Shout Out / The Wizard in the Shadows

• Oh so many, the author being a troper.
• Doctor Who
  • It's also hinted in the sequel that Merlin created Doctor Who. For a laugh.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  • Which is also, strangely enough, real in the wider ficverse.
• The Princess Bride (Harry practically quotes the 'to the pain speech' verbatim).
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Shakespeare:
  Harry: Something is rotten in the state of Rohan.
• The Matrix
• The Warlord Chronicles
  • In the surname of the main OC's. Ap Derfel.
• Arthurian Legend
• Robin Hood: Men in Tights
• Pirates of the Caribbean
  • Hell, Harry even quotes the Bible (The 'Faith, Hope and Love, and the greatest of these is love' passage in Corinthians). At Saruman, which is immensely ironic.
• Marvel Comics and DC Comics.
  • Ron compares Harry to Batman. Sirius disagrees and compares him to Spider-Man, though notes that this depends on his mood, while Hermione is glad that he isn't the Sentry. This may or may not be Foreshadowing.
  • As Aragorn notes, 'There is nothing mere about that mortal.'
• 300.
• Men in Black. Emrys and Eirian are fans.
  Harry: You have no idea how long it took to pry that one *points to Emrys* away from the sunglasses shop.
• Good Omens. The Dramatis Personae.
• Iron Man. "Waiting on you now."
• Tortall Universe. Ginny shares - deliberately - several characteristics with Alanna, down to being nicknamed the Lioness. Harry also shares some characteristics with George Cooper.
• A boy known as Emrys with a mysterious magical heritage and powers in service to the Crown Prince who repeatedly saves his life? Sound familiar?
  • Emrys is even a Servile Snarker.

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