Referenced By / The Clash

Anime & Manga

• Squalo's Stand from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind is called Clash, a shark that can teleport between any open body of water, no matter how big or small it is.

Films — Live-Action

• (500) Days of Summer: Tom sings "Train in Vain" at a karaoke bar at one point.
• CODA (2021): The Clash's cover version of "I Fought the Law" plays during a Hard-Work Montage, where Ruby is helping her parents get their fishing co-op off the ground, as well as practicing her singing lessons.
• Man on a Ledge: The Clash's cover version of "Police on My Back" plays over the first part of the closing credits.

Literature

• The 2002 Doctor Who novel Combat Rock is titled after the Clash album.
• In Harmonic Feedback, Naomi refers to Green Day as old-school punk, so Justin gives her a CD of '70s and '80s punk music that includes the Clash.
• In The Half-Life of Planets, Hank is impressed to see that Liane has an imported London Calling in the record collection in her basement.

Live-Action TV

• On Gilmore Girls, instead of writing notes on the Shakespeare play he's being tutored in, Jess writes down the words to a The Clash song. When Rory calls him on it, he challenges her to guess which song it is. She correctly guesses it's "Guns of Brixton."

Video Games

• The Guitar Hero franchise is named after Strummer's "You're my guitar hero!" callout to Jones on "Complete Control".

Western Animation

• Logorama: When Ronald is riding through the collapsing city on a Grease 2 motorcycle, the Clash logo can be seen as graffiti art.

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