- Doom Patrol features a supervillain named Byron Shelley aka The Fog, named after Lord Byron and Mary Shelley.
Literature
- One chapter of The Martian Chronicles is titled "And the Moon Be Still as Bright", a quotation from Byron's poem, "So We'll Go No More A-Roving". In the chapter, a character recites the entire poem.
- Near the end of Liberal Arts, Professor Judith Fairfield makes a Take That! at Lord Byron saying he literally and figuratively "puts his dick in everything".
- In Venom: Let There Be Carnage, among the numerous etchings on the walls of Cletus Kasady's prison cell are a couple of lines from Lord Byron's Prometheus about the Titan of myth who stole fire.
- Star Trek. John de Lancie cited Byron as an inspiration for how he played Q, as in "Mad, bad and dangerous".
- SAS: Rogue Heroes. Churchill quotes from Don Juan, "He was the mildest mannered man that ever scuttled a ship or cut a throat" in regard to David Stirling.
- Star Trek: Voyager. When the holographic doctor decides to enhance his personality subroutines, Lord Byron is one of the historical figures he draws from. He realises he might not have made the right choice when B'Elanna Torres draws attention to the Doctor's hand groping her knee.
- Titans (2018): In Season 4, Jinx compares Dick Grayson to Lord Byron for being so broody.
- Ogden Nash's poem "Very Like a Whale"
pokes fun at the dramatic imagery in some classic poems, including Byron's "The Destruction of Sennacherib." It opens with:One thing that literature would be greatly the better forWould be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and metaphor.- ...and it continues in that vein.Now then, this particular Assyrian, the one whose cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold,Just what does the poet mean when he says he came down like a wolf on the fold?In heaven and earth more than is dreamed of in our philosophy there are a great many things,But I don't imagine that among them there is a wolf with purple and gold cohorts or purple and gold anythings.
- ...and it continues in that vein.
- Hark! A Vagrant: Byron's appetite is played up for laughs:
- Byron is more concered about how attractive the harbinger of death was in Percy Shelly's dream, than trying to assuage his unsettled friend.
- Lord Byron appears as a particularly horny but "nice" man while Mary Shelley is mourning the death of her child. Things are not helped when Percy Bysshe Shelley can't figure out why his wife is so upset and doesn't want to sleep with his friends.
- Lady Isabella is depicted as protecting her daughter Ada from poets like they're dangerous. She contemptuously compares Ada having sympathy for them to something Byron would say.
- Byron is more concered about how attractive the harbinger of death was in Percy Shelly's dream, than trying to assuage his unsettled friend.
- In the adult-animated series Archer, Pam Poovey has a stanza from "The Destruction of Sennacherib" tattooed on her back.
