Editing Prospero (section)

== In popular culture ==
* In the comic book series ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]'' by [[Alan Moore]] and [[Kevin O'Neill (comics)|Kevin O'Neill]], Prospero appears as a founding member of the first such grouping in 1610, alongside his familiars Caliban and Ariel.
* Paul Prospero, the protagonist of ''[[The Vanishing of Ethan Carter]]'' (2014), is named after Prospero.<ref>{{Cite web|title = On The Vanishing of Ethan Carter's Ending (EXTREME SPOILERS)|url = http://www.theastronauts.com/2014/10/vanishing-ethan-carters-ending-extreme-spoilers/|access-date = 2015-10-07}}</ref>
* In [[John Bellairs]]'s novel ''[[The Face in the Frost]]'' (1969), one of the protagonists is a wizard named Prospero ("and not the one you're thinking of") .
* In [[Warhammer 40,000|Warhammer: 40,000]] and further fleshed out in ''[[The Horus Heresy (novels)|The Horus Heresy]]'' series, several books take place on a planet called Prospero, home of Magnus the Red and his Thousand Sons Space Marine legion. The citizens of the planet are versed in sorcery and psychic powers, earning them the suspicion and ire of the rest of the Imperium of Man.<ref>{{Cite web|title = ''Prospero Burns'' publisher summary|url = http://www.blacklibrary.com/horus-heresy/prospero-burns-hardback.html|access-date = 2015-10-17|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151013063545/http://www.blacklibrary.com/horus-heresy/prospero-burns-hardback.html|archive-date = 13 October 2015}}</ref>
* ''Melon Cauliflower'', by New Zealand playwright Tom McCrory, is about a man Prospero, in his late sixties, who struggles to come to terms with the death of his wife and has mistreated his daughter Miranda.<ref>{{cite book|author=McCrory, Tom|url=http://static.radionz.net.nz/assets/pdf_file/0004/2499610/Drama_Stuff_June_July_2011.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130630234552/http://static.radionz.net.nz/assets/pdf_file/0004/2499610/Drama_Stuff_June_July_2011.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-06-30|title=Melon Cauliflower|publisher=RadioNZ}}</ref>
* "[[The Masque of the Red Death]]", by [[Edgar Allan Poe]], is set at the manor of a Prince Prospero
* In the television series ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' by [[Gene Roddenberry]] and [[CBS]] / [[Paramount Pictures]], Prospero appears briefly played by Lt. Cmdr. Data ([[Brent Spiner]]) during the beginning of Season 7 Episode 23 entitled "[[Emergence (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Emergence]]". He recites some lines of Prospero's speech before asking Captain Picard ([[Patrick Stewart]]) to provide some insight into the character of Prospero and Shakespeare's ''The Tempest'' in general.
* In the mobile game ''Star Trek Timelines'' a character was released in February 2017 called Prospero Data, recalling the character's appearance in the previously mentioned ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' episode.
* A good wizard named Prospero appears in Polish children's animated cartoon ''{{ill|Miś Fantazy|pl}}''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://vod.tvp.pl/8236356/mis-fantazy|title=Miś Fantazy|website=vod.tvp.pl|access-date=2016-12-22}}</ref> based on the books by Ewa Karwan-Jastrzębska.
* Prospero is the main antagonist in season 2 of TV series ''[[The Librarians (2014 TV series)|The Librarians]]''.  This version of Prospero ([[Richard Cox (actor)|Richard Cox]]) is a Fictional, a character brought to life by magic, and has become bitter over the way his story was written, as he feels it was made without his consent. After regaining his book and obtaining the Staff of [[Zarathustra]], he imprisons the Librarians within his illusions, but his servant [[Ariel (The Tempest)|Ariel]] (an actual fairy rather than a character) rebels and frees them. Prospero subsequently begins to reshape the world in his image, while also possessing his creator [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]] in order to change the past. The Librarians destroy his staff and exorcise him from Shakespeare's body, banishing him back to his original story.
* In episode 1 of the video game ''[[Life Is Strange: Before the Storm|Life is Strange: Before the Storm]]'', the drama students of Blackwell Academy are seen rehearsing for their upcoming play, ''The Tempest''. The character [[Rachel Amber]] plays Prospero and the player character, Chloe Price plays Ariel briefly. The play itself occurs during episode 2.
* In the manga series ''[[One Piece]]'', a character with the name Perospero appears in chapter 834, partly inspired by Prospero. His mother, Charlotte Linlin also seems to be inspired by the character as she is the one to use magic to control everything on the Island with her soul.
* The novels and television series ''[[The Expanse (TV series)|The Expanse]]'' use several Shakespearean allusions, including "[[Caliban]]" in reference to monstrous human-alien hybrids, and correspondingly "Prospero Station", a research facility that was developing and controlling them.
*In the national bestseller ''The Night Circus'' by Erin Morgenstern, magician Hector Bowen, father of protagonist Celia Bowen, goes by the name of Prospero whilst performing.
*In the season 30 episode of ''The Simpsons'' titled "[[I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say D'oh]]", Sideshow Mel leaves a play Marge is directing to play Prospero and is replaced by Professor Frink.
*In the strategy game ''[[Into the Breach]]'': There is a possibility to gain a red colored robotic pilot named Prospero by default. This pilot has the special ability of giving the mech he pilots flight.
*In the flight simulator [[Project Wingman]], a major city of Cascadia, an allied nation to the protagonist, is named Prospero.
*In the anime series ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury]]'', the main character's mother goes by the name Prospera Mercury. She has sent her daughter, Suletta Mercury, to a piloting school alongside a Gundam named Aerial.
*Prospero's 'our revels now are ended' speech, is recited by [[Anton Lesser]] to play out the final episode of ''[[Endeavour (TV series)|Endeavour]]'', the prequel to ''[[Inspector Morse (TV series)|Inspector Morse]]''.
* In the 2023 dystopian novel ''[[The Ferryman (novel)|The Ferryman]]'' by [[Justin Cronin]], the setting is an archipelago named Prospera. Prospero's speeches are quoted several times throughout the novel.
* The novels [[Ilium/Olympos]] by [[Dan Simmons]] feature Prospero as well as several other characters from The Tempest.
* In the BBC television series Doctor Who, the Sycorax are an alien race who invade the Earth at Christmas. The Sycorax possess a science, similar to witchcraft, which allows them to use a blood sample to control all humans of the same blood type.