Shout Out / Darths & Droids: Films – Live-Action

Shout-outs to live action films in Darths & Droids.

• Upon the group's arrival in Orron III, Quay Tolsite combines "This is the gulag Rura Penthe", "I don't have good conduct programs", "No one has ever escaped from Alcatraz" and "Welcome to Shawshank" speeches from three films into a single speech.
  Quay: This is the gulag Orron III. There is no stockade. No guard tower. No electronic frontier. I don’t have good conduct programs. Inmates here have no say in what they do; they do as they’re told. Punishment means exile from prison to the surface. On the surface, nothing can survive. Work badly and you will die. A few people have tried to escape. Most of them have been recaptured; those that haven’t have been killed. No one has ever escaped from Orron III. And no one ever will! I believe in two things: discipline and the Force. Here you’ll receive one. Put your trust in the Force; your ass belongs to me. Welcome to Orron III.
• 2001: A Space Odyssey: Han (after bumping his head): "My god, it's full of stars." #995.
  • Luke: "My god... it's full of midi-chlorians." #1035.
  • In #1178, Nute Gunray echoes HAL's dying words: "Daisy, Daisy, Give me your answer, do!" And the strip is titled "Hallo, Goodbye".
  • "I'm sorry Galen, I'm afraid I can't do that." #1689.
• 300: #672 is titled "This is Madness!"
• Airplane!: The medical droid says "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit XL oil." #639.
  • The conflicting P.A. announcements in #810, "No Shooting in the Red Zone", recall the "no parking in a red zone" argument.
  • #915 hints that Jim ran a campaign based around the film. And the strip is titled "We Were All Counting on You".
  • And all is revealed in #917, titled "But That's Not Important Right Now".
• Alice in Wonderland (2010): #1413, titled "Much Hair" has Palpatine say he's gone mad, but "all the best people are" and he's "lost his muchness".
• Alien: #15 is titled "In Space, No One Can Hear You Shout".
  • #732 is titled "In Space, No One Can Hear Your Scene".
  • When Gonzo/Vader dies in #1805, he sings "You are my lucky star" in the same way as Ripley in the final scenes as she prepares to blast the alien out the airlock.
• Aliens:
  • Padmé: "That sounds good too. We can nuke him from orbit." #493.
  • #695 gives us:
    GM: "Your dreadnought's homer is about nine meters away. Seven, six..."
    R2-D2: "That can't be. That's inside the room!"
  • #899 is titled "What Are We Supposed to Use? Harsh Language?".
  • Luke: "Come on, you too! Oh, you want some of this?" #981.
  • After Rey gives Unkar Plutt the Pretty Woman shop assistant dressing down before stalking out, Plutt responds with, "I guess she don’t like the cornbread either." #1901
  • #1992:
    Finn: That can’t be.
    BB-8: It’s reading right, man!
    Rey: Well, you’re not reading it right.
• Apocalypse Now: #151 is titled "I Love the Smell of Plasma in the Morning".
  • #2038 is titled "Epochalypse Now".
  • Followed later by #472, titled "Smells Like... Victory".
• Army of One: The title of #280.
• Avatar: Luke (to Yoda, discussing the possibility of Darth Vader attacking Dagobah): "I hate to break it to you, but if you're counting on the trees and rocks for help, you're gonna be a pile of radioactive disappointment." #1065.
• The Avengers (2012): Darth Kanata quotes Nick Fury: "Given that it’s a stupid-ass decision, I’ve elected to ignore it." #2033
• Back to the Future: Wuher (Mos Eisley cantina bartender): "Nivver heared o' sooch a ridiculous thing. In here, we puir whisky." #749.
  • #919 is titled "1.21 Jigga-XP".
  • Bodhi and an Imperial trooper play out the scene where a police officer questions Doc Brown about his lightning experiment, in #1691.
  • Young "Han"/currently "Chi'ra" during his time as an Imperial soldier, says "Whoa, this is heavy!" in Backstory #28.
• Barbarella: When Qui-Gon is appointed queen by Amidala in a non-canon intermission strip, he immediately begins quoting The Tyrant (a.k.a. the Black Queen of SoGo): "Guards! To the Mathmos with this winged fruitcake!" #1523
• Barton Fink: Darth Vader yells, "I'll show you the power of the mind!", in #1138, titled "You Dirty Fink". Vader's Charlie Meadows-esque rant continues into the next strip.
• Batman (1989):
  • Darth Vader channels Jack Nicholson's Joker and his "I'm glad you're dead," speech in #1132.
  • In #2205, Rey quotes the Joker's line "Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?"
    Kylo Ren: Nice line.
    Rey: I did consider, "Hello there", but it lacked a certain gravitas.
• A Beautiful Mind: #1176 is titled "A Nuteiful Bind".
• Bend It Like Beckham: #910 is titled "Bend it Like Starkiller".
• Ben-Hur: The pun "bigger than Ben heard" is used in #1799. And the strip title is "How Do You Fight an Idea?" a quote from the film.
• Blade Runner: Anakin applies the Voight-Kampff test to C-3PO in #299.
  • General Grievous recites Roy Batty's dying monologue, slightly modified, as he dies. #548.
  • Chewbacca tries to entertain Jabba with a tale which mashes up elements of Blade Runner and Silence of the Lambs, in #1258.
  • Another strip mentioning General Grievous is titled "Do You Like Our Owl?" after Rachael's line to Deckard. #1807
• Bowfinger: In #1968, Rey exclaims, "Gotcha, suckers!" after the GM describes Finn as "Unaware he's being filmed, Finn is the unwitting star of the show."
• Braveheart: #160 is titled "They May Take Our Advice", and the next strip is title "... But They'll Never Take Our Giant Dinosaur Ponies!!"
  • Captain Antilles (as Vader chokes him to death): "<gasp> You may take my lives... <choke> but you'll never... <ckckth> stop me rerolling!!" #680
  • C-3PO: "You may take our valuable parts, but you'll never take our freedom!" #1208
  • Chirrut tells his Rouge One troops to "Hold... Hooold..." before engaging. #1670
• A Bridge Too Far: The title of #11.
  • Varied to "Abridged Too Far" in #367.
  • And to "A Bridge Not Far Away Enough" in #1493.
• Bring It On: Alluded to in Fozzie's instructions to Luke to dance in #1770: "Bring it on!"
• Casablanca: #484. Pete in the 4th panel.
  • #599 is titled "Shocked. Shocked, I Say".
  • Leia: "Look, the problems of two people and two droids don't amount to a hill of space pears in this crazy galaxy." #677.
  • #840 is titled "Of All the Space Stations in All the Galaxy..."
  • Finn: "I think this is the beginning of a really short friendship!" #1915.
  • In Backstory #181:
  Qi'ra: We need a plan. Here’s looking at—
  "Enrico" (played by Jim): I’m full of good plans!
  Qi’ra: ... You kid.
• Cast Away: The title of #574, which is about Yoda tossing Chewbacca aside as a character.
• Chariots of Fire: #358 is titled "Chariot of Choir".
• Center Stage (2000): Alluded to in Fozzie's instructions to Luke to dance in #1770: "Take centre stage!"
• Citizen Kane: General Grievous's last word is "Rosebud". #548.
• Clear and Present Danger: One half of the double-barrelled title of #1656 is "Clear and Present Anger".
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind: #68 is titled "Random Encounters of the Absurd Kind".
  • #1892 is titled "Close Encounters of the Worst Kind".
• Cool Hand Luke: Jawa (punishing R2-D2 for trying to escape): "What we've got here is... failure to communicate." #700.
  • #1186, in which Luke gets his prosthetic hand, is titled "Cool Hand, Luke".
• Dances with Wolves: #300 is titled "Dances with Droids".
• The Dark Crystal: Breaking encryption on some data crystals occurs in a strip titled "The Crystals, Cracked". (#1571)
• The Dark Knight Trilogy: The intermediate campaign which Ben ran between Episode IV and Episode V began with Ben intending it to be a light comedic spoof of the superhero genre, a la Batman (1966), but the players turned it into this Darker and Edgier version.
  • When fighting the Rancor, Luke channels The Joker in #1235: "How about a magic trick? I'm gonna make that gate disappear." (And of course Mark Hamill played The Joker in Batman: The Animated Series.)
• Das Boot: R2 falls in the swamp and uses his periscope in #1004, titled "Das < boop >".
• Death Becomes Her: The title of #646.
• Dirty Dancing: The title of #1801.
• Driving Miss Daisy: #999 is titled "Driving Miss Crazy".
• Dude, Where's My Car?: #154, in which kaadus first appear, is titled "Du, Where's My Kaa?".
  • C-3PO: "And then?" (after Luke's torpedoes go into the Peace moon vent) #910.
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: #1327 is titled "Eternal Moonshine of the Blank Mind".
  • #1792 is titled "Irrational Sureness of the Fruitless Mind".
• Face/Off: #1137 is titled "Blast/Off".
• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: #1542 is titled "Fantastic Contacts and Where to Find Them", and features a very Hagrid-like contact.
• Fargo: Sergeant Major Trey Callum displays Dakotan mannerisms in the snow on Hoth. #963 and following strips.
• The Farmer's Wife: Galen Erso's mother's maiden name is Araminta Dench, the name of the titular farmer's wife from this early Alfred Hitchcock film. (Galen is from Grange, an agricultural planet, so presumably his father was a farmer.) #1688.
• The Fast and the Furious: Luke and Leia engage in some pre-race banter on the Endor hoverbikes, including Dom's line "We talkin' or we racin'?" from Fast Five in strip #1340, which is titled "Farced and Spurious".
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Corey fakes being sick to get a day off school just to play the game, in #1123. The strip is titled "Corey's Day Off".
• A Few Good Men: "You want my statement? You can't handle my statement!" #356.
  • #1914 is titled "You Can’t Chandler the Troops".
• A Fish Called Wanda: #955 is titled "Don't Call Me Stupid".
• Flashdance: The title of #286.
• Footloose: Title of #746, which is primarily the cantina band music.
  • Alluded to in Fozzie's instructions to Luke to dance in #1770: "Loosen those feet!"
• Forbidden Planet: #1852 is titled "Forbidden? Plan It!".
• The 40-Year-Old Virgin: #1997 is titled "The 40-Year-Old Engine".
• Freaks: Jim, when Annie makes a corny pun: "One of us! One of us!" #368.
• Forrest Gump: "The way I see it... a character sheet is like a box of chocolates..." #143.
  • #954 is titled "Stupid is as Stupid Does".
• Girl, Interrupted: #170 is titled "Maul, Interrupted".
• Gladiator: Chirrut tells his Rouge One troops to "Unleash hell!!" #1670
  • GM: "Are you not entertained?" #1838, which is titled "Shadows and Dust".
• The Godfather: "Just when I thought I was out...they pull me back in." #386.
• Gone with the Wind: "...Clone with the Wind?" is the attempt of a clone trooper to answer a knock-knock joke by C-3PO. #820.
  • #942 is titled "Clankily my Dear, I Don't Give a Can".
  • #2018 is titled "Go With the Wind".
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: #1157 is titled "The Good, The Bad, and The Chewie".
  • #1903 is titled "The Good, The Bad, and the Sassy".
• A Good Day to Die Hard: Backstory #55 is titled "A Good Day to Fly Hard".
• Goodfellas: When Luke spots Boba Fett taking the frozen Han away on Cloud City, Boba yells "You think this is funny? I amuse you?" before shooting at him. #1117.
• The Good Son: Bria needs to decide whether to drop the Imperial data crystal or her blaster, echoing the climax of the film, in #1704, which is titled "The Good Gun".
• Gorillas in the Mist: #6 is titled "Jedi in the Mist".
  • #668 is titled "Fishes of the Mist".
  • During a simian-themed Hurricane of Puns, Corey notes that he "gorillas in the missed it." #1323
  • #1661 is titled "Guerillas in their Midst".
• Grease: #84, in which they work on hotting up Anakin's racing pod, is titled "Greased Lightning".
  • #131 is titled "Sour Relations, or 'Tell Me More, Tell Me More'". Followed immediately by #132, titled "Dour Narrations, or 'Like, Did He Have a Pod?'".
  • #1043 is titled "Tell Me Maw, Tell Me Maw".
  • #1484 is titled "Geased Lightning".
• The Great Escape:#1886 is titled "The Regret Escape".
• Groundhog Day: #227 is titled "Watch That First Step, It's a Doozy".
• Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: The title of #1085 is the movie title verbatim.
  • #1865 is titled "Guess Who's Slumming for Dinner".
• Harry Potter: (see also the Literature section)
  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: General Phasma quotes Snape's lines about "young Gryffindors being... up to something" to Finn in #1853.
• Home Alone: #419 is titled "Clone Alone".
  • Home Alone 2: Lost in New York: Followed later by #1760, "Clone Alone 2: Lost in Kamino".
• How to Lose Friends & Alienate People: #2106 is titled "How to Loose People and Alienate Friends".
• The Hunger Games: #1428 has an Ewoc blow the "Horn of Plenty". The strip title is "The Brave Shall Heed the Call", a line from James Newton Howard's soundtrack song, "Horn of Plenty".
• The Hunt for Red October: #463 is titled "The Hunt for Infrared October".
• I ♡ Huckabees: #2100 is titled "I ❤️ Hux’s Bees
• Independence Day: Cassian suggests introducing a virus could cripple the Scarif data facility, in #1690.
• Indiana Jones:
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark:
    • The title of #28 is "Finders of the Lost Plot".
    • R2-D2: "Sand. Why did it have to be... sand?" #688.
    • The title of #787 is "Raiders of the Lost Orb".
    • The title of #817 is "Giant Earthworms. Why'd it have to be Giant Earthworms?"
    • Luke: "I dunno! I'm making it up as I go along!" #968.
    • Leia disguised as Boussh in Jabba's palace is also making it up as she goes along. #1215.
    • Leia warns Han that "his face will melt off" if he fails his system shock roll for carbonite defrosting. #1218.
    • Han: (played by Harrison Ford, of course) "Apprentices... why did it have to be apprentices?" #1240.
    • The title of #1798 is "Nadir of the Xeroxed Mark".
    • Han/Yanni (played by Harrison Ford of course) tells BB-8, "What are you trying to do, scare me? I don't believe in magic, a lot of superstitious hocus-pocus." #1995. (Which is titled "The Template of Doom". See below.)
    • this page, Han/Yanni mentions that the owner of one of his previous stolen identities had some nice hats. Corey then comments, "Can't imagine you in a hat..." Doubles as an Actor Allusion.
    • Rey ponders if the trap in a dungeon might be a giant stone ball rolling down the stairs. #2021
  • Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom:
    • The Ewocs reveal their Lord resides in the "Temple of Dome". #1370
    • The title of #1995 is "The Template of Doom".
  • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade:
    • The title of #971 is "Only the Penitent Camel Shall Pass..."
    • In the same strip, it's revealed that Sally named Chewbacca after her dog...
    • Wedge gives Henry Jones's "I've lost him" speech when he thinks Luke was blown up in the Peace Moon in #1505.
    • Lor San Tekka delivers Indy's speech about finding Marcus Brody in #1835.
    • Finn expresses admiration that Poe really can fly a PIE fighter; Poe answers with Indy's line, "Fly, yes. Land, no." #1889
    • In Backstory #130, Jim suggests that ruining a guard's uniform by ripping his arms off might be what gave Chewie his aversion to ripping off arms. Ben says that this "makes less sense than a boxcar full of snakes", to which Jim replies, "Oooh... That’s an idea..."
• The Italian Job (1969): #2125 is titled "The Snow Job" and ends with the Falcon halfway over a cliff, just like the bus at the end of the movie. Jim quotes Charlie's "Hang on a minute, lads, I've got a great idea!"
• James Bond:
  • #205 is titled "James Bond will Return in: The Silence of the Clones", echoing the closing credits line of many early Bond films.
  • Leia: "He was shaken, but he's not stirred." #1114
  • #1877 is titled "Shaken, No Longer Stirring".
  • On Her Majesty's Secret Service: #185 is titled "On His Excellency's Secret Service".
  • Live and Let Die: The exact title of #630, although here the "die" is a pun on the small polyhedral randomising device.
  • The Spy Who Loved Me: Finn and Poe reproduce Anya and Bond's conversation in which Anya swears to kill Bond after their mission is complete. #1889.
  • GoldenEye:
    • #822 is titled "I Am Inwincible!".
    • Rebel pilot Keir Santage's last words are "Xenia, I can't breathe!" This is an Actor Allusion, as Santage is played by Billy J. Mitchell, the same actor who played Admiral Chuck Farrell in GoldenEye - the one who Xenia Onatopp killed by squeezing him between her legs so he couldn't breathe. Sally also gets in a James Bond reference, saying "Oh, oh. 7." when she rolls a 7 for Keir Santage's Dodge roll (low enough that it leads to his last words). #1491, which uses a double-barrelled James Bond title pun: "GoldenDie, or: Die Another Way".
    • Chirrut's rhetorical statement "Who's invincible!?", just before he dies. #1708
    • Echoed a bit later by Krennic: "I'm invincible!", just before he dies. Under a giant radio dish, no less. #1739
    • In #2106, Pete (Rey) and the GM reproduce Bond and Alec's conversation from the beginning of the movie. Bonus points for taking place in the scene where Rey mind tricks the stormtrooper who was played by Daniel Craig in the movie.
    Pete: Too easy.
    GM: Half of everything is luck.
    Pete: And the other half?
    GM: Fast talking the GM.
  • Tomorrow Never Dies: The title of #652.
    • Bria Tharen (played by Jim) decides that to assassinate Galen in a stealthy manner, she will shoot him and make it look like suicide. The GM objects: "It won't look like a suicide if you shoot him from over there." #1615
  • Die Another Day:
    • #91 is titled "Dice Another Day".
    • #1491 provides a double-barrelled James Bond title pun, titled "GoldenDie, or: Die Another Way".
    • Backstory #127 is titled exactly as the film, but the pun on Han's die/dice is clear.
  • Casino Royale (2006):
    • In #2106, the guard's lines are copied from Casino Royale.
• Jaws: #786 is titled "They're Gonna Need a Bigger Ship".
  • Chewbacca: "We're gonna need a bigger table." #1442.
• Jerry Maguire: Leia: "Show me the vectors!" #886.
  • Luke: "You had me at 'You wouldn't like me'." The strip is titled "Show Me the Trash Talk". #1128.
• Jewel of the Nile: #1038 is titled "The Duel of Denial".
• Joe Versus the Volcano: #878 is titled "Jim Versus the Volcano".
• Jurassic Park:
  • Sally invents a dinosaur cloning room on Kamino in #272.
  • #527 is titled "Do You Think He Saurus?".
  • #1148:
  R2-D2: It's a Unix system! I know this!
  • "Veggie-sauruses" are mentioned in #1467, which clinches the fact that Sally based her campaign on Jurassic Park, but with robot dinosaurs.
  • #2006:
  Darth Kanata: I gotta hold on to my butts.
  • #2010:
  Darth Kanata: God damn it! I hate this hacker crap!
  • Backstory #133 has another reference to the "Unix system" quote.
  L3-37: It’s a Pac-Man system. I know this.
• King Kong: Referenced in-universe by Pete as a sarcastic comment on Bria's decision to climb to the top of the tower rather than down. #1713.
• Legends of the Fall: The title of #386.
• Lethal Weapon: #1682 is titled "Bequeathal Weapon".
• Lethal Weapon 2: An obvious one in #680:
  Captain Antilles: Diplomatic immunity! (I can't believe I didn't think of that one before.)
  Darth Vader: Revoked. *chokes him*
• Little Shop of Horrors: The Special Edition Sarlacc's similarity to Audrey II is alluded to with the title of strip #1281, "'Feed Me,' say Maw". (This is also an allusion to the stage show version.)
• Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels: #429 is titled "Locked Dock and Two Smoking Barrels".
  • #1435 is titled "Lock Block and Two Choking Die Rolls".
• The Lord of the Rings: An intermission strip has Ben recognise the miniature being used to portray Count Dooku as the same one they used in a previous game to represent a wizard who turned evil and worked for the main bad guy - referring to Saruman, played by the same actor as Dooku, Christopher Lee. #412.
  • #975:
  Major Derlin, 2nd Lord Clabburn: Hold your ground, hold your ground!
  Major Derlin, 2nd Lord Clabburn: A day may come when the courage of men and women... and droids... and shapeshifters... and other Rebels fails, when we forsake this land and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day.
  Major Derlin, 2nd Lord Clabburn: An hour of... giant mechatronic camels and shattered guns, when the age of the Rebellion comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we fight!
  Major Derlin, 2nd Lord Clabburn: By all that you hold dear on this good Hoth, I bid you stand, Rebels of the Clabburn Range!
  • R2-D2 has an internal conflict with the digitised mind of Nute Gunray residing in his circuits in #1146. The scene is presented with a split screen showing a Gollum-like version of R2 and a Smeagol-like version, using mirror images and a shift in colour balance, much like the Gollum/Smeagol dialogue scenes in the films. This continues into the next strip, with R2 finally winning with the line "Leave now, and never come back! Leave! Now! And never come back!".
  • #1190 is an intermission strip built entirely around lines from the films, with Obi-Wan's Force ghost appearing as "Obi-Wan the White" to Luke in the "Lembas snow" on Hoth.
  • Phasma warns General Hux about Tatooine using lines said by Saruman to Gandalf with a few changes in #1893.
  • #1896 references Sam's conversation about potatoes with Gollum in its title, "Roast Jacket Poe, Ta-ta!".
  • #1982 has Sally as Snoke riffing on the film version of Galadrial's "All shall love me and despair" speech.
  • Backstory #125 title, "One Does Not Talk Simply Into Mordor", references the film-only quote "One does not simply walk into Mordor."
• Mad Max: Name dropped in #50.
• The Maltese Falcon: Han calls the Millennium Falcon the Malteser Falcon in #782, titled "It's What Dreams Are Made of".
• Mamma Mia!: Kermit channels Meryl Streep's inter-song stage banter word-for-word from the movie closing credits sequence, leading up to the opening of the song "Waterloo", the first two words of which ("My, my") are the title of the strip, #1778.
• The Man Who Knew Too Much: The film's signature song "Que Sera, Sera" is used as the title for #482.
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: #575 is titled "The Man Who Shot Valiant Liberty".
• The Manchurian Candidate: #1811 is titled "The Manchurian Logic Gate".
• Marvel Cinematic Universe'
  • The Avengers (2012)
    • The titles of strips #1849 and #1850 are puns on Black Widow and Hawkeye's mysterious exchange about Budapest: "Boom and Quest All Over Again" followed by "You and I Remember 'Let it Rest' Very Differently".
    • Kanata quotes Nick Fury at the end of #2033: "Given that it's a stupid-ass decision, I've elected to ignore it."
  • Iron Man: Referenced diegetically by Ben and Pete in #1816, and again in #1839.
• Mary Poppins: #1908 is titled "Souk; a Coupla Fragged Sadistics; XP: Quite Atrocious".
• The Matrix: Obi-Wan giving Adam a Red Pill, Blue Pill choice in #726.
  • Yoda offers Luke a choice between red brew and blue milk in #1020.
• Memento: The vault technician on Scarif suffers from "retro-anterograde amnesia", and can't remember anything that happened before K-2SO hits him on the head. #1672
• Midnight Cowboy: Luke channels Dustin Hoffman: "Hey! I'm talkin' here! I'm talkin' here!" In strip #1464, titled "Midnight Madness".
• A Million Ways to Die in the West: #1800 is titled "A Million Ways to Dice in the Quest".
• Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol:
  • #1533 is titled "Mission Impertinent: Post-Protocol".
  • Backstory #133 is title "Ghost Protocol".
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail: #391 is titled "See the Violence Inherent in the System".
  • Count Dookû (who in D&D is space-French): "Your mother was a womp rat and your father smells of sweesonberries!" #392.
  • Luke: "Come back, you coward! I'll chop your legs off!" #979.
  • Pete helps Ben build a science experiment involving a wooden duck (referencing the witch-drowning scene), in #1061.
  • Pete doesn't care about Anakin murdering Padme. "Why are we sitting around arguing about who killed who-" (referencing the swamp lord's speech after Lancelot's killing rampage) in #609
  • After establishing the possibility of eclipsing both of Tatooine's twin suns, the GM awards Jim "five stars", to which Jim responds, "No, five is right out." #1581
  • K-2SO: "It's just a flesh wound!" (K-2SO of course doesn't have flesh.) #1693
  • Chewie: "On second thought, let's not go to Kamino, 'tis a silly place." #1812
  • While Rey is fighting some thugs, Annie roleplays that Finn wouldn't be sure about who was the aggressor, so Pete has Rey call out "Help! Help!" When Finn still isn't sure that Rey's the victim, Pete adds "I'm being repressed!" The GM then has a thug mutter "Bloody peasant." #1907
• Monty Python's Life of Brian: #517 is titled "The Popular People's Liberation Front of Naboo".
  • #644 is titled "He's not the Messiah, He's a Dreadnoughty Boy".
  • The I Am Spartacus moment in #1105 where Han, Chewbacca, and Leia claim to be Obi-Wan, is finished with C-3PO emphatically claiming not to be, similar to Mr Cheeky in Monty Python's Life of Brian.
• Mystery Men: #766:
  Obi-Wan: Do not seek too quickly to master the Force, lest—
  Luke: The Force become my master? Yeah yeah, I get it.
• Network: The Muppet newsreader on Kamino, when attacked by rampaging sheep, yells, "Ah'm mad as 'ell, and Ah'm not going to take zis any more!" #1765
• On Golden Pond: #1335 is titled "On Golden Frond".
• On the Waterfront: Bail Organa: "I coulda been the Chancellor. I coulda been somebody, instead of a Senator, which is what I am, let's face it." #215.
• The Parent Trap: The title of #844.
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The sword fight in #393.
• Planet of the Apes (1968):
  • You damn dirty Sith! #397.
  • #1323, full of monkey puns, is titled "Planet of the Japes".
  • In #1356 Ben suggests that Sally engage the services of a "famous ape scientist" to assist in her campaign to free experimental monkeys from her university, and Jim interjects, "Yeah! Like Dr Zaius!" (And in the next strip, which takes place after a game session break, we learn that Ben dressed up as Dr Zaius to assist Sally's cause.)
• Pretty Woman: Rey tells Unkar Plutt, "You work on commission, right? Big mistake. Big. Huge. I have to go now." #1901, titled "Petty Woman".
• The Princess Bride:
  • "Do we have to hear about the kissing part?" R2-D2 in #270.
    • And when Anakin and Padmé kiss near the beginning of Episode III the strip is titled "Can't We Skip This Bit?" #489.
  • Padmé refers to a "Miracle Man" who might be able to bring Shmi back to life, in #316.
  • #393. In Dooku's and Obi-Wan's laser-sword duel, their entire exchange is a play on words referencing the best sword fights from The Princess Bride, The Secret of Monkey Island, Pirates of the Caribbean, and The Princess Bride again.
  • Strip #395 flashes out of Star Wars entirely and shows several panels from The Princess Bride, with the kid complaining to the grandfather that it's unfair if Padmé dies in this scene. When Padmé revives it is implied she was hallucinating. The strip is titled "Mostly Dead".
  • In #406 the mysterious "fantasy campaign" they played in between Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones is revealed to have been based on The Princess Bride, with the give-away line being R2-D2 yelling, "There is no such thing as immunity to iocane powder!"
  • Soon after, Anakin and Padmé get married in a strip titled "Mawwiage". #409.
  • And the game is given away completely in #410, which shows the GM's campaign notes for The Princess Bride campaign. The strip is titled "Let Me Explain... No, There is Too Much. Let Me Sum Up".
  • When introduced to Tarkin for the first time, Vader says, "I'll kill him tomorrow." But he never does. #652.
  • #706 is titled "Inconceivable".
  • In #729: "My name is Luke Amidala? You killed my father?" Followed immediately by "I was prepared to die..."
  • Jim describes the inter-film campaign he ran using the same words the Grandfather uses to describe the story he's about to read to the Kid: "Fencing, fighting, revenge, escapes, true love, miracles!" (Though the following lines make it clear that this does not imply he ran The Princess Bride.) #775.
  • #876:
  Luke: Okay, you've proven useful for another day.
  C-3PO: Have fun storming the Peace Moon!
  Luke: Good bye, 3PO. Good work. Translate well. I'll most likely melt you down in the morning.
  • Boba Fett: "His name is Obi-Wan Kenobi. When I meet him, I shall say to him: Hello. My name is Boba Fett. You killed my father. Prepare to die." #1042.
  • #1127:
  Lando: Look who... <choke> knows so much... <gasp>... about dead.
  • During the Sarlacc pit battle, Han is dangling from the skiff and Lando is trying to climb up the Sarlacc pit, somewhat like the Man in Black trying to climb the Cliffs of Insanity while Inigo waits on top. Han aims a blaster in Lando's general direction, and Lando echoes the Man in Black with: "That does put a damper on our relationship." #1285
  • The line "Have fun storming the castle" is alluded to by Luke in #1324: "Storming a fully armed battle station to confront your evil psycho mother isn't exactly what I'd call fun."
  • #1538:
  Bria: Your name is Montoja Intigua! You helped my father! Prepare to die!
  • #1844:
  Kylo Ren: Good work, Poe. Sleep well. I’ll most likely kill you in the morning.
  • Rey and BB-8 discuss their assets while battle planning, and Rey says, "What I wouldn't give for a holocaust cloak...". #2052
  • Ben (as General Hux) and the GM spend almost all of #2130 parodying the battle of wits between Westley and Vizzini.
  General Hux: Hmmm. That’s GM code for “Something really, really bad. Go on, I dare you,” isn’t it?
  GM: You’ve made your decision then?
  General Hux: Not remotely! Perhaps it’s the panicked response of not having planned it out, thinking I wouldn’t dare?
  GM: Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.
  General Hux: Wait till I get going! Or is it reverse reverse reverse psychology?
  GM: You’re just stalling now.
  General Hux: You’d like to think that, wouldn't you? What if I call your bluff and the whole campaign goes off the rails?
  GM: You’re trying to trick me into giving away something. It won’t work.
  General Hux: Huh. It’s always worked before.
  GM: And the campaign has always gone off the rails anyway.
  • Kylo Ren and "Nameless guy" exchange the same dialogue that Inigo and Count Rugen did just before Inigo stabs him in #2182.
  • In Backstory #212, when Qi'ra kisses Enrico/Han, Jim's narration is a nearly word-for-word quote of the "invention of the kiss" line.
• Primal Fear: "You are making a mockery of my courtroom and I'm not going to allow it." #357.
• Psycho: The title of #783.
  • #1324, which mentions an "evil psycho mother" in the dialogue, is titled "Stormin' Norman", referencing Norman Bates.
• Pulp Fiction: Mace Windu decided to "walk the Galaxy", "You know, walk the Galaxy, meet aliens", followed by "From here on in you can consider Mace retired.", in strip #380. The strip title is also a pun on the film title: "Sulk Addiction".
  • #1763 is titled "Pulp Interdiction".
  • Luke to Fozzie: "Ask me to dance again. Ask me to dance, I dare you! I double dare you! Ask me to dance one more goddamn time!" #1773
  • Finn quotes Jules Winnfield's "I will strike down upon thee" speech in #1830, which is titled "Culpa Diction".
  • From #2340, Finn's Peace Moon cafeteria card serial number is "EZKL-2517".
• Rambo: Cassian asks "who's this Rambo McBeefcake?" when Baze Malbus appears.
• Rashomon: #200 is titled "Rush 'Em On", and is a recounting of a very different version of events occurring to Queen Amidala, through Jim's point of view, in true "Rashomon"-Style.
• Rebel Without a Cause: Bail Organa is introduced as a very James Dean-esque character, quoting some of Jim Stark's lines in #215, titled "Rebel Without a Cause, Yet".
  • Bail Organa again: "Please, lock me up. I'm gonna hit somebody and I don't want to." In #500, titled "A Stark Decision".
  • Finally, Bail declares, "Our Rebellion has a cause." #645.
  • Bail returns in Rogue One, his first line quoting Jim Stark again: "I've got the bullets!" #1636.
  • #1684 is titled "Rebel Without an Effect".
• Rocky III: #1055 is titled "I, Piett the Fool" after Mr. T's trademark quote.
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show:
  • #2218 is titled "There’s a Light Over at the Falcon’s Turning Place".
  • Immediately followed by "There’s a Light Burning Up the First Order Base".
• A Room with a View: #1245 is titled "A Room With a Gnu".
  • #1490 is titled "Boom With a View".
• Sands of Iwo Jima: #1916 is titled "The Sands of Oh No Niima".
• Scent of a Woman: #1610 is titled "Ascent of a Woman".
• Serenity: "Screw that. I'm going to live." #477
  • Also, "gorram" pops up as a swear word used by the players out of character. Though one wonders, if the ''Star Wars'' films were never made, would ''Firefly'', which owes a fair bit to them, (as does much of the science fiction since) still exist?
• Sharknado: #1592 is titled "Snarknado".
• The Shawshank Redemption: Red (droid in Jawa captivity): "Freedom at last? Ha. They sent me here for life, and that's exactly what they took." #699.
• The Shining: Luke goes a bit crazy in the snow in #936.
  • Luke: "I'd sell my soul for a glass of mulled wine." #939, titled "Pre-medicated Red Rum".
• Short Circuit: #1959 is titled "Lumber, Writhe, Hiss, Arrive" (a pun on "Number 5 is alive").
• A Shot in the Dark: The title of #1737.
• The Silence of the Lambs: Luke: "Umm... If it's okay with you, I don't think I'll go back to your hut made of human skin." #1011, titled "The Verbosity of the Alien of Unspecified Species".
  • E-3PO (the silver droid C-3PO speaks to in Cloud City) says "It puts the oil on its body or it gets the hose again." #1074.
  • The Rancor expresses a desire to eat Luke "with some jawa beans and a nice Chandrilan Blue '439" in #1232. The strip title is a double pun on Silence of the Lambs and Soylent Green: "Soylents of the Gammorean". The Rancor continues in #1234 with "Silence, little lambs. You're putting me off my lunch.".
  • Chewbacca tries to entertain Jabba with a tale which mashes up elements of Blade Runner and Silence of the Lambs, in #1258.
• Singin' in the Rain: #288 is titled "Stringin' in the Rain".
  • The Muppet chorus line sings "You Are My Lucky Star" in #1797.
  • Gonzo reprises "You Are My Lucky Star" in #1805, but this time in the manner of Ripley at the end of Alien.
• The Sixth Sense: #550 is titled "The Sith Sense".
• Slumdog Millionaire: #1214 is titled "Slug Dog Millionaire" (referring to Jabba).
• Snakes on a Plane: #689 is titled "Bakes on a Plain".
• Sneakers:
  • #501 is titled "Too Many Secrets".
  • In Backstory #139, "My name is __________. My voice is my passport. Verify me," is the passphrase for the biometric security on a vault door.
• Soylent Green: #156, in which Jar Jar negotiates with Boss Nass to sell the humans of Naboo for food, is titled "Soylent Auction".
  • R2-D2: "Mos Eisley is made of dreadnought!" #742. And the strip title is "Painting the Town Green".
  • #1232, in which the Rancor eats a Gammorean, is titled "Soylents of the Gammorean".
• Spaceballs: #521.
  • It is also part of the pattern for the "Turtles all the way down" style alternate reality rabbit hole started in strip #50. The original rant that sets the pattern states that in a universe without Star Wars, "Spaceballs is a serious documentary about the practical applications of Buckminsterfullerene," and the snowclones follow the formula of "_X_balls" being a film about _Y_.
  • Captain Oquoné orders his ship to ram a star destroyer at "Ludicrous speed!" #1717
  • Followed up by Admiral Raddus telling Oquoné "It's a good thing you were wearing those helmets." #1723
• Spartacus: The I Am Spartacus scene is echoed when Boba Fett is desperate to know where Obi-Wan is, so he can kill him, Han claims to be Obi-Wan, then Chewbacca claims to be Obi-Wan, then Leia claims to be Obi-Wan. #1105.
• Spies Like Us: #2104 is titled "Us Like Spies".
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: #1041:
  Boba Fett: He tasks me. He tasks me and I shall have him! I'll chase him 'round the moons of Nibia and 'round the Antares Maelstrom and 'round perdition's flames before I give him up!
  • #1078 is titled "The Needs of the Many", and features Obi-Wan's ghost holding his hands up in a pose reminiscent of Spock in the fateful scene near the end.
  • Boba Fett again channels Khan in #1088: "I mean to avenge myself upon him. I shall deprive him of power, and then, I mean to deprive him of his life."
  • Boba Fett does the complete "To the last, I will grapple with thee" speech in the non-canon bonus strip #1528, followed by C-3PO re-interpreting Khan's "I've done far worse than kill you. I've hurt you." lines, topped off by Boba screaming "Obi-WAAAAAN!!".
  • Galen's video introduction to his presentation of the Peace Moon plans begins with, "Project Stardust. A proposal to the Empire", echoing Carol Marcus's video introduction to Project Genesis. #1578. It ends two strips later, again echoing Carol Marcus's Genesis presentation, followed by Chirrut Îmwe twisting Spock's comment "It is Genesis" into "This is a revelation".
  • Finn and his buddy Gil echo lines from both Kirk and Spock, and Kirk and Peter Preston, as Gil dies. #1829
  • #1900 is titled "The Needs of the One Outweigh the Needs of Nephew".
  • In Backstory #172, speaking about the rathtar (which is reimagined as a four-dimensional being that lives backwards through time), Chewbacca comments that "It is intelligent, but not experienced. Its pattern indicates... four-dimensional thinking."
• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home: #994:
  Captain of Other Star Destroyer: Why don't ya watch where you're going, ya dumbass!
  Captain Needa: Well, uh, double dumbass on you!
• Strictly Ballroom: #176, in which Qui-Gon performs dance-like moves in combat with Darth Maul, is titled "Strictly Maul-room".
• Superman II: "Kneel before Valorum!" Spoken by the same actor who played General Zod. #139.
  • The name "Zod" is shown as the GM's original idea for Valorum's name in the GM's notes revealed in #206.
• Taxi Driver: "You talkin' to me? What am I, your taxi driver?" #623.
  • Ponda Baba: "You talkin' to me? ... I don't see no one else here, you must be talkin' to me." #750.
• The Terminator: "Come with us if you want to live!" #1585.
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day:
  • Chewbacca says that Nute Gunray will "have been reproducing and learning at a geometric rate." #1989
  • When L3-37 "dies" in Backstory #152, he tells Lando "I know now why you cry. But it's something I can never do."
• This is Spın̈al Tap: #364 is titled "This Is A Spinal Trap".
  • #752 is titled "None More Loud".
• THX1138: Officer Party 1138. #806.
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: #1853 is titled "Thinker, Railer, Soldier, Spy".
• Titanic (1997): #809 is titled "Draw Me Like One of Your Space French Girls".
• Top Gun: "Oh yeah. I got a need for speed." #79.
  • #749, titled "The Need for Theed".
  • Backstory #82 title, "Toht: Gun Maverick", is a reference to the sequel, Top Gun: Maverick.
• Total Recall (1990): The title of #1272.
• Triumph of the Will: Title of #271.
• Twilight: #572, complete with Take That!. And the strip title is "Total Eclipse of the Heart", referencing "Total Eclipse".
• The Untouchables: #1653 is titled "Don't Bring a K to a Star Destroyer Fight".
• V for Vendetta: In #1501, Vader's mask is removed to reveal Padme's scarred face underneath, complete with bald head. The strip title is "V for Vadetta", making a feminised "Vader" pun, and referencing the movie, in which Natalie Portman appears bald.
• Van Helsing: #552, also complete with Take That!.
• Weird Science: #1940 is titled "Steered Science".
• When My Baby Smiles At Me: Backstory #65 is titled "When My Wookie Smiles at Me".
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit: R2 plays on Roger Rabbit's line about escaping the handcuffs in #1173:
  Leia: The power was inside you the whole time?
  R2-D2: Uh-huh.
  Leia: You could have used it at any time?
  R2-D2: No! Only when it was maximally [...] awesome.
• The Wild One: Bail Organa continues channelling James Dean in #500:
  Padmé: Oh. So... what do we rebel against?
  Bail Organa: What do you got?
• Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory: #923 is titled "Wampa-Lampa Doobity-Doo".
  • Kylo Ren: "Wait a minute. Strike that. Reverse it." #1955, which is titled "The Danger Must Be Growing", from Wonka's manic boat tunnel narration.
• The Wizard of Oz: #250 is titled "And Your Little Droid Too".
  • #374 is titled "Jedi and Monsters and Droids, Oh My".
  • Yoda: "Fly, my pretties!" #382, titled "The Wonderful Jedi of Oz".
  • #469 is titled "If I Only Had Your Brain".
  • Obi-Wan refers to General Grievous, Nute Gunray, and the Separatists leaders as, "Not only the Tin Man, but the Cowardly Lion and his Munchkins too." Then Grievous uses the words, "Ding dong, Gunray!" #528.
  • #560 is titled "And Their Little Padawans Too".
  • Luke: "R2, I've a feeling we're not on Tatooine any more." #1003
  • Another "Fly, my pretties!" this time by C-3PO (also played by Sally, like Yoda was), in #1433, which is titled "The Wicket's Witch of the Western Front".
  • An Ewoc life lesson for C-3PO in #1512 is that "Nute was truly inside you the whole time," echoing the Wizard's conclusion that the Tin Man had a heart all along. The strip title is "If I Only Had a Heart Made of Gold".
  • C-3PO again, this time saying, "If I only had a heart..." in response to Bria saying that she and Cassian will live forever in her heart. #1738
  • #1755 is titled "Wicket's Pitch of the Quest".
  • #1991 is titled "Follow the Holo Luke Road".
• XXX Return Of Xander Cage: Darth Kanata quotes Augustus Gibbons, "Let me simplify it for you. Kick some ass, get the girl, and try to look dope while you do it." #2047