• Ah My Goddess
  • The Morisato clan on the planet Tomodachi
  • Skuld Ravenhair, mother of Corwin Ravenhair (with Gryphon)
  • By extension, Norse mythology, brought in so that the Norns exist within their proper framework.
  • Peorth is also known as Eris, and seems to favor that guise.

• Alien Nation
  • Moose MacEchearn's freshman year roommate at Worcester Prep was a Tenctonese boy named Davy Crockett.
  • Comments made by the WPI Dean of Student Life in Duelists of the Rose indicate that the events of the movie happened in the UF 'verse not long after first contact was made with Salusia.

• American Chopper
  • "Avalon Chopper"
  • Paul Teutul Sr., Obtenebrated Order of the Sith

• Animaniacs
  • Wakko, Yakko and Dot as alien orphans raised by Marty and Eiko Rose.
  • The Goodfeathers appear as bullying children at the Warners' old orphanage.
  • Rhita and Runntt are a Kilrathi and Sirian who escaped from a Cardassian prison.
  • Dr. Slappi Squirl is a Salusian ex-comedienne, and their most eminent cyberneticist.
  • Gryphon and Saavik have a "Pinky and the Brain" moment in Manhunt:
    Gryphon frowned. "Hmm." He turned away for a moment, rubbing his chin thoughtfully, and then caught Saavik's eye. "Are you pondering what I'm pondering, Commander Saavik?"
    
    "I believe so, Captain," Saavik replied, then added with perfect seriousness, "though I must point out that if they called them Sad Meals, children would not buy them."

• Apocalypse Now
  • Part of the plot to Fulcrum of Fate, Part IV, including Master Corto, is an homage to this film.

• Appleseed
  • Gryphon spent time as an ESWAT member during the Exile (in a very old story that may not quite be completely in canon anymore.)
  • Olympus was the capital of Earth before being destroyed by GENOM and superseded by Earthdome.

• Atomic Robo
  • Robo is the creation, assistant and social secretary of Nikola Tesla. Although Telsa began constructing him in the 1920s, he was abandoned, half-built, for 400 years and wasn't completed until around the turn of the 24th-25th centuries.

• The Aubrey–Maturin novels by Patrick O'Brian
  • A ship named the HMS Surprise in Manhunt.
  • Avast That Bloody Hammering Day (also in Manhunt).

• Babylon 5
  • The Babylon Foundation
  • Babylon 5 6, built in orbit around the planet Bajor. (It is commanded by Derek Bacon, and its staff includes several characters from Deep Space Nine.)
  • The Minbari, Centauri, Narn and Vorlons
  • 24th-25th Century Earth being governed by the Earth Alliance.
  • The Psi Corps.
  • B5-style hyperspace is known as "metaspace" in UF.
  • One of the peripheral characters during the first movement of Symphony of the Sword is G'Kron, nephew of G'Kar, student at Worcester Prep, and always outraged by some injustice or wrong (perceived or actual) committed by Authority.
  • G'Kron's roommate at WPI is Beld Marmo, a flamboyant and gay Centauri.

• Back To The Future
  • Doc Mui builds a DeLorean, and he and Marty Rose ape the movie.

• Battlestar Galactica
  • The Colonials are now settled on New Kobol.
  • Both versions of Galactica are represented — Kara "Starbuck" Thrace (new) for instance, is the daughter of Kent "Starbuck" Thrace (old).
  • Commander Cain of the Pegasus (old version, played by Lloyd Bridges).

• Battletech/Mechwarrior
  • In Second Chances, Corwin is seen finishing up the plans for the FNR-5 Fafnir assault 'Mech from Mechwarrior 4.
  • Various mecha in use throughout the galaxy.
  • Word Of God states that Solaris VII is an Earth / Salusian colony world with a thriving Humongous Mecha gladiatorial combat industry.

• Beowulf
  • Hikaru Shidou quotes from it at a key moment in Knights of the Tenth World, Part 2.

• The Biggles novels by WE Johns
  • Biggles is mentioned in several stories, and finally appears "on screen" in Tales of the Lensmen: Before Victory Comes Honor.

• The Big O
  • Corwin's limousine
  • The Rune God Orihalcon is The Big O.
  • The Arc Words "Cast In The Name Of God, Ye Not Guilty" are the motto inscribed on the weapon of every Valkyrie.
  • R. Dorothy Wayneright, drummer for the Art of Noise, and her "twin sister" RD, who is now an Ignatine nun. Both come originally from Kane's World.
  • Dorothy's cat Peril.

• Black Lagoon
  • The city of Roanapur, Thailand, visited in The Antianeira Incident.
  • The Black Lagoon Trading Company.
  • The Church of Violence.
  • Criminal boss Garcia Loveless, who is an adult version of a nine-year-old seen in the series.

• Blood Plus
  • It has been established that Saya Otonashi exists in the UF universe; she appears as part of a rather esoteric squad in a trailer for an upcoming "New Frontier" storyline.

• Bubblegum Crisis
  • Largo, GENOM
  • The series plot in its entirety took place on New Japan. Another version may have occured on Earth in the early 21st century.
  • Priss Asagiri discovered that she was the lost heiress to the Asagiri katsujinkenryu swordmanship style.
  • Kei and Yuri each named a daughter for characters from BGC — Priss Morgan and Sylvie Daniels.
  • Gryphon's AI "secretary"/major domo/general factotum is Vision, based on a flesh-and-blood Reika Chang.

• Buck Godot Zap Gun For Hire
  • The planet Hoffman and the offshoot of humanity that lives there.

• Buck Rogers In The 25th Century
  • The television version of Buck's "origin story" has been merged with the end of Captain America's World War Two career to get a different Captain Rogers into the twenty-fifth century.

• Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons
  • At the end of Day of Infamy it was revealed that the Mysterons are behind the galaxy's most recent upheavals.
  • Earlier, the Mysterons duplicated Yuri Daniels for a sabotage attempt; this led her to gain Scarlet's retro-metabolic abilities.
  • "Lunarville VII" references the moon colony Lunarville-7.

• City Of Heroes
  • The Sky Raiders plague New Avalon.
  • Superadine and Shift are street-level drugs.

• Connections
  • Host James Burke is a Time Lord.

• Cowboy Bebop
  • Ed and Ein were part of Kaitlyn's social circle in her freshman year of high school
  • Utena's first personal starfighter is the same model as Spike's fighter.

• CSI
  • Las Vegas is night shift in the IPO headquarters CSI division; Miami is the day shift.
  • Gil and Sara are humanized Salusians; Greg is a Dantrovian.
  • Catherine Willows' daughter Lindsay is a student at Deedlit Satori Mandeville Memorial Institute, where she is a member of the Duelists' Society and the Order of the Rose.

• Cthulhu Mythos
  • Yuggoth is the largest moon of the tenth planet of the Solar System, Persephone.

• Dai Guard
  • R. Dorothy Wayneright pilots the Dai-Guard during the Big Fire attack on New Avalon in A Night To Remember.

• Damnation Alley
  • The Landmaster hostile environment vehicle shows up in Manhunt.

• DC Comics
  • Batman
    • Kane's World is home to a dynasty of Batmen, one of whom was Gryphon during the Exile.
  • The Creeper
    • Jack Ryder appears as the host of televised appearance of the Art of Noise during a stop in New Gotham on Kane's World, in Second Chances.
  • Enemy Ace
    • Hans von Hammer appears as a member of Big Fire's Magnificent Ten (and a former opponent and later friend of Biggles) in Tales of the Lensmen: Before Victory Comes Honor.
  • Flash
    • In addition to all three generations of canon Flashes being present in the setting, Sara Sidle of the IPO CSI recently suffered an accident that connected her to the Speed Force.
  • Green Lantern
    • Wakaba Shinohara's Lens and sorcerous talents interacted unexpectedly, making her equivalent to the Silver Age Green Lantern
    • Alan Scott, the Golden Age Green Lantern, is present somewhere in the setting.
  • The Legion Of Super Heroes
    • Several characters are members of the IPO, either as regular agents or as part of AEGIS.
    • Saturn's moon of Titan, a Zeta Cygni protectorate, has become a gathering place for telepaths trying to escape the Psi Corps.
  • Martian Manhunter
    • J'onn J'onnz's race of Green Martians, called Malacandrans, are one of four species native to the UF-verse Mars.
  • Sandman
    • Death appeared at one of Gryphon's Christmas parties. She and Megazone have a daughter, based on "Didi" from ''Death: The High Cost of Living".
  • Starman
    • Kei Morgan eventually gained ownership of Starman's Cosmic Rod.
  • Superman
    • Krypton exploded in the early 23th century, but not before the Wedge Defense Force evacuated most of the planet's population to New Krypton.
    • Superman briefly existed at some point in the history of the UF verse, but disappeared and is presumed dead, probably murdered by General Zod as part of his vendetta against the El family.
    • Kara "Supergirl" Zor-el arrived at Zeta Cygni in cryonic suspension via a slower-than-light capsule in the early 25th century, and now resides in New Avalon.
    • Adam Savage of the Mythbusters is a Kryptonian.
  • Teen Titans
    • The animated version of the Titans operates out of New Avalon, after borrowing the Legion's origin story rescuing R.J. Brande.
    • Raven is Gryphon's protege/apprentice.
    • "Trigon" is the name taken by the demonically-empowered shade of the late Akio Ohtori, who is also Raven's father.
    • Slade Wilson is a member of the GI Joe taskforce, codename: "Snake-Eyes" — alongside his brother, Wade, a.k.a. "Deadpool".
  • Wonder Woman
    • Diana "Wonder Woman" Prince is a member of the Experts of Justice in the early 25th century. Her history is roughly the same as the Post Crisis version, only shifted forward five centuries. (Instead of Steven Trevor visiting Themiscyra during World War Two, though, it was Steven Rogers.)

• Dirty Pair
  • The WWWA existed during the Golden Age; the United Galactica was the interplanetary government before the United Federation of Planets superceded it.
  • Kei is married to Gryphon, Yuri is married to Megazone.
  • Their daughters Priss and Sylvie will essentially recapitulate their partnership when they reach their late teens-early twenties.

• Discworld
  • The UF-verse equivalent of Death shows up as Redneck's "case worker" during the Freespacer stories.
  • Nobby Nobbs also shows up amongst the Freespacer contingent after the Ragnarok Incident — typically trying to steal something, in this case a large gold shield. Which he claimed was from a gift shop.
    • In fairness, he had a receipt. Unfortunately, it was written in crayon.

• Doctor Who
  • Gallifrey exists separate from the universe but linked to it.
  • James Burke of PBS' Connections is a Time Lord.
  • The Daleks and Cybermen exist, but are shattered into various factions, including several allied to the Federation.
  • Rose Tyler, former companion of the Doctor, is now an actress playing his fictional counterpart Professor Enigma on the BBC-TV program of the same name. The Doctor, under the name "John Smith", has appeared in one adventure and proved so popular that there is talk of giving him his own series.

• Dune
  • Ancient history in the UF 'Verse, predating even Atlantis.
  • Darth Vader is Anakyn shar Atrados, a descendant of Paul Atrados ("Atreides") (and also the son of Nemo and brother of Nadia from Nadia The Secret Of Blue Water)
  • Salusa Secundus, the world where the Sardaukar trained, was also the homeworld of the Salusians from Ninja High School.

• Dungeons And Dragons
  • The "blink dog", a teleporting canine from the game, exists on several worlds in the UF 'verse. A ship seen in Page of Swords is named after them.
  • Utena's horse Thunderbolt is, according to Word Of God, a paladin's warhorse, with all the special abilities from the game it implies.
  • At least one of the "ancient Asgardian spells" Corwin employs appears to be from D&D — a variant of "Dimenson Door".

• Earthdawn
  • The lizardlike T'skrang from the world of Barsaive come from this roleplaying setting.

• El Hazard The Magnificent World
  • Ifurita, the ancient Mandalorian android/weapons system.
  • Roving reporter Nanami Jinnai.
  • Fatora and Makoto Morisato, fraternal twin children of Belldandy and Keiichi Morisato.
  • Afura Mann, daughter of Yuri Daniels and avatar character Larry Mann.

• Emergency
  • Appearances by the main characters

• Equilibrium
  • The Grammaton Clerics appear as the Ignatine Order, and are considerably more benevolent than they are in the source.

• Excel Saga
  • Excel Excel is an AI created by Corwin with a beta version of a "For dummies" kit he was given to try out.
  • Hyatt is a member of AEGIS and a Martian Manhunter-style Martian. Her canon sickliness was here a side effect of an illegal procedure she underwent to "lock" her shapeshifting abilities.
  • Marty Rose takes on the persona of Ilmartello in his position as commander of ACROSS — the Avalon County Robot Offensive Support Squad.

• Farscape
  • While in a Parisian cafe, Juri and Kate spot a human girl and a Nebari girl (who from the description might be late teenage/early twenties versions of Aeryn and Chianna) who are apparently on a date, during the events of The Rose that Blooms in the City of Light.
  • Gryphon quotes Crichton's line "I love hangin' with you, man" several times in Manhunt.

• Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas/Hunter S. Thompson in general
  • Raoul Duke/Hunter Thompson plays a major part in Manhunt, and apparently joined an expedition to a Halo.

• Full Metal Panic
  • In part 5 of Manhunt, Gryphon asks Colonel Dashiell Faireborne if he has an ARM Slave handy.

• GaoGaiGar
  • Gai Morgan's destiny and mecha.

• Genesis Climber Mospeada
  • The WDF has been using the Cyclone (MOSPEADA) Powered Armor and the Alpha(Legioss) Transforming Mecha since the early days of the Core.
  • GENOM used Ikazuchi cruisers before switching to Galactic Empire equipment.
  • "Scott Bernard" was a meta-fictional in-joke about the Macross Missile Massacre who turned into a Memetic Badass over the years — until a GENOM splinter cell missed the joke and created a "Scott Bernard" boomer to infiltrate the WDF. The project was mothballed with the fall of the WDF, and inevitably "Scott" awoke and escaped to become a Phlebotinum Rebel during the Exile, without realizing his true nature. He later plays a key role in Manhunt.

• Getter Robo
  • Designed and built by Corwin, and gets considerable screen time in both A Night To Remember and Hunter Rose.
  • Getter radiation is responsible for a number of ... unusual accidents, among others the Incredible Hulk.

• Ghostbusters
  • A franchise operation in the UF universe, one branch of which got itself in trouble by interfering in a date between Raven and Hellboy.
  • It's implied that Gryphon knew the original Ghostbusters (in their animated avatars) because he insists on calling Ito of Gunnm "Egon" (the two are drawn very similarly).
  • Numerous variations on Egon's "I'm terrified beyond all rational thought" line appear throughout the stories, not to mention "I like this plan. I'm proud to be a part of it."

• Ghost In The Shell
  • "The Major" accompanied Ed Tivrusky when she appeared at Utena and Anthy's wedding.

• Giant Robo
  • Big Fire is a galactic-scale enemy in UF; its leaders, agents and mooks are frequently seen.
  • The IPO is Gryphon's creation to take up the more police-like duties of the old WDF.
  • The Experts of Justice are an elite group within the IPO.
  • Corwin built six-inch-tall Tiny Robo for Utena when he was 13.
  • An Older And Wiser Yuri has traded in her Battle Bikini for Kenji Murasame's pink trenchcoat (now that she has the Nigh Invulnerability to go with it).
  • Utena's standard wardrobe as an adult is inspired in part by Ginrei's outfit in a piece of promotional artwork for Giant Robo: The Night the Earth Stood Still.

• Godzilla, Gamera and other Toho kaijuu films
  • Gojira Nakamura
  • Wapiko Overstreet encountered Gamera, or a creature so close as to make no difference.
  • In Aegis Florea 2, Raymond Burr has a cameo that evokes his role in the Americanized version of Godzilla.

• Gold Digger
  • The Diggers girls appear, although never as a group. Gina Shannon appears as one of Washuu's students in "Wilderness"; Brittany Shannon was a Kilrathi fighter pilot who was found on the Delphinus at the end of "Twilight".

• Gunbuster
  • Noriko became the mentor, first love interest, and eventual adoptive "daughter" of PCHammer after suffering 200 years of Time Dilation (and the loss of Kazumi).
    • That's not all she suffered... which resulted in her going Ax Crazy for a while. Then she got shot in the head, which didn't quite kill her but did give her Laser Guided Amnesia. She got better. In the Future Imperfect era, it seems the universe has finally decided to cut her a break.

• Gundam
  • Domon Kasshu from G Gundam is a champion mecha arena-fighter.
  • The WDF fought a One-Year war with the Principality of Zeon.

• Gunnm
  • Alita Ironheart (nicknamed "Gally" by Gryphon), cyborg initially rebuilt by Gryphon and Ito, then rebuilt again by Skuld using Transformers-style technology, and who then became a Valkyrie.
  • The setting of the series is located on a colony world.

• Halo
  • John Spartan, the Master Chief, is a Salusian soldier from the SPARTAN-II supersoldier program, lifted apparently straight from the Halo novels.
  • Chad Collier, Raoul Duke and Ezri Tigan apparently had an extended adventure on a Halo, according to a throwaway comment in Clarion Call.
  • The Covenant have recently (re)appeared on the galactic scene, and were involved with the overthrow of the Klingon Republic.
  • Tuncer, the Last Elite.
  • Chips Dubbo of the Repo Men.
  • Covenant forces attack the colony world New Woking in the ministory "The Honor of Mars: A War Story".

• Harry Potter
  • Various Hogwarts students — most notably Harry, Hermione, Ron and Malfoy — show up as padawans in the Jedi temple on Alderaan.

• Hellboy
  • In addition to working for the IPO's "weird stuff" division, Hellboy is also a high school teacher in New Avalon.

• Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot
  • Poirot and Hastings play a prominent role in one story. Indeed, the little Belgian is apparently a Jedi of some rank.

• His Dark Materials
  • Iorek Byrnison from The Golden Compass appears in a recent story.

• The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy
  • Numerous references, including Jedi masquerading as researchers for the Guide.
  • Entries from the Guide can occasionally be found as extras in the EPU forums.

• House
  • House and Wilson are currently on the run from Earth Alliance authorities.
  • Dr. Allison Cameron is on the special trauma team at Philip Boyce Memorial Medical Center in New Avalon.

• Iczer-1
  • Several Iczers made appearances in the Core, but have rarely been seen since then.

• The Illuminatus Trilogy
  • MegaZone serves as a representative of Eris in Midgard.
  • In Manhunt, Raoul Duke says "The Eschaton is imminent!", echoing the novel's repeated line "Immanentize the Eschaton".
  • The accidentally intelligent computer system FUCKUP.
  • In general, the Core stories are heavily sprinkled with Illuminatus! references.

• In Nomine
  • Despite heaven working by Norse rules (Asgard/Valhalla), with Odin in charge, there are apparently Abrahamic angels out and about, including an Ofanite pizza delivery guy.

• Invader Zim
  • Zim is the "greatest Invader" Irk ever produced and spearheads the Irken forces in Day of Infamy.
  • Gaz is a naturalized Irken citizen, fitted with Invader gear.
  • Dib is a member of Psi Corps.
  • There is an Irken Jedi Master at the main temple on Alderaan.

• I, Robot (film)
  • The Nestor 5 robots appear as Federated Robotics Nestor Series 5. Buster, crack crash test dummy of the Mythbusters, is an NS-5.

• The Iron Giant
  • The Giant and Hogarth are briefly seen on Cybertron in a trailer for an upcoming "New Frontier"-era storyline.

• John Carter Of Mars (by Edgar Rice Burroughs)
  • The Malacandrans, the shapeshifting Martians of DC Comics, share the fourth planet with Red and Green "Barsoomian" Martians. (Plus the Sarmak — see the entry for War Of The Worlds, below.)
  • Earth forces fought a brief war with the Red Martians after 21st-century terraforming restored enough of the planet's biosphere to awaken the Martians from the hibernation they'd put themselves in. (The war was complicated by the presence of a third side that both of the other two mistook as part of the other's forces.)
  • Dejah Thoris and John Carter are historical figures from this period.
  • The city of Helium has been re-settled and is a popular destination for tourists.
  • A mixed force of Martian mercenaries — including Red Martians and Tharks — facing an invading Covenant force are the focus of the ministory "The Honor of Mars: A War Story".

• Judge Dredd
  • The Zardon justice system, which essentially rules the planet after the royal family was deposed.
  • Sara Sidle has a Judge's gun, awarded to her by the Zardon government for her efforts in apprehending a particular criminal.

• Kingyo Chuihou
  • "Sound Goldfish Warning!"
  • Wapiko is Washuu and Redneck's daughter

• Left 4 Dead
  • Various elements of the forum-published ministory Guns 4 Hire.

• The Legend Of Zelda
  • The planet Hyrule, which appears to have been settled by colonists from Alfheim.

• Lensman
  • Apparently fictional within the setting, but inspired Skuld to create the Lenses used by the IPO and selected others.

• Livewires
  • Social Butterfly and Gothic Lolita appear in The Antianeira Incident.

• The Lord Of The Rings
  • Implied to be ancient celestial history.
  • Vaettir ("hobbits") are native to the Shire, which is located somewhere near Alfheim in the upper planes.
    • A (female) namesake descendant of Peregrine "Pippin" Took attends Tenjou Academy in Cephiro and is part of its student council.
  • Nall's full dragon form resembles Smaug from the Rankin-Bass version of The Hobbit.

• Lost Universe
  • An unknown person — possibly a future incarnation of himself — gave John "Truss" Trussell the Swordbreaker, complete with AI Canal running it.

• Love Hina
  • Kaolla Su provided character design inspiration for Azalynn dv'Ir Natashkan.
  • Naru Narusegawa also makes a brief cameo as an IPO intern in Rediscovery.

• Lunar game series (Lunar Legend, Lunar: The Silver Star and Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete)
  • Mia Ausa, half-Minbari daughter of John Trussell.
  • Nall Silverclaw, Corwin's dragon life-mate.
  • Ruby, the as-yet unhatched dragon life-mate of Corwin and Anthy's as-yet unborn child.

• Magic Knight Rayearth
  • Cephiro is fused with the setting of Revolutionary Girl Utena to create The Tenth World, a previously-unsuspected demiworld existing between the mortal world and the lowest of the heavens.
  • The Rayearth storyline is pivotal to the ultimate conclusion of the first two parts of Symphony of the Sword.
  • Hikaru is a Salusian, Umi is a Hyrulian elf, and Fuu is the daughter of the ambassador to Zeta Cygni from Funkotron.

• Marathon
  • Durandal appears as an AI originally installed in the Worcester Prep computer system but "liberated" by Ed Tivrusky and Ein after he manages to achieve stable rampancy. Gryphon has hinted in his annotations to The Duelists of the Rose that Durandal's presence at WPI was an accident, and that he was in fact a very dangerous piece of engineering that should never have been installed at a high school.
    • A later mini-story has shown that Durandal was active during Crossroads, and arranged to have his core intelligence installed at WPI for reasons not yet revealed. He also has the insanely powerful warship Marathon hidden somewhere.

• Marvel Comics
  • Captain America
    • Revived in the 24th century instead of the late 20th/early 21st, working as an administrator for the IPO.
    • The end of Cap's World War Two career has been merged with the "origin story" of the television version of Buck Rogers to get a different Captain Rogers into the twenty-fifth century.
    • The Red Skull has somehow survived into the 25th century as well, as the last true Nazi.
  • The Incredible Hulk
    • The UF version of Bruce Banner was working with Getter Radiation, not Gamma.
  • Iron Man
    • Tony Stark is a friend of Gryphon's, and his company produces military hardware for the IPO. His most recent creation is a prototype robot called EVE.
  • Spider-Man
    • Jedi Master Peter B. "Tiger" Parker.
  • X-Men / X-Men Evolution
    • Due to an accidental interdimensional transport, there are two versions of many of the X-Men in the UF universe — a young, local version (mostly students at Beiwiru High School on Tomodachi, taught by Time Lord Don Griffin) and their older, displaced counterparts.
    • Super-sentinel Nimrod is active and has accepted his evolution into a fully free-willed individual, and calls himself Nimrod-X.
  • Other
    • Ben Grimm and Victor von Doom, transported from Marvel Earth, have opened up a detective agency together.
    • Madripoor, a city on the world Gulo.

• M*A*S*H
  • A distant namesake descendant of B.J. Hunnicutt, also a doctor, is on the special trauma team at Philip Boyce Memorial Medical Center in New Avalon.
  • "Hawkeye" is used several times as a nickname for a surgeon.

• The Mask
  • MegaZone apparently wore the Mask several times; Loki possessed him through it at the beginning of "Twilight".

• Mass Effect
  • The M29 Grizzly AFV appears in Manhunt.
  • The Strenuus system.

• The Matrix
  • Brother Thomas "Neo" Anderson of the Ignatine order.
  • Morpheus Windu, unorthodox Jedi and brother of Mace Windu.
  • Wachowski-MX74 IV, a world beyond the outer rim, duplicates the "real" world shown in The Matrix, complete with squidbots.

• Max Headroom
  • Edison Carter, Theora and Network 23 are key players in the Galactic media scene.
    • Carter runs the Network 23 news division; Author Avatar John Trussell works as a roving reporter for N23.
  • Big Time TV is a much smaller but still galaxy-wide outfit, and employs Nanami Jinnai as its entire news division.
  • Devlin Carter is the nephew of Edison Carter, despite his British accent and upper-class twit act.

• Mazinger Z
  • Lesser Mazinger, a six-inch-tall robot Corwin built for his sister Kaitlyn when he was 13.

• Megazone 23
  • Well, Megazone, of course.
  • The Bahamode/Garland motorcycle appears in several stories and artworks, starting with the Core.
  • EVE, Spaceship Girl of the SDF-17 and Deus Est Machina. (Not to be confused with EVE of Wall-E, who also has entered the stories.)

• Moldiver
  • Mirai and Hiroshi Morisato, the two oldest children of Belldandy and Keiichi Morisato.
  • Hiroshi was well on his way to becoming Moldiver when he instead became Ultraman.

• The Muppet Show
  • A Mr. J.C. Statler (of the Boston Pops) heckled a "true artist" at a music symposium in The Rose that Blooms in the City of Light.

• MythBusters
  • M5 Industries operates out of New Avalon and produces, as in the real world, the Mythbusters program.
  • Run by Adam Savage (a Kryptonian) and Jamie Hyneman (a Jedi master).
  • Kari is from Bgtzl, homeworld of Phantom Girl in Legion of Super Heroes, and like all the people of her planet can phase through solid objects.
  • When Scottie left, she was replaced by Bastila Shan.
  • Buster is an NS-5 robot from the movie I, Robot.
  • In Second Chances, the Mythbusters are seen on TV attempting to recreate "the famous 'Captain James Kirk makes a cannon on a primitive planet' legend," as seen in the original Trek episode "Arena".

• Nadia The Secret Of Blue Water
  • An adult Nadia is a Wrench Wench, and a long-standing member of the Wedge Defense Force.
  • The Atlanteans are a long-dead Precursor race in UF — Nadia and her brother Anakyn (Darth Vader) are the only survivors.

• Neon Genesis Evangelion
  • Misato Katsuragi is an officer in ACROSS, the Avalon County Robot Offensive Support Squad.
  • New Avalon is underlaid with civil defense tunnels, which have launch shafts up to various intersections.
  • Shinji and Asuka are powerful psis pursued by Big Fire.
  • Rei Ayanami was a failed Big Fire experiment in genetic engineering, raised by Marty and Eiko Rose.
  • Unit Two makes a cameo appearance at the end of Knights of the Tenth World, Part 2 and the beginning of Knights of the Tenth World, Part 3 as a monstrous golem intended to delay or thwart the Rune Knights.

• Ninja High School
  • Source of Salusia and its queen Asrial, along with the technology that lets these skunklike aliens blend in with humans if they so wish.
  • Also source of Zardon, home of the Judges in UF. Zardon princess Leanna became a Judge.
  • Quagmire and Jeremy Feeple are mentioned in the stories that tell of the founding of the Freespacers.
  • Jeremy is a consort of Asrial and a high-level diplomat. He has also suffered a Cerebus Retcon, making his average appearance into an unnatural ability to be ignored.

• Noir
  • Kirika Yuumira makes an appearance in a trailer for an upcoming "New Frontier" storyline.

• Norse Pantheon
  • Are the only true divinities in the setting, although a number of gods in various belief systems are actually just aliases for Norse deities.
  • Ragnarok.
  • Surtur, who (having failed to set off the end of everything with Ragnarok) appears to be the ultimate Big Bad behind everything right now.

• Oni
  • Geoff Depew has been implanted with a Daodan symbiote during his time with Big Fire.
  • Konoko makes an appearance during "Icebreaker/Thankless"

• Outlanders (Manga)
  • The Santovasku Empire (another race of Precursors) used Sith sorcery to rule much of the galaxy until Princess Kahm Santova's rebellion against her father caused it all to collapse. Larry Mann's avatar, displaced in time, has been hinted to be involved.
  • Princess Kahm Santova was Darth Vader's original apprentice several thousand years before the current era; like Vader, her first name has become misconstrued as a title and has been used thus by generations of female Sith.
    • Rianna Santova, Kahm's daughter, became a freelance space trader and "Grey" Sith during the Exile.
  • Aki and her Superpowered Evil Side Jilehr appear as the split-personality AI secretary of Larry Mann's avatar.

• Phantasy Star Online
  • Source of the planet Ragol (home of Janice Barlow), photon weapons, frames, and Hunters.
    • Janice Barlow has been known to carry a Varista and a Justy 23ST.

• Pirates Of Dark Water
  • Hyeruulians curse in a very distinctive manner. It's been implied that the seas of Hyeruul bear some resemblance to Mer.

• Pitch Black
  • Richard B. Riddick appears as a sapient dog, possibly bionically-augmented, who frequently accompanies Xander Cage.

• Popful Mail
  • A certain Hyeruulian named Mayl Poppf'l.

• Powerpuff Girls
  • The Utonium sisters were an early Big Fire project that was discovered and liberated; they grew up in New Avalon.
  • Mojo Jojo is a mad genius native to Heston's Planet.

• Project A-Ko
  • Eiko Rose is A-Ko.

• Read Or Die
  • Yomiko Readman is an IPO agent.
  • Kitty "Shadowcat" Pryde is described in one story as having mastered Miss Deep's technique of slowing herself down from a fall by partially interacting with solid objects she's moving through.

• Record Of Lodoss War
  • Provided the name of character Deedlit Satori Mandeville.
  • Beld Marmo, the flamboyantly gay Centauri roommate of perpetually-dour Narn G'Kron during Kaitlyn and Utena's freshman year at Worcester Prep, is named for Emperor Beld of Marmo.

• Red Vs Blue
  • The Repo Men, the 131st Special Mission Force, Tactical Division, of the International Police Organization.

• Revolutionary Girl Utena
  • The setting of this series is fused with Cephiro from Magic Knight Rayearth to create The Tenth World, a previously-unsuspected demiworld existing between the mortal world and the lowest of the heavens.
  • Utena is a major player in the galaxy thanks to the events of Symphony Of The Sword.
  • Akio Ohtori is a high-level big bad even after he's killed.

• RoboCop
  • Delta City, the capital of New Detroit.
  • The existence of the television program It's Not My Problem! (source of the deathless catchphrase "I'll buy that for a dollar!").
  • Gryphon brings along a Super Prototype ED-209 in "Rite of Passage".

• The Rocketeer
  • The aerial police force of New Avalon.

• Ronin Warriors
  • Among the forces among Akio Ohtori's "students" at the Ohtori Institute in the demiworld of Oriphos are the villain group from this series.

• Rush
  • Very much like the song of the same name, the black hole Cygnus X-1 is a gateway to Asgard.

• Sailor Moon
  • Usagi Tsukino appears as the childhood friend of Nene Romanova in an Exile-period PC Hammer story.
  • Makoto "Kilovolt" Kino, superpowered former Big Fire operative, in the Future Imperfect era.

• Sakura Taisen
  • Events of the series, OVAs and games all take place on the Japanese colony world Ishiyama.
  • During the Exile, Gryphon (under the alias "Peter Moreau") initially filled the role occupied by Ichiro Ohgami in the first few installments, until he was forced to fake his death and flee the planet. Ohgami then replaced him.
  • Kohran is a Salusian and Kanna is a Hoffmanite (a petite, delicate Hoffmanite, at that).

• Science Ninja Team Gatchaman
  • Galactor makes a number of appearances as a galaxy-wide enemy a step or two below Big Fire in its threat level.

• Serial Experiments Lain
  • Lain Iwakura makes an appearance in a trailer for an upcoming "New Frontier" storyline.

• The Shadow
  • One of Gryphon's identities over the centuries.
  • Kaitlyn has learned the "power to cloud men's minds" from her father.

• Shadowrun
  • Aztechnology is a major corporation based in New Avalon.
  • Shiori Takatsuki, after becoming a netrunner during college, owns a Fairlight Excalibur cyberdeck.

• Short Circuit
  • "Johnny Five" robots have been mentioned, and their manufacturer also produced the WALL-E series of trash compactor droids.

• The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut

• Skies Of Arcadia
  • Vyse, Aika, Fina, and the Delphinus make an appearance during "Twilight".

• The Slayers
  • Corwin has used "ancient" spells such as the "Ragna Blade".
  • Wakaba's destruction of the Black Omega complex on Tau Ceti IV using her ring is explicitly described as resembling the Dragon Slave enough that those familiar with the "Old Sorceries" would recognize it as such.

• Stargate
  • The IPO maintains a more-or-less secret stargate network.
  • Symphony of the Sword character Devlin Carter, according to Word Of God, has a cousin named Samantha whom he hasn't seen in years.

• Star Trek
  • This is a "whew, where to begin?" entry. There's a lot of Trek in UF.
  • Original, TNG, Voyager and Enterprise all contribute considerable material and characters.
  • The Final Reflection, a Trek novel by John M. Ford, provides one of the two Klingon languages, klingonaase, the notion of the "Black Fleet" in the Klingon afterlife, and the show-within-a-fic Battlecruiser Vengeance.
  • The current government of known space is the United Federation of Planets, but it is increasingly becoming a puppet of the Earth government's policies.
  • Deedlit Satori Mandeville Memorial Institute is located on Jerrado, a moon of Bajor, not far from Babylon 6.
  • In Second Chances, the Mythbusters are seen on TV attempting to recreate "the famous 'Captain James Kirk makes a cannon on a primitive planet' legend," as seen in the original Trek episode "Arena".
  • Freespacer Harcourt Mudd "Mac" McKenzie from Worcester Prep is a distant relative of Harcourt Fenton Mudd of TOS infamy.
  • B'Ellana Torres first appears as a 13-year-old runaway who is adopted figuratively by the Duelists at Deedlit Satori Mandeville Memorial Institute and literally by her mentor, Chief Miles O'Brien.
  • Farius Prime, from an episode of DS 9, is mentioned in The Antianeira Incident.
  • Likewise source of a reference to Rigel VII as a planet of criminals.

• Star Wars
  • As with Star Trek, this is a "whew, where to begin?" entry.
  • Many of the worlds from the Star Wars galaxy are present in UF — Corellia, Tatooine, Alderaan, Dantooine.
  • Genom's military arm uses Galactic Empire equipment, up to and including the Death Star GENOM Armored Tyranny & Terror. (Which acronym referenced the uncanny resemblance to the Death Star that the logo AT&T used during the 1990s bore.)
  • A great deal of Episodes I-IV is ancient history; Darth Vader put himself into cryonic suspension and was recently revived. Similarly, Obi-wan Kenobi was somewhat accidentally resurrected from the Force.
  • Until recently, the Jedi have been scattered and isolated, with no central organization, as a result of Vader's purge millenia before. This has recently changed with the IPO's backing and the founding of a new main temple on Alderaan.
  • Padme Amidala, Naboo, and its troubles, however, are current events; the Federation that blockaded it, though, was The United Federation of Planets.
    • The Gungans, however, are not native to Naboo, but instead are the indigenous population of Funkotron.
  • Bastila Shan from Knights Of The Old Republic suffered a brief fall to the dark side and is retraining under Master Jamie Hyneman of the Mythbusters.
    • HK-47 from KOTOR accompanies Rei Ayanami.
    • A minor character from KOTOR, a Twi'lek Jedi named Zaerdra, appears as a member of the Jedi council in The Revolution Will Be Televised.
  • Gryphon's personal ship, the Daggerdisc, is based on the same model freighter as the Millennium Falcon.
  • Boba Fett is a teenager at Deedlit Satori Mandeville Memorial Institute and current president of the Duelists chapter there.
    • A recent story tells of how he fell into the Sarlacc during the rescue of a friend and how he got back out.
  • The Solo twins, Jane and Jason, are the current owners of the Millennium Falcon and are, like their father before them, somewhat ethically-flexible smugglers.
  • Anakin Skywalker is Kyouichi Saionji's apprentice. And a different person from Darth Vader, who is Anakyn shar Atrados (given "Skywalker" as a pilot callsign millenia ago). The two have not yet met.
  • The use of "The Final Jump" as a euphemism for death comes from Brian Daley's Han Solo novels, as does greel wood, which in UF grows on Salusia.
  • The Telgorn DX-9 Military Transport from an old TIE Fighter game appears in Manhunt.

• Super Dimension Fortress Macross, and its sequels and spinoffs.
  • Reflex engines and guns.
  • Fold drives.
  • The Inertia-Vector flight control system.
  • "SDF" is a standard ship designation for especially large warcraft.
  • The first Wedge Defense Force ship, the SDF Wayward Son, was a Macross-class craft.
  • Max and Myria Sterling, and their many daughters (from both Macross and Robotech.)

• Team Fortress 2
  • The Sniper appears as "Mr. Lowrie" in Prescott's Bluff, a ministory posted to the EPU forums in June 2009.

• Tech Romancer
  • Armored Knight G-Kaiser, which makes an appearance in A Night To Remember, comes from this Capcom 3D fighting game (which itself is a thinly-disguised megacrossover of several giant robot series).

• Tenchi Muyo
  • Jurai is located inside a nebula in the Enigma Sector, and as a result is somewhat isolationist and difficult to get to; as a result its military power is often underestimated. (It's spelled Jyurai due to the early fansubs which inspired the creative team.)
  • Washuu (likewise spelled "Wasyuu" because of its usage in early fansubs) is married to Kris "Redneck" Overstreet.
  • Ayeka is married to Rob Shannon and is the mother of the Princess Achika.
  • An adult Sasami is the current Empress of Jyurai.

• ToeJam & Earl In Panic On Funkotron
  • Names of the planets Funkotron and Funkorama.

• Top Gear
  • The Stig appears as a mysterious "white knight" coming to the aid of those in need in the Christmas 2008 ministory The Sandero Affair.
  • Top Gear itself is implied to exist as a Show Within A Show within UF.

• Transformers
  • Cybertron is a part of the galactic civilization.
  • Autobots are everywhere humans are, practically.
  • The Beast Warriors entered the UF-verse from a parallel dimension.

• Tron
  • Don Griffin demonstrates Kevin Flynn's "digitizer" to his high school students at the start of one story, and implies the events of the movie are historical fact.

• Uchuu Senkan Yamato / Star Blazers
  • Wave motion guns and engines.
  • The Gamilon Empire and its leader Desslok Dessler.
    • Dessler is the father of Princess Amanda and Prince Garon Dessler.
  • The Salusian Navy uses the EDF's capital ship designs.

• Ultraman
  • One of the first times Hiroshi Morisato tests his Mol unit, he is involved in an accident with an alien intelligence; as a result the two fuse and he gains the ability to become Ultraman.

• WALL-E
  • EVE is a prototype robot from Stark Industries, who returns from her first, test mission with not only her designated target but also a legendary lost Minbari ghost ship and WALL-E.

• The War Of The Worlds
  • The events of this novel are (mostly) historical fact — the invasion it describes was an expeditionary force of 50 Sarmak Martians, dispatched in 1904, who limited their efforts to the British Isles as a test of equipment and tactics. When the invading force died from Earth diseases, the Sarmak entered hibernation and didn't emerge until the Earth-Mars war of the early 21st Century. The Sarmak are the oldest of the four native races of Mars.
    • The name "Sarmak" is a reference to a George Alec Effinger short story, "Mars: The Home Front" (published in the anthology War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches), which used that name for Wells' Martians while they attacked the Barsoomian Martians.
  • Skuld's "High-Speed Tactical Insertion System" bears a striking resemblance to the method and appearance of the Martian cylinders.
    • And is nicknamed "the Martian Cannonball." So Yeah.
  • The Salusian cruiser HMS Thunder Child sacrifices itself to protect fleeing refugees from a Covenant invasion force of the colonly world New Woking in the ministory "The Honor of Mars: A War Story", echoing the similar sacrifice of an identically-named ship in the novel.
  • The Martian Foreign Legion forces in the same story include Sarmak Martians, and utilize both the tripod war machines from the original novel and the sleeker flying craft of the 1953 film adaptation.

• Wing Commander
  • The Kilrathi and and their deity Sivar War-God (who is another face of Norse god Tyr Grimjaws).
  • The Salusians use the Terran fighter designs from Wing Commander in the UF-verse.
  • Ultimate source of the Church of Man, although the version that appears in UF is greatly mutated from its origins.

• The Worldwar books by Harry Turtledove
  • Pilot Officer Kerliss of The Race appears in the Twilight miniseries, the fifth and sixth episodes of it, where he regards the head of Inferno and says, "Superior sir, you appear to have lost the rest of your body. Are you all right?" Inferno reacts accordingly (being a mostly insane ant-based robot).

• X-COM

• XXX
  • Xander Cage is an agent of the IPO.

Shout Outs

• 801 TTS Airbats — The cast joins Redneck's Freespacer army in "The Quagmire Project".
• The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The Eighth Dimension — The nods to this one start in the first chapter of the first story, making it the first work of fiction referenced in the series. The later large-scale Cosmic Retcon seems to have rendered it more or less historical fact.
• Better Off Dead — This classic 80s teen movie gets a two-in-one reference when Buttercup Utonium sings its title song at her high school prom. (Elizabeth Daily, Buttercup's voice actress, performed the song in the movie.)
  • Arguably the most famous line in the movie — "Now that's a real shame when folks be throwin' away a perfectly good white boy like that." — is (mis-)quoted at least twice in various stories (in reference to both Utena Tenjou and Paige Guthrie).
• Blazing Saddles — In the 2008 Christmas ministory A Walk In The Woods, Nall quotes Bart's line "'Scuse me while I whip this out" just before shifting to his full draconic form.
• Chronicles Of Amber by Roger Zelazny — Commissioner Amberson in Secrets is Prince Julian of Amber.
• The Chronicles of the Kencyrath by P.C. Hogdell — the city of Tai-tastigon is mentioned.
• Crest Of The Stars — Lafiel Abriel and Jinto Lin Kirk are Gryphon's helmsperson and nav officer on the IPS Challenger.
• Dragnet — Devlin Carter's AEGIS badge number is (deliberately) one off from Joe Friday's LAPD badge number.
• Dragonlance — Some of the spells/words of power Tsuwabuki uses come from these books.
• The phrase "I have a message from another time..." which appears in the title block of all of the later stories, is a line from the song "Twilight" by Electric Light Orchestra.
• The Flying Nun — Sister Bertrille, slightly altered, appears in a teaser "trailer" for an upcoming story set in "The New Frontier" era.
• Mars Attacks! — The fungoid aliens who used Mars as a staging ground for an abortive early 21st-century invasion of Earth are the Gnards and/or Paeecs.
• Fallout — The presence of Rad-X antiradiation medication in shipboard medical supplies.
• Fata Fury — Eiko Rose winds up fighting (and winning against) Joe Higashi in a martial arts tournament.
• Firefly — Word Of God indicates that the brown coats worn by the crew of the Surprise in Manhunt is possibly the only Firefly reference that will ever be found in UF.
• F³ (Frantic, Frustrated and Female) — Troubled main character Hiroe Ogawa was Kaitlyn's last roommate at boarding school before Utena; after finding a cure for her condition, she became a Companion to Time Lord James Burke.
• The Great Escape — When Janice is held by the Psi Corps in Hunter Rose, a Corps guard gives her a ball and glove to amuse herself with in solitary.
• Gulo's Tale — source of planet "Gulo"?
• Heat Guy J — a robot based on J appears in Second Chances.
• Hellsing — Geoff Depew's custom pistols are based on Alucard's Casull and Jackal.
• Highlander — It seems that almost no one in UF can resist making Highlander references.
• Humanx Commonwealth ("Flinx and Pip") novels by Alan Dean Foster: the world Moth is mentioned as a candidate for the title "hive of scum and villainy" in The Antianeira Incident.
• The Hunt For Red October — a ship in Manhunt is named for a Navy frigate from this film.
• Iria Zeiram The Animation — Corwin owns a cloak explicitly described as being the kind Iria's type of bounty hunter wears.
• James Bond — The full human name Largo uses, "Maximilian Largo", is that of a Bond villain.
• Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds: the ministory "The Honor of Mars: A War Story" echoes the lyrics of the first part of this musical adaptation of the Wells novel with the lines
  "...The chances of anything hostile coming to New Woking were confidently estimated at a million to one.
  But still they came..."
• Ladyhawke — Phillipe "The Mouse" Gaston is mentioned as an ancestor of the UF version of Sorata Muon from M0use in the story "Icebreaker/Thankless".
• Larry The Cable Guy — Inspiration for Q-Boss Earl in The Antianeira Incident.
• M0use — Sorata Muon and his lovely assistants help defeat a cell of Nazi terrorists in "Icebreaker/Thankless"
• Nero Wolfe — Utena remembers Anthy quoting him in Page of Swords.
• Out Of The Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis — the UF version of The DCU's Green Martians call their world "Malacandra" and themselves "Malacandrans".
• Our Man Flint — Word Of God indicates some connection exists in recent works (as of April 2009).
• Planet Of The Apes — Brief mention of "Heston's Planet", the home planet of Mojo Jojo.
• Spy Hunter — The Sunrise Motorworks Griffon 6155 Interceptor makes an appearance in The Santero Affair
• Steam Detectives — Provided character design inspiration for Corwin Ravenhair.
• The Tick — The Tick and Arthur make a Lawyer Friendly Cameo during the motorcycle chase in Undocumented Features 1.
• Thieves World — a world called "Sanctuary", known for its criminal element.
• Tin Tin — A Wedge Defense Force ship called the Unicorn, captained by "A. Haddock", appears in the forum extra "Preliminary Report: Operation TRIDENT".
• Wanted — The Stig performs a maneuver lifted from the film version of Wanted in The Santero Affair.
• War Of The Worlds (The TV series) — The Sarmak Martians use the Catch Phrase "To life immortal" from this series.