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1!!Anime and Manga
2* ''Anime/LupinIIITheWomanCalledFujikoMine'', the opening is dedicated to a reference to ''Wuthering Heights''. One episode includes it as part of the story.
3* In ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'', Heathcliff is the name of the head of the Knights of the Blood Oath guild, who happens to be [[BigBad Akihiko Kayaba's]] character.
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5!!Film
6* In the film version of ''Literature/ColdMountain'', Ada reads the book to Ruby at night after they work.
7* ''Film/TheSecretGarden1993'': Martha remarks that sometimes the wind on the moors makes it sound like someone's crying.
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9!!Literature
10* ''Literature/TheTenantOfWildfellHall'': Gilbert Markham is an UnreliableNarrator as a ShoutOut to Mr. Lockwood of ''Wuthering Heights''.
11* ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'': In ''[[Literature/Eclipse2007 Eclipse]]'', Bella and Edward's relationship is compared to Cathy and Heathcliff's.
12* In ''Literature/SaveTheEnemy'', Zoey remembers reading ''Wuthering Heights'' before her mother was murdered and her father disappeared.
13* ''Literature/ThingsIShouldHaveKnown'': In English class, a kid comments that he thought ''Wuthering Heights'' was totally incestuous, which leads the class into a discussion on whether it's okay to think your cousin is hot.
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15!!Live Action TV:
16* In ''Series/AlloAllo'', the flight lieutenants Carstairs and Fairfax discuss that they should surrender to Germans than suffer hidden with incompetent Resistance members like René. They say they might want to get to a proper camp and get a part in production of ''Wuthering Heights''. One of them says he would make a good Heathcliff, though the other says he might be asked to shave his moustache and play Cathy.
17* The book is discussed in ''Series/{{Friends}}'' when Phoebe is taking literature classes.
18* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': One episode had an adaptation of ''Wuthering Heights'' with all the characters making flag signals.
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20!!Music:
21* Music/{{Genesis|Band}}'s 1976 album ''Music/WindAndWuthering'' takes part of its name from the book's title, and two (consecutive) tracks on the album are titled "Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers..." and "...In That Quiet Earth", as a reference to the book's closing line.
22* Music/KateBush's 1978 song "Wuthering Heights" on her album ''Music/TheKickInside'', sung as by Cathy to Heathcliff.
23* Jim Steinman, writer of "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" which was [[CoveredUp famously recorded]] by Music/CelineDion, has cited ''Wuthering Heights'' as the inspiration.
24* Music/BreeSharp's 1999 hit song "David Duchovny" includes lines
25-->David Duchovny hovering above me / American Heathcliff, brooding and comely.
26* Music/DeathCabForCutie's 2008 song "Cath...", which is fairly transparently based on ''Wuthering Heights'', but in their own style.
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28!!Theatre
29* In ''Theatre/MaryMary'', Mary wistfully recalls that, when she was in high school, she had romantic fantasies about being Catherine Earnshaw.
30-->"I used to dream that somewhere there was a strange, dark man whose heart was quietly breaking for me. On rainy nights I'd open the window and imagine I could hear him calling--'Oh, my wild, sweet Cathy!' The colds I got! And of course the only dark man I ever saw was the middle-aged dentist who used to adjust the braces on my teeth."
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32!!Video Games
33* As part of the main cast of ''VideoGame/LimbusCompany'' all being classic literature references, there's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4ve1VE3s0E Heathcliff]]. He's a bitter, stormy-tempered man from an impoverished background that has some tragic romantic entanglement with a woman named Catherine. The game's English translation makes his dialogue sound [[StockBritishPhrases extremely British]] as a further nod to his literary inspiration.
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35!!Web Animation:
36* In Episode 18 of ''WebAnimation/TheMostPopularGirlsInSchool'', Mackenzie Zales references reading this book on a Nook (or her not wanting to, thereof).
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38!!Web Comics:
39* ''Webcomic/HarkAVagrant'' makes fun of the [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=403 ridiculously unreliable narrators]] on occasion, as well as the idea of the very unstable people being [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=401 intended to be]] [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=402 heroically romantic]].

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