History ShoutOut / CardGames

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** Innistrad is ''filled'' with these. Sure, we have some that only fall on "classical horror tropes" territory, but we have some ''really'' specific stuff as well, like [[Film/TheFly1986 a scientist that transforms on a insectoid monster due to an experiment gone wrong]], [[JekyllAndHyde a researcher that manages to transform his violent side into a brutish, monstruous alter-ego]] and [[VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies a group of Defending garden plants that has protection from Zombies]].
** The flavor text on the 9th Edition verison of [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Balduvian%20Barbarians Balduvian Barbarians]] is blatantly set to the tune of the first four lines of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marines_Hymn Marines Hymn]].

** The split card [[http://www.magicspoiler.com/mtg-spoiler/fast-furious/ Fast // Furious]] (that is, a card which can be played as one of two different cards) naturally references Film/TheFastAndTheFurious.

** The flavor text of [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=380395 Deicide]] (a term that refers to killing a god, but which outside of the genre of fantasy is usually used in a religious sense to refer to the death of Christ) references Jesus' last words in [[http://biblehub.com/john/19-30.htm John 19:30]].

** The flavor text for the Starter 1999 version of [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=20211 Goblin Mountaineer]] is "[[Series/TheBeverlyHillbillies Goblin mountaineer, barely keeps his family fed.]]"

** Likewise, the flavor text for the Starter 1999 version of [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=20211 Goblin Mountaineer]] is one word off from the second phrase of the theme song to ''Series/TheBeverlyHillbillies''.

** Likewise, the flavor text for the Starter 1999 version of [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=20211 Goblin Mountaineer]] is one word off from the second phrase of the theme song to TheBeverlyHillbillies.

** The flavor text for the Starter 1999 version of [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=20211 Goblin Mountaineer]] is [[TheBeverlyHillbillies Goblin Mo

* The StarWarsCustomizableCardGame is made of this trope: Smuggler's Blues obviously, but also Mostly Armless and Bionic Hand "We can make him better, stronger, faster."

** The art for [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=366257 Smog Elemental]] resembles the flight form of Hedorah, from ''Film/GodzillaVsHedorah''

* The CollectibleCardGame ''MagicTheGathering'' likes to slip Shout Outs and in-jokes into the titles and art of its cards. Probably the most high-profile (that references something outside of ''M:tG'' itself anyway) is Nevinyrral's Disk. "Nevinyrral" is "Creator/LarryNiven" [[SdrawkcabName spelled backwards]]. Niven wrote a series of stories about magic as an exhaustible resource, the nature of which was proven in the story "The Magic Goes Away" by a wizard who enchanted a spinning disk in such a manner that it used up all the mana in its vicinity, exploding violently in the process.)

* ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' is absolutely loaded with {{Shout Out}}s to {{Konami}} games, mostly notably the ''VideoGame/{{Gradius}}'' archetype: so far, a card exists for the original ship, an upgraded version of same, the second player ship, the ships from ''Gradius Gaiden'', most of the various ship bosses (complete with support card BossRush), the game's power-ups, at least three of the other various bosses, and at least five of the game's enemies. Plus, they synergize pretty well with the cards based on the protagonist ships in ''Xexex'' and ''Thunder Cross''. And let's not even get into the set of Union Monsters based on [[VideoGame/{{Parodius}} Aitsu, Koitsu, Soitsu, and Doitsu...]]

** The flavor text of [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=380395 Deicide]] (a term that refers to killing a god, but which outside of the genre of fantasy is usually used in a religious sense to refer to the death of Christ) references Jesus' last words in John [[http://biblehub.com/john/19-30.htm 19:30]].

** The flavor text on the 9th Edition verison of [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Balduvian%20Barbarians Balduvian Barbarians]] is blatantly set to the tune of the first four lines of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marines'_Hymn Marines' Hymn]].

** Innistrad is ''filled'' with these. Sure, we have some that only fall on "classical horror tropes" territory, but we have some ''really'' specific stuff as well, like [[TheFly a scientist that transforms on a insectoid monster due to an experiment gone wrong]], [[JekyllAndHyde a researcher that manages to transform his violent side into a brutish, monstruous alter-ego]] and [[VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies a group of Defending garden plants that has protection from Zombies]].

* ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' is absolutely loaded with {{Shout Out}}s to {{Konami}} games, mostly notably the ''{{Gradius}}'' archetype: so far, a card exists for the original ship, an upgraded version of same, the second player ship, the ships from ''Gradius Gaiden'', most of the various ship bosses (complete with support card BossRush), the game's power-ups, at least three of the other various bosses, and at least five of the game's enemies. Plus, they synergize pretty well with the cards based on the protagonist ships in ''Xexex'' and ''Thunder Cross''. And let's not even get into the set of Union Monsters based on [[VideoGame/{{Parodius}} Aitsu, Koitsu, Soitsu, and Doitsu...]]

* ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh Card Game}}'' is absolutely loaded with {{Shout Out}}s to {{Konami}} games, mostly notably the ''{{Gradius}}'' archetype: so far, a card exists for the original ship, an upgraded version of same, the second player ship, the ships from ''Gradius Gaiden'', most of the various ship bosses (complete with support card BossRush), the game's power-ups, at least three of the other various bosses, and at least five of the game's enemies. Plus, they synergize pretty well with the cards based on the protagonist ships in ''Xexex'' and ''Thunder Cross''. And let's not even get into the set of Union Monsters based on [[VideoGame/{{Parodius}} Aitsu, Koitsu, Soitsu, and Doitsu...]]

* The CollectibleCardGame ''MagicTheGathering'' likes to slip Shout Outs and in-jokes into the titles and art of its cards. Probably the most high-profile (that references something outside of ''M:tG'' itself anyway) is Nevinyrral's Disk. "Nevinyrral" is "LarryNiven" [[SdrawkcabName spelled backwards]]. Niven wrote a series of stories about magic as an exhaustible resource, the nature of which was proven in the story "The Magic Goes Away" by a wizard who enchanted a spinning disk in such a manner that it used up all the mana in its vicinity, exploding violently in the process.)

** There's also [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=4737 Time Warp]]. Flavor text: "[[TheRockyHorrorPictureShow Let's do (it) again!]]"
** The flavor text on the original Weatherlight version of [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=4483 Disrupt]] was "[[PulpFiction Oh, I'm sorry, did I break your concentration?]]"