Infinity Crisis
When dealing with a series that brings together this many different worlds crossovers, a few of these are perhaps inevitable.- Literally when Constantine mentions that Thor has red hair in the myths, and Thor justifies that detail as a prank of Loki's that got out of hand.
- Upon hearing what SHIELD stands for, Cisco observes that someone must have really wanted the organization's initials to spell SHIELD (with Coulson admitting that's "pretty much" true).
- Mephisto appears to Thanos after the Snap to give him some instructions while having his own agenda.
- Barry and Wally note that they are slower in the MCU world than their own.
- Constantine notes the various supposed origins of the Phantom Stranger as the comics have played with the man's history being unknown.
- When the heroes dismiss time travel as an option, Jane Foster notes that the wider consequences should also be considered, unwittingly invoking the reason for the Dominators' invasion of Earth in the original crossover.
- Hela hints at an interest in anyone who can cause that much death, which invokes Thanos' reasons for assembling the Gauntlet in the comics.
- Constantine compares the Ancient One to "a prat of a fallen angel I used to know", and also mentions the time he cured himself of cancer by selling his soul to three lords of Hell.
- When he takes over HYDRA, the Skull disposes of the former head with his Dust of Death.
- As in the comics, Jane Foster is able to wield the Hammer of Thor.
- Black Lightning breaking Red Skull's jaw is a nod to the Avengers storyline Red Zone, with Lightning taking the place of Black Panther.
- In Gamma Relations, Jane decides to take on the code name of Thunderstrike.
- It's hinted that Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch might be mutants and possibly related to Magneto. In the comics, they were initially mutants and Magneto's children, until a recent retcon suggest otherwise.
- In Powers and Marvels, the Power Rangers are compared to "rejects from a 1990s Japanese TV show".
- The confrontation between the Power Rangers and the Avengers ends in a similar matter to the confrontation with the Justice League in Justice League/Powers Rangers; where Kimberly was interrogated by Diana in the comic, here she is 'questioned' by Mister Fantastic and the Scarlet Witch.
- The Power Rangers Earth is named Earth-1993 after the year the franchise made its debut.
- In In Hand and Foot: Bullseye makes his debut much as he did in Kevin Smith's "Guardian Devil" arc, flipping a paper clip to break a wine glass and marking his place in A Catcher in the Rye.
- Also, Michaelangelo's unintended observations about the similarities between the Turtles and Matt can be taken as a reference to how the circumstances of the Turtles' origins were inspired by Daredevil's.
- Later, Bullseye quotes the 2003 film as he is about to kill Elektra, only to be interrupted by the rest of the Defenders before he can strike the fatal blow.
- In Distant Cousins, Carol mentions a recent bad date she had with someone called Marcus, a reference to the controversial storyline in Avengers where she was essentially raped by the Scarlet Centurion.
- The Lex Luthor of Earth-1978 muses that the Lex of Earth-38 reminds him of "an idiot nephew of mine".
- In Sins, Sirens and Strife, Darcy criticizes the Justice League for operating out of a manor but suggests that the Avengers hire a butler, referencing both Avengers Mansion and Edwin Jarvis from the comics.
- In Infinity Crisis: The Inhumans, Ozel is revealed to be a speedster. This is a nod to her meeting Quicksilver in her sole comic appearance.
- Counterpart Conferences:
- In Chapter 3, a displaced alternate Joker talks with the Earth-51 Joker about some of the other versions of them he's witnessed while traveling the multiverse, including a demented punk clown and a version who is "just makeup and a scarred face".
- In Chapter 7, Batman paraphrases a memorable quote from Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths.
"We've all stared into the abyss. The difference between us and you? You blinked." - The Earth-911111 "Toni" Stark uses the Just One Capable Artificial System Technical Analyst or JOCASTA, referencing the female android from the comics.
- This Earth's Iron Man goes by the moniker Iron Maiden and her nickname is "Toni", like in the Marvel Mangaversenote .
- Male!Black Widow is called Black Spider, which was a name an alternate Natasha goes by in Marvel Adventures: Fantastic Four #47.
- Thor was transformed into a female in Earth X.
- A Scarlet Warlock (male Scarlet Witch) has appeared in Exiles #85.
- In Tomorrow's Guardians, Groot and Rocket are classified by a scientist as a "floral colossus and pet rodent" respectively. The dialogue even nearly matches the original.
- Infinity Crisis: Glimpses features a chapter set on Earth-78227, a world loosely based on the MCU save for the fact that Betty Brant is Spider-Girl, an event that only happened in a one-off storyline in an early issue of What If?.
- In Skysurfin' Surprise, the Skysurfer Strike Force's Earth is referred to as Earth-199596, as the show was originally broadcast from 1995-96.
- In Salvation Run, Nora's words suggest that Kyle Rayner is a Green Lantern in her future, and a billionaire named Ted Kord is another captive of the Skrulls.
- In An Adventure of a Multiversal Crisis, an adult Charlie Bucket is now running Wonka's factory. It seems that, unlike his boss, Charlie isn't against hiring humans and all of his employees are fellow creations of Roald Dahl. James Henry Trotter is Charlie's assistant, Matilda Honey is the head of Research and Development, George Kranky is mentioned, and they have a government contact named Sophie.
- Still in An Adventure... (and as said in the Shout-Out page), Randolph Carter is related to John Carter of Mars. (albeit as distant cousins rather than as descendant and ancestor).
- In A Darker Shade of Red, the Doctor mentions an Earth where superhumans started proliferating in the seventeenth century as a result of a prominent one being sent back in time four centuries and forcing reality into compensating for his presence.
- Discussing the alternate versions of Clark Kent/Superman that exist in the multiverse, the Doctor cites examples such as a reality where Kal-El's spacecraft landed on Earth in the Middle Ages and ended up forging Excalibur (Superman: Kal), a Superman that faces standard criminals more often than superhumans or a world where he became the ruler of Russia during the Cold War.
- In Infinity Crisis Aftermath: Therapy Session, Agatha Harkness implies that Wanda Maximoff is not the first Scarlet Witch. This is a nod to James Robinson's Scarlet Witch series, which revealed Wanda's biological mother Natalya Maximoff adventured as a Scarlet Witch before Wanda did.
- In Celestial Navigation, She-Hulk is revealed as being able to Breaking the Fourth Wall as she does in the John Byrne comics.
- During their fight, She-Hulk mentions how she and Hercules "briefly had a thing in canon."
- In An Amazing New Year, how Jerry Chang gained his powers is meant to homage the events of the PS4 game Marvel's Avengers, but on a much less destructive scale.
- In An Avenging Christmas, Doctor Who's home universe is designated Earth-231163 as an homage to the British way of dating the show's debut: November 23, 1963. British dating puts the day before the month.
- Another Side of the Glimpses has several.
- The main characters from Homestuck (humans & trolls) are noted to looking like their Pesterquest counterparts, but slightly older.
- The series uses the same Interactive Fiction format used in the comic and because of that, multiple commands used in the comic are also used here (characters being named with insulting names before their real ones, "[X] like a [Y] and [Z]", "Ascend"...). There's even the "[X] as a [Y] because shit just got [Z]" command from Problem Sleuth who is used more than one time during the series!
- Andrew Hussie briefly reminisces about his time nursing Spades Slick back to health. Also, Squarewave & Sawtooth are namedropped, as well as Hussiebot, who makes a return.
- While Lady Deadpool looks at Earth-413, she has the feeling that it's going to be a long day (another famous sentence from Homestuck).
- Mario' full name is stated to be "Mario Mario".
- At one point, while Mario is fighting Jack English, he crashes on "the garden of an old robot lady and her pet Goomba", possibly referencing a challenge on Super Mario Galaxy 2 in which Mario had to give a Goomba to a Gearmo. Later, he uses his penguin costume to freeze Jack and when he frees himself and tries to stab Mario, the plumber uses the infamous Backwards Long Jump glitch to escape him. He crashes into Coconut Mall as a result.
- In order to save Mario from being killed, Luigi uses his "Green Missile" technique from Super Smash Bros. (which is referred to as "Rocket Launcher"). Not only that, but several mentions of the Smash Bros tournaments and Master Hand are made throughout the series.
- The note written in the stripes of paper wrapped around the box that falls on Mario' head, seemingly written by Candy!Gamzee, is a reference to this
Homestuck panel showing Jack English receiving the same message, courtesy of the sober, regular Gamzee. - The beginning of Chapter 3 contains a lot of nods to previous installments of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise: Eggman' releasing ancient gods or creating an an interstellar amusement park, the one time he held Amy at gunpoint, the time when Metal Sonic impersonated Eggman, as well as mentions of Fang the Sniper, Windy Wallis & Super Sonic, Lyric & Ixis Naugus. Not to mention that the beginning of this chapter is a retelling of Issue #4 of Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW)... at least, until Jack English destroys the army of robots.
- The scene where the fictional Pighead observes Tangle fighting robots while smoking a blunt is an homage to those panels in Act 5 Act 1 of Homestuck, Pighead & Tangle respectively replacing Diamonds Droog & Aradia Megido.
- During his conversation with Rose Lalonde, the Deadpool Pulp references the original adventures of the Deadpool Corps, more specifically the time they had to stop the Awareness (which they named "Frank").
- In Chapter 4, the group of Raving Rabbids who is fighting the Broforce uses their talents in dancing in order to distract them. The command used even notes that they haven't used said talents in years.
- Still in Chapter 4, Richard names Sonic "Maurice", his actual middle name in the Archie comics.
- In Chapter 5, Rayman and his friends are introduced in a way similar to the intro cutscene of Rayman Origins.
- Still in Chapter 5, while Tails is on the Tornado, he listens to the new single of the Forget Me Knots (Mina Mongoose' band from the Archie comics) on the radio. Later on, when him and the others are discussing, Tails references the translator he conceived in Sonic Colors and, when the characters from Earth-2012 come out of a portal, Sarah is so groggy at first that she confuses Blaze with her ex-girlfriend Lily.
- In Chapter 6, while Pighead is talking with Alto Clef, she ends up bringing Kondraki along, who has his penis stuck in a water bottle. This is a nod to Ship in a Bottle, a canon builded around this very same premise.
- In addition of the use of the first planned backstory for Phase 3 (see Development Gag on the main page), Noodle also references Cyborg Noodle' malfunctioning and trying to kill everyone, something that happened in Phase 3 before being retconned in 2017 when Phase 4 was launched. Later on, we learn that 2D reminisced at one point about his multiple illegitimate children, something that happened between Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the story of the band.
- Still in Chapter 6, while the narration focuses on Spades Slick, it is noted that the Midnight Crew do live performances as musicians. Per Word of God, this is a reference to this non-canon donation panel from Problem Sleuth.
- In Chapter 8, when Team Sburb comes to see Bec Noir & Ms. Paint, the former calls Jade by her name while the others are only called "nuisances". Per Word of God, this is a reference to the dog-like loyalty to Jade that Jack has acquired when he became Bec Noir.
- Still in Chapter 8, Terezi Pyrope interrupts the Narrator while he's introducing Maxwell Lord, revealing she could hear him since the beginning. This is a nod to The Homestuck Epilogues, where she was able to hear Ultimate Dirk Strider' narration.
- In Chapter 9, while the universe of Star Wars is shown, there's a nod to the death of Empire Grand Admiral Demetrius Zaarin who establishes this universe as following the timeline of Star Wars Legends.
- During the brief segment showing the world of South Park, Stan, Kyle, Cartman & Kenny are operating under their superhero identities and there's brief mentions of Man Bear Pig, Cthulhu & the latter' friendship with Eric in the episode "Coon vs. Coon & Friends".
- When Sly Cooper faces Rivet, she shows him she's trustworthy by stating she's a friend of Ratchet, the raccoon and the lombax having already met during another multiversal tournament.
- When the world of Sam & Max is introduced, D.E.L.I.L.A.H. makes references to the finale of The Devil's Playhouse (in which the original Max died and the current one is his alternate past self) and shows the two enlisting the help of a new, anonymous recruit to investigating the Snap and its effects.
- The presentation of Rick and Morty and the part of the Multiverse in which the events of the show happened references basically all the notable actions of Evil Morty in "Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind", "The Ricklantis Mix-Up" & "Rickmurai Jack".
- When she ends up revealing her Dark Secret to the reader, D.E.L.I.L.A.H. makes a mention that she used to say that she was her body and wanted to be more than her body when she lost it. "I AM MY BODY AND I AM MORE THAN MY BODY" are actual Arc Words from Act 3 of the Adult Swim ARG.
- In Fathers and Daughters, when Peter/Spider-Man and Betty/Spider-Girl first meet, they guess that the other is called Spiderling and Captain Spider, respectively. The name "Spiderling" was the alias of Peter and Mary Jane's daughter Annie from The Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows and "Captain Spider" was the alias of a Flash Thompson who gained spider powers in What If #7 (Vol. 1), the same comic whose Betty Brant Spider-Girl inspired the Infinity Crisis version.
- In Infinity Crisis Aftermath: Tete-a-Tete, Ravonna is introduced wearing a gold and green suit of armor. This is an intentional nod to the armor she wore as Terminatrix, which debuted in Avengers Annual #21 (1992).
- In Infinity Crisis Aftermath: A Flashy Debut, Killraven is gifted a couple of weapons. One is a lightsaber, and the other is an energy shield once used by Captain America. This a nod to Avengers Forever. A version of Killraven appeared in that maxiseries wielding one of Captain America's energy shields.
