• Fotherington-Tomas also occasionally appears as a name in
Private Eye magazine, usually as a pupil of the spoof public school
St. Cake's. • In
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century chapter 2, "Paint it Black", we see Fotherington-Tomas in 1969. He is the
Brian Jones of the League universe, and was in a band with
Turner, the League's
Mick Jagger. Shortly before being drowned in his own swimming pool by occultists, Basil engages in sexual acts with Wolfe from the film
Villain. • In the short story collection
Back in the USSA by
Kim Newman and
Eugene Byrne, he appears in the story "Teddy Bear's Picnic" as the analogue of
Colonel Kurtz from the film
Apocalypse Now. "Hello clouds, hello sky, hello pile of severed human heads." • Fotherington-Tomas appears in the 1982 ZX Spectrum BASIC manual as an example of a disallowed variable name "because of the hyphen - a space would be fine". == Books featuring Fotherington-Tomas ==