Mothman - Popular Culture

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• In Season 5, Episode 4 of The X-Files, Detour, Agent Mulder hypothesizes that the supernatural events occurring may be related to the creature. However, Mulder refers to a group of creatures called the Mothmen as opposed to a singular Mothman.
• In Episode 2 of the short-lived TV series X-Testers, the researchers attempted to duplicate alleged photographs of Mothman.
• The Luminoth, a tribe of mothlike humanoid creatures appearing in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes for the Nintendo Gamecube may also considered to be some kind of mothmen.
• In the video game Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, Mothman is one of three Cryptozoology-based monsters along with the Yeti and the Flying Humanoid. It also appears again as an enemy in Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin.
• In the Shin Megami Tensei series of video games, Mothman often appears as a demon that the main characters can use as an ally.
• Mothman appears in an episode of Lost Tapes.
• Mothman is the alias of Byron Lewis in Alan Moore's graphic novel Watchmen.
• On the television show Invader Zim the character Dib is a member of a clandestine organization called The Swollen Eye where his code name is "Mothman".
• In the game GTA: San Andreas, the Mothman is said to be located in the desert.