In Popular Culture
In the Marvel Comics series X-Factor (volume 1), writer Peter David referenced “Particle Man” as the source song for a fictional parody by “Weird Al” Yankovic about the character Multiple Man; only a partial verse was presented, referencing the Multiple Man’s ability to create duplicates of himself.
The song was also an inspiration of sorts to author Terry Pratchett. One of his recurring Discworld characters, Foul Ole Ron, frequently mutters “millennium hand and shrimp”; this was a result of Pratchett feeding various texts to a text-generation computer program, and this phrase was a result of merging this song’s lyrics (which mention “millennium hand”) with a Chinese takeaway menu.
The song was used, in part, for advertisements for Geometry Wars: Galaxies. In reference to the nature of Geometry Wars, the part of the song used is the portion centering around Triangle Man.
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