Riordan, Rick. 2016–2020. The Trials of Apollo: Nero and two other evil Roman emperors have survived into modern times because their infamy has essentially made them gods. Nero is known as "the Beast" and serves as the adoptive father of one of the heroes of the series, demigod Meg McCaffrey. Nero is an antagonist in the entire series, but is featured most prominently in the first and last books of the pentalogy. In the first book, The Hidden Oracle, Nero tries to destroy the Grove of Dodona and is thwarted by Meg and Apollo. In the final book, The Tower of Nero, Apollo, Meg, and their friends must have a final showdown with Nero and his minions at his headquarters in New York.
Georges, Margaret. 2017. The Confessions of Young Nero: The story of Nero's rise to power as told by the young emperor himself.
Georges, Margaret. 2018. The Splendor before the Dark: Continuation of the story to the final years of Nero's reign.
The Adventures of Nero: The title character Nero is named after the Roman emperor. In his debut appearance, the character believes himself to be the emperor himself after drinking poisoned beer. Later he regains his sanity, while all characters keep referring to him as Nero from that moment onwards.[1] In the album De Rode Keizer (The Red Emperor, 1952) Nero travels back in time to Ancient Rome and actually meets the real emperor Nero.
The Phantom: Nero is said to have been the original owner of The Phantom's "skull ring"[2]
Ryse: Son of Rome: Nero plays as the antagonist. His sons portrayed in the game share no kinship with the real-life emperor and were rather based on real emperors Basil I, Basil II, and Commodus.
Devil May Cry: Nero is the co-protagonist of Devil May Cry 4 and 5. He is the son of the character half-demon half-human Vergil, as well as the nephew of the series' protagonist Dante, making him grandson of Sparda.
Days Gone features the National Emergency Response Organisation (N.E.R.O.). The organisation's name as well as its dormacy during the Freaker plague - which is comparable to Nero's own supposed dormacy as Rome burned - is a reference to the Emperor.
Nero's Guests (documentary) film by Deepa Bhatia follows the work of journalist P. Sainath in reporting the agrarian crisis in India and draws a comparison between citizens indifferent to the devastation of farmers and Nero's guests at the festivities who continued their enjoyment by the light of human torches.[6]
The 1955 musicalDamn Yankees features a song titled "Those Were The Good Old Days", in which the Devil laments the days of Nero 'fiddling through those lovely blaze.'
NCIS: "Rekindled", Gibbs calls arsonist Billy Wayne "Nero" during Wayne's interrogation
Succession: In “Lion in the Meadow”, Tom tells Greg about the story of Nero and Sporus, and then tells him he would castrate and marry him. Later in “All the Bells Say”, Tom calls Greg “Sporus” as they discuss partnering up in a business deal
^"...he tells me Nero is an angler in the Lake of Darkness", see Edith Sitwell. Selected Letters. Edited by John Lehman and Derek Parker. Macmillan 1970