Talk:Jack the Ripper in fiction

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Vandal Savage[edit]

His DC Comics Encyclopedia entry states he was the Ripper. 14:35, 27 January 2007 (UTC)Enda80

The Lodger[edit]

The link to the 1913 novel The Lodger goes to a pop band by the same name. Sorry I don't know how to disambiguate it, would someone else please do it? The Sanity Inspector 22:36, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for letting us know. There's never been an article about the book, but that at least used to go to the Hitchcock film based upon the novel. Some freaking putz removed that and put up some insignificant band there instead. Grr. I moved the band to a better name and threw a disambiguation page up. It should help some, but it'd be nice to have info on the short story and novel itself sometime. 17:11, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Metal Gear Solid 2[edit]

A little spoilerific, but In Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, the main character's past reveals that he was once called "Jack the Ripper", for he murdered many. This seems relevant, but I'm not sure how to word it to fit in the article. If someone else can, that would be great. If also you find this inappropriate for the article, it is fine to exclude it too. Jon Fawkes 04:18, 18 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps change the title of this to "Jack The Ripper In Popular Culture"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.154.218.85 (talk) 19:52, 19 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Removed section[edit]

I have removed the trivia section to here, pending citation and discussion of notability:

Trivia
  • In the film Dr. Strangelove, the villain is the deranged USAF general "Jack D. Ripper", who orders his wing of B-52s to carry out an unprovoked and unauthorized thermonuclear attack in the Soviet Union.
  • A number of companies also produce Jack the Ripper figurines or toys (including Mezco and McFarlane Toys), sometimes leading to public protest, as when the family of victims of alleged serial killer Robert William Pickton objected to the sale of Ripper dolls at the Vancouver Virgin Megastore. [1]
  • In the film Red Eye the hitman played by Cillian Murphy uses the alias named Jackson Rippner. When another character said it wasn't very nice of his parents naming him that he responded by saying That's what I told them, before I killed them/.

- Arcayne (cast a spell) 15:48, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

More Ripper fiction addenda[edit]

The Ripper Code by Nabil Shaban. Novel at Amazon, short film at Daily Motion. Nabil Shaban has appeared in several films, including Born of Fire (1983), City of Joy (1992), Derek Jarman's Wittgenstein (1993), Gaias børn (1998), and Children of Men (2006) - wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by William Trevor Blake (talk • contribs) 23:40, 15 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Carole Nelson Douglas's darkly sumptuous crossover /Alternate Wold Newton Universe IRENE ADLER series (starring the Conan Doyle character from A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA; THE Woman, who beguilded and bested Sherlock Holmes)features references to the Ripper, especially motivating the investigations in the 'story arc' novels CHAPEL NOIR and CASTLE ROUGE, in which the Ripper is found to be a deliberately celebrated example of an all-too-common sadistic crime...While the élites--aristo, affluent, and arty--including Bram Stoker--are busy secretly reading PSYCHOPATHIA SEXUALIS, and the series' gang, plus Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, encounter horrid femmes et hommes fatale, including Rasputin, Dracula and a horde of neo-Attis-cult self-castrators.

Anne Perry, whose own dark past was fictionalized in HEAVENLY CREATURES, won great praise for her grim THOMAS PITT series novel, THE WHITECHAPEL CONSPIRACY, which uses an S. Knight-type Ripper theory as backstory to a later, but related complex murderous revolutionary plot.

John D. Macdonald invented eco-terrorism in his THE GREEN RIPPER.

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER's 'Watcher'-mentor, Giles, was nicknamed 'Ripper'.

Perhaps someone reading here would know whether the true-crime case celebrated as 'The Yorkshire Ripper' has itself inspired fiction.

The case of 'the Black Dahlia', itself so often fictionalized, has often been compared to that of the Ripper; they may be, respectively, the second and first most famous unsolved murders. Juxtaposing speculative-solution books, JACK THE RIPPER: THE FINAL SOLUTION and BLACK DAHLIA AVENGER may be particularly compelling. As DOCTOR JEKYLL AND MISTER HYDE seemed obiquely prescient of the Ripper case, (Towne/Polanski's) CHINATOWN seems a danse macabre with forgotten elements of Hodel's (BD AVENGER) theory of the Dahlia (and related) crimes.

209.247.23.85 (talk) 00:51, 5 January 2008 (UTC)Lindenfir[reply]

Possible modification for 4th June 2011 episode of Doctor Who: In the 2011 episode A Good Man Goes to War of the BBC TV series Doctor Who, it is suggested that Jack the Ripper is stopped by being killed and eaten by a Silurian. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.9.225.204 (talk) 19:00, 4 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I found something else that has Jack the Ripper in it. He's a character in the first chapter of a Japanese Light Novel called Fate/ Apocrypha. In it he's actually a young girl who wants nothing more then to go back to her mother's womb... or something like that. There's only one chapter translated and for as much as I know the only chapter there is right now. You guys can figure out if you wanna add that in to the article or not. The English translation of it can be found here: http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=Fate/Apocrypha:Act_1_Unbirth

Thats actually what sparked my interest to come to the article. 216.16.182.212 (talk) 00:10, 30 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Music[edit]

Infernal Majesty has a song about the Ripper on their "None Shall Defy" album, called "Anthology of Evil". They recorded a second song about the Ripper ("Daughters Of The Abyss") for their unreleased "History Of Hell".

Iced Earth also has a song about the Ripper, called "Jack" on their "Monster Show" CD, and Motorhead has a song called "Jack The Ripper", although I don't remember off-hand what album it's from. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.193.142.207 (talk) 11:36, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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