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After Nero's death his name lived on in infamy, not least because everyone at the time not in his personal circle absolutely hated him. The aristocratic pagan writers of his day and the subsequent centuries loathed him for his affronts to Roman dignity--particularly his love of acting and the stage, seen as low pursuits--and the Christians who took charge 300 years later identified him with ''evil'' on account of his persecutions of the early Christians.[[note]]The Roman common people--whose accounts have not survived--were probably less negative at first, but he quickly fell out of their good graces too on account of high taxes, bad management, and stupid moves like building his ridiculously lavish palace after the Great Fire.[[/note]] He is still seen as the prime example of a bad and mad emperor, while at the same being perhaps the most famous Roman emperor to the general public. More recent historians have started to doubt whether Nero's reputation [[WrittenByTheWinners wasn't just the result of some serious badmouthing?]] By all means the guy was cruel, unhinged, and dangerously power-hungry, but several of the stories about him are certainly false.
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After Nero's death his name lived on in infamy, not least because everyone at the time not in his personal circle absolutely hated him. The aristocratic pagan writers of his day and the subsequent centuries loathed him for his affronts to Roman dignity--particularly his love of acting and the stage, seen as low pursuits--and the Christians who took charge 300 years later identified him with ''evil'' on account of his persecutions of the early Christians.[[note]]The Roman common people--whose accounts have not survived--were probably less negative at first, but he quickly fell out of their good graces too on account of high taxes, bad management, and stupid moves like building his ridiculously lavish palace after the Great Fire.Fire rather than using that wealth to rebuild the city.[[/note]] He is still seen as the prime example of a bad and mad emperor, while at the same being perhaps the most famous Roman emperor to the general public. More recent historians have started to doubt whether Nero's reputation [[WrittenByTheWinners wasn't just the result of some serious badmouthing?]] By all means the guy was cruel, unhinged, and dangerously power-hungry, but several of the stories about him are certainly false.
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After Nero's death his name lived on in infamy, not least because everyone at the time not in his personal circle absolutely hated him. The aristocratic pagan writers of his day and the subsequent centuries loathed him for his affronts to Roman dignity--particularly his love of acting and the stage, seen as low pursuits--and the Christians who took charge 300 years later identified him with ''evil'' on account of his persecutions of the early Christians.[[note]]The Roman common people--whose accounts have not survived--were probably less negative at first, but he quickly fell out of their good graces too on account of high taxes, bad management, and opportunism.[[/note]] He is still seen as the prime example of a bad and mad emperor, while at the same being perhaps the most famous Roman emperor to the general public. More recent historians have started to doubt whether Nero's reputation [[WrittenByTheWinners wasn't just the result of some serious badmouthing?]] By all means the guy was cruel, unhinged, and dangerously power-hungry, but several of the stories about him are certainly false.
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After Nero's death his name lived on in infamy, not least because everyone at the time not in his personal circle absolutely hated him. The aristocratic pagan writers of his day and the subsequent centuries loathed him for his affronts to Roman dignity--particularly his love of acting and the stage, seen as low pursuits--and the Christians who took charge 300 years later identified him with ''evil'' on account of his persecutions of the early Christians.[[note]]The Roman common people--whose accounts have not survived--were probably less negative at first, but he quickly fell out of their good graces too on account of high taxes, bad management, and opportunism.stupid moves like building his ridiculously lavish palace after the Great Fire.[[/note]] He is still seen as the prime example of a bad and mad emperor, while at the same being perhaps the most famous Roman emperor to the general public. More recent historians have started to doubt whether Nero's reputation [[WrittenByTheWinners wasn't just the result of some serious badmouthing?]] By all means the guy was cruel, unhinged, and dangerously power-hungry, but several of the stories about him are certainly false.
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After Nero's death his name lived on in infamy, not least because everyone at the time not in his personal circle absolutely hated him. The aristocratic pagan writers of his day and the subsequent centuries loathed him for his affronts to Roman dignity--particularly his love of acting and the stage, seen as low pursuits--and the Christians who took charge 300 years later identified him with ''evil'' on account of his persecutions of the early Christians.[[note]]The Roman common people--whose accounts have not survived--were probably less negative at first, but he quickly fell out of their good graces too.[[/note]] He is still seen as the prime example of a bad and mad emperor, while at the same being perhaps the most famous Roman emperor to the general public. More recent historians have started to doubt whether Nero's reputation [[WrittenByTheWinners wasn't just the result of some serious badmouthing?]] By all means the guy was cruel, unhinged, and dangerously power-hungry, but several of the stories about him are certainly false.
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After Nero's death his name lived on in infamy, not least because everyone at the time not in his personal circle absolutely hated him. The aristocratic pagan writers of his day and the subsequent centuries loathed him for his affronts to Roman dignity--particularly his love of acting and the stage, seen as low pursuits--and the Christians who took charge 300 years later identified him with ''evil'' on account of his persecutions of the early Christians.[[note]]The Roman common people--whose accounts have not survived--were probably less negative at first, but he quickly fell out of their good graces too.too on account of high taxes, bad management, and opportunism.[[/note]] He is still seen as the prime example of a bad and mad emperor, while at the same being perhaps the most famous Roman emperor to the general public. More recent historians have started to doubt whether Nero's reputation [[WrittenByTheWinners wasn't just the result of some serious badmouthing?]] By all means the guy was cruel, unhinged, and dangerously power-hungry, but several of the stories about him are certainly false.
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After Nero's death his name lived on in infamy. All historians depicted him as a incredibly cruel and perverted tyrant and when Christianity became the state religion three centuries later his name became even more synonymous with ''evil''. He is still seen as the prime example of a bad and mad emperor, while at the same being perhaps the most famous Roman emperor to the general public. More recent historians have started to doubt whether Nero's reputation [[WrittenByTheWinners wasn't just the result of some serious badmouthing?]] By all means the guy was cruel, unhinged, and dangerously power-hungry, but several of the stories about him are certainly false.
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After Nero's death his name lived on in infamy. All historians depicted him as a incredibly cruel infamy, not least because everyone at the time not in his personal circle absolutely hated him. The aristocratic pagan writers of his day and perverted tyrant and when Christianity became the state religion three subsequent centuries loathed him for his affronts to Roman dignity--particularly his love of acting and the stage, seen as low pursuits--and the Christians who took charge 300 years later his name became even more synonymous identified him with ''evil''. ''evil'' on account of his persecutions of the early Christians.[[note]]The Roman common people--whose accounts have not survived--were probably less negative at first, but he quickly fell out of their good graces too.[[/note]] He is still seen as the prime example of a bad and mad emperor, while at the same being perhaps the most famous Roman emperor to the general public. More recent historians have started to doubt whether Nero's reputation [[WrittenByTheWinners wasn't just the result of some serious badmouthing?]] By all means the guy was cruel, unhinged, and dangerously power-hungry, but several of the stories about him are certainly false.
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Nero's early reign was decent, but after five years he started to become more preoccupied with leading a decadent life. He drank and ate a lot and endorsed himself in perverted sexual behaviour, both with men and women. The emperor fancied himself a wonderful poet, singer and lyricist, so much even that he supposedly [[WhileRomeBurns played the lyre during the Great Fire of Rome]] in 64 AD and even lit the city on fire personally. After the disaster Nero ordered the construction of a large palace, the ''Domus Aurea'' ("Golden House") on the destructed area of Rome, with a 40 meter high statue of himself. Nero also persecuted Christians and blamed them for the Great Fire. He had many of them tied up on poles next the road, then covered in tar and set on fire, so they could function as street lightning during parties.
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Nero's early reign was decent, but after five years he started to become more preoccupied with leading a decadent life. He drank and ate a lot and endorsed himself in perverted sexual behaviour, both with men and women. The emperor fancied himself a wonderful poet, singer and lyricist, so much even that he supposedly [[WhileRomeBurns played the lyre during the Great Fire of Rome]] in 64 AD and even lit the city on fire personally. After the disaster Nero ordered the construction of a large palace, the ''Domus Aurea'' ("Golden House") on the destructed area of Rome, with a 40 meter high statue of himself. Nero also persecuted Christians and blamed them for the Great Fire. He had many of them tied up on poles next the road, then covered in tar and set on fire, so they could function as street lightning lighting during parties.
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* {{Matricide}}: He had his mother killed by his guards.
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* SelfMadeOrphan: He had his mother killed by his guards.
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* WrittenByTheWinners: Seeing that Nero persecuted Christians and Rome became Christian only a few centuries later it's not difficult to see the possibility that his legacy has made him a lot more ''evil'' than he might have been in real life.
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* WrittenByTheWinners: Seeing that Nero persecuted Christians and Rome became Christian only a few centuries later it's not difficult to see the possibility that his legacy has made him a lot more ''evil'' than he might have been in real life. \n (The fact that people supported pretenders claiming to be him implies that he was popular in some circles).
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* He plays an important part in Henryk Sienkiewicz's 1895 novel ''Literature/QuoVadis''. In the 1951 American [[film adaptation Film/QuoVadis]], he's played by Peter Ustinov, who was nominated for an Oscar for his performance.
* In the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoon ''Roman Legion-Hare'' Yosemite Sam is ordered by Emperor Nero to find a victim to be tossed to the lions. Sam tries to catch WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, but in the end he and Nero are chased by a group of lions themselves and flee to the top of a pillar. As the lions start kicking each stone of the pillar away one by one Nero starts playing the fiddle, in a parody of the band on board of the UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic. An extra joke is that Nero's face is a caricature of Creator/CharlesLaughton, who played Nero in ''Quo Vadis?''.
* In the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoon ''Roman Legion-Hare'' Yosemite Sam is ordered by Emperor Nero to find a victim to be tossed to the lions. Sam tries to catch WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, but in the end he and Nero are chased by a group of lions themselves and flee to the top of a pillar. As the lions start kicking each stone of the pillar away one by one Nero starts playing the fiddle, in a parody of the band on board of the UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic. An extra joke is that Nero's face is a caricature of Creator/CharlesLaughton, who played Nero in ''Quo Vadis?''.
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* He plays an important part in Henryk Sienkiewicz's 1895 novel ''Literature/QuoVadis''. In the 1951 American [[film adaptation Film/QuoVadis]], [[Film/QuoVadis film adaptation]], he's played by Peter Ustinov, who was nominated for an Oscar for his performance.
* In the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoon ''Roman Legion-Hare'' Yosemite Sam is ordered by Emperor Nero to find a victim to be tossed to the lions. Sam tries to catch WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, but in the end he and Nero are chased by a group of lions themselves and flee to the top of a pillar. As the lions start kicking each stone of the pillar away one by one Nero starts playing the fiddle, in a parody of the band on board of the UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic. An extra joke is that Nero's face is a caricature of Creator/CharlesLaughton, who played Nero in''Quo Vadis?''.''The Sign of the Cross''.
* In the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoon ''Roman Legion-Hare'' Yosemite Sam is ordered by Emperor Nero to find a victim to be tossed to the lions. Sam tries to catch WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, but in the end he and Nero are chased by a group of lions themselves and flee to the top of a pillar. As the lions start kicking each stone of the pillar away one by one Nero starts playing the fiddle, in a parody of the band on board of the UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic. An extra joke is that Nero's face is a caricature of Creator/CharlesLaughton, who played Nero in
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* ''Literature/QuoVadis'' and ''Film/QuoVadis'': Plays an important part in both.
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* ''Literature/QuoVadis'' and ''Film/QuoVadis'': Plays He plays an important part in both. in Henryk Sienkiewicz's 1895 novel ''Literature/QuoVadis''. In the 1951 American [[film adaptation Film/QuoVadis]], he's played by Peter Ustinov, who was nominated for an Oscar for his performance.
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: One of the real classic cases. He may have been a bad guy in many regards, but he wasn't remotely as evil as movies like ''Film/{{QuoVadis}}'' and ''Sign Of The Cross'' depict him.
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: One of the real classic cases. He may have been a bad guy in many regards, but he wasn't remotely as evil as movies like ''Film/{{QuoVadis}}'' ''Film/QuoVadis'' and ''Sign Of The Cross'' depict him.
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* WhileRomeBurns: The most famous urban legend about him. Supposedly, he (at best) played his fiddle during the Great Fire of Rome, or (at worst) burned the city on purpose. In reality, Nero never did any of this, and did everything he could to help the homeless victims of the fire.
** The most reliable source on the fire, Tacitus (who lived when it happened), states that Nero rushed back to the city to oversee the relief efforts, paying out of his own pockets quite generously. He did benefit from it, though, building a new set of buildings on the place where the fire had been, probably contributed to the suspicion that he did this on purpose.
** The most reliable source on the fire, Tacitus (who lived when it happened), states that Nero rushed back to the city to oversee the relief efforts, paying out of his own pockets quite generously. He did benefit from it, though, building a new set of buildings on the place where the fire had been, probably contributed to the suspicion that he did this on purpose.
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* WhileRomeBurns: The most famous urban legend about him. Supposedly, he (at best) played his fiddle during the Great Fire of Rome, or (at worst) burned the city on purpose. In reality, Nero never did any of this, and did everything he could to help the homeless victims of the fire. \n** The most reliable source on the fire, Tacitus (who lived when it happened), states that Nero rushed back to the city to oversee the relief efforts, paying out of his own pockets quite generously. He did benefit from it, though, building a new set of buildings on the place where the fire had been, probably contributed to the suspicion that he did this on purpose.
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* ''ComicStrip/{{Nero}}'': The titular character ''Nero'' is based on him. The series ''Nero'' was originally called ''The Adventures Of Detective Van Zwam''. In the first album ''Het Geheim van Matsuoka'' (''The Secret of Matsuoka'') Detective Van Zwam meets a man who has drank a serum that makes people insane and now thinks he's Emperor Nero. Later the character gets his sanity back and is revealed to be Mr. Heiremans (an InsideJoke on behalf of the creator, referring to a personal colleague of him who was named ''Heiremans''). Sleen had intended Heiremans to remain an one-off character, but the newspaper readers liked him so much that he became a regular in the series and even became the main protagonist instead of Van Zwam. Strange enough everybody kept calling him ''Nero'' from then on, despite the fact that he no longer thought he was the eponymous Roman emperor. Even his wife is referred to as ''Madame Nero''. The only hint referring to the time he thought he was Nero are the laurel leaves behind his ears. Especially in Flanders, Belgium, more people will likely think of Nero as this comic book character than the Roman Emperor.
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* ''ComicStrip/{{Nero}}'': The titular character ''Nero'' title character, Nero, is based on him. The series ''Nero'' was originally called ''The Adventures Of Detective Van Zwam''. In the first album ''Het Geheim van Matsuoka'' (''The Secret of Matsuoka'') Detective Van Zwam meets a man who has drank a serum that makes people insane and now thinks he's Emperor Nero. Later the character gets his sanity back and is revealed to be Mr. Heiremans (an InsideJoke on behalf of the creator, referring to a personal colleague of him who was named ''Heiremans''). Sleen had intended Heiremans to remain an one-off character, but the newspaper readers liked him so much that he became a regular in the series and even became the main protagonist instead of Van Zwam. Strange enough everybody kept calling him ''Nero'' from then on, despite the fact that he no longer thought he was the eponymous Roman emperor. Even his wife is referred to as ''Madame Nero''. The only hint referring to the time he thought he was Nero are the laurel leaves behind his ears. Especially in Flanders, Belgium, more people will likely think of Nero as this comic book character than the Roman Emperor.
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* ''Literature/QuoVadis'' and ''Film/QuoVadis'': Plays an important part both.
* In the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoon ''Roman Legion-Hare'' Yosemite Same is ordered by Emperor Nero to find a victim to be tossed to the lions. Sam tries to catch WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, but in the end he and Nero are chased by a group of lions themselves and flee to the top of a pillar. As the lions start kicking each stone of the pillar away one by one Nero starts playing the fiddle, in a parody of the band on board of the UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic. An extra joke is that Nero's face is a caricature of Creator/CharlesLaughton, who played Nero in ''Quo Vadis?''.
* In the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoon ''Roman Legion-Hare'' Yosemite Same is ordered by Emperor Nero to find a victim to be tossed to the lions. Sam tries to catch WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, but in the end he and Nero are chased by a group of lions themselves and flee to the top of a pillar. As the lions start kicking each stone of the pillar away one by one Nero starts playing the fiddle, in a parody of the band on board of the UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic. An extra joke is that Nero's face is a caricature of Creator/CharlesLaughton, who played Nero in ''Quo Vadis?''.
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* ''Literature/QuoVadis'' and ''Film/QuoVadis'': Plays an important part in both.
* In the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoon ''Roman Legion-Hare'' YosemiteSame Sam is ordered by Emperor Nero to find a victim to be tossed to the lions. Sam tries to catch WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, but in the end he and Nero are chased by a group of lions themselves and flee to the top of a pillar. As the lions start kicking each stone of the pillar away one by one Nero starts playing the fiddle, in a parody of the band on board of the UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic. An extra joke is that Nero's face is a caricature of Creator/CharlesLaughton, who played Nero in ''Quo Vadis?''.
* In the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoon ''Roman Legion-Hare'' Yosemite
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* [[spoiler:The playable Saber]] in VideoGame/FateExtra is a [[spoiler:gender-reversed]] version of Nero. Interestingly, this version of Nero is portrayed as genuinely insane, but not truly evil.
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* [[spoiler:The playable Saber]] in VideoGame/FateExtra ''VideoGame/FateExtra'' is a [[spoiler:gender-reversed]] version of Nero. Interestingly, this version of Nero is portrayed as genuinely insane, but not truly evil.
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Hadrian was Emperor before Marcus Aurelius (he was succeeded by Antoninus Pius, who was succeeded by Marcus Aurelius). Seems more approriate to order them chronologically.
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'''Nero''' (37-68 AD) was a notorious Roman Emperor and among UsefulNotes/{{Augustus}}, UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}}, Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius, Hadrian and Constantine the Great one of the most famous.
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* According to ''Series/{{Grimm}}'', Nero hired an [[ThePhoenix Excandesco]] to start the Great Fire of Rome so as to kill Christians in the city.
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Big Bad doesn\'t really apply.
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* BigBad: Murder, fratricide, matricide, partner murders, decadent behaviour, forced castration of slaves, pyromania, egomania, cruelty, torture... it's quite a list and has caused some historians to doubt whether all of it is true?
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** Also in the actual historical background, as far as people can tell, based on [[OrgyOfEvidence the sheer amount of accused crimes]]: murder, fratricide, matricide, partner murders, decadent behaviour, forced castration of slaves, pyromania, egomania, cruelty, torture... it's quite a list and has caused some historians to doubt whether all of it is true.
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* [[spoiler:The playable Saber]] in VideoGame/FateExtra is a [[spoiler:gender-reversed]] version of Nero. Interestingly, this version of Nero is portrayed as genuinely insane, but not truly evil.
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* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: What he did during his participation in the Olympic Games being the most infamous example.
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After Nero's death his name lived on in infamy. All historians depicted him as a incredibly cruel and perverted tyrant and when Christianity became the state religion three centuries later his name became even more synonymous with ''evil''. He is still seen as the prime example of a bad and mad emperor, while at the same being perhaps the most famous Roman emperor to the general public. More recent historians have started to doubt whether Nero's reputation [[WrittenByTheWinners wasn't just the result of some serious badmouthing?]]
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badmouthing?]] By all means the guy was cruel, unhinged, and dangerously power-hungry, but several of the stories about him are certainly false.
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'''Nero''' (38-68 AC) (37-68 AD) was a notorious Roman Emperor and among UsefulNotes/{{Augustus}}, UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}}, Marcus Aurelius, Hadrian and Constantine the Great one of the most famous.
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* ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'': Alex Nero, MadArtist and one time wielder of the Qwardian yellow power ring.
* The demon lord Neron from TheDCU. The numerological ties to "666" are pointed out.
* The demon lord Neron from TheDCU. The numerological ties to "666" are pointed out.
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* AdiposeRex: Towards the end of his reign.
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* AdiposeRex: Towards Was very obese towards the end of his reign.
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* In the ''Literature/{{Lensman}}'' he was [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy an alien infiltrator working for the collapse of civilisation]].
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* CaptainColorbeard: His original family name was Ahenobarbus (Bronzebeard).
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* Nero appears in the webcomic side of ''Franchise/AxisPowersHetalia'' as someone under his mother Agrippina's command and who is interested in Greek arts and culture, much to the chagrin of his mother.
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* Nero appears in the webcomic side of ''Franchise/AxisPowersHetalia'' ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'' as someone under his mother Agrippina's command and who is interested in Greek arts and culture, much to the chagrin of his mother.
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'''Nero''' (38-68 AC) was a notorious Roman Emperor and among UsefulNotes/{{Augustus}}, UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}}, Marcus Aurelius Aurelius, Hadrian and Constantine the Great one of the most famous.
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Nero's early reign was decent, but after five years he started to become more preoccupied with leading a decadent life. He drank and ate lot and preoccupied himself in perverted sexual behaviour, both with men and women. The emperor fancied himself a wonderful poet, singer and lyricist, so much even that he supposedly [[WhileRomeBurns played the lyre during the Great Fire of Rome]] in 64 AD and even lit the city on fire personally. After the disaster Nero ordered the construction of a large palace, the ''Domus Aurea'' ("Golden House") on the destructed area of Rome, with a 40 meter high statue of himself. Nero also persecuted Christians and blamed them for the Great Fire. He had many of them tied up on poles next the road, then covered in tar and set on fire, so they could function as street lightning during parties.
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Nero's early reign was decent, but after five years he started to become more preoccupied with leading a decadent life. He drank and ate a lot and preoccupied endorsed himself in perverted sexual behaviour, both with men and women. The emperor fancied himself a wonderful poet, singer and lyricist, so much even that he supposedly [[WhileRomeBurns played the lyre during the Great Fire of Rome]] in 64 AD and even lit the city on fire personally. After the disaster Nero ordered the construction of a large palace, the ''Domus Aurea'' ("Golden House") on the destructed area of Rome, with a 40 meter high statue of himself. Nero also persecuted Christians and blamed them for the Great Fire. He had many of them tied up on poles next the road, then covered in tar and set on fire, so they could function as street lightning during parties.
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* ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'': Together with Judas and Brutus he is one of the three ''evil'' people to be eternally chewed by Satan in Hell.
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* TragicVillain: Growing up in a household with a crazy, murderous nephew (UsefulNotes/Caligula) and a mother who ordered many murders (Agippina) you're bound to end up depraved yourself, especially went being put in the position of being the most powerful man of your era.
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'''Nero'' (38-68 AC) was a notorious Roman Emperor and among UsefulNotes/{{Augustus}}, UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}}, Marcus Aurelius and Constantine the Great one of the most famous.
He was adopted by Emperor Claudius on behalf of his new wife Agrippina, who was Nero's mother. In 54 AC Claudius was poisoned by Agrippina, making Nero his successor. As emperor Nero immediately made sure nobody stood in his way. He poisoned his brother Britannicus in 55 AD, ordered the execution of his first wife Claudia Octavia and in 59 AD even the woman who placed him on his throne: mother Agrippina. In 65 his second wife Poppaea was killed by him too.
Nero's early reign was decent, but after five years he started to become more preoccupied with leading a decadent life. He drank and ate lot and preoccupied himself in perverted sexual behaviour, both with men and women. The emperor fancied himself a wonderful poet, singer and lyricist, so much even that he supposedly [[WhileRomeBurns played the lyre during the Great Fire of Rome]] in 64 AD and even lit the city on fire personally. After the disaster Nero ordered the construction of a large palace, the ''Domus Aurea'' ("Golden House") on the destructed area of Rome, with a 40 meter high statue of himself. Nero also persecuted Christians and blamed them for the Great Fire. He had many of them tied up on poles next the road, then covered in tar and set on fire, so they could function as street lightning during parties.
Naturally, all this debauchery and cruelty didn't make him very popular with the citizens. As early as 65 AD a conspiracy was plotted against him, but he found out and had all those involved executed. By 68 AD Rome was in chaos, nearly bankrupt and threatened by foreign invasions. All stuff Nero didn't care about. So the Senate intervened, ousted him by coup and ordered his arrest. To avoid this Nero committed suicide, aided by his trusty servant.
After Nero's death his name lived on in infamy. All historians depicted him as a incredibly cruel and perverted tyrant and when Christianity became the state religion three centuries later his name became even more synonymous with ''evil''. He is still seen as the prime example of a bad and mad emperor, while at the same being perhaps the most famous Roman emperor to the general public. More recent historians have started to doubt whether Nero's reputation [[WrittenByTheWinners wasn't just the result of some serious badmouthing?]]
TropeNamer for WhileRomeBurns.
* AdiposeRex: Towards the end of his reign.
* AncientGrome: Nero was a huge fan of everything Greek. He was obsessed with Greek theatre, poetry, music, and art--the Neronian age is sometimes called the "Silver Age" of Roman culture for a reason.
* TheAntichrist: Many of the early Christians thought he was the Antichrist.
** Some believe the BookOfRevelation was written about him.
* AxCrazy: Often depicted being this.
* BackFromTheDead: After Nero's suicide in 68, there was a widespread belief, especially in the eastern provinces, that he was not dead and somehow would return. This belief came to be known as the Nero Redivivus Legend.
* BiTheWay
* BigBad: Murder, fratricide, matricide, partner murders, decadent behaviour, forced castration of slaves, pyromania, egomania, cruelty, torture... it's quite a list and has caused some historians to doubt whether all of it is true?
* TheCaligula: Being related to the real life UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}} certainly helped.
* DeadlyDecadentCourt
* DefiantToTheEnd: As he died he still had the nerve to claim: "A great artist disappears with me."
* DepravedBisexual: According to legend castrated one of his lovers, Sporus, so he could use him as ''his wife''.
* DomesticAbuser: He kicked his pregnant wife, Poppaea Sabina, in her belly. She died of a miscarriage.
* DrivenToSuicide: Though he had to ask one of his guards to help him.
* EverythingsLouderWithBagpipes: Nero almost certainly didn't fiddle while Rome burned, but he was - according to the people who had to praise him or die, at least - a very accomplished bagpiper.
* ForeignCultureFetish: He was in love with Greek culture, and did all his songs and poems in Greek. Performed in the Olympic Games, despite their rules against non-Greek participation. But then again, he was [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem the emperor]].
* GladiatorGames: He enjoyed them so much that he dressed up in bear skins to attack prisoners himself.
* GrapesOfLuxury: He is often portrayed eating grapes.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: One of the real classic cases. He may have been a bad guy in many regards, but he wasn't remotely as evil as movies like ''Film/{{QuoVadis}}'' and ''Sign Of The Cross'' depict him.
** It's mainly because he persecuted the Christians, who were seen as just an annoying cult at the time. But after Christianity took over, he was [[{{Retcon}} retconned]] into an evil supervillain.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Nero saw himself as a great artist and had a 40 metres high statue of himself built in his ''Domus Aurea''.
* LackOfEmpathy: Ordered countless Christians to be murdered. Even had his brother Germanicus and mother Agrippina killed.
* LastOfHisKind: The last Julio-Claudian emperor. The bloodline of Augustus and Julius Caesar ended with him.
* MadArtist
* ManOnFire: Ordered several people to be tied up to a pole and then set on fire, as a ''human torch''.
* MeaningfulName: Nero means ''black'' in Italian.
* MommasBoy: One of history's more disturbing examples.
* MotherMakesYouKing: His mother Agrippina was the one who made him emperor, after murdering his uncle (and stepfather Claudius). [[SelfMadeOrphan And then he ordered her to be killed.]]
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Naming somebody ''Nero'' is not a compliment.
* {{Narcissist}}: Thought of himself as a great singer and lyricist.
* NightmareFuel: One of the more notoriously awful Roman emperors.
* PopCulturalOsmosis: Went into history for supposedly setting fire to Rome himself, while playing the fiddle afterwards. The fact that he set the town on fire is disputed nowadays and his fiddle is extremely unlikely, seeing that they weren't invented until a thousand years later.
* PrettyBoy: In his younger years, before he grew fat and bloated.
* RoyallyScrewedUp: Nero lives on in infamy as a cruel and deboucherous emperor.
* SelfMadeOrphan: He had his mother killed by his guards.
* TragicVillain: Growing up in a household with a crazy, murderous nephew (UsefulNotes/Caligula) and a mother who ordered many murders (Agippina) you're bound to end up depraved yourself, especially went being put in the position of being the most powerful man of your era.
* WhileRomeBurns: The most famous urban legend about him. Supposedly, he (at best) played his fiddle during the Great Fire of Rome, or (at worst) burned the city on purpose. In reality, Nero never did any of this, and did everything he could to help the homeless victims of the fire.
** The most reliable source on the fire, Tacitus (who lived when it happened), states that Nero rushed back to the city to oversee the relief efforts, paying out of his own pockets quite generously. He did benefit from it, though, building a new set of buildings on the place where the fire had been, probably contributed to the suspicion that he did this on purpose.
* WindmillCrusader
* WouldHurtAChild: Kicked his second wife Poppaea during her pregnancy, causing her death.
* WrittenByTheWinners: Seeing that Nero persecuted Christians and Rome became Christian only a few centuries later it's not difficult to see that his legacy has made him a lot more ''evil'' than he might have been in real life.
'''Appearances in popular culture'''
* ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'': Together with Judas and Brutus he is one of the three ''evil'' people to be eternally chewed by Satan in Hell.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Nero}}'': The titular character ''Nero'' is based on him. The series ''Nero'' was originally called ''The Adventures Of Detective Van Zwam''. In the first album ''Het Geheim van Matsuoka'' (''The Secret of Matsuoka'') Detective Van Zwam meets a man who has drank a serum that makes people insane and now thinks he's Emperor Nero. Later the character gets his sanity back and is revealed to be Mr. Heiremans (an InsideJoke on behalf of the creator, referring to a personal colleague of him who was named ''Heiremans''). Sleen had intended Heiremans to remain an one-off character, but the newspaper readers liked him so much that he became a regular in the series and even became the main protagonist instead of Van Zwam. Strange enough everybody kept calling him ''Nero'' from then on, despite the fact that he no longer thought he was the eponymous Roman emperor. Even his wife is referred to as ''Madame Nero''. The only hint referring to the time he thought he was Nero are the laurel leaves behind his ears. Especially in Flanders, Belgium, more people will likely think of Nero as this comic book character than the Roman Emperor.
** Nero actually met Emperor Nero in ''De Rode Keizer'' ("The Red Emperor"), in which he, Petoetje, Petatje and Madam Pheip use TimeTravel to go back to UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire. Of course, some CriminalDoppelganger confusion evolves. Emperor Nero is shown as an AxCrazy jerk and is, of course, furious to see Nero claim that he is the ''real'' Nero. He tries to have Nero executed in the Colosseum, but he manages to escape. The emperor then decides to burn Rome so that the impostor will be burnt too. Naturally a Roman legionary confuses the emperor with the real Nero and [[OffWithHisHead cuts off his head]]. As he brings the chopped off head to the palace [[OhCrap he realizes he made a big mistake]]. Nero is then brought in and has to act as Emperor Nero in his place. At first Nero likes playing the part of his historical namesake, but the Roman people don't like the fact that he abolishes the gladiator games and start to revolt, which causes them to flee back to the time machine and his own time.
* ''ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske'': Cast as the villain in the album ''Het Geheim van de Gladiatoren'' ("The Secret of the Gladiators").
* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'': In ''The Rose and the Sword'' Cacophonix leaves the Gauls' village and says: ''Qualis artifex pereo'' (''A great artist leaves with me''). This is a ShoutOut to Nero's LastWords before he committed suicide.
* ''Literature/QuoVadis'' and ''Film/QuoVadis'': Plays an important part both.
* In the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoon ''Roman Legion-Hare'' Yosemite Same is ordered by Emperor Nero to find a victim to be tossed to the lions. Sam tries to catch WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, but in the end he and Nero are chased by a group of lions themselves and flee to the top of a pillar. As the lions start kicking each stone of the pillar away one by one Nero starts playing the fiddle, in a parody of the band on board of the UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic. An extra joke is that Nero's face is a caricature of Creator/CharlesLaughton, who played Nero in ''Quo Vadis?''.
* Portrayed in ''Series/IClaudius''.
* A TV miniseries was made about him, simply called ''Nero''.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The Doctor met Emperor Nero in the episode ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E4TheRomans The Romans]]'' and inadvertently inspired him to burn down Rome.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': In the MusicalEpisode Sweet sings that he gave Nero his very first fiddle, implying that he's responsible for the Great Fire of Rome and the TemporalParadox caused by introducing a musical instrument centuries before it was invented.
+ He appeared on Peabody and Sherman's segment of ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'', but this was a subversion, where he was portrayed as NotEvilJustMisunderstood. [[spoiler: In this reality, it was actually Nero's ''music teacher'' who started the fire]].
* Nero appears in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'', where Garfield tells the story of the cat who invented lasagna. In the story, Nero is depicted as a VillainousGlutton who imprisons (or in some cases, executes) bad chefs. When the cat's owner (the cat and the owner being {{Expy}}s of Garfield and Jon) is thrown in prison, the cat appeals to the Emperor's appetite, claiming Jon is an excellent chef (even though he isn't) which persuades the Emperor to give him a chance. The cat's idea is that [[NotSoDifferent cats and emperors are very much alike]], lazy, greedy people who like to be waited on, so he figured the Emperor would like what ''he'' likes, and directs his owner to make what is eventually called lasagna. It works; the Emperor loves it, and pardons the man.
* One of Medusa's crocodiles in ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers'' is named afer Nero.
* Creator/SalvadorDali painted him on a canvas entitled "Dematerialization Near the Nose of Nero" (1949).
* Music/BobDylan mentions him in ''Desolation Row''.
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'''Nero'' (38-68 AC) was a notorious Roman Emperor and among UsefulNotes/{{Augustus}}, UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}}, Marcus Aurelius and Constantine the Great one of the most famous.
He was adopted by Emperor Claudius on behalf of his new wife Agrippina, who was Nero's mother. In 54 AC Claudius was poisoned by Agrippina, making Nero his successor. As emperor Nero immediately made sure nobody stood in his way. He poisoned his brother Britannicus in 55 AD, ordered the execution of his first wife Claudia Octavia and in 59 AD even the woman who placed him on his throne: mother Agrippina. In 65 his second wife Poppaea was killed by him too.
Nero's early reign was decent, but after five years he started to become more preoccupied with leading a decadent life. He drank and ate lot and preoccupied himself in perverted sexual behaviour, both with men and women. The emperor fancied himself a wonderful poet, singer and lyricist, so much even that he supposedly [[WhileRomeBurns played the lyre during the Great Fire of Rome]] in 64 AD and even lit the city on fire personally. After the disaster Nero ordered the construction of a large palace, the ''Domus Aurea'' ("Golden House") on the destructed area of Rome, with a 40 meter high statue of himself. Nero also persecuted Christians and blamed them for the Great Fire. He had many of them tied up on poles next the road, then covered in tar and set on fire, so they could function as street lightning during parties.
Naturally, all this debauchery and cruelty didn't make him very popular with the citizens. As early as 65 AD a conspiracy was plotted against him, but he found out and had all those involved executed. By 68 AD Rome was in chaos, nearly bankrupt and threatened by foreign invasions. All stuff Nero didn't care about. So the Senate intervened, ousted him by coup and ordered his arrest. To avoid this Nero committed suicide, aided by his trusty servant.
After Nero's death his name lived on in infamy. All historians depicted him as a incredibly cruel and perverted tyrant and when Christianity became the state religion three centuries later his name became even more synonymous with ''evil''. He is still seen as the prime example of a bad and mad emperor, while at the same being perhaps the most famous Roman emperor to the general public. More recent historians have started to doubt whether Nero's reputation [[WrittenByTheWinners wasn't just the result of some serious badmouthing?]]
TropeNamer for WhileRomeBurns.
* AdiposeRex: Towards the end of his reign.
* AncientGrome: Nero was a huge fan of everything Greek. He was obsessed with Greek theatre, poetry, music, and art--the Neronian age is sometimes called the "Silver Age" of Roman culture for a reason.
* TheAntichrist: Many of the early Christians thought he was the Antichrist.
** Some believe the BookOfRevelation was written about him.
* AxCrazy: Often depicted being this.
* BackFromTheDead: After Nero's suicide in 68, there was a widespread belief, especially in the eastern provinces, that he was not dead and somehow would return. This belief came to be known as the Nero Redivivus Legend.
* BiTheWay
* BigBad: Murder, fratricide, matricide, partner murders, decadent behaviour, forced castration of slaves, pyromania, egomania, cruelty, torture... it's quite a list and has caused some historians to doubt whether all of it is true?
* TheCaligula: Being related to the real life UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}} certainly helped.
* DeadlyDecadentCourt
* DefiantToTheEnd: As he died he still had the nerve to claim: "A great artist disappears with me."
* DepravedBisexual: According to legend castrated one of his lovers, Sporus, so he could use him as ''his wife''.
* DomesticAbuser: He kicked his pregnant wife, Poppaea Sabina, in her belly. She died of a miscarriage.
* DrivenToSuicide: Though he had to ask one of his guards to help him.
* EverythingsLouderWithBagpipes: Nero almost certainly didn't fiddle while Rome burned, but he was - according to the people who had to praise him or die, at least - a very accomplished bagpiper.
* ForeignCultureFetish: He was in love with Greek culture, and did all his songs and poems in Greek. Performed in the Olympic Games, despite their rules against non-Greek participation. But then again, he was [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem the emperor]].
* GladiatorGames: He enjoyed them so much that he dressed up in bear skins to attack prisoners himself.
* GrapesOfLuxury: He is often portrayed eating grapes.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: One of the real classic cases. He may have been a bad guy in many regards, but he wasn't remotely as evil as movies like ''Film/{{QuoVadis}}'' and ''Sign Of The Cross'' depict him.
** It's mainly because he persecuted the Christians, who were seen as just an annoying cult at the time. But after Christianity took over, he was [[{{Retcon}} retconned]] into an evil supervillain.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Nero saw himself as a great artist and had a 40 metres high statue of himself built in his ''Domus Aurea''.
* LackOfEmpathy: Ordered countless Christians to be murdered. Even had his brother Germanicus and mother Agrippina killed.
* LastOfHisKind: The last Julio-Claudian emperor. The bloodline of Augustus and Julius Caesar ended with him.
* MadArtist
* ManOnFire: Ordered several people to be tied up to a pole and then set on fire, as a ''human torch''.
* MeaningfulName: Nero means ''black'' in Italian.
* MommasBoy: One of history's more disturbing examples.
* MotherMakesYouKing: His mother Agrippina was the one who made him emperor, after murdering his uncle (and stepfather Claudius). [[SelfMadeOrphan And then he ordered her to be killed.]]
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Naming somebody ''Nero'' is not a compliment.
* {{Narcissist}}: Thought of himself as a great singer and lyricist.
* NightmareFuel: One of the more notoriously awful Roman emperors.
* PopCulturalOsmosis: Went into history for supposedly setting fire to Rome himself, while playing the fiddle afterwards. The fact that he set the town on fire is disputed nowadays and his fiddle is extremely unlikely, seeing that they weren't invented until a thousand years later.
* PrettyBoy: In his younger years, before he grew fat and bloated.
* RoyallyScrewedUp: Nero lives on in infamy as a cruel and deboucherous emperor.
* SelfMadeOrphan: He had his mother killed by his guards.
* TragicVillain: Growing up in a household with a crazy, murderous nephew (UsefulNotes/Caligula) and a mother who ordered many murders (Agippina) you're bound to end up depraved yourself, especially went being put in the position of being the most powerful man of your era.
* WhileRomeBurns: The most famous urban legend about him. Supposedly, he (at best) played his fiddle during the Great Fire of Rome, or (at worst) burned the city on purpose. In reality, Nero never did any of this, and did everything he could to help the homeless victims of the fire.
** The most reliable source on the fire, Tacitus (who lived when it happened), states that Nero rushed back to the city to oversee the relief efforts, paying out of his own pockets quite generously. He did benefit from it, though, building a new set of buildings on the place where the fire had been, probably contributed to the suspicion that he did this on purpose.
* WindmillCrusader
* WouldHurtAChild: Kicked his second wife Poppaea during her pregnancy, causing her death.
* WrittenByTheWinners: Seeing that Nero persecuted Christians and Rome became Christian only a few centuries later it's not difficult to see that his legacy has made him a lot more ''evil'' than he might have been in real life.
'''Appearances in popular culture'''
* ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'': Together with Judas and Brutus he is one of the three ''evil'' people to be eternally chewed by Satan in Hell.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Nero}}'': The titular character ''Nero'' is based on him. The series ''Nero'' was originally called ''The Adventures Of Detective Van Zwam''. In the first album ''Het Geheim van Matsuoka'' (''The Secret of Matsuoka'') Detective Van Zwam meets a man who has drank a serum that makes people insane and now thinks he's Emperor Nero. Later the character gets his sanity back and is revealed to be Mr. Heiremans (an InsideJoke on behalf of the creator, referring to a personal colleague of him who was named ''Heiremans''). Sleen had intended Heiremans to remain an one-off character, but the newspaper readers liked him so much that he became a regular in the series and even became the main protagonist instead of Van Zwam. Strange enough everybody kept calling him ''Nero'' from then on, despite the fact that he no longer thought he was the eponymous Roman emperor. Even his wife is referred to as ''Madame Nero''. The only hint referring to the time he thought he was Nero are the laurel leaves behind his ears. Especially in Flanders, Belgium, more people will likely think of Nero as this comic book character than the Roman Emperor.
** Nero actually met Emperor Nero in ''De Rode Keizer'' ("The Red Emperor"), in which he, Petoetje, Petatje and Madam Pheip use TimeTravel to go back to UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire. Of course, some CriminalDoppelganger confusion evolves. Emperor Nero is shown as an AxCrazy jerk and is, of course, furious to see Nero claim that he is the ''real'' Nero. He tries to have Nero executed in the Colosseum, but he manages to escape. The emperor then decides to burn Rome so that the impostor will be burnt too. Naturally a Roman legionary confuses the emperor with the real Nero and [[OffWithHisHead cuts off his head]]. As he brings the chopped off head to the palace [[OhCrap he realizes he made a big mistake]]. Nero is then brought in and has to act as Emperor Nero in his place. At first Nero likes playing the part of his historical namesake, but the Roman people don't like the fact that he abolishes the gladiator games and start to revolt, which causes them to flee back to the time machine and his own time.
* ''ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske'': Cast as the villain in the album ''Het Geheim van de Gladiatoren'' ("The Secret of the Gladiators").
* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'': In ''The Rose and the Sword'' Cacophonix leaves the Gauls' village and says: ''Qualis artifex pereo'' (''A great artist leaves with me''). This is a ShoutOut to Nero's LastWords before he committed suicide.
* ''Literature/QuoVadis'' and ''Film/QuoVadis'': Plays an important part both.
* In the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoon ''Roman Legion-Hare'' Yosemite Same is ordered by Emperor Nero to find a victim to be tossed to the lions. Sam tries to catch WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, but in the end he and Nero are chased by a group of lions themselves and flee to the top of a pillar. As the lions start kicking each stone of the pillar away one by one Nero starts playing the fiddle, in a parody of the band on board of the UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic. An extra joke is that Nero's face is a caricature of Creator/CharlesLaughton, who played Nero in ''Quo Vadis?''.
* Portrayed in ''Series/IClaudius''.
* A TV miniseries was made about him, simply called ''Nero''.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The Doctor met Emperor Nero in the episode ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E4TheRomans The Romans]]'' and inadvertently inspired him to burn down Rome.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': In the MusicalEpisode Sweet sings that he gave Nero his very first fiddle, implying that he's responsible for the Great Fire of Rome and the TemporalParadox caused by introducing a musical instrument centuries before it was invented.
+ He appeared on Peabody and Sherman's segment of ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'', but this was a subversion, where he was portrayed as NotEvilJustMisunderstood. [[spoiler: In this reality, it was actually Nero's ''music teacher'' who started the fire]].
* Nero appears in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'', where Garfield tells the story of the cat who invented lasagna. In the story, Nero is depicted as a VillainousGlutton who imprisons (or in some cases, executes) bad chefs. When the cat's owner (the cat and the owner being {{Expy}}s of Garfield and Jon) is thrown in prison, the cat appeals to the Emperor's appetite, claiming Jon is an excellent chef (even though he isn't) which persuades the Emperor to give him a chance. The cat's idea is that [[NotSoDifferent cats and emperors are very much alike]], lazy, greedy people who like to be waited on, so he figured the Emperor would like what ''he'' likes, and directs his owner to make what is eventually called lasagna. It works; the Emperor loves it, and pardons the man.
* One of Medusa's crocodiles in ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers'' is named afer Nero.
* Creator/SalvadorDali painted him on a canvas entitled "Dematerialization Near the Nose of Nero" (1949).
* Music/BobDylan mentions him in ''Desolation Row''.
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