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Cultural references
"Nimrod" is the name of a movement in Elgar's Enigma Variations
The maritime reconnaissance and submarine interdiction conversion of the De Havilland Comet jet airliner, the Hawker Siddeley Nimrod, is simliarly named after the mighty hunter of the Bible.
The Pixies have a song titled Nimrod's Son from their Come on Pilgrim (EP).
The name took on connotations of a dolt when hunter Elmer Fudd was called "Nimrod" by Bugs Bunny in the popular Warner Bros. cartoons. Long before that, there are recorded instances of its use as a slang word to mean simply "hunter" (from the Genesis account). The perfect killing machine (Sentinel robot) in the X-Men Universe is called Nimrod. It was like its namesake: the ultimate hunter.
A fictional historical nation in the PlayStation RPG Xenogears is named Nimrod.
The god-like double-voiced figure in the PlayStation 2 action/adventure/puzzle video game Shadow of the Colossus, Dormin, is derived from the story of Nimrod. Dormin is Nimrod spelled backwards. Green Day has an album entitled Nimrod.
The alien-like creature in the NBC TV-show Surface is also called Nimrod.
A monster from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers is named Nimrod, although not in the sense as being a hunter figure.
The Skatalites have a song named Nimrod.
In the PC game Escape from Monkey Island the puppets Little Guybrush and Little LeChuck call each other Nimrod (it's not clear who calls whom Nimrod).
Io comunque mi riferisco al personaggio degli x-men.
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