History ShoutOut / TurnCoat

* At one point, our put-upon wizard refers to himself as "your [[Franchise/SpiderMan friendly neighborhood]] Harry Dresden".

* Harry tells Georgia to "[[Franchise/{{Batman}} send up the wolf-signal]]" when he arrives at her place.

* Harry points out that the {{Fairy Tale}}s of the brothers Grimm nearly always take place in a forest, because forests can be scary places. Aside from the mostly-open oak woods where RobinHood movies and Creator/{{Shakespeare}} adaptations are filmed, that is.

** When the Wardens cut loose against Binder's gray men, the flashes of fire-magic make it look like a ''Franchise/StarWars'' battle scene.

* Harry points out that the FairyTales of the brothers Grimm nearly always take place in a forest, because forests can be scary places. Aside from the mostly-open oak woods where RobinHood movies and Creator/{{Shakespeare}} adaptations are filmed, that is.

* The fae spiders Harry encounters in the Nevernever have disturbingly human-like mouths tucked between their venomous fangs. This is something they have in common with the Gray Widows from ''Film/TheMist'', which have human-like ''teeth'' between theirs.

* A huge crowd of WoodlandCreatures gathers in silence when Harry confronts the island's ''genius loci'', and Harry has to fight down the thought of what it would feel like to be killed by a ZergRush of wildlife. Shades of ''Literature/WyrdSisters'', there...

* A huge crowd of WoodlandCreatures gathers in silence when Harry confronts the island's ''genius loci'', and Harry has to fight down the thought of what it would feel like to be killed by a ZergRush of wildlife. Shades of ''Discworld/WyrdSisters'', there...

* At one point, our put-upon wizard refers to himself as "your [[SpiderMan friendly neighborhood]] Harry Dresden".

* Cell phones are compared to the RedShirt extras from the original ''Series/StarTrek'': soon as any (magical) action kicks off, so do they.

-->''[[TabletopGame/{{Clue}} Colonel Mustard, in the den, with the lead pipe]].''

* Murphy explains that bureaucracy is on Harry's side, although Harry would rather have ''Series/TheATeam''.
* Having Morgan explain how powerful the skinwalker is, Harry's impressed enough to say "[[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Jinkies]]''.

** When the Wardens cut loose against Binder's gray men, the flashes of fire-magic make it look like a ''StarWars'' battle scene.

* Molly asks permission to come aboard the ''Water Beetle'', because it's what they do on ''Franchise/StarTrek''.
** Harry teaches Molly the basics of piloting the vessel, although he's hardly ''Literature/HoratioHornblower'' himself.

* Madeline quotes ''{{Hamlet}}'' when she's about to kill Harry. Possibly also a CallBack to when Lord Raith made the same "flights of angels sing you to your rest" reference in ''Blood Rites'' when he was about to kill Thomas, (especially since both Raith and Madeline end up [[spoiler: being raped to psychic slavery/death by Lara]]), or maybe it's just a family habit.

* Ebenezar's taste in books ranges from Creator/StephenKing, Creator/RobertHeinlein and Creator/TomClancy on one hand to UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar, D.H. Lawrence, Creator/StephenHawking and Creator/FriedrichNietzsche on the other.

** Harry teaches Molly the basics of piloting the vessel, although he's hardly HoratioHornblower himself.

* Ebenezar's taste in books ranges from Creator/StephenKing, Creator/RobertHeinlein and Creator/TomClancy on one hand to UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar, D.H. Lawrence, UsefulNotes/StephenHawking and Creator/FriedrichNietzsche on the other.

* The Sight can show you things that [[CthulhuMythos the Black-Goat-with-a-Thousand-Young]] wouldn't dare tell its kids for bedtime stories.

* "WileECoyote, Suuuuuuper Genius."

* Ebenezar's taste in books ranges from Creator/StephenKing, Creator/RobertHeinlein and Creator/TomClancy on one hand to JuliusCaesar, D.H. Lawrence, StephenHawking and Creator/FriedrichNietzsche on the other.

* Delivering TheSummation at Morgan's trial, Harry quips that he feels just like HerculePoirot.

* Examining his latest collection of battle-scars, Harry quips that he'll look like [[HarrisonFord Herr Harrison von Ford]].

* Realizing Mouse was only ''acting'' injured, Harry marvels that maybe he should have named the Foo dog [[DenzelWashington Denzel]].

* When Harry is describing his leather duster, he says it's waterproof, bulletproof, and it ''breathes''. He compares it to modern armor technology, quipping [[ArthurCClarke "Sufficiently advanced technology, my ass."]]

* Harry tells Injun Joe that he wants to die by being "stepped on by an elephant while having sex with identical triplet cheerleaders", which is a reference to ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfAmber''. Corwin also wants to die by being stepped on by an elephant while having sex. [note]Just to clarify, "stepped on by an elephant" is a dated euphemism for having a heart attack.[/note]