Referenced By / Tomb Raider

Animated Films

• Towards the beginning of Wreck-It Ralph, Ralph sarcastically calls himself "Lara Croft" when being questioned by the Surge Protector in Game Central Station.
• Tad, the Lost Explorer has Sara Lavrof, an archeologist that between the name and the clothing (tank top, shorts and boots) is a clear send-off of Lara Croft.

Literature

• Discworld: The minor character Alice Band, an Assassin and teacher at the Assassins' School, spends most of her time exploring ancient tombs with handheld crossbows.
• Susan from Like a Fish Understands a Tree thinks that her new game, Nephilim Caves, looks a lot like Tomb Raider, except with a male protagonist.

Live-Action TV

• In Spaced, one episode has Tim playing Tomb Raider III and repeatedly making Lara drown following a break-up.
• The Life with Derek episode "Babe Raider" revolves around a video game of the same name, with it's main character being overly sexualized as possible.

Newspaper Comics

• In one FoxTrot arc, Jason has a nightmare about being chased by an amorous Lara Croft (since he's still at the Girls Have Cooties stage), much to his older brother Peter's envy.

Video Games

• Asterix & Obelix XXL 2: Mission: Las Vegum features Larry Craft, a Roman centurion with Lara's outfit and braids (except he's an fat and stocky man). One part even has posters of him copying the poses of some Tomb Raider box art.
• Spyro: Year of the Dragon has a level called Desert Ruins, based on Roman and Ottoman antiquity. Reaching the end goal has Spyro meet up with a rodent woman named Tara who dresses exactly like Lara and exposits that she raids tombs by pressing switches and shoving boxes around, and she hands over the dragon egg since it's not what one would consider a treasure.

Western Animation

• In the Gravity Falls episode "Soos and the Real Girl," Soos attempts to flirt with a cardboard cutout of "Pit Spelunker," who looks just like Lara Croft.