Line #39 ShoutOut/Highborn


1	->''I'd like to make a Jimmy Hoffa joke, but I think most of the people playing this game are kids who are getting tired of running to Google every other line to figure out what we're talking about.''
2	-->-- '''Floyd the Arch-Lich''' shows us how to [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]], [[BreakingTheFourthWall break the fourth wall]], ''and'' make another ShoutOut all in one.
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4	''VideoGame/{{Highborn}}'' has so many shout-outs, they earned their own page!
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6	* There is a ridiculously long one to ''Series/GilmoreGirls'' in the Sorceresses encyclopedia entry. See OverlyLongGag on the main page.
7	* Icky's background in his encyclopedia entry is an homage to Creator/AlanMoore's ''Comicbook/SwampThing'' work.
8	* Trillian is a shout-out to ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' - her journal claims that "Trillian wasn't always the Rogue with the Heart of Gold." ''Heart of Gold'' is the name of the ship in ''Hitchhiker's Guide'' with the infinite improbability drive.
9	* The tutorial's description contains a shout-out to ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'', as stated on the main page under TheCakeIsALie. There is an even longer one in Chapter 3; see WholePlotReference on the main page.
10	* One imp in the tutorial claims he passed up a lead role in an Old Spice commercial for this game.
11	* After you kill an imp in the tutorial, another one comes out and says a famous line from ''Film/ThePrincessBride'' before attacking you: "MyNameIsInigoMontoya. YouKilledMyFather. PrepareToDie!"
12	* "[[LampshadeHanging I tried to think of a really funny]] Franchise/{{Dune}} [[LampshadeHanging reference regarding the worm, but I couldn't.]]"
13	* Archie claims that Trillian got her daggers enchanted before a raid in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''.
14	* The chapter title "A Short Cut to Mushrooms" is a reference to ''[[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings The Fellowship of the Ring]]''.
15	* At one point in chapter 1, when looking for Enzo, Archie claims that Enzo wears too much Brut cologne.
16	* In one Chapter 1 mission, Foglio assumes that a villager is a farmer, and the villager replies that he's actually a junior accounts executive for Sterling Cooper.
17	* The dragon in the Chapter 1 mission "Time for Council" compares the tower to a Pez dispenser, popping out wizards.
18	* The journal entry for both the Keep and the Wizard Tower have references to related ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' modules. "B2: TabletopGame/KeepOnTheBorderlands" and “C2: Ghost Tower of Inverness"
19	* "...and a squadron of flying things that escaped from the latest ''[[Literature/TheDaVinciCode Da Vinci Code]]'' movie."
20	* The dragon in the "Time for Council" mission in Chapter 1:
21	-->'''Dragon:''' [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Have a little fire, scarecrow!]] [[Film/ApocalypseNow I love the smell of dragon fire in the morning. It smells like... [=VICTORY=]!]]
22	-->'''Enzo:''' [[LampshadeHanging Okay, make up your mind. Pick one movie reference and stick to it.]]
23	* Enzo threatens to "whoop" the dragon "back to the Platform/{{Atari 2600}}".
24	* The name Foglio is a reference to Creator/PhilFoglio of Studio Foglio fame.
25	* Foglio based the Flyers on some of Creator/LeonardoDaVinci's drawings.
26	* With the way he speaks, Cabus appears to be channeling WesternAnimation/FoghornLeghorn, going so far as to even use some of Foghorn's lines. Looking deeper, Cabus even uses some of Elrod the Albino's lines from ''ComicBook/CerebusTheAardvark'' where Elrod is a AffectionateParody of both [[Literature/TheElricSaga Elric]] and Foghorn.
27	* Two imps in one of the chapter 1 missions are named [[Theatre/{{Hamlet}} Rosencrantz and]] [[Theatre/RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead Guildenstern]].
28	* Some specters threaten to "Feast on your soul!" Enzo comments that they should hide his Music/JamesBrown records.
29	* In one of the later Chapter 1 missions, there are two old men named [[JustForFun/StatlerAndWaldorf Statler and]] [[Series/TheMuppetShow Waldorf]].
30	* One to Music/TheBeatles in chapter 1:
31	-->'''Enzo''': Okay, dude, but how do we get to the island? There's no boat and my yellow submarine is infested with Beatles.
32	* When Enzo first meets the Wraith Lord, he claims that the Wraith Lord should be trying to defeat Steve Rogers. This is a reference to ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' - Steve Rogers is Captain America's real name, and Enzo is saying that the Wraith Lord looks like ComicBook/RedSkull, one of his main villains.
33	** [[CallBack Enzo later wonders in Chapter 2 if anyone got that joke]].
34	*** Monty the Dragon did.
35	* Archie evidently likes Music/TaylorSwift, since he supposedly played her [=CD=]s full blast after Chapter 1's end.
36	* The festivities after Chapter 1 apparently involved lots of Diet Dr. Pepper.
37	** And if Diet Dr. Pepper is the Highborn's beverage of choice, then Diet Mountain Dew is one that they dislike (or at least, Enzo dislikes.)
38	* According to Archie, the Highborn sing Music/VillagePeople's "In the Navy" when sailing.
39	* During Chapter 2, Cabus retools the smithies to produce ''{{Literature/Twilight}}'' action figures, because his girlfriend Lola loves Twilight. [[TakeThat The heroes are distraught.]]
40	* Lola is a reference to Music/BarryManilow's song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4GxUKYQ258 Copacabana]]" and Music/TheKinks' song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaMS_5i0Bbs Lola]]". The mission she appears in is even called "At the Lococabana". [[labelnote:Click for her encyclopedia entry]]Where to begin with Lola? She was a werewolf, with a pink bow in her hair and a tail way down to there.... Cabus is not the world's most passionate guy, but when he looked her in her eyes, he almost fell for his Lola, lo lo lo Lola, lo lo lo Lola... But Rico went a bit too far, and Tony sailed across the bar, and the punches flew and chairs were smashed in two... in a club in old Soho, where you drink champagne and it tastes just like cherry cola (C-O-L-A cola).[[/labelnote]]
41	** Archie even {{Lampshade}}s this, singing "Copacabana" and blaming Cabus for getting the Music/BarryManilow song stuck in his head.
42	* Trillian exclaims once that "Jeff Goldblum was right!"
43	* One of the Highborn (Archie? Enzo?) somehow wound up as a backup dancer in a Music/LadyGaga video.
44	* Monty the dragon hid a teleporter to stop "the Film/{{Stargate}} people" from claiming copyright infringement. He also claims that they stole the graphic from the [=SNES=] game ''VideoGame/YoungMerlin''.
45	* When some archers keep popping out and shouting "Die, defilers!", Enzo tells them it won't start trending on Website/{{Twitter}} no matter how many times they do it.
46	* ''Series/SixtyMinutes'' and ''Website/{{Wikipedia}}'' are mentioned in Monty's encyclopedia entry in chapter 2.
47	* The Wraith Lord, when defeated in the second chapter, quotes ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'''s "What a world!", saying it's the only final line he can think of.
48	* Archie claims he wants to do a reenactment of ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey''.
49	* The Wraith Lord bought the Frobozz Inter-Dimensional Portal Controller on eBay.
50	* Floyd the Arch-Lich used to work at the Department of Motor Vehicles.
51	* ''Series/GameOfThrones'' is mentioned a couple times in chapter 3. Floyd is apparently a fan.
52	* A monk in the first mission of chapter 3 thinks that Floyd was setting him up for a ''Franchise/StarTrek'' joke. Floyd was actually doing a ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' reference.
53	* The world of Highborn has a television show called [[Series/AmericanIdol Highborn Idol]]. Archie is going to be a judge.
54	** They also have a show called [[Series/DancingWithTheStars Dancing With the Leprechauns]].
55	* Some dwarves, at one point, appear to be playing some sort of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' game.
56	* "After all this time, we finally know who let the dogs out" - a reference to the Baha Men's song "Who Let The Dogs Out".
57	* The Massive Doors' journal entry mentions ''Series/TheDailyShow''.
58	* When Floyd first mind-controls a Dire Wolf, he says "Sit, Ubu, sit! Good dog." This was the closing tag of every Ubu Productions show.
59	* Icky owned a Platform/{{Commodore 64}} computer when he was a kid.
60	* Floyd accuses Icky of being a geek, then proceeds to mention [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] and ComicBook/TheAvengers.
61	* One mission in Chapter 3 is a shoutout/parody to the escape from the Death Star in ''Film/StarWarsANewHope''.
62	* Floyd threatens to post a picture of two of the Worgons at a Music/JustinBieber concert on Website/{{Facebook}}.
63	* The Worgon, Connor, broke his iPod. A man in a nearby village fixed it.
64	* A boat captain, ferrying around the Worgons, is named Captain Stubing, a reference to ''Series/TheLoveBoat''.
65	* [[Franchise/HarryPotter Quidditch]] is a sport in the Highborn world.
66	* One monk is named Kwai Chang Caine after the protagonist of ''Series/KungFu1972''. He quotes [[Literature/TheArtOfWarSunTzu Sun Tzu]].
67	* Cabus mentions ''Series/SesameStreet'' when doing some counting.
68	* Highborn Gold Vault security guards are so dim, they can't tell a staff badge from a Franchise/{{Pokemon}} card.
69	* Floyd threatens to "go all [[Literature/TheOdyssey Odysseus]]" on [=MadOS=], since she's got one eye like the cyclops.
70	* A monk compares himself to Milk Bones when discussing his fears of being eaten by Dire Wolves.
71	* Foozle's journal entry of how he was "discovered" is a Highborn parody of Music/JustinBieber's rise to fame: Foozle auditioned for a signing contest, his father uploaded a video of it to "[[Website/YouTube [=MyTube=]]], it was discovered by Archie, who arragned for Foozle to meet with Enzo, who signed Foozle to his record label. Foozle's songs are parodies of Bieber's songs as well.
72	** The song Foozle sang was "Mandy" by Music/BarryManilow.
73	** Foozle formed a band with "{{Franchise/Barbie}}'s Boyfriend, ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, [=LeBron=], and The Jackal" to form a band called "[[Series/BigTimeRush Small Town Lazy]]". The band was later broken up by Music/YokoOno.
74	** The full entry is explained: The names of the band members in ''Series/BigTimeRush'' are Kendall, Logan, James, and Carlos. Each member in Foozle's band has a connection to one of those names. Barbie's Boyfriend is a Ken doll (Ken Doll.... Kendall), Wolverine's real name is Logan, [=LeBron=]'s last name is James (the writer was considering going with BondJamesBond instead), and "Carlos The Jackal" is an international terrorist and assasin who got his name from the movie ''Film/TheDayOfTheJackal''.
75	* Because Jessica got a scholarship to Acme Looniversity, we can assume that somehow, the Highborn world has some overlap with the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' world.
76	* The Wraith Lord collects many things, including:
77	** An autographed picture of Series/HannahMontana / Miley Cyrus.
78	** A boxed set of ''WebVideo/TheGuild''.
79	** A Glory Gilmore action figure - Glory Gilmore is from a book called ''One Con Glory'' by Sarah Kuhn; it isn't another ''Series/GilmoreGirls'' reference!
80	** ''{{Literature/Twilight}}'' merchandise. He apparently even has a life-size Edward and Bella in his bathroom.
81	** ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'' merchandise.
82	** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' merchandise.

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