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* OurAngelsAreDifferent
* OurBansheesAreLouder
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Evil spirit creatures, collectively called fiends, are grouped into several different categories depending on [[CharacterAlignment alignment]] and/or plane of origin. Each aligned plane has a race of "true" fiends as well as at least one secondary race of lesser fiends.
** [[invoked]] Hell, the LawfulEvil plane, is ruled by the devils. It is also inhabited by the asuras. A third LawfulEvil race of fiends, the kytons, lives on the Plane of Shadow but has embassies in Hell.
*** Devils are formed from the souls of evildoers, who are slowly and carefully tortured over eons until nothing remains except pain, obedience, and hate, at which point they become of the least of devils. Asuras are the twisted result of gods making mistakes. Kytons are mad, twisted beings obsessed with pain, who create more of themselves by torturing people until [[Film/{{Hellraiser}} they can't tell the difference between pain and pleasure]].
** [[invoked]] Abaddon, the NeutralEvil plane, is ruled by the daemons. It is also the home of the divs.
*** Daemons want to kill everything, everywhere--they came into existence from different types of deaths mortals can experience, and want to destroy every soul in existence. Divs ALSO want to destroy everyone--but more, they want to destroy everything, returning everything to oblivion in service of their lord Ahriman.
** [[invoked]] The Abyss, the ChaoticEvil plane, is ruled by the demons. The qlippoth and demodands also dwell there.
*** Demons are born from the sins of evil souls--and a single soul can spawn hundreds or thousands of them. Qlippoth existed before everything, were evil before evil existed, and have a loathing hatred for the souls of mortals, which created the demons that now outnumber them. Demodands are the flawed creations of the thanatotic titans, who were sealed in the Abyss after a failed attempt to defeat the gods; the titans tried to create their own life to surpass the gods, but only wound up with misshapen, but powerful, monsters.
** Finally, Golarion itself is home to two minor races of fiends: the rakshasas and the oni.
*** Rakshasas are eternally reincarnating fiends with bestial aspects and bodies with one aspect reversed, which establish twisted caste systems. Oni are evil spirits whose burning hatred of humanoids causes them to incarnate as monstrously powerful examples of various races.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: In addition to the classic D&D evil chromatics and good metallics, there are the elemental primordial dragons, the savage linnorms, the twisted azi, and a whole bunch of draconic critters. There are also the Imperial Dragons, based on Asian mythology. There are also the much weaker, lesser drakes, which can largely be summed up as want-to-be-dragons.
* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: They originated underground, tunneled their way to the surface during the Age of Darkness, and pulled humanity out of the dark ages. Otherwise pretty standard. 
* OurElvesAreBetter: They have MonochromaticEyes, and their primary goddess is one of lust, trickery, and revenge. Otherwise also pretty standard. They bailed on the planet during the Age of Darkness, only returning en masse within the past few millennia when a demon took over part of their ancestral homeland. Their "ruling class" apparently lives off-world through special [[PortalNetwork "Elfgates"]] of which few truly still function, and the species as a whole originates from this otherworldly homeland. Also, they're Aliens, hailing from an isolated continent on the lush jungle covered planet of Castrovel.
** Those elves who are raised outside "proper" elven society are called Forlorn, "maladjusted" souls who live their lives as hard as humans and tend to be more somber than most of their kin on account of always outliving their friends.
** Elves who fall too far into wickedness [[spoiler: become drow.]]
* OurGargoylesRock: They barely need to eat or sleep, and honestly only kill things (slowly and tortuously) because it's fun. They're also almost literally made out of rock, will last as long as a statue will (although they usually end up killing one another before that), and occasionally come in gemstones. [[DoctorWho Oh, and some of them are Weeping Angels]].
* OurGhoulsAreCreepier: If they can curb their appetite they look like [[EvilAlbino chalk-white, hairless, red-eyed elves]], perfectly "fresh" and even beautiful at times. But if they indulge their hunger for flesh, [[BodyHorror they putrefy and start rotting away as new meat replaces the old...]]
* OurGnomesAreWeirder: Gnomes are fey creatures exiled from the First World in the wake of a disaster of uncertain nature; they can't quite adjust to Golarion, and spend a lot of time obsessing over minutiae and seeking out new experiences in order to avoid going mad(der) [[spoiler: or going through a lethal process called Bleaching, which slowly reduces them to a pile of dust and bones]]. It's darkly hinted by the developers that the story of the disaster may be a fabrication, and gnomes are really humanoid interface devices through which vastly more powerful beings can study the material world.
* OurGodsAreGreater: Unlike some other ''D&D'' settings, most gods of Golarion have no stat blocks and are explicitly immune to mortal adventurers.
** To drive the point home, there have been a few examples in the fiction where a mortal being has ''defeated'' a god or god-like being, but was unable to truly end them, just remove them as a threat for the present. Ydersius, the god of the Serpent Folk literally had his head cut off and thrown in lava, and it didn't actually ''kill'' him, instead rendering his body mindless and wandering the Darklands and leaving his head....well, entombed in a pit of lava.
** OurTitansAreDifferent: The Titans tried to wage war upon the gods. Some, the ChaoticGood Elysian Titans, turned upon their kin and assisted in their defeat. The ChaoticEvil Thanatotic Titans were imprisoned in the deep layers of the Abyss, where they created the flawed demodands as servants. Both are hideously powerful, and described as very near divine.

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** OurAngelsAreDifferent: They're the only kind of outsider that spans multiple alignments. Besides them, there are the [[LawfulGood archons]], [[NeutralGood agathions]], and [[ChaoticGood azatas]] that dwell in Heaven, Nirvana and Elysium respectively.
** OurBansheesAreLouder
** OurDemonsAreDifferent: Evil spirit creatures, collectively called fiends, are grouped into several different categories depending on [[CharacterAlignment alignment]] and/or plane of origin. Each aligned plane has a race of "true" fiends as well as at least one secondary race of lesser fiends.
*** [[invoked]] Hell, the LawfulEvil plane, is ruled by the devils. It is also inhabited by the asuras. A third LawfulEvil race of fiends, the kytons, lives on the Plane of Shadow but has embassies in Hell.
**** Devils are formed from the souls of evildoers, who are slowly and carefully tortured over eons until nothing remains except pain, obedience, and hate, at which point they become of the least of devils. Asuras are the twisted result of gods making mistakes. Kytons are mad, twisted beings obsessed with pain, who create more of themselves by torturing people until [[Film/{{Hellraiser}} they can't tell the difference between pain and pleasure]].
*** [[invoked]] Abaddon, the NeutralEvil plane, is ruled by the daemons. It is also the home of the divs.
**** Daemons want to kill everything, everywhere--they came into existence from different types of deaths mortals can experience, and want to destroy every soul in existence. Divs ALSO want to destroy everyone--but more, they want to destroy everything, returning everything to oblivion in service of their lord Ahriman.
*** [[invoked]] The Abyss, the ChaoticEvil plane, is ruled by the demons. The qlippoth and demodands also dwell there.
**** Demons are born from the sins of evil souls--and a single soul can spawn hundreds or thousands of them. Qlippoth existed before everything, were evil before evil existed, and have a loathing hatred for the souls of mortals, which created the demons that now outnumber them. Demodands are the flawed creations of the thanatotic titans, who were sealed in the Abyss after a failed attempt to defeat the gods; the titans tried to create their own life to surpass the gods, but only wound up with misshapen, but powerful, monsters.
*** Finally, Golarion itself is home to two minor races of fiends: the rakshasas and the oni.
**** Rakshasas are eternally reincarnating fiends with bestial aspects and bodies with one aspect reversed, which establish twisted caste systems. Oni are evil spirits whose burning hatred of humanoids causes them to incarnate as monstrously powerful examples of various races.
** OurDragonsAreDifferent: In addition to the classic D&D evil chromatics and good metallics, there are the elemental primordial dragons, the savage linnorms, the twisted azi, and a whole bunch of draconic critters. There are also the Imperial Dragons, based on Asian mythology. There are also the much weaker, lesser drakes, which can largely be summed up as want-to-be-dragons.
** OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: They originated underground, tunneled their way to the surface during the Age of Darkness, and pulled humanity out of the dark ages. Otherwise pretty standard. 
** OurElvesAreBetter: They have MonochromaticEyes, and their primary goddess is one of lust, trickery, and revenge. Otherwise also pretty standard. They bailed on the planet during the Age of Darkness, only returning en masse within the past few millennia when a demon took over part of their ancestral homeland. Their "ruling class" apparently lives off-world through special [[PortalNetwork "Elfgates"]] of which few truly still function, and the species as a whole originates from this otherworldly homeland. Also, they're Aliens, hailing from an isolated continent on the lush jungle covered planet of Castrovel.
*** Those elves who are raised outside "proper" elven society are called Forlorn, "maladjusted" souls who live their lives as hard as humans and tend to be more somber than most of their kin on account of always outliving their friends.
*** Elves who fall too far into wickedness [[spoiler: become drow.]]
** OurGargoylesRock: They barely need to eat or sleep, and honestly only kill things (slowly and tortuously) because it's fun. They're also almost literally made out of rock, will last as long as a statue will (although they usually end up killing one another before that), and occasionally come in gemstones. [[DoctorWho Oh, and some of them are Weeping Angels]].
** OurGhoulsAreCreepier: If they can curb their appetite they look like [[EvilAlbino chalk-white, hairless, red-eyed elves]], perfectly "fresh" and even beautiful at times. But if they indulge their hunger for flesh, [[BodyHorror they putrefy and start rotting away as new meat replaces the old...]]
** OurGnomesAreWeirder: Gnomes are fey creatures exiled from the First World in the wake of a disaster of uncertain nature; they can't quite adjust to Golarion, and spend a lot of time obsessing over minutiae and seeking out new experiences in order to avoid going mad(der) [[spoiler: or going through a lethal process called Bleaching, which slowly reduces them to a pile of dust and bones]]. It's darkly hinted by the developers that the story of the disaster may be a fabrication, and gnomes are really humanoid interface devices through which vastly more powerful beings can study the material world.
** OurGodsAreGreater: Unlike some other ''D&D'' settings, most gods of Golarion have no stat blocks and are explicitly immune to mortal adventurers.
*** To drive the point home, there have been a few examples in the fiction where a mortal being has ''defeated'' a god or god-like being, but was unable to truly end them, just remove them as a threat for the present. Ydersius, the god of the Serpent Folk literally had his head cut off and thrown in lava, and it didn't actually ''kill'' him, instead rendering his body mindless and wandering the Darklands and leaving his head....well, entombed in a pit of lava.
** OurTitansAreDifferent: The Titans tried to wage war upon the gods. Some, the ChaoticGood Elysian Titans, turned upon their kin and assisted in their defeat. The ChaoticEvil Thanatotic Titans were imprisoned in the deep layers of the Abyss, where they created the flawed demodands as servants. Both are hideously powerful, and described as very near divine.

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* ShoutOut: Lord Gyr of Gixx, continuing a fine D&D tradition of characters with names that sound a bit like GaryGygax.
** The illustration for the Cacodaemon, and even the name for the flying toothy maw of an orb outsider is one for ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}''.
** [[PennyArcade Deep crows]] dwell in the dark places within the earth.
** One adventure, ''[[Film/EscapeFromNewYork Escape from Old Korvosa]]'', has a crate used to ship a [[{{Braindead}} rat-monkey from S. Island.]]
** A.E. van Vogt's estate loaned Paizo limited use of the coeurl (AKA the "original tentacle kitty", which inspired ''D&D'''s displacer beast).
** ''Skeletons of Scarwall'''s introduction starts with [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaIISimonsQuest "What A Horrible Night To Have A Curse."]]
** ''Children of the Void'' introduces two types of alien monsters, the parasitic akatas and the plantlike moonflowers. The former are inspired by the Xenomorphs from the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' movies, while the moonflowers take their inspiration from ''Literature/TheDayOfTheTriffids'' and ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors''.
** The cover of Seeker of Secrets features an adventurer engaging in the industry-wide gag of pulling ruby eyes out of grinning idols as a tribute to one of the first DungeonsAndDragons covers.
** The campaign setting timeline mentions that a large forest was trampled by "[[Film/{{Ghostbusters}} the Slor]]".
** ''Classic Horrors Revisited'' tells us that gargoyles' appearance adapts to their environment over time. One particular tribe has been living in a graveyard so long that they look like angel statues, and they've picked up a curse that [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E10Blink causes them to freeze into immobility when anyone looks at them]]. Just don't bli—
** The monster designs in ''Bestiary II'' are loaded with shout-outs. Obvious examples are the Arbiter (a legless [[{{Planescape}} Modron]]), Cacodaemon (a miniature of the VideoGame/{{Doom}} version), and Soulbound Doll (the Zuni fetish from ''TrilogyOfTerror'' and the Maidens from ''RozenMaiden'').
** One of the monsters in the first book of the ''Carrion Crown'' Adventure Path is a disembodied floating head, the most powerful of which is [[VideoGame/{{Castlevania}} a flying medusa head, which can temporarily petrify those it bites]]. It even has Flyby Attack as a bonus feat.
*** To drive the point home, the beginning of the article features a picture of [[MagicKnight Seltyiel]] fighting a group of medusa heads...in a ClockTower.
** The basic alchemist class is inspired by ''Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde''. The vivisectionist archetype of the class is very clearly inspired by on ''Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau'', while the reanimator archetype is based on ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'' and the story of the same name by Creator/HPLovecraft.
** Speaking of ol' [=HPL=], Paizo's gone beyond the subtlety of the ShoutOut and directly printed in ''several'' of their materials just how wicked sweet and totally awesome the CthulhuMythos is, and by the way you should check out Chaosium's ''Call of Cthulhu'' game. The most explicit examples include:
*** The adventures ''Carrion Hill'' and ''Wake of the Watcher'', inspired primarily by "The Dunwich Horror" and "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" respectively.
*** ''Wake of the Watcher'' also features a full article on the Great Old Ones, including rules for worshiping them, and stats for the Color Out of Space, Elder Things, Mi-Go, and Spawn of Shub-Niggurath. As both a capstone reference and campaign-ending encounter, ''Wake of the Watcher'' includes stats for a Star-Spawn of Cthulhu.
*** The first ''Bestiary'' features the Denizens of Leng and Shoggoths, as well as Ghouls and Ghasts (which existed in ''D&D'' since the beginning but have been modeled after Lovecraft's versions for ''Pathfinder''). Likewise, the Skum is a preexisting ''D&D'' monster that's been retrofitted into a stand-in for Lovecraft's Deep Ones (as well as ''D&D'''s Kuo-Toa, which are not open source).
*** ''Bestiary 2'' features Gugs, the Spiders of Leng, the Hounds of Tindalos, Serpentfolk, and the Worm That Walks.
*** ''Bestiary 3'' features the Great Race of Yith, Vooniths, and Zoogs.
*** ''Faiths of Corruption'' includes cults of the Great Old Ones.
*** ''The Great Beyond'' includes blurbs on Lovecraft's Dreamlands (here called the Dimension of Dream) and Plateau of Leng as places dimension-traveling [=PCs=] can visit. The city of Unknown Kadath has been mentioned in Paizo products once or twice.
*** ''Into the Nightmare Rift'' includes a gazetteer of Leng and stats for some of Lovecraft's more fantasy-oriented creatures, such as the Nightgaunt.
** The sourcebook for Andoran mentions some of its smaller but notable communities, including the towns of [[GunslingerGirl Claes and Triela]].
** The Ultimate Combat sourcebook features a character archetype for Fighters: The Dragoon. [[FinalFantasy A spear specialist who eventually gets a leaping attack]].
** Two of the peaks in the Five Kings Mountains are named Mounts [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Langley and Soryu]].
** The sourcebook ''Princes of Darkness'', focusing on using devils in a campaign, features a magic item called a ''bilious talisman'', which strongly resembles the Behelit from ''{{Berserk}}''.
** One reference liable to go over the heads of modern gamers - the Holy Gun archetype in ''Ultimate Combat'' gains firearm-using feats from a class feature called [[HaveGunWillTravel Have Gun]]. If you couldn't guess, this is for a variant paladin.
** The Kellid and Shoanti human ethnicities are strongly inspired by the Cimmerians and Picts, respectively, from Creator/RobertEHoward's mythos. (The Shoanti have a little [[BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins Native American]] thrown in... but then, so did Howard's Picts.)
** There are several different kinds of gremlin in ''{{Pathfinder}}'', but one in particular, the jinkin, is based on the movie ''Film/{{Gremlins}}''.
** The underwater "gillmen" are a clear ShoutOut to the Atlanteans of [[MarvelComics Marvel]] and DCComics, like the {{Sub-Mariner}} (on whom their illustration is strongly based) and ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}.
** The [[MagicKnight Magus]] class has an alternate class feature called "Bladebound," in which the Magus wields a "black blade," an EmpathicWeapon that can [[LifeDrinker drain the life from others to heal the wielder]] and has a mind of its own that can [[ArtifactOfDoom try to take over the wielder's mind]]. [[TheElricSaga Elric of Melnibone]] can sympathize.
** TheRedPlanet of Akiton (initially mentioned in ''Children of the Void'' and further detailed in ''Distant Worlds''), with its giant four-armed warriors, is clearly an homage to Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs's JohnCarterOfMars novels.
*** On the other hand, the "Green Planet", Castrovel, is based on Venus as portrayed by another 1920s sci-fi writer, [[http://www.erbzine.com/mag15/1514.html Ralph Milne Farley]], in ''The Radio Man'' and its sequels. The Lashunta (psychic humanoids with antennae) are inspired by Farley's "Cupians", while the Formians (a race of giant ants) are lifted wholesale.[[hottip:*:The Formians already had a history in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' going back to ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'', but TSR/Wizards only borrowed the name and basic appearance of Farley's Formians, not the connection to Venus.]]
** [[http://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/File:Antipaladin.jpg The antipaladin]] appears to be wielding [[VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} Frostmourne]].
** The "thin man" from ''Inner Sea Bestiary''--a ghostly creature that always stays just beyond the reach of light--was inspired by [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos the Slender Man]]. The end result (a fanged monster) came out very different from Slendy, but it functions basically the same.
** Sorshen, the Runelord of Lust, was named after Sorsha from ''Film/{{Willow}}''.
** ''Bestiary 2'' has stats for the [[Literature/AliceInWonderland Jabberwock]], and ''Bestiary 3'' includes the Bandersnatch (which can be Frumious}) and Jubjub Bird.
** The Kytons, previously just a species of chain wrapped devil, have been expanded into a whole fiendish faction of [[{{Hellraiser}} Cenobites]].
** A spell in the ''Dungeoneer's Handbook'' lets you conjure a [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3 Thwomp]]
** The first part of the ''Serpent's Skull'' Adventure Path is prefaced with "[[Series/GilligansIsland A Tale of a Fateful Trip]]". Naturally, it begins with the PC's becoming castaways.

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** [[PennyArcade Deep crows]] dwell in the dark places within the earth.
** One adventure, ''[[Film/EscapeFromNewYork Escape from Old Korvosa]]'', has a crate used to ship a [[{{Braindead}} rat-monkey from S. Island.]]
** A.E. van Vogt's estate loaned Paizo limited use of the coeurl (AKA the "original tentacle kitty", which inspired ''D&D'''s displacer beast).
** ''Skeletons of Scarwall'''s introduction starts with [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaIISimonsQuest "What A Horrible Night To Have A Curse."]]
** ''Children of the Void'' introduces two types of alien monsters, the parasitic akatas and the plantlike moonflowers. The former are inspired by the Xenomorphs from the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' movies, while the moonflowers take their inspiration from ''Literature/TheDayOfTheTriffids'' and ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors''.
** The cover of Seeker of Secrets features an adventurer engaging in the industry-wide gag of pulling ruby eyes out of grinning idols as a tribute to one of the first DungeonsAndDragons covers.
** The campaign setting timeline mentions that a large forest was trampled by "[[Film/{{Ghostbusters}} the Slor]]".
** ''Classic Horrors Revisited'' tells us that gargoyles' appearance adapts to their environment over time. One particular tribe has been living in a graveyard so long that they look like angel statues, and they've picked up a curse that [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E10Blink causes them to freeze into immobility when anyone looks at them]]. Just don't bli—
** The monster designs in ''Bestiary II'' are loaded with shout-outs. Obvious examples are the Arbiter (a legless [[{{Planescape}} Modron]]), Cacodaemon (a miniature of the VideoGame/{{Doom}} version), and Soulbound Doll (the Zuni fetish from ''TrilogyOfTerror'' and the Maidens from ''RozenMaiden'').
** One of the monsters in the first book of the ''Carrion Crown'' Adventure Path is a disembodied floating head, the most powerful of which is [[VideoGame/{{Castlevania}} a flying medusa head, which can temporarily petrify those it bites]]. It even has Flyby Attack as a bonus feat.
*** To drive the point home, the beginning of the article features a picture of [[MagicKnight Seltyiel]] fighting a group of medusa heads...in a ClockTower.
** The basic alchemist class is inspired by ''Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde''. The vivisectionist archetype of the class is very clearly inspired by on ''Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau'', while the reanimator archetype is based on ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'' and the story of the same name by Creator/HPLovecraft.
** Speaking of ol' [=HPL=], Paizo's gone beyond the subtlety of the ShoutOut and directly printed in ''several'' of their materials just how wicked sweet and totally awesome the CthulhuMythos is, and by the way you should check out Chaosium's ''Call of Cthulhu'' game. The most explicit examples include:
*** The adventures ''Carrion Hill'' and ''Wake of the Watcher'', inspired primarily by "The Dunwich Horror" and "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" respectively.
*** ''Wake of the Watcher'' also features a full article on the Great Old Ones, including rules for worshiping them, and stats for the Color Out of Space, Elder Things, Mi-Go, and Spawn of Shub-Niggurath. As both a capstone reference and campaign-ending encounter, ''Wake of the Watcher'' includes stats for a Star-Spawn of Cthulhu.
*** The first ''Bestiary'' features the Denizens of Leng and Shoggoths, as well as Ghouls and Ghasts (which existed in ''D&D'' since the beginning but have been modeled after Lovecraft's versions for ''Pathfinder''). Likewise, the Skum is a preexisting ''D&D'' monster that's been retrofitted into a stand-in for Lovecraft's Deep Ones (as well as ''D&D'''s Kuo-Toa, which are not open source).
*** ''Bestiary 2'' features Gugs, the Spiders of Leng, the Hounds of Tindalos, Serpentfolk, and the Worm That Walks.
*** ''Bestiary 3'' features the Great Race of Yith, Vooniths, and Zoogs.
*** ''Faiths of Corruption'' includes cults of the Great Old Ones.
*** ''The Great Beyond'' includes blurbs on Lovecraft's Dreamlands (here called the Dimension of Dream) and Plateau of Leng as places dimension-traveling [=PCs=] can visit. The city of Unknown Kadath has been mentioned in Paizo products once or twice.
*** ''Into the Nightmare Rift'' includes a gazetteer of Leng and stats for some of Lovecraft's more fantasy-oriented creatures, such as the Nightgaunt.
** The sourcebook for Andoran mentions some of its smaller but notable communities, including the towns of [[GunslingerGirl Claes and Triela]].
** The Ultimate Combat sourcebook features a character archetype for Fighters: The Dragoon. [[FinalFantasy A spear specialist who eventually gets a leaping attack]].
** Two of the peaks in the Five Kings Mountains are named Mounts [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Langley and Soryu]].
** The sourcebook ''Princes of Darkness'', focusing on using devils in a campaign, features a magic item called a ''bilious talisman'', which strongly resembles the Behelit from ''{{Berserk}}''.
** One reference liable to go over the heads of modern gamers - the Holy Gun archetype in ''Ultimate Combat'' gains firearm-using feats from a class feature called [[HaveGunWillTravel Have Gun]]. If you couldn't guess, this is for a variant paladin.
** The Kellid and Shoanti human ethnicities are strongly inspired by the Cimmerians and Picts, respectively, from Creator/RobertEHoward's mythos. (The Shoanti have a little [[BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins Native American]] thrown in... but then, so did Howard's Picts.)
** There are several different kinds of gremlin in ''{{Pathfinder}}'', but one in particular, the jinkin, is based on the movie ''Film/{{Gremlins}}''.
** The underwater "gillmen" are a clear ShoutOut to the Atlanteans of [[MarvelComics Marvel]] and DCComics, like the {{Sub-Mariner}} (on whom their illustration is strongly based) and ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}.
** The [[MagicKnight Magus]] class has an alternate class feature called "Bladebound," in which the Magus wields a "black blade," an EmpathicWeapon that can [[LifeDrinker drain the life from others to heal the wielder]] and has a mind of its own that can [[ArtifactOfDoom try to take over the wielder's mind]]. [[TheElricSaga Elric of Melnibone]] can sympathize.
** TheRedPlanet of Akiton (initially mentioned in ''Children of the Void'' and further detailed in ''Distant Worlds''), with its giant four-armed warriors, is clearly an homage to Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs's JohnCarterOfMars novels.
*** On the other hand, the "Green Planet", Castrovel, is based on Venus as portrayed by another 1920s sci-fi writer, [[http://www.erbzine.com/mag15/1514.html Ralph Milne Farley]], in ''The Radio Man'' and its sequels. The Lashunta (psychic humanoids with antennae) are inspired by Farley's "Cupians", while the Formians (a race of giant ants) are lifted wholesale.[[hottip:*:The Formians already had a history in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' going back to ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'', but TSR/Wizards only borrowed the name and basic appearance of Farley's Formians, not the connection to Venus.]]
** [[http://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/File:Antipaladin.jpg The antipaladin]] appears to be wielding [[VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} Frostmourne]].
** The "thin man" from ''Inner Sea Bestiary''--a ghostly creature that always stays just beyond the reach of light--was inspired by [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos the Slender Man]]. The end result (a fanged monster) came out very different from Slendy, but it functions basically the same.
** Sorshen, the Runelord of Lust, was named after Sorsha from ''Film/{{Willow}}''.
** ''Bestiary 2'' has stats for the [[Literature/AliceInWonderland Jabberwock]], and ''Bestiary 3'' includes the Bandersnatch (which can be Frumious}) and Jubjub Bird.
** The Kytons, previously just a species of chain wrapped devil, have been expanded into a whole fiendish faction of [[{{Hellraiser}} Cenobites]].
** A spell in the ''Dungeoneer's Handbook'' lets you conjure a [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3 Thwomp]]
** The first part of the ''Serpent's Skull'' Adventure Path is prefaced with "[[Series/GilligansIsland A Tale of a Fateful Trip]]". Naturally, it begins with the PC's becoming castaways.

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