References to Hamilton in other works.
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Comic Books
- A Deadpool one-shot had the Merc, having for once a touching moment take the girl he talks off the roof to a production of Hamilton. Of course, being Deadpool, he stole the tickets from some snobs.
Film — Animation
- In America: The Motion Picture, Alexander Hamilton as depicted by Lin-Manuel Miranda's likeness can be seen among the mourners at Lincoln's funeral.
Film — Live Action
- In Eighth Grade, a Hamilton calendar is one of the many objects in Kayla's room.
- In a flashback in Knives Out, the Thrombeys quote Hamilton and mention seeing it live. These references are ironic, however, since they disparage immigrants in the same conversation. The whole thing makes them come off as wealthy clueless liberals and/or tone deaf conservatives, and the whole family is later portrayed as being very xenophobic.
- A Wrinkle in Time (2018): Mrs. Who quotes "Tomorrow there'll be more of us."
Literature
- In Aru Shah and the End of Time, the main characters have seen it at least once, and one brings up we never hear about Hamilton's brother.
Live-Action TV
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine: In one episode, Gina has tickets to Hamilton and ditches everyone else to go. Creates a Celebrity Paradox later on when Lin-Manuel Miranda guest-stars.
- The Good Place:
- "Have you seen Hamilton?" is one of Michael's examples of "Western Hemisphere Brunch Banter".
- In the second season, Janet begs Michael not to reset her because she's got tickets to Hamilton.Janet: And there's a rumor that Daveed Diggs is coming back!
- Jane the Virgin waxes lyrical to "The Room Where it Happens" in "Chapter Eighty".Petra: Trust me, no one else was in the room where it happened!
Narrator: The room where it happened?
Jane R.: The room where it happened, right... - One Day at a Time (2017): Alex quotes "Immigrants. We get the job done." from "Yorktown" in the pilot.
Music
- "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Hamilton Polka" was, as the title suggests, a polka medley of the Hamilton songs "Alexander Hamilton", "Wait For It", "The Schuyler Sisters", "Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)", "You'll Be Back", "The Room Where it Happened", "Right-Hand Man", "Guns and Ships", "Washington on Your Side", "Non-Stop", "History Has its Eyes on You", and "My Shot".
Theatre
- Westeros: An American Musical parodies A Song of Ice and Fire by setting its events against Hamilton showtunes.
Web Animation
- SuperThings: The episode "Zombies Night" features an advertisement for Ham-Ilton, featuring a ham citizen in place of Alexander Hamilton on a parody of the poster.
Webcomics
- Breaking Cat News' Fourth of July special for 2019 (from July 3 through July 13) is a feline tribute to the show. To quote Puck: "I am not throwing away my shot (at potato salad)!"
Web Video
- Bernadette Banner brings up Hamilton when discussing how getting silhouettes right is an important way to get across the time period of a piece, even when taking other creative liberties with costuming. She later interviewed the designers and craftspeople behind the costumes
of the show when doing a series of videos on the fashion and theater districts of New York and how they've been affected by the downtime during COVID 19, including participating in a fundraiser for the struggling costumers. - The Dream SMP is rife with Hamilton references, especially in the L'Manburg War for Independence, where characters go as far as to quote lines from the musical nigh-verbatim multiple times, and Wilbur even makes a parody of "The Adams Administration" after Jschlatt was elected president on one of Fundy's streams. It is also confirmed that the many Hamilton references and parallels in the roleplay are intentional.
- Team Four Star has referenced this for its Abridged series:
- Dragon Ball Z Abridged: Freeza gets his own song, "Just Give Up," where he sings about how he'll be destroying planets and ruling the galaxy with an iron fist, set to the tune of Hamilton's "You'll Be Back".
- Hellsing Ultimate Abridged: Episode 8 features an Alexander Anderson-themed parody of Hamilton song "Alexander Hamilton" fittingly called "Alexander Anderson." Not only is it sung to the same tune as "Alexander Hamilton," but also features all members of the show singing the song.
- Dragon Ball Z Abridged: Freeza gets his own song, "Just Give Up
- Freshy Kanal's RAP BATTLE series: the season 2 finale was a rap battle between the musical's version of Hamilton and Luke Skywalker.
Western Animation
- Family Guy:
- A minor Running Gag from later seasons has characters discussing potential Broadway musicals about the lives of nowadays-obscure historical figures like Grover Cleveland and William Howard Taft in a clear nod to Hamilton.
- Chris once concluded a history project with a passive-aggressive "Alexander Hamilton was white!" with a boombox playing a hip-hop beat.
- Transformers: BotBots: In one episode, the Hunger Hubs try to put on a play called "I, Cheeseburger" which is a pretty blatant spoof of Hamilton, right down to the opening song being set to the same tune as "Alexander Hamilton".
