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- Ahriman is featured as a demonic enemy of Duncan MacLeod in the last episode of season 5 and the first couple episodes of season 6 of the Highlander TV Series.
- John Wellington Wells in Gilbert and Sullivan's 1877 operetta The Sorcerer states that either he or Alexis Pointdextre must yield up his life to Ahrimanes in order to undo the love potion's effect.
- Ormazd and Ahriman feature in the 2008 video game, Prince of Persia.
- Ormazd and Ahriman feature heavily in the Philip K. Dick novel The Cosmic Puppets.
- Ahriman features as the alter-ego of the anti-hero in Roger Zelazny book The Mask of Loki.
- Angra is the final boss of the beat-em-up video game God Hand.
- A powerful enemy known as Angra Mainyu can be fought in the role-playing video game Final Fantasy X-2
- Ahriman and Ohrmuzd are the names of twin brothers prominent within the Thousand Sons chaos space marine chapter of the science fiction Warhammer 40K universe.
- Angra Mainyu dwells within the Holy Grail in the visual novel Fate/Stay Night, as well as its prequel Fate/Zero.
- In Eva Ibbotson's Which Witch? The Great Wizard Arriman the Awful tries to select a suitable witch wife.
- Angra Mainyu is the final boss of the 3D fighting game Severance:Blade of Darkness.
- Angra Mainyu is a high ranking Elder of the demon worshiping Bloodline the Baali in the Vampire: the Masquerade RPG from White Wolf.
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