Comic Books
- Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman: The game cabinet with a lady twisted into a Boobs-and-Butt Pose is a clear homage in style and pose to Kate Beaton's "Strong Female Characters" from Hark! A Vagrant.
Fan Fiction
- A Scrapbook Story in the Sorrowful and Immaculate Hearts series shows that Tim Drake's chat avatar is the Pirate's Nemesis.
Live-Action TV
- Mystery Science Theater 3000: Crow remarks that the opening credits of The Christmas that Almost Wasn't resemble the comic's art style.
Video Games
- After the End: A Post-Apocalyptic America: The ruler of the Maritimes (encompassing the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island) is Caitlin Beaton.
- Fallout: New Vegas: The unique variant of the Tesla Cannon known as the "Tesla-Beaton Prototype" is named for Kate, with a nod to the Hark! A Vagrant comics featuring Tesla.
- Starbound: Upon finding a lone glitch castle, the noble will sometimes shout "Referential: Hark! A Vagrant!"
Web Comics
- Problem Sleuth shifts into Hark! A Vagrant's art style for a single page
. - Square Root of Minus Garfield: Hark! A Vagrant Minus Garfield! is an edit of a Hark! A Vagrant strip in addition to the strip name referencing it.
Web Video
- While discussing the Anne of Green Gables inspiration for her Hidden Layers of an 1890's Puffed Sleeve Dress video Sewstine shows the panels from a Hark a Vagrant's comical interpretation of the scene in the book in which Anne tries to argue for puffed sleeves.
Western Animation
- Adventure Time: The horse in "The Eyes" is based on the Fat Shetland Pony from Hark! A Vagrant.
