Recurring Shout-Outs/Genius Bonuses in your works

As the title suggests, whether it's deliberate or not, you may have noticed certain recurring references in things you've worked on.

For instance, with my gaming group, we have one setting that's strongly influenced by Girl Genius (i.e., the heroes and villains are all fairly intelligent). Due to the characters taking place in adventures across the globe, many of them are multi-lingual (whether it's Basic, Fluent, or Native varies). As a shout-out to The Man of Bronze, however, many of them tend to read and/or speak Mayan.

I also occasionally thrown in references to famous archaic weapons ("Oh, that sword? It belonged to a Confederate Captain who vanished in 1866.")

Well, most of my names have a nice twist, usually relating to either a work or a real person. Like General Andrew, or Private Balfour. There are plenty of shoutouts to El Eternauta thrown in, but since No Export for You is in effect, they just fly by most foregin readers

I sometimes do Shout-Out's or Expies with a bit of a twist to them.

For example in Book IV of my series I'm working on, those two tropes above are subverted, and things take a very meta-textual turn. Caine Dekeren thinks he's a character in a written story, and an expy of Horus Lupercal.

He's...really not. For one, when he died, instead of voicing regret for being manipulated, he basically said he thoroughly enjoyed everything, his free will was never in question, and if he had the capability, he'd do absolutely everything again.

On another end, Caine has six lieutenants named after characters from obscure plays, and it is implied he named them himself.

There is also Matthew's use of Kladenets, not exactly as famous as some of the other swords he could be summoning. Its repute as the hidden sword or as the self swinging sword shows as it having a shifting energy blade, which changes direction mid swing just in case it misses the target.

edited 4th Jun '17 10:14:57 PM by NickTheSwing

Something which I'm undeservingly proud of: the hospital that virtually every character in the world seems to go when they're injured (I like reusing the background cast there, especially since most of them aren't even in the background by the end of the story) is called Guerrero Street Hospital.

Plus, the Hospital Administrator and the Head Doctor are called Eric Bridgeman and Jeremy Peters, and I don't expect many to know what that's referencing. Any guesses?