Rom (Spaceknight) - in Other Media

In Other Media

• In the South Park trilogy Imaginationland, which featured many loosely adapted fictional characters from a variety of sources, a character based on Rom can be seen several times in the background.
• Rom appears in the Robot Chicken episode "Metal Militia", (voiced by Seth Green) in which he is shown to be powerless against Jim, a man with a giant magnet (voiced by Breckin Meyer).
• The Rom toy is significant in the James Gunn novel The Toy Collector, motivating the protagonist to fund his toy-collecting with stolen pharmaceuticals.
• Rom is mentioned by the RZA in the song "Impossible" off of Wu-Tang Clan's seminal Wu-Tang Forever, and in the song "Back When I was Four" by musician Jeffrey Lewis.
• A character highly reminiscent of Rom appeared in the background of the Silver Surfer animated series episode "Learning Curve" as the title character walks down a street on an alien world.
• In Robocop (1987), a convenience store robbery scene includes a ROM comic book.