History Main / MultipleReferencePun

* ''Film/StarTrek2009'''s scene with The Music/BeastieBoys' song "Sabotage" can refer to the director going against Star Trek tradition by using a radical approach that may unsettle fans, Kirk's rebellious nature that could endanger his chance of reaching the iconic status he's known for eventually, and it's a reference to William Shatner's trouble pronouncing the word sabotage without a Canadian accent. That said, the director maintains that he hadn't been thinking of the infamous "sabataage" outtake when he chose that song.

* The title of the final episode of the original series of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' is the Japanese translation of "The Beast That Shouted Love at the End of the World," which is also the title of a famous short story by Creator/HarlanEllison. However, as noted in the page quote, the word for "love" in Japanese is "ai," pronounced identically to the English pronoun "I," making an alternate reading of the title "The Beast That Shouted ''I'' at the End of the World," tying in with the series' themes of individuality and merging of egos. [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseWritingSystem "Ai" is also written in katakana, usually used for foreign words, rather than the hiragana used for native Japanese words, to emphasize the alternate interpretation]].

* ''VideoGame/SunsetOverdrive'': Gilt Trip jewellery stores is a pun on things covered in gold, "Gilt", and "Guilt", because they trade in {{Apology Gift}}s.

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* One of the villagers in the ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' series is a white tiger named Bianca. Not only is her name the Italian word for white, but it sounds very similar to Byakko, the white tiger of TheFourGods. What makes this more interesting is that [[{{Woolseyism}} her name is not Bianca in Japan]].

*** The last few panels show Nite Owl and Rorschach on hover-bikes, approaching Veidt's Antarctic base.
*** When Nite Owl tries to guess the password on Veidt's office computer, it responds to his almost-correct password with "Password incomplete: Do you wish to add rider?" The correct "rider" is the number 2.

** Two robots refer to a robot policeman as "spambo," which is both similar to a racial slur used for Black men, and a twist on insults like "oreo" or "banana": a can of Spam is metal on the outside, meat on the inside.

* ''WebVideo/TierZoo'' has an unintentional example in its own name. The show is about putting animals in CharacterTiers depending on how well they survive in real life. "Tier" also means Animal in German which means that it essentially means "Animal Zoo" in German.
* Some of the headlines in Creator/DavidLangford's sf newsletter ''Ansible''. For example, the news that a review of the Dyson Zone air-purifying headphones desceibed them as "like something you’d expect to see in a dystopian sci-fi movie, maybe even on the head of a Batman villain" has the headline "Lord Dyson's Bane", a play on the novel ''[[Literature/TheChroniclesOfThomasCovenant Lord Foul's Bane]]'' that also references Bane, a Batman villain who does indeed wear headgear that -- especially in ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'' -- looks not unlike a Zone.

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* While not outright confirmed, the title of Music/Blink182's ''Dude Ranch'' has been speculated by fans to play on multiple meanings that have been unofficially given to the term, including the most common meaning of a ranch used for tourism (giving us the cover art), a ranch wherein visitors come to play as cowboys (hence the internal photos of the band members dressed as cowboys), and ''especially'' its use as a sexual slang (mostly the meaning of "semen", but it has been used to refer to various sexual acts too).

* Some of the headlines in Creator/DavidLangford's sf newsletter ''Ansible''. For example, the news that a review of the Dyson Zone air-purifying headphones desceibed them as "like something you’d expect to see in a dystopian sci-fi movie, maybe even on the head of a Batman villain" has the headline "Lord Dyson's Bane", a play on the novel ''Literature/LordFoulsBane'' that also references Bane, a Batman villain who does indeed wear headgear that -- especially in ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'' -- looks not unlike a Zone.

* Genya Arikado from ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaChroniclesOfSorrow''. "Arikado" means "to have horns", implying some relation to demons. More importantly, his name is one vowel sound away from the Japanese pronunciation of Alucard.

For instances which occur in titles, see PunBasedTitle and DoubleMeaningTitle. Subtrope to DoubleMeaning. If the pun takes place across multiple languages, that's a BilingualBonus.

* The final episode of the original series of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' is the Japanese translation of "The Beast That Shouted Love at the End of the World," which is also the title of a famous short story by Creator/HarlanEllison. However, as noted in the page quote, the word for "love" in Japanese is "ai," pronounced identically to the English pronoun "I," tying in with the series' themes of individuality and merging of egos. [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseWritingSystem It's also written in katakana, usually used for foreign words, rather than the hiragana used for native Japanese words, to emphasize the alternate interpretation]].

For instances which occur in titles, see PunBasedTitle and DoubleMeaningTitle. Subtrope to DoubleMeaning.

-->'''DJ Catnip''': Hey, Gabby, do you wanna play us some...(looking at the audience)''Tracks'' [[note]] the pun refer to both ''music'' tracks (because DJ is asking Gabby to play the trumpet) and ''train'' tracks (because upon playing music, the train track grow, bonus points for the episode being about trains)[[/note]]

-->'''DJ Catnip''': Hey, Gabby, do you wanna play us some...(looking at the audience)''Tracks'' [[note]] the pun refer to both ''music'' tracks (because DJ is asking Gabby to play the trumpet) and ''train'' tracks (because upon playing music, the train track grow)[[/note]]

-->'''DJ Catnip''': Hey, Gabby, do you wanna play us some...(looking at the audience)''Tracks'' [[note]][[the pun refer to both ''music'' tracks (because DJ is asking Gabby to play the trumpet) and ''train'' tracks (because upon playing music, the train track grow)]][[/note]]

-->'''DJ Catnip''': Hey, Gabby, do you wanna play us some...''Tracks'' [[note]][[the pun refer to both ''music'' tracks (because DJ is asking Gabby to play the trumpet) and ''train'' tracks (because upon playing music, the train track grow)]][[/note]]