Sgt. Rock - Cultural References

Cultural References

• In the graphic novel Tank Girl, Tank Girl's helmet has "Sgt. Rock Can't Dock" written on it.
• The English rock band XTC included a song called "Sgt. Rock (Is Going To Help Me)" on their 1980 album Black Sea. The song was released as a single that December and reached No. 16 on the U.K. singles chart. Songwriter Andy Partridge would later pen songs about two other DC Comics characters, Supergirl and Brainiac.
• The character Xander Harris made frequent references to Rock on the TV series Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
• During the end credits of the 1987 film Predator, Lt. Hawkins (Shane Black) is shown reading Sgt. Rock #408 (February 1986).
• One issue of the underground comic Dopin Dan had a Sgt. Rock parody called Sgt. Jock. It featured the main character leading a dispirited platoon in the Vietnam War and taking out two deliberately anachronistic foes by impossible means, namely destroying a Tiger Tank with nothing but a brass knuckles assisted punch, then downing a Stuka dive bomber by throwing a bayonet through the windshield, killing the pilot.
• Stacey David former host of the Spike TV show Trucks! built an off-road truck and named it Sgt. Rock
• The Simpsons' Episode, Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish", is considered a homage to both Sgt. Rock and Joe Kubert's Art Design.
• American singer-songwriter Elliott Smith mentions him in the song Color Bars, on the album Figure 8: "Sgt. Rock broke the key off in the lock to where I come from"