Beagle 2 in Fiction
Beagle 2 was inaccurately portrayed as a rover and a JPL and NASA project in the 2007 Transformers movie. After landing on Mars, it was revealed it was destroyed by a Decepticon 13 seconds after being activated. Afterwards, the incident was classified above Top Secret by the US government, and declared a complete failure to the public (saying it crashed on Mars instead) but later became a warning that the Transformers were coming to Earth.
In the Facebook game Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy, Chapter 1 of the Holiday Set involves Beagle 2 being secretly co-opted by an unspecified organization, a freelance spy having hidden the lander's survival from everyone else at Mission Control while rerouting its controls to a laptop that she handed over to her handler.
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