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• Mad Max, Star Trek, and The Princess Bride.
• Directly naming Tomb of Horrors here, when gas fills up the room suddenly.
• Annie's dialog occasionally is made up of lines and lyrics from theater productions. She recites part of "At the End of the Day" from Les Misérables line for line as part of Anakin's lines.
  • In the same strip, Jim is reciting Don't Give Up, with some alterations.
• "Fly, my pretties!"
• "You can't handle my statement!"
• Count Dookû (who in D&D is French): "Your mother was a romp rat and your father smells of sweesonberries!"
• Blade Runner here.
• "With your bare hands?" "Yes!"
• DM of the Rings here.
• 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
  • "How depressingly stupid.'''
  • "Here I am, brain the size of a planet(...)"
  • "My name... is not important."
  • In the non-canon extra strip where Qui-Gon actually does Summon a Bigger Fish (and crushes Padmé with it), a bowl of petunias lands a moment after the fish.
  • "Looks like a moon, moves like a moon, steers like a cow."
• A strip featuring Cockney-esque salesmen droids insistently selling services the players neither want nor need is titled "Cuttin' Me Own Throat".
• "Not my gumdrop buttons!"
• Allotropic Iron torpedoes.
• To Kill A Mockingbird here.
• One of Jims malapropisms for the Lost Orb of Phanastacoria is the "Lost Emerald of Castafiore".
• This strip, which contains Looney Tunes shout-outs.
• "Screw that. I'm going to live."
• Mace Windu uses the expression "mother-frakking".
  • Being the Bad Motherfrakker that he is, he first said that as far back as Episode I.
  • Also, Pete must be invoking Casablanca in the 4th panel.
• This strip is a reference to The Emperor's New Groove.
• This strip's title is a Magic: The Gathering reference (A Cerodon, a Sliver, and an Atog, plus Arena).
  • Also, the three creatures look very similar to those creature types, in order, hence the title.
• This strip references Star Trek, Spaceballs, and Half-Life: Full Life Consequences.
• A clever re-wording of a William Shakespeare line makes the title of strip #523. The previous comic was titled "To Sleep, Perchance to Dream."
• This strip references Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight, where shaving with the lightsaber is one of Kyle's idle animations.
• Blade Runner, again, and Citizen Kane.
• The Van Helsing movie and Twilight movie, complete with Take That in both cases.
• In Dooku's and Obi-Wan's laser-sword duel, their entire exchange is a play on words reference to the best sword fights from The Princess Bride, The Secret of Monkey Island, Pirates of the Caribbean, and The Princess Bride again.
• You talkin' to me?
• "You're going to let the entire fate of the galaxy rest on a single die roll?"
• The Rant for this comic, discussing Obviously Evil, mentions Xykon from The Order of the Stick.
• Airplane!: The medical droid says "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit XL oil."
• Anything is possible when your man looks like a cyborg and not a lady.
• Obi-Wan giving Adam Red Pill, Blue Pill choice in episode 726 is a shout-out to The Matrix.
• In episode 729: "My name is Luke Amidala? You killed my father?"
  • Followed immediately by "I was prepared to die..."
• Soylent Green here.
• An obvious one in Strip 680:
  Captain Antilles: Diplomatic immunity! (I can't believe I didn't think of that one before.)
  Darth Vader: Revoked. *chokes him*
• Blackadder's Christmas Carol: "...wouldn't recognise a coherent plot if it painted itself purple and tapdanced on top of a harpsichord singing 'Coherent Plots Are Here Again'".
• Bilbo should have listened to this rant before hosting a dinner party.
• The good ol' Konami Code in #769.
• The title of #787 is "Raiders of the Lost Orb".
• "Bluff! Bluff! Bluff the stupid clones!"
• Officer Party 1138.
• Strip #812 is called "A Series of Unfortunate Vents".
• The Godfather, here "Just when I thought I was out...they pull me back in."
• Episode 847 reveals that Han loves it when a plan comes together.
• In Episode 884, Annie breaks out into Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again