Line #56 ShoutOut/ProvenGuilty


1	The eighth novel of ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' finds even the ''monsters'' getting in on the ShoutOut game, as a plague of fear-eating fae shapechangers assault a horror-movie convention. But with black magic afoot in Chicago, the creatures are after more than just mortals' terror, and Harry may find his own Council just as dangerous as any splatter-flick scaremonger:
2	* Harry creates a whirlwind the same way as ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor''.
3	* Another attack by the fetches, Harry fears, would make the previous ones look like a game of ''TabletopGame/{{Candyland}}''.
4	* Talking to Father Forthill, Harry quotes ''Film/TheBluesBrothers''.
5	* Having to crawl out the ''Blue Beetle'''s window after it's run off the road spurs Harry to reference ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard'' to Murphy and himself.
6	* The phobophages mostly take on the role of generic horror movie monsters. One, however, is quite obviously the Xenomorph from ''Franchise/{{Alien}}''. Others are {{Captain Ersatz}}es of Jason, Chucky, and Film/{{Pumpkinhead}}.
7	** Film/{{Pumpkinhead}} is debatable. Jim Butcher was a regular player of ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes,'' which feature a huge, pumpkin-headed, vine-bodied "giant monster" named Eochai in one of its zones.
8	** The ''Suburban Slasher'' film series, featuring [[{{Expy}} the Reaper]], are a ''very'' thinly-disguised lawyer-friendly version of the ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' film franchise, complete with hockey mask, ten sequels, and SexSignalsDeath.
9	** Fighting the Xenomorph, Harry quotes ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' repeatedly:
10	--> Get away from her, you ''[[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]]''.
11	--> Is this gonna be a standup fight or just another bug hunt?
12	--> It's the only way to be sure.
13	** Combined with a TakeThat to the ''Film/ChildsPlay'' films, in the case of [[NightmareRetardant Bucky the Murder Doll]].
14	** Hammerhands, the man with hammers instead of hands, may be a reference to [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Kruger]], who wore a glove with blades on the fingers. He is also described as targeting the people who left him for dead, much like the villain in ''Film/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer''.
15	* Harry avoids mentioning his Little Chicago project because having a scale model of the city in his basement "projects a little too much of that evil, ComicBook/LexLuthor vibe."
16	* Murphy's ex, Rick the FBI agent, wears a tie with [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Marvin The Martian]]'s picture on it.
17	* Harry realizes there's another problem on the horizon, but figures he can [[Literature/MythAdventures burn that bridge when he comes to it]].
18	* A pleading phone call from Nelson forces Harry to weigh Literature/TheColdEquations of survival, in choosing whether to go help Molly's boyfriend or remain at the convention. As in the short story, the needs of the many attendees outweigh Nelson's solitary dilemma [[spoiler: justifiably in this case, as the young man's fears are a product of his psyche being tampered with, not an external threat]].
19	* Molly asks Harry if there's mud on her boots, and he points out that it hardly matters considering she'd dressed like Film/{{Frankenhooker}}.
20	** When Michael reacts to how she's dressed, Harry paraphrases Jesus:
21	--> "Let he who hath never stonewashed his jeans cast the first stone."
22	* Deliberately invoked by Harry wielding [[spoiler:Summer-]]Fire against a Scarecrow-like Fetch:
23	-->'''Harry:''' [[Film/TheWizardOfOz How about a little fire, Scarecrow]]?
24	* Explaining warlocks to Murphy, Harry says their first breach of the Laws of Magic is usually trying the [[Franchise/StarWars Jedi mind trick]].
25	** "[[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack I didn't hit it that hard — Must have had some kind of self-destruct.]]"
26	** When Murphy doesn't catch the reference, Harry [[LampshadeHanging laments]] that nobody watches the classics anymore.
27	** He later uses Obi-Wan's words and hand gesture from ''A New Hope'' when he gets Greene to stop threatening Rawlins, though it's taking advantage of Greene's concussion rather than actual magic.
28	* Meeting director Darby Crane inevitably brings up a couple of ''Film/DarbyOGillAndTheLittlePeople'' references.
29	* Murphy mentions WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}'s MagicFeather while discussing magic with Harry.
30	* Harry says he'd prefer a Creator/RogerCorman flick to Darby Crane's ''Harvest'' films.
31	* The tiny drug-hungry mouths Harry's Sight reveals on Rosie's arms are a visual ShoutOut to ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet3DreamWarriors'', in which ex-junkie Taryn's arms developed similar orifices when Freddy confronted her.
32	* Rawlins insists anyone sneaking past him without him noticing would have to be [[Franchise/StarWars a Jedi Knight]] or something.
33	** Harry himself gets to pull the mind-trick on Detective Greene, complete with lines paraphrased from Obi-Wan. (He doesn't break the Fourth Law to do it, because Greene just had his bell rung and is suggestible enough for it to work without any magic.)
34	* Molly's littlest sister Hope is nicknamed "{{Hobbit\|s}}".
35	* As a group, Molly still calls her young siblings "[[Franchise/StarWars Jawas]]".
36	* Detective Greene, according to Harry, is the sort of skeptic who watches ''[[TVDocumentary Nova]]'' and subscribes to ''Magazine/NationalGeographic''.
37	* Harry doubts that Mab could be acting erratic as Lily claims, citing how Creator/{{Shakespeare}} called her "constant as the northern star".
38	** He quotes Shakespeare directly to the Scarecrow, but it either doesn't recognize or doesn't appreciate the reference.
39	** He also "cries havoc", a la ''Julius Ceasar'', while blasting the Xenomorph-phobophage.
40	* Harry and Thomas exchange ''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan'' references.
41	* Lydia Stern wears a Music/{{Queensryche}} T-shirt.
42	* Loading up with equipment, Harry lists the things he's bringing and tops it off with [[ChristmasSongs a partridge in a pear tree]].
43	* Harry is unpleasantly reminded of Creator/RudyardKipling's "The Female Of The Species" when [[spoiler: Charity sees Molly come out of Harry's hotel bathroom, freshly showered]].
44	* The strain of holding his detection-web in place for hours makes Harry so weary that his hotel room feels like a toned-down Creator/MCEscher painting.
45	* Harry apparently practiced "[[FolkMusic House of the Rising Sun]]" on his guitar enough to make Thomas want to kill him.
46	* Asked if he's ever heard about yogis, Rawlins remembers Yogi Berra and WesternAnimation/YogiBear.
47	* Thomas mocks Madrigal in his best [[WesternAnimation/DudleyDoRight Snidely Whiplash]] villain voice.
48	* Mouse may not be a dog, but he'll do anything for a [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Scooby Snack]].
49	* Looking up from Little Chicago, Harry sees his own body looming over the miniature city like Franchise/{{Godzilla}}.
50	* [[WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers "Go team Dresden/Murphy!"]]
51	* A rather stunned Harry calls Charity "[[FolkHero John Henry]]" after seeing her arm up with ballistic armor, chain mail, helmet, broadsword, chain gloves and a ''massive'' war hammer.
52	** The sword she wields would have been at home on the set of ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982''.
53	** Thomas, once geared up similarly, looks like a high-fashion version of ''Film/TheRoadWarrior''.
54	* Busting into the fetch-occupied movie theater, Harry announces: [[Film/TheyLive "And I'm all outta bubble gum!"]]
55	* Harry calls Molly "Magellan" after she admits having [[spoiler: "explored" sexually]]. Then when he forbids further "exploration," he phrases it as, [[Franchise/StarTrek "No going where no man has gone before."]]
56	* Arctis Tor is like the Tower of London, the [[Comicbook/{{Superman}} Fortress of Solitude]], Fort Knox and Alcatraz combined.
57	** Finding that [[spoiler: somebody else already attacked the place]], Harry and Murphy trade "Literature/TheThreeLittlePigs" references.
58	* Harry agrees with Fix that the White Council is conducting its war too defensively, saying that [[TheStrategist Clausewitz]] would feel the same about it.
59	* "[[Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland Curiouser and curiouser...]]"
60	* Faced with an awkward social encounter, Harry longs to [[CartoonPhysics conjure a hole, hide inside, and pull it in after himself]], like WesternAnimation/BugsBunny. He quotes Bugs's "left turn at Albequerque" CatchPhrase.
61	* Molly cites the [[Literature/TheBible The Parable of the Talents]] to Charity. Harry cites Creator/StanLee and ''Comicbook/SpiderMan'' as a more concise way of saying the same thing.
62	* Harry jokes with Michael that maybe he should [[Myth/ArthurianLegend stick Fidelacchius in a big rock and leave it on the White House lawn]].
63	* Discussing the Black Council with Ebenezar, Harry quips that it's a better name for the unseen troublemakers who've been stirring up problems since the series began than the [[{{WesternAnimation/Superfriends}} Legion of Doom]].
64	* Darby Crane, [[spoiler:Madrigal Raith's horror movie director-persona, feeds on fear]]. Sounds like a reference to ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'''s Scarecrow, Jonathan Crane, who specializes in evoking and manipulating fear in people, or to [[Literature/TheLegendOfSleepyHollow Ichabod Crane]], whose name inspired the Scarecrow.

Context ShoutOut / ProvenGuilty