Influence in Popular Culture
- Arthur Conan Doyle based his Professor Challenger character partly on Fawcett, and stories of the "Lost City of Z" became the basis for his novel The Lost World.
- A contemporary reviewer of Evelyn Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust suggested he may have derived the plot in part from Fawcett's disappearance. The novel's hero vanishes into the Brazilian jungle and is held prisoner there.
- Fawcett has been proposed as a possible inspiration for Indiana Jones, the fictional archaeologist/adventurer. A fictionalised version of Fawcett aids Jones in the novel Indiana Jones and the Seven Veils.)
- According to an article in Comics Scene #45, Fawcett was the inspiration of Kent Allard, an alter ego of the Shadow.
- Aloysius Pendergast, a fictional FBI special agent from the novels by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, is a Fawcett's great-great nephew.
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