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*** Although notably, the nuclear terrorist attack on San Diego had been mentioned on the show several times before and the ruins of the abandoned city had been shown on screen in a previous episode.

* In ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' the pictures of scientists at Peter's school include Bruce Banner, Howard Stark, and [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger Abraham Erskine]] among several real ones.

* In ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' the pictures of scientists at Peter's school include Bruce Banner, Howard Stark, and Abraham Erskine among several real ones.

* In ''Android: TabletopGame/NetRunner'' there are four ICEs (one per corporation), currently unreleased, that are named after a famous scientist. NBN (focus on information) has Gutenberg, Haas-Bioroid (focus on artificial intelligences) has Turing, Jinteki (focus on genetic modification) has Crick, and Weyland (focus on spatial colonization) has Meru Mati, the fictional engineer who made the space elevator possible.

** A gag from one episode has Creator/LeonardNimoy bring out his biographical books ''IAmNotSpock'', ''I Am Spock'' and ''I Am Also Scotty''.
** Another episode mentions the films ''Blacula'', ''Blackenstein'' and ''The Blunch Black of Blotre Blame''.

** ''[[Literature.TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey 2010 Odyssey 2]]'' (Published in 1982), "All this had been known since the Voyager flyby missions of the 1970s, the Galileo surveys of the 1980s, and the Kepler landings of the 1990s."

*** The nuclear terrorist attack on San Diego had been mentioned several times and the abandoned city seen once, so it was simply keeping in step with that.

* From Creator/RobertAHeinlein's juvenile novel ''Literature/FarmerInTheSky'' "...the first California settlers starved, [[UsefulNotes/TheLostColonyOfRoanoke nobody knows what happened to the Roanoke Colony]], and the first two expeditions to Venus died to the last man".

-->'''Doctor''': The Romans have just driven out their last king, the Olmecs are busy building pyramids in Mexico, some clever chap in China may be about to invent ice cream, and the great and terrible Beast-Emperor of the Third Crimson Collective marries a planet. No, wait. One of those is wrong, isn't it? Probably the ice cream one. How disappointing.

* A gag from an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' has Creator/LeonardNimoy bring out his biographical books ''IAmNotSpock'', ''I Am Spock'' and ''I Am Also Scotty''.

* Creator/DuaneElms: ''Dawson's Christian'' dips into this when the future is listing GhostShip legends -- they start the FlyingDutchman and the ''Mary Celeste'', before naming ''Barnum's Pride'' and the ''Horseman'' and the ''Lady'', implicitly future ghost ship myths.

The most common variant is to list famous scientists [[UsefulNotes/IsaacNewton Newton]], [[UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein Einstein]], Johannes Kepler, [[UsefulNotes/DichterAndDenker Werner Heisenberg]] and [[Creator/LeonardoDaVinci Da Vinci]] being quite popular, followed, finally, by a scientist from the future. Occasionally their inventions are also listed: Newton's mechanics, Einstein's relativity, [[Franchise/StarTrek Zefram Cochrane]]'s warp drive. The most common inversion is one where the person lists off several fictional figures and then tosses in a real-world one--the implication being that the real-world one is just as silly as the fictional one.

The most common variant is to list famous scientists, [[UsefulNotes/IsaacNewton Newton]], [[UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein Einstein]], Johannes Kepler, [[UsefulNotes/DichterAndDenker Werner Heisenberg]], [[Creator/LeonardoDaVinci Da Vinci]] being quite popular, followed, finally, by a scientist from the future. Occasionally their inventions are also listed: Newton's mechanics, Einstein's relativity, [[Franchise/StarTrek Zefram Cochrane]]'s warp drive. The most common inversion is one where the person lists off several fictional figures and then tosses in a real-world one--the implication being that the real-world one is just as silly as the fictional one.

* ''Westernanimation/CaptainUnderpantsTheFirstEpicMovie'': When delivering an {{Infodump}} lecture to the class:

** In a practice quiz during the trip to D.C. for the Academic Decathlon, Peter answers one question "strontium, barium, [[Film/BlackPanther vibranium]].

* Inverted in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13249695/6/To-Date-a-Metamorph To Date a Metamorph.]]''
-->'''Johann:''' I'm not a 'pretty good musician', Tonks. I'm one of the wizarding world's best musicians. Someday, my music will be more popular than the Weird Sisters, the Hexen Meistros, Beethoven...just as soon as I finish my composition.

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect'' has several examples, but one clear one is the Armstrong Nebula, which is named after a famous astronaut - the first to walk on the moon - and each system is also named after other astronauts famous for firsts. Examples include Gagarin (first man to orbit) and Tereshkova (first woman in space), but also include Vamshi and Grissom. There's also Hong as OddNameOut, most likely being named after the People's Republic of China's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dong_Fang_Hong_I first satellite]]. Vamshi is not elaborated on, but Grissom is debatable: he's either a reference to in-universe Jon Grissom, the first man to go through a mass relay and the commander of the Alliance Fleet during the First Contact War, or [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gus_Grissom Gus Grissom]], one of the Mercury Seven and the only one to die on-duty when Apollo 1 burned down.

** The video regarding the ancient history of UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}}, and how all of its greatest citizens fled as it sank: "Ted Turner, Hank Aaron, Creator/JeffFoxworthy, the man who invented Coca-Cola, The Magician ..." [[note]]While this is mostly a parody of the New Age folk song "{{Atlantis}}" by Donovan, there is the flippant implication that in this world The Magician is real and as important as the other real-life figures... or just another example of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'''s FutureImperfect.[[/note]]

* ''Film/{{Deception|1946}}'': When asked in an early scene what composers he admires, Karel the concert cellist names Strauss, Stravinsky, and Hollenius. The first two are real while the third is the antagonist in the film, the former sugar daddy to the woman that Karel just married.

-->'''Centauri:''' Alex! Alex! You're walking away from history! History, Alex! Did [[UsefulNotes/ChristopherColumbus Chris Columbus]] stay home? Nooooo. What if the Wright Brothers thought that only birds should fly? And did Galoka think that the Ulus were too ugly to save?
-->'''Alex:''' Who's Galoka?
-->'''Centauri:''' Never mind.

* In a likely unintentional inversion, most online ads for Creator/DisneyPlus that highlight each of the studios/franchises represented -- in order, Disney, Pixar, Marvel, ''Franchise/StarWars'', and National Geographic -- have the following serving as respective mascots: [[WesternAnimation/{{Moana}} Maui]], [[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles Mr. Incredible or Elastigirl]], [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse Iron Man or Captain America]], [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader or Rey]], and...Creator/JeffGoldblum! Fans of the quirky actor were quite amused.