References to the original tale(s)
Anime and Manga- The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You: In Chapter 82.5 (a collection of Fractured Fairy Tales), Yamame plays the titular character (named "Aumame"), and refuses to let anyone cut or burn the brambles as they are "living things too".
Animated Films
- Cars: When Lightning McQueen wakes up, Mater nicknames him "Sleeping Beauty."
- In Shrek 2, Sleeping Beauty appears at the ball. She shows up again in Shrek the Third.
- In Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Jack Horner can be seen pulling out a spinning wheel from his bag of magical artifacts.
- Tangled: There's a spinning wheel in Rapunzel's tower.
- In Mulan, Mushu calls Mulan "Sleeping Beauty" when she's waking up.
- In Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf episode 495, the goats put on a play of Sleeping Beauty. Paddi has to kiss Sparky during the play and thinks he's impregnated him afterward as a result.
- Fables: Briar Rose is a secondary character in the series. She is still under a curse that makes her fall asleep every time she pricks her finger, which the Fables weaponize a few times since everyone around her falls asleep as well.
- Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash: In issue 4, Freddy Krueger calls Ash Williams "Sleeping Beauty".
- Castle Waiting takes place in Sleeping Beauty's castle, many years after the princess herself woke up and left the castle to get married without a second thought. Since the kingdom fell and everything went to ruin in the hundred years while everyone in the castle were asleep, the castle is now a desolate and lonely place that's become a refuge to a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits who have nowhere else to go.
- Men in Black, issue 1: Kay calls him "Sleeping Beauty" when Jay wakes up in his car after zapping him.
- Garfield: This strip
has Garfield waking Jon up by referring to him as "Sleeping Beauty" and planting a kiss on his lips. Jon is understandably disgusted. - Off the Mark: Apparently, Sleeping Beauty has several princes trying to wake her up.
Fan Works
- Don't Go Stealing My Heart borrows some plot elements, namely the fact that Geralt is put under a sleeping curse and mistaken for dead and True Love's Kiss is the cure for Geralt's curse.
- The Punch-Out!! fanfic Shining and Sweet parodies the story into "Sleeping Fabulous", starring Disco Kid as the titular Sleeping Fabulous.
- In Doctor in Love, when Dr. Hare is refusing to be sedated, Sir Lancelot Spratt threatens to give him "something that'll make the Sleeping Beauty look like a case of galloping insomnia".
- Norwegian children's author Zinken Hopp (probably inspired by the fact that she'd earlier translated Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Norwegian) wrote a couple of extremely surreal nonsense books about a couple of boys named Jon and Sofus. The second of these books, simply titled Jon and Sofus, has the two boys ending up in Sleeping Beauty's castle and discovering all the sleeping people and animals. They briefly consider kissing the princess and waking everyone up, but decide against it in favor of turning the castle into a tourist attraction and making a lot of money by giving guided tours of the castle and showing the tourists "the famous Sleeping Beauty," strictly forbidding anyone from kissing the princess because then she'd wake up and ruin their entire business. Towards the end of the book, after a lot of misadventures, the princess is kissed and woken up by a gas station attendant who sneaks into the castle, and Jon and Sofus end up having to flee the castle when it turns out that she is not happy about being made into a tourist attraction while she slept.
- At the Back of the North Wind includes a fairytale "Little Daylight" that is retelling of the original Sleeping Beauty.
- Phantastes: When encountering the Spirit of Marble:The actual outlines of the rest of the form were so indistinct, that the more than semi-opacity of the alabaster seemed insufficient to account for the fact; and I conjectured that a light robe added its obscurity. Numberless histories passed through my mind of change of substance from enchantment and other causes, and of imprisonments such as this before me. I thought of the Prince of the Enchanted City, half marble and half a man; of Ariel; of Niobe; of the Sleeping Beauty in the Wood; of the bleeding trees; and many other histories. Even my adventure of the preceding evening with the lady of the beech-tree contributed to arouse the wild hope, that by some means life might be given to this form also, and that, breaking from her alabaster tomb, she might glorify my eyes with her presence. “For,” I argued, “who can tell but this cave may be the home of Marble, and this, essential Marble—that spirit of marble which, present throughout, makes it capable of being moulded into any form? Then if she should awake! But how to awake her? A kiss awoke the Sleeping Beauty! a kiss cannot reach her through the incrusting alabaster.” I kneeled, however, and kissed the pale coffin;
- In Rainbow Magic, one of the Fairytale Fairies, Julia, protects Sleeping Beauty.
- In the secret lives of Princesses, Sleeping Beauty is said to have been cursed by a distant cousin working as a fairy, and also a relative of Princess Somnia. Sleeping Beauty used the excuse of a slight finger prick to sleep for a hundred years and drag the kingdom down with her.
- Full House: In "Prom Night," upon seeing D.J. in her prom dress, Michelle says to her "Wow, you look just like Sleeping Beauty, except you're awake!"
- Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Rowe calls Aiden Caldwell "Sleeping Beauty" to wake him up.
- In Infinite Craft, "Sleeping Beauty" is a possible crafting recipe.
Webcomics
- In the "Play-Date" Story Arc of Elwood (2015), D.W.'s school is having a School Play of Sleeping Beauty... and her rival Lisa is the one playing the role of the titular character while the prince is played by her crush James, much to her dismay. However, this turns out to be a misunderstanding caused by a case of Mistaken Identity, as the kid who signed up for the role of the prince was really another kid with terrible handwriting who has a similar name to James'.
- Hark! A Vagrant: Sleeping Beauty is concerned that she missed her meet-up with someone named Dave upon waking, and is entirely uninterested in the prince who woke her.
- Unsounded: Murkoph compares himself to sleeping beauty after Sette frees him from where he was imprisoned in the khert.
- Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog: In "Sonically Ever After", one of the stories in the book of fairy tales that Miss Saccharine reads to the children is called "Snoring Beauty". Later in the episode, when Cinderella decides to take a nap, Sonic complains about her thinking she's Sleeping Beauty.
- Muppet Babies (1984): In "Once Upon an Egg Timer," Rowlf loses his voice, and the babies take turns telling a story with an egg timer until it comes back. Piggy's part of the story is a spoof of Sleeping Beauty, which involves her getting a kiss from Kermit, or at least it would have if the timer didn't go off just before that part.
- An episode of Thomas & Friends is entitled "Sleeping Beauty." At one point in the episode, when one of the rescuers finds Duke sleeping in his shed, he says, "We found him! We found our sleeping beauty!"
