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* People invested in snails who watch ''WebAnimation/DrCrafty'' will quickly notice the extent of Messibelle's snail motif throughout her design and personality. In addition to wearing a slime dress evocative of a gastropod's foot, Messi's occupation as a maid coincides with snails' roles in providing natural sanitation for their environments. What's more, her bottomless sex drive echoes snails' extremely sexually active lives and the common belief that snail caviar is an aphrodisiac.

* People invested in snails who watch ''WebAnimation/DrCrafty'' will immediately notice the extent of Messibelle's snail motif throughout her design and personality. In addition to wearing a slime dress evocative of a gastropod's foot, Messi's occupation as a maid coincides with snails' roles in providing natural sanitation for their environments. What's more, her bottomless sex drive echoes snails' extremely sexually active lives and the common belief that snail caviar is an aphrodisiac.

* People invested in snails who watch ''WebAnimation/DrCrafty'' will immediately notice the extent of Messibelle's snail motif throughout her design and personality. In addition to wearing a slime dress evocative of a gastropod's foot, Messi's occupation as a maid coincides with snails' roles in providing natural sanitation for their environments. What's more, her bottomless sex drive echoes snails' extremely sexually active lives and the common belief that escargot, a snail-based dish, is an aphrodisiac.

* People invested in snails who watch ''WebAnimation/DrCrafty'' will immediately notice the extent of Messibelle's snail motif throughout her design and personality. In addition to wearing a slime dress evocative of a gastropod's food, Messi's occupation as a maid coincides with snails' roles in providing natural sanitation for their environments. What's more, her bottomless sex drive echoes snails' extremely sexually active lives and the common belief that escargot, a snail-based dish, is an aphrodisiac.

* It's not immediately obvious, but ''WebAnimation/DrCrafty's'' Messibelle has a surprisingly thematically-coherent character design, all thanks to her snail motif. Everything from her occupation to her personality echoes typical snail behaviors that those invested in the creatures would understand immediately, such as their role in providing natural sanitation (Messi's role as a maid) to their very sexually active lives (Messi's horniness).

* It's not immediately obvious, but ''WebAnimation/DrCrafty's'' Messibelle has a surprisingly thematically-coherent character design, all thanks to her snail motif. Everything from her occupation to her personality echoes typical snail behaviors that those invested in the creatures would understand immediately, such as their role in providing natural sanitation (Messi's role as a maid) to their very sexually active lives (Messi's promiscuity).

* It's not immediately obvious, but ''WebAnimation/DrCrafty's'' Messibelle has one of the smartest, thematically-coherent character designs among the ''Crafty''-original cast, all thanks to her snail motif. Everything from her occupation to her personality echoes typical snail behaviors that those invested in the creatures would understand immediately, such as their role in providing natural sanitation (Messi's role as a maid) to their very sexually active lives (Messi's promiscuity).

* It's not immediately obvious, but ''WebAnimation/DrCrafty's'' Messibelle has one of the smartest, thematically-coherent character designs among the ''Crafty''-original cast, all thanks to her snail motif. Everything from her occupation to her personality echo typical snail behaviors that those invested in the creatures would understand immediately, such as their role in providing natural sanitation (Messi's role as a maid) to their very sexually active lives (Messi's promiscuity).

* In ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'', Chloe Cerise has written a story about a "Specter of the Black Forest" who is rumored to be the son of the White Knight Eligos. Eligos is a demon from the ''Literature/ArsGoetia'', usually depicted as a ghastly white knight. The chapter after she dressed up Lexi as said Specter, he forms his papers to create a lance and even transforms into a skeletal horse. One of Eligos' symbols was a lance, and he was said to ride into battle on a skeletal horse. Other demons from the Ars Goetia are represnted looking exactly like their depictions and there are references to even more obscure myths and legends like the Atlantis of the Sands, the Island of Ys and the Sunken Cathedral and even a denizen that's a rabbit with a unicorn horn.

* A very subtle one can be found in Dorney Park in Allentown, UsefulNotes/{{Pennsylvania}}. When it opened in 1989, the attraction Hercules was the longest, tallest wooden roller coaster in the world. It was removed in 2003 due to waning popularity, and was replaced by a steel coaster called Hydra: The Revenge. The names are an allusion to ClassicalMythology, in which the great hero Hercules was eventually killed by the Hydra he had defeated years earlier.

* ''Theatre/ThePiratesOfPenzance'': The MajorGeneralSong sounds impressive to the uninitiated, but most of the things that the Major General brags about doing are either flat-out impossible or trivially easy.

** One of the first worlds in the path of Tyranid, the Great Devourer, was Prandium, which is Latin for "lunch". Talk about {{Unfortunate Name}}s...

* In ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'', Chloe Cerise has written a story about a "Specter of the Black Forest" who is rumored to be the son of the White Knight Eligos. Eligos is a demon from the ''Literature/ArsGoetia'', usually depicted as a ghastly white knight. The chapter after she dressed up Lexi as said Specter, he forms his papers to create a lance and even transforms into a skeletal horse. One of Eligos' symbols was a lance, and he was said to ride into battle on a skeletal horse.

** One of the early-edition Space Marine Chapters was called Rainbow Warriors. Goofy as it may sound, there's an Myth/AztecMythology about a Rainbow Warrior who protects all life.

* In the first issue of ''ComicBook/SevenSoldiers: The Shining Knight'', all the stuff about KingArthur plundering the realm of the Sheeda with three ships, and only seven men returning, but they did get the Cauldron of Rebirth out of it? Straight from the less-well-known Arthurian epic ''The Spoils of Annwn'', supposedly by Taliesin. "Revolving Castle" is one of many possible translations of the Welsh ''Caer Sidi''; others being "Castle of the Mound" and "Castle of the Zodiac".

Whenever a series of ZeroesAndOnes or two-digit hex codes are shown, chances are they'll spell out something when decoded as ASCII text.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', the queen of Ant Island has a pet aphid. It's very unlikely that anyone in the audience other than hardcore entomolygists recognized this as an allusion to real-life "dairying ants", which live alongside populations of aphids and "milk" them for honeydew in exchange for protecting them from harm.

* ''WesternAnimation/HortonHearsAWho'': It's pretty well-known that Creator/JimCarrey likes to insert little impressions in all of his movies. Here, as Horton (played by Carrie) is being chased by the Wickersham Brothers, he randomly does an impersonation of... Henry Kissinger, of all people.

-->'''aqulia2sax:''' ''The analogy with language acquisition is this: The language center is a thinking part of the brain, that is located in the subconscious, its thinking processes hidden away from conscious awareness. Thus, it bears some resemblance to [Po's] budding kungfu skills, which lurked beneath his awareness.''

* ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'': The effect of Last Chapter of the Noble Knights actually works as an elaborate Mythology Gag when taken in tandem with Bedwyr's lore article. The art clearly depicts Bedwyr returning Excaliburn to the lake, and a knight with a red sword about to strike Bedwyr down, thus a knight and arms are lost. But the card returns a Knight and Arms to the field. Why is the dissonance? Bedwyr's lore article describes these events from Merlin's perspective, and Merlin sees time in reverse. The effect is reversed from the events because that's how Merlin sees it.

* The date the dolls are sewn on in the ''Toys/{{Lalaloopsy}}'' line could count as this. One example is Patch Treasurechest, a living doll who likes to play at being a pirate. He's said to have been [[SignificantBirthDate sewn into life on September 19th]]... but how many grade-schoolers are going to recognize that as [[UsefulNotes/TalkLikeAPirateDay International Talk-Like-A-Pirate Day]]?

* In ''Irma Vep'', stage directions indicate that the innocent-young-girl character is to play a few bars of "The Last Rose of Summer" on the dulcimer. Although "The Last Rose of Summer" is perfect for this gothicky play, being a sentimental Victorian song that's [[http://www.potw.org/archive/potw105.html really pretty morbid]], few people in the audience will know the words, even if the tune sounds vaguely familiar to them.

* Ursula Vernon, author of ''Webcomic/{{Digger}}'', has a degree in antropology and an interest in the more obscure mythologies (South American, Balkian). This shows up frequently in her works.

** A flirtatious Jäger referring to a waitress as his little nokedli (it's a type of dumpling).

* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' makes some obscure references without stopping to explain: Though Reynardine's character is more based on Reynard the Fox, his first meeting with Antimony references the seduction from the [[Literature/ChildBallads English folk song]] "Reynardine". Similarly, Winsbury and Janet's secret relationship is a reference to the song "Willie O'Winsbury". The [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=121 First Treatise]] copies poses and Latin from the ''Mutus Liber'', a 17th-century Hugenot [[EsotericMotifs alchemy text]]. And Chapter 17 references Medieval German master swordsman Johann Liechtenauer.

* ''Webcomic/TheIllustratedGuideToLaw'' does this every now and then. In its section on [[http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=786 Duress]], for example, the members of the outlaw biker gang engage in discussions of physics and philosophy and multiple dimensions while brawling. In its section on [[http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=710 Entrapment]], the physicist has real equations on the blackboard behind her. The first page of the section on "taking the Fifth" has a couple of math jokes like "Wow, your truncated Maclauren fits so well. [[spoiler:Of course... it's Taylor made]]," and a kitten saying "μ" (a greek letter pronounced "mew").

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* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'': During the hostage situation in issue #7, Whirl at first seems to just be doing his usual [[{{Jerkass}} thing]], hurling insult after insult at Fortress Maximus. Except Whirl's actually using real hostage negotiation techniques; specifically, voicing the most probable thoughts in Max's head and keeping his attention on him and away from the other hostage Rung.

* Although the ComicBook/{{Batman}} graphic novel ''Comicbook/ArkhamAsylumASeriousHouseOnSeriousEarth'' by Creator/GrantMorrison can be enjoyed as a psychological horror story with drool-worthy art, readers with a knowledge of [[UsefulNotes/CarlJung Jungian psychology]] and symbolism (or who own a copy of the fifteenth anniversary edition with Morrison's
annotated script) will get much more out of it.