History ContinuityNod / Film

Stryker's "you hate mutants, don't you?" "No, I respect them" speech that he gives to the General in ''Origins'' is almost word for word repeated here, only this time a younger Styker is on the receiving end as Trask (his mentor) delivers the speech.\\\

* While most of ''Film/TheWolverine'' has Wolverine remembering Jean, the scene where he wakes up has a voiceover involving [[Film/XMenOriginsWolverine Kayla Silverfox]].
** Speaking of Silver Fox, when the ghost of Jean was jealous of Mariko she pointed Wolverine that all women he loves, die. Who ''else'' that Wolverine loved has died?
** The post-credits scene where [[spoiler: Magneto and Xavier]] arrive to recruit Logan mirrors their brief encounter from decades earlier in ''Film/XMenFirstClass''.
** [[Film/XMenFirstClass Again]] Wolverine has a PrecisionFStrike, though this time it's directed at Harada.
** [[spoiler:[[Film/XMenOriginsWolverine Wolverine flatlines once again after having surgery done to him]], this time by himself.]]
** [[Film/XmenOriginsWolverine Wolverine is afraid of flying.]]
* In ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', the first scene with Erik in the camp is mostly identical to the first scene of ''Film/XMen1'', even down to some of the shots.

** [[spoiler: Khan and his crew being 300 years old, and responsible for a eugenics plot against the world. Its a call back to Khan's backstory in "Space Seed"]].

** The post-credits scene where [[spoiler: Magneto and Xavier]] arrive to recruit Logan mirrors their brief encounter from decades earlier in ''[[Film/{{X-Men First Class}} X-Men: First Class]]''.

** ''Enterprise'' blatantly ignores orders and [[StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry violates]] Klingon space.

** Kirk at one point calls Scotty a "miracle worker". More or less Scotty's title in the original movies (from ''[[StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock The Search For Spock]]'' onwards).

* Similar to the Batman example above, the 2007 ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' movie had a scene near the end where Splinter had set up a trophy room. Shredder's helmet and various other artifacts from enemies of the previous three live-action films could be seen on shelves.

* In a rare continuity nod for an action film, Jay in ''Film/MenInBlack 2'' [[WrittenInAbsence actually explains where his former partner El went before he hooks back up with Kay--apparently, she liked being a morgue worker more than an MIB.]] We also learn that Kay's wife left him, which not only gets her out of the way for Kay to go back to the MIB, but is also a refreshing change from the usual fare of just ignoring that the previous love interest ever existed.

* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' films feature several nods to other books by Tolkien (though sometimes only in the EE): the allusions are much more explicit in the books, but in the films they can be easy to miss or obscure. See for instance the trolls (from ''Literature/TheHobbit'') which are glimpsed in ''[=FotR=]'' and Aragorn singing the Lay of Leithian (from ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'').

** In addition, when Q gives Bond his new watch, he says, "This will be your twentieth, I believe." ''Die Another Day'' was the 20th Bond film.
** It also references several things in the Bond books that didn't make it into movies, such as the scene with M talking to Bond through bulletproof glass.
** Ten years later, another MilestoneCelebration, ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'', also had this despite the ContinuityReboot years before. To keep it short, Q mentions his department is out of [[Film/GoldenEye exploding pens]], Bond [[LiveAndLetDie escapes large reptiles jumping on them]], and leaves for his Scottish childhood home in a [[CoolCar fully-equipped]] [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} Aston Martin DB5]].

* ''AirplaneIITheSequel''. While talking to Buck Murdock on the radio, Ted says "Roger, Murdock". Roger Murdock was the character in ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' played by Kareem Abdul-Jabar.
* The third ''Film/MissionImpossible'' makes use of "The Plot," a music cue by Lalo Schifrin from the original series that is only familiar to fans.

* Every ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' movie to date has included someone's remarkable survival and escape from an isolated island being explained as "Sea turtles, mate!" Except that in two of those cases we actually know what happened, while the dog's survival into the third movie is never explained.

** ''RockyBalboa'' is full of these. Almost every (surviving) character who appeared in the original film (Little Marie, Duke, Spider Rico, Andy the bartender) returns. In a deleted scene (cut because of disagreements with Carl Weathers), Rocky has a photo of Apollo Creed in his house. It's mentioned in dialogue that Rocky's statue (which was unveiled in ''RockyIII'' and seen in ''RockyV'') was removed from its place at the Philadelphia Museum of Arts. The film opens with the song "Take You Back", which was performed in the original film by Frank Stallone. Finally, the training sequence once again has Rocky run through a Philadelphia park and up the Philadelphia Museum of Arts set of steps.

** In ''RoboCop2'', the titular character brings a Cobra Assault Cannon (the weapon used by Boddicker and his gang in the first film) to the final showdown with Cain, but it is swiftly rendered useless after the bullets fail to impede the killer cyborg.

** In ''{{Robocop 2}}'', the titular character brings a Cobra Assault Cannon (the weapon used by Boddicker and his gang in the first film) to the final showdown with Cain, but it is swiftly rendered useless after the bullets fail to impede the killer cyborg.
** In ''{{Robocop 3}}'', the "I'd buy that for a dollar!" television host is seen in a brief cameo, while an OCP officer named Cecil (who attempted to stop the officers from destroying Robo in the OCP parking garage during the first film) returns as an officer who walks out on OCP and helps Sergeant Reed during the Splatterpunk attack in Old Detroit.

** The post-credits scene where Magneto and Xavier arrive to recruit Logan mirrors their brief encounter from decades earlier in ''Film/XMenFirstClass''.

* ''Film/TheWolverine'' provides some nods on the ''[[ComicBook/FrankMillersWolverine Wolverine]]'' limited series, where most of the characters are taken from.
** Mariko's arranged marriage, that she accepts as a thing of honor, which she does not expect Wolverine to understand because he's not Japanese.
** The limited series also took place after Jean's death, and Wolverine was also in a love triangle with Yukio and Mariko.

** Ten years later, another MilestoneCelebration, ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'', also had this despite the ContinuityReboot years before. To keep it short, Q mentions his department is out of [[GoldenEye exploding pens]], Bond [[LiveAndLetDie escapes large reptiles jumping on them]], and leaves for his Scottish childhood home in a [[CoolCar fully-equipped]] [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} Aston Martin DB5]].

* Also, one of the members of Kirk's disciplinary board is an Admiral Komack - which was the name of an Admiral in TOS.

** Ten years later, another MilestoneCelebration, ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'', also had this despite the ContinuityReboot years before. To keep it short, Q mentions his department is out of [[GoldenEye exploding pens]], Bond [[LiveAndLetDie escapes large reptiles jumping on them]], and leaves for his Scottish childhood home in a [[CoolCar fully-equipped]] [[{{Goldfinger}} Aston Martin DB5]].

* In the first ''Film/AlienVsPredator'' film, the expedition to Antarctica was financed by the Weyland Corporation and includes Charles Bishop Weyland himself. In ''Requiem'', the Predator's plasma gun is turned over to the obviously very-well connected Ms. Yutani. As every fan of the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' series knows, Weyland-Yutani was the major corporation in the background of the films, at the time of ''Aliens 3'' led by the obviously many time great IdenticalGrandson of Charles Weyland and the model for the Bishop androids (with Lance Henrikson playing all three roles).

* In ''Film/{{Scream}} 4'', a girl in the beginning gets crushed by a garage door, harkening back to a similar death from the first film.