Modern Culture
- Between 1790 and 1973 there was a British naval sloop called Tisiphone.
- Fury is a DC Comics character empowered by Tisiphone.
- Tisiphone is incorrectly mentioned as one of the Gorgons in the British horror movie The Gorgon from 1964.
- Tisiphone appears in Path of the Fury, a 1992 military science fiction book by David Weber (reissued with a prequel backstory in 2006 as In Fury Born). There, thousands of years in the future, a fading Tisiphone merges with a dying, former Imperial Cadre drop commando, Alicia DeVries, and helps wreak vengeance on the space pirates who killed DeVries' family.
- The Game Boy Advance game Golden Sun: The Lost Age and Nintendo DS game Golden Sun: Dark Dawn both feature a weapon named the 'Tisiphone Edge', a light blade that unleashes a special critical attack called 'Vengeance'.
- Tisiphone appears as a major supporting character in the WebMage series of Cyberpunk fantasy novels by Kelly McCullough.
- The character Tisiphone featured in the stage play Rough Magic, written by Roberto Aguirre Sacasa. She was portrayed by John Misselwitz at the Hangar Theatre, Ithaca, New York, 2005.
- In the video game Tomb Raider: Underworld, Megaera and Tisiphone are the names of two sister ships which form part of the game's setting.
- In the video game God of War III, the player must pass the Gates of Tisiphone on his way to Tartarus.
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