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.
* To ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} in the second book.
* Possibly to Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy with the tagline of book three- 'Do Panic' on the cover.
* The CthulhuMythos are discussed several times.
* To TheBlairWitchProject in book four.
* [[ShoutOutToShakespeare To Hamlet]] on the Book Four cover.
* 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''.
* There is a moment in the fifth book which references the "spanish inquisition" sketch from Monty Python.
* It was... [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus an ex- rabbit.]]
* One of the words used to [[spoiler: open the Crucible]] was "[[LordOfTheRings Mellon]]".
* Look out for the Empire Strikes Back reference in Book Five: "Not a scratch, Ghastly"
* There's a PosthumousCharacter named Trope in the third book. [[OneOfUs Coincidence? I think not.]]
* Valkyrie is worried about [[TheIncredibleHulk "hulking out"]] in book six.
* [[Franchise/{{Alien}} "Help, Sigourney Weaver! Help!"]]
* "Like [[SamuelLJackson Jules]], in ''Film/PulpFiction''?"
* "We're not [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]] and Series/{{Angel}}, OK? We're not RomeoAndJuliet. We're not those guys in ''Theatre/WestSideStory''. We're not even [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Edward and Bella]]."
* 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.
* [[spoiler: Darquesse]] mentions flying like {{Superman}}.
** 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.
* Tesseract might just be a ShoutOut to [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bane.]]
* [[spoiler: Beryl]] is apparently a [[Franchise/StarTrek Trekkie.]]
* Darquesse's knowledge of swordplay consists of [[ASongOfIceAndFire "the pointy end goes in the other person".]]
* Scapegrace, as a zombie [[spoiler: head in a jar]], notes that he had heard someone once say [[DoctorWho fezzes were cool.]]
* Ghastly giving relationship advice to [[spoiler: Fletcher]] in the chapter 'The Wisdom of Leonard Cohen'. He quotes [[LeonardCohen I'm Your Man]], saying it's something a friend of his once said.
* 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.
** The same Necromancer says, [[LordOfTheRings "You shall not pass!"]] when he confronts them.
* In the same book, Tanith quotes {{The Untouchables}} and is rather annoyed when nobody else gets the reference.
* "I watch things now. Shows. {{Gilmore Girls}}. 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 {{The West Wing}}. {{The Wire}}. I've watched that as well. Harrowing stuff, but I watched it. And {{Main/Buffy The Vampire Slayer}}. Now there was a show. {{Firefly}}, too. Cancelled before its time, that one."
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