References to Jules Verne in media.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea has its own page.
Films — Live-Action:
- In Back to the Future Part III (as well as in the animated series), Doc Emmett Brown reveales that Verne is his favorite author, and names his two children with Clara Clayton Jules and Verne.
- The West Wing: In the second season episode "And It's Surely To Their Credit", President Bartlet and his wife Abby are about to have sex (for the first time since he was shot) when she gets irritated by the fact he's downplaying the importance of Nellie Bly, whose statue dedication she went to earlier in the day. Abby points out Bly beat Jules Verne's record of going around the world by eight days.
- Hark! A Vagrant: Verne and Wells have an argument
, based on Verne's real life annoyance with Wells' not describing how things work in detail in his work, with air balloons. Verne's gets destroyed.Jules Verne: You can't just make things up!H. G. Wells: Why not? Mine works just as well as yours. And blueprints are boring.
Verne: My dirigible!
Wells: Oh no! I'm sorry. It was trying to make social metaphors.
