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* TheCakeIsALie had a similar lifespan. Used first in an incredibly popular game, then turned into a meme, then to a StockShoutOut and finally a DiscreditedMeme.
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* TheCakeIsALie had a similar lifespan. Used first in an incredibly popular game, {{Portal}}, then turned into a meme, then to a StockShoutOut and finally a DiscreditedMeme.DiscreditedMeme. It was so abused, even the creators got sick of it and removed the references to the joke in {{Portal 2}}.
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** The TV version also gives us the theme song, "Bam!" and "Pow!" showing up in fight scenes, "Holy something, Batman," and the transition between scenes with the bat logo.
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* Playing ChessWithDeath from ''Film/TheSeventhSeal''.
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* Playing ChessWithDeath ChessWithDeath, from ''Film/TheSeventhSeal''.
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* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish (At least, the subtrope thereof where it's ''literally'' "swordfish.")
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* "Nevermore." Creator/EdgarAllanPoe's ''Literature/TheRaven''. Expect it wherever or whenever anything [[RavensAndCrows corvid]]-related appears.
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* "Nevermore." Creator/EdgarAllanPoe's ''Literature/TheRaven''. Expect it wherever or whenever anything [[RavensAndCrows corvid]]-related corvid-related appears.
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** The cover of ''Action Comics'' #1 with Superman holding a car over his head and smashing it into a rock.
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* The cover of Music/AbbeyRoad.
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* The cover of Music/AbbeyRoad.''Music/AbbeyRoad''.
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* The cover of ''Music/DarkSideOfTheMoon''.
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* Playing Chess with Death from ''Film/TheSeventhSeal''.
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* Playing Chess with Death ChessWithDeath from ''Film/TheSeventhSeal''.
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* "I used to be a ____ like you, then I took an arrow in the knee," from ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim''. As of 2012 it's received nods from ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'', among others. It's become a DiscreditedMeme quite quickly.
** TheCakeIsALie had a similar lifespan. Used first in an incredibly popular game, then turned into a meme, then to a StockShoutOut and finally a DiscreditedMeme.
** TheCakeIsALie had a similar lifespan. Used first in an incredibly popular game, then turned into a meme, then to a StockShoutOut and finally a DiscreditedMeme.
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* "I used to be a ____ like you, then I took an arrow in the knee," from ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim''. As of 2012 it's received nods from ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'', among others. It's become a DiscreditedMeme quite quickly.
**quickly, which went to the point where [[UndeadHorseTrope mocking it is the new standard]].
* TheCakeIsALie had a similar lifespan. Used first in an incredibly popular game, then turned into a meme, then to a StockShoutOut and finally a DiscreditedMeme.
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* TheCakeIsALie had a similar lifespan. Used first in an incredibly popular game, then turned into a meme, then to a StockShoutOut and finally a DiscreditedMeme.
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* [[CloserThanTheyAppear A dinosaur in the rear-view mirror]] from ''Film/JurassicPark''.
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* [[CloserThanTheyAppear A dinosaur in the rear-view mirror]] mirror]], from ''Film/JurassicPark''.
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* [[CloserThanTheyAppear A dinosaur in the rear-view mirror]] from ''Film/JurassicPark''.
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* References to the various [[TomeOfEldritchLore Tomes of Eldritch Lore]] of the Franchise/CthulhuMythos. The ''Necronomicon'' and Chambers's ''Literature/TheKingInYellow'' (pre-Lovecraft but later absorbed into the mythos) are the standards, but it's not unheard of for ''De Vermis Mysteriis'' or ''Die Unsprechliche Kulten'' to make appearances.
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* SergeantPeppersShoutOut
* MichaelJacksonThrillerParody: Because sometimes it's not even meant as a parody, but more as a shout-out.
* MichaelJacksonThrillerParody: Because sometimes it's not even meant as a parody, but more as a shout-out.
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* SergeantPeppersShoutOut
* MichaelJacksonThrillerParody:MichaelJacksonsThrillerParody: Because sometimes it's not even meant as a parody, but more as a shout-out.
* MichaelJacksonThrillerParody:
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* Raymond Scott's "Powerhouse".
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* Raymond Scott's "Powerhouse"."Powerhouse" has been used countless times in animated cartoons.
* Music/ElvisPresley in his Las Vegas period.
* Music/TheBeatles in their mob top haircut days.
* Music/ElvisPresley in his Las Vegas period.
* Music/TheBeatles in their mob top haircut days.
* SergeantPeppersShoutOut
* MichaelJacksonThrillerParody: Because sometimes it's not even meant as a parody, but more as a shout-out.
* Sampling music is a kind of shout out in itself.
** The line "Put your hands up in the air/and wave 'm like you just don't care" from The Sugar Hill Gang has been used in countless rap songs.
** The Amen Break by the Winston Brothers and Music/JamesBrown 's "The Funky Drummer" have beats and breaks that have been sampled to death.
** The announcement "The Official Adventures of..." from Grandmaster Flash has also been re-used countless times.
* MichaelJacksonThrillerParody: Because sometimes it's not even meant as a parody, but more as a shout-out.
* Sampling music is a kind of shout out in itself.
** The line "Put your hands up in the air/and wave 'm like you just don't care" from The Sugar Hill Gang has been used in countless rap songs.
** The Amen Break by the Winston Brothers and Music/JamesBrown 's "The Funky Drummer" have beats and breaks that have been sampled to death.
** The announcement "The Official Adventures of..." from Grandmaster Flash has also been re-used countless times.
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** JRR Tolkein's wise words on dwarfs in ''Literature/LordOfTheRings'' also take a repeated hammering. The original Gimli's assertion that there such things as female Dwarfs, only "they are in look and garb so alike to the males that the eyes of Man cannot tell them apart" spawns several books' worth of ShoutOuts to dwarfs who favour chain-mail lingerie and take more care with grooming their beards. A Dwarf schoolgirl is allowed into a prestigious boarding school, but must plait her beard with ribbons in the school colours. Then there is Dwarf feminist Cheery Littlebottom, who rebels against all that but cannot bring herself to shave her beard off.
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** JRR Tolkein's Tolkien's wise words on dwarfs in ''Literature/LordOfTheRings'' also take a repeated hammering. The original Gimli's assertion that there such things as female Dwarfs, only "they are in look and garb so alike to the males that the eyes of Man cannot tell them apart" spawns several books' worth of ShoutOuts to dwarfs who favour chain-mail lingerie and take more care with grooming their beards. A Dwarf schoolgirl is allowed into a prestigious boarding school, but must plait her beard with ribbons in the school colours. Then there is Dwarf feminist Cheery Littlebottom, who rebels against all that but cannot bring herself to shave her beard off.
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* Eyes popping out of their sockets and enormous rolling tongues will often be a shout-out to WesternAnimation/TexAvery.
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* Someone sticking out both hands and making the V-sign with them will immediately bring up images of RichardNixon.
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* Playing Chess with Death from ''Film/TheSeventhSeal''.
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* Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear may show up once in a while.
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** "It' puts the lotion on it's skin..." and "I ate his liver with a fava beans and a nice ciante (with the odd sucking sound)" are both often used, humorously, as an exaggerated way of saying that somebody is psychotically crazy.
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** While we're on the subject of DavidCronenberg movies, the infamous [[YourHeadAsplode exploding head scene]] from ''Film/{{Scanners}}''.
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** While we're on the subject of DavidCronenberg Creator/DavidCronenberg movies, the infamous [[YourHeadAsplode exploding head scene]] from ''Film/{{Scanners}}''.
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* ''VideoGame/ZeroWing'' references invariably use CATS' opening spiel: "[[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs All your ____ are belong to us]]," et cetera. One example from Creator/CharlesStross' ''[[Literature/TheLaundrySeries The Atrocity Archove]]'' when the protagonist is giving an overview of computational demonology:
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* ''VideoGame/ZeroWing'' references invariably use CATS' opening spiel: "[[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs All your ____ are belong to us]]," et cetera. One example from Creator/CharlesStross' ''[[Literature/TheLaundrySeries The Atrocity Archove]]'' Archive]]'' when the protagonist is giving an overview of computational demonology:
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* ''VideoGame/ZeroWing'' references invariably use CATS' opening spiel: "[[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs All your ____ are belong to us]]," et cetera.
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* ''VideoGame/ZeroWing'' references invariably use CATS' opening spiel: "[[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs All your ____ are belong to us]]," et cetera. One example from Creator/CharlesStross' ''[[Literature/TheLaundrySeries The Atrocity Archove]]'' when the protagonist is giving an overview of computational demonology:
--> "This has several consequences, starting with screwing over most cryptography algorithms--translation: ''all your bank account are belong to us'' ..."
--> "This has several consequences, starting with screwing over most cryptography algorithms--translation: ''all your bank account are belong to us'' ..."
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** Also, that {{Badass}} motorcycle slide from [[{{Anime/AKIRA}} the movie]] that Kaneda does.
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* A113: A reference to the California Institute for the Arts, specifically the classroom for first-year graphic design. This one is common in {{Pixar}} films (witness "special order A113" in ''WesternAnimation/{{WALL-E}}''), but Cal Arts grad and Pixar stalwart BradBird also included references in ''Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol''.
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* A113: A reference to the California Institute for the Arts, specifically the classroom for first-year graphic design. This one is common in {{Pixar}} films (witness "special order A113" in ''WesternAnimation/{{WALL-E}}''), but Cal Arts grad and Pixar stalwart BradBird Creator/BradBird also included references in ''Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol''.
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* The "Gimlet" joke that is re-used throughout many of the ''{{Discworld}}'' novels: it related to a Dwarf with the capacity to really hold your gaze.
** JRR Tolkein's wise words on dwarfs in ''LordOfTheRings'' also take a repeated hammering. The original Gimli's assertion that there such things as female Dwarfs, only "they are in look and garb so alike to the males that the eyes of Man cannot tell them apart" spawns several books' worth of ShoutOuts to dwarfs who favour chain-mail lingerie and take more care with grooming their beards. A Dwarf schoolgirl is allowed into a prestigious boarding school, but must plait her beard with ribbons in the school colours. Then there is Dwarf feminist Cheery Littlebottom, who rebels against all that but cannot bring herself to shave her beard off.
** JRR Tolkein's wise words on dwarfs in ''LordOfTheRings'' also take a repeated hammering. The original Gimli's assertion that there such things as female Dwarfs, only "they are in look and garb so alike to the males that the eyes of Man cannot tell them apart" spawns several books' worth of ShoutOuts to dwarfs who favour chain-mail lingerie and take more care with grooming their beards. A Dwarf schoolgirl is allowed into a prestigious boarding school, but must plait her beard with ribbons in the school colours. Then there is Dwarf feminist Cheery Littlebottom, who rebels against all that but cannot bring herself to shave her beard off.
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* The "Gimlet" joke that is re-used throughout many of the ''{{Discworld}}'' ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novels: it related to a Dwarf with the capacity to really hold your gaze.
** JRR Tolkein's wise words on dwarfs in''LordOfTheRings'' ''Literature/LordOfTheRings'' also take a repeated hammering. The original Gimli's assertion that there such things as female Dwarfs, only "they are in look and garb so alike to the males that the eyes of Man cannot tell them apart" spawns several books' worth of ShoutOuts to dwarfs who favour chain-mail lingerie and take more care with grooming their beards. A Dwarf schoolgirl is allowed into a prestigious boarding school, but must plait her beard with ribbons in the school colours. Then there is Dwarf feminist Cheery Littlebottom, who rebels against all that but cannot bring herself to shave her beard off.
** JRR Tolkein's wise words on dwarfs in
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