History ShoutOut / Borderlands1

* When one of the rebel Claptraps die, they might say "I see three... flashing red lights..." [[UsefulNotes/Xbox360 Now what does that sound like to you?]]

* Patricia Tannis says "We'll need a nuclear reactor to generate the [[Film/BackToTheFuture One point twenty-one jiggawatts]] -- Oh, hey!"

* The achievement for killing 25 enemies with shock weapons is named [[Film/BackToTheFuture 1.21 Gigawatts]].

** The fact that he's a vehicular combat expert is probably at least a little in reference to Mel Gibson's infamous drunk driving incident. Or maybe he's just a [[Film/MadMax Road Warrior]].

* The Atlas Patton. ("May God have mercy on my enemies, because I won't" was supposedly said once by General George S. Patton, hence the name. Wiki/TheOtherWiki claims it was also once uttered by Queen Elizabeth the First.)

** and its next-highest challenge award: "Keep firing!"

* There are a large amount of Shout Outs to Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy. One of the Claptraps you can rescue repeats nearly word-for-word Marvin's speech when he first meets Arthur Dent. And I've seen a couple of signs that say "Don't Panic", in large friendly letters to boot.

* The legendary pistol [[Film/TakeTheMoneyAndRun Gub]], which has the special weapon effect "Abt Natural."

* There is a location on Pandora known as "Treacher's Landing", which is a possible reference to Arthur Treacher's chain of seafood restaurants.

* The Powered Armour suits used by the Crimson Lance looks an awful lot like [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Adeptus Astartes power armor]], also the suits care called 'devastators' which happen to be names of the Adeptus space marines who carried the biggest guns.

* The Powered Armour suits used by the crimson lance in the latest DLC look an awful lot like [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Adeptus Astartes power armour]], also the suits care called 'devastators' which happen to be names of the Adeptus space marines who carried the biggest guns.

* There are a large amount of Shoutout to Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy. One of the Claptraps you can rescue repeats nearly word-for-word Marvin's speech when he first meets Arthur Dent. And I've seen a couple of signs that say "Don't Panic", in large friendly letters to boot.

* On Markus' desk in T-Bone Junction is [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable a soccer-ball-sized tank with a skull emblem on the front.]]

* Crimson Lance officer Master [=McCloud=] is known to have said "[[Film/MortalKombat Death is the only way out...]]"

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** In the second game, Axton has an ability in his Gunpowder tree called Ranger. Its icon is two crossed rifles resembling the M16 with a star next to the top, left and right sides of the rifles. The RealLife U.S. Army Rangers do not have any sort of logo, but [[http://images.wikia.com/callofduty/images/2/2f/Rangerslogosp.png they get a similar one]] within VideoGame/CallOfDuty: VideoGame/ModernWarfare2.

* The Torgue Twisted [[strike:Redeemer]] Redemption has the caption [[VideoGame/UnrealTournament "Monster Kill!"]]

* "[[{{VideoGame/Gauntlet}} Earl needs food...]][[WizardNeedsFoodBadly Badly]]"

* The overall look of the Crimson Lance is awfully familiar to the [[VideoGame/KillZone HelghastEmpire Army]]

--> More than a few brave men have turned chicken at Sanders Gorge... and even more have made that truly awful joke.

* The challenge award for gets 250 kills with Incendiary weapons is named "[[Franchise/MortalKombat Toasty!]]"

* The Torgue Friendly Fire shotgun has the flavor text "Have a nice day." It also [[Film/LethalWeapon fires smiley-face shot patterns]].

* The flavor text on the Dahl Penetrator reads [[Music/TalkingHeads "Sniper Killer... Qu'est que c'est."]]

* The Maliwan Hellfire SMG has the flavor text: "We don't need no water...", referencing ''The Roof Is On Fire'' by Rock Master Scott and The Dynamic Three.

** And even the name "Redemption" sounds similar to "Redeemer," which was Unreal Tournament's {{BFG}}

* The challenge award for gets 250 kills with Incendiary weapons is named "[[VideoGame/MortalKombat Toasty!]]"

* The game even has pure visual shoutouts -- the Crimson Lance comes with posters that reference Film/{{District 9}}. Considering D9 came out only a few months before the game did, Gearbox was essentially adding in new art assets and shoutouts right up to the last possible moment.
* The [[Film/{{Spaceballs}} Ludicrous Speedway]]

* All of Brick's tier 4 skills are movie references: ''Film/{{Bloodsport}}, Film/{{Unbreakable}}'', and [[Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome Master Blaster]].
** Salvador follows suit in the sequel, with ''many'' skills that are movie references. Among the ones revealed in the E3 gameplay demonstration are [[Film/DieHard Yippee-Ki-Yay]], [[Film/TheyLive Out of Bubblegum]], and [[Film/BadBoysII Just Got Real]]

** Crazy Earl's little "lap-skag" is called Skrappy.

* The first thing [[MadScientist Patricia Tannis]] says as she walks in during her cutscene is "Atomic batteries to power, turbines to speed!" from the 60's Series/{{Batman}} TV show / movie.

** The blue scheme for the Racer names it [[SonicTheHedgehog "Blue Blur"]].