History ShoutOut / MarathonExpandedUniverse

[[folder:''Tempus Irae'' Levels]]

** "Planet Caravan": Third song on Music/BlackSabbath's ''Music/{{Paranoid}}'' (1970).

** “Everything hath proceeded according to my plans” is confirmed by author to be a mash-up of well-known phrases from ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''’s Emperor Palpatine (“Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen”) and ''Manga/DeathNote''’s Kira (“Just as planned”).

* "Floating in the Void" contains several [[ShoutOutToShakespeare shout-outs to Shakespeare]] - most specifically to Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'s most famous soliloquy. "To sleep, perchance to dream" has already been used as a level title; it opens Durandal-Thoth's terminal on this level as well. There's one specific reference to "the literary mind of the Old Bard". "Those who know what dreams do come within that sleep of death" paraphrases the line "for in that sleep of death, what dreams may come." "Thus conscience makes cowards of us all" is a close paraphrase of "Thus conscience does make cowards of us all."

** It quotes ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}''’s [[spoiler:Ozymandias]] almost verbatim, down to “thirty-five minutes ago” (the FormerTropeNamer for YouAreTooLate, incidentally):

* 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 alludes to HeWhoFightsMonsters when she writes of [[spoiler:the Jjaro's conflict with the W'rkncacnter]], "the abyss has gazed into them; they have become mirrors of their foes." This phrase originates from ''Beyond Good and Evil''[='=]s Aphorism 146 (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]] This is, incidentally, a further example of enantiodromia in ''Eternal''[='=]s plot (see the level name discussion above); Heraclitus was a clear influence on Nietzsche, whose ''Human, All Too Human'' Aphorisms 1-3 and ''Beyond Good and Evil'' Aphorism 2 discuss enantiodromia.
* 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 Expanded Universe}} for further info on the translation and Latin obscenity more broadly.

** "Terra est inánis et vacua" (Latin translation thereof used as a subtitle of this level starting in 1.3) - slight paraphrase of the Vulgate Literature/BookOfGenesis 1:2; however, the game's codirector and Latin translator confirms in a [[https://youtu.be/q9-6sgYVAUY YouTube video description]] that it's meant as a ShoutOut to Music/GodspeedYouBlackEmperor's ''Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada'' (which contains the same verse's Hebrew original on its cover) and "not [...] to express any religious belief (or lack thereof)".

** "Terra est inánis et vacua" (Latin translation thereof used as a subtitle of this level starting in 1.3) - slight paraphrase of the Vulgate Literature/BookOfGenesis 1:2 (and likely also to Music/GodspeedYouBlackEmperor's ''Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada'', which contains the same verse's Hebrew original; the codirector is a vocal fan of the band)

** The codirector confirms in a [[https://youtu.be/q9-6sgYVAUY YouTube video description]] that the title is primarily intended as a reference to Heraclitus, with intended "secondary references" to Creator/FriedrichNietzsche (who discusses the idea in ''Human, All Too Human'' and ''Beyond Good and Evil'' - see "Other ''Eternal'' Shout-outs" below for further Nietzsche references) and to Music/DeathspellOmega, whose ''The Long Defeat'' (which is full of references to Heraclitus) opens with a song entitled "Enantiodromia" (the codirector's Website/YouTube channel, though it mostly focuses on ''Marathon'' gameplay, also features a remastered version of Deathspell's ''Fas - ite, maledicti, in ignem aeternum'' - which, as a warning to the uninitiated, is a ''very, very intense'' BlackMetal album; said remaster is [[https://youtu.be/Jt5V6UdnBFw here]]). However, the primary ShoutOut here is Heraclitus.

* "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. (This level was known as "Babylon VII" in ''Eternal''[='=] original Mark releases.)

** Given its codirector's music taste, this title may additionally have been inspired by Music/DeathspellOmega's identically titled song, is itself a reference to Heraclitus; the codirector's Website/YouTube channel, despite mostly focusing on ''Marathon'' gameplay, also features a remastered version of Deathspell's ''Fas - ite, maledicti, in ignem aeternum'' (which, as a warning to the uninitiated, is a ''very, very intense'' BlackMetal album; said remaster is [[https://youtu.be/Jt5V6UdnBFw here]]). However, since Heraclitus' concept is so central to ''Eternal'', the level name is likely meant to refer to him first and foremost.

* 1.3 has numerous shout-outs written in GratuitousLatin on several of the maps - so that they've gotten their own folder under GratuitousLatin.MarathonExpandedUniverse. The recipients of the shout-outs are spoiler tagged, in case anyone with a bit of Latin knowledge wants to figure them out for themselves. The shout-outs are most often to ProgressiveRock and ProgressiveMetal bands, but numerous other genres are represented as well, from [[spoiler:Music/JeffersonAirplane to Music/LizPhair to Dishwalla to Music/NineInchNails to Music/ThePolice]], and the lyric excerpts sometimes (though not always) have something to do with elements of the level, story, characters, or level title; occasionally they also constitute a StealthPun. The artist to receive the most of these is [[spoiler:Music/{{Tool}}]], with map writing on three different levels excerpting their lyrics. The codirector posted a [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/691755375329804318/915890641156857894/unknown.png screenshot of "Remedial Chaos Theory"]] that shows an example of this in a [[https://youtu.be/CAfdb_EwhTY YouTube video description]]. In this case, the map writing doubles as a reference to the level's [[Recap/CommunityS3E04RemedialChaosTheory namesake]], a ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode.

* Every level set on the Pfhor planet in chapter two uses a purple fog - or, put another way, [[Music/AreYouExperienced a purple haze]]. The ShoutOut to Music/JimiHendrix is confirmed to be deliberate on the part of the creators. 1.3 also adds [[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) as well; the ShoutOut to Music/{{Prince}} is again confirmed to be deliberate.

* In 1.3, one terminal in "Deep Into the Grotto" contains an excerpt from "Historia populí dé potestáte super armís", written InUniverse by a [[spoiler:Jjaro]] historian named Naomi Zinn. Given that the Latin translates as "A People's History of Arms Control", we can logically infer that this is a ShoutOut to ''A People's History of the United States'' by Howard Zinn. It is quite likely that Naomi's given name is also a ShoutOut to Zinn's close friend, the linguist and political philosopher Noam Chomsky, since ''Naomi'' (נָעֳמִי‎, ''no'omí'', literally ''my pleasantness'') and ''Noam'' (נועם or נֹעַם, ''nó'am'', literally ''pleasantness'') have the same root.

** 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]]

* 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?" - an intentional reference to the final phrase of Creator/KurtVonnegut's ''Literature/SlaughterhouseFive'' (confirmed by looking at the map in an editor; "Poo-tee-weet?" is scrawled on it, as is "so it goes", another reference to the novel). Parallels can also be drawn between the game's depiction of the Jjaro and ''Slaughterhouse-Five''[='=]s depiction of the Tralfamadorians; both works are subtly condemning fatalism. Like the parallels to Creator/MichaelMoorcock's writings, this apparently wasn't planned in the original story drafts; the developers just noticed it later and ran with it.]]

* "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".)

* "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", which is the same line in [[GratuitousLatin/MarathonExpandedUniverse Latin]], probably for the RuleOfFunny of rendering such an infamously stupid line in a language commonly used to sound smart

** 1.3 looks set to change this title to "Teneó affectum malum dé hóc" (the same thing in Latin), again probably for RuleOfFunny

** 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)

* 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.

* 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 Expanded Universe}} for more.

* There are numerous shout-outs written in GratuitousLatin on several of the levels in 1.3 - so many of them that they've gotten their own folder under GratuitousLatin.MarathonExpandedUniverse. The recipients of the shout-outs are spoiler tagged, in case anyone that knows a bit of Latin wants to figure them out for themselves. The shout-outs are most often to ProgressiveRock and ProgressiveMetal bands, but numerous other genres are represented as well, from [[spoiler:Music/JeffersonAirplane to Music/LizPhair to Dishwalla to Music/NineInchNails to Music/ThePolice]], and the lyric excerpts sometimes (though not always) have something to do with elements of the level, story, characters, or level title; occasionally they also constitute a StealthPun. The artist to receive the most of these is [[spoiler:Music/{{Tool}}]], with map writing on three different levels excerpting their lyrics.

* "Enantiodromia" (title introduced in April 2022, replacing "Hysterical Womb") - major concept of the Greek philosopher Heraclitus; as explained under GratuitousGreek on the main page, this has been one of ''Eternal''[='=]s main themes since its first release, and it's also central to a plot arc that begins on this exact level. (Given its codirector's music taste, this title may also have been inspired by Music/DeathspellOmega's identically titled song, which is itself a reference to Heraclitus; the codirector's Website/YouTube channel, despite mostly focusing on ''Marathon'' gameplay, also features a remastered version of Deathspell's ''Fas - ite, maledicti, in ignem aeternum'' [which, as a warning to the uninitiated, is a ''very, very intense'' BlackMetal album; said remaster is [[https://youtu.be/Jt5V6UdnBFw here]]]. However, Heraclitus seems to be the main source of this level's name.)

* "Enantiodromia" (title introduced in April 2022, replacing "Hysterical Womb") - major concept of the Greek philosopher Heraclitus; as explained under GratuitousGreek on the main page, this has been one of ''Eternal''[='=]s main themes since its first release, and it's also central to a plot arc that begins on this exact level. (Given its codirector's music taste, this title may also have been inspired by Music/DeathspellOmega's identically titled song, which is itself a reference to Heraclitus; the codirector's Website/YouTube channel, despite mostly focusing on ''Marathon'' gameplay, also features a [[https://youtu.be/Jt5V6UdnBFw remastered version]] of Deathspell's ''Fas - ite, maledicti, in ignem aeternum''. However, Heraclitus seems to be the main source of this level's name.)

** "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)

* One terminal in "Deep Into the Grotto" contains an excerpt from "Historia populí dé potestáte super armís", written InUniverse by a [[spoiler:Jjaro]] historian named Naomi Zinn. Given that the Latin translates as "A People's History of Arms Control", we can logically infer that this is a ShoutOut to ''A People's History of the United States'' by Howard Zinn. It is quite likely that Naomi's given name is also meant as a dual ShoutOut to Zinn's close friend, the linguist and political philosopher Noam Chomsky; ''Naomi'' (נָעֳמִי‎, ''no'omí'', literally ''my pleasantness'') and ''Noam'' (נועם or נֹעַם, ''nó'am'', literally ''pleasantness'') have the same root.

** 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/MarathonExpandedUniverse Latin]], probably for the RuleOfFunny of rendering such an infamously stupid line in a language commonly used to sound smart

* "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).

* 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.]]

* There are numerous shoutouts in written GratuitousLatin on several of the levels in 1.3 - so many of them that they've gotten their own folder under GratuitousLatin.MarathonExpandedUniverse. The recipients of the shoutouts are spoiler tagged, in case anyone that knows a bit of Latin wants to figure out the references for themselves. The shoutouts are most commonly to ProgressiveRock and ProgressiveMetal bands, although numerous other genres are represented as well, from [[spoiler:Music/JeffersonAirplane to Music/LizPhair to Dishwalla to Music/NineInchNails to Music/ThePolice]], and the lyric excerpts sometimes (though not always) have something to do with elements of the level, story, characters, or level title; occasionally they also constitute a StealthPun. The artist to receive the most of these is [[spoiler:Music/{{Tool}}]], with map writing on three different levels excerpting their lyrics.

* 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.

* 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).

The ''VideoGame/MarathonExpandedUniverse'' - the {{Game Mod}}s for Creator/{{Bungie}}'s VideoGame/{{Marathon}} - has taken a cue from its source material by including a ton of [[ShoutOut Shout-Outs]], especially in level names.

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The ''VideoGame/MarathonExpandedUniverse'' - the {{Game Mods}} for Creator/{{Bungie}}'s VideoGame/{{Marathon}} - has taken a cue from its source material by including a ton of [[ShoutOut Shout-Outs]], especially in level names.

** 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

* 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.

* 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.

* 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."