- Donald W. Horner , in ''Their Destiny'' (1912), described spaceflight to Alpha Centauri by astronauts who, as they leave the solar system, pass a planet beyond Neptune.
- In H. P. Lovecraft 's Cthulhu Mythos stories, Pluto is called '' Yuggoth ''. In the stories, a fictional alien race called the Mi-go have a base there. There are some stories, though, that identify Yuggoth with a huge world situated beyond Pluto on an orbit perpendicular to the Ecliptic .
- Mickey Mouse's dog Pluto first appeared in the 1930 cartoon '' The Chain Gang ''; it was adapted into Minnie Mouse's dog ''Rover'', and shortly thereafter became Mickey's ''Pluto'', being named for the planet.
- In Larry Niven 's novel '' World Of Ptavvs '' (1966), Pluto was theorized to have been a moon of Neptune until it was knocked out of orbit by an interstellar craft.
- In James P. Hogan 's ''Inherit the Stars'' (1977), first book of the ''Gentle Giants'' series, Pluto turns out to be the remains of Minerva, a planet that exploded to form the Asteroid Belt 50,000 years ago.
- In John DeChancie 's ''Starrigger'' series (1983), Pluto is the location of our solar system's dimensional gate to the interstellar Skyway.
- In Joe Haldeman 's "Forever War" (1974), Pluto is used as a training ground for new recruits in Earth's centuries long struggle against an unseen alien enemy.
- Christine Lavin 's song "Planet X" (1996) is a good-natured protest against suggestions that Pluto is not a planet.
- In the 1974 Japanese Anime series '' Space Battleship Yamato '', also known as '' Star Blazers '', the eponymous starship destroys an alien base on Pluto and fights a subsequent battle in an asteroid belt beyond Pluto. Eighteen years later astronomers confirmed the existence of the real-life Kuiper Belt .
- In the '' Doctor Who '' (1963–) serial '' The Sun Makers '' (1977), set far in the future, Pluto is covered with vast cities that are warmed by artificial suns, but access to sunlight is controlled by a sinister ruling elite.
- In the anime '' Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon '' (1992–1997), Sailor Pluto is the first Outer Senshi to be discovered, and her talisman is the Garnet Orb. She guards the gates of time, and her Greek god equivalent is Hades , the lord of the underworld, which she derives her attacks from (e.g. Dead Scream). On her forehead, she bears the planet's symbol and her image colour is black (sometimes purple).
- In '''' (1997–2002), a mission to Pluto is abandoned when the alien Taelons provide core samples from Pluto for Earth scientists.
- The television show '' Futurama '' (1999–2003) has featured Pluto on occasion, mainly as a habitat for penguins.
- In the television show '' Aqua Teen Hunger Force '' (2000), two of the show's "Villains", Oglethorpe and Emory (The Plutonians), are from Pluto.
- In the cartoon '' Fairly Oddparents '' (2001–) Cosmo destroys Pluto with a button the president lost.
- In the second part of a '' (2004) Pluto is the penultimate destination on a hypothetical human space flight to planets of the Solar System
- In Space Patrol (1962 TV Series) - episode ''The Fires of Mercury'' - Professor Heggarty's device for translating the language of Ants also converts Heat waves into Radio Waves . Maria realises that this might provide a way of transmitting warmth from Mercury to the Colony on Pluto, where freezing conditions worsen as the planet nears the point in its orbit farthest from the Sun .
- In the game '' Starsiege '' (1999), Pluto is destroyed at the end of the game.
- In the 2003 PC game '' Freelancer '', one of the start movies shows Pluto being destroyed by an Extraterrestrial race 800 years before the game starts.
- In the game '' Epoch Star '' (2004), Pluto is the home planet of the Anthropite civilization.
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