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• In a one-shot comic, Van Helsing: From Beneath The Rue Morgue, Gabriel Van Helsing battles with the creatures of Dr. Moreau. This event can be placed before the events of the book because at the end, we see Dr. Moreau escaping with one of his creations, stating that "the world lacks vision", and that he should "move to an island perhaps. Somewhere drastic, like... the South Seas...".

• The classic line associated with the Punk/New Wave band Devo "Are We Not Men?" is a key line of the story.

• The 1983 Oingo Boingo song, "No Spill Blood", refers to the island's laws against animalistic behaviour and appears to directly quote Erle C. Kenton's 1933 film adaption of the novel, Island of Lost Souls.

• The Island of Dr. Moreau is set to be a playable area in the MMORPG Champions Online, in which it is reffered to as 'Monster Island'. In the game, Dr. Moreau's son has continued his father's research on the island and created beast men of his own, including a super-intelligent Gorilla named Dr. Silverback, who has rejected his creator's ways and became a hero.

• Irish-American hip-hop band House of Pain take their name from Dr. Moreau's lab/surgery/torture room in the novel.

• The second series of Alan Moore and Kevin O' Neill's comic series The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen features Doctor Moreau prominently, having apparently survived the events of the book and have relocated to England on the behest of British Intelligence. In it, he is revealed as the creator behind the humanised animal characters of Rupert the Bear, Wind in the Willows, and Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit, among other series, as well as anachronistic work with biological weapons. Prendick also appears, and is shown to have gone insane from his experiences on the Island, among other things still fearing humans to be Beast-Men in disguise.

• In the computer role-playing game Deus Ex, the login name of the MJ12 nanotech laboratory's database is "dmoreau".