Icarus in popular culture
The mythological figure of Icarus is in popular culture reference is made frequently.
Computer games
- Deus-Ex series. In a dystopian science fiction scenario, deals with technical optimization of the human body and the overcoming of biological limitations ( transhumanism ). In this context, numerous name and graphic allusions to the Icarus myth, especially in Deus Ex: Human Revolution .
- Kid Icarus series: The protagonist, Pit, is an angel who can only fly for five minutes with the help of others.
Movie
- In Danny Boyle's film Sunshine , Icarus is the name of the spaceships tasked with bringing bombs into the dying sun.
- In the TV series Stargate Universe , the Icarus base is a base 21 light years from Earth, which is used for researching the function of the ninth chevron.
- In the film Berlin Calling , the main character bears the stage name Ickarus.
- In the film Icarus , Dolph Lundgren plays the main character Edward Genn, a former KGB agent who is code-named Icarus.
- In the anime Sora no Otoshimono , the main character (an angeloid) is called Ikaros.
- In the agent thriller " James Bond 007 - Die Another Day ", the millionaire and bon vivant Gustav Graves owns a satellite weapon that he named Icarus.
literature
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- Icarus Allsorts is a satirical poem by Roger McGough
- Icarus Burning , a poem by Hiromi Yoshida .
- Reference is made to Icarus in William Carlos Williams' Landscape with the Fall of Icarus in Wystan Hugh Auden's Musée des Beaux-Arts , which refers to the painting of the same name by Pieter Bruegel the Elder .
- Mrs. Icarus , a poem by Carol Ann Duffy .
music
| Artist | title | publication | Album / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alesana | Icarus | 2006 | On Frail Wings of Vanity and Wax (Album) |
| Angra | Metal Icarus | Fireworks (album) | |
| The back horn | イ ー カ ロ ス の 空 (Icarus' Sky) | 2006 | |
| Bastille | Icarus | 2013 | Bad Blood (Album) |
| Jen Cass | Daedalus | 1996 | Brave Enough to Say (Album) |
| Miranda Cosgrove | Hey you | 2010 | " If you fly like Icarus to the edge " |
| Costa Cordalis | Icarus | 1981 | |
| Counting crows | Insignificant and Sundays | 2008 | eg, " I am Icarus falling out of the sun " |
| Diablo | Icaros | 2008 | Icaros (album) |
| Ani DiFranco | Icarus | Evolve (album) | |
| Dreamtale | Wings of Icaros | Difference (album) | |
| Danny Elfman | The Little Things | 2008 | " With a mountain of maybes and some Icarus wings " |
| Emperor | To Elegy of Icaros | 1999 | IX Equilibrium (album) |
| Epic high | Icarus Walks | Pieces, Part One (Album) | |
| Faith No More | Just a man | 1995 | "... like Icarus, too fly too high ..." |
| William Fitzsimmons | The problem of pain | 2005 | " Icarus they caught you where you tumbled on " |
| Floodlights | Icarus | ||
| The Forms | Icarus (album) | 2003 | |
| Jon Foreman | Light & Heavy | "I'm feeling Icarus" | |
| Bing Futch | Icarus | ||
| Hibria | Wings of wax | 2008 | The Skull Collectors (Album) |
| Hopes case | Icarus | A Types (album) | |
| The Hours | Icarus | "Like Icarus he flew too close to the sun" | |
| Iron Maiden | Flight of Icarus | 1983 | Piece of Mind (album) |
| Iron Maiden | The Final Frontier | 2010 | "Too close to the sun, and surely will burn, like Icarus before me or so legend goes" |
| It dies today | A Romance By The Wings of Icarus | 2002 | Forever Scorned (Album) |
| Jars of Clay | Worlds Apart | 1996 | "I flew too high and like Icarus I collide" |
| Jeremy Zucker | Icarus | 2015 | "I'm flying with my wings on fire" |
| Kansas | Icarus (Borne on Wings of Steel) | 1975 | Masque |
| Keldian | The Ghost of Icarus | 2008 | Journey of Souls (Album) |
| Lotto King Karl | Icarus | 2006 | Icarus (album) |
| Lullaby for the Working Class | Jester's siren | 1997 | "Take this biplane made of wax - just don't fly too close to the sun" |
| Machinae Supremacy | Sid Icarus | 2008 | Overworld (album) |
| Yngwie Malmsteen | Icarus' Dream Suite op.4 | 1987 | Rising Force (album) |
| Night blood | Fall of Icarus | 2009 | Antique (album) |
| Nine inch nails | Somewhat Damaged | 1999 | "Flew too high and burned the wing. Lost my faith in everything." |
| Onitsuka Chihiro | 蝋 の 翼 (Wax Wings) | 2007 | LAS VEGAS (album) |
| East + front | Icarus | 2020 | Your Helfer In Der Not (Album) |
| Periphery | Icarus Lives! | ||
| Peter, Sue and Marc | Like a seagull | 1976 | "Was the dream of Icarus" |
| Phish | The squirming coil | "... like Icarus, who had to pay with melting wax and feathers brown." | |
| Puhdys | Icarus | "Climb Icarus, fly ahead of us; Climb Icarus, show us the way ..." | |
| Race the Sun | To Icarus with all sincerity | 2004 | The Rest of Our Lives is Tonight (Album) |
| Regina Spektor | Lacrimosa | "Hi, I'm Icarus, I'm falling down from the dust of earth returning ..." | |
| Reinhard Mey | Icarus | 1975 | Icarus (album) |
| Santigold | Icarus | 2008 | Top Ranking (Mix Tape) |
| Saltatio Mortis | Daedalus | 2004 | Awakening (album) |
| Sunset rubdown | Idiot Heart | "The way that Icarus thought he might own the sky" | |
| Killer Be Killed | Wings Of Feather And Wax | "and now I'm falling, like Icarus to land, too late to kill the flame that I fanned" | |
| Textures | Laments of an Icarus | 2008 | Silhouettes (album) |
| Thea Gilmore | Icarus wind | "Soon there'll just be feathers and the quiet of the fall" | |
| Third eye blind | Blinded | "Icarus is not a tee shirt or a swan song" | |
| Thrice | Daedalus | Alchemy Index, Vol. III AIR (album) | |
| The Melting Point Of Wax | The Artist In The Ambulance (Album) | ||
| Toy matinee | Last plane out | "I like the part where Icarus hijacks the little red hen." | |
| Unholy | Icarus | 2001 | Phosphorus (album) |
| Jason Webley | Icarus | Only Just Beginning (Album) | |
| wolfgang | Weightless | 1996 | "Let Icarus plummet as sun melts his wax" |
| Redeemed in Pain | Icarus | 2010 | Icarus (album) |
| Subway to Sally | Undiscovered land | 2007 | Bastard (album) "and we rose to the sun, higher than Icarus once did." |
| Sound of rum | Icarus | 2009 | |
| Chakuza | Icarus | 2010 | "I want to fly again, towards the sun Icarus" |
| Celldweller feat. James Dooley | The Wings of Icarus | 2010 | Soundtrack For The Voices In My Head Vol.2 |
| Dance rage | Icarus | 2000 | "Labyrinth of the Senses (album)" |
| Marsimoto | Wellness | 2012 | Green velvet (album) "Who was Icarus? Icarus was a pipe, I'm flying towards the sun and pushing it aside" |
| Bastille | Icarus | 2013 | "Icarus is flying too close to the sun / Icarus's life, it has only just begun" |
| Solar fragment | Take Me Higher | 2007 | "A Spark of Deity (album)" |
| Fabian Römer | Not a human anymore | 2015 | "You are way too strong, long ago where Icarus never was" |
| Against K | Icarus | 2016 | "The closer you get to the sun with your wings, you still think they're flying but fall because they're burning (...)." |
| Hematoma | Icarus inherit | 2016 | We are god (album) |
| Ivan Torrent | Icarus | 2012 | Icarus (feat. Julie Elven) (Album) |
| Last Instance (Band) | Icarus | 2018 | Morgenland (album) |
Individual evidence
- ^ Roger McGough: Icarus Allsorts . Archived from the original on January 8, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 4, 2011.
