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Manfred von Richthofen, the "Red Baron" is one of the most famous aviators in history and the subject of numerous representations in music, film and other media. He already received numerous honors and awards for his exploits. The following is a list of mentions of him in popular culture. ==Popular fiction== * Manfred von Richthofen was mentioned regularly in the comic strip ''Peanuts'', by Charles Schulz, and was included in subsequent television specials as a running gag. Charlie Brown's beagle Snoopy frequently fantasized about being a World War I flying ace. In his daydreams, he imagined his dog house to be a Sopwith Camel and carried a personal grudge against the Red Baron. In spite of Snoopy's best effort, however, the "Baron" always shot him down with little difficulty. This recurring story arc inspired songs by The Royal Guardsmen and even a comic strip in Mad Magazine which depicted their confrontations from the Baron's point of view. *Corto Maltese, a character by Italian cartoonist Hugo Pratt, witnesses the defeat of the Red Baron. *Hans von Hammer, the troubled protagonist of DC Comics's ''Enemy Ace'' was inspired in part by Richthofen. Piloting a scarlet Fokker Dr. 1, von Hammer is a flying knight who fights according to the code of chivalry, despite being deeply disturbed by the slaughter around him. Unlike the Baron, however, Hans von Hammer was depicted as having survived to fight in World War II, in adventures inspired by those of Adolf Galland. *Manfred von Richthofen is one of the main characters of Jeffrey Shaara's book, ''To the Last Man''. *The second volume in Kim Newman's ''Anno Dracula'' series, ''The Bloody Red Baron'', features a vampire Richthofen who undergoes treatment in order to transform into a large bat-like creature and dispense with the need for an aeroplane. *Kim Newman's novel ''Back in the USSA'' also features the Red Baron helping the Mexican government invade Texas during a communist revolution in the United States led by Eugene Debs. *The last book in the ''Time Machine'' series, ''World War I Flying Ace'', asks the reader to find out who shot down the Red Baron and take a photograph to prove the answer. *In the novel ''Burning Shore'' by Wilbur Smith, one of the main character, Lord Andrew Killigan, is shot down by the Red Baron's Flying Circus. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Red Baron in popular culture」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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