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The name "Jack the Ripper" influenced the nicknames of a lot of later killers, especially Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper".
The Ripper case is particularly tantalizing for writers who want to make [[An Aesop]] or [[Historical
It has also attracted [http://www.casebook.org a reasonable number of dedicated students] called "Ripperologists" and also a fair number of guided walks in the East End on the subject.
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== Anime & Manga ==
* Who could forget ''[[Jo
* The ''[[Detective Conan]]'' movie, ''The Phantom of Baker Street'' involves both hunting for Jack the Ripper in a computer game and the descendant of the real ripper.
* Ciel in ''[[Black Butler (Manga)|Black Butler]]'' investigates the Jack the Ripper murders. {{spoiler|Turns out that the killers were his aunt and her flamboyant [[Shinigami]] butler.}}
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{{quote| '''Jack the Ripper:''' "Ninety years ago I was a freak. Today I'm an amateur."}}
* ''[[From Hell]]'', based very loosely on the [[Alan Moore]] comic book.
* [[Historical
{{quote| '''Jack the Ripper:''' Nice night for a walk.<br />
Chon Lin kicks his ass and dumps him in the river.<br />
'''Chon Lin:''' (in Chinese) <[[Precision F
* The villain of ''[[Red Eye (Film)|Red Eye]]'' is named Jackson Rippner, and even does a [[Lampshade Hanging]] on his [[Meaningful Name]].
* [[General Ripper|General Jack D. Ripper]] from ''[[Dr. Strangelove]]''. Appropriately enough, he's sexually frustrated, misogynistic, and violent.
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** Also referenced in the Shadowrun short story "Whitechapel Rose", whose eccentric decker protagonist patterns his online persona on Jack the Ripper.
* [[Bertolt Brecht (Creator)|Bertolt Brecht]]'s [[Author Tract]] ''Threepenny Novel'' identifies the [[Villain Protagonist]] Macheath with [[Jack the Ripper]].
* ''[[A Night in The Lonesome October]]'' by [[Roger Zelazny]] features Jack's dog as the main character. In the novel Jack is a magic-user, [[Anti
* Terry Moore's ''Molly and Poo'' short stories feature the Ripper.
* ''A Study in Terror'' (see above) had a novelisation by Ellery Queen that included Ellery himself as a character in the framing story.
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* Neil Gaiman's ''The Graveyard Book'' features a self-fulfilling prophecy set in motion by the murder of a family by one of the "Jacks-of-all-trades." While the murders maintain no similarity to the actual Ripper slayings, canonical or apocryphal, the name is a shout out, since in every conversation among them the killers refer to one another as "Jack."
* One of the [[Jakub Wedrowycz]] stories shows that the protagonist was [[Jack the Ripper]]. He accidentally travelled back in time to the nineteenth-century London, and the key to the time machine fell into a bowl of soup in a house inhabited by [[Time Police]] androids masquerading as prostitutes, seconds before dinner time.
* In ''[[Secret Histories]]'' series by Simon R. Green, [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Mr. Stab]] performed several gruesome human sacrifices in Victorian Whitechapel in order to obtain immortality. It worked, but [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|this form of immortality]] had [[Can't Have Sex Ever|consequences for which he was not prepared.]]
* A central character in the later books of [[Time Scout (Literature)|Time Scout]].
* ''[[Fate Apocrypha (Light Novel)|Fate Apocrypha]]'', a spin-off [[Light Novel]] of ''[[Fate Stay Night (Visual Novel)|Fate Stay Night]]'', features Jack the Ripper as an Assassin-class Servant whose master is a prostitute. Jack the Ripper is also [http://images.wikia.com/typemoon/images/e/e4/Jack_i.png a skimpily-dressed loli].
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* In ''[[Murdoch Mysteries (TV)|Murdoch Mysteries]]'', Murdoch pursues a Toronto serial killer widely believed to be Jack the Ripper, with the assistance of a Scotland Yard detective who investigated the Whitechapel murders. {{spoiler|The [[Detective Mole|detective is revealed to be]] the Ripper, and is stabbed to death by Doctor Ogden when he attacks her in the morgue.}}
* The ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' episode "A Good Man Goes to War" reveals what put a stop to his killing spree - a Silurian detective '''ate''' him. Apparently he was stringy.
* The Hitcher in [[The Mighty Boosh]] is a [[Card
* In ''[[The Collector (TV)|The Collector]]'', Jack the Ripper turns out to be {{spoiler|a woman who sold her soul to the Devil for the power to turn into a man in order to kill without being caught.}}
* "[[Forever Knight]]" portrayed the Ripper as a vampire who was somehow tainted, even as a human, so [[La Croix]] was unable to finish draining him. He ordered Nick to kill him, but Nick did not, and the man went on to become Jack the Ripper. Later, he traveled around and was responsible for a number of other serial killer cases. He is eventually killed in a fire after attempting to attack Natalie in a car.
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== Radio ==
* ''[[I'm Sorry,
{{quote| '''Sergeant:''' We've got to stop him sir, the people are losing patience- and their knickers!}}
* In the third episode of ''TAPS Para-radio'', hosts Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson of ''[[Ghost Hunters]]'' fame made light of the fact that one of the suspected Jack the Rippers, Aaron Kosminski, was a hairdresser.
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* Jack the Ripper appears in the Nintendo 64 game Duke Nukem: Zero Hour as a boss during the 1800s London levels. However, he's treated as a throwaway boss character and nothing more. Still, the game shows that Jack was stopped by a time-traveling Duke Nukem.
* [[Disgaea Hour of Darkness|Disgaea: Hour of Darkness]] features a monster class named Lantern, a scarecrow with a few special attacks with "Jack" in their name, including "Jack The Ripper". The fourth tier is even named "Jack".
* The planned but never released [[Fate Stay Night]] [[Spin
** The unused Fate/Apocrypha material has been turned into a series of stories, and the plot (Or at least, the plot of the first and as-of-now only chapter) focuses on Jack the Ripper. She is summoned as a servant by a man named Hyoma Sagara, who tries to use a prostitute named Reika Rikudo as sacrifice for the summoning ritual. Ironically, Reika's plead for help is what triggers the summoning, and Jack imprints with her rather than Hyoma, and sees her as her master, to the point of cutting Hyoma's hand and passing the Command Seals in it to Reika.
* One of the cases in 'Floor 13' features young women being gruesomely murdered in the docklands area and a member of the Royal Family as a prime suspect.
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