Works containing Shout Outs and other references or homages to the Dickens tale.
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- The Princess Thieves: While teaching Gwendoline how to blend in with the crowds of London, Robin makes references to Oliver Twist which the princess has not read.
- In Batman 408 Jason Todd tries to boost the wheels off the Batmobile and Bat sends him to what appears to be a charitable school for underprivileged youths from the area around Crime Alley. The school is run by a widow named Fay Gunn (from Fagin) and Jason quickly leans that she's using her students to steal and help her run a criminal enterprise which Jason turns himself vigilante to put an end to.
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Some background characters running from a battle were Fagin, Dodger, and company.
- In one Peanuts strip from the 1980s, Snoopy is holding his supper dish as if to ask for more dog food.Charlie Brown: When Oliver Twist asked for more, they put him in solitary confinement.Snoopy: That stupid kid ruined it for the rest of us.
- August Rush is essentially a slightly mellowed music focused Setting Update of Oliver Twist. The most obvious parallel is "Wizard = Fagin."
- Golden Winter partakes in some Shout-Out Theme Naming with main character Oliver who joins a gang whose heist is masterminded by Frankie Fagan.
- The BFG: In the Dutch version the BFG owns a copy of Oliver Twist rather than Nicholas Nickleby.
- Doctrine of Labyrinths: The kept-thieves are directly modeled after Fagin's whole setup.
- The Dresden Files
- Ghost Story: The entire subplot dealing with Fitz and his trouble rescuing his friends from Aristedes is a either a pastiche or homage to Oliver Twist.
- Line of Delirium: In the second novel, after landing on Grail, Kay and Tommy introduce themselves using the Character Name Aliases of David Copperfield and Oliver Twist, respectively.
- Mortal Engines: The Lost Boys are half Fagin's gang, a quarter Jack the Ripper and a quarter Stingray, living in a submerged city and looked after by "Uncle", a delusional Fagin-esque techno-wizard in pink slippers with steel toecaps. They're really not very nice people at all.
- In If I Fall, If I Die, Vadim compares the man stealing from and threatening him to Sikes.
- Pilgrennon's Children: In Pilgrennon's Beacon, Peter says that London is where Oliver Twits lives. Pilgrennon replies, "He's Oliver Twist, not Oliver Twits, and I don't think he lives here anymore."
- In the Chicago P.D. episode "Fagin", Detective Upton compares the Big Bad to Fagin from the book.
- Doctor Who: Adric, a companion of the Fourth and Fifth Doctors, was conceived as the Artful Dodger in space.
- Hunter (1984). The episode "Fagin 1986" has the Villain of the Week running a gang of children. Ironically the criminal concerned has never read Oliver Twist, so he has no idea what Hunter means when he calls him The Fagin.
- Supernatural: In episode 21 of season 8 the book Sam takes out of the package in the hallway is Oliver Twist.
- In the Fantasy Island episode "Jungle Man," Roarke list Oliver Twist as an example of a fictional character so iconic he can come to life.
- Matilda: When Miss Honey is assessing her reading ability, Matilda gives a long list of books she has read recently, including Nicholas Nickleby, Oliver Twist, Jane Eyre, Tess Of The Durbervilles, The Lord of the Rings, The Invisible Man, The Secret Garden, Crime and Punishment, ...and The Cat in the Hat
- Team Fortress 2: One of the Scout's achievements is titled "Artful Dodger".
- Philosophy Tube: In her Capital Punishment
video Abigail makes a quick comparison of the homeless 13 year old Andrew Brunning (who was publicly executed for stealing a spoon) to the comparatively less horrific sufferings of Oliver Twist. She later uses a quote by Dickens himself being disgusted at the behavior at and damming of a public execution.
- Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Chipettes' guardian while at the Australian orphanage in "A Chipette Story" was named Olivia, in a gender bent reference to the famous orphan Oliver Twist.
- The Amazing World of Gumball: The entire "Books Are Violent" song from "The Blame" is full of shout-outs. The first part has shout-outs to Lord of the Flies, Titus Andronicus, Dracula, Red Riding Hood, the tale of Medusa, The Tortoise and the Hare and Oliver Twist. In the rap part, the gang drops homages to Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. During the final section, the gang reenacts scenes from Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, Alice in Wonderland, Moby-Dick and the tale of Icarus.
- Arthur: In "Mom and Dad Have a Great Big Fight", when David and Jane argue over spilled milk, D.W. worries that neither of them will love them anymore, and they'll end up without parents and become "organs". Arthur corrects her by telling her "Orphans, like in Oliver Twist". What follows is an Imagine Spot where Arthur asks Mr. Ratburn "Please, sir. May I 'ave some 'ore?", to which Ratburn gives him a wooden oar.
- Family Guy: In Season 2 episode "Let's Go to the Hop" has a cutaway gag in which Stewie explains how Oliver Twist would've played out differently if he was the protagonist, showing how in the "I want some more" scene Stewie would've held the aggressive attendant at gunpoint with a laser gun to be given another portion of gruel before forcing him to put on a dress and laser blast dance for him.
