Harrier Jump Jet in popular culture
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The Harrier Jump Jet has unique characteristics which have led to it being featured a number of films and video games.
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[edit] Films
- The James Bond movie The Living Daylights.
- Aerialbot Slingshot in The Transformers.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger flies an AV-8B in the movie True Lies. According to the Internet Movie Database, the filmmakers paid the U.S. government $100,736 (or about $2,400 an hour) for the use of three US Marine Corps Harriers and their pilots.
- Harriers were used in the sci-fi movie Battlefield Earth. An army of humans that had been reduced to the level of cavemen by an occupying alien race liberate Earth by using Harrier jet fighters. This was one of the reasons why the movie got such a panning by the critics as it was seen to be so far fetched as even experienced pilot have trouble flying the Harrier, let alone cavemen.
[edit] Comic books
- Uncanny X-Men 095 features a Harrier, operated by the United States Marine Corps, designated 201, XV904 TAY-BA 198911.
[edit] Video games and flight simulators
- Harrier Attack (1983)
- AV8B Harrier Assault (Amiga)
- Eagle One: Harrier Attack (Playstation)
- Janes ATF Gold
- Harrier Jump Jet
- Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (Used by Solidus Snake)
- US Navy Fighters
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Hydra)
- Armed Assault
- addons for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 (PC MS-DOS and Windows).
- Red Alert 2 and its expansion pack Yuri's Revenge
- Desert Combat
[edit] Advertising
- As part of its Pepsi Stuff marketing campaign, Pepsi ran an ad promising a Harrier jet to anyone who collected 7,000,000 Pepsi Points. This ploy backfired when a group of investors actually collected and sent in the requisite points. A lawsuit ensued (Leonard v. Pepsico, Inc.), where it was ruled that any reasonable person would conclude that the ad was a joke.
[edit] Pop Music
- Harriers can be seen in the promotional video for The Saints are Coming by U2 and Green Day.
