This is how vampires are represented? Unbelievable.
- Deadpool (2022): Deadpool initially names the Carnage symbiote clone growing inside of him after Renesmee, since it was eating him from the inside out like Renesmee did to Bella. He later changes her name to Princess to avoid getting sued by Stephenie Meyer.
- The Disney Ducks Comic Universe gave us Quacklight
, in which Daisy and Brigitta write their own vampire novel in response to Donald and Scrooge mocking their love of a cheesy vampire movie and it ends up turning into a parody of the series. Highlights include the constantly appearing and disappearing "Brigittax" (aka Brigitta's attempts to add a Self-Insert that will marry the story's equivalent to Uncle Scrooge), the villains being Magica and Gladstone, who plot to steal the codes to Scrooge's vault so that Magica can become "the most powerful billionaire vampire witch in the world", and the vampires ultimately being cured due to a diet of fruit juice and vegetables. At the end, a literary agent overhears the girls reading the novel to Scrooge and Donald and predicts that the books (and resulting merchandise) will become highly popular, a jab at Twilight's real-life popularity.
- The Pokémon fic My Little Pumpkin references a hit PG-13 romance film starring vampires called Eventide. Ash thinks it's gross and mushy, but Gary's older sister May likes it.
- A Different Point of View: The trilogy is set in 2009. Muffy is a fan of the Deadlight series, which is about a girl named Lola and her undead boyfriend Richard.
- Hotel Transylvania: When trying to stop Johnny from flying out of the state, Dracula sees that the in-flight movie is a satire of Twilight:Drac: This is how we're represented. Unbelievable.
- Inside Out: Near the end, Sadness mentions that Riley now has a "Tragic-Vampire-Romance Island".
- Monster High: The "Frights, Camera, Action!" special has the in-universe "Vampire Majesty" movies, which center around a love triangle between three vampires (one of them named Edweird). A subplot centers around in-universe Ship-to-Ship Combat between Monster High students regarding whether Edweird or his competition Alucard is the cuter male lead (as it turns out, they're played by the same actor).
- Turning Red: When we first meet Priya, she's seen with a copy of a Twilight spoof, "Nightfall".
- In Abigail, the series is name-dropped when trying to figure out how to deal with the titular vampire.
- In Annie, Annie goes to see the premiere of a movie called MoonQuake Lake which is a parody of the Twilight films.
- In Liberal Arts, the book series and its popularity becomes the subject of debate between the two protagonists.
- In What We Do in the Shadows, Nick refers to himself as Twilight after he's turned into a vampire and dresses modernly, in contrast to the other vampires.
- In Career of Evil, a teenaged girl named Kelsey who was a victim of a Serial Killer known as the Shacklewell Ripper is mentioned to have the series on her bookshelf.
- The Dresden Files: In the short story "Bigfoot On Campus" Connie sarcastically asks if she's going to sparkle or something when she's told she's a vampire.
- In Dogs Don't Talk, Ben's mom buys him a copy, and he brings it to school, not knowing its reputation. It falls out of his backpack before wrestling practice. From then on, Ben is known as Twilight.
- In one edition of Fortunately, the Milk, the illustration of the wumpires shows one that looks like the movie version of Edward Cullen, with a caption identifying him as "Pale and Interesting Edvard".
- In The Kaiju Preservation Society, two kaiju that the KPS are trying to get to mate with each other are named Edward and Bella. Several characters joke about "millenials ruining kaiju naming".
- In Mindblind, Nathaniel is introduced to some girls at a party as "Special Ed." When he drunkenly attempts to kiss a girl, instead leaving a smudge of vodka-spiked punch on her neck, her friend says, "Ooh, he's special Edward! Get it, like Edward Cullen? He's marked your neck like a vampire!"
- Prudence Penderhaus: Flintlock High School has a Salvatore-Cullen fan club that meets twice a week to squee over brooding vampires.
- In Are You Seeing Me?, Perry points out Stanley Park, where scenes from New Moon were shot, from their hotel room in Vancouver. He says he didn't notice any vampires.
- The pilot of Arrow has the best friend of the titular protagonist making a disparaging comment about the film.Tommy Merlyn: Now by my rough estimate, you have not had sex in 1,839 days. As your wingman, I highly recommend Carmen Golden.Oliver Queen: Which one is she?Tommy Merlyn: The one that looks like the chick from Twilight.Oliver Queen: What's Twilight?Tommy Merlyn: You're so better off not knowing.
- In the Swedish Advent calendar Mysteriet på Greveholm - Grevens återkomst, Saga has a poster of "Mylight" in her room.
- Good Luck Charlie: like every teenage girl on television in the early to mid-2010s, Teddy is a fan of the Disney Channel send-up called Dusk. This one also appears (and becomes an important plot point) in My Babysitter's a Vampire.
- Interview with the Vampire (2022): On April 8, 2024 (which is the date of the total solar eclipse in North America), the official Immortal AMC Facebook page posted a parody image of The Twilight Saga with Louis (the lead character) as the Bella substitute, and he has the choice between Team Lestat (his boyfriend in Season 1) and Team Armand (his boyfriend in Season 2).
- Jessie has a couple references to the franchise:
- In "A Doll's Outhouse", when Ravi and Luke have a duel over a girl, this exchange happens:Tanya: This is just like Edward vs. Jacob! I can't believe I'm Bella!
Emma: That makes two of us. - In "The Whining", Bertram blames Taylor Lautner for taking the scare factor out of werewolves.
- In "A Doll's Outhouse", when Ravi and Luke have a duel over a girl, this exchange happens:
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- In "The Zombie Song" by Stephanie Mabey, the protagonist talks about what would happen if she was a zombie in love with a human. She references Twilight:And all of your friends—they'd try to kill us.
But only because they'd be jealous
That our love is deeper than Edward and Bella's
- Sesame Street: A "Cookie's Crumby Pictures" sketch is entitled "Twilight: Breaking Cookie", featuring Cookie Monster as a "yumpire" named Short Breadward, a girl named Belly, and a cookie-baking wolf named Bacob. In this sketch, Bacob teaches Short Breadward how to control his "cookie thirst".
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- The Darkside Detective: Doris the librarian is a fan of Guylight, a popular paranormal romance novel about a teenaged girl whose boyfriend is a "reverse vampire" who can only come out during the day. The book cover shows a pair of hands holding a banana. A poster for the film adaptation shows up in one of the DLC chapters.
- Sunset Overdrive: Stanley's choice to rename Sunset City for his comic references the Twilight series and its female fandom:Stanley: I need a good name for what Sunset City has become. Something darker...like Twilight City!
Oh man, that's good, and it appeals to girls too!
- AstroLOLogy: In one short, Leo is bitten by a vampire bat and becomes a vampire himself, but when he's about to bite a hypnotized Cancer, he freaks out about his lack of a reflection or appearance in photos. During the end-of-episode message, he runs across the screen and freaks out again when he starts sparkling.
- Minilife TV: In "How to Cook a VAMPIRE!", Ian forgets to add garlic to his mixture and ends up with a vampire similar to Edward who asks for a hot fella...er, Bella. Chris uses this as a prime example of how not to make a vampire.
- Hellsing Ultimate Abridged has Alucard and Seras killing "Edward" and "Bella":"Edward": Who is it?
Alucard: Oh, you know- (shoots "Edward" 37 times) -a real fucking vampire.- It would seem Team Four Star has softened their stance on Twilight over the years, as in the finale, Alucard says that "getting angry about books meant for horny teenage girls was ridiculous then and it's ridiculous now."
- The "Dr. Seuss" vs "William Shakespeare" showdown in Epic Rap Battles of History has the latter ending his first turn by throwing shade at the former's credibility as an author by saying he might have wrote the Twilight book series.
- The film series was the very first topic of Teens React.
- In three of Sky Does Minecraft's "Do Not Laugh" videos, fellow YouTuber Aphmau brings installations of her series Midnight, which is essentially Twilight on crack. The series would make a return in some of Aph's machinima videos, continuing from where it left off.
- MF217 doesn't outright mention it, but the reason he's shirtless while recording an episode of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim with him going on a Werewolf feeding frenzy is due to the numerous Walking Shirtless Scene encounters with Twilight's own Werewolves.
- In Sunstone, which is about a couple of young women who fall in love after meeting on a BDSM forum, after their first time together face to face they watch an unidentified movie, about which the following is said.Lisa: Seriously? She's choosing between Necrophilia and Bestiality and we're the perverts here?
- In And Shine Heaven Now it's implied that the Twilight vampires were once a powerful and respected clan in Europe...before the fangirls got to them.Arthur:Last I knew, they were hiding in an American small town, terrified at the thought that human women might find it unattractive that they sparkled in the sun.
- Family Guy: In "German Guy", Franz allows Chris to play with marionettes of Edward and Jacob.
- The Loud House: Lucy owns a bust of a vampire named Edwin.
- Phineas and Ferb: In "The Curse of Candace", Candace sees a new teen vampire movie called Early Evening.
- The Simpsons: The Tweenlight segment of "Treehouse of Horror XXI" involves Lisa falling in love with a preteen vampire named Edmund.
- South Park: The episode "The Ungroundable" mocks Twilight and the teen vampire craze in general.
- Johnny Test: in "Fangs a Lot Johnny", Susan and Mary transform into vampires to attract Gil.
- In the pilot film to DC Super Hero Girls, the main characters see a teen romance film called Just Before Dawn featuring a blond Edward-like Pretty Boy.
