré's illustrations for Charles Perrault's Fairy Tales of Mother Goose, especially Little Red Riding Hood.
- Terry Gilliam admires Dorés work so much that he adapted many of the novels he illustrated to the big screen, with directly inspired imagery: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, the aborted project Man Of La Mancha (about Don Quixote) and The Brothers Grimm.
- "Magick" (2004) by John Zorn has a drawing from Gustave Doré on the cover.
- Academia: Pasha's Dream Sequence is done in the style of Doré's The Divine Comedy.
- The influence of Doré on Walt Disney is very obvious, especially in his fairy tale adaptations.
