Anime & Manga
- The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You: After seeing how much animals love Yamame, Rentarou wonders if they're in Nausicaä.
- Fruits Basket: Early on in the story, Tohru refers to the massive garbage pile in Shigure and Yuki's kitchen as "a Sea of Decay/Toxic Jungle". Shigure jokingly remarks that it's a good analogy.
- Gintama: Not long before the climax is perhaps the most insane and hilarious parody of the film. Gintoki is trying to think of a way to get him and Tetsuko to the Kiheitai's ship to fight Nizou, and Gengai helps them out - by bringing Nausicaa along and having her lend them her glider. Tetsuko is legitimately scared and keeps asking Gengai if they'll be okay.
- GunBuster: One scene in Episode 5 with Noriko in her room has a poster for Nausicaa .
- Hunter × Hunter: Word of God says that Kurapika and his clan, the Kurta, are essentially the Ohmu in human form. Both groups' eyes turn red when enraged, and certain parts of their bodies (their eyes and exoskeletons, respectively) are highly valuable and sought-after.
- I Can't Understand What My Husband Is Saying: In Episode 3 due to a lack of cleaning, Hajime's room has been turned into the Sea of Corruption and Kaoru is forced to wear the same gas mask like that of Nausicaa.
- Little Witch Academia (2017): The healing golden tendrils sprouting from the Shiny Rod are referencing the Ohmu's feelers from Nausicaa. Wagandia's pollen could be referencing the toxic spores released by the Sea of Corruption from the same film.
- Neon Genesis Evangelion: Kyoko Zeppelin Soryu is an Expy of Kushana's mother from Nausicaa, especially in how their insanity leads them to believe a doll is their child, while seeing their real child as an impostor. The case of Kyoko does, however, explore in greater depth and detail how such a madness in a parent would warp and damage their child's psyche.
- As is Princess Charlotte's mother from The Familiar of Zero.
- Rurouni Kenshin: Fuji is based on both the God Warrior and the titular Evangelions from Neon Genesis Evangelion (themselves based on the very same character).
- Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san: Honda's depiction of trying to keep unsold stock hidden from publishers parodies the flashback scene where young Nausicaa tries to hide a baby Ohmu from her parents.
- Urusei Yatsura: The entirety of episode 162 is a parody of the Nausicaa.
- Wasteful Days of High School Girls: "Baka" keeps trying to get "Loli" to climb on her arm, imagining the scene from Naussicaa where Teto ran along Naussicaa's shoulders.
Film
- Mulan: The doll the Huns use to find the village, and again when the Imperial Army finds the razed remains of said village, is the same as a doll found in similar circumstances in Nausicaa.
- The climax and resolution of Pokémon: The First Movie (and by extension, its remake) is very similar to the theatrical version of Nausicaa. It features the protagonist suffering a Disney Death by getting in-between two warring factions, only to be revived by particles instigated by a small member of one of the factions which in turn results to the end of the conflict.
- The introductory scenes and actions of Rey in Star Wars: The Force Awakens are similar to Nausicaa's in both the manga and anime.
Live Action TV
- Doctor Who, "Orphan 55": The twin reveals that the Dregs breathe CO₂ and exhale oxygen, and that Orphan 55 is a post-nuclear war Earth with Tranquillity Spa as an engineered haven from the toxic outer world, echo Nausicaa, in which the heroine learns that the creatures inhabiting the polluted outer world have adapted not only to survive and thrive in it, but are actually cleaning up the mess humans made. Sadly, the conflict here does not come to such a hopeful point.
- Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Nausicaans stabbed Picard. Also doubles as Hilarious in Hindsight as Patrick Stewart would later voice Lord Yupa in the English redub.
Video Games
- Civilization: Beyond Earth: The developers have stated that the alien planet- possessing toxic forests of miasma and giant insectoid beings - was heavily inspired by Nausicaa.
- Crystalis takes place after a nuclear apocalypse, it begins in a "Windy Valley", and you later explore a toxic jungle full of giant insects.
- Dragon's Dogma: The golems definitely seem to reference certain other laser-spewing constructs with their delayed-explosion beam sweeps.
- The Mir Orlen in Front Mission an incomplete, skeleton-like biomech used to protect the core of a giant factory, looks particularly similar to the partially revived God Warrior embedded in the mineshaft in Pejitei.
- Horizon Zero Dawn is essentially a Spiritual Adaptation of Nausicaa, only with robotic animals instead of giant insects. It also references another Miyazaki film, Princess Mononoke, with the Corrupters and their Nano Machines resembling the Boar Gods. The sequel reinforces the resemblance further, with an infestation of toxic plants killing everything in their path and Aloy obtaining gear that allows her to glide.
- Hyperlight Drifter features flashbacks of giant bio-mechs destroying the world and the broken down remains of several can be seen littering the post-apocalyptic wasteland not unlike the God Warriors, though their faces are more directly based on the aforementioned Evangelions.
- Iji: Tor's "Eruption" attack where he fires a laser toward the ground and causes a massive explosion is taken right from Nausicaa.
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is one big love letter to Nausicaa, taking place in a post-apocalyptic world, featuring monstrous laser shooting robots left over from the previous civilization and Link's default outfit being blue instead of his usual green. He can even use a glider.
- Mass Effect: One of the planets in Citadel space is called Nausicaa. Though considering other names in that cluster, it rather refers to the original Nausicaa.
- Then again, the Final Boss of Mass Effect 2 does look and fight an awful lot like the incomplete God Warrior in the movie version.
- Metal Slug 3: In one of mission 4's secret paths there's enemies that look like Nausica's Ohmu. They are not as benevolent as in the movie.
- NetHack: Fighting monsters while hallucinating generates a ton of Shout Outs. They include ohmu.
- Skullgirls: Robo-Fortune's ending is an homage to the Seven Days of Fire from Nausicaa, with the giant Robo-Fortunes in place of the God Warriors.
- Sunrider: Admiral Kuushana is based on the movie's version of Kushana. She has a very similar appearance to her namesake and fills a similar narrative role by being a high-ranking Frontline General in service to an expansionistic empire who acts as a major antagonist to the heroes.
- ZeroRanger: The last boss of 2-2 is a pretty clear nod to the Giant Warriors from Nausicaa.
Web Original
- Anime Crimes Division: In "Silence of the Fireflies" the conversation between Diesel and the Chief references Nausicaa (with the Chief even offering to settle for fansubs at the quality of Warriors of the Wind).
- Grrl Power: While watching Maxima fight two of the alien sightseers are discussing War Mechs, with Eson the Searcher, The Iron Giant, and a God Warrior shown lined up in an attempt to bring down Maxima.
Western Animation
- Samurai Jack: In "C" Jack exiting the interior of a rotted-out bug carcass by kicking open a hollowed-out eye lens calls to mind a similar scene in Nausicaa.
- Voltron: Legendary Defender: The Weblum in The Belly of the Weblum is similar to the Ohm of Nausicaa. They're even animated similarly.
