Shout Out / The Morrigan

Shout Outs in The Morrigan.

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• A few Earthians in chapter 8 speak Belter Creole, from The Expanse.
• Word of God is that the scene of the Morrigan clinging to the side of a skyscraper was inspired by the scene in Dracula where the titular Count climbs down a sheer castle wall "In lizard-like fashion". The chapter, probably not coincidentally, was released at the same time as Dracula Daily.
• Guel has an apron with a cartoon chicken and the text "Behold, a man!", a reference to a story about Diogenes the Cynic.
• This line from chapter 19:
  A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one.
• Norea is fond of Edgar Allan Poe, and even uses a quote from one of his short stories as her codephrase with Elan.
• Elan at one point considered using Snorri as an alias, presumably in reference to the Icelandic poet and scribe Snorri Sturluson.
• The people in the stream chat in chapter 21, with the exception of Go-Between-Queen and Birdwatcher2 (Nika and Sabina respectively), are characters from previous Gundam anime.
• In chapter 29, Elan #4 is trying to learn "Hotel California" on the guitar.
• Also in chapter 29, Elan's chase leads to the destruction of a cabbage cart, much to the owner's dismay.
• Norea is a fan of ABBA, and mentions that their music was adapted into one of the most enduring stage musicals.
• It's mentioned that a tequilla company once modified a demi-garrison as a mascot, sombrero and all.
• When they first meet, Norea becomes Yushura's favourite by asking "What'cha talkin' about?".
• Yaya's mobile suit, the Glaistig, is an absurdly well-armed modified Dilanza Sol with four legs intended to resemble something from Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon. More directly it's inspired by this Lfrith Ur kitbash by @konkatsubaron.
• In chapter 35, Ericht says ominously "We all float down here". Morrigan doesn't get the reference.
• During a meeting where everyone are dressed as witches, Miorine thinks "Double double toil and trouble".
• The costumes in chapter 36 through 38:
  • Miorine and Suletta are dressed as a white witch and her loyal wolf knight respectively.
  • Suletta (in her Hound Knight halloween costume), falls asleep on top of a dog house.
  • Elan and Norea are dressed as Punch and Judy (Elan is, Norea ditched her costume as soon as she could), Felsi as Bruce Lee in Game of Death, and Chuchu (according to word of god) as Rocky Balboa, replacing the American flag with a Dawn of Fold one.
• Also in chapter 38, Rajan killing Delling is done in the same manner as Commodus killing Marcus Aurelius. Ironically, Rajan had in the same scene lamented that the good emperor Aurelius was followed by the incompetent tyrant Commodus.
• The meeting between Shaddiq and the Valkyries in chapter 43 is a direct allusion to Macbeth, with a The Weird Sisters trio telling an ambitious young man that he will become a monarch (as they put it, "emperor of everything"), but won't get the chance to enjoy it.
• In chapter 44, Elan Lugh refers to their library as a Sanctum Sanctorum.
• In chapter 51, Elan Lugh plays his song-recognition game with Andrew W.K.'s "Party Hard" and Johnny Cash's "God's Gonna Cut You Down".
• In an All There in the Manual twitter post, Langlands' Animal Motifs of a spider is explained by Yushura quoting The Simpsons meme.
  Yushura/Marge: I just think they're neat.