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    Naruto 
  • Chiaroscuro:
  • I Am NOT Going Through Puberty Again!: Upon seeing Naruto's picture where his hands and face were painted white and red in flashy Kabuki style, Sakura asks him if he seriously tried to get it registered as his ID photo. He replies "I did indeed! And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for that meddling old man."
  • Naru-Hina Chronicles:
    • The main logo is inspired by the official logo for Final Fantasy VIII. Fittingly, they both focus on each work's respective Official Couple.
    • Naruto calls Hinata "Sleeping Beauty" after she wakes up a few times. The second time it happens, she blushes and asks if Sleeping Beauty isn't supposed to get a kiss from her prince, with Naruto taking this opportunity to give her multiple kisses.
    • During the Chunin Exam, Sakura sees Sasuke using the Sexy Jutsu to quickly end his fight against Lee and she does an angry rant over it, only for Sasuke to kiss her in the hopes that it will shut her up. mattwilson83 (the creator of NHC) stated that this was inspired by "Jaws Wired Shut", an episode of The Simpsons. Said episode features a scene where Homer decides to hug an upset Lisa, hoping it will "cork her cry hole."
      • Another Simpsons reference happens in Chapter 78. After Hanajima says that she likes the idea of her and Shino having a double date with Lee and Arekusu at a movie theater, Lee says that it's settled and adds "Let's all go to the lobby and get ourselves some snacks!" This is something Mr. Burns said in the episode titled "Burns' Heir", which was also a reference to the Let's All Go to the Lobby animated advertisement (whereas that line ended with "...to get ourselves a treat.").
    • Kakashi greets Hinata in some park by saying "Hi-de-ho" to her. This is similar to Wilson from Home Improvement, another character known for having half of his face being hidden all the time.
    • After learning that Tenten is pregnant and also engaged to Neji, Lee suggests they should go celebrate. This is followed by an Imagine Spot of Lee dancing and Gai singing "Stayin' Alive" by The Bee Gees.
      • Three chapters later, Gai ends up singing "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen.
    • Kiba is giving Mina her contacts case, which has the symbol of an eye printed on it. mattwilson83 left a note underneath the panel showing the case that says "No... it's not a Millenium Item! LOL!"
    • In Chapter 130, Minato is shown wearing the gag glasses from Persona 4.
    • The flashback from Chapter 135 shows that, when he was a toddler, Naruto had a plushie of Kero from Cardcaptor Sakura.
    • Naru-Hina Chronicles Mini-sodes:

    One Piece 

    The Owl House 
  • A Hero Forged:
    • One of the first dilemmas Luz has when working on her inventions in the Boiling Isles is finding an alternative to palladium because of its toxicity, a dilemma that Tony Stark had with his miniature arc-reactor in Iron Man 2.
    • Luz calls Gus "Mini-Loki" because of his superfluous use of illusion magic.

    Persona 

    Pokemon 
  • Guys Being Dudes:
    • Arlo makes plenty of references to his music tastes throughout. Bands namedropped include My Chemical Romance, Bring Me the Horizon, Escape the Fate, and Falling in Reverse.
    • Arlo alludes to the Team Rocket motto from the Pokémon anime when Sierra claims their motto is "Team GO Rocket doesn't give a shit about your personal life."
    • After Candela called Arlo Tsundere back when they were dating, he went on a Wiki Walk after looking it up on a site that's strongly implied to be This Very Wiki.
    • Not only does Arlo play Ingress, XM is also apparently literally real and what provides the power boost to Shadow Pokémon and raid bosses.
    • One of Blanche's car magnets reads "Honk IFF you love formal logic", a reference to xkcd.
    • While Spark and Arlo are discussing the linguistics of song lyrics, they come to the conclusion in reference to "Tik Tok" that if Kesha entered and then left a party, it would produce a universe-destroying singularity.
    • A song about horses that was a meme several years prior and which both Sierra and Arlo hate, but Sierra hates more, is mentioned. Based on the fic being set in 2022, it's a reference to "Old Town Road" and its Memetic Mutation status.
    • Arlo plans to call the Shadow Pokémon schematic he's working on at the beginning of the fic Pokémon XD.
  • Too Many Ashes: Clemont and an Ash clone working as his assistant recreate the "Pull the lever" sequence from The Emperor's New Groove.

    Pretty Cure 
  • Glitter Force: Into the Glitterverse:
  • In Intergalactic Illness, there's a reference to the Wizard of Oz when Kappard says “We’ll get your Star Color Princess Pens, and your little fluffy alien, too!”
  • Pretty Cure Perfume Preppy:
    • Chiara's hairstyle as Cure Vanilla was meant to resemble Bubbles.
    • There is one to the Brazillian edition of American Idol in episodes 31 and 34, particularly to a contestant known as Marcos Paulo. He ended up being eliminated during the Top 6 (such thing did happen to his fanfic counterpart Hyosuke Holic during his second appearance) and never popped up at media again since then, but the author still swoons over him.
    • Ayameko nicknaming her guitar "Blue Moon" in episode 45, which also mentions "Second Spin" (Night and Sunday's finishing move) and includes a Ship Tease moment reminiscent of Asa falling onto Yoko in episode 10.

    Professional Wrestling 
    Project Arrhythmia 
  • The Melodical Escapism level collection from The Arama Archives is named after Melody's Escape, with nearly all of its songs being used in it as well.
  • Black Heart:
    • In the level First Crush, Aura powers up Nautilus with something that resembles the attacks of a Magikoopa from Super Mario Bros..
    • The level Funk Hole has its boss Predator use their own versions of attacks from a few other Project Arrhythmia custom levels, with on-screen text giving sources for the references.
    • The character Medusa is designed after the album artwork for their level's song by F-777 - they use a similar green color scheme, have lightning-based attacks, and have some hair visible.
  • The Peer Gyntening:
    Psych 

    Real Person Fics 

    RWBY 

    Sgt. Frog 
  • Yin and Yang Series: Oh so much.
    • Doraemon, in the first lines of the first story
    • Lupapa's design is based on Naruto's Kankurou, and her whole family are references to Naruto characters. Her name and thievery are based on Lupin III.
    • The character of Fujuju pays heavy homage to Doctor Who. He's British, wears a scarf, lives in an old telephone box that's Bigger on the Inside, and astonishes his human friends with alien technology.
      • Lampshaded once by Oliver.
      Fujuju: We're going to make [the telephone box] fly.
      Oliver: ...Next thing I know you'll be fighting trash cans and offering everyone jelly babies.
    • So does Botan, the Time Lord...er, Time Bender.
    • The designs of twins Maggie and Oliver are loosely based on Rin and Len, while their sister Frannie's design is based on Miku.

    Skylanders 

    The Smurfs 

    A Song of Ice and Fire 
  • Chasing Dragons:
    • A "black-masked pirate named Roberts" is offhandedly mentioned at one point.
    • One of Stannis's most loyal lords during the early years of his reign is Lord Abram, of House Gaunt.
    • Many of the Stepstone pirates are named after various real life figures from The Golden Age of Piracy.
    • Much of the information concerning the events in Westeros and Essos comes from the in-universe testimonies of a knight named Ser Harry Flash. He is nowhere near as scummy as the real deal.
    • Aside from the Flash Papers, the special anniversary posts show future in-universe media centered around the events of the fic. These include:
      • A play called King Robert written centuries afterwards by Willem Stackspear.
      • A cartoon called Sphinxes, based on Gargoyles, where Robert and Daario are both reincarnated warriors awoken by a detective.
      • A live action historical comedy, based around the misadventures of a fictional courtier to King Stannis named Edmund Blackviper.
      • A Total War esque video game called Total War: Liberator. It even has a trailer based on this one for Napoleon: Total War.
  • Robb Returns has four Maesters who are named Archmaester Tudyk and Maesters Fillion, Baldwin and Maher (Firefly, anyone?).

    Sonic the Hedgehog 

    Star Trek 
  • Bait and Switch:
    • During Captain Kanril Eleya's Flashback Nightmare that takes up the first half of chapter one, one-shot character Crewman Davos drops the line "Bloody pirates" (referring to an Orion Syndicate Boarding Party).
    • Eleya notes in her narration that there's a theory that replicated food tastes a little artificial because it's exactly the same every time, whereas cooked food has variations (slight variances in ingredient proportions, cooking time, cooking temperature, etc.). This is borrowed from the nonfiction book Life Signs: The Biology of Star Trek (the biology equivalent of Lawrence Krauss' The Physics of Star Trek).
    • At the start of chapter two Eleya is playing Commander Marissa Allyn in a holonovel adaptation of Star Carrier: Earth Strike by William H. Keith, Jr..
    • In chapter six, Tess's and JG Park's "Conn, you gotta give me an Ivan." "Always wanted to try one!" exchange is borrowed from the pilot of Firefly.
    • In chapter seven, Eleya takes a page out of Jack O'Neill (from the Stargate SG-1 episode "The First Commandment"), demanding of an admin petty officer who's being an Obstructive Bureaucrat if it says "Captain" anywhere on her uniform.
    • Among the ships that make up the Marduk Carrier Battle Group is the USS Ivanova.
  • "Frostbite":
  • The Headhunt:
    • There's a reference to a Noodle Incident where some rogue Starfleet officers with a Section 31 obsession broke into Facility 4028 to extract an ally. This is a reference to the Foundry series Star Trek: Allegiance.
    • The C.O. of the USS Brisbane is named Sumati Chennapragada, the viewpoint character of a Star Trek lemon titled "A Bad Day for Shore Leave" (which we won't link due to it being massively NSFW).
  • "Last Rights":
    • The first line is Fallout's customary "War. War never changes." opener, albeit applied more literally than Fallout usually does (the following Opening Monologue talks about the necessity of surface armies even in an era of starships that can glass planets, rather than exploring human nature and fictional history).
    • The same monologue borrows a line from TV Tropes, specifically How to Invade an Alien Planet.
      "You can bomb it, you can strafe it, you can cover it with poison, you can turn it into glass, but you don't own it unless your army's on it and the other guy's isn't."
    • The author apparently couldn't resist throwing in a Monty Python and the Holy Grail reference when Senior Chief Athezra is hit by Vaadwaur shrapnel.
      Athezra: Cap. How bad is it?
      Eleya: Just a flesh wound! Where's that damned medic!
  • "Past Continuous": Eleya's quotation that "spring wine is the Prophets' way of showing us they love us" is a slight modification of something Benjamin Franklin said about beer.
  • Peace Forged in Fire:
  • Reality Is Fluid:
    • The author's notes state that Professor Atani Dukat was inspired by Emperor Turhan from the Babylon 5 episode "The Coming of Shadows", inasmuch as they're both high-ranking members of an enemy culture who want to mend fences by apologizing for their fathers. Dukat has better luck than Turhan did, though.
    • One of the alternate timelines detected by the Schrodinger's Butterfly sensor array is the Star Trek Novel 'Verse, as evidenced by Deep Space 9 having been replaced by a Federation-built station on the same site.
    • Dul'krah, the Bajor's security chief, is said to have made the saboteur confess by glaring at him until he gave it up, in reference to Teal'c's favored method of interrogation in Stargate SG-1.
  • Reimagined Enterprise: Besides the internal ones to Star Trek itself, there are others.
  • Red Fire, Red Planet:
    • There's a mention of a freighter called the SS Ayanami, skippered by a Captain Ikari.
    • "Case Zulu" as an "enemies inbound, This Is Not a Drill" message is a reference to the Honor Harrington books.
    • When Norigom mouths off to General K'Bor, Brokosh borrows a line from the pilot of Firefly:
      Brokosh: Norigom, you will keep a civil tongue in that mouth when speaking to a superior officer or I will sew it shut. Do we have an understanding between us?
      Norigom: You don’t pay me to talk pretty. Just because—
      Brokosh: NORIGOM!
      Norigom: (meekly) Yes, Captain.
    • There's a MACO petty officer in chapter four named Gordon Freeman. The liner notes say that it was either that or "Django Freeman" and the author thought "Gordon" was funnier.
  • "Shakedown Shenanigans":
    • When Bynam test-fires one of the impulse engines it lets off a high-pitched squeal that he calls the "baby's cry", saying it'll go away by the end of the shakedown cruise. This is borrowed from The Black Fleet Crisis: Before the Storm.
    • At the end of the fic, pleased with the Bajor's performance, Eleya strokes the wall and whispers, "That's my girl. That's my good girl." Borrowed from the end of the Firefly pilot, where Kaylee did that after the dramatic escape from the Reavers.
  • The Wrong Reflection:
    • Eleya has posters on her bedroom wall for The Fifth Element and Mass Effect, and she ropes Gaarra into watching the former with her.
    • Riker tells Eleya he has "good news, bad news, and ... indifferent news", in reference to Rowan Atkinson's sketch "Pink Tights and Plenty of Props".
    • In keeping with Star Trek tradition of naming Starfleet shuttles after space scientists, Eleya's shuttle Shoemaker is named for astronomers Gene and Carolyn Shoemaker.
    • At the tail end of chapter 2 the fleet goes into a string of "X ship, standing by" messages, including Gray Leader and Gold Leader (the Peregrine fighter wings). Lampshaded when Eleya, who likes Earth sci-fi, comments:
      “Please nobody say ‘lock s-foils in attack position’.”
    • The comm chatter during the fleet battle in chapter three contains lines borrowed from A New Hope, Transformers, and Top Gun.
    • A double one to Stargate SG-1. Mirror Gul Antos remarks to Eleya regarding Dal Kanril, her mirror universe counterpart, that "I’ve been telling Morag for years he has a very insubordinate subordinate." Eleya openly admits that she's even worse.*
    • To the Mass Effect fanfic The Translation in Blood, when Eleya manages to get Dal Kanril to snap to attention by acting like a drill instructor, and Dal Kanril responds, "Hey, that's cheating."
  • "To Absent Friends": To Jayne and Book's conversation in the Firefly episode "Objects in Space", when Biri has trouble believing that T'Var's a virgin.
    Biri: What, never?
    T'Var: No.
    Biri: "Not ever", never?

    Star Wars 
  • By the Sea: Before the war, Obi-Wan was a literature teacher, and he passes the time during Cody's convalescence telling him human stories about merfolk, in particular The Little Mermaid, and The Iliad and The Odyssey. These feature heavily in the story's symbolism as Obi-Wan and Cody liken several aspects of themselves and their experiences to parts of those stories. Obi-Wan in particular hopes that nursing Cody back to health might help absolve his sin of loving Cody, allowing him to escape either the blandness of Heaven or the torment of Hell and dissolve with the sea foam, like the Little Mermaid. Cody interprets Achilles and Patroclus as lovers, like he and Obi-Wan, and much is made near the end of Cody's recovery, when it becomes evident that Cody absolutely must leave, of Penelope patiently waiting for Odysseus's return from the war, tearing out her weaving every night and restarting it every morning to keep the suitors at bay.
  • The Gray Jedi Series: In The Gray Jedi: Merciless Indifference, Zari's starfighter, the Night Witch, is named after the real life Russian female night bomber crews from WWII.
  • Limpet AU: In "Argos", Artoo quotes Gandalf's line about wizards never coming late, replacing "wizard" with "droid".
  • Star Wars: Galactic Folklore and Mythology:
    • The Besalisk artist Othobludge, who was forced to live in a cave after pissing off the local emperor, is named after a Stone Age sculptor who appears in Dr. Dolittle in the Moon.
    • The Frozian equivilant to cats are called jonzies.
    • When describing how most galactic cultures abhor cannibalism, the narration notes that there have been some exceptions to this trend, such as the Gugs of Tsalal Prime.

    Steven Universe 

    Supernatural 
  • The Corrupted Innocent;
    • Deanna and Bela run into Sarah Blake while investigating a case that they speculate was the inspiration for The Picture of Dorian Gray.
    • Talking with Sam about the limitations of how angels can get permission from potential vessels reminds Sarah of a storyline from X-Men she was told about by an ex-boyfriend.
    • The epilogue shows Dean and Bela's daughter playing with toy Transformers, Dean musing that he's always grateful that his daughter isn't a 'Barbie girl'.
  • It's All in the Details;
    • At one point Chuck compares his habit of leaving the ‘true’ gospels (what’s actually happening as opposed to what happened before Cas’s time-travel) in a safety deposit box in a bank to the ‘tin dispatch box’ that Watson mentions in some of the Sherlock Holmes stories.
    • Learning that there can only be one Prophet active at a time prompts Dean to compare them to Slayers, although Castiel naturally doesn’t get the reference.
    • When Dean mentions time travel in police boxes as a possibility, Sam is surprised that his brother watches Doctor Who.

    Super Mario Bros 
  • In Clash of the Elements there is one to Super Mario Bros. Z in Chapter 45 of Part 1. More specifically, the act of having the Star Spirits appear and using their energy to power-up Mario and the other heroes, a concept which, while it didn't get to appear in the actual series, was shown in the intro.
  • The Sea Shadow:
    • The Yoshi partner is named Rocky, for Rocky Balboa.
    • At one point, Vivian calls Lord Crump Alien X.

    Teen Titans 

    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) 

    Thomas and Friends 
  • In A Cracked Ruby, Victor and James's first conversation when the latter regains consciousness is a near word-for-word re-enactment of Palpatine and Anakin's first conversation after Anakin has been put into the iconic Vader suit.
  • In Goodbye to Yesterday, Henry remarks that the lovestruck Thomas and Emily are "twitterpated". In addition, the Fat Controller's confrontation with Gordon is an almost word-for-word remake of Tritan's conversation with Sebastian about Ariel being in love.
  • The Demon Awakens contains several conversations that are nearly word-for-word remakes of lines from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. The title itself is a reference to The Force Awakens.
  • The Black Caesar is basically a complete adaptation of the L.A. Noire case of the same name, set on Sodor. Richard Adrian also compares Detectives Phelps and Gallagher to Abbott and Costello.
  • The title of Murder on the Express is based on Murder on the Orient Express. Emily also quotes a variant on Captain Amelia's eulogy for Mr. Arrow:
    Emily: Lawrence Rider was a...wonderful driver. The kindest and most relatable driver...that any engine could have...but he knew the risks, as we all do.
  • In Sailor John: A Pirate's Vendetta, Sailor John shouts a variation of one of Tom Riddle's lines while chasing Ryan:
    Sailor John: Sir Topham's rules won't save you now, Ryan! This diesel only obeys me!
    • Both Henry and the Mayor quote variants of three lines from Mulan:
    Henry: If I may, Mr. Mayor, you would do well to teach the General to hold his tongue when our engines' lives are on the line!
    Mayor: General Malcolm, you dishonor me.
    Mayor: I KNOW MY PLACE! It is time you learned yours!
    Sailor John: DO say hello to Mr. Rider.
    Henry's driver: Tell him YOURSELF!
  • In The Wizard and the Witch, Merlin quotes Obi-Wan Kenobi when he reveals his identity to Percy.
  • In Old Habits Die Hard, David Rider quotes Captain Hook's rant about "good form" almost word-for-word when the Fat Controller accuses him of not showing such form, while the end of James's rant and the Fat Controller's word while punishing him are variants of a confrontation between Wart and Sir Ector:
    James: And YOU, FAT CONTROLLER! You make all the rules on this railway, and no one else on the island can say ANYTHING about it!
    Fat Controller: YOU'VE said a-plenty, you very naughty engine! Holding up four trains was very bad of you indeed. You'll be busy with these rubbish trucks for that! But now, all that pop-off just cooked your goose! Rebecca, go to Wellsworth. Tell Edward he can take James' coaches for the next three weeks. Do you hear that, James? EDWARD shall be taking YOUR passengers. Hmm?
    James: Yes, sir!
    Fat Controller: THAT will teach you not to pop off anymore!
  • In Cruel to be Kind, Emily's realisation of just why she was punished the way she was is a reworking of the Grinch's realisation of what Christmas truly means.
  • In O Mother, Where Art Thou?, David's last conversations he had with his mother before leaving for the Navy are reworkings of the last conversations Mulan and Jim Hawkins have with their respective parents before leaving home.
    • In Chapter 2, David, his crew and Emily's driver have a conversation that's a variant of Eric and Grimby's conversation with the crew of their ship about merpeople.
    • In Chapter 4, David's last conversation with his father Lawrence is a near word-for-word remake of the last conversation Han Solo has with his son, Ben (Kylo Ren), while Diesel 10 thanks the dieselworks worker who helped him (unaware of who he is) with nearly the same words Captain Hook uses to thank Tinkerbell for showing him Peter's hideout before locking her in a lantern.
    • In Chapter 5, David's first words upon finding the picture of himself as a baby being held by his parents are exactly the same as Tarzan's when he finds the photo of himself as a baby with his birth parents. Both characters even have to rub dust off of their photos. In addition, David's last conversation with Emily is very similar to Tarzan's last words to Kala before he leaves to be with Jane.
    • Chapter 7 is titled "The Rise of Rider", and the final battle with Diesel 10 plays out similarly to the final battle from the movie. In addition, David's last words with the ghost of his father Lawrence are a near word-for-word reworking of Vader's last words to Luke. In the same chapter, David quotes Dumbledore during his confrontation with Diesel 10:
    David: It was foolish of you to come here tonight, Diesel 10. The Mainland Railway Board is surely on their way.
  • In My Big G, both David and Thomas use the word "twitterpated" to describe Gordon and Rebecca's feelings for each other. David also quotes Friend Owl's speech about being "twitterpated" almost word-for-word.
  • In Chapter 4 of Crushed Spirit, Emily and David's drunken antics resemble those of Dumbo and Timothy Mouse before the "Pink Elephants" sequence (although no such sequence occurs in the fic). They also sing the Habanera sequence from Carmen and the drinking song from Otello. Also, the lines that the crowd that has assembled to look at the sleeping Emily and David speak are near word-for-word remakes of the crow conversation, while David quotes Timothy almost word-for-word while telling Emily what happened to them, and the Fat Controller quotes Thomas O'Malley when describing what happened to David and Emily:
    Fat Controller: Basted? They've been marinated in it!
  • In Until Death Do Us Part, during Thomas's nightmare, his last words to Sailor John include Harry's last words to Voldemort in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix:
    Thomas: YOU'RE the weak one...you will never know love or friendship...and I feel sorry for you.
    • Later in the story, David quotes Gandalf when explaining his views of the afterlife:
    David: The grey rain curtain of this world rolls back, then all turns to silver glass...and then you see it. White shores...And beyond...a far green country...under a swift sunrise.
    • He then quotes a near word-for-word remake of Gandalf's closing message to Bilbo in The Hobbit.
  • In Imitation Steamrollers, George the steamroller quotes a variant on one of Captain Hook's lines:
    George: So...you want a splash...Ms. Carriage Wheels? I'LL GIVE YOU A SPLASH!
    David: I'm here because I don't want any more of your nonsense spewing to my beloved engine, end of story, goodbye, the END! Any questions?
    David: Say you're an outcast.
    George: I'm an outcast.
    David: LOUDER!!
    George: I'M AN OUTCAST!
    Engines: HOORAY! George is an Outcast! An Outcast! An Outcast! An Outcast! An Outcast!
    David: Alright, George. You're free to go! And in the Mainland's eyes...you're free to stay there, and NEVER return!
  • In High Stress Express, Gordon quotes a near word-for-word remake of one of Gandalf's lines from The Lord of the Rings:
    Gordon: The express is never late! Nor is it early. It arrives precisely when it is meant to arrive.
    Gordon: If that be the case, since the Fat Controller has put us in charge of so many passengers, and seeing how you've decided not to think of our future rewards until the day is out, I might be steaming up some resistance of my own so as not to pander to you and get us delayed. Until the day is out, we are NOT pandering to each other's infatuations for even a single moment. We won't so much as rest, kiss or let off steam together without our timetable saying so!
    Rebecca: Well, you'd best hold to that intention, Gordon. For as long as our passengers need us!
    Gordon: Oh, you can be sure of THAT, my Golden Queen. You can be sure of that.
    —>Gordon: If I could manage an express schedule at that magnitude when I first-ever came here, all the passengers...they'd be bowing in the streets when I huffed along today!
  • In Thomas' Fuzzy Friend, David mentions Lassie and Old Yeller when discussing famous dogs, while the Fat Controller mentions 101 Dalmatians.
  • In How Else It Could Have Been, during David's fantasy about how the events of Sailor John: A Pirate's Vendetta could have played out if he'd been present, the words exchanged by himself and Sailor John during the final battle are word-for-word remakes of Mulan's confrontation with Shan Yu. The ensuing fight also plays out similarly to the final fight.
  • In Chapter 3 of The Brother's Grimm, David's attempts at comforting Bernard and giving him a pep talk (as well as Bernard's angry rant) are near word-for-word remakes of one of Silver and Jim's conversations, while Bernard's conversation with the ghost of Lawrence is lifted from Yoda and Luke's conversation in The Last Jedi.
    • 'Arry and Bert whispering to each other then calling Bernard a weirdo while demanding to know what he's looking at in Chapter 4 is lifted from an earlier scene in Treasure Planet, where some of the pirates do the same to Jim, while the confrontation between Bernard and the Grumpy Passenger, and David coming to Bernard's aid, comes from Jim's confrontation with Scroop and Silver's intervention - the characters even quote lines that are nearly word-for-word reworkings of the lines spoken in that scene. The lines spoken by the Arlesburgh policeman, and those spoken by David while punishing the Grumpy Passenger, come from the scene directly after that, as does the passenger being forced to mop the deck of David's ship the Sea Emperor. David also quotes Captain Hook on two occasions while threatening the Grumpy Passenger:
    David: Well, Mr. Holder...I can't help but wonder if my ship's plank needs repairing. It's rather worn and brittle...and if you're not going to cooperate and leave Bernard alone for the rest of today, I might need you to be a good fellow and fix the plank...so I can make you WALK IT!
    —>David: And what do you think...YOU are doing?
    Grumpy Passenger: Hmph! To tell more passengers that this navy-blue Stirling is a danger to the island! He still doesn't see the danger no more than you do!
    David: You will go back to your business, complain about your own gripes...and leave Emily's dear brother in the peace he deserves....UNDERSTA-A-A-AND?!
    • After chasing off the Grumpy Passenger, Thomas, the Fat Controller and David quote variants on lines from Sebastian and Triton's conversation about whether the latter was too hard on Ariel. David later quotes Ursula while ranting about the Grumpy Passenger:
    David: THAT was a close one! TOO close! That little tramp! At this rate, if we don't stop that filthy man, he's bound to start caning other engines too! Well, just as I did with George's villainy upon you, AND just as I promised the Admiral to protect Sodor from any more atrocities, perhaps it's again time I briefly take matters into my OWN hands!
    David: I consider myself a reasonable captain. I enforce certain rules onboard my ship, as well as personal standards for my engine's well-being, and by my military stature, it is my nautical right to see those rules and standards being obeyed at all times!
    The Fat Controller: Indeed, David. And I consider myself a reasonable controller. I set certain rules, and I expect those rules to be obeyed...Seamus the Grumpy Passenger Holder! Is it true you caned Emily's brother for nothing?! AND is it true you tried to cane Emily the No. 12 Safety Engine?! Thomas' emerald angel and David's rightful engine?!
    Grumpy Passenger: Hmph! She had the nerve to try defending that dangerous brother of hers! How many times have I told you all he's such a danger to us all?! I HAD to cane him!
    David: Committing any form of rebellion upon the Emerald Law is strictly forbidden! Seamus, you KNOW that! Everyone knows that!
    Grumpy Passenger: Bernard here would have escaped if I didn't do it fast enough!
    David: Of course he would have! One less round of trivial and stupid complaints to worry about! You never take the time to know Emily's brother, surely thinking you don't have to know him! Maybe perhaps I don't have to know YOU entirely either! I'm willing to bet everyone else in your family might have been the same! Spineless, savage, deceptive engine framers! Incapable of any gratitude and-
    Grumpy Passenger: BOTH THESE STIRLINGS ARE CHEATS, AND SO ARE YOU, RIDER! YOU AND YOUR MEDDLESOME WENCH OF A MOTHER!
    David: ...No-o-o! Have you lost your senses completely?! My mother is NOT a wench! Blistered by thy tongue for such words! Emily is our SAFETY ENGINE! Bernard is a GOOD BROTHER! He's RESPONSIBLE, he's RELIABLE!, he's REALLY USEFUL! YOU...see, YOU'RE just an ugly, horrible, grouchy old MAN!
    Grumpy Passenger: I don't care!
    David: So help me, Holder. As once I conquered Diesel 10 and rid Sodor of George's tarmacking tyranny, I am going to rid Sodor of your plaguing grumpiness and caning cruelty! And if what I'm about to do is the only way...so be it!
    • The Grumpy Passenger quotes Clayton's last words to Tarzan while daring David to run him through, and David's response is the same as Tarzan's. The Fat Controller quotes the matchmaker's last words to Mulan at the end of his "The Reason You Suck" Speech to the Grumpy Passenger, while David's words regarding what just happened (as well as the conversation he and Beatrice have about the passenger in the last chapter) are from a variant on Meg's conversation with Brian before she goes back to being a "lightning rod" for her family's abuse.
    • The fight in Emily and Bernard's dream resembles the last fight between Peter Pan and Captain Hook, while David compares the Grumpy Passenger to Ebeneezer Scrooge in his dream.
    • The Grumpy Passenger quotes Mr. Toad while bemoaning becoming homeless and penniless, while David quotes Silver while congratulating Bernard on the heroic rescue he performed.
    • The Grumpy Passenger quotes Scrooge while begging Beatrice to help him out of the horrible situation he's gotten himself into, while Bernard's goodbye uses several quotes from Silver's farewell, and the ending scene where he and Emily see each other's faces in the clouds comes from the very end of the movie.
  • In Bubbling Boilers, David quotes Gimli:
    David: Well, THIS is a thing unheard of! An engine getting cleaned from the outside is elementary to all railways...but on the inside, in a way such as that?! Especially with my engine and best friend?! Oh...ohh, I'd never hear the end of it!
  • In A Close Slide, Thomas and Emily quote lines from Bambi while escaping the landslide:
    Thomas: Faster! Faster, Emily! Don't look back! Keep running! KEEP RUNNING!
    Emily: We made it! We made it, Thomas! We...Thomas!
  • In Pumping Engine, Thomas and the Fat Controller quote Peter Pan and Captain Hook:
    Thomas: Come on, then! Who wants another wheeshing?! Form an orderly line, I'll wheesh you all one by one! COME ON, WHO'S NEXT?!
    Fat Controller: YOU'RE next, Thomas! This time, you've gone too far! I will NOT, for all the glory on this island, have rudeness like this to passengers!
    Fat Controller: I do NOT tolerate insults such as his, but fighting about it isn't helping anything! I will deal with this passenger and what he said! But what you did is wrong too!
    Emily: There was no lie in this man's eyes. A fool for such comments...but honest and apologetic nonetheless.
    • The passenger quotes Boromir when he tries to apologise to Emily after hearing that almost all of her siblings were scrapped.
  • This is Halloween is named after The Nightmare Before Christmas song of the same name.
    • At the Ironworks, Thomas says that he laughs in the face of danger.
    • While talking about soda pop, Emily quotes a variant of Snape's lines about Gillyweed not being something found in a regular potions store cupboard.
    • David dresses as Captain Hook, and quotes Hook's description of how Pan cut off his hand and fed it to the crocodile.
  • Ask the Famous 8!: The children’s care home Thomas and Percy are placed in is called “Shining Time”.

    Total Drama 

    Transformers 

    Undertale 
  • FURTHERFELL: Sans refers to Mettaton as "king hal 9000" at one point in Drama! Romance! Bloodshed!.
  • Inverted Fate has its own page.
  • Storyshift:
    • Since he never got a robot body and changed his name to Mettaton here, Mettaton is known in this AU as Mettacrit, referencing the game review website Metacritic the same way Napstablook's name references Napster.
    • Preboot Undyne's One-Winged Angel form in the Core brings Sailor Moon to mind.
    • Also from the preboot, the Rising and falling comics feature Shifty getting the key to Chara's secret room, where they find a picture of a younger Chara sitting "between two almost identical twins" and doodles of "A lizard and... something that used to be human?" Dorked (creator of Inverted Fate and friends with Voltrathelively, Storyshift's creator) confirmed in the comments of the Reddit post for Rising and falling that these were both references to Mother 3, with the implication that Storyshift takes place in the same universe as Mother 3 and that Chara was acquainted with Lucas and Claus.
  • TS!Underswap:
    • Team Switched borrows the name Mettacrit for Mettaton's name as a ghost monster from Storyshift, mentioned above. Since Voltrathelively gets credited for it in the demo's credits and even listed as a playtester for the demo (as Voltra), it would seem they had the creator's blessing.
    • Mettacrit's design◊ shares certain similarities with the Ghost type Pokémon Misdreavus◊.
    • The Mad Dummy's first appearance is heralded with the word "DUMMY!!" appearing across the screen as an Unsound Effect, a nod to the ゴゴゴ text in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
    • The Game Over screen is a homage to EarthBound (1994), with the protagonist lying in a beam of light and the game calling their death "a bad dream".
    • Norman's name and true nature might be a reference to the first episode of Gravity Falls.
    • The welcome mat at the office in the City of Old has the Sburb logo on it.
    • "Fuzzy Friend", Temmie's Leitmotif, contains references to "Temmie Room" and "Lonely Girl's Room", two songs from the real Temmie Chang's short game, Escaped Chasm (which Toby Fox also made the music for).

    Warhammer 40,000 
  • Nobledark Imperium:
    • The opening cantos of the hymn of Ahriman's Daemon Breakers is simply the Ghostbusters theme with more elaborate versions of its lyrics.
      Be thine world benighted by esoteric phenomena?
      And whose aid would you ask?
      Be you confronted by the unknown, and deem it horrific to look upon?
      And whose aid would you ask?

      Men of Ahriman fear no daemon!
      Men of Ahriman fear no daemon!
      Be you stricken with ghastly, coursing visions?
      And whose aid would you ask?
      Be your boudoir inhabited by wicked phantoms?
      Aye, and whose aid would you ask?
      Men of Ahriman fear no daemon!
      Men of Ahriman fear no daemon!
    • The Tau are referred to in side notes as having the same character arc that humanity did in Mass Effect — that of a growing power who wants to be part of the big table making the big decisions, but is only now just starting to see the true scope of the galaxy at large.
  • Tales of the Emperasque: The Emperor makes a few:

    The Witcher 

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