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* "Begging for Mercy Makes Me Angry!": a quote from Marvin the Martian in the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "Mad as a Mars Hare" (1963, dir. Creator/ChuckJones and Maurice Noble). After Marvin threatens to make Bugs into a slave, Bugs pleads that he doesn't have any experience as a slave, to which Marvin responds with the level title. Naturally, HilarityEnsues when [[https://www.theclassictoons.com/22/mad-as-a-mars-hare/trackback/ things don't quite go as Marvin plans]].
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* "The Hard Stuff Rules...": Yet another ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'' reference. %% Someone who's actually seen the episode can elaborate on this, hopefully.
* "If I Had a Rocket Launcher, I'd Make Somebody Pay": A reference to the ProtestSong "If I Had a Rocket Launcher" ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7vCww3j2-w YouTube video]]; [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_I_Had_a_Rocket_Launcher Wikipedia article]]) by Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn from his 1984 album ''Stealing Fire''. The song is a response to the Guatemalan refugee camps in Mexico and is his first overtly political song; he despairs of waiting for a political solution and expresses the wish to take matters into his own hands. The song's chorus begins with the title repeated three times, but its ending changes each time it is sung: the first time, it ends, "I'd make somebody pay;" the second, it ends, "I would retaliate;" the third, it ends, "I would not hesitate."
* "If I Had a Rocket Launcher, I'd Make Somebody Pay": A reference to the ProtestSong "If I Had a Rocket Launcher" ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7vCww3j2-w YouTube video]]; [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_I_Had_a_Rocket_Launcher Wikipedia article]]) by Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn from his 1984 album ''Stealing Fire''. The song is a response to the Guatemalan refugee camps in Mexico and is his first overtly political song; he despairs of waiting for a political solution and expresses the wish to take matters into his own hands. The song's chorus begins with the title repeated three times, but its ending changes each time it is sung: the first time, it ends, "I'd make somebody pay;" the second, it ends, "I would retaliate;" the third, it ends, "I would not hesitate."
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* "The Hard Stuff Rules...": Yet another ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'' reference. %% Someone who's actually seen the episode can elaborate on this, hopefully.
* "If I Had a Rocket Launcher, I'd Make Somebody Pay": A reference to the ProtestSong "If I Had a Rocket Launcher" ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7vCww3j2-w YouTube video]]; [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_I_Had_a_Rocket_Launcher Wikipedia article]]) by Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn from his 1984 album ''Stealing Fire''. The song is a response to the Guatemalan refugee camps in Mexico and is his first overtly political song; he despairsof waiting for a political solution and expresses the wish to take matters into his own hands. The song's chorus begins with the title repeated three times, but its ending changes each time it is sung: the first time, it ends, "I'd make somebody pay;" the second, it ends, "I would retaliate;" the third, it ends, "I would not hesitate."
* "If I Had a Rocket Launcher, I'd Make Somebody Pay": A reference to the ProtestSong "If I Had a Rocket Launcher" ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7vCww3j2-w YouTube video]]; [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_I_Had_a_Rocket_Launcher Wikipedia article]]) by Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn from his 1984 album ''Stealing Fire''. The song is a response to the Guatemalan refugee camps in Mexico and is his first overtly political song; he despairs
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* "Feel the Noise": a reference to the song "Cum On Feel the Noize" by Slade (1973), CoveredUp by Music/QuietRiot (1983).
* "All Roads Lead to Sol...": A reference to an old saying, "All roads lead to Rome", because the Roman empire would [[WhatTheRomansHaveDoneForUs build roads as they expanded the empire]]. However, it's also likely intended as a reference to Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/{{Foundation|Series}}'' novels, in which the phrase "All roads lead to Trantor" serves as ArcWords. Asimov explicitly patterned the ''Foundation'' series after the fall of the Roman empire [[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]], with Trantor as the stand-in for Rome.
* "All Roads Lead to Sol...": A reference to an old saying, "All roads lead to Rome", because the Roman empire would [[WhatTheRomansHaveDoneForUs build roads as they expanded the empire]]. However, it's also likely intended as a reference to Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/{{Foundation|Series}}'' novels, in which the phrase "All roads lead to Trantor" serves as ArcWords. Asimov explicitly patterned the ''Foundation'' series after the fall of the Roman empire [[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]], with Trantor as the stand-in for Rome.
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* "Feel the Noise": a reference to the song "Cum On Feel the Noize" by Slade (1973), and CoveredUp by Music/QuietRiot (1983).
* "All Roads Lead to Sol...": A reference to an old saying, "All roads lead toRome", Rome" because the Roman empire would [[WhatTheRomansHaveDoneForUs build roads as they expanded the empire]]. However, it's also likely intended as a reference to Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/{{Foundation|Series}}'' novels, in which the phrase "All roads lead to Trantor" serves as ArcWords. Asimov explicitly patterned the ''Foundation'' series after the fall of the Roman empire [[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]], with Trantor as the stand-in for Rome.
* "All Roads Lead to Sol...": A reference to an old saying, "All roads lead to
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* "Poor Yorick": A line uttered by {{Theatre/Hamlet}} in his eponymous play (see "The Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Fortune" in ''Marathon 2'' Solo Maps, above) upon being informed of the court jester Yorick's death. His skull is exhumed by the gravedigger in Act 5, Scene 1, of the play, which prompts a eulogy by Hamlet. The level was intended to have a skull, but Double Aught weren't able to get it to work. The name remained.
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* "Poor Yorick": A line uttered by {{Theatre/Hamlet}} in his eponymous play (see "The Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Fortune" in ''Marathon 2'' Solo Maps, above) upon being informed of the court jester Yorick's death. His skull is exhumed by the gravedigger in Act 5, Scene 1, of the play, which prompts a eulogy by Hamlet. The level was intended to have a skull, but Double Aught weren't wasn't able to get it to work. The name remained.
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* "Electric Sheep One", "Electric Sheep Two", "Electric Sheep Three": In the Creator/PhilipKDick novel ''Literature/DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep'' (1968) and its film adaptation ''Film/BladeRunner'' (1982, directed by Creator/RidleyScott and starring Creator/HarrisonFord, Creator/RutgerHauer, Creator/SeanYoung, Creator/EdwardJamesOlmos, and Creator/DarylHannah), real animals are incredibly rare as a result of the event described in the novel as "World War Terminus". However, it is considered incredibly gauche not to take care of one, so many poorer families buy electric substitutes. The title of the novel serves as the source of the tropes DoAndroidsDream, and each of these levels serves as an indication that the Security Officer, a cyborg, is in fact dreaming. (The level following each of these is also a dream.)
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* "Electric Sheep One", "Electric Sheep Two", "Electric Sheep Three": In the Creator/PhilipKDick novel ''Literature/DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep'' (1968) and its film adaptation ''Film/BladeRunner'' (1982, directed by Creator/RidleyScott and starring Creator/HarrisonFord, Creator/RutgerHauer, Creator/SeanYoung, Creator/EdwardJamesOlmos, and Creator/DarylHannah), real animals are incredibly rare as a result of the event described in the novel as "World War Terminus". However, it is considered incredibly gauche not to take care of one, so many poorer families buy electric substitutes. The title of the novel serves as the source of the tropes trope DoAndroidsDream, and each of these levels serves as an indication that the Security Officer, a cyborg, is in fact dreaming. (The level following each of these is also a dream.)
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* "One thousand thousand slimy things": A reference to Creator/SamuelTaylorColeridge's epic poem ''Literature/TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner'' (1798), one of the most famous pieces of Main/{{Romantic|ism}} poetry ever written. The Mariner, having shot the albatross, has found all of his fellow crew struck dead as a direct consequence of his own actions.
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* "One thousand thousand slimy things": A reference to Creator/SamuelTaylorColeridge's epic poem ''Literature/TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner'' (1798), one of the most famous pieces of Main/{{Romantic|ism}} poetry ever written. The Mariner, having shot the albatross, has found all of his fellow crew struck dead as a direct consequence of his own actions.
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* "House of Pain" might seem like a reference to the group Music/HouseOfPain, or to Music/VanHalen's song of the same title from their album ''1984'' (1984), or to the film "Film/IslandOfLostSouls" (1932; itself inspired by Creator/HGWells' ''Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau'', 1896) instead, or to Music/OingoBoingo's "No Spill Blood" (from the 1983 album ''Good for Your Soul''), which is directly inspired by the film. However, it is none of these; [[http://marathon.bungie.org/story/levelcredits.html#10 according to its creator, Tuncer Deniz]], it is actually a take-off on Music/ThePolice's song "King of Pain" (track eight from 1983's ''Synchronicity''), which was also used verbatim as the title for another level, "King of Pain."
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* "House of Pain" might seem like a reference to the group Music/HouseOfPain, or to Music/VanHalen's song of the same title from their album ''1984'' (1984), or to the film "Film/IslandOfLostSouls" (1932; itself inspired by Creator/HGWells' ''Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau'', 1896) instead, or to Music/OingoBoingo's "No Spill Blood" (from the 1983 album ''Good for Your Soul''), which is directly inspired by the film. However, it is none of these; [[http://marathon.bungie.org/story/levelcredits.html#10 according to its creator, Tuncer Deniz]], it is actually a take-off on Music/ThePolice's song "King of Pain" (track eight from 1983's ''Synchronicity''), which was also used verbatim as the title for another level, "King of Pain."
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* Durandal's ship the ''Rozinante'' is named after Rocinante, the steed of Literature/DonQuixote. The name is derived from ''rocin'', which literally means "nag (useless horse)" in Spanish, but can also more idiomatically mean "illiterate or rough man". Interestingly, the ship in ''Literature/TheExpanse'' is also called the ''Rocinante''; ''Marathon'' writer Greg Kirkpatrick has had [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Marathon/comments/c73yx6/i_will_possibly_be_interviewing_greg_kirkpatrick/eth6a4a/ very high praise]] for ''The Expanse'', and there are several parallels between it and the ''Marathon'' universe. Music/{{Rush|Band}} also used this as the name of a ship in their "Cygnus X-1" duology, found on ''Music/AFarewellToKings'' and ''Music/{{Hemispheres}}''.
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* Durandal's ship the ''Rozinante'' is named after Rocinante, the steed of Literature/DonQuixote. The name is derived from ''rocin'', which literally means "nag (useless horse)" in Spanish, but can also more idiomatically mean "illiterate or rough man". Interestingly, the ship in ''Literature/TheExpanse'' is also called the ''Rocinante''; ''Marathon'' writer Greg Kirkpatrick has had [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Marathon/comments/c73yx6/i_will_possibly_be_interviewing_greg_kirkpatrick/eth6a4a/ very high praise]] for ''The Expanse'', and there are several parallels between it and the ''Marathon'' universe. Music/{{Rush|Band}} also used this as the name of a ship in their "Cygnus X-1" duology, found on ''Music/AFarewellToKings'' and ''Music/{{Hemispheres}}''.
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* In a secret terminal in "Welcome to the Revolution", Tycho tells Durandal, "Tua consilia omnia nobis clariora sunt quam lux. Tu delenda est."[[labelnote:With macrons]]Tua cōnsilia omnia nōbīs clāriōra sunt quam lūx. Tu dēlenda est.[[/labelnote]] This is slightly grammatically incorrect Latin for, roughly, "All your plans are clearer than light to us. You must be destroyed." The second sentence is a paraphrase of a well-known quote from the Roman politician Cato the Elder, "Carthāgō dēlenda est," most commonly (though slightly inaccurately) translated as "Carthage must be destroyed."[[labelnote:Long digression on Latin grammar and translation]]The grammar errors are with the gender and conjugation of the verb. Since the subject, ''tu'', is second-person, ''est'' should be ''es''. Beyond that, Tycho is actually referring to Durandal using the feminine gender, which is possibly a StealthInsult on Tycho's part, and possibly a grammatical error on the part of the writers that resulted from the quote being a paraphrase - since Durandal is masculine, the correct gender for the statement would be "Tu dēlendus es." Another possibility is to simply omit the verb ("Tu dēlendus"); such [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_copula zero copulae]] are common in Latin. (See also [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominal_sentence nominal sentence]].)\\
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* In a secret terminal in "Welcome to the Revolution", Tycho tells Durandal, "Tua consilia omnia nobis clariora sunt quam lux. Tu delenda est."[[labelnote:With macrons]]Tua cōnsilia omnia nōbīs clāriōra sunt quam lūx. Tu dēlenda est.[[/labelnote]] This is slightly grammatically incorrect Latin for, roughly, "All your plans are clearer than light to us. You must be destroyed." The second sentence is a paraphrase of a well-known quote from the Roman politician Cato the Elder, "Carthāgō dēlenda est," most commonly (though slightly inaccurately) translated as "Carthage must be destroyed."[[labelnote:Long digression on Latin grammar and translation]]The grammar errors are with the gender and conjugation of the verb. Since the subject, ''tu'', is second-person, ''est'' should be ''es''. Beyond that, Tycho is actually referring to Durandal using the feminine gender, which is possibly a StealthInsult on Tycho's part, and possibly a grammatical error on the part of the writers that resulted from the quote being a paraphrase - since Durandal is masculine, the correct gender for the statement would be "Tu dēlendus es." Another possibility is to simply omit the verb ("Tu dēlendus"); such [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_copula zero copulae]] are common in Latin. (See also [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominal_sentence nominal sentence]].)\\
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The commonly used "Carthage must be destroyed" also isn't actually an exact translation of Cato's quote; ''dēlenda'' is the gerundive (future passive participle) of the verb ''dēleō'' (meaning ''I destroy'', and incidentally the linguistic root of the English verb ''delete''), so a more exact translation is actually "Carthage is to be destroyed" (or "Carthage is about to be destroyed").\\
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The commonly used "Carthage must be destroyed" also isn't actually an exact translation of Cato's quote; ''dēlenda'' is the gerundive (future passive participle) of the verb ''dēleō'' (meaning ''I destroy'', and incidentally the linguistic root of the English verb ''delete''), so a more exact translation is actually "Carthage is to be destroyed" (or "Carthage is about to be destroyed").\\
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However, none of these translations ("Carthage must be destroyed" included) actually captures the rhetorical intensity of Cato's statement. A figurative translation more accurate to the spirit of the statement would be something along the lines of "There is no choice besides the complete destruction of Carthage."[[/labelnote]]
** Durandal's response to Tycho is simply, "Et tu, Tycho?" which means "And you, Tycho?" or "Even you, Tycho?", which is frequently used as an expression of betrayal (although in this case, Durandal's laughter afterwards suggests he is doing so mockingly) as a ShoutOut to Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'', in which "Et tū, Brūte?—Then fall, Cæsar" are the titular character's last words. Historical sources dispute whether Caesar actually said this or anything even remotely like it; Suetonius mentions a similar quote in Greek, "Καὶ σύ, τέκνον?" ("And you, child?") merely as a rumour, while Plutarch maintains that he said nothing, but merely pulled his toga over his head when he noticed Brutus among the conspirators. The Greek quote is sometimes also rendered in Latin as "Tu quoque, fili mi?", which is a more direct rendering of the Greek into Latin. The Romans used Greek as a marker of their education much as Latin is used in English-speaking countries today, so Shakespeare is simply employing KeepItForeign by rendering some of Caesar's dying words in Latin.
* In "Carroll Street Station", the phrase "haga.kure" is written beneath Durandal-Thoth's logo on the logon screen, and Robert Blake makes reference to a "Hagakure Base" in "A Converted Church in Venice, Italy". ''Hagakure'', written in Japanese as 葉隱 (Kyūjitai) or 葉隠 (Shinjitai), means ''Hidden Leaves'' or ''Hidden by the Leaves'', and is used as a ShoutOut to a practical and spiritual guide for warriors written by the samurai (侍) Yamamoto Tsunetomo (山本常朝), retainer to the daimyō (大名) Nabeshima Mitsushige (鍋島光茂), after Nabeshima's death. Although obscure when published, it has since become one of the seminal texts on bushidō (武士道), the samurai code of honour.
** Durandal's response to Tycho is simply, "Et tu, Tycho?" which means "And you, Tycho?" or "Even you, Tycho?", which is frequently used as an expression of betrayal (although in this case, Durandal's laughter afterwards suggests he is doing so mockingly) as a ShoutOut to Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'', in which "Et tū, Brūte?—Then fall, Cæsar" are the titular character's last words. Historical sources dispute whether Caesar actually said this or anything even remotely like it; Suetonius mentions a similar quote in Greek, "Καὶ σύ, τέκνον?" ("And you, child?") merely as a rumour, while Plutarch maintains that he said nothing, but merely pulled his toga over his head when he noticed Brutus among the conspirators. The Greek quote is sometimes also rendered in Latin as "Tu quoque, fili mi?", which is a more direct rendering of the Greek into Latin. The Romans used Greek as a marker of their education much as Latin is used in English-speaking countries today, so Shakespeare is simply employing KeepItForeign by rendering some of Caesar's dying words in Latin.
* In "Carroll Street Station", the phrase "haga.kure" is written beneath Durandal-Thoth's logo on the logon screen, and Robert Blake makes reference to a "Hagakure Base" in "A Converted Church in Venice, Italy". ''Hagakure'', written in Japanese as 葉隱 (Kyūjitai) or 葉隠 (Shinjitai), means ''Hidden Leaves'' or ''Hidden by the Leaves'', and is used as a ShoutOut to a practical and spiritual guide for warriors written by the samurai (侍) Yamamoto Tsunetomo (山本常朝), retainer to the daimyō (大名) Nabeshima Mitsushige (鍋島光茂), after Nabeshima's death. Although obscure when published, it has since become one of the seminal texts on bushidō (武士道), the samurai code of honour.
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However, none of these translations ("Carthage must be destroyed" included) actually captures the rhetorical intensity of Cato's statement. A figurative translation more accurate to the spirit of the statement would be something along the lines of "There is no choice besides the complete destruction of Carthage."[[/labelnote]]
** Durandal's response to Tycho is simply, "Et tu, Tycho?" which means "And you, Tycho?" or "Even you, Tycho?", which is frequently used as an expression of betrayal (although in this case, Durandal's laughter afterwards suggests he is doing so mockingly) as a ShoutOut to Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'', in which "Et tū, Brūte?—Then fall, Cæsar" are the titular character's last words. Historical sources dispute whether Caesaractually said this or anything even remotely like it; Suetonius mentions a similar quote in Greek, "Καὶ σύ, τέκνον?" ("And you, child?") merely as a rumour, while Plutarch maintains that he said nothing, but merely pulled his toga over his head when he noticed Brutus among the conspirators. The Greek quote is sometimes also rendered in Latin as "Tu quoque, fili mi?", which is a more direct rendering of the Greek into phrase in Latin. The Romans used Greek as a marker of their education much as Latin is used in English-speaking countries today, so Shakespeare is simply employing KeepItForeign by rendering some of Caesar's dying words in Latin.
* In "Carroll Street Station", the phrase "haga.kure" is written beneath Durandal-Thoth's logo on thelogon login screen, and Robert Blake makes reference refers to a "Hagakure Base" in "A Converted Church in Venice, Italy". ''Hagakure'', written in Japanese as 葉隱 (Kyūjitai) or 葉隠 (Shinjitai), means ''Hidden Leaves'' or ''Hidden by the Leaves'', and is used as a ShoutOut to a practical and spiritual guide for warriors written by the samurai (侍) Yamamoto Tsunetomo (山本常朝), retainer to the daimyō (大名) Nabeshima Mitsushige (鍋島光茂), after Nabeshima's death. Although obscure when published, it has since become one of the seminal texts on bushidō (武士道), the samurai code of honour.
** Durandal's response to Tycho is simply, "Et tu, Tycho?" which means "And you, Tycho?" or "Even you, Tycho?", which is frequently used as an expression of betrayal (although in this case, Durandal's laughter afterwards suggests he is doing so mockingly) as a ShoutOut to Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'', in which "Et tū, Brūte?—Then fall, Cæsar" are the titular character's last words. Historical sources dispute whether Caesar
* In "Carroll Street Station", the phrase "haga.kure" is written beneath Durandal-Thoth's logo on the
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* The terminal in "Two for the Price of One" quotes a soliloquy by the character Dromio of Ephesus from ''Theatre/TheComedyOfErrors''. The logon and logoff identify the provenance of the soliloquy: "ws.com.o.errors" in the logon stands for "William Shakespeare Comedy of Errors", and the logoff "activ.scniv" stands for "Act IV, Scene IV".
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* The terminal in "Two for the Price of One" quotes a soliloquy by the character Dromio of Ephesus from ''Theatre/TheComedyOfErrors''. The logon login and logoff identify the provenance of the soliloquy: "ws.com.o.errors" in the logon login screen stands for "William Shakespeare Comedy of Errors", and the logoff "activ.scniv" stands for "Act IV, Scene IV".
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* Tycho also makes a reference to ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' in "Rise Robot Rise": "Now that my brother approaches, we will set about turning everything against him, Hamlet and his uncle, only I'm not crazy." (Some people might dispute the latter part, however.)
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* Tycho also makes a reference refers to ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' in "Rise Robot Rise": "Now that my brother approaches, we will set about turning everything against him, Hamlet and his uncle, only I'm not crazy." (Some people might dispute the latter part, however.)
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* In a secret terminal in "Welcome to the Revolution", Tycho tells Durandal, "Tua consilia omnia nobis clariora sunt quam lux. Tu delenda est."[[labelnote:With macrons]]Tua cōnsilia omnia nōbīs clāriōra sunt quam lūx. Tu dēlenda est.[[/labelnote]] This is slightly grammatically incorrect Latin for, roughly, "All your plans are clearer than light to us. You must be destroyed." The second sentence is a paraphrase of a well-known quote from the Roman politician Cato the Elder, "Carthāgō dēlenda est," most commonly (though slightly inaccurately) translated as "Carthage must be destroyed."[[labelnote:Long digression on Latin grammar and translation]]The grammar errors are with the gender and conjugation of the verb. Since the subject, ''tu'', is second-person, ''est'' should be ''es''. Beyond that, Tycho is actually referring to Durandal using the feminine gender, which is possibly a StealthInsult on Tycho's part, and possibly a grammatical error on the part of the writers that resulted from the quote being a paraphrase - since Durandal is masculine, the correct gender for the statement would be "Tu dēlendus es."\\
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* In a secret terminal in "Welcome to the Revolution", Tycho tells Durandal, "Tua consilia omnia nobis clariora sunt quam lux. Tu delenda est."[[labelnote:With macrons]]Tua cōnsilia omnia nōbīs clāriōra sunt quam lūx. Tu dēlenda est.[[/labelnote]] This is slightly grammatically incorrect Latin for, roughly, "All your plans are clearer than light to us. You must be destroyed." The second sentence is a paraphrase of a well-known quote from the Roman politician Cato the Elder, "Carthāgō dēlenda est," most commonly (though slightly inaccurately) translated as "Carthage must be destroyed."[[labelnote:Long digression on Latin grammar and translation]]The grammar errors are with the gender and conjugation of the verb. Since the subject, ''tu'', is second-person, ''est'' should be ''es''. Beyond that, Tycho is actually referring to Durandal using the feminine gender, which is possibly a StealthInsult on Tycho's part, and possibly a grammatical error on the part of the writers that resulted from the quote being a paraphrase - since Durandal is masculine, the correct gender for the statement would be "Tu dēlendus es."\\" Another possibility is to simply omit the verb ("Tu dēlendus"); such [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_copula zero copulae]] are common in Latin. (See also [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominal_sentence nominal sentence]].)\\
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* Durandal's ship the ''Rozinante'' is named after Rocinante, the steed of Literature/DonQuixote. The name is derived from ''rocin'', which literally means "nag (useless horse)" in Spanish, but can also more idiomatically mean "illiterate or rough man". Interestingly, the ship in ''Literature/TheExpanse'' is also called the ''Rocinante''; ''Marathon'' writer Greg Kirkpatrick has had [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Marathon/comments/c73yx6/i_will_possibly_be_interviewing_greg_kirkpatrick/eth6a4a/ very high praise]] for ''The Expanse'', and there are several parallels between it and the ''Marathon'' universe. Music/{{Rush}} also used this as the name of a ship in their "Cygnus X-1" duology, found on ''Music/AFarewellToKings'' and ''Music/{{Hemispheres}}''.
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* Durandal's ship the ''Rozinante'' is named after Rocinante, the steed of Literature/DonQuixote. The name is derived from ''rocin'', which literally means "nag (useless horse)" in Spanish, but can also more idiomatically mean "illiterate or rough man". Interestingly, the ship in ''Literature/TheExpanse'' is also called the ''Rocinante''; ''Marathon'' writer Greg Kirkpatrick has had [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Marathon/comments/c73yx6/i_will_possibly_be_interviewing_greg_kirkpatrick/eth6a4a/ very high praise]] for ''The Expanse'', and there are several parallels between it and the ''Marathon'' universe. Music/{{Rush}} Music/{{Rush|Band}} also used this as the name of a ship in their "Cygnus X-1" duology, found on ''Music/AFarewellToKings'' and ''Music/{{Hemispheres}}''.
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* In a secret terminal in "Welcome to the Revolution", Tycho tells Durandal, "Tua consilia omnia nobis clariora sunt quam lux. Tu delenda est."[[labelnote:With macrons]]Tua cōnsilia omnia nōbīs clāriōra sunt quam lūx. Tu dēlenda est.[[/labelnote]] This is Latin for, roughly, "All your plans are clearer than light to us. You must be destroyed." The second sentence is a paraphrase of a well-known quote from the Roman politician Cato the Elder, "Carthāgō dēlenda est," most commonly (though slightly inaccurately) translated as "Carthage must be destroyed."[[labelnote:Long digression on Latin grammar and translation]]Tycho is actually referring to Durandal using the feminine gender, which is possibly a StealthInsult on Tycho's part, and possibly a grammatical error on the part of the writers that resulted from the quote being a paraphrase - since Durandal is masculine, the correct gender for the statement would be "Tu dēlendus est."\\
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* In a secret terminal in "Welcome to the Revolution", Tycho tells Durandal, "Tua consilia omnia nobis clariora sunt quam lux. Tu delenda est."[[labelnote:With macrons]]Tua cōnsilia omnia nōbīs clāriōra sunt quam lūx. Tu dēlenda est.[[/labelnote]] This is slightly grammatically incorrect Latin for, roughly, "All your plans are clearer than light to us. You must be destroyed." The second sentence is a paraphrase of a well-known quote from the Roman politician Cato the Elder, "Carthāgō dēlenda est," most commonly (though slightly inaccurately) translated as "Carthage must be destroyed."[[labelnote:Long digression on Latin grammar and translation]]Tycho translation]]The grammar errors are with the gender and conjugation of the verb. Since the subject, ''tu'', is second-person, ''est'' should be ''es''. Beyond that, Tycho is actually referring to Durandal using the feminine gender, which is possibly a StealthInsult on Tycho's part, and possibly a grammatical error on the part of the writers that resulted from the quote being a paraphrase - since Durandal is masculine, the correct gender for the statement would be "Tu dēlendus est.es."\\
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* "Foe Hammer": Name of a sword in Creator/JRRTolkien's ''Literature/TheHobbit'' (1937), also known as Glamdring ([[ConLang Quemya]] for "Foe-hammer"; it is written as "Foe-hammer" in the book.)
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* "Foe Hammer": Name of a sword in Creator/JRRTolkien's ''Literature/TheHobbit'' (1937), also known as Glamdring ([[ConLang Quemya]] Sindarin]] for "Foe-hammer"; it is written as "Foe-hammer" in the book.)
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* "Ne cede malis"[[labelnote:With macrons]]Nē cēde mālīs[[/labelnote]]: Quote from Creator/{{Virgil}}'s ''Literature/TheAeneid'', which translates as "Do not yield to misfortune." The complete phrase, "Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito qua tua te fortuna sinet,"[[labelnote:With macrons]]Tū nē cēde mālīs, sed contrā audentior ītō quā tua tē fortūna sinet[[/labelnote]] translates as "You - do not yield to misfortunes, but proceed ever more bravely against them wherever your fortune permits you," and is part of the sibyl's advice to Aeneas (6.95-96). This has since been adopted as a motto by several disparate sources; according to Chris Geisel, Greg Kirkpatrick's family possessed a ring bearing the inscription "Ne cede malis."
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* "Ne cede malis"[[labelnote:With macrons]]Nē cēde mālīs[[/labelnote]]: Quote from Creator/{{Virgil}}'s ''Literature/TheAeneid'', which translates as "Do not yield to misfortune." The complete phrase, "Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito qua tua te fortuna sinet,"[[labelnote:With macrons]]Tū nē cēde mālīs, sed contrā audentior ītō quā tua tē fortūna sinet[[/labelnote]] translates as "You - do not yield to misfortunes, but proceed ever more bravely against them wherever your fortune permits you," you,"[[note]]Obviously, numerous other translations are possible; for instance, Robert Fagles (Penguin, 2006) translates the same sentence as "Never bow to suffering, go and face it, all the bolder, wherever Fortune clears the way."[[/note]] and is part of the sibyl's advice to Aeneas (6.95-96). This has since been adopted as a motto by several disparate sources; according to Chris Geisel, Greg Kirkpatrick's family possessed a ring bearing the inscription "Ne cede malis."
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! [[GameMod Fan Scenario]] Shout-Outs
Fan games have followed suit.
[[folder:''Tempus Irae'' Levels]]
Most of these have been explicitly confirmed by their creators:
* "Ain't My Bitch" - named after the first song from Music/{{Metallica}}'s ''Load'' (1996)
* "Gates of Delirium" - named after the first song from Music/{{Yes}}' ''Relayer'' (1974)
* "Downward Spiral" - named after Music/NineInchNails' ''Music/TheDownwardSpiral'' (1994)
* "Brain Damage" - named after the penultimate song from Music/PinkFloyd's ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'' (1973)
* "The Revealing Science of God" - named after the first song from Music/{{Yes}}' ''Tales from Topographic Oceans'' (1974)
* "Never Satisfied" - named after the seventh song of Music/JudasPriest's debut album ''Rocka Rolla'' (1974)[[note]]Nardo considered this as an unofficial motto, referring to their perfectionism[[/note]]
** "What's in a Name?" - a number of sources; originally a ShoutOutToShakespeare (it's in ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''); it's also the name of a game show (which the level creator claimed as the source of the puzzle name) and a section on the Marathon's Story page.
* "You Gotta Sin to Get Saved" - 1993 album by singer-songwriter Maria [=McKee=]
* "KMG-365" - a reference to the TV show ''Emergency Squad 51''
* "Il grande silenzio" (secret level from 2020 remake) - reference to a 1968 spaghetti western directed by Sergio Corbucci and with a soundtrack by Music/EnnioMorricone, named ''Film/TheGreatSilence'' in English-speaking markets.
* "Mt. Vesuvius 2 - Electric Boogaloo" - play on ''Film/Breakin2ElectricBoogaloo'' (and of course a case of OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo). (Because the two "Mt. Vesuvius" levels are recombined into one level in the 2020 remake, this title only appears in the 1997/2006 release.)
* "For Your Eyes Only" - named after the Franchise/JamesBond [[Film/ForYourEyesOnly film]]
The sequel ''Tempus Irae II: The Lost Levels'' itself is a reference to ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosTheLostLevels'', one of the most infamous cases of NoExportForYou, MissionPackSequel, and SequelDifficultySpike - fitting in the latter two cases as it includes the same textures and is quite a bit harder than the original ''Tempus Irae'', though not to the point of PlatformHell as the ''Mario'' game was (except maybe on the highest difficulties).
* "Prison Sex" - named after the second song of Tool's ''Undertow'' (1993)
* "This Is the First Day" - named after the first line of Music/NineInchNails' "Wish", the second track of their EP ''Broken'' (1992)
* "Big Man with a Gun" - another Music/NineInchNails song, the ninth track from the aforementioned ''Music/TheDownwardSpiral'' (1994)
* "I Do Not Want This" - yet another Music/NineInchNails song, this time the eighth track from ''Music/TheDownwardSpiral'' (1994)
* "It Was a Dark and Stormy Night" - named after one of the most infamous and frequently parodied opening lines in literary history, appearing in Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novel ''Paul Clifford'', and later in ''Literature/AWrinkleInTime'' and countless ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' strips.
* "Epicus Doomicus Metallicus" - named after the 1986 debut album of Swedish DoomMetal band Music/{{Candlemass}}, probably their most famous and influential album
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[[folder:''Eternal'' Level Names]]
A no doubt incomplete list:
* "Remedial Chaos Theory" (name used [[https://youtu.be/CAfdb_EwhTY starting in 1.3]]) - [[Recap/CommunityS3E04RemedialChaosTheory season 3, episode 4]] of ''Series/{{Community}}''[[note]]Per creator commentary, the episode title was used in large part because this is the first level after a timeline divergence, and ''Community''[='=]s use of alternate timelines, although mostly PlayedForLaughs, functions very similarly to ''Eternal''[='=]s[[/note]]
* "To Sleep, Perchance to Dream" - quote from ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''[='=]s "To Be or Not to Be" soliloquy in his eponymous play by Creator/WilliamShakespeare, ca. 1600 (also the source for for "The Slings & Arrows of Outrageous Fortune).
* "May the Pfharce Be With You" - corrupted quote from ''Franchise/StarWars'' (level was combined with "Forever My Greatest and Only Love" and subsequently renamed for 1.2)
* "Killing the Giants as They Sleep" (composite level introduced in 1.2) - named for the sixth track of Music/{{Panopticon}}'s 2012 album ''Kentucky''
* "My Kingdom Pfhor a Horse" - corruption of quote from ''Theatre/RichardIII''
** "The World Is Hollow" - reference to the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E8ForTheWorldIsHollowAndIHaveTouchedTheSky For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky]]" (though it also appears in the terminal text for "Flight of Icarus", along with two of the other "success dream" titles)
* "Second to Last of the Mohicans" - named for Creator/JamesFenimoreCooper's novel ''Literature/TheLastOfTheMohicans''
* "Third Rock from Lh'owon" - presumably a reference to ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun''
* "Flight of Icarus" (name used starting in 1.2) - in addition to the mythical reference found in this and the original name "Flames of Icarus", this doubles as a reference to the third track of Music/IronMaiden's ''Piece of Mind'' (1983)
* "The Incredible Hulk" - [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk comic franchise of the same name]]
* "Babylon X" - A result of the TV series ''Series/Babylon5'' being combined with XMakesAnythingCool, though whether "X" is meant to be pronounced "X" or "Ten" is syntactically ambiguous. (In the Mark versions of the game, it was known as "Babylon VII".)
* "Once More Unto the Breach..." - line from ''Theatre/HenryV''
* "This Cave Is Not a Natural Formation" - line from ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved''[[note]]This level was known as "Not a Natural Formation" in 1.0, then renamed to "These Caves Can't Be a Natural Formation" in 1.1, and corrected to Cortana's exact quote in 1.2.1. It's loosely based on a level that was called "Ducky Go Down the Hole" in the Mark versions, but only a few portions of the level are the same.[[/note]]
** For version 1.3, the level [[https://youtu.be/fvng8L307d4?t=1376s looks to be renamed]] to "Haec caverna nón fórmátió nátúrális est", which is the same line in [[{{GratuitousLatin/Marathon}} Latin]], probably for the RuleOfFunny of rendering such an infamously stupid line in a language commonly used to sound smart
* "I've Got a Bad Feeling About This" - every ''Franchise/StarWars'' film ever[[note]]Interestingly, one of the unused Bob sounds featured Doug Zartman reading this line[[/note]]
** 1.3 looks set to change this title to "Teneó affectum malum dé hóc" (the same thing in Latin), again probably for RuleOfFunny
* "This Message Will Self-Destruct" - recurring line from the ''Mission: Impossible'' [[Series/MissionImpossible TV series]] and [[Film/MissionImpossibleFilmSeries films]]
* All the failure dreams ("The Tangent Universe", "The Living Receiver", "The Tangent Universe", "The Ensurance Trap", "The Philosophy of Time Travel") are named after elements of ''Film/DonnieDarko'' (note that some of these are only named in supplemental materials to the film)
** plus all the levels named after lines from the trilogy: "She Is the Dark One", "Forever My Greatest and Only Love" (level removed from 1.1 and folded into "Killing the Giants as They Sleep" for 1.2 as noted above), "We Met Once in the Garden" (all three are quotes from the garbled "Kill Your Television" terminal that provides the backbone for the entire scenario's story), "Frog Blast the Vent Core" (phrase shouted by assimilated Bobs; set to be changed to "Rána explóde corpus spírámentí", a ''very'' loose rendering of the phrase into Latin, for 1.3)
''Eternal'' Mark V, which was almost completely remade for 1.0.x to the point where it could be considered a completely different (albeit vastly inferior) game, had several additional shout-outs in its level titles, including:
* "I Can't Believe It's Not Total Carnage!" - take-off on the butter substitute I Can't Believe It's Not Butter
* "Can't TOZT This" - pun on Music/MCHammer's most famous hit, "U Can't Touch This", from his 1990 album ''Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em''
* "Carnagee Hall" - pun on the famous concert venue Carnegie Hall
* "War and Peace" - shout-out to Creator/LeoTolstoy novel ''Literature/WarAndPeace'', first serialised from 1865-1867 and then published in its entirety in 1869
* "Back to the Future" - shout-out to the [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture franchise]] starting with [[Film/BackToTheFuture the 1985 film]] directed by Creator/RobertZemeckis and starring Creator/MichaelJFox and Creator/ChristopherLloyd
* "Mad World" - single by Music/TearsForFears from their 1983 album ''Music/TheHurting'', later CoveredUp (for listeners of a certain age, at least) by Gary Jules and featured in the film ''Film/DonnieDarko''
* "Ducky Go Down the Hole" - reference to the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS2E9HennyYoungmanDay Henry Youngman Day]]"
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[[folder:Other ''Eternal'' Shout-Outs]]
* The start of ''Eternal'' has Marcus and Hathor departing K'lia exactly 111 years after the start of ''Marathon''. This was probably always intended as a reference to Bilbo Baggins' 111st birthday party at the start of Creator/JRRTolkien's ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' (1954-1955), but in any case, Hathor [[https://youtu.be/i_PrZ9q8vIo?t=228 says "eleventy-one" in her introductory terminal]] in version 1.3, which makes the shout-out even clearer.
* Also in 1.3, she uses the word "grok" in the same terminal, which originated in Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/StrangerInAStrangeLand'' (1961), one of the {{Trope Codifier}}s for FreeLoveFuture. ''Eternal'' 1.3 implies its setting to be a FreeLoveFuture a few times, although "Bug-Eyed in Space" and "Once More Unto the Breach..." probably contain the clearest evidence.
* In "Deja Vu All Over Again", one of the ''Marathon'' crew (presumably [=R McCollum=]) says of Durandal's erratic behaviour, "I'd rather not be waiting out here with flashbacks to ''2001''", referring to the [[Literature/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey novel]] by Creator/ArthurCClarke (1968) and the [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey film]] directed by Creator/StanleyKubrick (also 1968).[[note]]According to Clarke, the novel should really be credited to "Clarke and Kubrick" and the screenplay to "Kubrick and Clarke".[[/note]] Specifically, [=McCollum=] is comparing Durandal to HAL 9000, who is probably the TropeCodifier for AIIsACrapshoot (he [[spoiler:goes rogue and murders the crew because of a LogicBomb accidentally created by his programmers]]).
* A [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/691755375329804318/915890641156857894/unknown.png Weland screenshot]] of "Remedial Chaos Theory" from 1.3 posted to the co-director's Website/{{YouTube}} channel (see [[https://youtu.be/CAfdb_EwhTY video description]]) shows "Nōn obligās habilitāre lūcem rubeam" written on the map. This is GratuitousLatin for "You don't have to put on the red light," a line from Music/ThePolice's song "Roxanne" - which is played something like six or seven times in the ''Community'' episode "[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/CommunityS3E04RemedialChaosTheory Remedial Chaos Theory]]". See GratuitousLatin.{{Marathon}} for more.
* Every level set on the Pfhor planet in chapter two uses a purple fog - or, put another way, [[Music/AreYouExperienced a purple haze]]. This is confirmed to be deliberate on the part of the creators. Current plans are to add [[Music/PurpleRainAlbum purple rain]] to most of these levels (seen [[https://youtu.be/fQ8f-P-Fqbs?list=PLoysJW6pXQ6ng47pFUrCpxWtFDCeC28c- here]] and in several of the subsequent videos) in the next release as well.
* In the level "A Friend in Need", Leela says, "If you and Blake's men can get into the city and destroy the force field generator, the S'pht'Kr can make a flyby and demolish this entire complex from orbit." This is an oblique allusion to [[ItsTheOnlyWayToBeSure a popular phrase]] from the film ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' (1986, dir. Creator/JamesCameron).
* Beyond the level name mentioned above, there are several other references to ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'' in ''Eternal'', particularly in the fifth chapter. Nicholas Singer's three pieces for the soundtrack contain motifs from both ''Marathon'' and ''Halo''[='=]s soundtracks, and the idea of the Forerunners [[spoiler:being descendants of humanity who time-travelled to the past]] was taken from a draft of ''Halo''[='=]s story before Bungie went in a different direction. It has been also remarked that the level design seems intentionally reminiscent of ''Halo''[='=]s at times, which is undoubtedly no coincidence. There are undoubtedly further examples.
* Although this isn't confirmed, [[spoiler:[[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/691755375329804318/811088711646314576/hathor-volat.gif Hathor's]] [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/691755375329804318/811086713711624192/hathor-impetit.gif cyborg]] [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/691755375329804318/811087500725977088/hathor-defendit.gif form]]]] in 1.3 may be at least partially an homage to a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHODAN rather famous example]] of EvilIsSexy and AIIsACrapshoot from [[VideoGame/SystemShock one of Marathon's contemporary series]] – her largely black suit and {{Medusa}}-like hair are pretty big giveaways on this count. (Note that, despite their superficial similarities, the two do have some substantial differences in terms of characterisation, though - not least that [[spoiler:Hathor has undergone a HeelFaceTurn by the point Marcus "fights" her; she's mad at Marcus, but she acknowledges that it's her own fault, and she's not even trying to kill him, since she knows he has the wave motion cannon and gravitronic blades, which both nullify damage from wave motion cannon blasts if active]].)
* Again in 1.3, Hathor makes two references to the writings of Creator/FriedrichNietzsche in her [[https://youtu.be/lRA3MFW6Anw?t=715 final terminal]] in "We Met Once in the Garden":
** The phrase "EternalRecurrence" („ewige Wiederkunft“) comes from his writings. He seems to have first come up with the concept in 1881; he discusses it in ''The Gay Science'' (1882), ''Literature/AlsoSprachZarathustra'' (1883), and ''Ecce Homo'' (1888).
** She also makes a reference ("the abyss has gazed into them; they have become mirrors of their foes") to HeWhoFightsMonsters, referring specifically to [[spoiler:the Jjaro's conflict with the W'rkncacnter]]. This phrase originates from ''Beyond Good and Evil'' (1886): "He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."[[labelnote:German original]]„Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.“[[/labelnote]]
* In the same terminal, Hathor also says "''aut futue, aut pugnémus''". In addition to being a SophisticatedAsHell PrecisionFStrike, this is a verbatim quote from Martial's ''Epigrams'' 11:20 (translating roughly as "[[spoiler:Either fuck me, or let's fight]]"), which the co-director describes as "really quite a nasty piece of propaganda", but also notes as fitting Hathor's mood and the level's Latin subtitle perfectly ("Coíbámus ólim in hortó" can also translate as "We Copulated Once in the Garden" or "We Came Up Against [One Another] in the Garden"). See ''Eternal''[='=]s section under GratuitousLatin.{{Marathon}} for further info on the translation and Latin obscenity more broadly.
* As of version 1.2.1, the penultimate level, "Where Giants Have Fallen", features a mournful bird song. [[spoiler:The song continues as all the enemies die off, so the only sounds left on the level by the end are howling wind and the bird's "poo-tee-weet?", which is an intentional reference to the final words of Creator/KurtVonnegut's ''Literature/SlaughterhouseFive'' (confirmed by looking at the writing on the map in an editor). Parallels can also be drawn between the game's depiction of the Jjaro and ''Slaughterhouse-Five''[='=]s depiction of the Tralfamadorians (though it's not clear if the similarity was originally intentional or simply something the developers noticed later, but in any case, the words "So it goes" are also found on the map writing); both works are subtly condemning fatalism.]]
* In 1.3, Custós' final message to the player ends with the line "Avé atque valé", which translates from Latin as "Hail and farewell" or "I salute you, and goodbye". It comes from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus_101 Catullus 101]], Creator/{{Catullus}}' elegy to his brother.
* Also in 1.3, Leela has two cryptic lines in [[{{GratuitousLatin/Marathon}} Latin]] in "Where Giants Have Fallen" (seen [[https://youtu.be/6LwxosRoBPw?t=5874s here]]): "imperátrícés cónstituunt malás amantés" and "débés tuum imperium vénumdare". These translate roughly as "Empresses make bad lovers" and "You should put your empire on sale", respectively, and are references to a similar couplet in Music/FleetwoodMac's "[[Music/{{Rumours}} Gold Dust Woman]]": "Rulers make bad lovers / You'd better put your kingdom up for sale."
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[[folder:Marathon Rubicon]]
* One of the crewmen in the engineer lift maintenance log in "Honk If You're an Underpaid Cyborg" is named Upton Sinclair, after the author of ''Literature/TheJungle'' and ''Oil!'' (basis for ''Film/ThereWillBeBlood''), among others. Another is named Davis Hartman as a reference to two characters in ''Film/FullMetalJacket'' (1987, dir. Creator/StanleyKubrick, starring Creator/MatthewModine, Creator/AdamBaldwin, Creator/VincentDOnofrio, and Creator/RLeeErmey), J. T. Davis (better known as Joker) and Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (the TropeCodifier for DrillSergeantNasty).
* One of the terminals in "Like Flies on a Corpse" was written by a character named Mark Renton. This is the name of the protagonist of Creator/IrvineWelsh's ''Literature/{{Trainspotting}}'' (1993), ''Literature/{{Porno}}'' (2002), and ''Literature/{{Skagboys}}'' (2012), who is portrayed by Creator/EwanMcGregor in Creator/DannyBoyle's film adaptations of the first two, ''Film/{{Trainspotting}}'' (1996) and ''Film/T2Trainspotting'' (2017).
* The chapter name "Goethe's Faust" is named after, well, Creator/JohannWolfgangVonGoethe's ''Theatre/{{Faust}}'' (1808 and 1832).
* "The Ascension Factor" is named after a 1988 novel by Creator/FrankHerbert and Bill Ransom, the fourth (and final) novel in the ''Destination: Void'' series.
* "People Under the Stairs" is named after the HorrorComedy film ''Film/ThePeopleUnderTheStairs'' (1991, dir. Creator/WesCraven).
* "Comfortably Numb" is of course named after the Music/PinkFloyd song from ''Music/TheWall'' (1979).
* "The Exit Door Leads In" is named after a Creator/PhilipKDick short story published in 1979.
* The first four lines of the terminal in "Just a Little Further" are from ''Theatre/{{Othello}}'' (they are spoken by Iago, the main villain of the play, in Act I, Scene 2). The final line appears to be original to ''Rubicon''.
* ''Rubicon'' provides its own InUniverse history of artificial intelligences in the level "Rozinante XI". Two projects were started at a particular period of détente between three superpowers in Earth's history. One, established in Bungie's canon, was Traxus, which anyone who's played the first game is likely to remember. The other was Gaiman -- as in {{Creator/Neil|Gaiman}}.
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[[folder:Other Fan Games]]
* The name of ''Apotheosis'' itself is a ShoutOut to ''Literature/TheGapCycle'' by Creator/StephenRDonaldson, in which the word ''apotheosis'' serves as [[spoiler:a code word to give one of the characters unrestricted access to his memory]]. Level names:
** "We Got Knives, Sharp Sticks": A quote from ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' (1986, dir. Creator/JamesCameron) uttered by the character Private Hudson, portrayed by the late Creator/BillPaxton:
---> '''Private Hudson''': "I'm ready, man, check it out. I am the ''ultimate'' badass! State of the badass art! You do ''not'' wanna fuck with me. Check it out! Hey Ripley, don't worry. Me and my squad of ultimate badasses will protect you! Check it out! Independently targeting particle beam phalanx. Vwap! Fry half a city with this puppy. We got tactical smart missiles, phased plasma pulse rifles, [=RPGs=], we got sonic electronic ball breakers! We got nukes, '''we got knives, sharp sticks'''..."\\
'''Sergeant Apone''': "Knock it off, Hudson. All right, gear up."
** "43% Burnt": The SignatureSong of Music/TheDillingerEscapePlan, found on ''Calculating Infinity'' (1999).
** "Don't Step on the Mome Raths": Probably a reference to the works of Creator/LewisCarroll and their adaptations. The Mome Raths are originally mentioned in his poem "Literature/{{Jabberwocky}}" (1871); in the accompanying illustrations, they are pig-like creatures running around in the background. In Creator/{{Disney}}'s [[WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland film adaptation]] (1951) of ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'', they are portrayed as a race of bipedal, flower-like creatures.
** "All Things Uncertain": A reference to the album ''The Attraction to All Things Uncertain'' (2001) by Tweaker, the (at the time) solo project of former Music/NineInchNails sideman Chris Vrenna.
** "Omega Devices for Dummies": A dual reference to Wiley Publishing's ''[[ParodiesForDummies ...for Dummies]]'' series and the Omega Devices in ''Series/DoctorWho'', a term sometimes referred to creations of the Time Lord Omega. "Remembrance of the Daleks" (1988) contained the first canonical usage of the phrase "Omega Device" as a reference to the Hand of Omega.
** "Calm Horizons": Name of an alien ship in ''Literature/TheGapCycle'' (see the info on the scenario name itself, above).
** "Gravin Threndor": A mountain in The Land in the ''Literature/ChroniclesOfThomasCovenant'' series by Creator/StephenRDonaldson. Also known as Mount Thunder or Peak of the Fire-Lions.
** "Planet Caravan": Third song on Music/BlackSabbath's ''Music/{{Paranoid}}'' (1970).
** "Perfect Day": Third song on Music/LouReed's ''Music/{{Transformer}}'' (1972).
* In a later level of ''Courier 11'', you throw a rock at a switch to crush an otherwise-invincible Enforcer {{expy}}, just like the Rancor in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''.
* The ship in ''Return to Marathon'' is called the ''Kubrick'', an obvious reference to legendary film director Creator/StanleyKubrick. This is a fairly good harbinger of what kinds of MindScrew and atmospheric horror await the player.
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Fan games have followed suit.
[[folder:''Tempus Irae'' Levels]]
Most of these have been explicitly confirmed by their creators:
* "Ain't My Bitch" - named after the first song from Music/{{Metallica}}'s ''Load'' (1996)
* "Gates of Delirium" - named after the first song from Music/{{Yes}}' ''Relayer'' (1974)
* "Downward Spiral" - named after Music/NineInchNails' ''Music/TheDownwardSpiral'' (1994)
* "Brain Damage" - named after the penultimate song from Music/PinkFloyd's ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'' (1973)
* "The Revealing Science of God" - named after the first song from Music/{{Yes}}' ''Tales from Topographic Oceans'' (1974)
* "Never Satisfied" - named after the seventh song of Music/JudasPriest's debut album ''Rocka Rolla'' (1974)[[note]]Nardo considered this as an unofficial motto, referring to their perfectionism[[/note]]
** "What's in a Name?" - a number of sources; originally a ShoutOutToShakespeare (it's in ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''); it's also the name of a game show (which the level creator claimed as the source of the puzzle name) and a section on the Marathon's Story page.
* "You Gotta Sin to Get Saved" - 1993 album by singer-songwriter Maria [=McKee=]
* "KMG-365" - a reference to the TV show ''Emergency Squad 51''
* "Il grande silenzio" (secret level from 2020 remake) - reference to a 1968 spaghetti western directed by Sergio Corbucci and with a soundtrack by Music/EnnioMorricone, named ''Film/TheGreatSilence'' in English-speaking markets.
* "Mt. Vesuvius 2 - Electric Boogaloo" - play on ''Film/Breakin2ElectricBoogaloo'' (and of course a case of OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo). (Because the two "Mt. Vesuvius" levels are recombined into one level in the 2020 remake, this title only appears in the 1997/2006 release.)
* "For Your Eyes Only" - named after the Franchise/JamesBond [[Film/ForYourEyesOnly film]]
The sequel ''Tempus Irae II: The Lost Levels'' itself is a reference to ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosTheLostLevels'', one of the most infamous cases of NoExportForYou, MissionPackSequel, and SequelDifficultySpike - fitting in the latter two cases as it includes the same textures and is quite a bit harder than the original ''Tempus Irae'', though not to the point of PlatformHell as the ''Mario'' game was (except maybe on the highest difficulties).
* "Prison Sex" - named after the second song of Tool's ''Undertow'' (1993)
* "This Is the First Day" - named after the first line of Music/NineInchNails' "Wish", the second track of their EP ''Broken'' (1992)
* "Big Man with a Gun" - another Music/NineInchNails song, the ninth track from the aforementioned ''Music/TheDownwardSpiral'' (1994)
* "I Do Not Want This" - yet another Music/NineInchNails song, this time the eighth track from ''Music/TheDownwardSpiral'' (1994)
* "It Was a Dark and Stormy Night" - named after one of the most infamous and frequently parodied opening lines in literary history, appearing in Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novel ''Paul Clifford'', and later in ''Literature/AWrinkleInTime'' and countless ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' strips.
* "Epicus Doomicus Metallicus" - named after the 1986 debut album of Swedish DoomMetal band Music/{{Candlemass}}, probably their most famous and influential album
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[[folder:''Eternal'' Level Names]]
A no doubt incomplete list:
* "Remedial Chaos Theory" (name used [[https://youtu.be/CAfdb_EwhTY starting in 1.3]]) - [[Recap/CommunityS3E04RemedialChaosTheory season 3, episode 4]] of ''Series/{{Community}}''[[note]]Per creator commentary, the episode title was used in large part because this is the first level after a timeline divergence, and ''Community''[='=]s use of alternate timelines, although mostly PlayedForLaughs, functions very similarly to ''Eternal''[='=]s[[/note]]
* "To Sleep, Perchance to Dream" - quote from ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''[='=]s "To Be or Not to Be" soliloquy in his eponymous play by Creator/WilliamShakespeare, ca. 1600 (also the source for for "The Slings & Arrows of Outrageous Fortune).
* "May the Pfharce Be With You" - corrupted quote from ''Franchise/StarWars'' (level was combined with "Forever My Greatest and Only Love" and subsequently renamed for 1.2)
* "Killing the Giants as They Sleep" (composite level introduced in 1.2) - named for the sixth track of Music/{{Panopticon}}'s 2012 album ''Kentucky''
* "My Kingdom Pfhor a Horse" - corruption of quote from ''Theatre/RichardIII''
** "The World Is Hollow" - reference to the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E8ForTheWorldIsHollowAndIHaveTouchedTheSky For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky]]" (though it also appears in the terminal text for "Flight of Icarus", along with two of the other "success dream" titles)
* "Second to Last of the Mohicans" - named for Creator/JamesFenimoreCooper's novel ''Literature/TheLastOfTheMohicans''
* "Third Rock from Lh'owon" - presumably a reference to ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun''
* "Flight of Icarus" (name used starting in 1.2) - in addition to the mythical reference found in this and the original name "Flames of Icarus", this doubles as a reference to the third track of Music/IronMaiden's ''Piece of Mind'' (1983)
* "The Incredible Hulk" - [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk comic franchise of the same name]]
* "Babylon X" - A result of the TV series ''Series/Babylon5'' being combined with XMakesAnythingCool, though whether "X" is meant to be pronounced "X" or "Ten" is syntactically ambiguous. (In the Mark versions of the game, it was known as "Babylon VII".)
* "Once More Unto the Breach..." - line from ''Theatre/HenryV''
* "This Cave Is Not a Natural Formation" - line from ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved''[[note]]This level was known as "Not a Natural Formation" in 1.0, then renamed to "These Caves Can't Be a Natural Formation" in 1.1, and corrected to Cortana's exact quote in 1.2.1. It's loosely based on a level that was called "Ducky Go Down the Hole" in the Mark versions, but only a few portions of the level are the same.[[/note]]
** For version 1.3, the level [[https://youtu.be/fvng8L307d4?t=1376s looks to be renamed]] to "Haec caverna nón fórmátió nátúrális est", which is the same line in [[{{GratuitousLatin/Marathon}} Latin]], probably for the RuleOfFunny of rendering such an infamously stupid line in a language commonly used to sound smart
* "I've Got a Bad Feeling About This" - every ''Franchise/StarWars'' film ever[[note]]Interestingly, one of the unused Bob sounds featured Doug Zartman reading this line[[/note]]
** 1.3 looks set to change this title to "Teneó affectum malum dé hóc" (the same thing in Latin), again probably for RuleOfFunny
* "This Message Will Self-Destruct" - recurring line from the ''Mission: Impossible'' [[Series/MissionImpossible TV series]] and [[Film/MissionImpossibleFilmSeries films]]
* All the failure dreams ("The Tangent Universe", "The Living Receiver", "The Tangent Universe", "The Ensurance Trap", "The Philosophy of Time Travel") are named after elements of ''Film/DonnieDarko'' (note that some of these are only named in supplemental materials to the film)
** plus all the levels named after lines from the trilogy: "She Is the Dark One", "Forever My Greatest and Only Love" (level removed from 1.1 and folded into "Killing the Giants as They Sleep" for 1.2 as noted above), "We Met Once in the Garden" (all three are quotes from the garbled "Kill Your Television" terminal that provides the backbone for the entire scenario's story), "Frog Blast the Vent Core" (phrase shouted by assimilated Bobs; set to be changed to "Rána explóde corpus spírámentí", a ''very'' loose rendering of the phrase into Latin, for 1.3)
''Eternal'' Mark V, which was almost completely remade for 1.0.x to the point where it could be considered a completely different (albeit vastly inferior) game, had several additional shout-outs in its level titles, including:
* "I Can't Believe It's Not Total Carnage!" - take-off on the butter substitute I Can't Believe It's Not Butter
* "Can't TOZT This" - pun on Music/MCHammer's most famous hit, "U Can't Touch This", from his 1990 album ''Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em''
* "Carnagee Hall" - pun on the famous concert venue Carnegie Hall
* "War and Peace" - shout-out to Creator/LeoTolstoy novel ''Literature/WarAndPeace'', first serialised from 1865-1867 and then published in its entirety in 1869
* "Back to the Future" - shout-out to the [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture franchise]] starting with [[Film/BackToTheFuture the 1985 film]] directed by Creator/RobertZemeckis and starring Creator/MichaelJFox and Creator/ChristopherLloyd
* "Mad World" - single by Music/TearsForFears from their 1983 album ''Music/TheHurting'', later CoveredUp (for listeners of a certain age, at least) by Gary Jules and featured in the film ''Film/DonnieDarko''
* "Ducky Go Down the Hole" - reference to the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS2E9HennyYoungmanDay Henry Youngman Day]]"
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[[folder:Other ''Eternal'' Shout-Outs]]
* The start of ''Eternal'' has Marcus and Hathor departing K'lia exactly 111 years after the start of ''Marathon''. This was probably always intended as a reference to Bilbo Baggins' 111st birthday party at the start of Creator/JRRTolkien's ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' (1954-1955), but in any case, Hathor [[https://youtu.be/i_PrZ9q8vIo?t=228 says "eleventy-one" in her introductory terminal]] in version 1.3, which makes the shout-out even clearer.
* Also in 1.3, she uses the word "grok" in the same terminal, which originated in Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/StrangerInAStrangeLand'' (1961), one of the {{Trope Codifier}}s for FreeLoveFuture. ''Eternal'' 1.3 implies its setting to be a FreeLoveFuture a few times, although "Bug-Eyed in Space" and "Once More Unto the Breach..." probably contain the clearest evidence.
* In "Deja Vu All Over Again", one of the ''Marathon'' crew (presumably [=R McCollum=]) says of Durandal's erratic behaviour, "I'd rather not be waiting out here with flashbacks to ''2001''", referring to the [[Literature/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey novel]] by Creator/ArthurCClarke (1968) and the [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey film]] directed by Creator/StanleyKubrick (also 1968).[[note]]According to Clarke, the novel should really be credited to "Clarke and Kubrick" and the screenplay to "Kubrick and Clarke".[[/note]] Specifically, [=McCollum=] is comparing Durandal to HAL 9000, who is probably the TropeCodifier for AIIsACrapshoot (he [[spoiler:goes rogue and murders the crew because of a LogicBomb accidentally created by his programmers]]).
* A [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/691755375329804318/915890641156857894/unknown.png Weland screenshot]] of "Remedial Chaos Theory" from 1.3 posted to the co-director's Website/{{YouTube}} channel (see [[https://youtu.be/CAfdb_EwhTY video description]]) shows "Nōn obligās habilitāre lūcem rubeam" written on the map. This is GratuitousLatin for "You don't have to put on the red light," a line from Music/ThePolice's song "Roxanne" - which is played something like six or seven times in the ''Community'' episode "[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/CommunityS3E04RemedialChaosTheory Remedial Chaos Theory]]". See GratuitousLatin.{{Marathon}} for more.
* Every level set on the Pfhor planet in chapter two uses a purple fog - or, put another way, [[Music/AreYouExperienced a purple haze]]. This is confirmed to be deliberate on the part of the creators. Current plans are to add [[Music/PurpleRainAlbum purple rain]] to most of these levels (seen [[https://youtu.be/fQ8f-P-Fqbs?list=PLoysJW6pXQ6ng47pFUrCpxWtFDCeC28c- here]] and in several of the subsequent videos) in the next release as well.
* In the level "A Friend in Need", Leela says, "If you and Blake's men can get into the city and destroy the force field generator, the S'pht'Kr can make a flyby and demolish this entire complex from orbit." This is an oblique allusion to [[ItsTheOnlyWayToBeSure a popular phrase]] from the film ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' (1986, dir. Creator/JamesCameron).
* Beyond the level name mentioned above, there are several other references to ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'' in ''Eternal'', particularly in the fifth chapter. Nicholas Singer's three pieces for the soundtrack contain motifs from both ''Marathon'' and ''Halo''[='=]s soundtracks, and the idea of the Forerunners [[spoiler:being descendants of humanity who time-travelled to the past]] was taken from a draft of ''Halo''[='=]s story before Bungie went in a different direction. It has been also remarked that the level design seems intentionally reminiscent of ''Halo''[='=]s at times, which is undoubtedly no coincidence. There are undoubtedly further examples.
* Although this isn't confirmed, [[spoiler:[[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/691755375329804318/811088711646314576/hathor-volat.gif Hathor's]] [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/691755375329804318/811086713711624192/hathor-impetit.gif cyborg]] [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/691755375329804318/811087500725977088/hathor-defendit.gif form]]]] in 1.3 may be at least partially an homage to a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHODAN rather famous example]] of EvilIsSexy and AIIsACrapshoot from [[VideoGame/SystemShock one of Marathon's contemporary series]] – her largely black suit and {{Medusa}}-like hair are pretty big giveaways on this count. (Note that, despite their superficial similarities, the two do have some substantial differences in terms of characterisation, though - not least that [[spoiler:Hathor has undergone a HeelFaceTurn by the point Marcus "fights" her; she's mad at Marcus, but she acknowledges that it's her own fault, and she's not even trying to kill him, since she knows he has the wave motion cannon and gravitronic blades, which both nullify damage from wave motion cannon blasts if active]].)
* Again in 1.3, Hathor makes two references to the writings of Creator/FriedrichNietzsche in her [[https://youtu.be/lRA3MFW6Anw?t=715 final terminal]] in "We Met Once in the Garden":
** The phrase "EternalRecurrence" („ewige Wiederkunft“) comes from his writings. He seems to have first come up with the concept in 1881; he discusses it in ''The Gay Science'' (1882), ''Literature/AlsoSprachZarathustra'' (1883), and ''Ecce Homo'' (1888).
** She also makes a reference ("the abyss has gazed into them; they have become mirrors of their foes") to HeWhoFightsMonsters, referring specifically to [[spoiler:the Jjaro's conflict with the W'rkncacnter]]. This phrase originates from ''Beyond Good and Evil'' (1886): "He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."[[labelnote:German original]]„Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.“[[/labelnote]]
* In the same terminal, Hathor also says "''aut futue, aut pugnémus''". In addition to being a SophisticatedAsHell PrecisionFStrike, this is a verbatim quote from Martial's ''Epigrams'' 11:20 (translating roughly as "[[spoiler:Either fuck me, or let's fight]]"), which the co-director describes as "really quite a nasty piece of propaganda", but also notes as fitting Hathor's mood and the level's Latin subtitle perfectly ("Coíbámus ólim in hortó" can also translate as "We Copulated Once in the Garden" or "We Came Up Against [One Another] in the Garden"). See ''Eternal''[='=]s section under GratuitousLatin.{{Marathon}} for further info on the translation and Latin obscenity more broadly.
* As of version 1.2.1, the penultimate level, "Where Giants Have Fallen", features a mournful bird song. [[spoiler:The song continues as all the enemies die off, so the only sounds left on the level by the end are howling wind and the bird's "poo-tee-weet?", which is an intentional reference to the final words of Creator/KurtVonnegut's ''Literature/SlaughterhouseFive'' (confirmed by looking at the writing on the map in an editor). Parallels can also be drawn between the game's depiction of the Jjaro and ''Slaughterhouse-Five''[='=]s depiction of the Tralfamadorians (though it's not clear if the similarity was originally intentional or simply something the developers noticed later, but in any case, the words "So it goes" are also found on the map writing); both works are subtly condemning fatalism.]]
* In 1.3, Custós' final message to the player ends with the line "Avé atque valé", which translates from Latin as "Hail and farewell" or "I salute you, and goodbye". It comes from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus_101 Catullus 101]], Creator/{{Catullus}}' elegy to his brother.
* Also in 1.3, Leela has two cryptic lines in [[{{GratuitousLatin/Marathon}} Latin]] in "Where Giants Have Fallen" (seen [[https://youtu.be/6LwxosRoBPw?t=5874s here]]): "imperátrícés cónstituunt malás amantés" and "débés tuum imperium vénumdare". These translate roughly as "Empresses make bad lovers" and "You should put your empire on sale", respectively, and are references to a similar couplet in Music/FleetwoodMac's "[[Music/{{Rumours}} Gold Dust Woman]]": "Rulers make bad lovers / You'd better put your kingdom up for sale."
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[[folder:Marathon Rubicon]]
* One of the crewmen in the engineer lift maintenance log in "Honk If You're an Underpaid Cyborg" is named Upton Sinclair, after the author of ''Literature/TheJungle'' and ''Oil!'' (basis for ''Film/ThereWillBeBlood''), among others. Another is named Davis Hartman as a reference to two characters in ''Film/FullMetalJacket'' (1987, dir. Creator/StanleyKubrick, starring Creator/MatthewModine, Creator/AdamBaldwin, Creator/VincentDOnofrio, and Creator/RLeeErmey), J. T. Davis (better known as Joker) and Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (the TropeCodifier for DrillSergeantNasty).
* One of the terminals in "Like Flies on a Corpse" was written by a character named Mark Renton. This is the name of the protagonist of Creator/IrvineWelsh's ''Literature/{{Trainspotting}}'' (1993), ''Literature/{{Porno}}'' (2002), and ''Literature/{{Skagboys}}'' (2012), who is portrayed by Creator/EwanMcGregor in Creator/DannyBoyle's film adaptations of the first two, ''Film/{{Trainspotting}}'' (1996) and ''Film/T2Trainspotting'' (2017).
* The chapter name "Goethe's Faust" is named after, well, Creator/JohannWolfgangVonGoethe's ''Theatre/{{Faust}}'' (1808 and 1832).
* "The Ascension Factor" is named after a 1988 novel by Creator/FrankHerbert and Bill Ransom, the fourth (and final) novel in the ''Destination: Void'' series.
* "People Under the Stairs" is named after the HorrorComedy film ''Film/ThePeopleUnderTheStairs'' (1991, dir. Creator/WesCraven).
* "Comfortably Numb" is of course named after the Music/PinkFloyd song from ''Music/TheWall'' (1979).
* "The Exit Door Leads In" is named after a Creator/PhilipKDick short story published in 1979.
* The first four lines of the terminal in "Just a Little Further" are from ''Theatre/{{Othello}}'' (they are spoken by Iago, the main villain of the play, in Act I, Scene 2). The final line appears to be original to ''Rubicon''.
* ''Rubicon'' provides its own InUniverse history of artificial intelligences in the level "Rozinante XI". Two projects were started at a particular period of détente between three superpowers in Earth's history. One, established in Bungie's canon, was Traxus, which anyone who's played the first game is likely to remember. The other was Gaiman -- as in {{Creator/Neil|Gaiman}}.
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[[folder:Other Fan Games]]
* The name of ''Apotheosis'' itself is a ShoutOut to ''Literature/TheGapCycle'' by Creator/StephenRDonaldson, in which the word ''apotheosis'' serves as [[spoiler:a code word to give one of the characters unrestricted access to his memory]]. Level names:
** "We Got Knives, Sharp Sticks": A quote from ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' (1986, dir. Creator/JamesCameron) uttered by the character Private Hudson, portrayed by the late Creator/BillPaxton:
---> '''Private Hudson''': "I'm ready, man, check it out. I am the ''ultimate'' badass! State of the badass art! You do ''not'' wanna fuck with me. Check it out! Hey Ripley, don't worry. Me and my squad of ultimate badasses will protect you! Check it out! Independently targeting particle beam phalanx. Vwap! Fry half a city with this puppy. We got tactical smart missiles, phased plasma pulse rifles, [=RPGs=], we got sonic electronic ball breakers! We got nukes, '''we got knives, sharp sticks'''..."\\
'''Sergeant Apone''': "Knock it off, Hudson. All right, gear up."
** "43% Burnt": The SignatureSong of Music/TheDillingerEscapePlan, found on ''Calculating Infinity'' (1999).
** "Don't Step on the Mome Raths": Probably a reference to the works of Creator/LewisCarroll and their adaptations. The Mome Raths are originally mentioned in his poem "Literature/{{Jabberwocky}}" (1871); in the accompanying illustrations, they are pig-like creatures running around in the background. In Creator/{{Disney}}'s [[WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland film adaptation]] (1951) of ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'', they are portrayed as a race of bipedal, flower-like creatures.
** "All Things Uncertain": A reference to the album ''The Attraction to All Things Uncertain'' (2001) by Tweaker, the (at the time) solo project of former Music/NineInchNails sideman Chris Vrenna.
** "Omega Devices for Dummies": A dual reference to Wiley Publishing's ''[[ParodiesForDummies ...for Dummies]]'' series and the Omega Devices in ''Series/DoctorWho'', a term sometimes referred to creations of the Time Lord Omega. "Remembrance of the Daleks" (1988) contained the first canonical usage of the phrase "Omega Device" as a reference to the Hand of Omega.
** "Calm Horizons": Name of an alien ship in ''Literature/TheGapCycle'' (see the info on the scenario name itself, above).
** "Gravin Threndor": A mountain in The Land in the ''Literature/ChroniclesOfThomasCovenant'' series by Creator/StephenRDonaldson. Also known as Mount Thunder or Peak of the Fire-Lions.
** "Planet Caravan": Third song on Music/BlackSabbath's ''Music/{{Paranoid}}'' (1970).
** "Perfect Day": Third song on Music/LouReed's ''Music/{{Transformer}}'' (1972).
* In a later level of ''Courier 11'', you throw a rock at a switch to crush an otherwise-invincible Enforcer {{expy}}, just like the Rancor in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''.
* The ship in ''Return to Marathon'' is called the ''Kubrick'', an obvious reference to legendary film director Creator/StanleyKubrick. This is a fairly good harbinger of what kinds of MindScrew and atmospheric horror await the player.
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Fan games have followed suit.
[[folder:''Tempus Irae'' Levels]]
Most of these
* "Ain't My Bitch" - named after the first song from Music/{{Metallica}}'s ''Load'' (1996)
* "Gates of Delirium" - named after the first song from Music/{{Yes}}' ''Relayer'' (1974)
* "Downward Spiral" - named after Music/NineInchNails' ''Music/TheDownwardSpiral'' (1994)
* "Brain Damage" - named after the penultimate song from Music/PinkFloyd's ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'' (1973)
* "The Revealing Science of God" - named after the first song from Music/{{Yes}}' ''Tales from Topographic Oceans'' (1974)
* "Never Satisfied" - named after the seventh song of Music/JudasPriest's debut album ''Rocka Rolla'' (1974)[[note]]Nardo considered this as an unofficial motto, referring
** "What's in a Name?" - a number of sources; originally a ShoutOutToShakespeare (it's in ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''); it's also the name of a game show (which the level creator claimed as the source of the puzzle name) and a section on the Marathon's Story page.
* "You Gotta Sin to Get Saved" - 1993 album by singer-songwriter Maria [=McKee=]
* "KMG-365" - a reference to the TV show ''Emergency Squad 51''
* "Il grande silenzio" (secret level from 2020 remake) - reference to a 1968 spaghetti western directed by Sergio Corbucci and with a soundtrack by Music/EnnioMorricone, named ''Film/TheGreatSilence'' in English-speaking markets.
* "Mt. Vesuvius 2 - Electric Boogaloo" - play on ''Film/Breakin2ElectricBoogaloo'' (and of course a case of OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo). (Because the two "Mt. Vesuvius" levels are recombined into one level in the 2020 remake, this title only appears in the 1997/2006 release.)
* "For Your Eyes Only" - named after the Franchise/JamesBond [[Film/ForYourEyesOnly film]]
The sequel ''Tempus Irae II: The Lost Levels'' itself is a reference to ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosTheLostLevels'', one of the most infamous cases of NoExportForYou, MissionPackSequel, and SequelDifficultySpike - fitting in the latter two cases as it includes the same textures and is quite a bit harder than the original ''Tempus Irae'', though not to the point of PlatformHell as the ''Mario'' game was (except maybe on the highest difficulties).
* "Prison Sex" - named after the second song of Tool's ''Undertow'' (1993)
* "This Is the First Day" - named after the first line of Music/NineInchNails' "Wish", the second track of their EP ''Broken'' (1992)
* "Big Man with a Gun" - another Music/NineInchNails song, the ninth track from the aforementioned ''Music/TheDownwardSpiral'' (1994)
* "I Do Not Want This" - yet another Music/NineInchNails song, this time the eighth track from ''Music/TheDownwardSpiral'' (1994)
* "It Was a Dark and Stormy Night" - named after one of the most infamous and frequently parodied opening lines in literary history, appearing in Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novel ''Paul Clifford'', and later in ''Literature/AWrinkleInTime'' and countless ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' strips.
* "Epicus Doomicus Metallicus" - named after the 1986 debut album of Swedish DoomMetal band Music/{{Candlemass}}, probably their most famous and influential album
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[[folder:''Eternal'' Level Names]]
A no doubt incomplete list:
* "Remedial Chaos Theory" (name used [[https://youtu.be/CAfdb_EwhTY starting in 1.3]]) - [[Recap/CommunityS3E04RemedialChaosTheory season 3, episode 4]] of ''Series/{{Community}}''[[note]]Per creator commentary, the episode title was used in large part because this is the first level after a timeline divergence, and ''Community''[='=]s use of alternate timelines, although mostly PlayedForLaughs, functions very similarly to ''Eternal''[='=]s[[/note]]
* "To Sleep, Perchance to Dream" - quote from ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''[='=]s "To Be or Not to Be" soliloquy in his eponymous play by Creator/WilliamShakespeare, ca. 1600 (also the source for for "The Slings & Arrows of Outrageous Fortune).
* "May the Pfharce Be With You" - corrupted quote from ''Franchise/StarWars'' (level was combined with "Forever My Greatest and Only Love" and subsequently renamed for 1.2)
* "Killing the Giants as They Sleep" (composite level introduced in 1.2) - named for the sixth track of Music/{{Panopticon}}'s 2012 album ''Kentucky''
* "My Kingdom Pfhor a Horse" - corruption of quote from ''Theatre/RichardIII''
** "The World Is Hollow" - reference to the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E8ForTheWorldIsHollowAndIHaveTouchedTheSky For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky]]" (though it also appears in the terminal text for "Flight of Icarus", along with two of the other "success dream" titles)
* "Second to Last of the Mohicans" - named for Creator/JamesFenimoreCooper's novel ''Literature/TheLastOfTheMohicans''
* "Third Rock from Lh'owon" - presumably a reference to ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun''
* "Flight of Icarus" (name used starting in 1.2) - in addition to the mythical reference found in this and the original name "Flames of Icarus", this doubles as a reference to the third track of Music/IronMaiden's ''Piece of Mind'' (1983)
* "The Incredible Hulk" - [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk comic franchise of the same name]]
* "Babylon X" - A result of the TV series ''Series/Babylon5'' being combined with XMakesAnythingCool, though whether "X" is meant to be pronounced "X" or "Ten" is syntactically ambiguous. (In the Mark versions of the game, it was known as "Babylon VII".)
* "Once More Unto the Breach..." - line from ''Theatre/HenryV''
* "This Cave Is Not a Natural Formation" - line from ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved''[[note]]This level was known as "Not a Natural Formation" in 1.0, then renamed to "These Caves Can't Be a Natural Formation" in 1.1, and corrected to Cortana's exact quote in 1.2.1. It's loosely based on a level that was called "Ducky Go Down the Hole" in the Mark versions, but only a few portions of the level are the same.[[/note]]
** For version 1.3, the level [[https://youtu.be/fvng8L307d4?t=1376s looks to be renamed]] to "Haec caverna nón fórmátió nátúrális est", which is the same line in [[{{GratuitousLatin/Marathon}} Latin]], probably for the RuleOfFunny of rendering such an infamously stupid line in a language commonly used to sound smart
* "I've Got a Bad Feeling About This" - every ''Franchise/StarWars'' film ever[[note]]Interestingly, one of the unused Bob sounds featured Doug Zartman reading this line[[/note]]
** 1.3 looks set to change this title to "Teneó affectum malum dé hóc" (the same thing in Latin), again probably for RuleOfFunny
* "This Message Will Self-Destruct" - recurring line from the ''Mission: Impossible'' [[Series/MissionImpossible TV series]] and [[Film/MissionImpossibleFilmSeries films]]
* All the failure dreams ("The Tangent Universe", "The Living Receiver", "The Tangent Universe", "The Ensurance Trap", "The Philosophy of Time Travel") are named after elements of ''Film/DonnieDarko'' (note that some of these are only named in supplemental materials to the film)
** plus all the levels named after lines from the trilogy: "She Is the Dark One", "Forever My Greatest and Only Love" (level removed from 1.1 and folded into "Killing the Giants as They Sleep" for 1.2 as noted above), "We Met Once in the Garden" (all three are quotes from the garbled "Kill Your Television" terminal that provides the backbone for the entire scenario's story), "Frog Blast the Vent Core" (phrase shouted by assimilated Bobs; set to be changed to "Rána explóde corpus spírámentí", a ''very'' loose rendering of the phrase into Latin, for 1.3)
''Eternal'' Mark V, which was almost completely remade for 1.0.x to the point where it could be considered a completely different (albeit vastly inferior) game, had several additional shout-outs in its level titles, including:
* "I Can't Believe It's Not Total Carnage!" - take-off on the butter substitute I Can't Believe It's Not Butter
* "Can't TOZT This" - pun on Music/MCHammer's most famous hit, "U Can't Touch This", from his 1990 album ''Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em''
* "Carnagee Hall" - pun on the famous concert venue Carnegie Hall
* "War and Peace" - shout-out to Creator/LeoTolstoy novel ''Literature/WarAndPeace'', first serialised from 1865-1867 and then published in its entirety in 1869
* "Back to the Future" - shout-out to the [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture franchise]] starting with [[Film/BackToTheFuture the 1985 film]] directed by Creator/RobertZemeckis and starring Creator/MichaelJFox and Creator/ChristopherLloyd
* "Mad World" - single by Music/TearsForFears from their 1983 album ''Music/TheHurting'', later CoveredUp (for listeners of a certain age, at least) by Gary Jules and featured in the film ''Film/DonnieDarko''
* "Ducky Go Down the Hole" - reference to the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS2E9HennyYoungmanDay Henry Youngman Day]]"
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* The start of ''Eternal'' has Marcus and Hathor departing K'lia exactly 111 years after the start of ''Marathon''. This was probably always intended as a reference to Bilbo Baggins' 111st birthday party at the start of Creator/JRRTolkien's ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' (1954-1955), but in any case, Hathor [[https://youtu.be/i_PrZ9q8vIo?t=228 says "eleventy-one" in her introductory terminal]] in version 1.3, which makes the shout-out even clearer.
* Also in 1.3, she uses the word "grok" in the same terminal, which originated in Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/StrangerInAStrangeLand'' (1961), one of the {{Trope Codifier}}s for FreeLoveFuture. ''Eternal'' 1.3 implies its setting to be a FreeLoveFuture a few times, although "Bug-Eyed in Space" and "Once More Unto the Breach..." probably contain the clearest evidence.
* In "Deja Vu All Over Again", one of the ''Marathon'' crew (presumably [=R McCollum=]) says of Durandal's erratic behaviour, "I'd rather not be waiting out here with flashbacks to ''2001''", referring to the [[Literature/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey novel]] by Creator/ArthurCClarke (1968) and the [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey film]] directed by Creator/StanleyKubrick (also 1968).[[note]]According to Clarke, the novel should really be credited to "Clarke and Kubrick" and the screenplay to "Kubrick and Clarke".[[/note]] Specifically, [=McCollum=] is comparing Durandal to HAL 9000, who is probably the TropeCodifier for AIIsACrapshoot (he [[spoiler:goes rogue and murders the crew because of a LogicBomb accidentally created by his programmers]]).
* A [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/691755375329804318/915890641156857894/unknown.png Weland screenshot]] of "Remedial Chaos Theory" from 1.3 posted to the co-director's Website/{{YouTube}} channel (see [[https://youtu.be/CAfdb_EwhTY video description]]) shows "Nōn obligās habilitāre lūcem rubeam" written on the map. This is GratuitousLatin for "You don't have to put on the red light," a line from Music/ThePolice's song "Roxanne" - which is played something like six or seven times in the ''Community'' episode "[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/CommunityS3E04RemedialChaosTheory Remedial Chaos Theory]]". See GratuitousLatin.{{Marathon}} for more.
* Every level set on the Pfhor planet in chapter two uses a purple fog - or, put another way, [[Music/AreYouExperienced a purple haze]]. This is confirmed to be deliberate on the part of the creators. Current plans are to add [[Music/PurpleRainAlbum purple rain]] to most of these levels (seen [[https://youtu.be/fQ8f-P-Fqbs?list=PLoysJW6pXQ6ng47pFUrCpxWtFDCeC28c- here]] and in several of the subsequent videos) in the next release as well.
* In the level "A Friend in Need", Leela says, "If you and Blake's men can get into the city and destroy the force field generator, the S'pht'Kr can make a flyby and demolish this entire complex from orbit." This is an oblique allusion to [[ItsTheOnlyWayToBeSure a popular phrase]] from the film ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' (1986, dir. Creator/JamesCameron).
* Beyond the level name mentioned above, there are several other references to ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'' in ''Eternal'', particularly in the fifth chapter. Nicholas Singer's three pieces for the soundtrack contain motifs from both ''Marathon'' and ''Halo''[='=]s soundtracks, and the idea of the Forerunners [[spoiler:being descendants of humanity who time-travelled to the past]] was taken from a draft of ''Halo''[='=]s story before Bungie went in a different direction. It has been also remarked that the level design seems intentionally reminiscent of ''Halo''[='=]s at times, which is undoubtedly no coincidence. There are undoubtedly further examples.
* Although this isn't confirmed, [[spoiler:[[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/691755375329804318/811088711646314576/hathor-volat.gif Hathor's]] [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/691755375329804318/811086713711624192/hathor-impetit.gif cyborg]] [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/691755375329804318/811087500725977088/hathor-defendit.gif form]]]] in 1.3 may be at least partially an homage to a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHODAN rather famous example]] of EvilIsSexy and AIIsACrapshoot from [[VideoGame/SystemShock one of Marathon's contemporary series]] – her largely black suit and {{Medusa}}-like hair are pretty big giveaways on this count. (Note that, despite their superficial similarities, the two do have some substantial differences in terms of characterisation, though - not least that [[spoiler:Hathor has undergone a HeelFaceTurn by the point Marcus "fights" her; she's mad at Marcus, but she acknowledges that it's her own fault, and she's not even trying to kill him, since she knows he has the wave motion cannon and gravitronic blades, which both nullify damage from wave motion cannon blasts if active]].)
* Again in 1.3, Hathor makes two references to the writings of Creator/FriedrichNietzsche in her [[https://youtu.be/lRA3MFW6Anw?t=715 final terminal]] in "We Met Once in the Garden":
** The phrase "EternalRecurrence" („ewige Wiederkunft“) comes from his writings. He seems to have first come up with the concept in 1881; he discusses it in ''The Gay Science'' (1882), ''Literature/AlsoSprachZarathustra'' (1883), and ''Ecce Homo'' (1888).
** She also makes a reference ("the abyss has gazed into them; they have become mirrors of their foes") to HeWhoFightsMonsters, referring specifically to [[spoiler:the Jjaro's conflict with the W'rkncacnter]]. This phrase originates from ''Beyond Good and Evil'' (1886): "He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."[[labelnote:German original]]„Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.“[[/labelnote]]
* In the same terminal, Hathor also says "''aut futue, aut pugnémus''". In addition to being a SophisticatedAsHell PrecisionFStrike, this is a verbatim quote from Martial's ''Epigrams'' 11:20 (translating roughly as "[[spoiler:Either fuck me, or let's fight]]"), which the co-director describes as "really quite a nasty piece of propaganda", but also notes as fitting Hathor's mood and the level's Latin subtitle perfectly ("Coíbámus ólim in hortó" can also translate as "We Copulated Once in the Garden" or "We Came Up Against [One Another] in the Garden"). See ''Eternal''[='=]s section under GratuitousLatin.{{Marathon}} for further info on the translation and Latin obscenity more broadly.
* As of version 1.2.1, the penultimate level, "Where Giants Have Fallen", features a mournful bird song. [[spoiler:The song continues as all the enemies die off, so the only sounds left on the level by the end are howling wind and the bird's "poo-tee-weet?", which is an intentional reference to the final words of Creator/KurtVonnegut's ''Literature/SlaughterhouseFive'' (confirmed by looking at the writing on the map in an editor). Parallels can also be drawn between the game's depiction of the Jjaro and ''Slaughterhouse-Five''[='=]s depiction of the Tralfamadorians (though it's not clear if the similarity was originally intentional or simply something the developers noticed later, but in any case, the words "So it goes" are also found on the map writing); both works are subtly condemning fatalism.]]
* In 1.3, Custós' final message to the player ends with the line "Avé atque valé", which translates from Latin as "Hail and farewell" or "I salute you, and goodbye". It comes from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus_101 Catullus 101]], Creator/{{Catullus}}' elegy to his brother.
* Also in 1.3, Leela has two cryptic lines in [[{{GratuitousLatin/Marathon}} Latin]] in "Where Giants Have Fallen" (seen [[https://youtu.be/6LwxosRoBPw?t=5874s here]]): "imperátrícés cónstituunt malás amantés" and "débés tuum imperium vénumdare". These translate roughly as "Empresses make bad lovers" and "You should put your empire on sale", respectively, and are references to a similar couplet in Music/FleetwoodMac's "[[Music/{{Rumours}} Gold Dust Woman]]": "Rulers make bad lovers / You'd better put your kingdom up for sale."
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* One of the crewmen in the engineer lift maintenance log in "Honk If You're an Underpaid Cyborg" is named Upton Sinclair, after the author of ''Literature/TheJungle'' and ''Oil!'' (basis for ''Film/ThereWillBeBlood''), among others. Another is named Davis Hartman as a reference to two characters in ''Film/FullMetalJacket'' (1987, dir. Creator/StanleyKubrick, starring Creator/MatthewModine, Creator/AdamBaldwin, Creator/VincentDOnofrio, and Creator/RLeeErmey), J. T. Davis (better known as Joker) and Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (the TropeCodifier for DrillSergeantNasty).
* One of the terminals in "Like Flies on a Corpse" was written by a character named Mark Renton. This is the name of the protagonist of Creator/IrvineWelsh's ''Literature/{{Trainspotting}}'' (1993), ''Literature/{{Porno}}'' (2002), and ''Literature/{{Skagboys}}'' (2012), who is portrayed by Creator/EwanMcGregor in Creator/DannyBoyle's film adaptations of the first two, ''Film/{{Trainspotting}}'' (1996) and ''Film/T2Trainspotting'' (2017).
* The chapter name "Goethe's Faust" is named after, well, Creator/JohannWolfgangVonGoethe's ''Theatre/{{Faust}}'' (1808 and 1832).
* "The Ascension Factor" is named after a 1988 novel by Creator/FrankHerbert and Bill Ransom, the fourth (and final) novel in the ''Destination: Void'' series.
* "People Under the Stairs" is named after the HorrorComedy film ''Film/ThePeopleUnderTheStairs'' (1991, dir. Creator/WesCraven).
* "Comfortably Numb" is of course named after the Music/PinkFloyd song from ''Music/TheWall'' (1979).
* "The Exit Door Leads In" is named after a Creator/PhilipKDick short story published in 1979.
* The first four lines of the terminal in "Just a Little Further" are from ''Theatre/{{Othello}}'' (they are spoken by Iago, the main villain of the play, in Act I, Scene 2). The final line appears to be original to ''Rubicon''.
* ''Rubicon'' provides its own InUniverse history of artificial intelligences in the level "Rozinante XI". Two projects were started at a particular period of détente between three superpowers in Earth's history. One, established in Bungie's canon, was Traxus, which anyone who's played the first game is likely to remember. The other was Gaiman -- as in {{Creator/Neil|Gaiman}}.
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* The name of ''Apotheosis'' itself is a ShoutOut to ''Literature/TheGapCycle'' by Creator/StephenRDonaldson, in which the word ''apotheosis'' serves as [[spoiler:a code word to give one of the characters unrestricted access to his memory]]. Level names:
** "We Got Knives, Sharp Sticks": A quote from ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' (1986, dir. Creator/JamesCameron) uttered by the character Private Hudson, portrayed by the late Creator/BillPaxton:
---> '''Private Hudson''': "I'm ready, man, check it out. I am the ''ultimate'' badass! State of the badass art! You do ''not'' wanna fuck with me. Check it out! Hey Ripley, don't worry. Me and my squad of ultimate badasses will protect you! Check it out! Independently targeting particle beam phalanx. Vwap! Fry half a city with this puppy. We got tactical smart missiles, phased plasma pulse rifles, [=RPGs=], we got sonic electronic ball breakers! We got nukes, '''we got knives, sharp sticks'''..."\\
'''Sergeant Apone''': "Knock it off, Hudson. All right, gear up."
** "43% Burnt": The SignatureSong of Music/TheDillingerEscapePlan, found on ''Calculating Infinity'' (1999).
** "Don't Step on the Mome Raths": Probably a reference to the works of Creator/LewisCarroll and their adaptations. The Mome Raths are originally mentioned in his poem "Literature/{{Jabberwocky}}" (1871); in the accompanying illustrations, they are pig-like creatures running around in the background. In Creator/{{Disney}}'s [[WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland film adaptation]] (1951) of ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'', they are portrayed as a race of bipedal, flower-like creatures.
** "All Things Uncertain": A reference to the album ''The Attraction to All Things Uncertain'' (2001) by Tweaker, the (at the time) solo project of former Music/NineInchNails sideman Chris Vrenna.
** "Omega Devices for Dummies": A dual reference to Wiley Publishing's ''[[ParodiesForDummies ...for Dummies]]'' series and the Omega Devices in ''Series/DoctorWho'', a term sometimes referred to creations of the Time Lord Omega. "Remembrance of the Daleks" (1988) contained the first canonical usage of the phrase "Omega Device" as a reference to the Hand of Omega.
** "Calm Horizons": Name of an alien ship in ''Literature/TheGapCycle'' (see the info on the scenario name itself, above).
** "Gravin Threndor": A mountain in The Land in the ''Literature/ChroniclesOfThomasCovenant'' series by Creator/StephenRDonaldson. Also known as Mount Thunder or Peak of the Fire-Lions.
** "Planet Caravan": Third song on Music/BlackSabbath's ''Music/{{Paranoid}}'' (1970).
** "Perfect Day": Third song on Music/LouReed's ''Music/{{Transformer}}'' (1972).
* In a later level of ''Courier 11'', you throw a rock at a switch to crush an otherwise-invincible Enforcer {{expy}}, just like the Rancor in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''.
* The ship in ''Return to Marathon'' is called the ''Kubrick'', an obvious reference to legendary film director Creator/StanleyKubrick. This is a fairly good harbinger of what kinds of MindScrew and atmospheric horror await the player.
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* "Babylon X" - probably a result of the TV series ''Series/Babylon5'' being combined with XMakesAnythingCool... or it could be intended to be pronounced as "Babylon Ten". Or perhaps it's a pun meant to be syntactically ambiguous.
* "Once More Unto the Breach" - line from ''Theatre/HenryV''
* "These Caves Can't Be a Natural Formation" - slightly misquoted line from ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved''.
** For version 1.3, the level [[https://youtu.be/fvng8L307d4?t=1376s looks to be renamed]] to "Haec caverna nón fórmátió nátúrális est", which is the correct line ("This cave is not a natural formation") in [[{{GratuitousLatin/Marathon}} Latin]], probably for the RuleOfFunny of rendering such an infamously stupid line in a language commonly used to sound smart
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in 1.1, and corrected to Cortana's exact quote in 1.2.1. It's loosely based on a level that was called "Ducky Go Down the Hole" in the Mark versions, but only a few portions of the level are the same.[[/note]]
** For version 1.3, the level [[https://youtu.be/fvng8L307d4?t=1376s looks to be renamed]] to "Haec caverna nón fórmátió nátúrális est", which is thecorrect same line ("This cave is not a natural formation") in [[{{GratuitousLatin/Marathon}} Latin]], probably for the RuleOfFunny of rendering such an infamously stupid line in a language commonly used to sound smart
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* "Carnagee Hall" - pun on the famous concert venue Carnegie Hall
* "War and Peace" - shout-out to Creator/LeoTolstoy novel ''Literature/WarAndPeace'', first serialised from 1865-1867 and then published in its entirety in 1869
* "Back to the Future" - shout-out to the [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture franchise]] starting with [[Film/BackToTheFuture the 1985 film]] directed by Creator/RobertZemeckis and starring Creator/MichaelJFox and Creator/ChristopherLloyd
* "Mad World" - song by Music/TearsForFears from their 1983 album ''The Hurting'', later CoveredUp (for listeners of a certain age, at least) by Gary Jules and featured in the film ''Film/DonnieDarko''
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* In the same terminal, Hathor also says "''aut futue, aut pugnémus''". In addition to being a SophisticatedHell PrecisionFStrike, this is a verbatim quote from Martial's ''Epigrams'' 11:20 (translating roughly as "[[spoiler:Either fuck me, or let's fight]]"), which the co-director describes as "really quite a nasty piece of propaganda", but also notes as fitting Hathor's mood and the level's Latin subtitle perfectly ("Coíbámus ólim in hortó" can also translate as "We Copulated Once in the Garden" or "We Came Up Against [One Another] in the Garden"). See ''Eternal''[='=]s section under GratuitousLatin.{{Marathon}} for further info on the translation and Latin obscenity more broadly.
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* In the same terminal, Hathor also says "''aut futue, aut pugnémus''". In addition to being a SophisticatedHell PrecisionFStrike, this is a verbatim quote from Martial's ''Epigrams'' 11:20 (translating roughly as "[[spoiler:Either fuck me, or let's fight]]"), which the co-director describes as "really quite a nasty piece of propaganda", but also notes as fitting Hathor's mood and the level's Latin subtitle perfectly ("Coíbámus ólim in hortó" can also translate as "We Copulated Once in the Garden" or "We Came Up Against [One Another] in the Garden"). See ''Eternal''[='=]s section under GratuitousLatin.{{Marathon}} for further info on the translation and Latin obscenity more broadly.
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* The start of ''Eternal'' has Marcus and Hathor departing K'lia exactly 111 years after the start of ''Marathon''. This was probably always intended as a reference to Bilbo Baggins' 111st birthday party at the start of Creator/JRRTolkien's ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' (1954-1955), but in any case, Hathor [[https://youtu.be/i_PrZ9q8vIo?t=228 says "eleventy-one" in her introductory terminal]] in version 1.3, which makes the shout-out even clearer.
* Also in 1.3, she uses the word "grok" in the same terminal, which originated in Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/StrangerInAStrangeLand'' (1961), one of the {{Trope Codifier}}s for FreeLoveFuture. ''Eternal'' 1.3 implies its setting to be a FreeLoveFuture a few times, although "Bug-Eyed in Space" and "Once More Unto the Breach..." probably contain the clearest evidence.
* In "Deja Vu All Over Again", one of the ''Marathon'' crew (presumably [=R McCollum=]) says of Durandal's erratic behaviour, "I'd rather not be waiting out here with flashbacks to ''2001''", referring to the [[Literature/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey novel]] by Creator/ArthurCClarke (1968) and the [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey film]] directed by Creator/StanleyKubrick (also 1968).[[note]]According to Clarke, the novel should really be credited to "Clarke and Kubrick" and the screenplay to "Kubrick and Clarke".[[/note]] Specifically, [=McCollum=] is comparing Durandal to HAL 9000, who is probably the TropeCodifier for AIIsACrapshoot (he [[spoiler:goes rogue and murders the crew because of a LogicBomb accidentally created by his programmers]]).
* Every level set on the Pfhor planet in chapter two uses a purple fog - or, put another way, [[Music/AreYouExperienced a purple haze]]. This is confirmed to be deliberate on the part of the creators. Current plans are to add [[Music/PurpleRainAlbum purple rain]] to most of these levels (seen [[https://youtu.be/fQ8f-P-Fqbs?list=PLoysJW6pXQ6ng47pFUrCpxWtFDCeC28c- here]] and in several of the subsequent videos) in the next release as well.
* In the level "A Friend in Need", Leela says, "If you and Blake's men can get into the city and destroy the force field generator, the S'pht'Kr can make a flyby and demolish this entire complex from orbit." This is an oblique allusion to [[ItsTheOnlyWayToBeSure a popular phrase]] from the film ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' (1986, dir. Creator/JamesCameron).
* Also in 1.3, she uses the word "grok" in the same terminal, which originated in Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/StrangerInAStrangeLand'' (1961), one of the {{Trope Codifier}}s for FreeLoveFuture. ''Eternal'' 1.3 implies its setting to be a FreeLoveFuture a few times, although "Bug-Eyed in Space" and "Once More Unto the Breach..." probably contain the clearest evidence.
* In "Deja Vu All Over Again", one of the ''Marathon'' crew (presumably [=R McCollum=]) says of Durandal's erratic behaviour, "I'd rather not be waiting out here with flashbacks to ''2001''", referring to the [[Literature/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey novel]] by Creator/ArthurCClarke (1968) and the [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey film]] directed by Creator/StanleyKubrick (also 1968).[[note]]According to Clarke, the novel should really be credited to "Clarke and Kubrick" and the screenplay to "Kubrick and Clarke".[[/note]] Specifically, [=McCollum=] is comparing Durandal to HAL 9000, who is probably the TropeCodifier for AIIsACrapshoot (he [[spoiler:goes rogue and murders the crew because of a LogicBomb accidentally created by his programmers]]).
* Every level set on the Pfhor planet in chapter two uses a purple fog - or, put another way, [[Music/AreYouExperienced a purple haze]]. This is confirmed to be deliberate on the part of the creators. Current plans are to add [[Music/PurpleRainAlbum purple rain]] to most of these levels (seen [[https://youtu.be/fQ8f-P-Fqbs?list=PLoysJW6pXQ6ng47pFUrCpxWtFDCeC28c- here]] and in several of the subsequent videos) in the next release as well.
* In the level "A Friend in Need", Leela says, "If you and Blake's men can get into the city and destroy the force field generator, the S'pht'Kr can make a flyby and demolish this entire complex from orbit." This is an oblique allusion to [[ItsTheOnlyWayToBeSure a popular phrase]] from the film ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' (1986, dir. Creator/JamesCameron).
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* The Pfhor planet Although this isn't confirmed, [[spoiler:[[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/691755375329804318/811088711646314576/hathor-volat.gif Hathor's]] [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/691755375329804318/811086713711624192/hathor-impetit.gif cyborg]] [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/691755375329804318/811087500725977088/hathor-defendit.gif form]]]] in chapter 1.3 may be at least partially an homage to a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHODAN rather famous example]] of EvilIsSexy and AIIsACrapshoot from [[VideoGame/SystemShock one of Marathon's contemporary series]] – her largely black suit and {{Medusa}}-like hair are pretty big giveaways on this count. (Note that, despite their superficial similarities, the two uses do have some substantial differences in terms of characterisation, though - not least that [[spoiler:Hathor has undergone a purple fog on every level - or, put another way, [[Music/AreYouExperienced a purple haze]]. This is confirmed to be deliberate on HeelFaceTurn by the part of point Marcus "fights" her; she's mad at Marcus, but she acknowledges that it's her own fault, and she's not even trying to kill him, since she knows he has the creators. Current plans are wave motion cannon and gravitronic blades, which both nullify damage from wave motion cannon blasts if active]].)
* Again in 1.3, Hathor makes two references toadd [[Music/PurpleRainAlbum purple rain]] to most the writings of these levels (seen Creator/FriedrichNietzsche in her [[https://youtu.be/fQ8f-P-Fqbs?list=PLoysJW6pXQ6ng47pFUrCpxWtFDCeC28c- here]] and be/3BQLDKm0kQ0?t=810&lc=Ugy6qMjoyovVb7Ud-394AaABAg final terminal]] in several of the subsequent videos) "We Met Once in the next release as well.Garden":
** The phrase "EternalRecurrence" („ewige Wiederkunft“) comes from his writings. He seems to have first come up with the concept in 1881; he discusses it in ''The Gay Science'' (1882), ''Literature/AlsoSprachZarathustra'' (1883), and ''Ecce Homo'' (1888).
** She also makes a reference ("the abyss has gazed into them; they have become mirrors of their foes") to HeWhoFightsMonsters, referring specifically to [[spoiler:the Jjaro's conflict with the W'rkncacnter]]. This phrase originates from ''Beyond Good and Evil'' (1886): "He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."[[labelnote:German original]]„Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.“[[/labelnote]]
* Again in 1.3, Hathor makes two references to
** The phrase "EternalRecurrence" („ewige Wiederkunft“) comes from his writings. He seems to have first come up with the concept in 1881; he discusses it in ''The Gay Science'' (1882), ''Literature/AlsoSprachZarathustra'' (1883), and ''Ecce Homo'' (1888).
** She also makes a reference ("the abyss has gazed into them; they have become mirrors of their foes") to HeWhoFightsMonsters, referring specifically to [[spoiler:the Jjaro's conflict with the W'rkncacnter]]. This phrase originates from ''Beyond Good and Evil'' (1886): "He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."[[labelnote:German original]]„Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.“[[/labelnote]]
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* In the level "A Friend in Need", Leela says, "If you and Blake's men can get into the city and destroy the force field generator, the S'pht'Kr can make a flyby and demolish this entire complex from orbit." This is an oblique allusion to [[ItsTheOnlyWayToBeSure a popular phrase]] from the film ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' (1986, dir. Creator/JamesCameron).
* In ''Eternal 1.3'', Leela has two cryptic lines in [[{{GratuitousLatin/Marathon}} Latin]] in "Where Giants Have Fallen" (seen [[https://youtu.be/6LwxosRoBPw?t=5874s here]]): "imperátrícés cónstituunt malás amantés" and "débés tuum imperium vénumdare". These translate roughly as "Empresses make bad lovers" and "You should put your empire on sale", respectively, and are references to a similar couplet in Music/FleetwoodMac's "[[Music/{{Rumours}} Gold Dust Woman]]": "Rulers make bad lovers / You'd better put your kingdom up for sale."
* Although this isn't confirmed, [[spoiler:[[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/691755375329804318/811088711646314576/hathor-volat.gif Hathor's]] [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/691755375329804318/811086713711624192/hathor-impetit.gif cyborg]] [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/691755375329804318/811087500725977088/hathor-defendit.gif form]]]] may be at least partially an homage to a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHODAN rather famous example]] of EvilIsSexy and AIIsACrapshoot from [[VideoGame/SystemShock one of Marathon's contemporary series]] – her largely black suit and {{Medusa}}-like hair are pretty big giveaways on this count. (Note that, despite their superficial similarities, the two do have some substantial differences in terms of characterisation, though.)
* In "Deja Vu All Over Again", one of the ''Marathon'' crew (presumably [=R McCollum=]) says of Durandal's erratic behaviour, "I'd rather not be waiting out here with flashbacks to ''2001''", referring to the [[Literature/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey novel]] by Creator/ArthurCClarke (1968) and the [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey film]] directed by Creator/StanleyKubrick (also 1968).[[note]]According to Clarke, the novel should really be credited to "Clarke and Kubrick" and the screenplay to "Kubrick and Clarke".[[/note]] Specifically, [=McCollum=] is comparing Durandal to HAL 9000, who is probably the TropeCodifier for AIIsACrapshoot (he [[spoiler:goes rogue and murders the crew because of a LogicBomb accidentally created by his programmers]]).
* The start of ''Eternal'' has Marcus and Hathor departing K'lia exactly 111 years after the start of ''Marathon''. This was probably always intended as a reference to Bilbo Baggins' 111st birthday party at the start of Creator/JRRTolkien's ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' (1954-1955), but in any case, Hathor [[https://youtu.be/i_PrZ9q8vIo?t=228 says "eleventy-one" in her introductory terminal]] in version 1.3, which makes the shout-out even clearer.
* Also in 1.3, she uses the word "grok" in the same terminal, which originated in Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/StrangerInAStrangeLand'' (1961), one of the {{Trope Codifier}}s for FreeLoveFuture. ''Eternal'' 1.3 implies its setting to be a FreeLoveFuture a few times, although "Bug-Eyed in Space" and "Once More Unto the Breach..." probably contain the clearest evidence.
* Again in 1.3, Hathor makes two references to the writings of Creator/FriedrichNietzsche in her [[https://youtu.be/3BQLDKm0kQ0?t=810&lc=Ugy6qMjoyovVb7Ud-394AaABAg final terminal]] in "We Met Once in the Garden":
** The phrase "EternalRecurrence" („ewige Wiederkunft“) comes from his writings. He seems to have first come up with the concept in 1881; he discusses it in ''The Gay Science'' (1882), ''Literature/AlsoSprachZarathustra'' (1883), and ''Ecce Homo'' (1888).
** She also makes a reference ("the abyss has gazed into them; they have become mirrors of their foes") to HeWhoFightsMonsters, referring specifically to [[spoiler:the Jjaro's conflict with the W'rkncacnter]]. This phrase originates from ''Beyond Good and Evil'' (1886): "He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."[[labelnote:German original]]„Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.“[[/labelnote]]
* In ''Eternal 1.3'', Leela has two cryptic lines in [[{{GratuitousLatin/Marathon}} Latin]] in "Where Giants Have Fallen" (seen [[https://youtu.be/6LwxosRoBPw?t=5874s here]]): "imperátrícés cónstituunt malás amantés" and "débés tuum imperium vénumdare". These translate roughly as "Empresses make bad lovers" and "You should put your empire on sale", respectively, and are references to a similar couplet in Music/FleetwoodMac's "[[Music/{{Rumours}} Gold Dust Woman]]": "Rulers make bad lovers / You'd better put your kingdom up for sale."
* Although this isn't confirmed, [[spoiler:[[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/691755375329804318/811088711646314576/hathor-volat.gif Hathor's]] [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/691755375329804318/811086713711624192/hathor-impetit.gif cyborg]] [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/691755375329804318/811087500725977088/hathor-defendit.gif form]]]] may be at least partially an homage to a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHODAN rather famous example]] of EvilIsSexy and AIIsACrapshoot from [[VideoGame/SystemShock one of Marathon's contemporary series]] – her largely black suit and {{Medusa}}-like hair are pretty big giveaways on this count. (Note that, despite their superficial similarities, the two do have some substantial differences in terms of characterisation, though.)
* In "Deja Vu All Over Again", one of the ''Marathon'' crew (presumably [=R McCollum=]) says of Durandal's erratic behaviour, "I'd rather not be waiting out here with flashbacks to ''2001''", referring to the [[Literature/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey novel]] by Creator/ArthurCClarke (1968) and the [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey film]] directed by Creator/StanleyKubrick (also 1968).[[note]]According to Clarke, the novel should really be credited to "Clarke and Kubrick" and the screenplay to "Kubrick and Clarke".[[/note]] Specifically, [=McCollum=] is comparing Durandal to HAL 9000, who is probably the TropeCodifier for AIIsACrapshoot (he [[spoiler:goes rogue and murders the crew because of a LogicBomb accidentally created by his programmers]]).
* The start of ''Eternal'' has Marcus and Hathor departing K'lia exactly 111 years after the start of ''Marathon''. This was probably always intended as a reference to Bilbo Baggins' 111st birthday party at the start of Creator/JRRTolkien's ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' (1954-1955), but in any case, Hathor [[https://youtu.be/i_PrZ9q8vIo?t=228 says "eleventy-one" in her introductory terminal]] in version 1.3, which makes the shout-out even clearer.
* Also in 1.3, she uses the word "grok" in the same terminal, which originated in Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/StrangerInAStrangeLand'' (1961), one of the {{Trope Codifier}}s for FreeLoveFuture. ''Eternal'' 1.3 implies its setting to be a FreeLoveFuture a few times, although "Bug-Eyed in Space" and "Once More Unto the Breach..." probably contain the clearest evidence.
* Again in 1.3, Hathor makes two references to the writings of Creator/FriedrichNietzsche in her [[https://youtu.be/3BQLDKm0kQ0?t=810&lc=Ugy6qMjoyovVb7Ud-394AaABAg final terminal]] in "We Met Once in the Garden":
** The phrase "EternalRecurrence" („ewige Wiederkunft“) comes from his writings. He seems to have first come up with the concept in 1881; he discusses it in ''The Gay Science'' (1882), ''Literature/AlsoSprachZarathustra'' (1883), and ''Ecce Homo'' (1888).
** She also makes a reference ("the abyss has gazed into them; they have become mirrors of their foes") to HeWhoFightsMonsters, referring specifically to [[spoiler:the Jjaro's conflict with the W'rkncacnter]]. This phrase originates from ''Beyond Good and Evil'' (1886): "He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."[[labelnote:German original]]„Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.“[[/labelnote]]
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* Also in 1.3, Leela has two cryptic lines in [[{{GratuitousLatin/Marathon}} Latin]] in "Where Giants Have Fallen" (seen [[https://youtu.be/6LwxosRoBPw?t=5874s here]]): "imperátrícés cónstituunt malás amantés" and "débés tuum imperium vénumdare". These translate roughly as "Empresses make bad lovers" and "You should put your empire on sale", respectively, and are references to a similar couplet in Music/FleetwoodMac's "[[Music/{{Rumours}} Gold Dust Woman]]": "Rulers make bad lovers / You'd better put your kingdom up for sale."
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* In 1.3, Custós' final message to the player ends with the line "Avé atque valé", which translates from Latin as "Hail and farewell" or "I salute you, and goodbye". It comes from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus_101 Catullus 101]], Creator/{{Catullus}}' elegy to his brother.
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* The start of ''Eternal'' has Marcus and Hathor departing K'lia exactly 111 years after the start of ''Marathon''. This was probably always intended as a reference to Bilbo Baggins' 111st birthday party at the start of Creator/JRRTolkien's ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' (1954-1955), but in any case, Hathor [[https://youtu.be/C5R5VCKIE6M?t=211 says "eleventy-one" in her introductory terminal]] in version 1.3, which makes the shout-out even clearer.
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* The start of ''Eternal'' has Marcus and Hathor departing K'lia exactly 111 years after the start of ''Marathon''. This was probably always intended as a reference to Bilbo Baggins' 111st birthday party at the start of Creator/JRRTolkien's ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' (1954-1955), but in any case, Hathor [[https://youtu.be/C5R5VCKIE6M?t=211 be/i_PrZ9q8vIo?t=228 says "eleventy-one" in her introductory terminal]] in version 1.3, which makes the shout-out even clearer.clearer.
* Also in 1.3, she uses the word "grok" in the same terminal, which originated in Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/StrangerInAStrangeLand'' (1961), one of the TropeCodifiers for FreeLoveFuture. This is implied to be the case in
* Again in 1.3, Hathor makes two references to the writings of Creator/FriedrichNietzsche in her [[https://youtu.be/3BQLDKm0kQ0?t=810&lc=Ugy6qMjoyovVb7Ud-394AaABAg final terminal]] in "We Met Once in the Garden":
** The phrase "EternalRecurrence" („ewige Wiederkunft“) comes from his writings. He seems to have first come up with the concept in 1881; he discusses it in ''The Gay Science'' (1882), ''Literature/AlsoSprachZarathustra'' (1883), and ''Ecce Homo'' (1888).
** She also makes a reference ("the abyss has gazed into them; they have become mirrors of their foes") to HeWhoFightsMonsters, referring specifically to [[spoiler:the Jjaro's conflict with the W'rkncacnter]]. This phrase originates from ''Beyond Good and Evil'' (1886): "He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."[[labelnote:German original]]„Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.“[[/labelnote]]
* Also in 1.3, she uses the word "grok" in the same terminal, which originated in Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/StrangerInAStrangeLand'' (1961), one of the TropeCodifiers for FreeLoveFuture. This is implied to be the case in
* Again in 1.3, Hathor makes two references to the writings of Creator/FriedrichNietzsche in her [[https://youtu.be/3BQLDKm0kQ0?t=810&lc=Ugy6qMjoyovVb7Ud-394AaABAg final terminal]] in "We Met Once in the Garden":
** The phrase "EternalRecurrence" („ewige Wiederkunft“) comes from his writings. He seems to have first come up with the concept in 1881; he discusses it in ''The Gay Science'' (1882), ''Literature/AlsoSprachZarathustra'' (1883), and ''Ecce Homo'' (1888).
** She also makes a reference ("the abyss has gazed into them; they have become mirrors of their foes") to HeWhoFightsMonsters, referring specifically to [[spoiler:the Jjaro's conflict with the W'rkncacnter]]. This phrase originates from ''Beyond Good and Evil'' (1886): "He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."[[labelnote:German original]]„Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.“[[/labelnote]]
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* The [[https://1drv.ms/u/s!AuD0MykSsmaRhxvLctqMzqvnEAvO?e=hCW0BV very latest revision]] of the game features a mournful bird song on the penultimate level, "Where Giants Have Fallen." [[spoiler:The song continues as all the enemies die off, so the only sounds left on the level by the end are howling wind and the bird's "poo-tee-weet?", which is an intentional reference to the final words of Creator/KurtVonnegut's ''Literature/SlaughterhouseFive'' (confirmed by looking at the writing on the map in an editor). Parallels can also be drawn between the game's depiction of the Jjaro and ''Slaughterhouse-Five''[='=]s depiction of the Tralfamadorians (though it's not clear if the similarity was originally intentional or simply something the developers noticed later, but in any case, the words "So it goes" are also found on the map writing); both works are subtly condemning fatalism.]]
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* The [[https://1drv.ms/u/s!AuD0MykSsmaRhxvLctqMzqvnEAvO?e=hCW0BV very latest revision]] As of the game features a mournful bird song on version 1.2.1, the penultimate level, "Where Giants Have Fallen." Fallen", features a mournful bird song. [[spoiler:The song continues as all the enemies die off, so the only sounds left on the level by the end are howling wind and the bird's "poo-tee-weet?", which is an intentional reference to the final words of Creator/KurtVonnegut's ''Literature/SlaughterhouseFive'' (confirmed by looking at the writing on the map in an editor). Parallels can also be drawn between the game's depiction of the Jjaro and ''Slaughterhouse-Five''[='=]s depiction of the Tralfamadorians (though it's not clear if the similarity was originally intentional or simply something the developers noticed later, but in any case, the words "So it goes" are also found on the map writing); both works are subtly condemning fatalism.]]
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* The start of ''Eternal'' has Marcus and Hathor departing K'lia exactly 111 years after the start of ''Marathon''. This was probably always intended as a reference to Bilbo Baggins' 111st birthday party at the start of ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', but in any case, Hathor [[https://youtu.be/C5R5VCKIE6M?t=211 says "eleventy-one" in her introductory terminal]] in version 1.3, which makes the shout-out even clearer.
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* The start of ''Eternal'' has Marcus and Hathor departing K'lia exactly 111 years after the start of ''Marathon''. This was probably always intended as a reference to Bilbo Baggins' 111st birthday party at the start of ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', Creator/JRRTolkien's ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' (1954-1955), but in any case, Hathor [[https://youtu.be/C5R5VCKIE6M?t=211 says "eleventy-one" in her introductory terminal]] in version 1.3, which makes the shout-out even clearer.
