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"I think George Lucas is gonna sue somebody!"
Chaka Luthor King, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

Star Wars is one of the biggest media franchises in history. It has been so frequently referenced in pop culture since its inception that it's hard to find works after 1977 that don't make at least one reference to this franchise. It's literally everywhere. Parodies and homages of the franchise are so common, that a whole Stock Parody trope, May the Farce Be with You, has been created, and many tropes on this website have been named by the franchise.


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    Advertising 
  • A commercial for Energizer batteries featured Darth Vader attempting to destroy the Energizer Bunny with his lightsaber, only for the Supervolt batteries in it to run out.
  • The third comic-styled Johnny Turbo ad begins with a splash image which replaces Luke, Leia and the droids from the iconic original poster with Johnny, his friend Tony and two random children, while the onlooking Darth Vader head is instead a ghostly outline of a Feka goon.

    Anime & Manga 
  • Doraemon: Nobita and The Space Heroes: One of the villains, Ogun, is a giant gorilla-like alien whose appearance and outfit is blatantly based on Chewbacca, even making the same growls as Chewie.
  • Dragon Ball: The movie star Pamput is shown to have starred in a movie similar to Star Wars. His character wields a lightsaber and faces mooks similar to Stormtroopers.
  • Fullmetal Alchemist: In a 4koma, author Hiromu Arakawa humorously starts going into a rant about how baffled she is that Padmé fell for Anakin for no sensible reason. And apparently, according to her editor, Arakawa is a big Star Wars fan and tried ordering a life-size statue of Darth Vader only to discover it would be prohibitively expensive.
  • In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean, one of Snow White's seven dwarves, brought to life by the power of Bohemian Rhapsody, says Chewbacca is his favorite character.
  • Kōhei Horikoshi is a huge fan of Star Wars, which crops up throughout his magnum opus, My Hero Academia:
    • Several important locations are named for planets/cities in Star Wars, such as Tatooin Station (Tatooine), Hosu City (Hoth), Nabu Island and Nabu Junior High (Naboo), Kamino Ward, Dagoba Municipal Park (Dagobah), Jaku General Hospital (Jakku) etc.
    • During the 10-month training to receive One For All, one of the training exercises Midoriya had to perform was carrying All Might on his back similarly to how Yoda had Luke do the same thing in The Empire Strikes Back.
    • The Power Suit Mei Hatsume tests with Midoriya looks a lot like a bulky Stormtrooper armor, sans the helmet.
    • Mashairo Ojiro's Hero costume heavily resembles Luke Skywalker's Tatooine outfit.
    • The helmet All for One wears in the Hideout Raid is reminiscent of Darth Vader's, down to the breathing tubes under the chassis.
    • During TomurAFO's fight with Stars and Stripes, she says that she took orders from an official named Agpar, a clear reference to Admiral Ackbar.
      • One of her pilots is also named Wedge, referencing Wedge Antilles, the Rebel ace pilot from the Original Trilogy.
    • Mirio Togata's ultimate move against Overhaul in the manga is literally named Phantom Menace.
    • Inko Midoriya (the protagonist's mother)'s Quirk allows her to telepathically levitate (small) objects towards her and lets her grab them. This is very similar to the Force Pull, one of the most common abilities displayed by the Jedi.
    • Nagamasa Mora is completely covered in hair and his hero name, Chewyee, is a close reference to Han Solo's nickname for Chewbacca.
    • Class 1-B performs a mix and match play of various franchises, including Star Wars, as Monoma parodied the iconic Luke, I Am Your Father line.
  • Sonic X: In "Emerald Anniversary", when Decoe chases after Knuckles, they go through the set of Star Wars. Knuckles uses what appears to be the Death Star (which is just a model) to jump higher in the air, while Decoe trips over it.
  • Transformers Victory:
    • In the first episode, Star Saber traveled to the alien settlement of Iron Town, where some inhabitants resembled Ewoks and Jawas.
    • In episode 22, a pair of mechanoids uncannily similar to C-3PO and R2-D2 were seen at the Schaeffer Energy plant.
  • Undead Unluck: Episode 19 begins with a opening crawl in the style of Star Wars with the title being "A New Hope" and starting with a panned down shot of the earth.
  • The anime version of Urusei Yatsura features a slew of examples:
    • As Urusei Yatsura itself was produced during the late 70's and early 80's references abound. The most prominent probably being the group of four high school boys obsessed with Lum who are informally referred to as her "Stormtroopers".
    • In episode 38 "Steal Darling! Copy Operation!" Ataru wishes to take Shinobu to the hottest movie of the summer in 1982, which was of course "Return of the Jedi".
    • In episode 61 "The Mendo Family Masquerade War" Ataru runs into part of the Mendo Conglomerates Security Force, who are cosplaying stormtroopers and being led by Darth Vader himself.
    • In episode 89 "Lum and Ataru A Night only for Two," Lum's Stormtroopers and Mendo freak out in a forty-second homage to the franchise. Complete with lightsaber duels, Chibi as Emperor Palpatine, Megane as C-3PO and Perm disturbingly dressed as Princess Leia in the golden bikini.
    • In the third Urusei Yatsura movie "Remember My Love," a Darth Vader poster can be seen hanging up in Ataru's room.
    • In the latest OVA "The Obstacle Course Swim Meet", Ran pulls out some futuristic sic-fi weaponry to combat a group of vicious water snakes, including a red lightsaber.
  • In Osamu Tezuka's Unico, the "Black Rain and White Clouds" chapter features the titular unicorn befriending a little girl named "Chico" who's on the verge of death due to living in a polluted area. After Unico takes her alongside Garappachi the rat to an area inhabited by magical fairies. After getting a white feather that makes her feel better, Unico takes her back home. However, a power planet (controlled by a sentient computer) immediately sends two small jets that resemble X-wing starfighter (then known as T-65B model) to separate her from Unico and Garappachi. The chapter was written and published on Sanrio's Lyrica magazine months after the first Star Wars Movie was released in 1977.

    Asian Animation 
  • Bread Barbershop: In "Wilk's Story", when he begs Master Bread to help him with his milk label, Wilk paraphrases a quote from A New Hope.
    Wilk: Help me, Obi-Bread Kenobi! You're my only hope!
  • Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf:
    • Episode 124's title card references Star Wars by showing the goats holding lightsabers in a V-Formation Team Shot. Wolffy is in the background wearing a helmet greatly resembling that of Darth Vader.
    • Episode 58 of the show's second season, Pleasant Goat Sports Game, is titled "Return of the Jedi".

    Comic Books 
  • Men in Black, issue 6: When the alien Doran arrives at a scifi convention, a human mistakes him for a cosplayer, and asks him if he is Boba Fett.
  • In Robin (1993), Tim Drake's friend Ives is a huge Star Wars fan, brings the original trilogy up at various points, and has a loud argument with one of their other friends on the merits of the Expanded Universe vs personal Fanon.
  • The Simpsons Futurama Crossover Crisis:
    • The Action Figure Moon has at least one Star Wars action figure.
    • When the Brain Spawn make everyone dumber with their powers, Nerdanus XII (who became dumber as well) says that George Lucas was right to make Greedo shoot first in the Star Wars special edition.
    • When he gets arrested by URL, Comic Book Guy agrees to surrender, but only on the condition of having a metal slave bikini like Princess Leia's from Return of the Jedi. Even though he has no stomach, URL openly admits the image makes him nauseous.
    • While doing deliveries, the Simpsons and the Planet Express crew end up on an ice planet in the Lucas Galaxy. What happens afterwards is a parody of Luke Skywalker's encounter with a wampa in The Empire Strikes Back.
  • The Transformers (Marvel):
    • In #4 and #8, the Dinobots flew to the Savage Lands aboard a shuttle that looked very much like the Slave I.
    • In #17, a robot resembling C-3PO appeared in the Dead End.
    • In the alternate future in #43, Wreck-Gar declared "Star Wars... nothing but Star Wars!" as his homeworld was attacked by many spaceships.
    • In #45, a movie director believes his film Monsters from Mars will be "bigger than Star Wars".
    • In #52, another robot resembling C-3PO, named Chromite, found himself a victim of anti-robot prejudice in the Grand Central Space Station.
  • Wonder Woman:
    • Wonder Woman (1942): In issue #291 a passerby wonders if the Adjudicator's otherworldly and bigger than life appearance is meant to be a publicity stunt for the new Star Wars film.
    • In Wonder Woman (1987) Wondy and a cosmonaut get abducted by an alien race and enslaved on a desert planet with carnivorous "scavenger worms" which are a clear shoutout to the Sarlacc from Return of the Jedi. Though the worms are only intentionally tossed corpses they'll try to gobble up living people who fall into the pits which lead to their mouths.

    Fan Works 
  • Boldores And Boomsticks:
  • The J-WITCH Series: Yan Lin refers to the Jedi Mind Trick by the trope name while explaining that she used a chi spell to convince the parents of the Guardians and Alchemy that they were just having a sleepover when they're actually in Tokyo.
  • Loved and Lost:
  • The first chapter of Numberjacks Advanced is titled "The Fours Awaken".
  • Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space
    • One of the many wonders of the Universe cited by Captain Proton are the strange yellow words he saw floating through a galaxy far, far away.
    • TuMok breaks out of a Death Trap using the power of the Farce, and starts doing a Yoda impersonation while explaining what the Farce is.
      "...for my ally is the Farce, and a powerful ally it is. Bureaucracy creates it...makes it grow. It surrounds us...and bogs us down. Ludicrous beings are we, not these crude cardboard characters! You must feel the Farce around you...between you and me...between politicians and civil servants...lawyers and government regulators...spin doctors...middle management...local city councils...volunteer sub-committees. Yes, even between yourself...and that magnatomic-locked doorway over there."
    • TuMok says the reason no-one puts railings around Bottomless Pits is because Health & Safety studies have shown more people were injured leaping over the railings waving light sabers.
    • Buster Kincaid accuses the Big Bad of ripping off George Lucas when he turns out to be Buster's father.
    • When Time Travel is suggested, Proton rejects the idea. "People don't like temporal interference. Remember the outcry when George Lucas changed history by making Greedo shoot first?"
  • While first facing Tarakudo in The Stronger Evil, Valerie demands Nataline to do something against the floating demon head, only for the demon hunter to reply "Do I look like a Jedi? I can't fight against the Force!"
  • ROM Hacks of Super Mario World:
    • Grand Poo World 1's ice cave level is named Echo Base.
    • VLDC X featured a Death Star level complete with descending ceiling. It even features The Imperial March as its music.
    • Things.smc has a level where Boon gets access to a lightsaber.

    Films — Animation 
  • In Boonie Bears: Entangled Worlds, the Tech Boss's hideout has a bunch of artifacts from Alternate Tooniverses, some of said artifacts being a Stormtrooper mask and what looks like assorted Star Wars ships.
  • In Happy Heroes: The Movie, there's a billboard of what appears to be Mr. Lightbulb wielding a lightsaber.
  • In Ron's Gone Wrong, among the many skins a B-Bot can have are Darth Vader and the Stormtroopers.
  • Transformers: The Movie:
    • After the initial sequence with Unicron, the film's background is established with an Opening Scroll. (This is only in the British release of the film, because Britain was behind in the airings of the series. The American release jumped straight from the opening sequence to the credits.)
    • The movie's promotional material mentions that the film was "conceived in the epic tradition of Star Wars".
    • One of the film's primary characters, Arcee, has a head design styled in the likeness of Leia Organa Solo's famous "cinnamon bun" hair from A New Hope.
    • Megatron, at one point, uses a lightsaber-type weapon against Optimus Prime. So does Hot Rod during his training.
    • The villain Unicron is a gigantic planet-destroying robotic spheroid, like the Death Star.
    • The sound effect produced when Rodimus Prime opens the Autobot Matrix is a combination of several lightsaber power-up sounds; Nelson Shin, who designed the sound with Ben Burtt, was also on the sound crew for Transformers: The Movie. Several other effects from the Star Wars films also pop up in both this movie and the series it's based on.
    • At the scene where Rodimus Prime receives the Matrix of leadership, the voice of Optimus Prime is heard. This is a reference to Obi-wan Kenobi saying the phrase "Use the Force, Luke" to Luke Skywalker in the Battle of Yavin.
  • Each of the first three Toy Story films has some parts that correspond with the original trilogy:

    Films — Live-Action 
  • In The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Electro wears a black hood and shoots lightning from his fingers, much like Darth Sidious.
  • ...And Your Name Is Jonah: On the way to the deaf club meeting, Connie almost chickens out and asks Jenny if she wants to see Star Wars at the theater instead. Jenny answers, "I've already seen it."
  • Argylle: Bakunin mentions Darth Vader is like Mary Poppins when compared to the Division.
  • Back to the Future: To convince George to invite Lorraine to the dance, Marty decides to scare his future father by putting on his radiation suit and pretending to be an alien from the planet Vulcan named Darth Vader.
  • Demolition Man: Officer Alfredo Garcia is overly dependent on an unreliable scanning device. John Spartan nicknames him Luke and tells him to use the Force.
  • In Failure to Launch, one of Paula's clients is a fan of the original trilogy who does a Yoda impression during their date.
  • The Flintstones: During the theme song, a poster outside the drive-in is shown advertising Tar Wars.
  • In The Giant (2016), members of the Opposing Sports Team call Rikard "Jabba the Hutt."
  • Home Sweet Home Alone: A BB8 toy and a Star Wars-themed pillow are shown.
  • Jurassic Park: The shot of the Tyrannosaurus rex swallowing the goat before looking at the tour vehicles is a homage to the shot of the Rancor swallowing the Gamorrean guard before looking at Luke in Return of the Jedi.
  • Laserblast: A Star Wars billboard gets shot by a laser weapon.
  • The climax of Looney Tunes: Back in Action includes a Star Wars-inspired fight which begins with Bugs Bunny quipping to Marvin the Martian "Eh, what's up, Darth?" before the former pulls out a carrot-shaped lightsaber to fight the latter. Bugs even reads a book titled The Force for Dummies while blocking Marvin's laser blasts. And after being defeated, Marvin angrily exclaims "Darn Dark Side!"
  • Marvel Cinematic Universe:
  • In My Science Project, Ellie asks Michael how many times he's seen Return of the Jedi. She and Sherman are shocked to learn that the answer is "none." Later, Sherman and his friends wear Darth Vader and Stormtrooper masks while they mess up Michael's car.
  • In Paris, Texas, Hunter, the son of the protagonist, is a big fan of the franchise. He says that a home movie of himself and his parents was made "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..." There are also Star Wars pillows in his bedroom.
  • Billy from The Rewrite is so obsessed with Star Wars that the script he submits for the screenwriting class is a blatant rip-off called Star Battles.
  • Sharknado: The 4th Awakens has both a title and a poster parodying The Force Awakens.
  • In the prologue of Sonic the Hedgehog (2020), Sonic describes Longclaw, the owl who raised him, as "Obi-Wan Kenobi if he had a beak and ate mice".
  • Spaceballs: This film is a spoof of the initial Star Wars trilogy.
  • Spawn: Al Simmons/Spawn gets a mentor named Cogliostro and nicknames him Yoda at one point.
  • Star Trek: First Contact: The Millienium Falcon takes part in the opening battle against the Borg in a very "blink and you'll miss it" cameo, thanks to ILM's involvement with both franchises.
  • In One-Trick Pony, Jonah takes Matty to see The Empire Strikes Back.
  • In The Beasts Are on the Streets, a bear menaces an extra in a Star Wars shirt.
  • Super 8: A poster of New Hope is shown in Joe Lamb's room.
  • Ted: John's ringtone is "The Imperial March". His girlfriend Lori has never heard of the franchise, so she doesn't get it.
  • The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent: Nicolas Cage quips that Star Wars is one of the only sure fire bets at the box office anymore, acknowledging 2020's most marketable reason for Pedro Pascal to portray his new friend.

    Literature 
  • Both Can Be True has the dog Chewbarka.
  • In A Boy Made of Blocks, Alex's mother says, "You can't hide anything from me. I'm like Kylo Ren." Alex is surprised that she's seen The Force Awakens.
  • At least three examples in Diary of a Wimpy Kid:
    • In The Last Straw, Greg is very comfortable on his couch watching TV, so he tries to use the Force to obtain the remote.
    • In The Third Wheel, Greg says that he is positive that he will never get a lightsaber for his birthday.
    • In The Getaway, a Jedi is shown as an example of a "cool" person who wears a robe.
  • In Dogs Don't Talk, Ben remembers himself and his childhood friend Travis playing with Star Wars spaceships outside.
  • In Experimental Film, the text-to-speech feature on Lois's phone growls Simon's all-caps texts at her like a pissed-off Wookiee.
  • In Gracefully Grayson, Grayson pretends to watch Star Wars with Brett while she thinks about the letters from her dead mother she just read.
  • In If I Fall, If I Die, Jonah refers to Titus, aka the Wheezing Man, as Darth Hobo.
  • In I Wish You All the Best, Ben and Nathan watch an outdoor screening of A New Hope at the park. Afterwards, Ben complains, "I hate sand. It's coarse, and it gets everywhere." Nathan says, "Please tell me you didn't just quote the worst movie of the saga."
  • In the Norwegian Urban Fantasy Kire is it mentioned that the protagonist Erik owns a Darth Vader alarm clock.
  • In Like No Other Boy, Cheryl tells Tommy that he can watch Star Wars, "the one with the clone battle," after he gets out of the hospital.
  • In Livvie Owen Lived Here, Lanie hums the Star Wars theme, which she insists is her pet mouse's favorite song.
  • The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester: Sam's dad's ringtone is the Imperial March.
  • In The Missing Piece of Charlie O'Reilly, Charlie remembers Liam as being obsessed with Star Wars.
  • In Nickel Plated, Nickel flips through a magazine on Star Wars at the grocery store so people will think he's just a regular kid.
  • Isaac Asimov and Janet Asimov's The Norby Chronicles: In the first book, Norby, a robot made from a barrel of nails, is assumed to be an old R2 model, borrowing from Star Wars and their R2-series astromech droids. He's actually assembled from scrap and a crashed alien spaceship.
  • Liam from One-Third Nerd has Star Wars posters in his room.
  • In On the Spectrum, Clara takes Alastair shoe shopping. She shows him Star Wars sneakers that make Darth Vader breathing sounds, but he doesn't like the noise.
  • Planet Earth Is Blue: In Joanie's old toybox, Nova finds Luke and Leia action figures. She uses Leia as a payload specialist in her astronaut games.
  • Sephora from Post-High School Reality Quest goes to a convention as Slave Leia.
  • Prudence Penderhaus: In 19 Marigold Lane, Cassius brings a VHS of Star Wars to watch with Prudence while she's recovering from her second chemotherapy session. They don't get to finish the movie, because Prudence's VCR starts eating the tape and Cassius has to eject it.
  • In Queens of Geek, Taylor sees a Darth Vader cosplayer. Later, when she blushes, she feels like she's lighting up like Kylo Ren's lightsaber.
  • In Remember Dippy, Mo, Reed, Jo, and Patsy watch the original Star Wars at the theater.
  • The Roosevelt: In Shelter the Sea, Darren calms himself at a noisy party by watching an unboxing video of someone opening Star Wars toys.
  • In Save the Enemy, Ben's room is decorated with Star Wars memorabilia his dad bought on eBay, including a Star Wars comforter and Star Wars pajamas that are too small for him.
  • Maxon from Shine Shine Shine once followed the Tour de France dressed as Darth Vader.
  • Charlie from The Someday Birds has a Star Wars wallet.
  • In There's More Than One Way Home, Anna thinks, "Freud said that boys liked to imagine that they were secretly the sons of kings. But Freud had it backwards. It's the parents who imagine their sons to be Moses, Jesus, Luke Skywalker."
  • Tom Gates: In WHAT Monster?, Buster Jones mis-reads the name of Oakfield School's upcoming Jack and the Beanstalk play as "Star Wars", prompting a brief discussion on lightsabers. After correcting the group of students, Solid thinks that he could've been cast as a Wookie in a Star Wars play.
  • Transpecial compares Iterk's whistles to R2-D2.
  • In Wonder (2012), August Pullman is a huge Star Wars fan. Notable references include comparing his hearing aids to Lobot's headband and dreams of Chewbacca joining his school.
  • In You Have a Match, Abby looks at old camp photos of Finn and Savvy posing with tennis rackets like lightsabers.
  • In You Look Different in Real Life, Justine wears a T-shirt that says STOP WARS in the style of the Star Wars logo. Later, Felix does a Yoda impression.

    The Dresden Files 
Yep, The Dresden Files has so many of these that it warranted a separate folder.
  • Harry is a huge nerd, and Star Wars is one of his favorite things, so he makes a lot of references to it.
  • Waldo Butters might just be a bigger Star Wars fan than Harry.
  • Summer Knight: Harry pegs Morgan's 3D map at the Council meeting as being ripped off from Return of the Jedi.
  • Blood Rites:
    • Inari Raith wears her hair like Princess Leia.
    • During the Luke, I Am Your Father moment, Harry, of course, quotes Star Wars.
    • Justin DuMorne was Harry's own personal Darth Vader.
    • Harry tells Thomas, about his car, that it "doesn't look like much, but she's got it where it counts."
  • Dead Beat:
    • Upon being informed that the late Mendoza was a smuggler, Butters namedrops Han Solo.
    • Harry's term for how satisfying it is to see the villain who's been scaring the pants off you go after another mutual enemy? Darth Vader Syndrome.
  • Proven Guilty:
    • Rawlins insists that anyone sneaking by him would have to be a Jedi Knight or something.
    • Harry pulls a sort of Jedi Mind Trick on Detective Greene.
  • The short story "Something Borrowed":
    • "Great hostility I sense in you."
    • Billy and Georgia have vintage Star Wars action figures scattered around their apartment.
  • White Night:
    • While lecturing Molly:
    • "The Black Council had been, if you will pardon the phrasing, a phantom menace."
    • Harry at one point calls Cowl "Darth Bathrobe".
  • Small Favor:
    • Harry compares the size of the people in Mab's snow sculpture recreation of the safe house's destruction to Star Wars action figures.
    • Faced with opponents that Michael and Mouse can sense, but he can't, Harry complains about not getting to "be the Jedi".
    • A few paragraphs later, he quotes Star Wars, and Mouse is called "Chewie" for the first time.
  • In the short story "Day Off", Harry dubs a would-be evil wizard who challenges him to a duel "Darth Wannabe".
  • Turn Coat:
    • Harry, while begging Thomas to get Justine to help investigate, says he's not asking for her to deactivate the tractor beam, rescue the princess, and escape to the fourth moon of Yavin.
    • When the Wardens are fighting Binder's army of grey men, the flashes of fire make it look like a Star Wars battle scene.
    • Molly calls Harry "Obi-Wan". Well, he's been calling her "Padawan" for several books now . . .
  • Changes:
    • Harry, on someone insulting his apartment:
      "Musty? Little? My home, this is."
    • This exchange.
      Harry: Your weapons, grasshopper. You will not need them.
      Molly: You know, I believe it is possible to reference something other than Star Wars, boss.
      Harry: [narrows eyes in Muppetly wisdom] That is why you fail.
    • And another from Harry:
      "Not ready for the burden of constant wiseassery are you."
    • Musing about the internal dissent on the White Council, Harry mentions that to most of the members his status is as the next best thing to Darth Vader.
    • While on the phone, knowing the FBI have bugged his place, he snarkily asks them to make sure no one's stolen his vintage Star Wars poster.
    • The light rays from the Nevernever pyramids are so bright, they make the Death Star's laser look wimpy.
    • "What would Yoda do?"
    • Harry's Fairy Godmother gives him a fancy set of magical armour to wear to the climactic battle. Harry's reaction?
      "This is ridiculous. I look like the Games Workshop version of a Jedi Knight."
  • Ghost Story:
    • Harry identifies himself to Molly with a familiar quote. When she tells Murphy about this, Murphy is sold that it's Harry.
    • Molly tells Harry that Chewbacca (Mouse) is with Maggie.
    • Butters says he'll start sparring with the Einherjar "five minutes after I get a functioning lightsaber."
    • "If the Eagle Scouts had some sort of Sith equivalent, Marcone would be it."
    • Butters says Harry "totally Kenobied the day" when he persuaded Fitz to come back.
    • Bob, citing unlikely alliances, includes "Luke and Vader killing the Emperor".
    • The thought-image Harry and Molly used to signal victory in their mental duels was Darth Vader in his TIE fighter saying "I have you now" from A New Hope.
    • It transpires that the Archangel Uriel, spymaster of God, is a Star Wars fan. Of course, just before that, Harry asked him "Aren't you a little short for an archangel?"
  • From the short story "Bombshells":
    • Molly calls her violent impulses her "inner Sith".
    • This immortal exchange:
      Justine: This isn't going to work.
      Molly: It is going to work. We'll breeze right in. The Rack will be with us.
      Justine: The Rack?
      Molly: The Rack is more than just boobs, Justine. It's an energy field created by all living boobs. It surrounds us, penetrates us, and binds the galaxy together.
      Andi: You're insane.
      Molly: But functionally so. Just let your conscious self go and act on instinct.
      Justine: The Rack will be with us?
      Molly: Always.
  • Cold Days:
    • Cat Sith is not amused when Harry asks where his red lightsaber is.note 
    • This quote:
      "The Little Folk are easily startled, but they'll soon be back. And in greater numbers."
    • The Leanansidhe takes her Yoda-ing seriously.
    • Mouse has been called "Chewbacca" in the past.
    • Harry, on being told that a fortress is impregnable, quips that the Death Star was impregnable.
    • This exchange:
      Molly: I sense . . .
      Harry: Say it. You know you want to say it.
      Molly: [half-exasperated] It is not a disturbance in the Force.
    • Bob decides to depict the creation of Demonreach as a movie with a Star Wars-style opening crawl, and Merlin played by Sir Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan Kenobi.
    • After Harry describes what's going on, Butters calls it a phantom menace. Molly and Thomas understand; Murphy requests a translation from Nerd to English.
    • Harry's afraid that Maggie will be afraid of him if he goes to see her, because he's Darth Dresden.
    • Harry stalls before passing through a potentially-lethal ward, because he might be joining Obi-Wan and Yoda in blue-light Force ghost country if he doesn't survive it.
  • Skin Game:
    • Butters reforges the broken Sword of Faith into a lightsaber because of his deep faith in Star Wars.
    • Not to mention the Badass Boast he gives to Nicodemus immediately afterwards:
      "'Nice try'? Mister, where I come from, there is no try."

    Live-Action TV 
  • 3rd Rock from the Sun: "Ooh, look at me. I am so important, my father's Darth Vader!" "He is?!"
  • The characters of The Big Bang Theory are big sci-fi nerds, and reference the franchise often.
  • Birds of a Feather: In "Just Visiting", Sharon calls Dorien's toyboy Luke "Luke Thighwalker".
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
    • Spike compares Angelus to Yoda because Angelus taught and trained him.
    • Xander and Willow play a game of guessing movies based on quotes. Willow says, "Use the Force, Luke." and Xander complains that one was too obvious.
    • Xander tries to quote from The Phantom Menace to inspire Buffy, but mangles the reference.
    • Warren, Jonathan, and Andrew, the Geek Trio, make Star Wars and other references all the time. Spike once forced them to work for him by holding their Boba Fett action figure hostage.
  • Doctor Who:
  • Friends: In "The One with the Princess Leia Fantasy", Ross reveals to Rachel that he has fantasies of the scene from Return of the Jedi with Princess Leia in a gold bikini, and they end up attempting to role-play it, with Rachel dressed up like Leia.
  • In How I Met Your Mother, most of the gang are Star Wars fans and frequently reference it throughout the series, such as:
    • Barney has a life-sized Storm Trooper in his apartment.
    • In one episode, Ted starts freaking out because his girlfriend has never seen Star Wars, and when they show it to her she has a very neutral reaction.
    • In another episode, Barney is concerned his girlfriend is older than she says she is because she hates the Ewoks. note 
  • On an episode of Just Shoot Me! ("The List"), Dennis bumps into Mark Hamill at a coffee shop and pesters him with inane questions about Star Wars. Mark then shows up at Blush magazine's office and starts hanging around Dennis, pestering him in return. Throughout the episode, references are tossed left and right.
  • In Life on Mars (2008), the main character travels back in time to 1973 and introduces himself to his mother as Luke Skywalker. When she comments on the unusual name he says it's Navajo.
  • The Love Boat:
    • In "Ship of Ghouls," Captain Stubing shows up to a costume party wearing a Chewbacca head mask.
    • In "Super Mom," the titular character tries to get her son to eat peas by pretending the fork is a spaceship. When he says, "Mission aborted," she tells him about the Wookies awaiting rescue. Later, the boy walks in on his parents while they're about to have sex wearing a Darth Vader mask.
  • Mimpi Metropolitan: Near the beginning of episode 40, Alan wields his flashlight as if it is a lightsaber and it briefly turns into one as a gag, complete with a Star Wars-esque tune.
  • The Outer Limits (1995): In the episode "Time to Time", a time traveler goes to 1969 and uses "Luke Skywalker" as an alias. He even tells someone, "May the Force be with you."
  • When Luke Perry hosted Saturday Night Live, his opening monologue had him pestered by Phil Hartman dressed as Obi-Wan Kenobi, claiming the Force works for anyone named Luke.
  • In two episodes of Sesame Street in the late 1970s, R2-D2 and C-3PO visited the street.
  • Stranger Things:
    • In the final few episodes of season 1, the kids use the term "Lando" to describe the possibility of the adults being forced to betray them.
    • Eleven's powers are repeatedly compared to the Force by the other kids in season 1, they even ask her to levitate a model of the Millennium Falcon (which she later does).
    • In the later seasons, she often stretches her hand forward when using her powers, similar to several Force users doing so (though notably, it resembles Anakin/Vader more than Light Side users).
    • In season 2, Mike argues with Dustin's assertion that just because Dart is from the Upside-down doesn't make him bad by comparing it to someone being from the Death Star.
    • The opening scene of season 3 ends with Grigori picking up the lead Russian scientist by the throat and throttling him, and there's a shot of the man's boots dangling in the air, just like in the scene where Darth Vader chokes Captain Antilles.
    • Steve and Dustin have a mock lightsaber duel in the ice-cream parlor in season 3.
    • When being interviewed by Keith about his favorite movie, Steve replies with "the movie with teddy bears" and Ewok sounds.
    • In Season 2, Kali told Eleven that she could tap into greater strength for her powers by channeling rage, anger, and hate. In Season 4, The Orderly (aka Vecna himself) tells El a similar story about One or his own early experiences, who learned to increase his power by drawing on a memory that "that made him sad, but also angry." This is extremely similar to The Dark Side of the Force... great passion yields great power, but at a great price.
    • While Eddie was overseeing the D&D battle and Dustin's teammates were advising to quit because the odds against them are insane, Dustin quips "Never Tell Me the Odds!".
    • When Murray, Hopper and Joyce were re-infiltrating the Russian prison to kill the Demogorgon, Murray chides them for the plan and says, "I have a bad feeling about this".
    • Max's comatose state in the Season 4 finale heavily resembles Han's carbonite freezing in The Empire Strikes Back.
  • Right in the first season of That '70s Show it shows the phenomenon that Star Wars became in 1977 with an episode indicatively named "A New Hope". By the time of sequel series That '90s Show, Eric and Donna have named their daughter Leia (and the former even wanted to also give the middle name Tattooine), who is not as enamoured and mocks that her father gives advice from Yoda.
  • Jeremy from Top Gear (UK) once introduced The Stig by saying "Some say that he thought that Star Wars was a documentary."
  • The X-Files:
    • Emil compares the UFOs to something from A New Hope in "Deep Throat".
    • Mulder compares his and Deep Throat’s relationship to the one between Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi. When Mulder gets angry once, he tells him to cut off the Obi-Wan Kenobi crap.
    • In "Small Potatoes", Amanda Nelligan is a huge fan who has seen the films countless times and is convinced that Luke Skywalker is the father of her baby girl. She hums the theme, and Scully asks whether Luke brought his lightsaber.
    • In "Vienen" after Doggett explains how five years ago, Mulder and Scully investigated the black oil substance that somehow curved into an alien colonization theory:
      Mulder: And you’d like to help, but you left your lightsaber at home.

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  • The Now Playing Podcast covered the original trilogy, prequel trilogy, the Ewok T.V. films, and Holiday Special in anticipation of the release of The Force Awakens. Reviews of the later Disney-era Star Wars films were also followed up on in their respective release years.

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  • On the Star Realms "Bounty Hunter" card, the flavor text is "No disintegrations. We need them alive.", the famous line from Darth Vader's briefing to the bounty hunters in The Empire Strikes Back.
  • Warhammer 40,000: As part of the game's Early-Installment Weirdness, one of the earliest named characters in the setting is an inquisitor named Obiwan Sherlock Clousseau.
  • Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Kozmo cards are characters, objects, or locations from Star Wars blended with equivalents from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

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  • In the Happy Tree Friends episode "Wrath of Con", Giggles and Petunia are at a convention center dressed as Leia and an Ewok. Giggles has a toy lightsaber, which shorts out, so Splendid uses his heat vision on it and unwittingly turns it into a Not-So-Fake Prop Weapon.
  • Minilife TV:
    • "Starsaber Duel" contains several references to Star Wars, including the Starsabers being parodies of lightsabers, the armor Chris and Ian battle with being similar to Stormtrooper armor (minus the helmets), and characters named Alec and James dressed as Obi-Wan and Darth Vader respectively.
    • In "A Dark Night", a pre-film trivia question depicts a silhouette of a "lovable robot icon". Chris guesses it's R2-D2, but it's actually his robot friend, Archie, who he apologizes to for not recognizing.
    • In "Snowball's Late Night Adventure", the scene of Snowball entering the Burton Night Club for the first time is a nod to the Mos Eisley Cantina scene from A New Hope.
    • In "Baking Bran (PART 2)", Rey and BB-8 from The Force Awakens can be seen relaxing on Gilligan Beach.
  • In X-Ray & Vav, Hilda's Wall of Weapons has a lightsaber, among plenty of other references to other franchises.

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    Western Animation 
  • The Amazing World of Gumball:
    • In "The Fridge", the scene where Gumball finds Richard after he's attacked by Nicole parodies Darth Vader's death.
    • "The Line" has everyone in town waiting in line for the new Stellar Odyssey, a Star Wars parody. The episode is also dotted with smaller references to the franchise, such as Anais making her face up to look like Palpatine's, Richard having a nerd-off that takes the form of a parody of Luke and Darth Vader's duel on Bespin, and Tobias Force-choking Jackie for having no faith in the movie being good because it's a reboot.
  • Amphibia: In "Fixing Frobo", the movie Anne and the Plantars watch is a clear riff on Attack of the Clones, specifically of the scene where Anakin talks to Padme about how he hates sand.
  • In "Break Out!", an episode of The Backyardigans, Tasha wears Princess Leia's iconic hairdo.
  • In the Batman: The Animated Series episode "Mad Love", The Joker quips "May the floss be with you!". Also counts as an Actor Allusion, as Joker was voiced by Mark Hamill in that series, and he also happens to be married to a dentist.
  • BB3B: In the first episode, the twins are playing with cardboard tubes whilst pretending that they are light-sabers. Later on in the same episode, they are seen attacking the Death Star with their parents in an Imagine Spot.
  • In the first episode of Bounty Hamster, a C-3PO expy appears out of nowhere to warn Marion and Cassie of how slim their chances of navigating an asteroid field are before Marion drops him through a trapdoor. Another episode had a fantasy sequence of Marion selling Cassie to a Jabba the Hutt lookalike.
  • Codename: Kids Next Door had more than its fair share of Star Wars references. In particular, the episodes "Operation: C.A.K.E.D.-F.I.V.E." and "Operation: S.N.O.W.I.N.G." were respectively Whole Plot References to the Death Star scenes from A New Hope and the Hoth scenes from The Empire Strikes Back. The latter also parodies Luke and Darth Vader's duel on Bespin and throws in a reference to the prequels by having two characters that can fold themselves into wheels like droidekas. Earlier, in the episode "Operation: N.O.-P.O.W.U.H.", Numbuhs 2 and 4 use flashlights to pretend to have a lightsaber duel, complete with lightsaber noises.
  • In The Crumpets episode "Mum's Double", after robot Pa drops Li'l One to a trash can, Li'l One happens to be next to the real Pa. When Li'l One asks him who he is, Pa responds with a deep voice "I am your father" with a short Imperial March-like tune playing. Pa's voice actor Marc Thompson narrates Star Wars audiobooks.
  • Dexter's Laboratory:
    • In one episode, Dexter has "Star Wars" as the password for his lab.
    • In his first appearance, Mandark has the Death Star as part of his laboratory.
    • In "Robodexo 3000", the sounds made by the Energy Thief are the same sound effects used for the TIE fighters.
    • In "Babe Sitter", Mandark is in his lab playing with action figures of himself, Dee-Dee, and Dexter made to look like Star Wars characters.
    • In "D & DD", Dexter tells one of his companions in the game to "Use the Force!"
    • In "Game Over", Dexter sends an R2-D2-like robot to Dee-Dee to ask for help. The robot projects a hologram of Dexter that says, "Help me, Dee-Dee, you're my only hope!"
    • In "The Muffin King", Dexter's Dad gives a parody of the Luke, I Am Your Father scene, then gives Dexter a Jedi Mind Trick, telling him, "It is your destiny."
  • The Fairly OddParents!:
    • The first few minutes of Abra-Catastrophe! have Timmy fighting Darth Vader aboard the Death Star when they're interrupted by Jar-Jar, whom they throw off the catwalk. None of the characters' actual names are said.
    • Recurring antagonist Dark Laser is an Affably Evil Darth Vader parody brought to life from a comic book that Timmy scanned with a magic photocopier.
    • There was a scene in the second segment of Wishology where Timmy teams up with Dark Laser, Vicky, Mr. Crocker, and Mark and they enter a tavern. There, Timmy is a parody of Luke, Vicky is Leia, Crocker is Chewbacca as he's wearing a fur coat that gives him sinus problems and causes him to make Chewbacca-esque sounds, and Mark is R2-D2 as he's wearing a mechanical thermal suit with wheels that keep squeaking when he moves, parodying R2's beeping.
  • FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman: At one point in "Shrimp A la Cart", Talia found a horseshoe crab. Its apperance freaks Ruff out to the point where he says "Looks like Darth Vader's face with a billion legs coming out of it!"
  • Fireman Sam has an incident involving a runaway bus that careens into a sheep field with one of the passengers remarking about the odds of navigating through such a field and the driver subsequently responding with "Never tell me the odds."
  • Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends:
    • One episode is titled "Store Wars".
    • In the episode "Bus the Two of Us", Bloo engages in Toll Booth Antics when trying to toss coins out the window and failed, using a line from A New Hope.
      Bloo: Negative. It didn't go in. It just impacted on the surface.
    • In "One False Movie", Mac sells his collection of boxed Rocket Wars action figures on SchmeBay to fund T-Rexatron Alien Wolf III: A Prequel in Time, the movie that Bloo was making for the state student film festival. This collection re-appears in a later episode, "The Buck Swaps Here", where it is being sold at a swap meet for $100.00, which Mac tries to buy using the $100.00 bill that Eduardo found.
  • Futurama:
    • In "Crimes of the Hot", all the world's robots are lured to a planet where they'll all be killed at once, leading the Professor to comment "Oh, the Jedis are gonna feel this one."
    • In "Where No Fan Has Gone Before", when it's mentioned that Star Trek had been banned following the Star Trek Wars.
      Zapp Brannigan: You mean the vast migration of Star Wars fans?
      Judge: No, that was the Star Wars Trek.
  • In one episode of Jelly Jamm, the King shows Bello and Goomo his "sound wheel", which allows one to change their voice to sound like anything. When he demonstrates how it's used, he imitates Darth Vader saying "I am your father", and his head briefly changes into Darth Vader's mask to fit.
  • One of the Larry Doyle Looney Tunes shorts is called Attack of the Drones, an obvious play off of Attack of the Clones.
  • In The Loud House episode "Scales of Justice", one of the things Lana takes out in the house's attic is a helmet-like mask that's clearly based on Darth Vader's helmet.
  • One episode of Numberjacks is titled "May the Fours Be With You".
  • The Pac-Man episode "Pacula" has a scene at a drive-in theater, where the movie's hero is told, "Use the power pellet force, Luke."
  • Phineas and Ferb does have a direct parody episode, but references to the movies are scattered throughout the show. Enough for the show's wiki to have compiled a list. Highlights include:
  • An episode of the Hanna-Barbera Popeye cartoons, "Close Encounters of the Third Spinach", is a Star Wars parody featuring Olive as Princess Olive-Pit, Poopdeck Pappy as Alta-Poppa and Bluto as Darth Bluto. Popeye not only rescues the Princess but discovers his long-lost Pappy.
  • Rick and Morty: In "Ricktional Mortpoon's Rickmas Mortcation", it starts with Morty getting a real lightsaber as a Christmas gift and continuing into The President's many discussions about the movies and TV series.
  • The Simpsons:
  • South Park had a reference or two to the franchise, but one that stands out is Chef's last appearance, which ended with him dying gruesomely and then being rebuilt as a Darth Vader lookalike.
  • The Rugrats (1991) episode "Falling Stars" is a run of the mill Star Wars parody. Angelica appears as an evil Darth Vader lookalike, Grandpa Lou comes to Tommy in a vision like a ghostly Yoda/Obi-Wan mentor, and Chuckie flies the spaceship through passageways that look like the Death Star in the climactic scene of A New Hope. Angelica also throws in the obligatory parody of Luke's parental reveal by telling Tommy that she is his cousin, to which he replies with a Big "NO!".
  • In the season finale of Total Drama World Tour, the scene of Alejandro being put into the Total Drama Machine parodies Darth Vader being put into his suit after being defeated by Obi-Wan. The part where Vader asks about Padmé and subsequent Big "NO!" is then parodied when Alejandro asks about the prize money, which was destroyed when it fell into a volcano.
  • Trolls:
    • In Trolls: The Beat Goes On!, Keith's story in "Trolly Tales 2" starts off as a troll version of the tale of Icarus before suddenly becoming a Star Wars parody complete with a lightsaber duel and Branch's character giving Icarus a We Can Rule Together and Luke, I Am Your Father moment.
    • In the Trolls: TrollsTopia episode "Dante the Entertainer", Dante dreams about having a balloon sword duel with his ventriloquist dummy Caruthers, who produces a Darth Maul-style dual-bladed sword. Right before Dante wakes up, Caruthers tells him that he's his father.
  • Undergrads frequently made references to Star Wars given that one of its main characters, Gimpy, is a major Star Wars fanboy. One such instance happens within the first minute of the first episode, when Gimpy decides to watch his "Malaysian bootleg DVD of The Empire Strikes Back" with his friends.
  • In the X-Men: Evolution episode "Spyke Cam", Spyke writes a report on the "Star Wars Program", thinking it's about the Star Wars movies, rather than Ronald Reagan's Star Wars Program. This later became Hilarious in Hindsight after Disney bought Marvel Comics, Lucasfilm, and Fox, thus asserting Disney's full control of both the Star Wars and X-Men franchises.
  • Toward the end of the Yogi's Treasure Hunt episode "Yogi Bear on the Air", the former TV presenter Connie Kindly has made herself over to resemble Princess Leia.

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  • A planet with two suns was discovered by NASA years after the release of A New Hope and nicknamed "Tatooine".

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