Line #32 ShoutOut/SkulduggeryPleasant


1	It bears mentioning Derek Landy is a self-professed comic reader, gamer, movie geek, etc. Which is probably why there are so many of these.
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3	[[AC: Phase One Books]]
4	* The following exchange from the first book:
5	-->'''Valkyrie's mother:''' I love you.
6	-->'''Valkyrie:''' [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack I know.]]
7	* To ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} in the second book.
8	* Possibly to Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy with the tagline of book three's cover -- 'Do Panic'.
9	* The Franchise/CthulhuMythos is discussed several times.
10	* To ''Film/TheBlairWitchProject'' in book four.
11	* [[ShoutOutToShakespeare To Hamlet]] on the Book Four cover.
12	* Part of a chapter towards the end of the fifth book seems to be lifted straight out of a certain swordfight scene from ''Film/ThePrincessBride''.
13	* There is a moment in the fifth book which references the "spanish inquisition" sketch from Monty Python.
14	* It was... [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus an ex- rabbit.]]
15	* One of the words used to [[spoiler: open the Crucible]] was "[[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Mellon]]".
16	* Look out for the Empire Strikes Back reference in Book Five: "Not a scratch, Ghastly"
17	* Valkyrie is worried about [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk "hulking out"]] in book six.
18	* [[Franchise/{{Alien}} "Help, Sigourney Weaver! Help!"]]
19	* "Like [[Creator/SamuelLJackson Jules]], in ''Film/PulpFiction''?"
20	* "We're not [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]] and Series/{{Angel}}, OK? We're not Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet. We're not those guys in ''Theatre/WestSideStory''. We're not even [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Edward and Bella]]."
21	** Speaking of which, there's no way the Valkyrie and Caelan subplot wasn't meant to be a mocking {{Deconstruction}} of Literature/{{Twilight}}
22	* In book 6, when Carol and Crystal ask Valkyrie to teach them some "tricks", she tells them they're not called tricks, and the twins correct themselves to saying [[Series/ArrestedDevelopment "illusions"]] instead.
23	* [[spoiler: Darquesse]] mentions flying like Franchise/{{Superman}}.
24	** There's an earlier Superman reference in ''Playing With Fire'', where Valkyrie comments that Dusk ripping off his human skin is similar to how Clark Kent rips off his shirt.
25	* Tesseract might just be a ShoutOut to [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bane.]]
26	* [[spoiler: Beryl]] is apparently a [[Franchise/StarTrek Trekkie.]]
27	** Valkyrie [[spoiler: while pretending to be Darquesse]] references the Borg in ''The Dying of the Light'' when explaining to Alternate Mevolent why she's so good at adapting to new weaponry. She claims they taught her.
28	* Darquesse's knowledge of swordplay consists of [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire "the pointy end goes in the other person".]]
29	** While less likely, that one could ''also'' be a reference to Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Literature/TheCarpetPeople'', where a skilled fighter who is nonetheless clueless with swords is told "The blunt end goes in your hand and the sharp end goes in the enemy...remember which end is which."
30	** Or "The Mask of Zorro", where Murrieta says "The pointy end goes into the other man."
31	* Scapegrace, as a zombie [[spoiler: head in a jar]], notes that he had heard someone once say [[Series/DoctorWho fezzes were cool.]]
32	** From The Dying Of The Light: "She abandons the wheel, comes back over. "What a place, eh? Bigger on the inside. Like the TARDIS.""
33	* Ghastly giving relationship advice to [[spoiler: Fletcher]] in the chapter 'The Wisdom of Leonard Cohen'. He quotes [[Music/LeonardCohen I'm Your Man]], saying it's something a friend of his once said.
34	* In The Maleficent Seven, Tanith and Sanguine mention that they are both Harry Potter fans while ridiculing a Necromancer who uses an actual wand for magic. They're worried it might become a stereotype.
35	** The same Necromancer says, [[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing "You shall not pass!"]] when he confronts them.
36	* In the same book, Tanith quotes ''Film/TheUntouchables'' and is rather annoyed when nobody else gets the reference.
37	* Another in The Maleficent Seven, Saracen Rue [[Comicbook/XFactor knows stuff]].
38	* "I watch things now. Shows. ''Series/GilmoreGirls''. Have you seen it? I watch the reruns on television. They talk so fast on that show. I've never known anyone to talk so fast, except on ''Series/TheWestWing''. ''Series/TheWire''. I've watched that as well. Harrowing stuff, but I watched it. And ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Now there was a show. ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', too. Cancelled before its time, that one."
39	* Darquesse references Spiderman's WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility. She denies it immediately.
40	* The Maleficent Seven references [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk Indiana Jones; Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'s top men quote, with "Top. People."
41	* At the beginning of ''Kingdom of the Wicked'' with a discussion on [[SchrodingersButterfly whether a character is an insane man who thinks he's a butterfly or an insane butterfly who thinks he's a man.]]
42	* Cadaverous Gant from ''The Dying of the Light'' is [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} "master of his domain."]]
43	** Gant may also be a shout-out to [[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney another]], [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass seemingly-harmless old man]] with the same name.
44	* Numerous references to all the famous dragons in fiction when Valkyrie and the Monster Hunters think of a name for the dragon living in Gordon's caves, including [[Literature/TheHobbit Smaug,]] [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire Drogon,]] [[Franchise/MarvelUniverse Fin Fang Foom,]] and [[WesternAnimation/PuffTheMagicDragon Puff.]]
45	* Darquesse' power levels and origin are explained by her being directly compared to [[ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga Dark Phoenix]].
46	* "The Dying of the Light" has one to Series/ArrestedDevelopment when [[spoiler:Darquesse says to Argeddion]], "Illusions Michael."
47	* Valkyrie names her dog Xena after ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess''.
48	* Valkyrie quotes Series/TheOriginalSeries while impersonating Darquesse and names her dog Xena.
49	* Clarabelle and Thrasher/Gerald hum "that song from WesternAnimation/{{Frozen\|2013}}."
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51	[[AC: Phase Two Books]]
52	* "Oh, I'm not one of the chosen few who are lucky enough to hear the voice of [[Literature/{{TheTellTaleHeart}} the telltale heart]]."
53	* Valkyrie keeps calling the Leibniz Universe "Dimension X". Presumably as a nod to where Krang from ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' comes from.
54	* In ''Midnight'' when Rosemary offers Valkyrie a cup of tea, her husband Pádraig says "Go on, go on" as a nod to Mrs Doyle from ''Series/FatherTed''.
55	* When they see what Cadaverous Gant has done to the Midnight Hotel, Temper compares it to the [=TARDIS=] from ''Franchise/DoctorWho''.
56	* In ''Bedlam'' when they meet Cherise, Skulduggery says the Irish Sanctuary hasn't had much luck with administrators and compares them to the drummers from ''Film/SpinalTap''.
57	* Aurnia talks about music her family enjoys since coming to Skulduggery's dimension. She mentions ''Music/TheBeatles'', ''Music/TheMonkees'' and ''Music/FrankSinatra''.
58	* When Colleen asks Omen for help getting away from Abyssinia, she says "Help us Omen-One Kenobi. You're our only hope". A nod to Princess Leia's in the first ''Franchise/StarWars'' movie, ''Film/ANewHope''.
59	* When Fletcher see Nero wearing a black trench coat, he tells him he looks like he read ''Literature/TheCatcherInTheRye'' and raised his parents wardrobe.
60	* When Valkyrie looks after Alice, they both sing ''Crazy World'' by ''Music/{{Aslan}}''.
61	* When Valkyrie let's herself be captured by actors who are sacrificing young girls, she asks one of them if he played a dead cop alongside [[Creator/JeffBridges the guy]] from ''Film/TheBigLebowski''. Jason Randal points out that the movie was ''Film/{{RIPD}}'' and she's mixing him up with Creator/RyanReynolds.
62	* The shunter who bring Skulduggery and co. to the Leibniz Universe is a guy who chose the name Luke Skywalker after the ''Franchise/StarWars'' character. Tannith initially refuses to call him this and suggests [[Franchise/SpongeBobSquarePants SpongeBob]] instead.
63	* The book "Until the End" is dedicated to Tony Stark and Natasha Romanov for their actions in ''Film/AvengersEndgame''. The book ends with the message "Skulduggery Pleasant Will Return", similar to the messages that end many Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse solo films.

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