Gilgamesh in Popular Culture - Television

Television

• The Gilgamesh story is a key part of the episode "Darmok" from Star Trek: The Next Generation.
• Gilgamesh (anime), directed by Masahiko Murata.
• Gilgamesh is a central character in the anime series Fate/Stay Night which is based on the visual novel by Type Moon., and in its prequel, Fate/Zero.
• Gilgamesh is also used as a part of two other anime, The Tower of Druaga: Aegis of Uruk and The Sword of Uruk. Story elements and names are used.
• Gilgamesh appears in the Hercules: The Legendary Journeys episode, "Faith," and is played by Tony Todd. His half-sister is established to be Nebula, who had already appeared on the series. He is depicted as the king of Sumer and recently having lost his family. A parallel is drawn between him and Hercules, who experienced a similar loss. Gilgamesh's loss, though, causes him to succumb to the influence of Dahak – leading him to work toward bringing the demon god into the world by killing the Sumerian gods and providing the sacrifice of a warrior heart. He tricks Hercules into aiding in his plan and kills Iolaus (who was shielding Nebula, the intended sacrifice). Hercules kills Gilgamesh soon afterward.
• The Watchers organization was created by Ammaletu the Akkadian after he saw Gilgamesh coming back to life. Thus making Gilgamesh the first immortal to be documented by a mortal in Highlander: The Series.
• The Epic is seen in The Secret Saturdays, though with some alterations. Instead of telling the story of Gilgamesh's quest for immortality, it depicts his battle against an ancient Sumerian cryptid known as Kur. The Saturday family was searching for it, hoping that it might contain clues on driving the Kur spirit from Zak. Apparently a legion of Romans in Algeria were in possession of the tablets before being driven off by a Sea Centipede, from which the tablets were again taken by Vikings and buried with them. These remains told of a tool called The Flute of Gilgamesh, which has the ability to drive Kur from a physical body, that was stolen by the Naga at some point. When the Saturdays managed to acquire the flute and began to use it; they discovered that if they try to drive Kur out of Zak with it; it would kill him in the process. The Flute was later stolen by Argost and used along with the Smoke Mirror to pull in Zak Saturdays' evil parallel doppelganger: Zak Monday, whom Argost used the Flute on to remove the Anti-Kur from and merge with it, Argost then destroyed the Smoke Mirror and the Flute of Gilgamesh afterwards, but managed to keep a recording of its tune in order to remove Kur from Zak Saturday and merge with it as well; only for matter/anti-matter backlash to occur and removed Argost from our plane of existence altogether.
• From the episode Appointment with Death of Agatha Christie's Poirot (UK airdate 25 December 2009), Dame Celia Westholme comforts Jinny Boynton by telling her the story of Gilgamesh "the most beautiful man in all creation", after an abduction attempt was made on Jinny.
• "Demon with a Glass Hand" is an episode of The Outer Limits television series and in it is portrayed the saga of the Eternal Man, the one who never dies, called by various names in various times, but historically known as Gilgamesh.
• Witchblade episode Consectatio tells a story of Gilgamesh and Enkidu, may have been made up for the episode.