SiD ViCiOuS In popular culture

In popular culture

• A fictionalised film about the relationship between Vicious and Spungen, Sid and Nancy, was made by director Alex Cox in 1986, starring Gary Oldman as Vicious.
• The end credits of Goodfellas roll to his version of "My Way".
• Adrian Edmondson played Vicious in The Comic Strip Presents: Demonella. He is shown in Hell, accompanied by Oscar Wilde, Genghis Khan, Marie Antoinette, and Adolf Hitler.
• Ben Garant portrayed Vicious in a skit on the MTV sketch comedy series The State.
• In the 2009 stage play Kurt and Sid, Sid Vicious appears before Kurt Cobain as a vision, on the day of his suicide.
• The season 2 episode of Gilmore Girls entitled "Nick and Nora/Sid and Nancy" references his relationship with Spungen.
• Season 19 episode 12 of The Simpsons entitled "Love, Springfieldian Style" includes a story about Sid and Nancy with Nelson and Lisa playing the parts.
• In an episode of Mission Hill, Andy tells Gwen, voiced by The Go-Go's member Jane Wiedlin, in order to impress her, "You know, there's a rumor that Sid Vicious once threw up in our bathroom." Andy's brother Kevin wakes up the next morning with his first hangover and is told, "Hey, it's not everyone who can out-do Sid Vicious."
• In the series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the antihero vampire Spike sings along to Gary Oldman's cover of Sid's "My Way" from "Sid and Nancy" in the episode "Lovers Walk".In fact the couple Spike and Drusilla were modeled on Sid and Nancy.^[28]
• In the Series Primeval, characters Connor Temple and Abby Maitland are nicknamed "Sid and Nancy" due to their odd style of dress. The two later take in a pair of Diictodons named Sid and Nancy.
• In the 2009 film (500) Days of Summer, Summer breaks up with Tom saying, "We've been like Sid and Nancy for months now." In promotion of the film, Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Tom) and Zooey Deschanel (Summer) starred in the debut episode of Microsoft Zune and Mean Magazine's "Cinemash", in which they recreated a scene from Sid And Nancy with Gordon-Levitt playing Nancy and Deschanel playing Sid.
• Professional skier Seth Morrison has had many of his K2 pro models named in Sid's honour including the Seth Pistol and Seth Vicious. There was also a woman's version called the Nancy.
• In the Japanese manga NANA Sid and Nancy are referred to several times, with Sex Pistols being Nana Osaki's favourite band and an inspiration. With two of the manga's main characters, Nana Osaki and Ren Honjo resembling them. Ren especially, who looks similar in appearance to Sid and plays the bass as he does.The two characters even making a similar "death pact".
• In the Japanese manga and anime Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad Sid appears, along with musicians like Freddie Mercury, John Lennon and Kurt Cobain, in the dreams of the protagonists before their first big concert to tell who will succeed.
• He appears in the OVA of anime Detroit Metal City.
• In World of Warcraft a boss character appearing in the Scarlet Monastery named Interrogator Vishas is named for Sid. His wife, Nancy Vishas, was also formerly found in the Alterac Highlands.