History MythologyGag / FIlm

!!Films and film franchises with their own pages:

[[index]]
* ''MythologyGag/CaptainUnderpantsTheFirstEpicMovie''
* ''MythologyGag/DeathNote2017''
* ''MythologyGag/DCExtendedUniverse''
** ''MythologyGag/ManOfSteel''
** ''MythologyGag/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice''
** ''MythologyGag/{{Suicide Squad|2016}}''
** ''MythologyGag/{{Wonder Woman|2017}}''
** ''MythologyGag/{{Justice League|2017}}''
* ''MythologyGag/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem''
* ''MythologyGag/FantasticFour2015''
* ''MythologyGag/GhostInTheShell2017''
* ''MythologyGag/JurassicWorld''
* ''MythologyGag/TheLEGOBatmanMovie''
* MythologyGag/MarvelCinematicUniverse
* [[/index]]''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes''[[index]]
** ''MythologyGag/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes''
** ''MythologyGag/DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes''
* ''MythologyGag/PowerRangers2017''
* ''MythologyGag/SherlockHolmes2009''
* ''MythologyGag/StarTrekBeyond''
* [[/index]]''Franchise/StarWars''[[index]]
** ''MythologyGag/TheForceAwakens''
** ''MythologyGag/RogueOne''
* ''MythologyGag/XMenFilmSeries''
** ''MythologyGag/TheWolverine''
** ''MythologyGag/XMenDaysOfFuturePast''
** ''MythologyGag/Deadpool2016''
** ''MythologyGag/XMenApocalypse''
** ''MythologyGag/{{Logan}}''
[[/index]]

!!Film Examples
* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'':
** In ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl The Curse of the Black Pearl]]'', when Jack is captured by the Port Royal guards and is undergoing his HeroicBSOD in his jail cell, a group of recently-detained pirates are trying to coax the guard dog into giving them the keys. Jack, in a gloriously snarky allusion to the original ride, tries to convince the pirates to give up. In the following exchange, however, we can see that it has no effect whatsoever:
--> '''Jack:''' "You can keep doing that forever, that dog is '''never''' going to move."
--> '''RedShirt Pirate #1:''' "Well, excuse ''me'' if we haven't resigned ourselves to the gallows just yet."
--> ''(Jack leans his head back, smirking from ear to ear)''
** When Jack and Barbossa find Ponce de León in ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides On Stranger Tides]]'', he's a skeleton lying on a bed surrounded by treasure examining a jewel with a magnifying glass, reminiscent of the Captain's Quarters in the introduction segment of the original ride.
** A few lines and some of the settings are also borrowed from [[Ride/PiratesOfTheCaribbean the rides]]: Cotton's parrot utters "Dead men tell no tales" and Barbossa yells "It be too late to alter course, now!", both lines taken from the talking skull at the very beginning of the ride, the swamp where Tia Dalma lives is essentially the queue area, and the pirate attack, mention of a cursed treasure (and the foolishness of not believing in it), and the pirates eventually turning on each other are all taken from the later parts of the ride. But the one that takes the cake is the ''Black Pearl'' itself: the ship on the ride is/was originally called the ''Wicked Wench'', which was the original name of the ''Pearl'' in the films, and the pirate originally shown commanding it was none other than Blackbeard, who steals the ship from Barbossa (who stole it from Jack at the end of ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd At World's End]]'') between the third and fourth movies.
* There's an actual [[ContinuityNod Mythology Nod]] in ''Film/{{Troy}}'': When Paris leads Helen and his brother's wife to the secret tunnel out of the city, he hands the king's sword to a random man passing by with his old father, so at least some part of Troy will remain. The man says his name is ''Aeneas'', which would make him the man who led his family to a certain place later to be known as Rome.
** Another would be a greeting Achilles gives to Odysseus as their forces arrive on the Trojan shore, taunting him for "always arriving last". Odysseus would, of course, be the last Greek home from the Trojan War, taking seventeen years to do so and experiencing the Odyssey in the process.
* In ''Film/BatmanForever'', as they assault The Riddler's fortress, Robin references his predecessor's fill-in-the-blank "Holy X, Batman!" CatchPhrase from the [[Series/{{Batman}} 60s TV series]], even as they emulate the series' classic climb-up-the-wall sequences:
-->'''Robin:''' Holey rusted metal, Batman!\\
'''Batman:''' Huh?\\
'''Robin:''' [[DontExplainTheJoke The ground, it's all metal. It's full of holes. You know, holey]].\\
'''Batman:''' Oh.
** Also, Robin considers "Nightwing" as his superhero alias, an alias which he eventually took in the comics on graduating from sidekick-dom, and when Edward Nygma is considering aliases he could use as a villain, one he thinks about is "The Puzzler", which is the name of a largely forgotten Superman villain with a similar schtick to the Riddler's. It's debatable whether or not the last one is intentional, though.
** Two-Face is defeated by Batman throwing a bunch of coins and confusing him, very similar to the ending of the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "Two-Face Part Two"
** In 1989, Music/{{Prince}}'s "Batdance" video, which aired on MTV, had as one of its opening lyrics the chorus of "BAT-MAAAAN!" in an obvious nod to the 1960s series.
* In the ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'', the classic television theme song [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o29VoxtsFk ("does whatever a spider can...")]] is inserted in every movie at least once:
** ''Film/SpiderMan1'': Guy in subway on guitar;
** ''Film/SpiderMan2'': Woman in alley on violin;
** ''Film/SpiderMan3'': Brass band in the park.
** Whilst absent from the [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan first reboot movie]], ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2'' features numerous reprisals of the song
** Also in the first movie, one of the costume designs Peter rejects is the black-and-white Spider-Man costume from the early-to-mid-1980s (which eventually became the design for Venom), albeit with a red spider insignia instead of a white one. Peter adds the note "NEEDS MORE COLOR!" before tossing it aside.
** Again in the first movie, the pose Peter uses when trying to use his web is the pose he usually takes in the comics when firing his web (middle and third fingers folded into the palm, the rest extended outward).
** Though not all of them actually become villains, many of the characters who were villains in the comic show up in the movies, including Dr. Curtis "Curt" Connors (who became The Lizard) and Dr. Mendel Stromm (who became Robot Master and Gaunt).
** At the wrestling match, Peter is introduced as "the terrifying... the deadly... the amazing Spider-Man!" ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' was the name of the first comic book series starring the webhead.
* In the 2005 ''Film/{{Fantastic Four|2005}}'' film, Johnny shows Ben the prototype of a Thing action figure. The toy looks very much like the comic version of the Thing (large brow, wider shoulders and longer arms), instead of the movie version.
** The prototype was actually modeled after the Thing in the unreleased 1994 film.
** It's actually a 2002 Toybiz Marvel Legends Thing action figure.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
** In ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'', the holographic doctor (Robert Picardo) responds to a request to stall the Borg by declaring, "I'm a doctor, not a door stop" -- a reference to Doctor [=McCoy's=] CatchPhrase from the original show.
*** Incidentally, this also referenced the fact that Picardo ad libbed a similar line in his audition for ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' without realizing its significance.
*** And of course, The Doctor is ''himself'' an example.
*** This is a RunningGag in the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' series, with both the EMH and Bashir doing the "I'm a doctor" lines.
** ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'' took [[spoiler:Spock's death scene and Kirk's "[[BigWordShout KHAAAAAAAN!]]"]] from ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'' and swapped said characters' roles around.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** In the original trilogy, Luke is a {{composite|character}} of two characters from the original script, Annikin (''sic'') Skywalker and Luke Starkiller. Anakin Skywalker was later chosen as Darth Vader's original name.
** In ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', as the Shuttle Tydirium is taking off, [=C3P0=] says "I am going to regret this", echoing his line while entering the escape pod in ''Film/ANewHope''.
** In ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', when Jango Fett is escaping Kamino, he bangs his head on the doorframe of his spaceship. Since the scene was mostly CG, it was obviously done on purpose, a nod to the legendary blooper from ''Film/ANewHope''.
*** Also in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', if you're watching the version with all the bonus scenes in it, parts from the cantina scene in ''Film/ANewHope'' are redone. These include' "You wanna buy some death sticks?" and "Jedi business, go back to your drinks."
*** And then there's Obi-Wan's line: "[[{{Foreshadowing}} Why do I get the feeling]] [[Film/ANewHope you're going to be the death of me?]]"
** Obi-Wan gets a couple in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'': he says, "Hello, there!" to Grievous as a reference to his first line in ''Film/ANewHope'', and his "so uncivilized" remark after [[JustShootHim killing Grievous with a blaster]] as a reference to his [[ElegantWeaponForAMoreCivilizedAge introduction of the lightsaber]] in the same movie.
** The very first line of ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' is [[RunningGag "I have a bad feeling about this."]]
** The name "Starkiller" comes back again in ''Film/TheForceAwakens''. [[spoiler:It's the name of a weapon that makes the Death Star look mild: it's built out of a planet, it can wreak havoc on virtually any system from a safe distance, but the name comes from the fact that it ''eats suns'' for its power source, also referencing the Sun Crusher from the ''Literature/JediAcademyTrilogy'' novels.]]
* The film ''[[Film/HarryPotter Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]'' had (at least) one amusing gag -- when the students first enter the Hog's Head tavern in Hogsmeade, we see the innkeeper shooing a goat from behind the bar. As devoted fans will know, the innkeeper is Dumbledore's brother Aberforth, who once got in trouble for casting "improper charms on a goat".
** In the corresponding scene in the book, the description notes that the bar "smelled strongly of something that might have been goats."
** One trailer for ''[[Film/HarryPotter Half-Blood Prince]]'' emphasizes the Trio's love life. It ends with Dumbledore's deadpan "Ah, to be young and feel love's keen sting." A lot of people will just find it hilarious that Dumbledore had a love life. Most fans of the series will know that [[WordOfGay Dumbledore is gay]], and [[MoodDissonance love stung hard enough]] to get his sister ''killed''. Presumably, the director was aware of this.
** In the first film, Nearly Headless Nick mentions that his request to join the Headless Hunt has been denied, a reference to a scene from the second book. Presumably intended as {{Foreshadowing}}, but the scene didn't make it into the second film. Also, the ghosts riding through the Great Hall in the third film are presumably the Headless Hunt.
** Also done in reverse with the books referencing the films. In the ''Half-Blood Prince'' book, Slughorn, who [[AccidentalMisnaming keeps getting Ron's name wrong]], at one point calls him "Rupert". Rupert Grint, of course, is the actor who plays Ron in the movies.
** Some casting choices could be considered this too. J. K. Rowling admitted she wrote the character of Snape with Alan Rickman in mind, so who else did they cast as Snape but Alan Rickman himself?
*** Rickman fits hilariously well when "Snape looked as though Christmas had been cancelled" in [[Film/HarryPotter Chamber of Secrets]] - referencing his role as Sherrif of Nottingham in ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'' and "calling off Christmas".
* In the film ''Film/BatmanBegins'', a mobster named Zsasz is shown on trial. In a miscarriage of justice, he receives a verdict of "not guilty by reason of insanity" due to Dr. Crane's false testimony. In [[Franchise/{{Batman}} the comic books]], Zsasz is a serial killer who really is insane. In particular, he's a serial killer who keeps tally marks of his victims etched in his skin as scars, and, in one scene, the movie Zsasz shows similar scars on the back of his neck.
** There's this line from Lucius Fox in ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' regarding Bruce's new armor after he had problems with a dog in the previous suit:
--->'''Lucius:''' Should do fine against [[Comicbook/{{Catwoman}} cats]].
*** Although that could be {{Foreshadowing}} instead of a MythologyGag, as Catwoman does indeed appear in Film/TheDarkKnightRises.
** Also, the red-headed Wayne Enterprises employee who uncovers Bruce's secret identity is "Mr. Reese" -- 'Mysteries'... 'Enigmas'... Riddles....
*** With a sharp eye, you can see that both this and ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' do a similar combo MythologyGag ChekhovsGun. In ''Film/BatmanBegins'', Bruce calls all his guests "Two-faced". Two-Face is in ''Film/TheDarkKnight''. Catwoman is in ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''.
** An early leaked script of ''Begins'' featured a gag where Alfred had to remind Bruce to remove his black eye makeup before walking into his birthday party, a TakeThat to Micheal Keaton's magically disappearing makeup in ''Film/BatmanReturns''.
** Another scene from ''The Dark Knight'' features Bruce Wayne asking Lucius Fox for a new batsuit which would let him move his head. This is most probably a reference to the costumes of earlier ''Batman'' movies, which had their helmet attached to the neck and the shoulders, keeping the wearer from turning his head.
*** That's actually a direct reference to the earlier scene involving the drug dealer's dogs. Batman is bitten because the ''Batman Begins'' suit is a single molded cowl, like the Burton-era suits.
*** Particularly noticeable in the Burton films, where Batman moves his entire torso to look at someone ''a foot out of his line of sight''.
** In ''The Dark Knight'', the Joker pushes Batman to run him over with his Bat-Pod. This can draw comparisons to the Joker pushing Batman to attack him in his Batwing in Creator/TimBurton[='=]s ''Film/{{Batman}}''.
** During the climactic battle between Batman, the GCPD, and the Joker's goons, he has Lucius Fox send him sonar-based imagery of the surrounding area that he'd been using to search for the Joker. This was to make it possible for him to actually save everyone from the Joker's elaborate trap. This causes his eyes to glow white and makes him look ''exactly'' like he does in the DCAU. Although the similarity works with the DCAU incarnation, this also functions as a general shout-out to the comics, where it's traditional to depict the eyes in Batman's cowl as white slits.
** From ''Rises'', "You should use your real name. It's nice. [[spoiler: Robin]]."
** Also from ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'': When [[spoiler: Gordon is hospitalized after being shot while escaping from Bane's hidden base in the Gotham sewers]], the other cops don't believe his tale, and ask him if 'he saw any [[SewerGator giant alligators as well]]'. This is a reference to another villain named Killer Croc, who looks like a giant, humanoid alligator due to his rare genetic disease, and often appears in Gotham's sewers.
** In another scene from ''Rises'' Bruce shows up to a MasqueradeBall without a costume and dances with Selina, like in ''Film/BatmanReturns''.
* TheFilmOfTheBook adaption of ''Film/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'' recreates the unsuccessful wedding of Violet and Olaf from ''The Bad Beginning.'' She tries to sign with her left hand, but Olaf catches her and makes her sign with her right hand. This echoes back to the book where the same scene happens and she wasn't caught, thus making the marriage void.
* ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' movie had tons of these, like running into the version of Marvin from the TV series in a queue on Vogosphere, and Zaphod calling Ford "Ix", as well as the original radio series' theme song -- "Journey of the Sorcerer" by The Eagles -- playing in the scene where the Guide is introduced.
* Disney's ''Disney/{{Hercules}}'' has several ''literal'' Mythology Gags referencing the 12 Labors of Hercules/Herakles -- like the lion's skin he wears when posing for a portrait, or when he breaks into Hades' private chambers while riding Cerberus. The series has even more, like when he applies for his "hero's license" and finds out he's 12 deeds short.
** Double bonus -- that lion skin is actually Scar. About whom Zazu said "He'd make a very handsome throw-rug".
* ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'':
** A mounted deer's head is seen in the bar that Gaston frequents; WordOfGod is that this is Disney/{{Bambi}}'s mother.
** The song "Days in the Sun" from the [[Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017 2017]] LiveActionAdaptation has the line "I can feel a change in me", calling back to "A Change in Me" from the ScreenToStageAdaptation.
* Disney's ''Disney/TheLionKing'' includes a SelfDeprecation towards one of Disneyland's more infamous rides:
-->'''Scar:''' Oh, Zazu, why don't you sing something with a little more bounce in it?\\
'''Zazu:''' ''(sarcastically)'' It's a small world, after all...\\
'''Scar:''' NO! No, ''anything'' but that!
*** A prime example of EvenEvilHasStandards. In the musical version it's "[[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast Be Our Guest]]".
** Jeremy Irons, who voiced Scar, got a self-referential moment when, after Simba calls his uncle 'weird', Scar says "You have no idea" in exactly the same intonation Irons used at the end of his Oscar-winning portrayal of Claus von Bulow in ''Reversal of Fortune''
** In ''Disney/TheLionKingOneAndAHalf'', when Timon has to take care of Simba during the night, they are seen walking accross the same log bridge seen during the TimeSkip in the original movie. Upon the third instance of this, Timon even says, "We're going to get old walking across this thing."
** A more positive reference was in ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'': Genie asks "You've just won the heart of the princess. What are you going to do next?" In ads, celebrities would answer such questions with "I'm going to Disneyland!" As he asks, the soundtrack plays a few notes from the beginning of "When You Wish Upon a Star", the famous song from Disney's ''Pinocchio'' that was at the time used as the anthem for the Disney theme parks.
*** Also, perhaps, the start of a BrickJoke: at the end of the film, after [[spoiler: Genie is released]], he is seen wearing a touristy Hawaiian shirt ''and a Goofy hat.''
** Another obscure Ride Cameo sneaks into ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'' when Tour Guide Barbie starts channeling the automated voice from the Matterhorn (quite audible from the line): "Remain seated please. Siga asentado por favor."
* In Disney's ''Disney/{{Tarzan}}'', you can clearly see a teapot and cup almost identical to Mrs. Potts and Chip from ''Beauty and the Beast'', when the monkeys are rocking out at the camp. (The only difference is a lack of eyes and mouth.)
** The set returns in ''Franchise/KingdomHearts''' Deep Jungle level. Ironically the real Mrs. Potts appeared in the second game where Deep Jungle did not appear.
** Also, later in the movie, when the gorillas hold Professor Porter upside-down, one of the many things that fall out of his pockets is a toy Little Brother from Disney's ''Disney/{{Mulan}}''.
* In the live-action ''Film/StreetFighter'' movie, this is combined with {{Homage}} at one point, where Bison forces a captured Chun-Li to [[GoGoEnslavement wear an outfit that better suits his tastes.]] It's actually Chun-Li's outfit from the video game on which the movie is (loosely) based on.
* The {{remake}} of ''Film/{{The Karate Kid|2010}}'' has Mr. Han attempting to catch a buzzing fly with his chopsticks. When he fails to manage, he immediately takes out a fly swatter and picks the fly's corpse off with his chopsticks before resuming his meal. (In the trailer, this is accompanied by "You're the Best Around.")
* In ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'', in the scene where Colonel Sanders takes the movie from the Mr. Movie cabinet, all of the other movies stored in it are films that Creator/MelBrooks (who starred in this movie) produced, directed and/or starred in. [[note]]They include ''Film/TheProducers'', ''Film/TheTwelveChairs'', ''Film/BlazingSaddles'', ''Film/YoungFrankenstein'', ''Film/SilentMovie'', ''Film/HighAnxiety'', ''Film/TheTwoThousandYearOldMan'', ''Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartOne'', and ''Film/ToBeOrNotToBe''[[/note]]
* TheMovie of ''Film/{{Wanted}}'' sticks one in at the end. ''Comicbook/{{Wanted}}'', the comic book the movie was (loosely) based on, was written by Mark Millar and drawn by J.G. Jones. The office drone at the end acting as Wesley's decoy has a nametag on his cubicle that gives his name as "J.G. Millar".
* In ''Film/AddamsFamilyValues'' the new son is named "Pubert". This would have been Pugsley's name but for the TV censors of the 1960s.
* In ''Film/{{Daredevil}}'', the fighters Matt's father's boss names ("Miller. Mack. ''Bendis''.") are homages to Creator/FrankMiller, David Mack, and Creator/BrianMichaelBendis, three highly acclaimed writers of the comic.
** The first criminal Daredevil kills is names Jose Quesada, a nod to then-Marvel EIC Creator/JoeQuesada. Quite a few fans got catharsis out of this following ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay''.
* The Franchise/DisneyFairies ''Tinkerbell'' movie opens with a paraphrase of the origin of fairies in ''Peter and Wendy'', and the sequence of Tink being created seems to be set (between the baby's laugh, and her arrival in Pixie Hollow) in Kensington Gardens, location of J. M. Barrie's ''Literature/PeterPanInKensingtonGardens'' (which eventually became the story we're familiar with), and current site of a statue of Peter.
* The ''Film/LostInSpace'' movie contains a reference to an oft-used line in the original series:
-->'''Robot:''' It sounds like old Morse code.\\
'''Will Robinson:''' What does it say?\\
'''Robot:''' Danger, Will Robinson, danger.
** It also has [[TheCameo cameos]] by most of the original cast, although editing reduced some to mere flickers on the screen.
** The protective shroud worn by the Jupiter II during its launch is a dead ringer for the original design of the ship on the TV show.
** At one point, Evil Spider Dr. Smith says "The pain, the paaaaaiiin," which was his {{catchphrase}} on the television show. However, in the show, he would use the line to feign an injury, whereas in the movie, he uses it sarcastically when shrugging off a blow from the Robinsons.
* ''Film/TheAvengers1998'':
** When Steed finds the entrance to Sir August's underground base, he calls out "Mrs. Peel, you're needed", a reference to the CatchPhrase of the original TV show: "Mrs. Peel, we're needed".
** Steed's NiceHat and SwordCane [[ParasolOfPain Umbrella of Pain]] and the SpyCatsuit Mrs. Peel and her clone wear.
** The streets of London being entirely empty of cars and pedestrians except for the title characters and anyone following them.
** The scene at the end where they drink champagne is a reference to the opening sequence in the original show where Mrs. Peel shoots off the cork of a champagne bottle and they pour champagne into glasses -- or to a number of episodes that also end with drinking champagne.
* ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'' and ''Film/GIJoeRetaliation'' feature a number of these:
** A painkiller-addled Ripcord describes Heavy Duty as having "realistic hair" and a "kung-fu grip", which are two of the features advertised with the original G.I. Joe figures back in the 1960s.
*** Close. The hair was the original series figures, the iconic Kung Fu Grip was the 1970-76 Adventure Team re-issues.
** In one scene, General Hawk remarks "[[AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle Knowing is half the battle.]]"
** Another scene has Duke referred to as "a real American hero".
** During the pivotal chase scene in Paris, Storm Shadow states that Snake Eyes "never gives up", certainly a reference to the classic theme song from the 80s G.I. Joe cartoon series.
** G.I. Joe as LaResistance? [[WesternAnimation/GIJoeRenegades Also done.]]
** Cobra soldiers as new U.S. military special forces set against Joes suspected for going renegades is similar to a plotline late in the Devil's Due comics.
** [[spoiler: Duke]] getting killed off also happened in ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeTheMovie''.
*** [[ExecutiveMeddling Not exactly.]]
** In ''GIJoeTheMovie'', Golobulus, the movie's BigBad, was voiced by BurgessMeredith, who portrayed WorldWarII correspondent Ernie Pyle in 1945's ''The Story Of G.I. Joe''.
* The ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' films tended to do this, in one form and another, but this was often limited to just referencing [[{{Retcon}} a mash of the first and second films,]] with no mention of the previous films. However, in ''Film/GodzillaVsMechagodzilla'', the events of ''Film/{{Mothra}}'' and ''Film/WarOfTheGargantuas'' are acknowledged, despite the films being released ages ago, and in ''Film/GodzillaFinalWars'' stock footage from Toho's older films appear, indicating that they may indeed have happened. [[SubvertedTrope Yes, even ''Hedorah'']].
** Also in ''[[Film/GodzillaFinalWars Final Wars]]'', Godzilla outright kills off all his opponents, except King Seesar, Anguiras, and Rodan; whom he leaves laying in a comical heap. This may be a nod to the fact that while Godzilla typically fought with all the other monsters, in the 60s and 70s, Godzilla teamed up with those three.
* ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}'':
** The boat on the dock in the final showdown is marked "Go Whale Tours." Godzilla's Japanese name is simply a combination of the word for gorilla, "Go," and "whale."
** There's a shot of a hole right through a wide skyscraper, as if something dived through it -- similar to a hole Zilla made in ''{{Film/Godzilla|1998}}'' (1998).
** The backstory involves a nuclear submarine disappearing and the Americans and Soviets blaming each other for it before finding out that a certain nuclear dinosaur was the real culprit. This brings to mind the early scenes of ''The Return of Godzilla''.
** In this film, Godzilla was first discovered in 1954, the year the original ''Film/{{Gojira}}'' film was released.
** The old high-tension wires with electricity pumped through them in an attempt to kill a kaiju is trotted out again.
** Dr. Serizawa, the man who built the Godzilla-killing oxygen destroyer, is present -- but in actuality he fills a role similar to Dr. [[Film/{{Gojira}} Yamane]]/[[Film/KingKongVsGodzilla Shigezawa]]/[[Film/TheReturnOfGodzilla Hayashida]], as scientific adviser to the military on all things prehistoric and deadly.
** Godzilla being an ancient beast from a time when the conditions on Earth were severely inhospitable and his conflict with other monsters from the same time period references ''Film/GodzillaRaidsAgain'', more specifically the ''Gigantis'' cut. In both, the military attempts to lure fighting kaiju away with a fake-out plan, which falls apart.
*** Also somewhat similar from the original film, which Godzilla is believed to have evolved from a hybrid species of dinosaurs and prehistoric sea reptiles.
** The kid getting separated from his parents on the train harkens back to when Fumiko and Kazuo were separated in ''Film/KingKongVsGodzilla''. Even his getup (shirt, shorts and baseball cap) is evocative of the Showa films.
** Joe's old house contains a moth cocoon marked, uh, "Film/{{Mothra}}". More precisely it was in a tank labelled "Dad's Moth", with the label partly covering the marking "Janjira" - spelling out "Dad's Mothra".
** The media dub Godzilla "King of the Monsters" at the end of the film.
** There is a [[Film/{{Rodan}} large red paper pteranodon]] in Ford's Japan classroom. Additionally, one can see a [[Film/{{Gojira}} theropod dinosaur skeleton]] and a [[Film/{{Mothra}} biology picture of a moth]].
** The echolocation poster in Joe's apartment has a [[Film/GodzillaAndMothraTheBattleForEarth bat and a moth communicating with each other]].
** The way Godzilla [[spoiler:kills the female MUTO is the same way he killed the Gryphon in the script of ''Script/Godzilla1994'']]. In the same vein, Godzilla is awakened to specifically fight two kaiju endangering the Earth -- and one is winged.
** There is a Stegosaurus toy on the table during the scene where Sam is watching TV footage of Godzilla kicking the crap out of the male [=MUTO=].
** The way Godzilla's [[spoiler:spikes light up]] is '''VERY''' similar to ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries''.
** Godzilla's breath weapon is less a concentrated solid beam that explodes like the 80s-2000s movies but more of a whispier heat wave like his earlier Showa movies.
** The Navy display on the Saratoga displays Godzilla's name as "Gojira," the Hepburn transliteration of the katakana.
** Likely unintentional, but in Janjira, we see [[WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries a giant millipede]] and [[Film/GodzillaVsGigan a giant cockroach]].
** Just like in 1998 ''Film/{{Godzilla|1998}}'', the final act of the film features [[spoiler: the human characters setting fire to the villainous monster's nest, but at the cost of [[MamaBear invoking the mother's wrath]]]]. The only difference is that it's not Godzilla who's angry this time.
* In ''Film/ManOnTheMoon'', during Creator/AndyKaufman's stint in pro wrestling in Tennessee, he begins his rivalry with [[Wrestling/JerryLawler Jerry "The King" Lawler]]. Who's doing commentary for his matches? None other than good ol' JR, Wrestling/JimRoss; the two were long-time broadcast colleagues for ''[[Wrestling/{{WWERaw}} WWE Raw]]''. This also is a case of ArtisticLicense, since Ross never called wrestling in Memphis in RealLife. He went from "Cowboy" Bill Watts' Mid-South/Universal Wrestling Federation in Louisiana/Oklahoma to the Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance after promoter Jim Crockett bought out Watts. Crockett sold what remained of the NWA (basically combining his Charlotte, NC-based promotion with what remained of Georgia) to Ted Turner in late 1988, and Ross continued as announcer, even after the Turner-owned promotion broke away in January 1991 and renamed itself Wrestling/{{WCW}}. Ross debuted in Wrestling/{{WWE}} in 1993.
* Quite possibly the most awesome part of Creator/MichaelBay's ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' movie, whether you think the rest of it stinks or not, is the part where Optimus Prime and Megatron start off their fight by quoting their respective lines from the original animated movie (and Optimus is even voiced by the same actor). [[spoiler: And even though Optimus technically doesn't win the fight himself, he certainly does end up much better off than Megatron this time around]] which adds an extra delicious irony to the context of the quoted lines.
** During the SequelHook at the end of the first movie, Optimus, while talking about humans, states "Like us, there is more to them than meets the eye."
** Also, when Sam drops Mikaela off at her house, he tells her "I think there's more than meets the eye with you."
** During Bumblebee's introductory scene, he uses several tricks to convince Sam to take him instead of another car on the lot. Said car? [[Franchise/TransformersGeneration1 A yellow VW Beetle.]]
** In ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen, Optimus fuses with Jetfire like he does in Anime/TransformersArmada
* In ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'' there are several references back to the team's previous work on ''Spaced'', including the character Tyres being clearly visible as a zombie outside The Winchester, and a reference to old times which works as an oblique description of the series when Shaun (i.e. Tim) first bumps into Yvonne (i.e. Daisy).
* In ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'', at one point our heroes pull into a gas station. The pumps have "Benthic Petroleum" logos on them -- the company that owned the undersea oil rig in ''Film/TheAbyss'', also written and directed by Creator/JamesCameron.
* In ''Disney/TheLionKing'', Timon claims that stars are fireflies that got caught in that big [[BuffySpeak bluish-black thing]], and laughs at Pumbaa's suggestion that they're balls of gas burning millions of miles away. In ''Disney/PrincessAndTheFrog'', another Disney film released over a decade later, the firefly Ray is in love with "Evangeline", a star that he believes to be a firefly. And later in the movie, a distraught Tiana quotes Pumbaa, telling Ray that Evangeline is really a ball of gas etc. etc. And at the very end of the movie [[spoiler:Ray dies, but is seen to AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence.... as a star, shining right next to Evangeline.]] So... it looks like Timon was right.
* At the beginning of ''Film/RunawayJury'', the movie version of the Creator/JohnGrisham novel ''The Runaway Jury'', Nicholas Easter comments to his apartment super that he should stop smoking. This is probably a reference to the fact that the original novel's case dealt with cigarette companies and lung cancer deaths; this was altered for the movie version because of real life verdicts against cigarette manufacturers.
* The swingin' ExpositoryThemeTune from the 1960s AnimatedAdaptation of ''Iron Man'' becomes instrumental background music in the early Vegas-set scenes of the [[Film/IronMan1 2008 film]] ([[spoiler:and when Tony has his one-night stand with Christine]]). It also serves as the ringtone when Tony calls Rhodes.
** Also, during one scene in Tony's workshop you can see ComicBook/CaptainAmerica's iconic shield -- though given the upcoming [[Comicbook/TheAvengers Avengers]] movie, this could actually be foreshadowing, or even a really subtle ChekhovsGun.
*** It's explained in a ({{canon}}icity unknown) bonus comic that Tony reverse-engineered the alloy he used in his upgraded suits from a prototype of Cap's shield.
*** The sequel backs this up by acknowledging the existence of the shield in Tony's lab... then promptly using it to prop something up.
** The terrorist organisation "The Ten Rings" and their leader, who fondles a huge finger-ring and repeatedly makes references to Genghis Khan is of course a ShoutOut to the original Iron Man villain "The Mandarin" who received super-powers from ten magical rings and wanted to set himself up as a new Genghis Khan.
*** This looks like foreshadowing for the 3rd film.
** Also, the two fighters that were chasing Iron Man were codenamed Whiplash One and Whiplash Two, in reference to an old member of his RoguesGallery. [[HilariousInHindsight Cue the sequel.]]
* Creator/MarvelComics writer Creator/StanLee makes a cameo in most modern film adaptations of his work.
** In the first ''Film/FantasticFour'' film he's Willy Lumpkin, the mailman who delivers to the Baxter Building.
*** This is actually a gag-within-a-gag, since Willie Lumpkin was originally made the FF's mailman as a reference to the Willie Lumpkin syndicated newspaper comic strip Stan did years earlier with Dan [=DeCarlo=].
** In the second ''Fantastic Four'' film, he plays himself, trying (unsuccessfully) to crash Reed and Susan's wedding.
*** It is also interesting to note that this exact gag happened in the original comic depiction of the wedding.
** In ''Daredevil'' he's an old man the young Matt Murdock keeps from stepping into the path of an oncoming vehicle. (Which is also a Mythology Gag, since in the comics Murdock gets his powers while pushing an old man out of the way of an oncoming truck full of [[GreenRocks radioactive materials]].)
** In the 2003 ''Film/{{Hulk}}'', he's a security guard, along with Creator/LouFerrigno, who played the Hulk in the TV series.
** In the 2008 ''Hulk'' movie, he is the consumer who drinks the bottle of juice tainted by Bruce Banner's blood. Ferrigno also appears, and even talks to Bruce Banner.
** In ''Film/XMen1'', he plays a stunned hot dog vendor at the beach, staring in silence as a newly-mutated [[spoiler: Senator Kelly]] emerges from the ocean.
** In ''X-Men The Last Stand'' he can be seen as one of the confused neighbors in young Jean Grey's scene. Another is Chris Claremont.
** In ''Film/IronMan,'' Tony Stark greets a man in a red satin robe surrounded by women as Hugh Hefner. The guy turns around to reveal himself as Stan Lee.
** In the sequel, this veers into RunningGag as a busy Tony Stark mistakes him for Larry King.
** He also manages to play at least one character in every animated adaptation as well. See his [[http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0498278/ IMDB entry]] for the astonishingly large number of roles he's played, dating back to 1966.
** ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' gave Lee a cameo as Hiro and Ando's bus driver. There's also a swordsmith named "Claremont" and a climactic series of events in "Kirby Plaza."
** He appears in ''Disney/BigHero6'' in a painting. [[spoiler:He makes a voiced appearance in the stinger.]]
* In ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'', a distracted and stressed Franchise/JamesBond orders a martini. When the bartender asks him if he wants it shaken or stirred, Bond snaps, "Do I look like I give a damn?"
** A ''completely unplanned'' one happened when Daniel Craig stumbled on an underwater sand mound while swimming on the Bahamas and decided to stand up. The director kept the blooper in and was surprised when he was applauded by Bond enthusiasts (who had spoken very ill of their decision to cast Creator/DanielCraig in the role during filming) for this "clever homage" to the scene where Creator/UrsulaAndress emerges from the sea in the first Bond film.
** And in ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'', Bond encounters a snake charmer on the flute playing none other than the James Bond Theme.
** This may actually be a meta gag - composer Monty Norman says he recycled the tune from an earlier piece of his in a Hindu-themed musical. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6EuzGhIyRQ Hear it here.]]
** In ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService'', a janitor whistles "Film/{{Goldfinger}}".
** The MilestoneCelebration films for 40 (''Film/DieAnotherDay'') and 50 years (''Film/{{Skyfall}}'') have plenty of this and ContinuityNod. For starters, the latter has the villain drinking a scotch dated 1962 (the year ''Film/DrNo'' was released - he even quips to Bond "A particular favorite of yours, I understand!"), and Bond going to his childhood home in [[Creator/SeanConnery Scotland]].
** In ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService'', when Creator/GeorgeLazenby's Bond fails to seduce a woman, he says "This never happened to the other fellow," referencing the success Bond usually had with women in the films with Creator/SeanConnery in the role.
** In [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/5cf079e2a353b05b48db40a0cc93f386.jpg the teaser poster]] for ''Film/{{Spectre}}'', Creator/DanielCraig's Bond is shown wearing an all-black turtleneck uniform, [[http://cdn.bleedingcool.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Live-and-Let-Die-Polo-Neck.jpg dressed similarly]] to Creator/RogerMoore's Bond during the climax of ''Film/LiveAndLetDie''.
** In ''Film/DrNo'', Dr. No chastises Bond for trying to attack him with a bottle of Dom Perignon '55, to which Bond says "I prefer the '53, myself." This refers to the fact that the third Bond novel, ''Literature/{{Moonraker}}'', was first published in 1955, while the first Bond novel, ''Literature/CasinoRoyale'', was published in 1953. This gag gets echoed in ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'', as Bond arrives at Scaramanga's island, with Nick Nack offering Dom Perignon '64, with Bond saying "I prefer the '62, myself.", which referenced the fact that the third Bond film, ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}, was released in 1964, while the first Bond film, ''Dr. No'' was released in 1962.
* In the remake of ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans|2010}}'', when Perseus is rooting through equipment, he considers a golden owl but one of his companions tells him he should leave it. The owl was an important part of [[Film/ClashOfTheTitans1981 the original film]]. Unusually this isn't to reassure the audience that the film would remain true to the original but more a derisive joke at the expense of this aspect of the original film (sometimes counted as TheScrappy among audiences).
* In ''Film/TheATeam'' film, B.A.'s "pity da fool" line is referenced with his KnuckleTattoos, [[spoiler: a black van belonging to B.A. and similar to the TV series' iconic one gets crushed early on]] and the original theme tune plays during the 3D film in the psychiatric hospital.
** Didn't Mr. T first say that line in ''Film/RockyIII''?
** The original OpeningTheme is laced throughout the soundtrack, as it was in the original show (albeit more prominently back then).
* The 1998 remake of Disney's ''Film/TheParentTrap'' (starring Creator/LindsayLohan) is rife with them:
** The song "Let's Get Together" from the original version appears in three places: at the start, as a musical flourish at the end of the end credits, and in the hotel quietly sung by Hallie as she walks to the elevators.
** Meredith's mother Vicky is played by Joanna Barnes, who played Meredith's counterpart (named "Vicky") in the original.
** Meredith is heard speaking on the phone to Reverend Mosby, who was a character in the original.
** The camp counselors have the last name Kulp, as a tribute to [[Series/TheBeverlyHillbillies Nancy Kulp]], who played the younger counselor in the 1961 version.
** When caught on the phone, Annie claims she is speaking with "Mildred Plotka". This is a double-barrelled reference, to both the 1961 movie and to Carole Lombard's character in the 1934 film ''Twentieth Century''.
** The hotel where everyone meets up, The Stafford, is named for a boy Susan spoke to during the camp dance in the original.
* In the first ''Film/{{Superman}}'' movie, Clark is casting about for a place to change. He glances briefly at a pay phone--a phone on a pole, with an enclosure that would cover him only down to mid-thigh, and not at all from the back--shakes his head slightly, and continues looking.
* ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'' is also loaded with references to G1. The guns are now separate from the robots, instead of transforming their arms into it, just like in G1. Some weapon choices are from G1, including, what is probably the most awesome moment in the film, Optimus using ''the energon axe'' to fight the villain. The trailer from G1 returns, including its purpose of holding weapons. Shockwave is a large, one-eyed purple robot with a cannon for an arm, just like his G1 counterpart (And while he never does so in the film, apparently transforms into a self-propelled cannon; in other words, a flying giant gun). The Matrix of Leadership is now used as a symbol of command, and is stored inside Optimus' chest. The new girl is named Carly, and Sam uses a Spike shaped explosive to [[spoiler: Kill Starscream]], a possible nod to his G1 counterpart's name (Spike, which the writers have been trying for ages to work in as a nickname but never got an appropriate scene for it).
* The opening of ''Film/NapoleonDynamite'' is a shot of Napoleon looking through his notebook as he waits for the bus. This is based on a similar opening shot of ''Peluca'', a previous Jared Hess directed short which ''Napoleon Dynamite'' was inspired from.
* ''Film/JudgeDredd''. The smiley face graffiti seen on the Statue of Liberty is a reference to the original comic's story "Un-American Graffiti", in which these were a signature part of Chopper's tags.
* Early on in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' Steve and Bucky go to the Expo and a glass capsule holding what appears to be the body of Jim Hammond, the original Wartime Human Torch can be seen. This is also probably an ActorAllusion to Chris Evans who played the Human Torch in ''Film/FantasticFour''.
** Above the tank, the label reads "Dr. Phineas Horton Presents The Synthetic Man," which was the origin of the Wartime Human Torch.
** Cap's Hitler-punching [[http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/captain-america/1-2.jpg origins]] are referenced through the USO stage show he performs in, where we see him knocking out an actor dressed like Hitler in a [[StylisticSuck poorly-choreographed]] fashion.
** In the chase scene after Cap initially gains his powers when he picks up a cab door for a shield the name of the cab company is "Lockely Star" this is a reference to Moon Knight and one of his three identities (it's complicated) Jake Lockely.
* Several Creator/MelBrooks films have mythology gags: When Achoo is appointed the new Sheriff of Nottingham in ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'', Achoo says "Hey, it worked in ''Film/BlazingSaddles''!" And Harvey Korman has twice played an EvilChancellor with an InsistentTerminology regarding his name: [[Film/BlazingSaddles Hedy Lamarr (that's HEDLEY!)]] and [[Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartI Count deMoney (that's deMonET!)]]
* In the movie ''Film/AliensVsPredatorRequiem'' one of the characters tells another to "get to the chopper" while on the hospital rooftop, obviously a reference to the famous line "get to da choppa" from ''Film/{{Predator}}'', only in this movie it was, ya know, not as memorable.
** In ''Film/{{Predators}}'', one of the alien animals uses the original, bug-like Predator design, which was abandoned only days into shooting the first film, and never made it to screen outside of "Making of"-features.
* At the beginning of ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTintin'', a painter paints a portrait of Tintin. The painting turns out to be his design from the comics! And if you look closely in the background, you can see that the painter has done paintings of the other characters from the comics too.
** What's even better is that the painter is a CreatorCameo of Hergé.
* In ''Film/TheGodfatherPartIII'', Vincent Mancini's mother is a major character from Creator/MarioPuzo's original novel whose plot was [[ContinuityCameo almost]] completely omitted from the first movie for [[PornWithPlot obvious reasons.]]
* In the Disney adaptation of ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', two of the comic relief gargoyles are named "Victor" and "Hugo", a reference to the author of [[Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame the original novel]].
* Creator/MontyPython packed two-and-a-quarter hours of film to the brim with these for their farewell special, MontyPythonMostlyLiveOneDownFiveToGo.
* During the final duel in ''Film/MyNameIsNobody'', you can hear a few seconds of the music from the final duel in ''Film/OnceUponATimeInTheWest''. Which was also written by Ennio Morricone and that scene also featured Henry Fonda getting shot, and director Sergio Leone worked on both movies. But then, the entire movie is an AffectionateParody on their earlier work.
* ''Film/TotalRecall2012'' contains a few references to the 1990 version and the original story, "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale".
** The receptionist greets Quaid with the comment "We can remember it for you".
** The cautionary tale about going to Rekall mentions being "King of Mars", which is where the first movie and original story centered.
** While going through the security checkpoint, the woman ahead of Quaid is the same disguise used by Quaid in the first movie.
*** She also repeats "two weeks" to a completely different question. However, in the remake, she simply misheard the question. In the original, it was a bug in the disguise.
* One of the few high marks of 2000's ''The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle'' was when our heroes are held in a hospital's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Ward J Ward]].
* The Pooh doll for the live action opening of ''Disney/WinnieThePooh'' was originally made for the first Pooh film ''Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree'' in 1966, but ended up being replaced by a different doll. It was finally used 45 years later.
* In ''Film/JackTheGiantSlayer'' the golden harp from [[Literature/JackAndTheBeanStalk the fairy tale]] can be seen a handful of times throughout the film.
** An egg (though jeweled instead of gold like the tale) can also be seen on the table as [[spoiler: Jack is speaking to his children in the final moments of the film]]. Jack picked it up earlier in the film.
* ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'':
** Gary King fails in trying to climb a fence, just like [[Film/ShaunOfTheDead Shaun]] and [[Film/HotFuzz Danny]].
** The cameo from the Cornetto wrapper also counts.
** The familiar fruit machine jingle plays in one of the pubs, as in Film/ShaunOfTheDead and Film/HotFuzz.
** [[Series/{{Spaced}} Oblique references to an accident in Pegg and Frost's characters' past that had a lasting impact on their friendship.]]
** Gary King asks a teenager in the toilets if he and his mates are "having a good time", echoing a similar scene in ''Series/{{Spaced}}'' which also ends up with Tim and Daisy involved in a fight with the teens.
* ''Film/TheLoneRanger'':
** The carnival barker and the banner on Tonto's exhibit hearkens to "The Thrilling Days of Yesteryear", the introductory line used in most versions of the property.
** There's also a {{ContinuityNod}}/{{TakeThat}} to the ending of the [[Franchise/TheLoneRanger TV series]].
-->'''Ranger''': ''Hi ho, Silver, '''away!''' ''\\
'''Tonto''': '' '''Never''' do that again.''
* The feature adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/MrPeabodyAndSherman'' opens with how Mr. Peabody adopted Sherman, a direct nod to the first ''Peabody'' segment from ''The WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle Show''.
* In the ''Film/VeronicaMars'' movie, Leo D'Amato finds Veronica waiting for him at his desk at the San Diego Police Department, and mistakenly thinks she's asking for assistance on an FBI case. This is a reference to Rob Thomas' proposed retooling of the show after season three, which would've skipped ahead to Veronica as a junior FBI agent (a short pilot was produced, starring Kristen Bell and [[Series/TheShield Walt]] [[Series/{{Justified}} Goggins]], and appears on the third season [=DVDs=]). {{Lampshaded}} further by Veronica when Leo, genuinely puzzled that she's working a case as a PI, asks whether the rumour he heard about her joining the FBI was true:
--> '''Veronica:''' "In another life, maybe."
* At the Kentucky Derby In ''Film/TheHustler'', the race announcer lists some of the horses racing. One of them is named "Stroke of Luck", a proposed alternate title for the film.
* The film ''Film/WouldYouRather'' is presented by "The Lambrick Foundation." InUniverse, the Lambrick Foundation is actually who stages the film's titular game. For further giggles, [[http://www.imdb.com/company/co0481338/?ref_=ttco_co_4 they have their own IMDB page...]]
* ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2014'':
** The authors of the book on ninjutsu Splinter found in a flashback are Eastman and Laird, the [[ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMirage original comic's]] creators.
*** One of the characters is named [=McNaughton=], a reference to Jim [=McNaughton=], a very obscure character from [[ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMirage the original Mirage comics]] who reported the explosion of the T.C.R.I. building in the sixth issue of the original comic book.
*** At one point, Raph said "We strike hard and fade away into the night". A line from the [[ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMirage first issue of the original comic]].
*** Kid April in a flashback makes a comment about the mutagen being from outer space, in a nod to it being created by aliens in [[ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMirage the comic]] as well as [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 the 2003 series]].
** When the Shredder's new armor is revealed, he says, "Tonight I dine on Turtle Soup," a popular line of his from [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 the 1987 series]].
*** Fenwick calls the Turtles when first hearing about them, "Heroes in a Half-Shell."
*** [[spoiler: The Turtles' new car plays a part of the 1987 theme song as its horn.]]
*** Before the final fight with the Shredder, Raphael asks Mikey to repeat something he said when they were kids. "COWABUNGA!"
** Sacks mentions that Project Renaissance almost used rabbits meaning we were a small decision away from ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo.
** A flashback shows Leonardo slicing up a pizza with his katanas, only for a slice to land on Splinter's head, like in ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990''.
*** Also from the same movie is Mikey's crush on April.
*** Also like the 1990 movie, Shredder holds a beaten member of the Turtles' family at his mercy and orders them to drop their weapons and surrender if they want them to live. The Turtles do so and he rewards their compliance by following through with his threat.
*** Mikey mentions finishing a hip-hop Christmas album, which may be referencing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ajychXZVyI one of the most infamous moments in Turtle history.]]
** Shredder's armor seems to be similar to that of the incarnation depicted in the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 2003 series]]. It even has the same three-toed dragon emblem used by the Foot Clan from that series on the centre chest.
** At one point Raphael uses a chain as a weapon, referencing his weapon of choice as the Nightwatcher in [[WesternAnimation/{{TMNT}} the 2007 CG film]].
** What little we see of the real Shredder shows he is bald and scarred, very similar to [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 the current animated series.]]
** [[spoiler: Subverted with]] Eric Sacks, which sounds like an Anglicization of Oroku Saki, a.k.a. Shredder.
** Three of the four Turtles take design cues from [[http://tmntentity.blogspot.com/2011/03/4th-live-action-tmnt-movie-that-never.html the proposed fourth live-action movie that never happened,]] including Donny's glasses/goggles and modified bo staff, Leo's overall ninja/samurai warrior look, and Mikey's street clothes look. TMNT Co-creator Kevin Eastman did have a hand in writing that movie and was a consultant for writing this one so it may not be an accident.
* ''Film/DraculaUntold'':
** The gypsy Shkelgim says "Yes Master" in a way similar to the way characters said it in other Universal monster movies back in the day.
** Gypsies serving Dracula recalls [[Literature/{{Dracula}} the original novel by Stoker]], where a small army/clan served as his protectors while escorting the Count back to Transylvania.
** [[spoiler: In the ReincarnationRomance epilogue, Mina asks Vlad where he's from. Although Luke Evans' English accent doesn't give it away, this is a gag on Count Dracula's way of speaking in {{Literature/Dracula}}]]. Jonathan Harker noted that Dracula didn't have a heavy accent and instead spoke English perfectly, but with an odd tone.
** When Vlad's people turn on him after learning of his vampirism, they pretty much become the classic Universal angry mob, complete with TorchesAndPitchforks and screams of "burn the monster!"
** [[spoiler:After being burned in the sun, Dracula is revived when Shkelgim drips blood onto his remains]], much like in ''Film/DraculaPrinceOfDarkness''.
* ''Film/{{Annie 2014}}'':
** One TV spot shows Guy, Stack's political adviser, call Annie by the original strip's title to the press.
--> '''Guy:''' There she is, our little orphan Annie!
--> '''Annie:''' [[InsistentTerminology Foster kid.]]
** Stacks first meets Annie across the street from a place called Punjab Harlem Cleaning Supply, named for the bodyguard character in the original comics.
** Stacks' opponent in the mayoral race is named Harold Gray, after the comic strip's creator.
** The opening scene at school begins with a red-haired Caucasian girl named Annie giving a presentation. We then immediately meet our protagonist, who is also named Annie.
*** Said Caucasian girl was played by Taylor Richardson, who took on the role of Annie in the 2013 Broadway revival of the stage show.
** The band playing in the bar where Guy hatches his plan with Hannigan is called the Leapin' Lizards, which was the newspaper comic strip Annie's CatchPhrase.
** [[spoiler:Stacks and Grace start yelling until one of the other foster children reminds them that Annie can't hear them. This is a throwback to the original movie where Warbucks and Grace yell for Annie during the car chase.]]
** [[spoiler:Stacks is randomly discovered by Annie to actually be bald partway through the film, wearing a very realistic wig. It's only ever alluded to once shortly afterwards. Warbucks, who Stacks is based off, was the world's richest bald man]].
** The music that plays during Harold Gray's TV advertisement is an instrumental of "N.Y.C."
** Annie's report at school is about the New Deal policies. The musical and the [[Film/{{Annie1982}} 1982 film]] had UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt as a supporting character and he alluded to his future policies for the economy.
** When Annie asks Grace about the millions of servants and the chef, it's a reference to Mister Warbuck's servants (and chef).
* In the 2002 Broadway revival of ''Theatre/IntoTheWoods'', the Wolf tries to lure in Little Red by pulling a lollipop out of his jacket. In [[Film/IntoTheWoods the film]], he opens one side of his jacket to reveal a collection of candy.
* In ''Film/TheBourneUltimatum'', one of the "terminated" victims' files from Vosen's safe has a picture of Richard Chamberlain, who played Jason Bourne in the 1988 adaptation of ''The Bourne Identity''.
* In ''Film/{{Mama}}'', there's a scene where one kid is locked pout of a room by the other, and the ghost is just about to head down a long hallway towards them. A nearly identical shot appeared in the short film the movie is based on, [[spoiler: but [[NotHisSled the ghost isn't actually at the end of the hallway this time]]]].
* ''WesternAnimation/PenguinsOfMadagascar'':
** The movie opens with a MinorKidroduction, showing the penguins as children in Antarctica and how they became lost at sea where they eventually end up in New York, much the same way ''WesternAnimation/MadagascarEscape2Africa'' depicts this happening to Alex.
** The main plot opens with a celebration of Private's 10th birthday and escalates from there; Marty's 10th birthday similarly motivates the opening act of ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}''.
** When locked in a cage, Skipper orders Rico to bust them out, which he does by coughing up a paperclip to pick the lock with. This action in [[WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}} the first movie]] is what inspired his stomach of holding abilities.
** The Penguins meet a rival group known as the North Wind, who are comprised of northern animals. The penguins don't get along with them at all, aside from one of them having a crush on the female of the group. The idea that the Antarctic Penguins would be natural rivals of Arctic life but one of the penguins having a crush on one of them also comes up in ''Merry Madagascar''.
** [[spoiler:King Julien's]] cameo in TheStinger uses an older design that would be out of date relative to the time the movie takes place, but matches how he appeared alongside the penguins in ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'' cartoon.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobMovieSpongeOutOfWater'':
** In ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie'', a deleted scene (storyboarded but not animated) revealed that Sandy was planned to make a cameo appearance on the surface world as a real squirrel. Come this film, and Sandy dons the appearance of a real squirrel in her superhero form.
** Burgerbeard's food cart is called the Barnacle Burger, which was an early name for the Krabby Patty.
** Squidward inking himself when he's nervous was originally going to be a regular gag on [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants the show]], but they could never find a way to do it properly until now.
* ''Film/{{Cinderella 2015}}'':
** The scene with the stag was based on a deleted scene from [[Disney/{{Cinderella}} the original film]], although originally the stag was friends with the prince and never actually in any danger. Another planned sequence would have involved the prince disguising himself as a gypsy...and Kit also seems to enjoy disguises.
** Drisella is still a terrible singer.
** Ella's asks her father to bring her back a branch as a present. In the Grimm Brothers version, Ella planted it on her mother's grave and it grew into a tree that provided her the dress for the ball.
** Cinderella says that she’s never been painted. [[Disney/{{Cinderella}} That’s not entirely accurate …]]
* In ''Literature/TheTrueMeaningOfSmekday'', the Boov Tip befriends is named J-Lo. In ''WesternAnimation/{{Home}}'', Tip's mother is played by the real [[Music/JenniferLopez J-Lo]].
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePeanutsMovie''
** The company name on the moving van is Mendelson & Melendez, a tribute to Lee Mendelson and Bill Melendez, the producers of the classic ''Peanuts'' TV specials.
** The comic book Charlie Brown shows his admirers depicts ''[[ComicStrip/SnuffySmith Barney Google]]'' character Spark Plug the horse. who was the source of Charles Schulz's lifelong nickname "Sparky".
* ''Disney/{{Zootopia}}'':
** A glimpse of some side characters gives us a weasel named Duke Weaselton, referencing back to a character mispronouncing the Duke of Weselton in Frozen. (When she confronts him at his pirate DVD shop, Judy mispronounces his name as "Weselton" and he corrects her, thus echoing and inverting the joke from Frozen.) They even share the same voice actor, Disney Animation regular Alan Tudyk.
** When Judy confronts Chief Bogo wanting to be a real police officer, he bluntly tells her that "Life isn't some cartoon musical where you sing a little song and your insipid dreams magically come true. So, let it go."
** At the climax,the deer mannequin [[spoiler: that "savage" Nick mangles]] is recognizably Bambi.
* ''Film/WarCraft2016'' has a ton of those meant as Easter Eggs for the players of the games:
** The very first scene of the movie, where a human and an orc fight over a narration about the war, is almost pulled straight from ''Warcraft 3'''s intro, where a fight between a human soldier and an orc over a narration of the war is interrupted by a demon falling from the sky and killing them both.The film cut the demon part, though.
** As Lothar and Khadgar travel in Elwynn forest, a [[http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/Murloc murloc]] (from ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'') can be seen, and it utters the race's trademark [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMPpnCvCZvw "Aaaaaughibbrgubugbugrguburgle!"]].
** Similarly, in a later scene in the orc camp [[spoiler:after Lothar is dragged to the brig]], the voice of the Orc Peon can be heard.
** Among the captives of Guldan when he first opens the Dark Portal are some Draenei as they appear in ''World of Warcraft'', the result of a bit of RetCanon after the grossly different Draenei in ''Warcraft III'' were designated as "broken Draenei" in ''The Burning Crusade''.
** After transforming a guard into a sheep, Khadgar says it last for about a minute. In vanilla ''World Of Warcraft'', the "Polymorph" spell had indeed a duration of 60 seconds. He also notes that "it only works on the weak-minded", which in itself references the fact that bosses in the game are immune to being polymorphed.
** Medivh [[spoiler: turns his golem into something very much like an Infernal to deal with Lothar and Khadgar]].
** Khadgar is handed Medivh's staff Atiesh several times and always looks at it extremely reverently. In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', he eventually inherits that staff (which was a legendary item in Vanilla WOW).
** When Khadgar travels to Dalaran to see the Kirin Tor, the city is floating in the sky just like it does in ''[[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft Wrath of the Lich King]]'' onward.
** After [[spoiler: killing Medivh]], Khadgar is surrounded by golden light in a way that looks very much like a ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' PlayerCharacter levelling up.
** Go'el's basket is a miniature orc transport ship from ''Warcraft II'', only made of straw.
** The orc base around the portal contains variations of structures from all ages of Warcraft orcs, the towers especially.
* Back when ''Film/BlairWitch'' was disguising itself as ''The Woods'', the trailer had a creepy cover of Music/ThePolice's "I'll Be Watching You". At the end of the first actual ''Blair Witch'' trailer, a tiny bit of it can be heard again.
* ''Film/TheFlintstones''
** Fred and Barney are introduced singing along to "The Twitch" from the self-titled episode.
** Fred's picture in the ''The Bedrock News'' is a drawing of Fred's animated counterpart.
* ''{{Trolls}}'': At the start of the film, when the Bergens discover that all the Trolls have escaped from the tree, the wooden decoys look exactly like the classic Troll dolls. In fact, the earliest Troll dolls were made of wood.
* ''Disney/{{Moana}}'':
** One of the fish in the "You're Welcome" DisneyAcidSequence resembles Flounder from ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid''. Tamatoa's lair also resembles Ariel's grotto. And in TheStinger, the still overturned Tamatoa complains to the audience that they would help him if his name was Sebastian and he had a Jamaican accent. ''Moana'' was directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, the same people as ''TLM''.
** Flash the sloth from ''Disney/{{Zootopia}}'' appears in the Realm of Monsters.
** While trying to control his shapeshifting after recovering his fish hook, Maui transforms into [[Disney/{{Frozen}} Sven the reindeer]].
** A Polynesian drawing of Disney/WreckItRalph can be seen near the end of the credits.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SherlockGnomes'', the name on the moving van that moves the gnomes to London is Sherrinford Movers. Sherrinford Bell was Creator/ArthurConanDoyle's originally proposed name for Sherlock Holmes.

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** A ''completely unplanned'' one happened when Daniel Craig stumbled on an underwater sand mound while swimming on the Bahamas and decided to stand up. The director kept the blooper in and was surprised when he was applauded by Bond enthusiasts (who had spoken very ill of their decision to cast Creator/DanielCraig in the role during filming) for this "clever homage" to the scene where Ursula Andress emerges from the sea in the first Bond film.

* MontyPython packed two-and-a-quarter hours of film to the brim with these for their farewell special, MontyPythonMostlyLiveOneDownFiveToGo.

** In the 2003 ''Film/{{Hulk}}'', he's a security guard, along with Lou Ferrigno, who played the Hulk in the TV series.

* [[/index]]''Film/DCExtendedUniverse''[[index]]

** ''MythologyGag/SuicideSquad2016''

** The way Godzilla [[spoiler:kills the female MUTO is the same way he killed the Gryphon in the script of Film/{{Godzilla 1994}}]]. In the same vein, Godzilla is awakened to specifically fight two kaiju endangering the Earth - and one is winged.

* [[/index]]Film/DCExtendedUniverse''[[index]]

* Film/DCExtendedUniverse[[index]]

* ''MythologyGag/CaptainUnderpantsTheFirstEpicMovie

* ''MythologyGag/SherlockHolmes''

* At the beginning of the movie version of the Creator/JohnGrisham novel ''The Runaway Jury'', Nicholas Easter comments to his apartment super that he should stop smoking. This is probably a reference to the fact that the original novel's case dealt with cigarette companies and lung cancer deaths; this was altered for the movie version because of real life verdicts against cigarette manufacturers.

*** Rickman fits hilariously well when "Snape looked as though Christmas had been cancelled" in [[Film/HarryPotter Chamber of Secrets]] - referencing his role as Sherrif of Nottingham in ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceofThieves'' and "calling off Christmas".

* ''Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes'' the 2011 prequel to the classic ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968'' is ''full'' of subtle [[ShoutOut Shout-Outs]] to the original film.
** The most obvious is when [[PropheticNames Caesar]], the main ape, fights back against his abusive animal control handler, the handler responds by shouting "Get your stinkin' paws off me, you damn dirty ape". What most people ''don't'' catch is in both films the line is uttered in roughly equivalent scenes with a captive CivilizedAnimal (Creator/CharltonHeston's Taylor in the original, and Caesar in the prequel) attacking the captors that had abused him, and in both cases the line triggers the "holy shit, [[YouCanTalk it can talk!]]" moment for the captors, Charlton Heston uttering the actual line, and Caesar responding to the line with a startlingly assertive [[BigNo "NO!"]].
*** The handler previously also says of the facility "It's a madhouse!", a line Taylor speaks as the apes use a pressurized water hose on him.
** "No" was also said to be the first word ever spoken by an ape in ''Film/EscapeFromThePlanetOfTheApes''.
** The abuse Caesar suffered in captivity also mirrors that suffered by Heston.
*** In the original Heston escapes and attacks an ape, and is confiscated by the ape Ministry of Science, to the protest of Heston's owner, [[MotherlyScientist Dr. Zira]] who knows Heston is intelligent. In the prequel Caesar escapes and attacks a human, and is confiscated by Animal Control, to the protest of Caesar's owner [[FatherlyScientist Dr. Rodman]] who knows Caesar is intelligent.
*** In the original, Heston is attacked by one of the mute animal humans which results in a fight, and subsequently Heston is locked to an individual cell. In the prequel, Caesar is attacked by one of the regular apes which results in a fight, and subsequently Caesar is locked to an individual cell.
*** In the original, the Ministry of Science handler attacks Heston with a firehose jammed through the bars of his cell when he becomes belligerent. In the prequel, the Animal Control handler attacks Caesar with a fire hose jammed through the bars of his cell when he becomes belligerent.
** Caesar's mother, the first ape given the [[AppliedPhlebotinum intelligence-boosting drug]] is given the name Bright Eyes. This is the same name that Dr. Zira gives to Heston's character before he writes her a note explaining that his name is really "Taylor".
*** [[ContinuityPorn Caesar is named after the ape leader in the last two sequels; Rodney the primate caretaker and Caesar's owner Will Rodman are named after ''Apes'' franchise actor Roddy McDowall and the writer of the original's first draft, Rod Serling; the orangutan is named Maurice, after Maurice Evans who played the orangutan Dr. Zaius in the original; Dodge Landon is named after Taylor's two companions in the original; Jacobs is named after the producer of the original Arthur P. Jacobs; the gorilla is named Buck, after Buck Kartalian who played gorillas in the franchise; and Caroline's last name was originally Steward like the female astronaut in the first film]] (but [[RaceLift was changed]] when Freida Pinto was cast in the role).
** Though ''Rise of the Planet of the Apes'' takes place in San Francisco, towards the end, Dr. Rodman's JerkAss neighbor who came into contact with the aforementioned intelligence-boosting phlebotinum (which is actually a virus that dramatically boosts intelligence in apes, and [[GoneHorriblyWrong kills humans]], despite the fact that humans are [[YouFailBiologyForever technically a species of ape]]) is revealed to be an airline pilot and is seen preparing to board a plane that he's about to pilot... to New York City.
** A news broadcast tells of a lost manned space mission called the Icarus 1, lead by a Colonel Taylor...

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* DC Extended Universe

* [[/index]]Franchise/StarWars[[index]]

* ''MythologyGag/TheForceAwakens''

* The feature adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/MrPeabodyAndSherman'' opens with how Mr. Peabody adopted Sherman, a direct nod to the first ''Peabody'' segment from ''The RockyAndBullwinkle Show''.

* ''Film/JurassicWorld'':
** The description for Isla Nublar's golf course describes it as "the only golf course that was sixty-five million years in the making," a callback to the tagline of the original film.
** Among the locations is a restaurant called Winston's Steakhouse, after the late Creator/StanWinston who worked on the animatronic dinosaurs for the previous films.
** The blurb for the Creation Tour on the park website says, under the Nursery heading, "[[ArcWords Life will always find a way]]".
** A ''Spinosaurus'' skeleton appears in the main street, referencing ''Film/JurassicParkIII''. May also be a TakeThat considering how unpopular the movie (and [[TheScrappy the Spinosaurus in particular]]) was, especially when [[spoiler:Rexy smashes it]].
** A few references to [[Literature/JurassicPark the book]] make appearances, for example the Aviary containing an "enclosed viewing area", possibly a reference to the cancelled "Pteratops Lodge" from the novel.
** Kids can ride baby ''Triceratops'' at the petting zoo, a reference to a deleted scene from the original film in which Lex would've ridden one herself, which itself was a MythologyGag to a scene in the original novel.
** Lowery's "edge of chaos" justification for his cluttered workstation is paraphrased from a speech Malcolm gives at the beginning of [[Literature/TheLostWorld1995 the second book]].
** Charlie being [[spoiler: taken out by a rocket launcher]], which is precisely how [[spoiler: Muldoon killed multiple raptors]] in the original ''Literature/JurassicPark'' novel.
** The reason why ''I. rex'' is so viciously hostile to everything it meets (to the point that it killed and ate its sibling), due to being raised in isolation with no contact with any kind of parental figure or any positive relationships, is the exact same reason why the raptors on Isla Sorna were so feral and self-destructively vicious in ''Literature/{{The Lost World|1995}}'' novel.
** Wu's speech to Masrani regarding how all the dinosaurs are engineered lifeforms and completely unauthentic thanks to blended DNA and engineering to make them look "cooler/scarier" is in essence the exact same speech that the Wu from the original novel gave Hammond about his own dinosaurs.
** The hyper-stylized control room with the movement/migration patterns and progress of all dinosaurs, status updates for maintenance and systems, live video feeds of the ACU hunters and other personnel, and the overall map of Isla Nublar, is taken from the [[VideoGame/TheLostWorldJurassicPark loading screens for the Lost World's tie-in video game.]]
** Owen, naturalist with a massive respect and love for nature (and hatred for those that don't share that respect), shares a name with a similar personality from ''Literature/{{The Lost World|1995}}''--and both fought against [=InGen=] forces who sought to control the dinosaurs for their own end.
** Late in the film, we can see miniaturized dinosaurs, pet-friendly hybrids, and other genetic oddities in the lab. Hammond in the book discussed this with Wu as a possibility for more profit.
** During the climatic fight, the ''I. rex'' and the ''T. rex'' use a couple of moves on each other that are straight out of ''VideoGame/WarpathJurassicPark''.
** The subplot of the raptors and other dinosaurs being used for military applications is an adaptation of several failed ''Jurassic Park'' sequels that involved raptors fighting with guns or dinosaur-human hybrids used by the military.
** The way [[spoiler:Masrani's]] helicopter is taken down is ''exactly'' how Alan Grant wound up back on the island in the Game Boy adaptation for ''Jurassic Park III''--angry pterodactyls crashing into it. It was also one of the original storyboards for ''The Lost World''.
** Barry surviving a raptor attack by backing into a log references both Harding surviving a ''Stegosaurus'' attack by hiding in a log in ''The Lost World'' and Muldoon surviving a raptor attack by accidentally backing up into a storm drain in the original novel.
** Zach and Gray's parents are getting divorced and the boys are sent to the park to take their minds off it, [[Literature/JurassicPark much like Tim and Lex were in the original novel]] and, presumably, in the film version (it's mentioned near the start that Hammond's daughter is getting a divorce). [[Film/JurassicParkIII The Kirbys were also on the rocks when their son went to go paragliding on Isla Sorna.]]
** There are several nods to the IDW Jurassic Park comic series. Including:
*** A human forming a bond with and becoming the Alpha to a pack of raptors;
*** ''Pteranodons'' attacking a large number of humans (with one being killed by a large marine predator);
*** A ''Mosasaurus'' [[spoiler: attacking and killing a BigBad]] that's been drive out to it by raptors.
** Speaking of the ''Mosasaur'', the way [[spoiler:the ''Indominus'' is defeated]] is the exact same way a raptor is taken out by the ''Deinosuchus'' in ''VideoGame/JurassicParkArcade'.
** The restraints the raptors are placed in are the same from the ''Lost World'' anywhere ''Chaos Effect'' toy lines.
** [[spoiler:Hoskins' plan is to make a smaller, weaponized version of the ''I. rex''. In the original novel, the possibility is raised of making smaller, domesticated versions of the dinosaurs to use as pets.]]
** The website mentions that the old version of the ''T. rex'' paddock was meant to accommodate both an adult and a juvenile ''rex'', another reference to the book.
** Several of the ''Pteranodons'' sport a metallic blue-faced color scheme similar to that of the unused ones from ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' and the giant Pteranodon action figure from that movie's toyline.