Editing Stormbringer (section)

== In popular culture ==
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* ''[[Tom Strong]]'' No. 31 and No. 32, "The Black Blade of the Barbary Coast" parts 1 & 2 by Alan Moore, feature albino pirate Captain Zodiac seeking the "Black Blade", a black cutlass marked with red runes. This appears to be a [[Eternal return|recurrence]] (a favoured Moorcock trope) of Elric and Stormbringer's tale.  Almost all of Moorcock's stories about the [[Eternal Champion (character)|Eternal Champion]] include a parallel or analog to Stormbringer, invariably wielded by the Champion.{{Citation needed|date=February 2022}} 
* [[Lawrence Watt-Evans]] explicitly mentioned Moorcock's ''Stormbringer'' as an inspiration for the enchanted ''Black Dagger'', which is at the center of his own novel ''The Spell of the Black Dagger'' and which is in many ways similar – though not identical – to Stormbringer.{{Citation needed|date=February 2022}} 
* "[[Black Blade (song)|Black Blade]]", the opening track of American hard rock band [[Blue Öyster Cult]]'s seventh studio effort, ''[[Cultösaurus Erectus]]'', concerns itself with Stormbringer. Moorcock himself made significant contributions to the track, having previously established a working relationship with the musical group.{{Citation needed|date=February 2022}} 
* "[[The Chronicle of the Black Sword]]" is the fourteenth studio album by british space rock band [[Hawkwind]].  It is a concept album centered around Elric and Stormbringer, with significant contributions from Moorcock who had a long association with the band.   The follow-up live album, "[[Live Chronicles]]" is a live performance of material from the studio album, and features performances by Michael Moorcock himself.
* The 1979 ''[[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]]'' [[Adventure (Dungeons & Dragons)|adventure module]] ''[[White Plume Mountain]]'', written by [[Lawrence Schick]] and published by [[TSR, Inc.|TSR]],<ref name="Module">{{cite book|last=Schick|first=Lawrence|author-link=Lawrence Schick|title=White Plume Mountain|publisher=[[TSR, Inc.]]|year=1979|isbn=978-0-935696-13-4 |pages=cover, 3{{ndash}}5, 9, 13}}</ref> featured a magical sword called Blackrazor, a black-bladed vampiric blade created from an extra-dimensional being. Schick later said that he was "a little embarrassed to this day by Blackrazor, inasmuch as it's such a blatant rip-off of Elric's Stormbringer; I would not have put it into the scenario if I ever thought it might be published".<ref name="Grognard">{{cite web|url=http://grognardia.blogspot.com/2009/05/interview-with-lawrence-schick.html|title=An Interview with Lawrence Schick|last=Maliszewski|first=James |date=16 May 2009|publisher=Grognardia.Blogspot.com|access-date=2009-08-31}}</ref>
* The Melnibonéan character profiles are included in the first edition of ''[[Deities & Demigods]]'', a TSR AD&D resource.
* In the opening animation short for the 1983 Daicon IV [[Nihon SF Taikai]] convention, the 'Bunny Girl' is shown riding a sword with the same visual design as Stormbringer as one of numerous classic fantasy and sci-fi references in the film.{{Citation needed|date=February 2022}}
* In the fighting game series ''[[The King of Fighters]]'', the character Heidern possesses a special move named "Stormbringer", where he stabs and drains life from the enemy.{{Citation needed|date=February 2022}}
* In the ''[[Game of Thrones]]'' episode, "[[The Lion and the Rose]]", one name that the crowd shouts out as a name for [[Joffrey Baratheon]]'s Valyrian steel sword is "Stormbringer".{{Citation needed|date=February 2022}}
* In ''[[Ready Player Two]]'', written by [[Ernest Cline]], [[Nolan Sorrento]] yields Stormbringer after his escape from A Maximum-Security Prison.
* In ''[[Stardew Valley]]'' the level 4 Shadow Dagger has the description "when you hold the blade to your ear you can hear 1,000 souls shrieking". A reference to Stormbringer.
* In 1974, Deep Purple released an album titled ''[[Stormbringer (album)|Stormbringer]]'', which included a song of the same name.
* In 2014, Grand Magus released the song "Steel Versus Steel" [from the album Triumph and Power] which is about Elric and Stormbringer.
* The Warhammer 40,000 sword Drach’nyen is also a demon that takes the form of a sword