Referenced By / Sex Pistols

Anime & Manga

• In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind, Guido Mista's Stand, six gremlin-like creatues that complement his Improbable Aiming Skills, is called Sex Pistols.
• The main antagonist of Pokémon 4Ever, the Iron-Masked Marauder is named Vicious in Japanese, with Word of God stating he was named after Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols.
• In Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches, Yamada meets a duo of punk teens named Sid and Nancy, with Sid having a clear physical resemblance to Sid Vicious. It's also meant as a Sex Pistols reference in-universe, given that "Nancy" is just a nickname that the girl (whose real name is Haruko) adopted after meeting the guy (whose actual name really is Sid even though he's Japanese) and founding a music club with him.

Literature

• In Harmonic Feedback, Naomi refers to Green Day as old-school punk, so Justin gives her a CD of punk music from the '70s and '80s that includes the Sex Pistols.
• In Beautiful Music for Ugly Children, Gabe and John argue about whether Johnny Rotten or Sid Vicious was better.

Live-Action TV

• In Constantine, in order to prevent himself from hearing the noise that will be surrounding him, John listens to "Anarchy in the UK" on some earbuds to drown it out.

Web Comics

• Questionable Content: The comic where it starts to become highlighted that Faye has a drinking problem is titled "She's A Sex Pistol".

Western Animation

• Logorama: When Ronald hides from the Michelin Man cop behind a wall, the Sex Pistols logo can be seen as graffiti art.
• The Simpsons: In "Missionary: Impossible", Homer and Bart are watching Do Shut Up, a British sitcom about a family of Football Hooligans on PBS. The show opens with the father and son drinking from large steins while "No Feelings" plays.

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