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1* The very first page contains [[ComicBook/BuckGodotZapGunForHire The Winslow]].
2* It's [[Music/MCHammer Hammertime]] [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20101124 for Tarvek]]!
3* [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070822 The Heterodyne Castle has the grave of a guy called "Iscariot Heterodyne" with the line claiming him to be 'everyman's "friend"'. The quotes around friends are intentional, because the skulls of his "friends" are piled up right next to the grave, hinting him to be an notorious traitor]] like his namesake Judas Iscariot from the [[{{Literature/THEBIBLE}} New Testament]].
4* [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050328 This page]] sports an SteamPunk version of the hut of Literature/BabaYaga, with mechanic chicken feet and the egg joke.
5* [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050404 The music instrument carried by Master Payne]] is a smaller version of [[ComicBook/GastonLagaffe the Gaffophone]].
6* The wiki has a [[http://girlgenius.wikia.com/wiki/Shoutouts_to_other_webcomics whole list]] of the ones to other {{webcomics}}. [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070319 In Mechanicsburg, there are signs]] advertising for "exotic Webcomic/WapsiSquare", an inn called Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt, Professor Milholland's "Webcomic/SomethingPositive" tonic, a certain Webcomic/DominicDeegan ("Sees all, tells all") and "Webcomic/TheDevilsPanties" lingerie, among others... (which get [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070321 featured in the next strip]].)
7** The science fair during the "Literature/{{Cinderella}}" parody includes more, in the form of displays. "Why the world needs Webcomic/YetAnotherFantasyGamerComic", "Webcomic/{{Goblins}}: Threat or food?" etcetera.
8** Also in the Cinderella parody, the sponsors on the back of the proclamation include "Webcomic/SchlockMercenary: Cheap Goods for Thrifty Heroes", "Webcomic/AskDoctorEldritch: Pets Found! Warts Explained! Crops Blighted! Family Curses Lifted!", "Good food with NO Jagers: Webcomic/SunsetGrill" and "Webcomic/SkinHorse: It's not just for breakfast any more!"
9* Moxana is a shout out to both [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moxon%27s_Master Moxon's Master]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk The Turk]].
10* Castle Heterodyne is equipped with [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Happy Fun Balls.]]
11* In [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070112 this strip,]] where several soldiers are attacked by a toothed trunk on legs with the words [[Literature/{{Discworld}} "The Amazing Pratchett"]] written on it.
12* Another ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' shout-out is in the commentary: "[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20091207 ...kicking and screaming into the Century of the Fruitbat]]", hmm?
13* [[Series/{{Blackadder}} "Don't drink the wine!"]]
14* A fairly unsubtle reference to Gil rescuing Zola from [[Franchise/ThePhantomOfTheOpera "some overly dramatic maniac who lived in the Paris Opera House."]]
15* A skeleton of a giant spiky beast inside Castle Heterodyne was apparently a pet named [[WesternAnimation/CountDuckula Towser.]]
16* The Unstoppable Higgs' [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070330 cap indicates]] he's a crewman on the ship ''Anime/RozenMaiden''.
17* Theatre/PunchAndJudy.
18* When posing as Agatha's parents, Punch and Judy went under the names [[Literature/TheBible Adam and Lilith Clay]].
19* [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090410 Turning]] a dread castle into... a ''[[Funny/TabletopGames Dread Gazebo]]''?
20* [[Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds Martian]] [[TripodTerror Tripods]] in the [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040804 Baron's flashback]] and one of the Heterodynes' "[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20091014 My Vacation]]" pictures.
21* One strip mentions an [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090102 electric game]] [[VideoGame/DonkeyKong with the little man and the gorilla]]. It also mentions a boat ride with singing dolls. [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks What a small world it is.]]
22* One scene shows a sign for both an X-ray and a [[Franchise/WonderWoman Purple Ray]].
23* Crazy A.I. with [[VideoGame/SystemShock SHODAN]]-like DramaticStutter.
24* [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes "You don't expect a knife to sing opera, y'know?"]]
25* When Zola first shows up claiming to be the new Heterodyne daughter, Agatha complains about her being a terrible, cheesy actor. Zola's very next line? "[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070430 Yonder lies the castle of my father!]]", a quote from ''The Black Shield of Farnsworth'', which is generally considered one of the worst-delivered lines ever as the original actor had a very strong Bronx accent. usually rendered as "Yonda lies da castle of my fadda" to emphasise that Curtis was NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent.
26* The countdown of the self-destruct mechanism in Lucrezia Mongfish secret lab stops at [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} seven]].
27* In [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060726 this strip]], [[AuthorAvatar Phil Foglio]] is shown singing Music/TheBeatles' "Ob-la-di, ob-la-da" with modified lyrics talking about oubliettes. Then, when the Jäger comes up through the floor, he asks [[Creator/DanielPinkwater "Nov shmoz ka-pop?"]]
28* [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090121 This strip]] has Major [[VideoGame/AnimalCrossing Resetti]] of the First Subterranean Mecha Mole Brigade.
29* One of Gil's [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080509 paper doll outfits]] has a [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda triforce]] symbol on the gauntlet.
30* ''ComicBook/{{Buck Godot|Zap Gun for Hire}}'' [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20081031 T-shirt]]
31** A bit earlier, a salesman in Mechanicsburg [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070228 shouts about how he has]] [[ForeignQueasine poiled slurgs]] for sale. On a stick. One can only wonder if they, too, are steamed in wixxel grease.
32* Gil's valet shares a last name with the employer of [[Literature/JeevesAndWooster the most famous gentleman's gentleman in fiction.]]
33** And his ''first'' name with the high school that Phil Foglio attended.
34* [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110228 If one looks closely]], it appears that [[Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja Doctor McNinja]] has an office in the hospital at Mechanicsburg. Which... explains a lot. [[Webcomic/DocRat Benjamin Rat]] appears in that same panel -- and "Dr. Rothfuss" obviously goes by [[Literature/TheKingkillerChronicle Patrick]]. (The Wise Man's Fear was published three days after that comic.)
35* A poster at the Science Fair [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20081210 here]]: "Planet Earth: A Webcomic/ScaryGoRound we live on."
36* [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110502 Klaus]] [[Series/{{Firefly}} can kill you with the power of his mind.]]
37* [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070611 Is that]] [[Series/StargateSG1 Teal'c?]]
38** [[CatchPhrase Indeed.]]
39* [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20111017 Sir]] [[VideoGame/MediEvil Dan]]?
40* The nefarious [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20051014 Prince Aaronev Wilhelm Sturmvoraus]] is visually based on Phil Foglio's fellow webcomic artist and ''Magazine/{{Dragon}} Magazine'' alum Aaron Williams, and his servant [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20051019 Nod]] ''is'' Williams's signature character, Webcomic/{{Nodwick}}. Also, Aaronev's dogsbody Artacz, who looks like a younger version of Artax from ''Nodwick'', only with a shorter moustache.
41* [[invoked]] A [[GeniusBonus very obscure]] one: "''[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070119 I'm a genius!]]'' Ha! Take ''that,'' [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Anthelme_Brillat-Savarin Brillat-Savarin!]]"
42* When Zeetha and Agatha [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120425 check out armors]], some of them look [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} kind of]] [[ComicBook/{{Galactus}} familiar]]...
43-->'''Zeetha:''' [[VideoGame/{{Metroid}} What about this?]]\
44'''Agatha:''' No way -- [[SamusIsAGirl can't even tell you're a girl.]]
45* [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070808 In the Heterodyne Crypt]], there is a grave marked only "[[Franchise/{{Superman}} Zod]]".
46* [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20081001 Theopholous is trying to track down his father's lost temple in India]], which somehow involves finding the "[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater eye of the snake eater]]."
47* The fake Jagermeister girls at Mamma Gkika's bar sing a modified version of the Andrews Sisters' song "Too Fat Polka."
48** Their earlier song is a resetting of "The Beer Barrel Polka" and their show slash song for the "real" Jaegers seems to dance around "You can leave your hat on".
49* When trying to [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120629 escape a burning airship]], Tarvek and a Jäger almost quote the ''Series/MythBusters'':
50-->'''Jorgi''': "Dot dun sound like explosions..."\
51'''Tarvek''': "You're an expert?"\
52'''Jorgi''': "Sure, hyu bust op enough schtuff, hyu learns all kinds ov tings."
53* A [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20121001 delusional knight-dragon]] accompanied by a donkey-riding pudgy sidekick, proclaiming grandiose goals. [[Literature/DonQuixote Cervantes]] would have been so amused.
54* Klaus can [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings walk into Mordor]] if he wants. [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20130306 Or Mechanicsburg.]]
55* A [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20130408 shop in Mechanicsburg]] sells [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Meat]]. Today's special, [[Creator/HPLovecraft Shoggoth]].
56* The Cinderella parody features [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20081219 music]] by the [[Music/PDQBach P.D.Q. Bach Engine]], whose operator bears an uncanny resemblance to Peter Schickele.
57* Gil's Runcible Gun, which shoots [[FunnySpoon sporks]], references the "runcible spoon" mentioned in "The Owl and the Pussycat".
58** It also goes "Spork! Spork" Spork"
59* The introduction of [[ThoseTwoGuys Those Three Jagers]] has them hanging from a gallows for days, which is likely a shout out to the late Creator/RobertAsprin's ''Myth Adventures'' series (Phil Foglio illustrated the comic version.)
60* [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20031231 When Krosp first promises to help Agatha]], she asks if she needs to [[Literature/PussInBoots get it some boots]].
61* When Agatha first enters Gil's laboratory on Castle Wulfenbach, we see [[Series/TheMuppetShow Dr. Bunsen Honeydew's]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QrelL9fOjY gorilla detector]]. Fittingly, there is a note attatched to it that reads, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040204 "NEEDS WORK"]].
62* The [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20140623 Wyrm of Limmerick]] is the engine that made the [[Film/ANewHope "Konigsberg Run in less than twelve kilometers"]]. "But wait," I hear you cry. "That makes no sense - kilometers are units of ''distance,'' not time." You're right - and [[GeniusBonus so are parsecs]].
63* One of Gil's investigators is [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20140926 a gargantuan woman by the name of Miss Pantagruel]] - she's named after a farce called ''Gargantua and Pantagruel'' by Francois Rabelais, from the 16th century.
64* One of the "[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20141024 many horrors used against us]]" is the... [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} Weighted Companion Cube]].
65* [[Comicbook/BuckGodotZapGunForHire ALL HAIL]] [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20141205 THE WINSLOW!]]
66* [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20150504 Bear Doc]] is suspiciously similar to the main character from ''Webcomic/TheWhiteboard''... who's also an anthropomorphic polar bear called Doc. They even have the same glasses.
67* The Corbettite Order is positively ''loaded'' with references to [[Characters/Warhammer40000Mechanicus Adeptus Mechanicus]]
68* [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20150513 Hey! Listen!]] [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Need I say more?]]
69* [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20141003 Brother Ulm's gun]] sure looks like a [[Film/MenInBlack Noisy Cricket]]...
70* [[VillainOfTheWeek Du Quay's]] [[{{Franchise/ScoobyDoo}} -And I would have ''GOT'' away with it, too,]] [[YouMeddlingKids if I hadn't been for-]]
71* A double reference on [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20140416 this page]] to, of all things, Film/CharlieChan and Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory
72* The weapons wielded by the Storm King are a mace named "Platonic Solid" and a sword called "Archimedes' Lever". But the Jägers call them Smasher and Slasher. This may be a reference to the swords retrieved by Thorin and Gandalf in ''Literature/TheHobbit.'' They're properly named Orcrist (Goblin-Cleaver) and Glamdring (Foe-Hammer), but the Goblins call them Biter and Beater.
73* In the [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160905 comic for Sept 5, 2016]] [=DuPree=] enthuses about going to Paris because that's where they make those chocolates with the mimmoth [[note]]Tiny wooly mammoths[[/note]] centers.
74--> '''Gill''': Ugh! [=DuPree=], how can you '''eat''' those? They have all those little '''bones'''!\
75'''[=DuPree=]''': [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus That's what makes them crunchy!]]
76* There's a [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20151102 poster on a wall]] in Paris for a race by the name Webcomic/PragueRace.
77* [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20161216 Seffie's masquerade ball]] has guests dressed as [[Anime/YuGiOh Yami Yugi]], [[ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} Aquaman, Mera]], ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}, [[Webcomic/{{Freefall}} Sam Starfall]], [[Webcomic/{{Goblins}} Minmax]], [[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz the Tin Man]], Radio/TheGreenHornet, [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth]],[[note]]who even has a little gremlin-like creature hanging around his ankles singing a badly mondegreened version of 'One-Winged Angel'[[/note]] [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} Sans]], [[Series/SigmundAndTheSeaMonsters Sigmund the Sea Monster]], [[Series/LazyTown Robbie Rotten]], [[VideoGame/ShovelKnight Shovel Knight]], [[WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder Lord Hater]], [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} a Pikachu gijinka]], [[WesternAnimation/InvaderZim Professor Membrane]] and [[Franchise/CarmenSandiego Carmen Sandiego]] amongst others.
78* The [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20161226 Queen of Dawn's entrance]] is heralded by the dancing nuns of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Fosse St. Fosse.]]
79* The submerged kingdom of Albia (England) seems to like [[WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine yellow submarines.]]
80* [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20180223 The unicorn-headed attendant]] of Albia's is named [[WesternAnimation/TheWombles Lord Womble]].
81* A [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20180711 just-visible sign]] in London declares "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Lions_(song) It's Coming Home]]". (The strip originally ran during UsefulNotes/TheWorldCup 2018.)
82* An [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20180713 English museum of curiosities]] includes the mounted head of the [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail Black Beast of Aaarrrggghh]].
83* While Tiktoffen is listing why the sparks he's killed deserved to die, he mentions that [[Creator/FranzKafka Franz]] "liked [[Literature/TheMetamorphosis turning people into beetles]]."
84* [[Webcomic/DumbingOfAge Dina]] is one of the many Mad Scientists who attack Trelawney Thorpe on [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20181031 Wednesdays]].
85* [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyRecordKeeper Dr. Mog]] has apparently been [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20181126 sending a white rat with a hat to take his place in staff meetings]].
86* Tarvek: "Oh, [[VideoGame/DarkestDungeon this fragile shell of earth]] [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20190311 and air]]..."
87* [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20191204 Dimo and Maxim discuss evil alternate universe twins]], noting [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries neither of them look good with a goatee]].
88* [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20201005 Seffie gives Tarvek]] some books including ''[[Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau Moreau's Big Book of Animal Pals]]'', ''[[Creator/RichardScarry Busy Busy Empire]]'' and ''[[Literature/TheVeryHungryCaterpillar The Very Hungry Abomination]]'' from the Forbidden Planet bookstore, a RealLife chain of British bookstores named after the ''Film/ForbiddenPlanet'' movie.
89* One of the digging machines to get into the time bubble is called [[Literature/TheTimeMachine "Eloi Eater"]]
90* The [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20201012 first time we see Martellus' uplifted cat]], she's on a miniature medical rack, her body wrapped in bandages. She's a ginger with two lightning-bolt-like streaks in her head fur. [[Film/BrideOfFrankenstein Well played, Foglios, well played.]]
91* [[https://girlgenius.fandom.com/wiki/%22Rita%22 Martellus' cat]] is a homage to ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'s cat [[https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Streaky Streaky]]: both of them are uplifted, orange-furred felines with lightning bolt marks on their bodies.
92* In [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20210423 this page]], a crate full of [[Film/ThePrincessBride shrieking eels]] is seen being loaded onto a ship.
93* In [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/ggmain/strips/ggmain20160208b.jpg the cover]] of "The City of Lightning", several singular objects can be seen: ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]]'' (right shelf), a green ''[[VideoGame/SpaceInvaders Space Invader]]'' (left shelf), the ''[[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Master Sword]]'' (left shelf, bottom) and the ''[[Franchise/{{Superman}} Bottle City of Kandor]]'' (behind the Master Sword).
94* The name of [[https://girlgenius.fandom.com/wiki/Jeanne_Hawkins Captain Jeanne Hawkins]] is a homage to Jim Hawkins, the main character of ''Literature/TreasureIsland''.
95* When Kaja's AuthorAvatar is being offered drinks on the two-page "Jaegerstomp" spread (during the holiday special arc), all the drinks are from the game ''TabletopGame/RedDragonInn''.
96* At first Miss Baumhund looks like ''[[Anime/GirlsUndPanzer Mai Nekota]]'' after college. Actually they are both styled after various ladies in the works of ''Creator/LeijiMatsumoto''. Foglio drew a couple of issues of the Comico ''[[Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato Star Blazers]]'' Comic back in the 1980s. The dog/cat name split may or may not be coincidental.
97* Franz quotes Smaug from ''Literature/TheHobbit'' in [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20220826 this page]]:
98-->''"Well, Thief! I smell you and I feel your air."''
99* [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Franz]]'s [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20220916 exclamation]] of "By the bones of Gorbash!" makes reference to the dragon from ''Literature/TheDragonKnight''/''WesternAnimation/TheFlightOfDragons''.
100* [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20091216 This comic]] includes a box of VideoGame/{{Avernum}} Cigars. Phil has done artwork for several of the Avernum games (notably the pictures for the skills in a couple of the older games are his work, several of which appear as [[ImpossibleTheft Trope]] [[PullaRabbitoutofMyHat images]]).
101* Norville, the Knight of the Hunt who can [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent shift between a canine and human form]], and who in human form has shaggy brown hair and a scruffy beard, and [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20210428 can be bribed with sandwiches]] is a reference to [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Norville "Shaggy" Rogers]].
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103!!!Novelization
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105* When Rivet shows Agatha her collection of tools, Agatha finds a [[Series/DoctorWho sonic screwdriver]].
106* The beginning of Chapter 6 in ''Agatha H. And The Clockwork Princess '' to a certain [[Literature/TheKingInYellow infamous play]] ......
107-->'''Lucrezia''': You sir, should remove your pants.\
108'''Stranger''': Indeed?\
109'''Judy''': Indeed, it's time. We have all laid aside modesty but you.\
110'''Stranger''': I... wear no pants.\
111'''Lucrezia''': (Terrified, aside to Judy.) No pants? No pants!
112* A footnote describes how the Dreen apparently live outside of time, and that this “might have been more acceptable if they were [[Series/DoctorWho avuncular old men who lived in a traveling box or something]], but frankly, they were creepy as Hell.”
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114%%!!!Othar's Twitter

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