History ShoutOut / SkulduggeryPleasant

* Another in The Maleficent Seven, Saracen Rue {{http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Comicbook/X-Factor knows stuff}}.

* Another in The Maleficent Seven, Saracen Rue [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Comicbook/X-Factor knows stuff]]

* "I watch things now. Shows. {{Gilmore Girls}}. Have you seen it? I watch the reruns on television. They talk so fast on that show. I've never known anyone to talk so fast, except on {{The West Wing}}. {{The Wire}}. I've watched that as well. Harrowing stuff, but I watched it. And {{Main/Buffy The Vampire Slayer}}. Now there was a show. {{Firefly}}, too. Cancelled before its time, that one."

* Tesseract might just be a ShoutOut to [[{{Batman}} Bane.]]

* "I watch things now. Shows. {{Gilmore Girls}}. Have you seen it? I watch the reruns on television. They talk so fast on that show. I've never known anyone to talk so fast, except on {{The West Wing}}. {{The Wire}}. I've watched that as well. Harrowing stuff, but I watched it. And {{Main/BuffyTheVampireSlayer}} Now there was a show. {{Firefly}}, too. Cancelled before its time, that one."

* Possibly to TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy with the tagline of book three- 'Do Panic' on the cover.

* [[{{Alien}} "Help, Sigourney Weaver! Help!"]]
* "Like [[SamuelLJackson Jules]], in PulpFiction?"

* To {{Watchmen}} in the second book.

* "We're not [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]] and {{Angel}}, OK? We're not RomeoAndJuliet. We're not those guys in ''Theatre/WestSideStory''. We're not even [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Edward and Bella]]."

* Ghastly giving relationship advice to [[spoiler: Fletcher]] in the chapter 'The Wisdom of [[Music/LeonardCohen]]'. He quotes 'I'm Your Man', saying it's something a friend of his once said.

* Ghastly giving relationship advice to [[spoiler: Fletcher]] in the chapter 'The Wisdom of [[LeonardCohen]]'. He quotes 'I'm Your Man', saying it's something a friend of his once said.

* "We're not [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]] and {{Angel}}, OK? We're not RomeoAndJuliet. We're not those guys in WestSideStory. We're not even [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Edward and Bella]]."

* [[spoiler: Beryl]] is apparently a [[StarTrek Trekkie.]]

* It was... [[MontyPythonsFlyingCircus an ex- rabbit.]]

* In book 6, when Carol and Crystal ask Valkyrie to teach them some "tricks", she tells them they're not called tricks, and the twins correct themselves to saying [[ArrestedDevelopment "illusions"]] instead.

* One of the characters is named [[GauntsGhosts Tanith]].

* [[spoiler: Darquesse]] mentions flying like {{Superman}}.

** To {{Watchmen}} in the second book.
** Possibly to TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy with the tagline of book three- 'Do Panic' on the cover.
** The CthulhuMythos are discussed several times.
** To TheBlairWitchProject in book four.
** [[ShoutOutToShakespeare To Hamlet]] on the Book Four cover.
** Part of a chapter towards the end of the fifth book seems to be lifted straight out of a certain swordfight scene from ''Film/ThePrincessBride''.
** There is a moment in the fifth book which references the "spanish inquisition" sketch from Monty Python.
** It was... [[MontyPythonsFlyingCircus an ex- rabbit.]]
** One of the words used to [[spoiler: open the Crucible]] was "[[LordOfTheRings Mellon]]".
** Look out for the Empire Strikes Back reference in Book Five: "Not a scratch, Ghastly"
** One of the characters is named [[GauntsGhosts Tanith]].
** There's a PosthumousCharacter named Trope in the third book. [[OneOfUs Coincidence? I think not.]]
** Valkyrie is worried about [[TheIncredibleHulk "hulking out"]] in book six.
** [[{{Alien}} "Help, Sigourney Weaver! Help!"]]
** "Like [[SamuelLJackson Jules]], in PulpFiction?"
** "We're not [[{{BuffyTheVampireSlayer}} Buffy]] and {{Angel}}, OK? We're not RomeoAndJuliet. We're not those guys in WestSideStory. We're not even [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Edward and Bella]]."
** In book 6, when Carol and Crystal ask Valkyrie to teach them some "tricks", she tells them they're not called tricks, and the twins correct themselves to saying [[ArrestedDevelopment "illusions"]] instead.
** [[spoiler: Darquesse]] mentions flying like {{Superman}}.

** What, nobody noticed that one of the characters is named [[GauntsGhosts Tanith]]?

* ShoutOut: It bears mentioning Derek Landy is a self-professed comic reader, gamer, movie geek, etc. Which is probably why there are so many of these.