Dharma Initiative - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

In Half-Life 2: Episode Two, players can find an Easter egg in the sixth chapter, "Our Mutual Fiend". It should be noted that in another twist which connects the two media, "Our Mutual Friend" is a book that Desmond was saving to read just before his suicide in the Swan station on Lost. In Uriah's lab, there is an inaccessible room containing a computer terminal with the numbers shown on the screen and a Dharma-style octagon with a pine tree symbol for the White Forest base on the wall. The room was inserted at the request of Gabe Newell, who promised to insert a reference to Lost in response to Half-Life references in Lost's first season episode "The Greater Good".

In a scene of the U.S. version of The Office, in the episode "Initiation", Dwight Schrute asks Ryan Howard, "What is the Dharma initiative?" This can be seen on the season 3 DVD.

In the 2010 Xbox 360 and PC game Singularity, in the Xbox 360 version an achievement can be gained by locating a hidden room behind the room where the last TMD upgrade is received. A glow is seen in a horizontal crack upon entering, and, when coming closer, a wheel is sticking out of the crack, at which point the achievement is gained entitled "The Wheel, will they ever explain this?"

In the 2008 movie Cloverfield, which was produced by J.J. Abrams and the team that made Lost, a slight variation on the Dharma Initiative logo can briefly be seen in the opening of the movie. It is during the introduction of the film which states where the "video" about to be shown came from. It is only visible for a few frames on the lower right side of screen. It looks almost identical to the Pearl station logo.

In the Sholazar Basin area of Northrend in the Wrath of the Lich King expansion for World of Warcraft, there is a hatch in the middle of an island (coordinates 38/37) in a lake. If the player highlights the window of the hatch, the numbers "5 9 16 17 24 43" appear, each number being one higher than the Lost numbers.

In Call of Duty: World at War, in the Nazi Zombies level Verrückt, in the power room when the switch is pulled you can hear a voice saying the numbers and on the multiplayer map called Sub pen on the northern edge of the sub is the octagonal logo.

In Just Cause 2, on a small island located off the northwest shore of the big island, the player can discover a plane crash site similar to the one featured in LOST. Upon delving deeper into the jungle, the player can see the original "Dharma Hatch" that was later blown open by Locke, Jack, Kate, and Hurly.

In Fallout 3, the Numbers are the combination to a hatch-like safe hidden in the floor in Billy Creel's house. You cannot open it by just knowing the numbers, your character must learn them from the child living with him.

In 2009, The Fringemunks released a song called "DHARMA Initiative" (a parody of Culture Club's "Karma Chameleon").

Popular Doctor Who fan site; Doctor Who Online added a Dharma logo with the date 2004-2010 to commemorate the show's ending.

In the video game for X-Men Origins: Wolverine, After you crash the jeep on the first level and continue, you reach an area with a barricaded gate. Climb over the rocks and go in. Defeat the enemies. Look for some boards over a small doorway off on one of the areas. Slice them up and enter to find "the hatch" on the ground near the back corner.

ThinkGeek added a Dharma Initiative Alarm Clock to its product catalog, as one of its 2010 April Fools' Day jokes.