- Little Cherry: In episode 9, Cherry attempts to cook dinner for her mother by utilizing a pot because she was inspired by Robinson's self-determination in the novel she recently read in school. It wasn't until she smokes the kitchen and is halted by her parents when she finally discloses to them the novel she was referring to.
- Green Arrow's origin is wholly taken from Robinson Crusoe, at least, up until he actually leaves the island and becomes a bow-wielding vigilante.
- In the Gaston Lagaffe series of strips where Gaston dreams that he and Jeanne are castaways on an island, he compares their situation to Robinson Crusoe's.
- Mézga család: In the episode Lakatlan sziget (Desert island), Paula says she could choose a native to serve them like Robinson did with Friday.
Film - Animated
- In The Three Caballeros, Pablo spots Robinson Crusoe on his island while looking through his telescope.
- Mark Twain, who recognized Crusoe was written as an endorsement of capitalization, had his title character in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court compare himself to Crusoe as he works to reorganize the court in the likeness of the systems he is used to.
- A Christmas Carol: Scrooge's younger self is reading the book when he sees himself in Christmas Pasts. A convincing argument has been made (helped by the knowledge that Charles Dickens found the character Crusoe revolting and cruel) that the story is an intentional, scathing, reflection of Robinson Crusoe with Scrooge "a money-hungry man shipwrecked on a desert island of his own greed".
- Desperate Remedies: In chapter 5, the coachman says Miss Aldclyffe is "as solitary as Robinson Crusoe".
- Just David: In chapter 9, the narrator mentions David had a Robinson Crusoe book.
- The Moonstone: Gabriel Betteredge believes that Robinson Crusoe contains all of the world's wisdom and solutions, it is mentioned and quoted throughout the plot as a Running Gag.
- The Mystery Of A Hansom Cab: In chapter 30, according to a writer "a female Robinson Crusoe would have gone mad for want of something to talk to".
- The Story Of A Bad Boy:
- In chapter 1, Tom Bailey says Wibird Hawkins was "half so nice as Robinson Crusoe".
- In chapter 5, Tom Bailey finds a Robinson Crusoe book.
- In The Last Continent, one of the wizards says he read a book where a castaway found a single footprint in the sand. The Dean asks if the island's other inhabitant was "a crazed one-legged long-jump champion".
- In Are You Seeing Me? Justine has an old copy of Robinson Crusoe that she reads on and off during the road trip.
- The ending theme of Gilligan's Island has the lyrics "Like Robinson Crusoe, it's primitive as can be".
- In Uncle Albert's Mysterious Island, we learn that during his world travel, Uncle Albert got stranded on an island, he even says that his predicament is like Robinson Crusoe's.
- British Cryptids: "The Woodwose Of Cannock Chase" has a segment where Robinson Crusoe is discussed in the context of the real-life inspiration Alexander Selkirk, who in the show's setting encountered a giant humanoid being he classifies as a Woodwose (the episode's subject); the beast later became the human character of Friday.
- Hark! A Vagrant: Crusoe is depicted as a bit of an annoying nutcase, who keeps trying to take advantage of Friday despite the help Friday gives him.
- Garfield and Friends: In the U.S. Acres segment, "The Discount of Monte Cristo", Orson tries to tell the story of The Count of Monte Cristo to Roy and Wade, but Aloysius keeps cutting the show's budget to the point where Orson is unable to tell the story. At the end of the segment, Roy helps Orson get back at Aloysius by having him tell the story of Robinson Crusoe with Aloysius in the title role. Aloysius is stranded on a desert island, and Orson, Roy, and Wade refuse to pay for any possible chance of him getting off it.
