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The German musical group Propaganda released their debut single, "Dr. Mabuse", during 1984 as a tribute to the character; the song was also part of their debut album, A Secret Wish, during 1985. The German band Blue System released a song named "Doctor Mabuse", as part of the album X-Ten, during 1994. The song was also released as a single.
Jean-Marc Lofficier wrote Superman's Metropolis, a trilogy of graphic novels for DC Comics illustrated by Ted McKeever, the third of which was entitled Wonder Woman: The Blue Amazon, with the plot derived partly from Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler. The character of Mabuse was combined with Wonder Woman villain Doctor Psycho. The character of Dr. Mabuse inspired Wong Jing's 1989 movie God of Gamblers.
Dr. Mabuse was mentioned as a member of Die Zwielichthelden (The Twilight Heroes) in the graphic novel The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier, by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill. Along with Doctor Caligari and Professor Rotwang.
In Kim Newman's The Hound of the D'Urbervilles, a collection of short stories featuring meetings between characters from the Sherlock Holmes stories and their literary contemporaries, one chapter revolves around a struggle for supremacy between Doctor Mabuse and Professor Moriarty. Mabuse also appears with his fellow silent movie characters in Newman's novel The Bloody Red Baron, in which he, Caligari, Rotwang, Count Orlok and others attempt to create the Red Baron.
The Brazilian musician and designer H.D. Mabuse has used this name as his pseudonym for more than 20 years. The name "Mabuse" is used as a pseudonym by a fictionalized version of Fritz Lang in Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa.
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