Argus Panoptes - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • Alternative rock band Ween's eighth studio album Quebec has a song entitled "The Argus", which refers to the Argus' many eyes.
  • Argus is the title of the Wishbone Ash's third album.
  • Argus is featured in the Percy Jackson series of books as Camp Half-Blood's security guard.
  • The Argus Array was a multi-aperture space telescope in Star Trek.
  • J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter novels, gave the name Argus Filch to the caretaker of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He is all-seeing with the help of his cat Mrs. Norris.
  • The fifteenth colossus from the video game Shadow of the Colossus is called Argus and nicknamed "The Sentinel" and "Vigilant Guard". The hundreds of eyes carved into the temple that he resides in refers to the omnividence (all-seeing ability) of Argus Panoptes and the watchful colossus himself.
  • A once highly sought Notorious Monster from the video game Final Fantasy XI is called Argus. It has close to a dozen visible eyes and drops an accuracy enchanting necklace.
  • One of the monsters from Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger and its American counterpart Mighty Morphin Power Rangers is based on Argos. It is called "Dora Argos" in Japanese, in Power Rangers it is called "Eye Guy", and is a creature composed entirely of eyeballs.
  • Argus is the name of Jack's pet peacock on the NBC TV show 30 Rock. Jack believes Argus to be Don Giess' spirit watching over him.
  • In the mobile video game God of War: Betrayal, Argos is featured as the giant pet of the goddess Hera. Argos is killed by an unknown assassin who frames the game's protagonist, Kratos, for the murder.
  • In the novel "Luka and the Fire of Life", by Salman Rushdie, Argus Panoptes is one of the five appointed guardians of the 'Fire of Life.

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