History ShoutOut / TheWitcher3WildHunt

* Geralt encounters one bounty hunter named [[Franchise/StarWars Djenge Frett]].
** Said bounty hunter asks for help in tracking three notorious Grossbart brothers named Hegel, Manfried and Jesse. Two former ones are the eponymous protagonists of the book ''The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart'' by Jesse Bullington who lent the name to the third brother.

** When traveling through Novigrad, Geralt might overhear a conversation between two beggars wherein one laments to the other that [[Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian he was rudely and without consent healed of his leprosy by a passing healer, effectively destroying his livelihood]].

* While in Novigrad, you can take on a mission to help a master swordsmith named [[Film/KillBill Hattori.]] He says that he will "Make you a sword that can kill the gods!" and even runs a dumpling shop since he retired from swordmaking.
** Regarding Creator/QuentinTarantino, in Crow's Perch, if you go down the stairs of the fort, you'll hear two guards mentioning something [[Film/PulpFiction familiar]]:

* One of the fistfighters along the way to the championship is called Georg Georgius. The bookie running the fight is called Claytop. Both are shout-outs to ''Film/{{Snatch}}'': Gorgeous George is a boxer and Brick Top is an AxCrazy gangster running illegal boxing matches.
** In the Polish version, another fistfighter in Novigrad is called the Gypsy, a shout out to Brad Pitt's ''Snatch'' character.

* When you ask Zoltan to [[spoiler: join you at Kaer Morhen to fight the Wild Hunt]], he'll say "You'll have me, [[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing and my axe!]]"

* During the "Defender of the Faith" quest, you can choose to beat up the NayTheist students who are destroying shrines. If you do, one will say, [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail "Repression! Attack the system's lackey!"]].

* The bookshop in Novigrad has books that reference other franchises, such as ''[[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Necronomicon]]'' and a vampire romance novel dig at ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''.

* One book about Higher Vampires describes how they differ from most people's preconceptions, including the one about being destroyed by sunlight. It then, entirely unprompted, goes on to say that sunlight definitely doesn't make them shine or glow. [[TakeThat Or]] [[Literature/{{Twilight}} sparkle.]]

* The ArcVillain of ''Hearts of Stone'', Gaunter O'Dimm, is a full-on {{expy}} of [[Literature/TheStand Randall]] [[Literature/TheDarkTower Flagg]], who once went by the name Walter O'Dim and, like Gaunter, is an immortal HumanoidAbomination with a dozen nicknames who draws people into deals that never work out for them.