Marchosias

In popular culture

In James Blish's novel Black Easter, the magician Theron Ware demonstrates his abilities to a skeptical arms dealer by sending Marchosias to drive a prominent physicist to poison himself, with the evocation ritual described in unusually rich detail. On the television show Legends of Tomorrow, Marchosias appears as a hellhound that once belonged to the serial killer known as the Son of Sam. Kelley Armstrong's Wolf's Curse features a demon who calls herself Marchosias, arriving with her hell beasts and claiming to have created werewolves, though a werewolf character dismisses this as just one of many origin stories and expresses uncertainty about her true identity. In the mobile game Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans Urdr-Hunt, the ASW-G-35 Gundam Marchosias, later rebuilt as the Gundam Hajiroboshi, is one of the 72 Gundam Frames from the Calamity War. The Marchosias Team, from the game Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story: Missing Link, is a squad of ace pilots from the Principality of Zeon made up of soldiers deemed unfit for regular service. In Genshin Impact, the being known as Marchosius, later called Guoba, was the God of the Stove and Patron God of the Soil who expended his power to restore the land, shrinking in size and intelligence. The anime Myriad Colors Phantom World includes Marchosias as a phantom summoned by the protagonist to fight other phantoms. In the Doctor Who audio play Minuet in Hell, the alien Psionovores take the form of Marchosias to deceive a villain into thinking he is bargaining with Hell. The Cult of the Lamb DLC Woolhaven portrays Marchosias as an atheistic cult leader determined to destroy gods and their followers.