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1	References to other works, including legends and religious texts, are present in all media under many forms. These are collectively known as "[[ShoutOut Shout-Outs]]".
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3	[[index]]
4
5	!!Types of references
6	[floatboxright:
7	'''References by work'''
8	* '''ShoutOut'''
9	* ReferencedBy
10
11	'''Sub-categories'''
12	* ArtImitatesArt
13	* FountainOfExpies
14	* MemeticMutation
15	* ParodyTropes
16	* StockParodies
17	* StockShoutOuts
18	]
19	* ActorAllusion: The work references one of the actor's other roles or the actor's personal life.
20	* CastingGag: An actor appears to be deliberately cast as a character similar to another character they have played.
21	* CharacterNameAlias: A character uses the name of a fictional character as an alias.
22	* CorruptedCharacterCopy: A pastiche of a pre-existing character who is notably a worse person than the character they are based on.
23	* CulturalCrossReference: Making a reference to something popular in another country.
24	* {{Expy}}: An unambiguous and deliberate copy of another, older character.
25	* HalloweenCosplay: Rather than just making a generic costume, a character cosplays on Halloween.
26	* {{Homage}}: A typically drawn-out ShoutOut that is born out of love for the source material.
27	* ImMrFuturePopCultureReference: A time-traveler uses the name of a character from a future work of fiction as an alias while in the past.
28	* KnockingTheKnockoff: A character derides a copy of themselves from a different work.
29	* LampshadedTheObscureReference: The work addresses that not many people will be familiar with what they are referencing.
30	* LiteraryAllusionTitle: A work's title is a, sometimes rephrased, quote from another work.
31	* {{Parody}}: A mockery of some other artistic work, sometimes affectionate.
32	* ParodyEpisode: A show takes a break from its usual format to parody something else.
33	* PopCulturePunEpisodeTitle: May be a work that's part of pop culture that's referenced.
34	* PublicDomainCharacter: A character is in the public domain, so any work can use the character without having to worry about copyright infringement lawsuits or paying royalties.
35	* PublicDomainSoundtrack: A work uses music that is in the public domain.
36	* QuoteToQuoteCombat: Countering one quote with another.
37	* RealSongThemeTune: The theme song wasn't written for the show and had actually existed prior to the work entering production.
38	* ReferenceOverdosed: A work '''[[ExaggeratedTrope loaded]]''' with [[ShoutOut Shout-Outs]] and homages.
39	* {{Sampling}}: Using part of someone else's music in your own.
40	* SitcomHomageEpisode: An episode of a series that is meant to be a homage to {{Sitcom}}s.
41	* ShortLivedBigImpact: A person or thing that has only been around for a short time, but its impact can still be felt in modern life today.
42	* ShoutOutThemeNaming: A work's characters are named after another, older work's characters.
43	* SignificantMonogram: The characters' initials have a symbolic meaning.
44	* SpeaksInShoutOuts: Most of a character's lines are references, shout-outs, or quotes from other works.
45	* SpoilingShoutOut: A Shout-Out that makes references to a spoiler from what it's referencing.
46	* StandardSnippet: Pieces of a musical work that play primarily when a particular scene is shown.
47	* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: A song or piece of music that sounds like a copyright-friendly version of another song or piece of music.
48	* TakeThat: A work insults another work or someone or something the creator dislikes.
49	* TitledAfterTheSong: A work that is named after a song not originally written for it.
50	* TributeToFido: A character who's based on a RealLife pet.
51	* TropeCodifier: A work that defines how a trope is used.
52	* {{Tuckerization}}: Characters are named after real-life people involved with the production.
53	* UnusualPopCultureName: A character was named with an obvious pop culture reference (e.g. a fictional character) by their parents.
54	* VirtuousCharacterCopy: A pastiche of a pre-existing character who is notably a more noble person than the character they are based on.
55	* WholeCostumeReference: A character is wearing the wardrobe of another famous figure, but no one in-universe is aware of that.
56	* WholePlotReference: A story whose entire plot is a complete reference or homage to another work.
57
58	!! Specific references
59	[[AC:Music]]
60	* StandardSnippet/AlsoSprachZarathustra: "Also Sprach Zarathustra", aka "that tune from ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey''.
61	* AmazingFreakingGrace: "Amazing Grace".
62	* HappyBirthdayToYou: The birthday song.
63	* JeopardyThinkingMusic: ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}''
64	* MichaelJacksonsThrillerParody: A spoof of the music video to the Music/MichaelJackson song ''Thriller''.
65	* MoonwalkDance
66	* "StandardSnippet/OdeToJoy": From Music/LudwigVanBeethoven's Ninth Symphony.
67	* "StandardSnippet/RideOfTheValkyries": The music from the beginning of the third act of ''Die Walküre'', an opera by Music/RichardWagner.
68	* SgtPeppersShoutOut: A nod to the album cover of Sgt. Peppers' Lonely Hearts Club Band by Music/TheBeatles.
69
70	[[AC:Names and titles]]
71	* AdamAndOrEve: Literature/TheBible.
72	* TheJoyOfX
73	* NameOfCain: Literature/TheBible.
74	* ASaintNamedMary: Literature/TheBible.
75	* TannhauserGate: A quote by ''Film/BladeRunner'''s Roy Batty (which itself was inspired by a legend about the German poet Tannhäuser).
76	* TheTropeFormerlyKnownAsX: The Artist Formerly Known As Prince, A FanNickname for Prince, a singer who changed his name to an unpronounceable love symbol.
77
78	[[AC:Quotes]]
79	* [[ReferencedBy/WilliamShakespeare Shout Out to Shakespeare]]:
80	** AlasPoorYorick: ''{{Theatre/Hamlet}}''.
81	** GoodNightSweetPrince (''Hamlet'').
82	* AsTheGoodBookSays: The Bible again.
83	* BiggerThanJesus: Music/JohnLennon (although [[BeamMeUpScotty he didn't actually say that]])
84	* ChewBubblegum: ''Film/TheyLive''.
85	* ILoveTheSmellOfXInTheMorning: ''Film/ApocalypseNow''
86	* ItWasADarkAndStormyNight: Edward Bulwer-Lytton's ''Literature/PaulClifford''.
87	* KlaatuBaradaNikto: ''Film/TheDayTheEarthStoodStill1951''.
88	* "TheNameIsBondJamesBond": ''Film/JamesBond''.
89	* YouMeddlingKids: ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo''.
90	* YouTalkinToMe: ''Film/TaxiDriver''.
91
92	[[AC:StockParodies and {{Stock Shout Out}}s]]
93	* AliceAllusion: In fiction, a good number of characters named "Alice" are named after the title character of ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'' and ''Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There'' by Creator/LewisCarroll.
94	* AngelsPose: ''Series/CharliesAngels''.
95	* BloodBath: Almost always used to reference the TropeMaker, [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethBathory Countess Elizabeth Bathory]], and characters taking such a bath are usually also named after her.
96	* BondGunBarrel: A nod to the gun barrel sequence that appeared in many a ''Film/JamesBond'' movie.
97	* BorrowinSamedi: Character channeling Baron Samedi, a ''loa'' of magic and death in Haitian UsefulNotes/{{Voudoun}}.
98	* TheBreakfastClubPosterHomage: ''Film/TheBreakfastClub''
99	* TheBurlesqueOfVenus: Creator/SandroBotticelli's ''Art/{{The Birth of Venus\|Botticelli}}''
100	* CaninesGamblingInACardGame: Cassius Marcellus Coolidge's ''Art/DogsPlayingPoker''
101	* CharlieChaplinShoutOut
102	* ChessWithDeath: ''Film/TheSeventhSeal''.
103	* CryingIndian: A PublicServiceAnnouncement from the Keep America Beautiful organization.
104	* {{Disneyesque}}: General art style and tone meant to be evocative of the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon.
105	* DrFakenstein: A mad scientist's name is a play on Victor Frankenstein from the novel ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}''.
106	* DystopianOz: ''Franchise/LandOfOz''.
107	* TheExpyWithNoName: A character who is a copy of The Man With No Name from the ''Film/DollarsTrilogy''.
108	* TheGraduateHomageShot: ''Film/TheGraduate''.
109	* TheGreatWhodini
110	* HockeyMaskAndChainsaw: A homage to slasher films that does not come from any specific work, but fuses iconic elements of ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' and ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre''.
111	* IcarusAllusion: Myth/GreekMythology.
112	* IwoJimaPose: [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/IwoJima_1422.jpg The flag planting during the Battle of Iwo Jima]] during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
113	* KingKongCopy: ''Film/KingKong''
114	* KnuckleTattoos: ''Film/TheNightOfTheHunter''.
115	* KubrickStare: An expression seen in some movies directed by Creator/StanleyKubrick.
116	* LastSupperSteal: Characters posed as in Leonardo da Vinci's ''The Last Supper''.
117	* LionKingLift: ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994''.
118	* LongJohnShoutOut: ''Literature/TreasureIsland''.
119	* LooksLikeCesare: ''Film/TheCabinetOfDrCaligari'', although, due to ParodyDisplacement, people may tell you [[Creator/TimBurton otherwise]].
120	* LooksLikeOrlok: ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}'', which in turn was loosely based on old folklore accounts.
121	* TheLudovicoTechnique: ''Film/AClockworkOrange''
122	* ''[[MissionImpossibleCableDrop Mission: Impossible]]'' [[MissionImpossibleCableDrop Cable Drop]]: ''Film/MissionImpossible1996''.
123	* MockHeadroom: Parodies of ''Series/MaxHeadroom''.
124	* MontyHallProblem: A puzzle based on ''Series/LetsMakeADeal''.
125	* NighthawksShot: Scenes referencing Edward Hopper's ''Nighthawks'' - either the entire painting or only the setting.
126	* OceanicAirlines: ''Series/{{Lost}}''
127	* OpeningScroll: The into-the-screen variation references ''Franchise/StarWars''.
128	* PietaPlagiarism: the Pietà , a sculpture by Michelangelo.
129	* RidingTheBomb: ''Film/DrStrangelove'' .
130	* RiskyBusinessDance: ''Film/RiskyBusiness''.
131	* RooftopConcert: Typically done in {{Homage}} to Music/TheBeatles' final live performance.
132	* {{Scandalgate}}: [[UsefulNotes/RichardNixon Watergate]]
133	* SherlockHomage
134	* SistineSteal: Creator/MichelangeloBuonarroti's painting ''The Creation of Adam'', which can be found in the Art/SistineChapel's celing.
135	* SpaghettiKiss: TheMovie of Ward Greene's ''WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp''.
136	* StayingAliveDancePose: ''Film/SaturdayNightFever''.
137	* TheatrePhantom:
138	* TheScreamParody: ''Art/{{The Scream\|Munch}}'', a painting by Creator/EdvardMunch.
139	* ThinkerPose: ''The Thinker'', a {{sculpture\|s}} by Creator/AugusteRodin.
140	* ThreeStoogesShoutOut
141	* TuxedoAndMartini: ''Film/JamesBond''.
142	* TheVJDayKiss: Reenactment of [[https://www.life.com/history/v-j-day-kiss-times-square/ the famous photo]] of a sailor and a nurse kissing in celebration of [[AmericaSavesTheDay American victory]] in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
143	* XenomorphXerox: An imitation of the Xenomorph from the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' films.
144
145	[[AC:TropeNamers]]\
146	Here on TV Tropes, we too like to make Shout-Outs. The following is a list of tropes which are named after Stock Shout-Outs.
147	* DownTheRabbitHole: The eponymous Alice travels to a bizarro world down a rabbit hole.
148	* LukeIAmYourFather: ''Franchise/StarWars'' ([[BeamMeUpScotty although that's not the actual quote]])
149	** LukeYouAreMyFather
150	** LukeIMightBeYourFather
151	* TheMadHatter: The eponymous hatter in ''Literature/AliceInWonderland''.
152	* StarCrossedLovers: Two lovers coming from opposing sides of a conflict, like ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'', who were described as such in the prologue.
153
154	[[AC:{{Whole Plot Reference}}s]]
155	* TheBardOnBoard: A play by Creator/WilliamShakespeare.
156	* CharlieAndTheChocolateParody: The 1971 film of ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory''.
157	* GiftOfTheMagiPlot: ''Literature/TheGiftOfTheMagi'' by Creator/OHenry.
158	* HowTheCharacterStoleChristmas: ''Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' by Creator/DrSeuss.
159	* ItsAWonderfulPlot: ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife''.
160	* JurassicFarce: ''Franchise/JurassicPark'', usually [[Film/JurassicPark1993 the first installment of the film series]].
161	* MayTheFarceBeWithYou: ''Franchise/StarWars''. Usually either ''Film/ANewHope'' or the original trilogy.
162	* OffToSeeTheWizard: Usually based on ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'' or the [[Film/TheWizardOfOz 1939 film adaptation]].
163	* RaidersOfTheLostParody: ''Franchise/IndianaJones''. Usually ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''.
164	* SpoofyDoo: ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo''.
165	* WhereNoParodyHasGoneBefore: ''Franchise/StarTrek''.
166	* YetAnotherChristmasCarol: ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' by Creator/CharlesDickens.
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168	[[/index]]

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