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Comics

  • In Footrot Flats, The Dog sometimes adopts the persona "The Scarlet Manuka" and attempts to rescue abused Cricket balls, or Jess from her Bitch Box whenever she's in heat.

Film - Live Action

Literature

  • In Haze, Seb gets a message calling him Mr Pimpernel, which turns out to be from Madeline Story.

Live-Action TV

  • The Blackadder the Third episode "Nob and Nobility": Blackadder derides the public's obsession with the mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel, and makes a bet that he could rescue a French aristocrat just as well.
  • Wayne and Shuster: "Close Encounters of the Brown Pumpernickel Kind"

Video Games

  • A quest reward in the Borderlands 2 DLC Captain Scarlett and her Pirate's Booty is a sniper rifle named "Pimpernel". It shoots bullets that explode into five smaller bullets, in a pattern similar to the petals of a pimpernel flower. If it spawns as an Incendiary rifle with no additional accessories, it's actually called the "Scarlet Pimpernel". Furthering the reference, its unique flavor text is "Sink me!", and it has a logo of two crossed swords behind a pimpernel flower.

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