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QI episode "Portraits and Paintings" features Alan Davies dressed up as "The Son of Man," complete with a prop apple in front of his face when introduced.

At the beginning of the Doctor Who story "Terror of the Autons", the un-named Time Lord who warns the Doctor of the Master's arrival on Earth wears a bowler hat and business suit and levitates in mid-air, in an homage to Golconda.

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The fifth series of Taskmaster features a portrait of the host done in parody of The Son of Man.In the Doctor Who New Adventures novel Transit, the Doctor has an encounter with a group of non-physical alien intelligences who take surreal humanoid forms like the subject of The Son of Man.One character takes the pipe out of the painting and smokes it. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid includes a discussion of The Treachery of Images (the "this is not a pipe" painting).Toys includes several references to Magritte's works.

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The bowler-hatted men all carry identical briefcases full of copies of The Son of Man.

The protagonist of the film uses numerous accomplices, all dressed like the subject of the painting, to confuse the police while he enters the museum to apparently return the painting he stole earlier in the film. The Thomas Crown Affair: The Son of Man is a stolen painting.The Exorcist: The scene that was used on the poster and video cover where Father Merrin is standing in front of the MacNeil family's house at night is inspired by L' Empire des Lumières ( The Empire of Light ).The English-language title is a reference to Collective Invention, Magritte's painting of a mermaid that has a fish's face instead of a fish's tail. Collective Invention ( Dolyeon Byeoni - "mutant" in Korean) is a Korean film about a mutant fish-man.Dylan Dog: The classic story "Golconda!" (issue #41) features a homage to Magritte's painting with the same name by recreating it with the descent of the Man with the Bowler ("L'uomo con la bombetta"), who's a blue/orange-driven Reality Warper that commits a series of surreal killings.The stand Wonder of U belonging to the main antagonist of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: JoJolion makes heavy use of Magritte's imagery, fitting for a stand that bends reality in odd ways.Candy & Cigarettes: The assassin Henry Magritte wears a bowler hat and carries an apple, which is briefly in front of his face, just like The Son of Man by his namesake.