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Appearances in pop culture

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Fairey's original goal of raising the image of André the Giant to an iconic status has been somewhat of a success, as evidenced by the appropriation of this imagery by others.

OBEY Giant poster on building exterior.
"Obey Giant" sticker appearing under a marker for Nevada State Route 604 (Las Vegas Boulevard), Las Vegas.

Video Games

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  • An "OBEY" poster appears on a wall in the Berlin, Germany stage of the video game Tony Hawk's Underground 2.
  • Posters of the stylized face appear on the wall on the main menu screen of the video game Tony Hawk's American Wasteland. They also appear on the level Hollywood, where a lot of them pasted at once, and East L.A, where one huge poster right in front of the entrance.
  • In the Half-Life series of video games:
    • In the PC video game Half-Life, players can choose André the Giant as a spraytag to mark walls or floors during multiplayer matches.
    • In the PC video game Half-Life 2, posters very similar to the Obey Giant ones appear, instead using the visage of Wallace Breen, and the text RESIST.
  • In the game Getting Up, players have the option to paste the "OBEY" poster on a wall.
  • In the Nintendo DS game "Retro Atari Classics", which features remixes of classic Atari games by famous graffiti artists along with the originals, the OBEY Giant design was used for Gravitar, Lunar Lander, Missile Command, and Sprint.

Movies

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Andre the Giant "Make Art Not War" poster with small OBEY sticker in NYC.

Television

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  • In an episode of the television program Family Guy, Peter Griffin paints an outsized image of the stylized "Giant" face emblem on the Sistine Chapel ceiling in an ostensible renovation effort. ([[Television producer}Producer]] Seth MacFarlane was a student at RISD at the same time as Frank Shepard Fairey).
  • In the first episode of season four of Alias, red and black OBEY posters can been seen plastered all over the nightclub walls.
  • Cartoon Network's between-show bumps depict a single city in which all of its cartoon stars seem to dwell. In one of these bumps, a picture of Aku, villain from the Samurai Jack series, can be seen with the word "OBEY" underneath it. This picture stylistically resembles the Obey Giant sticker.
  • On the television show Veronica Mars there is an Obey poster on the wall of Keith Mars' detective office that says "This Is Your God" (also a reference to the 1988 John Carpenter science fiction film They Live).
  • On the television show Weeds character Andy Botwin (played by Justin Kirk) wears "Obey" branded T-shirts in several episodes.
  • On an episode of Viva La Bam, Bam's uncle Don Vito steals Bam's Hummer truck and disappears. In the meanwhile, Bam and the CKY Crew place posters all over town of Vito. The posters resemble the "Giant" posters in a form of Don Vito's face. Margera later had the image tattooed above his foot.
  • In the Invader ZIM episode Game Slave 2, a poster of Obey with upraised fist is seen on the wall of the character Iggins' house.
  • Comedian Carlos Mencia has worn an OBEY shirt while hosting his show, Mind of Mencia.
  • Some fans of the Ron and Fez show have formed "The Whatley Posse", named in honor of Fez Whatley. Their symbol is a Photoshopped version of André the Giant's face morphed with a picture of Fez.
  • In the television show Afro Samurai:
  • In the first episode there is an OBEY sticker in the bar, on the wall.
  • In the second episode there is an OBEY Giant design on a hanging lantern.
  • On the cartoon show The Fairly Oddparents, there is a poster of an ape, with the word OBEY, because Timmy Turner had accidentally wished the world into a WORLD OF APES.
  • An Obey Giant sticker appears in episode 6 of Robot Chicken. It is shown in the background on the wall in the racing skit.

Other

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Clothing

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Music

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  • Rapper Sage Francis sells a t-shirt bearing his image which parodies the André the Giant Has a Posse design. The shirt reads: "Natalie Portman Has a Stalker" and states Francis's respective height and weight.
  • The OBEY Giant is incorporated into some of the images used for the CD screenprint and vinyl etching artwork on American alternative rock band Mission of Burma's limited edition, eight-volume singles series.
  • Serj Tankian of System of a Down wore an OBEY T-shirt at a performance at Big Day Out festival in 2002.

Music Videos

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